Year: 2019

Hatchet used to vandalize 12 trees in Locust Street Park

The Columbia Borough Police Department needs your help to catch the person who used a hatchet to vandalize 12 trees in Locust Street Park.  The vandalism was discovered when volunteers were cleaning the leaves up at Locust Street Park on 12/21/19.  One of the volunteers found a hatchet at the scene (picture attached).  

Anyone with information should contact the Columbia Borough Police Department at 717-684-7735 or text LANCS to 847411.

Date:  Monday, December 23, 2019
Reference ID:  CB-19-05762/1912023994
Case Status: Current Case
Type: Criminal Case
Region: Northeastern
Source:  Columbia Borough Police Department

Sourced via CRIMEWATCH®: https://lancaster.crimewatchpa.com/columbiapd/10552/cases/vandalism-locust-street-park

About Town 12/29/19

This week’s photos of Columbia

Pole painter at 5th & Cherry

 NO PARKING
12/19/19 – 04/01/2020

 Decked out for the season
 This one, too
 Even the poodle got in on the act.

 Beauty strip with moss in the cracks –
Life finds a way.
The saga of the wandering grocery cart…
 At the pavilion at Columbia River Park

 Down by the kayak launch
 Under the bridge
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 Grease theft is illegal.
Who knew?
Who would want it?
 Organic handmade soaps for sale at Mullen Books

 125 North 3rd for sale

 2,000+ year-old infant

 Laurel Hill

 It’s always good to have a set of wheels for a clean getaway.

 All lit up and sparkly

 “KEEP OU”

 Falling down already

 A sign of the season

 Who damaged the playground fence at Park Elementary/Locust Street Park?

 And the block border around the gazebo

 This is why we can’t have nice things.

 Spiffy mailbox near the post office

 But where are the pickup times and dates?
 Over at 4th & Locust … Is that the fire hydrant hidden behind the barriers?

 Sure looks like. What ever happened to the practice of not blocking the hydrant?

 New mailboxes?

 At least their offices are getting a redo.

 Nick Mills shrine at 3rd & Walnut

 Pink Floyd may have had better days.

 Changing times

 Time passes step by step

 One of the three wise guys

 A Christmas present?
Street sweeping with no tickets issued

 Guys in an undercover boat looking for ducks to shoot
 Looking over the 401-403 Locust Street project

 This could almost pass for modern art

The Locust Street Park tree-cutting project…
 Doug’s Tree Service at Locust Street Park

 They took down a large tree there this week.

 Going, going …
 Gone!

The wood is stacked on the Park Elementary playground.
 For safe keeping, one assumes
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 Just throw your ashes down the storm drain, why don’t you?!
(Plane Street & Avenue W)

 Three engines down at the tracks

 And one all by its lonesome
 New railroad ties for the cause

 Man at work on South 4th

 Yes, pay it.

 Yoda on South 5th
Standing guard he is.

 Caught conspiring

 Foggy morning

 Vultures at 4th & Locust

 Night falls over Columbia

Starlight star bright

Mount Bethel Cemetery wins websites giveaway contest

Sparrow Websites announced Mount Bethel Cemetery, of Columbia, as the winner of their annual #UglyWebsiteMakeover content, valued at $6,500. Mount Bethel Cemetery will receive a

The website winner was announced during a Facebook Live on Sparrow’s Facebook page Monday, December 23, at 4 pm., which is available to watch at www.sparrowwebsites.com/ugly. In addition to the grand prize winner, Sparrow also announced it would be giving away a free Launch Kit to Increase Youth Ministries of Lampeter, a value of $500.

Sparrow’s new Launch Kit service is a product for startups, nonprofits, and small businesses that don’t have a website that provides them with a mobile-friendly website, a Google Profile, a FREE domain and a review building platform in just five days, for only $500. For more information on the Launch Kit service, you can visit www.sparrowwebsites.com/launch-kits.

To watch the website winner announcements and read all of the details on the giveaway, visit www.sparrowwebsites.com/ugly. For any questions on Sparrow’s Launch Kits or the annual giveaway, contact them at hello@sparrowwebsites.com or call the office at 717-537-1311.

About Town 12/22/19

This week’s photos of Columbia

 Lost in reverie
(4th & Locust)
 Back to work

Another load of drywall

OK, that’s good.
 Innovative way to recycle those Halloween pumpkins

 Barber

 A horse is a horse, of course, of course – except when it’s a hitching post

 Someone skipped class that day.

 Old and not-as-old

 The way across

 Falling water

 Patterns, complete with tributaries

 There they are – at the steps under the bridge

 Shop small

 Activity at 4th & Chestnut

 Here and gone

 Pipe in the ground, now apparently full of leaves and other debris

 Sticker shock

 Just off Manor

 Lovely meters

 Back in 30 min.

 At the former Poplar Street School

 PPL on Bridge Street

 Adding lines?

 Several trucks near Floyd’s of Leadville
 More stuff at Floyd’s

 NO SMOKING
This means YOU, smoking smoker who was smoking there the other day.

 Messages at Saint Paul’s Episcopal:

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 Inside the market

 Folding up at Living Stones

 Workin’ on the railroad

 All the live long day

 Over at Blueprints

 Ready for Christmas
For when you want to wrestle with pigs

 The hole is filled.

 Let’s hope this isn’t connected.
Sittin’ pretty?

Many photos of ice at the river this week:

And last but not least…
 What fresh hell is this?

Some sort of makeshift shack in Avenue H?
[Submitted photos]

Elizabethtown Hires Rebecca Denlinger as New Borough Manager

Rebecca Denlinger
[Columbia Spy file photo]

The Elizabehtown Borough Council voted to hire Columbia Borough Manager Rebecca Secrist Denlinger as the new Elizabethtown Borough manager effective Jan. 23.
Denlinger is the successor to Roni Ryan, who has been Elizabethtown borough manager for 10 years and has worked for the borough almost 20 years. Ryan is taking a new job with The Benecon Group, an employee benefits management company in Lititz.
According to information she posted on the business networking website LinkedIn, Denlinger has worked for the borough of Columbia since January of 2018. 
MORE:

https://etownpa.com/elizabethtown-hires-new-borough-manager/ 

Vecchia Sicilia gives $1,000 to help employees of Hurricane Pizza

Angelo and Claudia Campailla (left) of Vecchia Sicilia Pizza present a $1,000 check Thursday night to Chris and Beth Giffen of Hurricane Pizza.  The money will help employees of Hurricane who have been idled due to a recent fire there. The Campaillas donated a percentage of sales on Monday and Tuesday to raise the money.
Columbia Spy reported on the fundraising effort HERE.

COLUMBIA BOROUGH STREET SWEEPING NOTICE | Columbia Borough Police Department

The Columbia Borough Public Works Department will continue street sweeping through Tuesday, December 24, 2019. Beginning Wednesday, December 25, 2019 the street sweeper will cease operation until sometime during the first quarter of 2020 when the weather begins to improve. Notice will be given via the Borough’s website, Crime Watch, and on Borough and Police social media accounts before the 2020 street sweeping schedule begins.

Sourced via CRIMEWATCH®: https://lancaster.crimewatchpa.com/columbiapd/10552/post/columbia-borough-street-sweeping-notice

Columbia VFW announces winners of Patriot's Pen Essay Contest

The Columbia Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #2435 recently announced the winners of the annual Patriot’s Pen Essay Contest: Brooke Droege (pictured left), First Place; Mina Abid, (pictured middle) Second Place; and Moriah Spencer (pictured right), Third Place. All three students are in the eighth grade at Columbia Middle School, Hill Campus; each student received a certificate and cash award, with the first and second place winners advancing to the state competition in 2020. This annual contest, sponsored by the Columbia VFW, encourages students to reflect on a specified theme; this year’s theme is “What Makes America Great.”
MORE:

https://www.columbiabsd.org/article/172236?org=cbsd