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This week’s photos from around town…
All you need is love (as well as food, water, shelter, and clothing, not necessarily in that order).
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 Ghost sign:
LUCAS MANUFACTURING CO

 Knox Box, large economy size

 Bell tower, Columbia Historic Preservation Society
Bell tower, NAWCC

 Hazy morning

 Scooter, old-school

 Fencing match

 People and animals found ways to stay cool during the stifling heat earlier this week.

 Cruisin’

 Meet the candidates this coming Friday at the Hambones Social Club, 726 Manor Street

 Heron on the fly

 Lift with umbrella sunshade

 The past peeking through the asphalt

 Hanging around

 Down at the crossing

 Downtown Train

 Steps to the bridge?

 Columbia Water Company datestone – 1849

 Down at Locust and Bank Avenue, what was to be apartments…

 …is now weeds and a big hole in the ground, which could still be a tourist attraction. It all depends on the marketing, or as we say in Columbia, the “visioning.”

 Shovel at rest on the 500 block of Walnut

Don’t hang with the little people.
Mural lights, real and depicted

 Illuminated mural

 Here, too, although the lights were on the building first.

Add this to the growing list of Columbia’s murals, this one seen recently on Lawrence Street.

 Burglar alarm – says so right there (?)

 In the window at Global Time Wizard

 Rectangular plaque at the town square

 And there’s the square.

 Goin’ up!

 No, don’t be hanging around there.

 Egret taking a look around

 Profile shot

 Side by side on the wrong side

 Monarch with tattered wings

 But stay hydrated

 Meanwhile, in Marietta

 View from up north

 Pounding the ice

 Sticker shock

 Grumpy groundhog

Complete the health survey, get a chance to win $50 gift card

CHI St. Joseph Children’s Health and Healthy Columbia is looking for your input! If you currently live in Columbia Borough, please take a few minutes to complete this survey about your health and the health of our community; you’ll have a chance to win a $50 gift card to Musser’s Market.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KTWDSH2

Lancaster Printers Fair to be held September 14 & 15

The Sixth Annual Lancaster Printers Fair is scheduled for September 14 and 15. This year is gearing up to be bigger and better. New features include:

  • A new name to be inclusive all of types of printing; not just letterpress.
  • “Printing on Penn Square” demonstrations, live music and silent auction (Friday, Sept. 14)
  • A world-record setting attempt for most people printing with a potato (Saturday, Sept. 15)
  • A beer garden by Wacker Brewing Co., which will offer a signature brew in honor of the fair (Saturday, Sept. 15)
  • 5, month-long printing exhibitions at downtown Lancaster galleries

The event will continue to feature a 25-vendor street fair on the 300 Block of North Queen on Saturday, Sept. 15 with pedestrians free to roam the vendors and neighboring shops from 11a.m. to 4 p.m.

FIND EVENT DETAILS: https://bit.ly/2wziqxN

VENDOR STREET FAIR * BEER GARDEN & FOOD VENDORS * WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT * DEMOS & HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES

Foresters cited for liquor law violation

The Pennsylvania State Police Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement (LCE) cited nine Lancaster County businesses for Liquor Law violations in August ranging from conflicts of interest to selling alcohol to a minor, police said Wednesday.

Foresters of America Court Susquehanna No. 235, Columbia — Failed to maintain complete and truthful records for two years.

More info HERE