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

Quote for today … “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin

• Columbia Borough opens bids to be the “canoe and kayak” rental operator at River Park.

• Lancaster County keeps growing | projected to have more than 641,800 residents by 2040 –  Lancaster Online

but the growth is in Texas and the soutwest

• What’s Columbia’s projection? According to the interesting set of data at this Website – no-growth / negative growth. Hard to believe? Seems to us that automatic growth will happen in the town midway between two high-growth metros located on a majestic body of water with two of the three bridges in the counties.