Year: 2017

Cooper’s Comics & Collectibles Opens its Door(s)!

A new store is opening in downtown Columbia this afternoon at 4:30 – Cooper’s Comics & Collectibles! The address is 477 Locust Street, located on the corner of 5th and Locust streets, formerly the home of Ladybug Keepers, an excellent location to be sure! Interesting history note – after World War II, Monte Cooper, a renowned flooring mechanic and jazz saxophonist, bought that building and opened their first business there, Columbia Flooring. Monte Cooper was the father of the current shop keeper, Mitch.

The store houses 50 ‘long boxes’ (the name used when describing the type of box that comics are often stored in) of back issue comics, some dating from the early 1960s (which are highly collectible) until right around 2010, which encompasses 50 years of comic collecting. Collected ‘mini-series’ issues and graphic novels can be prominently found occupying 2 shelves of a floor to ceiling bookcase. The rest of that bookcase contains various collectibles.

The Public Safety Committee of the Borough Council of the Borough of Columbia will hold a special meeting on Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. in Council Chambers of the Borough Municipal Building located at 308 Locust Street, Columbia, PA, 17512 to host discussions between and among the Columbia Quick Response Service and the Susquehanna Valley Emergency Medical Service regarding activating ambulance service within the Borough of Columbia. 

The Lancaster Housing Opportunity Partnership (LHOP) Home & Money Fair will be held on April 1 at Bright Side Opportunities Center, 515 Hershey Avenue, Lancaster, PA from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The fair is a free, one-stop-shop event for anyone to attend and learn about information/resources with regard to: Buying/or selling a home, renting a property, developing effective money management skills, improving your credit scores, foreclosure prevention, your rights and responsibilities as a tenant or as a landlord, and much more. Professionals- such as mortgage lenders, bankers, realtors, insurance agents, home renovation contractors, and community organizations- will be available to answer your questions.
Attendees to the fair can also register for grand prizes.

Columbia Borough wants more of its residents to be homeowners, and officials want more dilapidated houses to be fixed up, especially on North Third Street, a major gateway into town.

As part of ongoing efforts to revitalize the struggling borough, which has been battered by decades of economic and technological shifts, Columbia is launching a low-interest loan program with the Lancaster Housing Opportunity Partnership.

Founded in 1994, the Lancaster Housing Opportunity Partnership (LHOP) focuses on making housing affordable for low- and moderate-income families and individuals in Lancaster County. LHOP’s specific mission statement is: TO CULTIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AND RESOURCES TO INCREASE THE AVAILABILITY OF QUALITY, FAIR AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING THROUGHOUT LANCASTER COUNTY. Since its inception, LHOP has provided mortgage assistance for first-time home buyers and loans for both for-profit and non-profit developers of affordable rental housing. Other activities of LHOP include Fair Housing Education and Training; Pre- and Post-Purchase Home Buyer Education; Landlord-Tenant Rights and Responsibilities; Neighborhood Housing Revitalization and the Housing Resource Center.