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

Quote for today… “Helping other people is what I like to live for … volunteering as a firefighter is the best decision I ever made.” – Zach Schneck, junior firefighter with the Mountville Fire Department in this Sunday News article: “Born to serve: Teen Firefighters share passion for volunteering.” [BRAVO to all junior firefighters in every department.]

• More information about what to expect as a junior firefighter is in the Junior Fire Fighter manual.

• Restaurant inspections in Lancaster County – The Sunday News

• Restaurant inspections in York County: “rodent-type droppings in the cabinet below the computer station” but the manager disagreed with some of the findings. – The York Dispatch

• A complete listing of all inspections at food serving facilities in Lancaster, York counties and the entire state, except those in Columbia – Columbia persists in having its own inspection system with its own forms and inspection items – rather than the one used statewide, is available at the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Website.

• Big responder event starts in York today: the Can-Am Police – Fire Games – Can-Am Games Website

• All Eastern High School students will have computers – York Dispatch

• One idea: get someone else to run schools – York in investigating the premise – York Daily Record/York Sunday News

• Bruno Mars concert in Hershey – 30,000 fans – Harrisburg Patriot-News

“Body on gurney which fell out of the back of a Bucks County Coroner’s vehicle on Street Road in Feasterville on Friday.” – The Bucks County Courier

• York’s “Second Saturday on the Square” shows success – York Daily Record/York Sunday News

• Anybody confused why a buyer, CR Property Group LLC, buys a property at 35 Bethel Streetfor $64,350 and resells it for $47,500? – Sunday News