Year: 2019

Vecchia Sicilia Pizza is raising funds to help Hurricane Pizza employees

Vecchia Sicilia Pizza is owned by the Campailla family, shown above. Left to right: Sal, Claudia, Debora, customer Sharon Lintner, Angelo, and Disma.

Vecchia Sicilia Pizza, 1786 Columbia Avenue, is raising funds to help Hurricane Pizza employees who are out of work due to a recent fire. A percentage of sales made Monday and Tuesday, from 4 p.m. to closing, will be donated. The pizza shop hopes to raise at least $1,000 for the cause. 

Rezoning Ordinance to be considered for adoption at December 16 Special Council Meeting

Hearing Notice

Notice is hereby given that the Ordinance summarized below will be considered by Borough Council of the Borough of Columbia for adoption following a zoning hearing pursuant to the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code to be held at a special meeting of Council on Monday, December 16, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. in Columbia Borough School District’s Administration Building located at 200 North Fifth Street, Columbia, Pennsylvania: An Ordinance to repeal the Airport District Overlay, including deletion of the Airport Hazard Area Map and height limitations associated with the Airport Overlay District; to include a provision for space between rooftop solar panels; to amend the official zoning map of the Borough of Columbia to designate certain areas presently designated High Density Residential (HDR), Medium Density Residential Business (MDRB), and Riverfront Commercial (RC) to Downtown Commercial (DC); to change the area known as the Linden Street Gateway from Low Density Residential (LDR) to Downtown Commercial (DC) District; to change 301?325 North Seventh Street from Medium Density Residential (MDR) to Institutional/?Residential (INSR) District; to change Cloverton Drive west of Kinderhook Road and Hilmar Circle from Rural Residential (RR) to Medium Density Residential (MDR) District; to change the 1200 block of Locust Street from Rural Residential (RR) to Institutional/?Residential (INSR) District; to change 530 South Fourteenth Street from Low Density Residential (LDR) to Highway Commercial (HC) District; to change the zoning of certain parcels on the 1100 block of Manor Street as well as 740 South Twelfth Street from Medium Density Residential (MDR) to Light Business (LB) District; to change 700, 704, and 706 Manor Street from High Density Residential (HDR) to Light Business (LB) District; to change the properties located at 3 Shawnee Avenue, 622 Union Street, and 600 Avenue N from High Density Residential (HDR) to Highway Commercial (HC) District; to change 400 Union Street from High Density Residential (HDR) to High Density Residential – Multi-Unit (HDRM) District; providing for the repeal of inconsistent ordinances; providing for the severability of the ordinance; and providing that the ordinance shall take effect in accordance with Pennsylvania law. A complete copy of the Ordinance may be inspected at the Municipal Building, 308 Locust Street, Columbia, PA during regular business hours and the Lancaster Law Library, located at 50 North Duke Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania during regular business hours.

Columbia Borough

By: Neil L. Albert, Esquire

Borough Solicitor

[Source: columbiapa.net]

Crowd braves the rain to lay wreaths at Mount Bethel on Saturday

A crowd of people withstood the rainy weather December 14, 2019, to pay homage to those who served the country in Columbia, PA.

John Hinkle Jr. welcomed volunteers and the Catholic War Vet Color Guard presented the American flag.

Sergeant 1st Class Karen Zercher (Army),1st Class Petty Officer Owen Brunner (Navy), Corporal Jeffrey Detz (Marine), Staff Sergeant Nicholas McCarty (Air Force), 3rd Class Petty Officer, Thomas J. McCarty (Coast Guard), and 2nd Engineer George Biagio (Merchant Marine) presented decorated wreaths for their branch of service. Sergeant Albert C. Storm Jr. (Army) presented a decorated wreath for POW/MIA veterans.

A resolution was made to honor of Chief Warrant Officer 4 Edmund J. Wickenheiser Jr.

Ending the ceremony a gun volley by Vet 21 and taps played by Frost Umble.

As rain continued to fall, families stayed to lay wreaths at the veterans’ graves. Over 600 veterans are laid to rest at Mount Bethel Cemetery and every single one of them received a wreath. People throughout the community made monetary contributions to make sure every veteran grave was decorated.

Friends of Mount Bethel Cemetery organized it, but it’s about all the people who volunteer and sponsor wreaths, to make it happen in Columbia.

Everyone who placed a wreath said the veteran’s name out loud so they are never forgotten.

Wreaths now lay inside Mount Bethel Cemetery.

[Photos and text submitted by Jane Moore]
 

About Town 12/16/19

This week’s photos of Columbia

 Awww, he’s so thirsty he had to drink from the creek.

That face looks familiar.
Could it be…?
Nah . . .
Or could it?!!!

 Santa’s hiding back there.

 But next day, there he was, checking on wish lists.

 Yet another of the thousands of photos of the bridge

 New look for the chief’s car

 Christmas bells

 Ring-a-ling

 NO PARKING 12/9/2019 – 2/9/2020

 Filling the hole at the bottom of Locust

 Packin’ it down
 A spectator watches the action.

 Another truckload

 Bat in the belfry

 Patriotic Bobcat

 Creche at the Columbia Church of God

 In some places, Halloween’s still hanging around.

 Christmas basket

 Spindly reindeer

 Line of stars at Lloyd Mifflin’s house

 Speaking of Lloyd Mifflin, here’s one of his landscapes, complete with atmospheric perspective.
Just kidding. It’s a rubber bumper on one of the docks stored under the bridge at River Park.

 Construction is still going on at the LGH facility on North 7th.

 Note the changes in traffic patterns.

 Gone for good?

 In a row

 Paintball practice?
(From last week)

 That’s one way to block the street.

 There it goes – the wrong way at the bridge plaza.

 It was heading towards Santa’s encampment but then backed up again.

 Coupla guys out at the Civil War pier

 More progress at Floyd’s of Leadville on Bridge Street

 Tracks in the snow

 Santa has the power to change the course of traffic.

 There’s his encampment now at Rotary Park.

 Unfortunately, he doesn’t have the power of correct spelling.

 Still hangin’ around in Avenue G

 Mobile homes on the tracks – That means they really are mobile.

 Sidewalk dumpster

Foggy bridge
And at 11th & Locust last Tuesday there were many black vultures:

[Photos submitted by Robyn Waugh]

Central Penn’s Marqel Wansley named USCAA Player of the Week – pennlive.com

Congratulations to Marqel Wansley for being named the USCAA men’s Division II Basketball Player of the Week.

The junior guard from Columbia, Pa., played two phenomenal games last week, as he helped Central Penn College defeat Bucks County Community College and Villa Maria. Against the Bucks County Centurions, he scored a triple-double––16 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds—in an 84–52 road victory for Central Penn.

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https://www.pennlive.com/sports/2019/12/centra-penns-marqel-wansley-named-uscaa-player-of-the-week.html