What happened: Denver Borough Council meeting, March 29. What happened: Denver Borough Council members joined other local officials calling on Lancaster County to establish a county health department, which county commissioners have been reluctant to do so far, despite a yearlong pandemic. During the meeting, council members offered informal support to a March 8 letter and resolution initiated by Manheim Township to create a county health department. Borough Council did not take a formal vote on the resolution. Quotable: âLancaster County has a unique look to it with all of our senior living facilities. I think a local presence regarding health care would be helpful,â said council President Blake Daub, who is a senior vice president at Lititz-based Luthercare, a nonprofit organization that operates retirement communities including Luther Acres where an outbreak of COVID-19 claimed the lives of nursing home residents.