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Quote for today … CBAA FOOTBALL CONCESSION STAND help is sought – “All football and cheerleading parents are asked to sign up for one shift. Please choose the shift that suits your schedule best. We will need 8 parents for each game. There will be 4 home games so there will be 16 shifts for you to choose from. We thank you in advance for your help!” – Click here to sign up
- Big, exciting events in Columbia on September 26: Feet in the Street at Fourth Friday – 2015 Albatwitch Festival – Public Outdoor Movie at Columbia River Park
The image reminded us of Columbia – in this article, “How your brain quickly yells ‘Stop!’” – Futurity
- “Reading teaching in schools can kill a love for books” – The Conversation
- Representative Hickernell’s newsletter to constituents has this: Support Veteran Farmers through Homegrown by Heroes –
As a way to support the efforts of veterans who help feed the world, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture recently launched a partnership with the Homegrown By Heroes (HBH) initiative, the official farmer veteran branding program of America. It will be part of the PA Preferred program, which helps consumers identify Pennsylvania-grown and produced foods.
- A reader sent Columbia news, views & reviews an email with a video link demonstrating “community collaboration.” It’s inspiring to see what happens when community comes together to work together and to celebrate together. Interesting to note the absence of self-serving leaders or factions in the project.
- The Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2014, making people of Hispanic origin the nation’s largest ethnic or racial minority. Hispanics constituted 17 percent of the nation’s total population. – US Census Bureau
- Less arthritis pain with yoga? – Futurity
- Pennsylvania’s kind of in the middle of this list of America’s “richest and poorest states.” – 24/7 Wall St.
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