PSoTD

There is a bakery in Camp Hill, The Pennsylvania Bakery. It is a great bakery, and one of the best things they do is make all these different desserts and pastries and other items specifically for Christmas. Just fabulous stuff, and as a tradition, we go there every year.

But... the tradition is enhanced by the fact that nobody else around here seems to make any Christmas specialty bakery items. None that I have found, at least. And this is why, on the Friday, two days before Christmas, you go into The Pennsylvania Bakery to pick up your order at 10 AM, and you find there are literally 49 other orders waiting to be fulfilled before you're up. WHEEE! Now, I have to tell you, the pastries are great, I love The Pennsylvania Bakery, but quite frankly, I'm not very interested in waiting forty-five minutes to have an order fulfilled at a bakery two days before Christmas.

So... calling all other bakeries on the West Shore... make and sell some Christmas specialty items for 2006. Advertise them. People will come. Don't be so afraid of The Pennsylvania Bakery Tradition. They're good... but the lines do intimidate.

As PennLive reports,

Fluoride news went by book, firm says

I guess that is possible. But as the article also says:

"If it had been a terrorist situation, we would have been completely in the dark. We found out by word of mouth, not by any official means," said Bonnie Bentz, a Camp Hill resident.

Which in essence means, it may have been by the book, but the book is outdated and really kind of sucks in the age of the Internet. Still waiting to read that great reason for why the company didn't post news about the leak on their website.

And by the way... doesn't the Federal Government have anything to say about the performance of every responsible party in this case? Where's Homeland Security? Where's EPA?

Seriously. I'm sure a lot of people in Pennsylvania have been looking at their web site this weekend. Why? You can't tell from PAWC's site, but since early Saturday morning, there's been a possible fluoride leak in the water, and residents are not supposed to be drinking water from PAWC...

Residents of Fairview and Newberry townships in northern York County, and several boroughs and townships in Cumberland County, should not use their water until further notice because of possibly elevated levels of fluoride in the water, according to the York County's Office of Emergency Management.

The Cumberland communities are the boroughs of Camp Hill, Lemoyne, New Cumberland, New Kingstown, Shiremanstown, Wormleysburg and West Fairview; and the townships of East Pennsboro, Enola, Hampden, Lower Allen, Upper Allen and Silver Spring.

The emergency management office issued the following advisories:

· Do not drink the water.

· Do not use water for cooking.

· Do not provide water to pets.

· It is OK to use water for washing dishes, bathing and flushing the toilet.

The emergency management office said the advisory is the result of an incident at Pennsylvania-American Water Company, which supplies water to the area.

The lack of news about this on PAWC's site is ridiculous and somewhat irresponsible. The web site is established to spread information. Failing to post about the fluoride does the exact opposite.

Update: As of midday on Sunday, news reports state that the fluoride problem has been resolved and normal water consumption is advised.

A few months ago, I posted a question about Capital Blue Cross's television advertising campaign featuring their CEO, Anita Smith.

Yesterday, the Harrisburg Patriot published their curiousity about it as well.

There was another blogger wondering about the commercials a few weeks back.

Apparently, they will continue for a while, but that's about all that is really known about the decisionmaking behind the campaign.