Author: Derek Gittler
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Video Archive: Bloom Town Council Meeting, Mon. Oct 24
Read more: Video Archive: Bloom Town Council Meeting, Mon. Oct 24Beginning at 7:00 PM on Monday, October 24 The Bloomsburg Daily did a Live Stream of the meeting of the Bloomsburg Town Council. Below is the archive of this stream. The meeting starts eight minutes into the video. You may also, if you prefer, follow along with our live blog on this linked page.
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Kiwanis and Fashion Delivers Bring Clothing to Flood Victims
Read more: Kiwanis and Fashion Delivers Bring Clothing to Flood VictimsSocial Clubs and Industry Organizations alike have come together to assist those who lost much in the recent flooding. One such example is the partnership between The Bloomsburg Kiwanis Club and Fashion Delivers Charitable Foundation, Inc.An association of both wholesale and retail fashion industry vendors, Fashion Delivers coordinates with a global network of more than one thousand local agencies, providing aid to those in need, as well as economic and philanthropic alternatives for companies disposing of their excess inventory. Marianne Kreisher Fogelsanger, a Bloomsburg native, attorney at Kreisher & Gregorowicz, and President of the Bloomsburg Chapter of Kiwanis International, worked…
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Live Blog: Bloom Town Council Meeting, Mon. Oct 24
Read more: Live Blog: Bloom Town Council Meeting, Mon. Oct 24You may also, if you prefer, watch our live video stream on this linked page. Meeting adjourned 7:50 Public Works Committee. Approval of payment to Petters consultant approved by voice vote. HRC for the Town Park improvement as well as the Streater property. Motions passed by unanimous voice vote. 7:49 Mr. Helbok asks about precedent for waiving fees. Mayor Knorr responds that it was done for the West Main St. Fire and was done to encourage redevelopment. Mr. Helbok responded that if the town did that it would encourage people to rebuild in flood zone. 7:47 Claude Renninger asks if…
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Rep. Millard Works To Streamline Flood Relief
Read more: Rep. Millard Works To Streamline Flood ReliefState Representative David Millard held a public meeting at the request of the residents of Fernville on the evening of October 20th, 2011. With the discussion revolving around the uncertainty of when and how Fernville residents would receive funds for the repair or acquisition of their damaged properties, Rep. Millard assured those in attendance that their well-being and care are his primary concern. “This event was of such a magnitude, that we need to take people out of harm’s way,” Rep. Millard stated. “I want to facilitate that.” Most of the residents in attendance reported receiving varying information from local,…
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Not By Memory Alone
Read more: Not By Memory AloneIt’s critical that we not rely on memory, on word of mouth for that type of an emergency. Because if it’s four decades from now, we’re going to need to have everything compiled, have this written, memorialized. –Mayor Dan Knorr, October 18th, 2011 Records of the 1972 flood exist to be sure, but they don’t tell the entire story. There are pictures, maps, lists of names and statistics. But what these records lack is the immediate story, the conversation that takes place daily among friends and neighbors, the conversation that has taken and is still taking place in the streets…
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Visiting Nurses Braved Flood Dangers
Read more: Visiting Nurses Braved Flood DangersWhen disaster strikes, most people are healthy enough to escape the danger on their own or take care of themselves for a few days while roads clear and the crisis passes. There are those among us however, who are less fortunate: the sick, the elderly, and the terminally ill. These are people who require constant, daily care, regardless of regional emergencies or disasters. Since 1967, the community health care workers of Columbia-Montour Home Health & Hospice, part of the Bloomsburg Health System, have provided in-home nursing and care-giving services for all of Columbia and Montour counties, as well as most…
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Plagued by Doubts, Flood Victims Begin Again
Read more: Plagued by Doubts, Flood Victims Begin AgainWarm October days, cool crisp evenings, the noise of saws and hammers, slowly dwindling piles of debris. All of these sights and sounds makes one think that a month after the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Lee, life is starting to return to normal in Bloomsburg. But for Tina Parks Erb, her husband Marlin, and their sons Kyle (17) and Walker (8), things are far from normal. For them, their neighbors in the west end of town, and all families affected by the flood, new worries and dangers abound. On Wednesday, September 7th the sheriff’s office alerted Mrs. Erb and…
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Alpha Phi Omega Helps Bloom Flood Victims
Read more: Alpha Phi Omega Helps Bloom Flood VictimsMolly Stout of Cherry Hill, NJ, and Janine Brunner of Slatington, PA, both members of the Bloomsburg University chapter of the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity, spent the afternoon of October 7th canning along Lightstreet Road in Bloomsburg. Molly and Janine, along with other members of Alpha Phi Omega, have spent the last few weeks soliciting donations for the benefit of flood victims, as well as volunteering their time clearing trash, debris and mud from the homes of local residents.
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Bloom Hospital Staff Saved ER from Flooding
Read more: Bloom Hospital Staff Saved ER from FloodingAs Tropical Storm Lee rained on Bloomsburg, people worried about water rising from Fishing Creek and the Susquehanna. What would happen to the low lying areas of the community? No one gave a thought to the higher ground. Four employees of The Bloomsburg Hospital: Chuck Andreas, Scott Tanner, Brad Lurowitz, and Rick Millheim discovered that water from above is just as threatening as water from below. Their efforts in the early hours of Tuesday morning prevented the water running off the the hills above The Bloomsburg Hospital and into the Emergency Room. Andreas, Director of Security for the hospital, recalled,…