today’s news and information gleanings from here and there!
Quote for today … “The Government has tightened enforcement, and we will review our penalties to punish littering, to stop littering.” – From an article about tough littering laws in Singapore. where “the streets … are almost glistening with cleanliness.”
Jerome J. Ellis obituary notice – Clyde W.Kraft Funeral Home, Inc. Website
- Jerome Ellis was elected to Columbia High School’s “Athletic Hall of Fame” in 2008.
- Ellis still holds this PA State record still stands: 180 low hurdles: Jerome Ellis, Columbia (3), Class B, 1964-66. – PennLive
Gracie’s does it right! Read more below.
- OUT OF THE DARKNESS: countdown to daylight savings time – 34 days and counting
- Powerball keeps growing – prize now is $317,000,000 and growing
Action: Photographer Robert Bridgens has amassed a collection of striking images from World War II re-enactments (SOURCE: The Daily Mail)
- Glorification or education? WW II reenactment events in Lebanon County and in the UK – Lebanon Daily News and The Daily Mail.
- “Readability is a website that pulls the content from any page and shows it to you in a nice, readable format, removing all the ads, navigation, etc. Since it uses it’s own servers to render the page content, it’s not actually your browser that is requesting the content.”
- Restaurant inspections in York County: Be very afraid when the places serving food have people in charge of the food serving facility who do not have “adequate knowledge of food safety in the food facility.” – York Sunday News [NOTE: York’s newspapers have paywalls that inhibit people from reading their posts after a minimal number of view each month … unless people pay to become subscribers. We will include links to the referenced articles, though readers may not be able to read the article.]
- Restaurant inspections in Lancaster County – Repeat violations from previous inspections; head chef in a hospital fails to follow guidance and more. Who is in charge of these places? – Lancaster OnLine
- 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.
- “All Farmers Market Vendors, with a few exceptions, must obtain a Retail Food License and be under inspection to operate a food facility of any kind at a farmers market, whether the market is indoor or outside. Each individual stand is considered its own retail food facility and must obtain its own license to operate.” – PA Department of Agriculture
- Gracie’s on West Main is a dining delight! On a venture to the Leola area, a mid-morning breakfast stop at 264 West Main St Leola, PA 17540 was sheer delight. A post breakfast chat with husband-and-wife owners, Mariella “Gracie” Volker and Jim Rutolo, revealed their passions for attention to detail and the extraordinary. Every staff person at Gracie’s mirrored their enthusiasm for serving up a very pleasant dining experience – with an abundant serving of great-tasting food. Everyone smiles – everyone moves with purpose and poise – everyone seems genuinely joyful to welcome patrons to this place, too. When we observed and commented about the “non-flashing open sign” in the window, Gracie noted that the codes officer in the municipality is pretty strict.
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