The Bloomsburg Daily
Local for Bloomsburg, PA
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Columbia County Homes Destroyed Down from Over 1,000 to 141
Read more: Columbia County Homes Destroyed Down from Over 1,000 to 141There is no doubt that Columbia County suffered some of the worst damage in the Northeast from the 1-2 sucker punch that was Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. Nonetheless, current statistics are much less severe than previously thought. Rita Inklovitch, executive director of the Bloomsburg Chapter of the Red Cross, provided the following revised statistics for Columbia County as of Oct. 2, 2011. The numbers are dramatically different from the damage that was initially suspected, with an initial estimate of over 1,000 homes destroyed in the County, and another 2,300 homes damaged reported by the Press Enterprise (9-16-11). The…
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Volunteer Information
Read more: Volunteer InformationFor the weekend of October 1, 2011. AGAPE is working hard to find new volunteers to help with several initiatives over the weekend. They will be seeking people who can help get any debris out on curbs by Sunday night, people willing to go door to door to do cleanup assessments, and to hand out lists of donated supplies.Those who need help should call AGAPE at 317-2210. Also if you have box fans, please consider donating them.
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Altering the Rhetoric
Read more: Altering the RhetoricIn Friday’s Press Enterprise is a letter to the editor that casts a very critical view on town and University leaders in the days following the Bloomsburg Flood. The letter, written by a Bloomsburg resident titled, “Town’s attitude angers West Ender,” works to explain how it feels to live in the western part of town — to be branded “west enders” perhaps. “You think we are fools who only have ourselves to blame for getting flooded. We choose to live in the West End so we got exactly what we deserved, right? We are uneducated and obviously not as “intelligent”…
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Join the Effort
Read more: Join the EffortThe original call to arms. Now being used to re-engage our community.
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Welcome to The Bloomsburg Daily
Read more: Welcome to The Bloomsburg DailyFrom the first edition on 2/1/1892 … Progressive Bloomsburg, what say you now? It has a daily, The Bloomsburg Daily.