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

Quote for today … “The Freeh report was released over two years ago, and yet Penn State still has to send letters like this to its alums. Please chill out already, truthers.” – deadspin.com

• Are you ready for the big yard sale? Saturday, September 13, 2014 Columbia Community Yard Sale. – from the back of the sewer bill – SEPTEMBER 2014

• Well-known Neptune Diner blasted in Restaurant inspections in Lancaster County – The Sunday News

• Restaurant inspections in York County – 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.

• There’s a novel thought for a school board: communicate with parents – The York Dispatch

• Slew of Columbia properties go to lenders via sheriff’s sale – The Sunday News

• If American school lunches were more like French school lunches … – AlterNet.org

• Why citizen involvement in government is important. Until recently, Columbia news, views & reviews regularly reported on council meetings and shared observations on what transpired during those meetings. Cole Umber has been posting well-crafted observations on the meetings, too. We regularly state: “REMINDER: For those who were not at the meeting, the transmission of ‘who said what’ and ‘what happened’ is left to those who came to the meeting to document the night’s activities. Others in the borough will get verbal reports from those who attended or written interpretations from others. The only way to get a full report is to attend meetings.”

Here, for example, is the official borough record of what happened at the August 11, 2014 council meeting: 8-11-14 Signed Borough Council Minutes and Agenda

Here are two posts from Cole Umber’s news site: Council meeting report and citizen comments.

If you want to see what happened, what is said, who is saying what and watch the facial expressions, the intonations and the gestures, you have to go to the meetings.

• Sign of change – more to come? Notice the page one “look” on today’s Sunday News?