today’s news and information gleanings from here and there!
Quote for today… “Life don’t go quite like you plan it, we try so hard to understand it. The irrefutable, indisputable, fact is. It happens.” – from the Sugarland hit, “It happens.”
150th anniversary – Lincoln’s on the way to Gettysburg – York Daily Record
- The area’s lucky again. Intense Midwestern tornadoes were supposed to bring violent winds last night; today’s weather looks OK though.
- Columbia’s fire departments provide free smoke detectors – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
- New stretch of Northwest Trail opens – Youtube … It’s the dotted line portion of the trail on this map. See pictures here.
- Not true! A letter to the editor in today’s Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era states a funeral director “informed me that our organs would not be used because we’re too old (in our 70s). He told me, ‘They want young people’s organs,’’ especially those on life support.” According to the US Department of Health and Human Services Website about organ donation, “There are no age limitations on who can donate. Whether you can donate depends on your physical condition, not age. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.”
- Saturday Night Live spoofs Patriot-News retraction of Gettysburg Address review
Columbia news, views & reviews 
The SNL skit was really good. Humor is really needed. That 3 day a week newspaper in H’burg should get a life. At least the citizens there wisely voted the “Ci – Tay major, Linda D. Thompson out of office. Linda finally received the answer to her question, ‘Does anybody have a problem with that?”