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

Quote for today … “NBC reporter Brian Williams has been all over the news after admitting to ‘misremembering’ the time his helicopter DIDN’T get shot down by RPG fire in Iraq back in 2003.’ – From this “poking fun at” piece about Williams’ misrememberings. – IJR Review

• Is “misremembering” the same as lying? Is it a case of stolen valor? – BBC
  

• News about Williams not prominent at NBC News and WGAL; it’s there, but requires a search.

• OUT OF THE DARKNESS: countdown to daylight savings time – 27 days and counting

• Powerball? – The drawing results are “pending”  in last night’s drawing for a prize of $394,500,000. Is the winner from Columbia?

• Summit Street Properties LLC keeps gobbling up properties – 117 South 8th Street and 853 Lancaster Avenue. Maybe it’s time for a name change? How about Summitville? Summit Point? Summit Center?

• Armji Properties LLC buys a property for $1,250,000 from Clu Properties LLC and Daniel L. London, Jr. Same properties that Clu Properties LLC acquired from Pine View Partners LLC, et al?

• “Does Columbia have a voice on the School Board?”

• Another fire consolidation: “The Eagle Fire Company in Mount Wolf Borough announced Friday that it will join the ranks of York Area United Fire and Rescue.” – York Sunday News

• “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.”
• BUT … packernet.com offers “Tips for Avoiding paywalls.”

• 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.” – The York Dispatch [NOTE: A few 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 – Ah, Jennie, we barely know you … since you let the Diner slip so badly!  – Lancaster OnLine

• Seems nearly everyone’s getting serious about restaurant and dining facilities! Harrisburg’s Patriot-News website has started listing restaurant inspections from five central PA counties.

• 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
• 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.