Columbia Borough Meetings – Week of August 5, 2019
About Town 8/4/19
This week’s photos of Columbia
Two-fingered Jolly Roger
Stars and Stripes
Rainbow over Bethel
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Patriotic rock at the American Legion
Sidewalk furniture
Rollin’ along
Down at Heritage Drive
How many visitors will be deterred from coming here after seeing this photo?
Roof work
Teepees in the park
(At the Edible Classroom)
Red-tailed hawk hanging round the Water Company
On the hunt
No one can stop this Renaissance!
Conveyance of a sort
You must comply.
Two towers
Heavy equipment at 4th & Locust
But at what cost to our sidewalk?
Across the street, construction continues.
Construction, there
So that’s where geese come from.
More progress at Front & Walnut – The cement has since been poured. Note the permit in the window. The pink sticker allegedly means the project has been approved by HARB. Some entities do the right thing and get HARB’s approval. Others do as they wish, doing work without permits or pink dots, or ignoring STOP WORK orders.
Digging a ditch to lay a sewer line in the 300 block of Avenue H.
That pile of wood is still there, visible from the 100 block of Avenue H. At a recent meeting, Zoning & Planning Officer Jeff Helm said only cosmetics would be removed from this building.
Sidewalk installation is underway on the 700 block of Walnut Street.
Here’s a closer look.
Up at Keystone Cap: what appear to be medieval instruments of torture (above and the two following)…
Also at Keystone Cap: construction on a major addition to the building…
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Sometimes a backyard is just a parking lot: eight vehicles, including a construction vehicle.
The United States of Americana
Pole elf?
The 500 block of Avenue G, formerly occupied by vultures, but they went “Onward and Upward”!
Walk-O Taco
Two-headed husky?
South Ninth
Weed City USA?
Quick, get one of these barrels.
Interesting ornament on the 500 block of Locust
Fiery sunset
Fierce hubcap
Spiderman is lurking…somewhere in town.
New Business – Tim Barnhart Home Improvements
Columbia Borough School Board announces vacancies
FRIDAY, AUGUST 02, 2019
Columbia School Board President, Keith Combs, announced the the Board has 2 vacancies to fill. The selected individuals will serve as a member of the Board from appointment until November 30, 2019.
Interested individuals should send, or deliver, a letter of interest to:
Mr. Keith Combs, Board President
Columbia Borough School District, 200 N 5th St.,
Columbia, PA 17512
Letters of interest must be received in the District office by 4 pm August 12, 2019
Interviews will be held Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 6 pm.
CBSD Board Policy Manual #004
Qualifications for Board
Each member of the Board shall meet the following qualifications:
Be of good moral character, be at least eighteen (18) years of age, have been a resident of the district for at least one (1) year prior to the date of his/her election or appointment, and not be a holder of any office or position as specified in Section 322 of the School Code; nor shall the individual be a member of the municipal council.[3]
Shall not have been removed from any office of trust under federal, state or local laws for any malfeasance in such office.[4]
Shall not be engaged in a business transaction with the school district, be employed by the school district, or receive pay for services from the school district, except as provided by law.[25][5]
Fundraiser for Nick Mills funeral expenses
19-year-old Nick Mills lost his life in a tragic incident earlier this week. To donate towards funeral expenses, please go HERE.
Hobie Crystle, district attorney candidate, to speak at Town Hall at Watch & Clock Museum Saturday, August 3, at 1 p.m. (Event is free and open to the public.)
Hobie Crystle
Crystle, of the Lancaster city firm Crystle-Allen Law, is now hoping to apply what he’s learned to Lancaster County’s top law enforcement position. In May, he secured the Democratic nomination for district attorney.
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'A careless accident': Columbia mother grieves death of son, 19, shot by friend | Local News | lancasteronline.com
Cole, 39, is no stranger to grief. She lost her husband, Mills’ stepfather, in November to cirrhosis.
The grief of losing her son, she said, is different.
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Third Prayer Walk/Vigil slated for Thursday, August 1
Tonight (Thursday, August 1) is the third and final night for the prayer walk and vigil in remembrance of 19-year-old Nick Mills, who was shot and killed Monday night in Columbia. The event will start at 6:30 p.m. at North Third and Walnut Street in Columbia where Mills died. Several local churches and residents citizens will be attending.
Pastor Angelo Rodriguez of Columbia’s Itlm Faith Community Church, who will lead the event, has invited community persons of influence to attend.
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Here's what happened to wards in the Borough of Columbia
ON MARCH 14, 1975, A LEGAL DECISION STATED: “…all wards in the Borough of Columbia are hereby abolished, voting in said Borough shall be at large and the number of Councilmen in said Borough is reduced from nine (9) to seven (7).”
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Columbia man charged with arson for setting a pile of clothes on fire after a fight: police | Local News | lancasteronline.com
Derrick Demar Mearis
A Columbia man was charged with arson and simple assault after a small fire in a Columbia house on Wednesday night.
Police said that Derrick Demar Mearis, 30, of Columbia, lit a pile of clothes on fire with a Turbo Torch after a fight with one man and after hitting another man, who tried to stop the fight, in the head.
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