today’s news and information gleanings from here and there!

Question for today… “The often expressed opinion ‘every emergency is unique’ is true but the usual conclusion ‘we can improvise during an emergency rather than plan beforehand’ does not follow.” – Preparedness guidance, FEMA documents.

• The few citizens who attended last night’s Columbia Council of the Whole meeting saw a three-hour meeting close with a motion to “continue” the meeting tonight at 6:00. All the members of council were present, as was the borough manager and finance director. The mayor was absent. 

Pilot Club of Lancaster representatives presented ProjectLifesaver certificates to Columbia Police Department officers at last night’s meeting.

• Last week someone called Columbia news, views and reviews to tell us that the Columbia Waste Water Treatment Plant chief had quit. One huge chunk of last night’s meeting time and discussion, and a primary reason for the continuation of the meeting tonight at 6:00 pm at the borough hall, dwelt with the council’s questions about item 10, a. on the agenda: what to do when a department chief quits. More notes on the meeting will follow later this week.

• Telling lines: This excerpt from this article: is telling.  ” … whose sudden death last month prompted the management agreement between the two public bus agencies. The agreement is for six months, but Kilmer said it could lead to a long-term arrangement between the two agencies. State officials have called for the consolidation of public transit agencies into regional systems to increase efficiency.”

• Two for one weather watchers at WGAL – York Daily Record

• Arrests made for selling stolen goods at Marietta pawn shop – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• S.N.A.P. benefits for Pennsylvania’s poor gets cuts – York Daily Record

• Welfare reform: The war on food stamps – Al Jazeera

• Another town hall meeting report – MyColumbiaNews