Today’s Quote … ” … more adults need to step up, not walk away, and help the victims of bullying.” – Excerpted from a seventh-grade Hempfield School District student’s letter to the editor in today’s LNP – Always Lancaster.

• Bullying is just one kind of abuse | “Dallastown pastor urges parish to report abuse” – The York Daily Record

• Another is a 40-year old grandmother leaving her one-year-old grandson in a car yesterday – an extremely hot day. – Pennlive

• What is bullying? – StopBullying.gov

• School is starting soon – bullying often is seen in schools | “Staten Island boy, 13, kills self after Holy Angels Catholic Academy staff ‘didn’t do anything’ to stop bullying.” – The New York Daily News

There’s a string with a couple dozen posts at You know you’re from Columbia PA if… about cursive.

• “Cursive comeback? After outcry, handwriting lessons return to some schools” – TodayParents

Did you know Hinkle’s will deliver your food orders to you? Trés cool!

“At a Death Café people drink tea, eat cake and discuss death. Our aim is to increase awareness of death to help people make the most of their (finite) lives” – DeathCafe.com This next Death Café is hosted collaboratively by the Manheim Township Public Library and the Pennsylvania Link to Aging and Disability Resources – Lancaster County partners’ network. 

Let’s have transparency in School District happenings.

Two Websites | same out of date information at each! The info’s the same – just a different shell at this one (http://www.columbia.k12.pa.us/) and this one (http://www.columbiabsd.org/).

Stinging comments are flowing in at these Columbia Spy “in search of truth” posts:

“Tom Strickler named Director of Operations at Columbia Borough School District”

“Strickler skips meeting without explanation; board grapples with questions”