COLUMBIA, Pa. (WHTM) – You don’t need a degree in entomology to know the mayflies are back along the Susquehanna River.
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Matt Barley, a Historic Preservation Trust board member, Lancaster architect and coordinator of the upcoming architectural tour, originated the idea.
“It started as a joke,” he admits. “But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that Columbia, on a small scale, has much in common with Paris.”
The Columbia Borough Fire Department recently received one of the two trucks it ordered last fall – a fire suppression engine featuring updated controls and equipment, and a state-of-the-art suspension system that provides extra safety for drivers. The other vehicle, a rescue engine is due next week.
The Columbia Life Network donated 63 smoke detectors to the Columbia Borough Fire Department on Wednesday morning. According to Fire Chief Doug Kemmerly, who spoke at a recent Borough Council meeting, CBFD routinely installs detectors in residential homes but was running low. In response, CLN released $1000 from its Fire Fund to purchase the detectors for the fire department, according to CLN Executive Director Jamie Widener.
The Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County is proud to be hosting an architectural walking tour of the historic Columbia, PA. The tour will include many beautiful sites; each one more architecturally interesting than the one before. Don’t miss your chance to see why some are calling Columbia “the Paris of Pennsylvania”.
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