Month: November 2018

Child reportedly struck by bus is taken to the hospital

 Incident scene at North 5th Street and Avenue H this morning
A child was reportedly struck by a bus sometime around 7:30 this morning. The incident happened near the intersection of North 5th Street and Avenue H. Columbia QRS, police and other emergency personnel responded.  The girl was taken by ambulance to the hospital.

More information HERE

Enter to win $250 by visiting local stores in Columbia's Small Business Christmas Cash Drawing

Visit six of the participating retail shops listed below. Have each shop punch and initial a ballot card that can be picked up at a participating shop. When all six gift boxes are filled, simply drop this card in a ballot box at the last shop you visit. Good luck and Happy Holidays!

  • Bootleg Antiques
  • Burning Bridge Antique Market 
  • Café 301
  • Cooper’s Comics
  • Garth Gallery and Café 
  • Geltz Gotz Goodeze 
  • Hinkle’s Restaurant
  • Keagy’s Produce 
  • The Mayfly
  • MMD Emporium
  • Murphy’s Mercantile & Co. 
  • Partners & Friends Antique Center
  • Rivertowne Antique Center
  • Rose’s Deli & More
  • The Spot
  • Columbia Toll Booth Antique Market
  • Watermelon Rind Sweet Shoppe
  • What-Nots & Such

Market House to reopen in 2019

The Columbia Market House

The Columbia Market House, a Columbia centerpiece, may open by summer 2019 under a new proposal.

Council voted unanimously last week to approve the proposal by CHI St. Joseph Children’s Health to take over operation of the building as an open-air market and restaurant, although the borough will still own the building.

CHI’S Philip Goropoulos

Major renovations to the building will be the responsibility of the borough, but CHI will be responsible for renovations for the restaurant. Revenues will be written to CHI, and lease agreements with vendors will come to CHI. CHI would absorb up to $65,000 of losses per year. If losses exceed $65,000 per year, CHI will meet with the borough and report that. “If everything goes badly, you’re still talking about $400-500,000 dollars coming into the borough from CHI,” said CHI’S Philip Goropoulos.

MORE HERE.

Columbia Spy reported on the CHI proposal HERE and HERE.

COLUMBIA BOROUGH OFFICE – HOLIDAY HOURS | Columbia Borough Police Department

The Columbia Borough Office will be closed on Thursday, 11/22/18 and Friday, 11/23/18 due to the Thanksgiving day Holiday.  The Meter Officers will be working on Saturday, 11/24/18.  

https://lancaster.crimewatchpa.com/columbiapd/10552/post/columbia-borough-office-holiday-hours

About Town – 11/18/18

This week’s photos from around Columbia
(Click/tap on photos for larger, sharper images.)
So, how do we know this is really Columbia, anyway?
Well, here are a few hints:

Clever how this real vent pipe comes out of a painted building
 Turkey vulture at work in a borough official’s yard

 Wet leaves stained this section of sidewalk into an abstract painting.

 Time to clean the gutters

Leaf duty

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This red-tailed hawk was hanging around in Mount Bethel Cemetery – to the distress of several nearby squawking crows.

 Don’t forget the wreath-laying and 21-gun salute at Mount Bethel on December 15.

 Here’s a concrete globe with paws at Mount Bethel.

 Interesting spindle on the side of St. Pauls’ Lutheran Church

 Old North?

 Cat at a bucket
Humans sometimes assume this position, too, usually after imbibing too much alcohol.

 Here’s a virgin in a bucket of sorts.

And some pumpkins in a large bucket-like structure, also know as an urn.

 Mystery numbers

 Evidence of a mushroom cult?

 End of the road, or at least the tracks

 More tracks to nowhere

 Someone should really clean up this unsightly mess.

 Here, too – and maybe restore that historic retaining wall

Still there – the abandoned Mercedes

 Three in a row – the ubiquitous and speedy LCSWMA trucks

 Evidence of a previous structure

 There’s a big crack in Hotel Columbia
(A fitting metaphor for the town?)

 For Heaven’s sake, let’s hope the power is off.

 The troubled sidewalk on the 500 block of Walnut
(More problems to come?)

Required tools this week

 More mattress madness – this time with a snow-covered sidewalk

 ADA-accessible

 Yep

ADA-accessible

 Sometimes even lifts need a lift.

 Newfangled stained glass windows?
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A series of Santas (still ’tis NOT the season):

 What if the suspects aren’t arrested and convicted?
Do you still get the 50 bucks?
Guess not.

 Yes, he’s back at the Elks.

 His right claw is clenched, for some reason.

 Could he be the same hawk that was at Mount Bethel?

 Who wants a bunch of gerbils anyway, even if they are only $9.99?

 Breakfast of champions

 She’s leaving town, and who can blame her?
The taxes are too damn high!

300 block of Cherry Street, a residential area – This seems to be a daily occurrence.
(Submitted photo)

 Snow-covered football field

 Possibly the same hawk again?
 How long must we wait for this project to blossom?
And how long must our sidewalk be closed?
 Here’s another hint you’re in Columbia: an empty plastic bottle left behind.

Or left on the roof of a newly wrecked car
Here’s a grille smiling in the snow

 Here’s a juvenile hawk – possibly a Cooper’s hawk.

 This is an adult who was nearby.
They were exchanging calls near CVS before flying away together.
Hornet’s nest
Caution: Do NOT stir up.
Actually, this one looks to be abandoned.
 Large clock – slightly askew – 
Should we adjust our watches to compensate?
 This house on North 5th may have slid through the system and become a recovery house.

 Bridge lights

This streetlight uptown was on in the daytime.

 A rare Tom Jones sighting

 Sign directing Buddhist temple folks to the public lot at the bottom of Locust

You’re welcome, Buddhist temple.
Flag frenzy at the Buddhist temple