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“We don’t think there’s anything more<br />
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ribbon cutting of their new Lexington Park store<br />
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Yeoman 3rd Class Lashanda Watlington, center, sings the National Anthem at the<br />
ribbon cutting for Mission BBQ in San Souci Shopping Center. She is flanked by<br />
business owners Bill Kraus, left, and Steve Newton.<br />
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COUNTY<br />
NEWS<br />
By Guy Leonard<br />
Staff Writer<br />
The St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Sheriff’s Office employs one<br />
electronic license plate reader device (LPR) on a patrol<br />
car and every license plate it come near it reads and puts<br />
in a database but the information is not used to track the<br />
movements of everyday citizens said Sheriff Timothy K.<br />
Cameron.<br />
Just how much LPRs are used to record the whereabouts<br />
of citizens came into sharp focus last week after the<br />
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released a report<br />
stating that many police departments around the country<br />
use LPRs that are recording vast amounts of data on citizens<br />
as they drive and storing that information in databases for<br />
sometimes upto several years.<br />
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Sheriff: Tag Reader Info<br />
Not Used to Track Citizens<br />
The ACLU argued that such information could have<br />
a significant chilling affect on the lives of citizens as they<br />
might choose not to engage in political speech or public<br />
activities if they believed their movements were being<br />
recorded.<br />
Cameron said the LPR technology has been most<br />
useful in spotting cars operated without a valid registration,<br />
that are stolen or whose operator has a warrant out<br />
for their arrest.<br />
He also said LPRs could be used eventually for<br />
criminal investigations, such as burglary cases, where the<br />
technology could be used to stake out a certain neighborhood<br />
to see if license plates can be matched to suspects<br />
police have developed.<br />
“That wouldn’t be probable cause enough for an arrest<br />
but that would be used to develop or eliminate suspects,”<br />
Cameron said. “We use it basically for traffic enforcement<br />
and warrants.<br />
“It has tremendous potential for criminal<br />
investigations.”<br />
The data stored in the sheriff’s database remains<br />
there only for about 30 days, Capt. Edward Willenborg,<br />
head of the agency’s patrol division said.<br />
This is mostly a function of memory capacity, he<br />
said.<br />
The information is coalated and transferred to the<br />
<strong>Maryland</strong> Coordination and Analysis Center, a fusion<br />
center for law enforcement and homeland security information,<br />
where is is held for one year along with data from<br />
other law enforcement agencies statewide, Cameron said.<br />
Of the thousands of tags the LPR device reads every<br />
day in St. Mary’s only about one percent result in enforceable<br />
“hits” on a “hot list.”<br />
Cameron said he was familiar with the ACLU report<br />
and agreed that some of the concerns about invasion of<br />
privacy were valid but here use of information in the database<br />
for any reason other than a legitimate investigation<br />
was forbidden.<br />
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“Unless it’s part of a criminal investigation it would<br />
be an unlawful query,” Cameron said. “It’s all our jobs<br />
here to see that it’s used appropriately and within the<br />
law.”<br />
Cameron said concerns over the violation of civil<br />
liberties were valid but that the technology was balanced<br />
by proper use in favor of public safety.<br />
The ACLU study points to information it received<br />
from Freedom of Information Act requests in 2012 on<br />
<strong>Maryland</strong> as a prime example of the far reaching affects<br />
of the technology.<br />
“The vast majority of license plate data are collected<br />
from people who have done nothing wrong at all,” the<br />
study reads. “Often only a fraction of one percent of reads<br />
are hits and an even smaller fraction result in an arrest.<br />
“In our records request, documents from <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
illustrate this point.”<br />
The report showed that 75 percent of <strong>Maryland</strong>’s<br />
law enforcement agencies are wired into the state fusion<br />
center which collected more than 85 million license<br />
plate records in 2012.<br />
Greg Shipley, spokesman for the <strong>Maryland</strong> State<br />
Police, said their LPRs download all their information<br />
to the state fusion center directly and access to the information<br />
is strictly limited to criminal investigations.<br />
“All of that information is maintained with strict<br />
oversight,” Shipley said.<br />
Statistics for this year through May show statewide<br />
license plate readers had more than 29 million reads<br />
with only two-tenths of one percent were hits for suspicion<br />
of having committed a crime or moving violation.<br />
“In short, <strong>Maryland</strong>’s license plate readers collect<br />
massive amounts of data, almost none of which are tied<br />
to any known or even suspected wrongdoing,” the study<br />
stated. “Even the vast majority of hits are for minor regulatory<br />
violations.”<br />
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COUNTY<br />
NEWS<br />
Smeco Project to Break<br />
Ground in St. Mary’s<br />
By Guy Leonard<br />
Staff Writer<br />
For several years now the <strong>Southern</strong><br />
<strong>Maryland</strong> Electric Cooperative (SMECO)<br />
has been busy constructing two new circuits<br />
to create a 230 kilovolt loop from Calvert to<br />
St. Mary’s counties in hopes of feeding the<br />
regions burgeoning power needs.<br />
SMECO officials told the Board<br />
of <strong>County</strong> Commissioners Tuesday that<br />
construction will soon begin, starting in<br />
November.<br />
Known as SMECO’s <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
Reliability Project the electrical loop<br />
will connect the power station in Huntingtown<br />
with the Hewitt Road station in Lexington<br />
Park and will include an additional 28<br />
miles of overhead transmission lines and an<br />
additional two miles of transmission cable<br />
that will be fed through a tunnel under the<br />
Patuxent River from the shores of Calvert to<br />
St. Mary’s.<br />
The next phase of the project to impact<br />
St. Mary’s includes new power lines between<br />
Route 235 and FDR Boulevard in California<br />
in front of the Wal-Mart shopping center.<br />
Access road and installing foundations<br />
will begin this November; the new 10 miles<br />
of power lines will run along routes 4 and<br />
235 to the Hewitt Road station.<br />
The project will use current right-ofways,<br />
SMECO officials said.<br />
The overhead construction should be<br />
completed by March of 2014 and pole setting<br />
should start in January of next year and<br />
be completed by that April.<br />
The entire overhead project should be<br />
finished by July of next year, SMECO officials<br />
said.<br />
The drilling under the Patuxent River<br />
should start this September and continue<br />
through mid-2014.<br />
The entire reliablity project should be<br />
finished by the close of next year.<br />
SMECO plans to use plywood soundbarriers<br />
to reduce the noise to nearby homes<br />
in the area of Patuxent Beach Road where<br />
much of the drilling and construction will<br />
take place; the utility provider plans on a<br />
six-day work week with a 12-hour work<br />
day.<br />
“We’ve stayed on budget, we’ve stayed<br />
on time,” said SMECO spokesman Tom<br />
Dennison. “The project will be complete<br />
pretty much a year from now.”<br />
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Seeking Help<br />
to Create<br />
Foundation for<br />
Oyster Restoration<br />
Karl Willey, manager of the Chesapeake Bay<br />
Foundation Oyster Restoration Center, (right),<br />
helps Association staff and interns get the hang of<br />
directing the cement truck and filling the reef ball<br />
molds to the correct level.<br />
Several molds await helping hands to turn them<br />
into reef balls, which will become homes to oysters<br />
and a bevy of other aquatic creatures once in the<br />
St. Mary’s River.<br />
St. Mary’s River Watershed Association executive<br />
director Bob Lewis (left) shows STEM intern Jared<br />
Kimmey and project supervisor David Wood how<br />
to tamp down the cement after it’s poured.<br />
The St. Mary’s River Watershed Association<br />
wishes to invite members of the<br />
community to lend a hand creating reef balls<br />
which will become the foundation for the<br />
growing three-dimensional oyster habitat in<br />
the St. Mary’s River. These reef balls, full of<br />
nooks and crannies and holes, give growing<br />
oysters an ideal place to grow and thrive and<br />
the Association would like to construct 300<br />
to 400 within the next six weeks.<br />
With the molds on loan from the Chesapeake<br />
Bay Foundation, the Association has<br />
set up shop at Sanners Lane in Lexington<br />
Park, where Carruth & Son, Inc. provide the<br />
concrete.<br />
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays<br />
they will be filling the molds and on Tuesdays<br />
and Thursday, breaking the reef balls<br />
free and finishing up the cycle.<br />
Several groups have already signed on<br />
to help with this vital part of the oyster restoration<br />
project with planned workdays for<br />
a group of teachers, the staff of Bert’s 50’s<br />
Diner, a scout troop and Rotary members.<br />
Groups of all kinds are welcome to<br />
volunteer and set up their own workday,<br />
with 30 reef balls dedicated in their name.<br />
This is a wonderful opportunity for businesses,<br />
youth groups, churches, or clubs to<br />
be part of something important and learn<br />
about what is being done to protect the local<br />
watershed and revitalize the local oyster<br />
population.<br />
Individuals wishing to help, and maybe<br />
even bring their children along, are welcome<br />
to join in as well. It’s an interesting<br />
process to watch and take part in and one<br />
that will make a genuine difference.<br />
Batches of these reef balls will be<br />
placed in the St. Mary’s River oyster sanctuary<br />
beginning in August and volunteer<br />
opportunities abound for getting to better<br />
understand the importance of replenishing<br />
the pollutant-eating oyster population and<br />
learning about the small changes that can<br />
lead to a significant impact for the health of<br />
the watershed and its many inhabitants.<br />
Most reef ball making days will begin<br />
around 8 a.m. and those interested just need<br />
to call ahead to (301) 247-6047.<br />
For more information on this and<br />
other projects the St. Mary’s River Watershed<br />
Association is involved in, visit www.<br />
smrwa.org.
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Thursday, July <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2013</strong> 10<br />
New Restaurant Serves Up<br />
Barbeque, Patriotism<br />
By Guy Leonard<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Business partners and lifelong friends Bill<br />
Kraus and Steve Newton decided two years ago to<br />
put their mutual love for barbeque to the test when<br />
they opened up their first Mission BBQ restaurant in<br />
Glen Burnie, but their business has a different mission<br />
than just serving up heaping portions of meat<br />
and coleslaw.<br />
They also do it to honor the service of military<br />
personnel, law officers and fire and rescue first responders,<br />
Kraus said.<br />
The co-owners celebrated the opening of their<br />
newest store in San Souci Shopping Center Monday,<br />
honoring those who served with steaming hot food.<br />
Their vision started 10 years after the terrorist<br />
attacks of 9/11, Kraus said.<br />
“We decided in some small way we’d change the<br />
world for the better,” he said. “We don’t think there’s<br />
anything more American than barbeque and those<br />
who swear to protect and defend the country.<br />
“Here is our chance to say thanks.”<br />
Kraus said he and his partner chose St. Mary’s<br />
<strong>County</strong> as their newest business location not just<br />
because of the thriving market but because of the<br />
“heavy concentration of military personnel and an<br />
absolutely vibrant group of first responders.”<br />
The fact that the county’s fire and rescue personnel<br />
were 100 percent volunteer, Kraus said, “spoke<br />
volumes” about the community’s dedication to<br />
service.<br />
Kraus said in the week prior to the new store’s<br />
grand opening fundraisers there to benefit first responders<br />
and military personnel with the Wounded<br />
Warrior project brought in $15,000.<br />
Kraus said all of the proceeds would go to the<br />
beneficiaries.<br />
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Yeoman 3rd Class Lashanda Watlington, center, sings the National Anthem at the<br />
ribbon cutting for Mission BBQ in San Souci Shopping Center. She is flanked by<br />
business owners Bill Kraus, left, and Steve Newton.<br />
Leonardtown<br />
PNC Bank<br />
Closes It’s Doors<br />
Gun Ranges Open<br />
For Business<br />
Mary Lee Harless, Jo Ann Gough and Cathy Wright,<br />
whose recent ancestors both took turns running the bank on<br />
Leonardtown’s square, present checks to Christine Wray, right,<br />
for MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital’s building fund last week.<br />
Both Roswell Bascom-Broun and Joe Gough presided<br />
over the bank’s operations under various names since 1930.<br />
Bascom-Broun acted as conservator of the bank under presidential<br />
order in 1930 until his death on the job in 1976. Gough,<br />
who had worked in the bank since 1952 in various positions,<br />
took over in 1976 as chairman of the board until his retirement<br />
in 1998.<br />
The checks the women presented were deposited at what is<br />
now the PNC Bank as the last transactions at the bank before it<br />
closed its doors last week.<br />
<strong>County</strong> Commissioner Todd Morgan takes aim with a Ruger .22 target pistol July 20 at Sanner’s Lake Sportmen’s Club’s grand<br />
reopening after nearly two years of modernizing the ranges.<br />
By Guy Leonard<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Since 1951 Sanner’s Lake Sportsmen’s club has<br />
hosted rifle, pistol and shotgun shooters, providing them<br />
with the only private range open to gun enthusiasts in the<br />
county just off of Great Mills Road.<br />
But for the past two years the board of directors of<br />
the club shut the ranges down for a complete overhaul,<br />
finally reopening them July 20.<br />
<strong>County</strong> elected leaders, government officials and<br />
residents came out to try the new ranges with .22 caliber<br />
rifles and pistols and shotguns; for some of them it was<br />
their first time ever pulling a trigger.<br />
“We needed to bring ourselves into the 21st century,”<br />
said club president John Mountjoy. “We brought<br />
ourselves to the state of the art in gun range design.”<br />
The most prominent new feature on the gun ranges<br />
are tall broad wooden baffles that block out the sky and<br />
prevent bullets from going over earthen berms that sit at<br />
the foot of the firing space.<br />
The range modernization has cost in the hundreds<br />
of thousands of dollars from the clubs own membership<br />
dues and savings.<br />
Despite its long history in the community, Sanner’s<br />
Lake has often gone unnoticed, Mountjoy said, but<br />
the club is trying to make an effort to do more outreach<br />
programs.<br />
It offers shooting instructions to Boy Scout troops as<br />
well as to paraolympians and the club is open to the public<br />
on weekends for events like trap and skeet shooting.<br />
Mountjoy said neither he nor the other members<br />
know just how long the club will remain in existence<br />
since the club does not own the land outright and the<br />
owners may decide to sell it to make way for development<br />
in the Lexington Park area.<br />
“We will be there… for as long as we’re allowed to,”<br />
Mountjoy said. “We know the property is not in the Lexington<br />
Park Development District plan.”<br />
He and many others would like to keep the patch of<br />
rural land as it is but he knows the pressure to sell might<br />
be too great.<br />
“There’s just too much money there,” Mountjoy<br />
said.<br />
Commissioner Todd Morgan, one of the visitors that<br />
day, was impressed with the amount of recreation available<br />
at the club. Being a first time shooter he was also impressed<br />
with the level of instruction and safety instilled at<br />
each course of fire.<br />
“I wasn’t much for the pistols but the rifle was good<br />
and with the shotgun I got the first clay duck and the last<br />
clay duck,” Morgan said. “I though it was great, I had a<br />
lot of fun.”<br />
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Cooking with<br />
Confidence<br />
By Kimberly Alston<br />
Contributing Writer<br />
There is a long time idiom that claims, “the<br />
apple does not fall too far from the tree.”<br />
As a child, No Thyme to Cook owner and<br />
chef Gwyn Novak would have resented that<br />
statement.<br />
“Kids will listen to everyone but their parents,”<br />
she said.<br />
Because her mother was a home economics<br />
teacher for 30 years, growing up, Novak had<br />
no interest in cooking. However, while studying<br />
in college for a major she had no interest in and<br />
working at William-Sonoma and enjoying herself<br />
there, Novak decided to give culinary arts<br />
a chance, and in 1999 No Thyme to Cook was<br />
born.<br />
“It actually started out as a personal chef<br />
business,” Novak said.<br />
After following that model for a while, Novak<br />
chose to pursue something smaller, and started<br />
teaching cooking classes in December of 2012.<br />
“I’ve finally found my niche,” Novak said<br />
of teaching. No Thyme to Cook holds several<br />
classes during the week including vegan and vegetarian<br />
dishes, a couples cooking class, and even<br />
a college 101 class called Cooking for College.<br />
“It’s basic dishes that can be done in a dorm<br />
room,” Novak said, “All you need is a mini-fridge,<br />
a microwave and a blender”.<br />
In addition to that, Novak holds Hook to<br />
Cook classes where the morning is spent on a<br />
boat in Drum Point and students harvest what<br />
they are going to prepare.<br />
“It’s about rockfish and crab season now,”<br />
Novak said. After their time on the water, Novak<br />
shows how to clean what was caught, and how to<br />
cook it.<br />
No Thyme to Cook stresses the importance<br />
of locally grown foods.<br />
“The more local foods you can find, the better<br />
it’s going to taste,” she said.<br />
In August, Novak is running a summer<br />
cooking camp for kids ages seven to 12.<br />
“Don’t worry,” she said, “no sharp knives<br />
or hot surfaces.” Parents are welcome to stay and<br />
watch the class, but Novak feels “if kids have a<br />
hand in actually making it [food] there’s a greater<br />
chance they’ll actually eat it.” The camp runs for<br />
a week from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and includes field<br />
trips, Novak said. During the week, the kids will<br />
head to a local farm, “to find out where bacon<br />
and eggs actually come from,” as well as grocery<br />
stores to learn about comparative shopping. Towards<br />
the end of the camp, the children will get<br />
the chance to prepare food for a homeless shelter<br />
and also create a finale luncheon for their parents<br />
on the last day.<br />
Novak believes that her business is “definitely<br />
growing,” she now hosts in-home private<br />
classes, food allergy warning classes and classes<br />
on good pro-biotic health. For more information<br />
on No Thyme To Cook or to sign up for a<br />
class, visit www.nothymetocook.com or call<br />
443-624-5048.<br />
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Thursday, July <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2013</strong> 12<br />
St. Mary’s City Commission<br />
Chided in Audit<br />
By Guy Leonard<br />
Staff Writer<br />
A report from the state’s Office of Legislative Audits<br />
shows that the commission that oversees the operations of<br />
historic St. Mary’s City did not take enough care in recording<br />
and controlling cash receipts for fiscal 2012, which totaled<br />
up to about $645,000.<br />
The report specifies that there was no independent confirmation<br />
that all the receipts recorded were submitted to St.<br />
Mary’s College for deposit as they should have been.<br />
“Rather the individual who performed the verificiations<br />
had routine access to the collections,” the report stated. “In<br />
addition, cash receipts were not forwarded to the college for<br />
deposit on a timely basis.”<br />
The auditors used a test of 10 days of collections, which<br />
totaled about $10,800, which determined that on eight days<br />
tested deposits of only $10,631 were brought to the college<br />
between two to eight businesses days after they were<br />
collected.<br />
<strong>Maryland</strong> rules state that an employee not connected<br />
with the collections must verify the deposits to the college.<br />
The historic commission also did not follow its own<br />
competitive bidding process with regard to one contract, the<br />
report stated, and paid out $23,190 to the same vendor who<br />
did not have to compete for the contract nor did they even<br />
sign a contract.<br />
This occurred between July of 2010 and December of<br />
2012.<br />
This vendor, not named in the report, provided services<br />
at two annual special events and has been paid a total of<br />
$53,000 as of January.<br />
“Consequently, there is a lack of assurance that the<br />
commission obtained these services at the lowest cost,” the<br />
report stated.<br />
In a reponse to the report commission Executive Director<br />
Regina Faden and finance director Douglas Hunter<br />
stated they have instituted checks and balances in the collections<br />
department to ensure a person independent of the<br />
process verifies the receipts.<br />
As for the finding that the commission let a contract<br />
without a proper bidding process, the commission officials<br />
said the vendor selected was involved in food service and<br />
the other vendor did not meet the food selction standards for<br />
the event, so the commission never asked for a price quote.<br />
“The commission has reviewed its procurement policies<br />
and is adhering to its policies,” the response stated.<br />
The commission officials also wrote that they did not<br />
dispute either of the findings of the auditors.<br />
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<strong>County</strong><br />
Test Scores<br />
Drop<br />
By Guy Leonard<br />
Staff Writer<br />
<strong>County</strong> scores for the <strong>Maryland</strong> School<br />
Assessment (MSA) dropped this year along<br />
with much of the rest of the state’s school systems<br />
as the state is beginning a transition to a<br />
new set of curriculum standards.<br />
Test scores in reading and mathematics<br />
dropped in nearly every student grade level<br />
from 3rd to 8th grade, according to the recently<br />
released testing data from the <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
Department of Education.<br />
According to a local system analysis<br />
of the numbers 87.6 percent of elementary<br />
school children scored proficient on the tests<br />
this year, a 4.5 percent decline from 2012. In<br />
math 88.9 percent of elementary school children<br />
scored proficient but that represents a 1.6<br />
percent drop from last year as well.<br />
Middle school scores were also lower<br />
but not to the same degree as elementary students,<br />
the school system reported.<br />
Middle school students showed a .6 percent<br />
decline in reading proficiency and 3.3<br />
percent lower in math.<br />
In both reading and math elementary<br />
students here scored better than the state average<br />
but middle school children scored below<br />
the state average in reading though they<br />
performed much higher than the state average<br />
in math.<br />
“Our slight decline in scores is mirrored<br />
across the state and is attributable to our aggressive<br />
transitioning to the Common Core<br />
Standards,” said Schools Superintendent Michael<br />
J. Martirano. “We have predicted that<br />
scores on an assessment that is misaligned<br />
with our current curriculum will decline.”<br />
The county school system has already<br />
started teaching to the Common Core standards<br />
despite students still taking the MSA;<br />
local teachers union advocates have complained<br />
that student test scores would suffer<br />
as a result as would teacher evaluations since<br />
they are now at least partially tied to student<br />
achievement.<br />
“There's a huge disconnect between<br />
these scores and the hard work that educators<br />
and students did during this past school year.<br />
These scores reflect the deep and problematic<br />
misalignment between what students are<br />
taught and how they're being tested, which<br />
will continue for at least the next school<br />
year,” said <strong>Maryland</strong> State Education Association<br />
President Betty Weller. “Right now, the<br />
MSA is just not providing valuable information<br />
for how children are doing or how we’re<br />
doing as educators. This disconnect underscores<br />
the need to make sure that there are no<br />
high stakes attached to student test scores in<br />
teacher evaluations until the tests are valid,<br />
tested, and fully aligned with the curriculum<br />
taught.”<br />
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Esperanza Middle School<br />
Profile<br />
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Total Enrollment - 781<br />
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Our staff is committed to providing quality instruction that enhances<br />
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In addition, we continue to work with all stakeholders to create a positive<br />
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Suspect Guilty<br />
By Guy Leonard<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Jurors found James Kenneth Clay<br />
guilty of first-degree felony murder and<br />
second degree murder in the death of<br />
Robert Lee McDowney stemming from a<br />
Feb. 7 home invasion in St. Inigoes, prosecutors<br />
said.<br />
Clay is alleged to have broken into<br />
McDowney’s home along with Andre<br />
Bowman, of Laurel, to rob McDowney<br />
of drugs and money.<br />
The jury deliberated all of Tuesday<br />
afternoon and came to their conclusion at<br />
about 1 p.m. Wednesday.<br />
They also found Clay guilty of firstdegree<br />
burglary, conspiracy to commit<br />
first-degree burglary, conspiracy to commit<br />
robbery with a dangerous weapon<br />
and the use of a handgun in the commission<br />
of a felony.<br />
State’s Attorney Richard Fritz recounted<br />
the testimony of two key prosecution<br />
witnesses during the two-day trial<br />
that he said conclusively identified Clay,<br />
of no fixed address, as the shooter.<br />
He said that Alyssa Marshall, McDowney’s<br />
girlfriend who was in the trailer<br />
on Beachville Road during the home invasion,<br />
testified two men, one wearing a<br />
mask and another brandishing a handgun<br />
kicked in the door that night.<br />
The man in the mask, later identified<br />
as Bowman, herded her into a back<br />
room, while Clay was in the front with<br />
McDowney.<br />
She testified she heard the gunshot.<br />
Fritz said Marshall was able to point<br />
out Clay in a photo lineup within seconds<br />
of being shown his face.<br />
“The only other person in that room<br />
with Robert Lee McDowney was James<br />
Kenneth Clay,” Fritz told jurors. “They<br />
[Bowman and Clay] had the fully formed<br />
intent to go into that house with a deadly<br />
weapon to rob Robert Lee McDowney.”<br />
Fritz went on to review the testimony<br />
of Oshia Lewis who drove Clay and Bowman<br />
to St. Inigoes that night; she also<br />
positively identified Bowman and Clay<br />
as the ones who entered McDowney’s<br />
trailer.<br />
Fritz said Lewis came to know Bowman<br />
and gave him transportation but<br />
learned too late that night just what the<br />
two men were planning. When they met<br />
up with alleged conspirator Joseph Medley<br />
III at a gas station to get directions to<br />
the trailer, Fritz said, she began to realize<br />
her predicament.<br />
“She’s a young girl who found herself<br />
in an extremely bad situation.”<br />
Clay’s attorney public defender<br />
Gerald Riviello countered by saying that<br />
both the state’s witnesses had the shared<br />
interests of staying out of jail, intimating<br />
that they may have known more about<br />
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the crime than<br />
they had let on.<br />
He also<br />
said there was<br />
nothing to connect<br />
Clay to the actual crime scene.<br />
James Kenneth Clay<br />
“There’s no physical evidence to suggest<br />
James Clay had anything to do with<br />
this case,” Riviello said. “Mr. Fritz would<br />
have shown it to you if he had it.”<br />
Clay’s attorney said Bowman was<br />
Lewis’ drug dealer who supplied her with<br />
marijuana while Marshall had admitted<br />
that McDowney was actively involved in<br />
the drug trade.<br />
Riviello also questioned why Bowman<br />
and Lewis had gone to visit relatives<br />
in St. Mary’s after driving all the<br />
way from Laurel before the robbery took<br />
place.<br />
He also questioned why Lewis did<br />
not come forward to police about the<br />
crime, rather waited for them to come to<br />
her.<br />
Police were able to get leads in the<br />
case after they had found a phone dropped<br />
by Bowman that night.<br />
“Is this a robbery about drugs or is<br />
there something more sinister going on?”<br />
Fritz retorted that Riviello’s summation<br />
sounded more like baseless speculation<br />
about hidden motives in McDowney’s<br />
death.<br />
“Is he saying Lewis and Marshall<br />
got together and plotted a murder-forhire<br />
against Mr. McDowney?” Fritz said.<br />
“Closing arguments aren’t evidence, it’s<br />
just a theory.”<br />
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Staff Writer<br />
Police say they have<br />
found the man they allege<br />
brutally stabbed a victim in<br />
Loveville Monday after forcing<br />
her to drive him to parking<br />
lot that became the scene<br />
of the crime.<br />
Local investigators say<br />
49-year-old Joseph Francis<br />
Berry accosted the victim<br />
when she was at a business in Leonardtown,<br />
produced a knife and forced her<br />
into her car.<br />
Both Berry and the victim had been<br />
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When she had driven him to the<br />
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multiple times, police said, but she was<br />
Joseph Francis Berry<br />
eventually able to escape and<br />
seek help.<br />
Berry fled taking the victim’s<br />
2001 blue Ford Focus,<br />
police said.<br />
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degree rape from a case in<br />
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found the package on his front porch which had<br />
been delivered earlier in the day and addressed<br />
to him, had been opened. Further inspection of<br />
the package revealed several food items within<br />
the package had been opened and eaten. Deputy<br />
Johnson discovered the vehicle in question had<br />
been reported stolen on July 16, and did not belong<br />
to the subject inside. Deputy Johnson made<br />
contact with the subject inside the vehicle who<br />
initially provided Deputies with a false name. It<br />
was later confirmed, the sole occupant of the vehicle<br />
was Ronald Earl Jackson, 46, of Ridge, Md.<br />
Deputy Cole located additional packages and<br />
wrappers matching the contents of the victim’s<br />
package inside the vehicle along with Jackson.<br />
Deputy Johnson arrested and charged Jackson<br />
with Theft under $100, False Statement to Peace<br />
Officer, Open letter without Permission, Unlawful<br />
taking of Motor vehicle, and Theft under<br />
$10,000.<br />
Theft less $1,000<br />
On July 17, Deputy Trevor<br />
Teague responded to Wal-mart<br />
located in California, Md., for<br />
a theft. Wal-mart Loss Prevention<br />
observed Beth Suzanne<br />
Gannon, 26, of Mechanicsville,<br />
Md., place numerous store items Gannon<br />
in her shopping cart. Gannon then exited the<br />
store with the shopping cart of items, passing<br />
all points of sale without paying for said items.<br />
Gannon was arrested and charged with Theft<br />
less $1,000.<br />
Driving While Intoxicated, Possession of<br />
a Controlled Dangerous Substance and<br />
Paraphernalia<br />
On July 18, at approximately<br />
10 p.m., Deputies responded<br />
to Myrtle Point Park<br />
in California, Md., to check<br />
the welfare of a subject. While<br />
Deputies were on scene, a vehicle<br />
operated by Bonnie Kathleen<br />
Hollyer, 19, of California,<br />
Hollyer<br />
Md., pulled up to the Officers. Cpl. Elizabeth<br />
Goodwin made contact with Hollyer and observed<br />
Hollyer to exhibit signs of impairment.<br />
Deputy Lloyd issued standardized field sobriety<br />
to Hollyer, which resulted in her arrest. Search<br />
incident to arrest revealed a small baggie containing<br />
suspected marijuana as well as a smoking<br />
device with suspected marijuana residue.<br />
Hollyer was arrested and charged with Driving<br />
While Intoxicated, Driving Under the Influence,<br />
Possession of a Controlled Dangerous Substance<br />
and Possession of CDS Paraphernalia.<br />
2nd Degree Burglary and<br />
Theft under $10,000<br />
On July 17, Deputy Dina<br />
Beasley responded to a business<br />
in Charlotte Hall, Md., for a reported<br />
Burglary. The victim advised<br />
Nicholas Raymond Rawlings,<br />
26, of Hughesville, Md.,<br />
Crime &<br />
Punishment<br />
SHERIFF’S BLOTTER<br />
The following information is compiled directly from publicly released police reports.<br />
Jackson<br />
Rawlings<br />
broke into his business and stole numerous jewelry<br />
items. Deputy Beasley made contact with<br />
Rawlings who admitted to breaking into the<br />
business and taking numerous pieces of jewelry.<br />
Rawlings was arrested and charged with<br />
2 nd Degree Burglary and Theft under $10,000.<br />
Theft less $1,000 and Warrant Service<br />
On July 14, Deputies responded<br />
to Kohl’s in Lexington<br />
Park, Md., for a theft. The<br />
Emergency Communications<br />
Center advised responding<br />
Deputies, the suspects were<br />
fleeing the area and provided<br />
a vehicle description. Deputy<br />
Skyler Lefave and Deputy<br />
James Shomper observed the suspect vehicle<br />
leaving Kohl’s parking lot. Deputy Lefave<br />
conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle, making<br />
contact with three occupants and Carrie Jo<br />
Fowler, 33 of Stafford, Va. Kohl’s Loss Prevention<br />
Unit advised Deputies the four suspects<br />
had taken several pieces of jewelry, walked<br />
past all points of sale without paying for the<br />
items and fled the store. Fowler admitted to<br />
taking the merchandise, which was recovered<br />
by Deputy Lefave at that time. During contact<br />
with Fowler the Emergency Communications<br />
Center advised Fowler had an outstanding Arrest<br />
Warrant for Failure to Appear. Fowler was<br />
arrested and charged with Theft less $1,000 and<br />
once at the St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Detention Center<br />
she was served the District Court Arrest Warrant.<br />
Charges are pending on the other three<br />
suspects.<br />
Violation of a Protective Order<br />
On July 17, at approximately<br />
9:45 p.m., Deputy Philip<br />
Lance responded to a residence<br />
on Brookstone Court, Lexington<br />
Park, Md., for the report of<br />
a suspicious subject. Deputy<br />
Lance located Steven Anthony<br />
Warrick, 51 of Lexington Park,<br />
Md., inside the Brookstone Warrick<br />
Court residence. Deputy Lance was advised<br />
by the Emergency Communications Center<br />
of an active Protective Order against Warrick,<br />
that prohibits him from entering the residence.<br />
Warrick was arrested and charged with Violation<br />
of a Protective Order.<br />
Possession of Paraphernalia for a Controlled<br />
Dangerous Substance and Driving<br />
while Suspended<br />
On July 17, Deputy Skyler<br />
Lefave responded to the<br />
St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Detention<br />
Center in Leonardtown, Md.,<br />
for a subject attempting to sell<br />
drugs in the lobby. Captain<br />
Michael Merican was notified<br />
that Joshua Charles Young,<br />
Fowler<br />
Young<br />
29 of Mechanicsville, Md., attempted to sell<br />
unknown pills to another subject, while in the<br />
front lobby of the Detention Center. Captain<br />
Merican made contact in the parking lot with<br />
Young as he entered the driver side of his vehicle<br />
to leave. During the contact with Young,<br />
Deputy Lefave found Young to be in possession<br />
of Alprazolam and Methadone. Neither<br />
pill was in their proper containers, nor were<br />
they prescribed to Young. Deputy Lefave was<br />
advised by the Emergency Communications<br />
Center that Young’s privilege to drive was suspended<br />
through <strong>Maryland</strong>. Young was arrested<br />
and charged with Possession of Paraphernalia<br />
and Driving while Suspended.<br />
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ST. MARY’S COUNTY NAACP GENERAL MEETING<br />
TUESDAY, JULY 30, <strong>2013</strong> – 6:30 pm<br />
Lexington Park Library -- Meeting Room A<br />
(21677 FDR Blvd., Lexington Park, MD 20653)<br />
Guest Speakers are Representatives of the<br />
St. Mary’s Co. Sheriff’s Department and<br />
Joshua Brewster, Civil Rights Attorney<br />
[Visit Information Tables, Register to Vote, Become<br />
a Member & Volunteer to Support Branch Activities]<br />
SAVE THE DATES:<br />
• August 29, <strong>2013</strong> (Thursday), September 24, <strong>2013</strong> (Tuesday)<br />
and October 29 (Tuesday) General Meetings -<br />
Lexington Park Library, Room A – 6:30pm<br />
• October 19, <strong>2013</strong> (Saturday) – Annual Freedom Fund Banquet<br />
(Tickets $50.00), “We Shall Not BeMoved”, River’s Edge<br />
Banquet & Conference Center, NAS, Patuxent River, MD<br />
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE<br />
St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Branch #70<strong>25</strong>, Post Office Box 189,<br />
Lexington Park, <strong>Maryland</strong> 20653<br />
Contact: Andrea Bowman, President stmarysnaacp@gmail.com<br />
or Janice Walthour, Vice-President (301-862-2296)
The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Thursday, July <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2013</strong> 18<br />
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Beat the Heat with the<br />
Beach Party on the Square<br />
Who can come?<br />
Everyone! Invite your neighbors, family, coworkers<br />
and friends. (Please note that pets are<br />
welcome, but the pavement is often too hot this<br />
time of year for dogs’ sensitive feet.)<br />
When is it?<br />
Saturday, August 3 from 4 to 9 p.m.<br />
How much?<br />
Admission, parking and event sponsored entertainment<br />
are all FREE.<br />
But you will want to bring some money for delicious<br />
food, unique local products and art, kayaking,<br />
pony rides and supporting local charity<br />
drives, including the Running of the Balls!<br />
Where to park?<br />
Public lots in Town along Courthouse Drive<br />
and Park Avenue, or park at College of <strong>Southern</strong><br />
<strong>Maryland</strong> and take the shuttle into Town Square.<br />
Handicap parking available along Park Avenue<br />
by the Best Western Hotel and in the Courthouse<br />
parking lot.<br />
What to Bring?<br />
Swimsuit – we recommend wearing it under your<br />
clothes so you are ready to jump under the fire<br />
hose, go down the waterslide or brave Breton Bay<br />
on a kayak or stand-up paddleboard.<br />
Towel – to dry off if you’re planning to ride the<br />
shuttle back to the Square<br />
Sunglasses and sunscreen – this IS the beach after<br />
all!<br />
Comfortable shoes - there is a lot to see and do –<br />
don’t miss a thing!<br />
How is it Free?<br />
Beach party on the Square is sponsored in part by<br />
The Town of Leonardtown, The Leonardtown Business<br />
Association and each of the following generous<br />
local businesses: Winegardner Auto, Quality<br />
Built Homes, Two Guys Collision Center, MedStar<br />
St. Mary’s Hospital, Cedar Point Federal Credit<br />
Union, College of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong>, The St.<br />
Mary’s <strong>County</strong> and <strong>Maryland</strong> State Arts Councils,<br />
Great Mills Trading Post, Papa John’s Pizza, and St.<br />
Mary’s Macaroni Kid. It is staffed by volunteers. If<br />
you wish to help support the event, please email the<br />
event coordinator, maria.fleming2@verizon.net.<br />
Maria Fleming<br />
PR & Event Coordinator<br />
Commissioners of Leonardtown<br />
Is the heat getting to you? Running<br />
out of things to do with the kids? Don’t<br />
want to “get away” by sitting on the Bay<br />
Bridge for an hour? Leonardtown has<br />
some relief for you! Saturday, August<br />
3 marks the 11th Annual Beach Party<br />
on the Square, hosted by the Commissioners<br />
of Leonardtown and the Leonardtown<br />
Business Association.<br />
What started off as a “cool idea”<br />
has grown into an annual event that averages<br />
4,000 visitors playing in the sand,<br />
running through a giant water sprinkler,<br />
strolling through the Town Square and<br />
kayaking along Breton Bay. This free,<br />
family-friendly evening of fun was the<br />
brain child of Laschelle McKay, Town<br />
Administrator, Roger Mattingly, Councilmember,<br />
and Danny O’Connor, local<br />
business owner, who during another<br />
rained out event started envisioning the<br />
possibilities of turning the Square into<br />
an end-of-summer Beach Party, complete<br />
with sand, hula dancers and palm<br />
trees. The transformation was surprising<br />
and successful, and created a new<br />
annual event.<br />
What party-goers see today is<br />
much like the first Beach Party: a sandy<br />
beach in the middle of the intersection of<br />
Washington and Fenwick Streets, a giant<br />
waterfall provided by the Leonardtown<br />
Fire Department, dancers, strolling<br />
street performers and a brightly-colored<br />
flurry of activity everywhere you look.<br />
Hula hoop, jump rope and limbo contests<br />
are peppered in between the sets of<br />
The <strong>25</strong>th Hour Band, a local rock group<br />
who have been with the event since<br />
2005. This year they will be joined by<br />
Daughters of Veda Mideastern Dance<br />
Troupe, who will provide belly dancing<br />
performances and demos throughout the<br />
day, and strolling entertainer and juggler<br />
Michael Rosman. New exhibits in<br />
the Square will include the Longship<br />
Company of Viking re-enactors and<br />
educators, who are bringing a 21’ replica<br />
wooden Viking ship to the Square, the<br />
Happily Ever After Princesses and mysterious<br />
maiden of the deep, Mermaid<br />
Alexis.<br />
While many locals and residents<br />
say they come for the fun and appreciate<br />
a free event they can bring their kids to,<br />
most people are simply fascinated by the<br />
sand. The sand pit is sectioned off into a<br />
children’s play area - complete with pails<br />
Watch for the<br />
Beach Party sticker<br />
on the front page of<br />
The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
on August 1st for details<br />
on how to register to win a<br />
$1,000<br />
Shopping Spree!<br />
and shovels for building sand castles -<br />
and a volleyball court with equipment<br />
for pick-up volleyball games and a tugof-war<br />
tournament led by the Wellness,<br />
Fitness and Aquatics staff from College<br />
of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong>, Leonardtown<br />
Campus. But how much is there, where<br />
does it come from and where does it go?<br />
Each year Great Mills Trading Post<br />
generously donates 2 truckloads – or 40<br />
tons, yes, TONS – of sand and delivers<br />
it to the Square the morning of the<br />
event. Town staff and volunteers set up<br />
a border made of railroad ties and spread<br />
the sand around. If you would like to<br />
participate in transforming the Square,<br />
feel free to grab a shovel and meet the<br />
set up team in the Square around 10 a.m.<br />
At the end of the event, around 9 p.m., a<br />
convoy of trucks from AB & H Excavating<br />
clean up the sand and haul it away,<br />
followed closely by T & T Street Sweeping<br />
finishing the job.<br />
But Beach Party isn’t just the activities<br />
in the Town Square; it is truly a community<br />
event. Hillside Ride provides a<br />
shuttle to and from the Wharf where you<br />
can find a waterslide and moon bounce<br />
for the kids, as well as Patuxent Adventure<br />
Center providing kayaks and stand<br />
up paddle boards; a 30-minute excursion<br />
is only $10. Once the kids get hot and<br />
thirsty, they can head over to Rita’s Italian<br />
Ice or the McIntosh concession stand<br />
for a quick snack. Many of the local businesses<br />
decorate their windows, have an<br />
outdoor display and provide food, drink<br />
and merchandise specials while other lo-<br />
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with concerns related to drugs or alcohol. Free activities & peer support for<br />
guests. Open Monday-Friday 12-7 p.m. & Sundays 1-4 p.m. at 44871 St.<br />
Andrew’s Church Rd. Dinner is Served every Wednesday<br />
at 6 p.m. to guests!<br />
Beacon of Hope: a free center offering social & learning options and<br />
peer support for adults in a fun & sober atmosphere. Open Fridays,<br />
Saturdays & Sundays in Millison Plaza, Lexington Park, at 21800 N. Shangri<br />
La, near Well Pet Clinic. Piggy Bank Indoor Yard Sale—<br />
everything is a penny— Sunday 7/28, 2-6 p.m.<br />
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Freelance Photographers<br />
Events<br />
Weddings<br />
Family Portraits<br />
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cal vendors sell art, hand crafts, jewelry and<br />
knick-knacks. Non-profit organizations<br />
take the opportunity to offer health screenings<br />
and face painting, sell food like cotton<br />
candy, baked goods and kettle corn, and<br />
provide the community with valuable information<br />
and opportunities to help others.<br />
The most notable of these opportunities<br />
is the Leonardtown and Lexington Park<br />
Rotary Clubs Running of the Balls, now in<br />
its third year as a part of Beach Party. Numbered<br />
golf balls are purchased for $5 each<br />
(or 5 for $20) and then up to 5,000 balls are<br />
released down Fenwick Street Hill chasing<br />
each other through a 350 foot track and into<br />
a tube at the bottom of the hill. The first<br />
30 balls into the tube win a series of prizes<br />
–including this year’s top prize of $1,500<br />
cash. The spectacle is akin to the Running<br />
of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain, providing<br />
the Bull mascot seen in the Rotary advertising,<br />
on the new T-shirts, and around the<br />
event. It was the brainchild of Paul Engle, a<br />
member of the Lexington Park Rotary Club<br />
after he visited Park City Utah and saw their<br />
version of the event at their Minors Day.<br />
The Rotary Clubs receive donations<br />
and prizes from generous sponsors and all<br />
the proceeds go to the various charities they<br />
support, including the Literacy Council of<br />
St. Mary’s , Christmas in April, A Community<br />
That Shares, Hospice of St. Mary’s<br />
and their signature project, “Service with<br />
a Smile”, that supplies local third graders<br />
with fluoride rinse for healthy teeth. Balls<br />
can be “adopted” from Leonardtown &<br />
Lexington Park Rotary Club members,<br />
any business where you see a “Running of<br />
the Balls” poster, during the August First<br />
Friday, August 2 from 5 to 8 p.m., and at<br />
the Rotary Booth on Fenwick Street during<br />
Beach Party on the Square. T-shirts<br />
are also available for $15 each. For more<br />
information please visit www.leonardtownrotary.org,<br />
www.rotarylp.org, and www.<br />
runningoftheballs.org.<br />
It wasn’t until recently that Beach Party<br />
moved its date to the first Saturday after<br />
the first Friday in August to coincide with<br />
the Leonardtown Business Association’s<br />
First Fridays celebrations and make a whole<br />
Beach Party weekend. Since the partnership<br />
started, First Friday has had live music<br />
on the Square and a raffle sponsored by the<br />
Leonardtown Business Association. This<br />
year Miles from Clever is back by popular<br />
demand on the stage, Macaroni Kid and<br />
Yellow Door Art Studio will provide activities<br />
for children on the Square, and the raffle<br />
drawing will be held at 7:30 p.m. Prizes<br />
include gift certificates, gift baskets and<br />
packages from local businesses and a grand<br />
prize 46” HD Flat Screen TV. Tickets are<br />
$1 each or 12 for $10 and can be purchased<br />
at Fenwick Street Used Books and Music,<br />
Port of Leonardtown Winery, Fuzzy Farmers<br />
Market, Good Earth Natural Foods,<br />
Olde Towne Insurance, and the North End<br />
Gallery through August 2. For more information<br />
and a complete list of prizes, please<br />
visit www.leonardtownfirstfridays.com.<br />
So, if you’re looking for a great way to<br />
round out your summer, you don’t have far<br />
to go. Bring the whole family to Leonardtown<br />
for First Friday on August 2nd from<br />
5 to 8 p.m. and Beach Party on the Square<br />
on Saturday, August 3 from 4 to 9 p.m. for<br />
good fun, good food and good memories.
Scarves, Kitchen Textiles, & More<br />
The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
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Fiber Art, Bags, Jewelry, Shawls, Handspun Yarn, Goat’s Milk Soap,<br />
Visit us on the Square...<br />
Breton House<br />
Antiques<br />
22795 Washington Street, Leonardtown<br />
Open: Wed - Sat: 10-5<br />
Sundays: 11-4<br />
Also by appointment,<br />
301-690-2074<br />
Open late for First Fridays of the month<br />
Make Leonardtown<br />
“Your Place” Every First Friday!<br />
“DOWNTOWN”<br />
Summertime Raffle Event and<br />
Live Music with MiLES<br />
FRoM CLEVer on The Square!<br />
Friday, August 2nd, <strong>2013</strong><br />
5 PM to 8 PM, Leonardtown<br />
“UPTOWN”<br />
www.heritageprinting.com<br />
Vinyl lettering<br />
Banners<br />
SIGNS & DecalS<br />
Yard signs<br />
Wall Wraps<br />
301-475-1700<br />
www.heritageprinting.com<br />
301-475-1700<br />
New LocatioN!<br />
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Hours:<br />
Monday-Friday<br />
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Saturdays/<br />
Sundays by<br />
Appointment<br />
bellamusicschool.com 301-247-2602<br />
Cafe des Artistes<br />
Classic Country French Dining<br />
in a casual, relaxing atmosphere<br />
301-997-0500<br />
41655 Fenwick Street, Leonardtown<br />
email: cafedesartistes@somd.us<br />
www.cafedesartistes.ws<br />
Chef-owned and operated by Loic and Karleen Jaffres<br />
Creative Custom Framing & Art<br />
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Saturday: 10 a.m. ~ 2 p.m.<br />
Come Check out our<br />
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Behind the Bookcase!<br />
Monday - Thursday 6 am to 10 pm<br />
Friday 6 am to Midnight • Saturday 7 am to Midnight • Sunday 7 am to 3 pm<br />
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Come Try our<br />
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Fenwick Street Used Books and Music<br />
Meet author Michael Kibler from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.<br />
He will be selling and signing copies of his book Cut it Out.<br />
Good Earth Natural Foods<br />
Karen of Blue Moose Consulting offers samples of Oxylent,<br />
an Oxygenating Multivitamin Supplement Drink. Visit for a<br />
complimentary taste of this award-winning effervescent supplement.<br />
North End Gallery<br />
First Friday reception to celebrate “Dog Days,” covering<br />
artists interpretations of the heat of summer as well<br />
as looking at our furry friends ... both dogs and cats.<br />
Olde Towne Stitchery<br />
Get going on all your fall and holiday projects by taking advantage<br />
of our First Friday sale of 20% off all Jelly Rolls, Layer Cakes and<br />
Charm Packs all day Friday, August 2nd.<br />
Opal Fine Art<br />
Reception to celebrate “Playing with Fire,” featuring the work of<br />
guest sculptor, Martin Hughes and gallery owners, Angela Wathen,<br />
Jane Rowe, and Cynthia Rosenblatt. Don’t miss the fusion candle<br />
dance performed by Cinnaar at 8PM.<br />
Quality Street Kitchen<br />
Quality Street Kitchen presents a First Friday Wine tasting<br />
with 4 delicious wines, perfect for the summer! $5 tasting fee.<br />
St. Mary’s Macaroni Kid<br />
On the Square with hands-on kids crafts.<br />
Yellow Door Art Studio<br />
Stop by the Studio and watch a class in action.<br />
Visit us on the Square for hands-on art projects.<br />
Win a 46” Flat Screen HD TV<br />
or gift certificates/merchandise from<br />
participating LBA Businesses<br />
Purchase Tickets Now At<br />
Fuzzy Farmers Market<br />
Fenwick Street Used Books and Music<br />
North End Gallery<br />
The Good Earth<br />
Olde Towne Insurance<br />
Port of Leonardtown Winery<br />
$1 each or 12 for $10, need not be present to win.<br />
Raffle drawing begins at 7PM on Aug 2nd.<br />
Port of Leonardtown Winery<br />
$5 Wine Tastings, Live Music on the Patio with Dylan Galvin and<br />
Rusty Williams, Chef Dan of Morris Point Catering serving Lamb<br />
Lollipops for $5 a plate. Barrel Infused Cigars with one-of-a-kind<br />
specialty cigars, and featured artist Christina Allen.<br />
The Craft Guild Shop<br />
Artist George McWilliams joins the Guild and offers workshop on<br />
8/3 and 8/4. Stop by for details and to view his artwork.<br />
Guenther’s Bistro<br />
Free beer and wine tasting. Live music with Stephen W. Rodriguez.<br />
Summertime Raffle<br />
Prizes from:<br />
Port of Leonardtown Winery • The Good Earth<br />
Fuzzy Farmers Market • The Craft Guild Shop<br />
Fenwick Street Used Books and Music<br />
North End Gallery • Kevin’s Korner Cafe<br />
Opal Gallery • Ye Olde Towne Cafe<br />
Big Larry’s Comic Cafe • Oga’s Asian Cusine<br />
Ledo’s • Guenther’s Bistro<br />
Leonardtown True Value • Winegardner Automotive<br />
Bellarus Boutique • Cafe des Artistes<br />
Olde Town Stitchery • S-Kape Salon<br />
The Hair Company<br />
For First Friday Updates and Event Locations visit www.leonardtownfirstfridays.com<br />
301-475-1630<br />
www.GoodEarthNaturals.com<br />
Established in <strong>2013</strong>,<br />
Bellarus Boutique is a<br />
Womens Contemporary<br />
Retail Boutique that<br />
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To The Editor<br />
The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Thursday, July <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2013</strong> 22<br />
Revival Coming To 100 American Cities<br />
Be ye happy, happy, happy, as revival is coming to<br />
a city near you this Summer. Multitudes will be in attendance<br />
to witness what some describe as the greatest<br />
move of God Almighty (of the Holy Bible) in over three<br />
decades. Buses are under contract, and your friends and<br />
family are all planning to attend, so getting to and from<br />
will be no problem. Weather is expected to be in the 70’s<br />
and rain is nowhere in sight for the three day scheduled<br />
event. There will be free seating, uplifting music, special<br />
singers, guest appearances and sound Biblical preaching<br />
as souls are saved and backsliders reclaimed. A freewill<br />
love offering, only, will be taken each evening.<br />
For some, this event will recall America of years<br />
past, a time of national security, prosperity, morality and<br />
an overall united cohesiveness. Preaching nightly will be<br />
one of America’s two most high visibility black ministers,<br />
a TV star in his own right who regularly espouses strong<br />
political views. Youth of all colors are invited, however,<br />
specifically targeted will be America’s black youth. And<br />
translators will be available to counsel non English speaking<br />
attendees.<br />
Legal NoticeS<br />
Commissioners of Leonardtown<br />
Notice of Annexation Public Hearing<br />
The Leonardtown Mayor and Town Council will hold a<br />
public hearing on Monday, August 12, <strong>2013</strong> at 4:15 p.m. at the<br />
Town Office, 41660 Courthouse Drive, Leonardtown, MD for the<br />
following request for ANNEXATION of the DAVIS OFFICE PARK<br />
– 23511 Hollywood Road - Tax Map 0032, Parcel 0342, containing 4.5<br />
acres. The purpose of the hearing will be to present the project for public<br />
review and comment. Copies of the annexation documents are available<br />
for review at the Leonardtown Town Office. The public is invited to<br />
attend and/or send written comments to be received by<br />
August 12, <strong>2013</strong> at 4:00 p.m. to the Commissioners of Leonardtown,<br />
POB 1, Leonardtown, MD 20650. Special accommodations will be<br />
made for persons with disabilities upon request.<br />
By Authority: Laschelle E. McKay, Town Administrator.<br />
Commissioners of Leonardtown<br />
Notice of Public Hearing<br />
The revival’s main theme will focus on the Holy One<br />
of Israel and the soul saving and life changing opportunity<br />
He lovingly offers to all who will repent and receive Him<br />
as Lord and Saviour. For many in attendance this will be<br />
the first time they’ve ever heard the words, Jesus Saves<br />
and forgives regardless of one’s shameful past. Oh, they<br />
know about religion and formality, yet, most don’t grasp<br />
personal accountability and impending judgment. Folks<br />
will experience the true gospel, how that Christ died on<br />
Calvary’s Cross to pay for all their sins, in full, and that<br />
He was buried and arose on the third day and that He lives<br />
evermore to make intercession for them, personally. Such<br />
is indeed good news for all us sinners.<br />
From the Holy Bible, alone, attendees will learn of<br />
Sin and its wages, i.e., the eternal loss of one’s soul should<br />
they suddenly pass from this life without him. The preacher<br />
will warn against fornication, adultery, homosexuality,<br />
abortion, hatred, vulgar and female degrading rap music<br />
(of all colors) alcohol and drugs, for starters. And he’ll<br />
address today’s culture of foolishly idolizing sinful men<br />
of all stripes, politicians, musicians, movie stars, athletes,<br />
7/11/<strong>2013</strong><br />
The Leonardtown Mayor and Town Council will hold a public hearing<br />
on Monday, August 12, <strong>2013</strong> at 4:30 p.m. at the Town Office, 41660<br />
Courthouse Drive, Leonardtown, MD regarding Resolution 5-13 -<br />
Support of a FY- 2014 - Community Legacy application for south<br />
Washington Street sidewalk improvements. Copies of the application<br />
are available for review at the Leonardtown Town Office. The public<br />
is invited to attend and/or send written comments to be received by<br />
August 12, <strong>2013</strong> at 4:00 p.m. to the Commissioners of Leonardtown,<br />
POB 1, Leonardtown, MD 20650. Special accommodations will be<br />
made for persons with disabilities upon request.<br />
By Authority: Laschelle E. McKay, Town Administrator.<br />
7/<strong>25</strong>/<strong>2013</strong><br />
the rich and beyond.<br />
The revival services will not only result in souls<br />
saved for eternity but in changed lives for the here and<br />
now. Not perfect lives, mind you, but changed lives and<br />
for the better. Young ladies will take on their mom and<br />
dad’s former training and young men will find hope, hope<br />
that they’ve never known was available to them, personally.<br />
Many (those who yield to the Holy Ghost) will be delivered<br />
from drugs and alcohol’s grip. God ordained marriage<br />
will again be the institution as historically recorded<br />
and little babies will regain preciousness to mom and dad.<br />
Sadly, this piece is but a spoof. Biblical revival is not<br />
projected this Summer as America remains in free-fall.<br />
Although entitled “rev” and adored by millions, this high<br />
profile preacher eschews the eternal in favor of the temporal,<br />
the political and TV. Now, which approach affords<br />
Heaven, provides hope, changes lives, blesses the family,<br />
blesses America and restores sanity?<br />
Chester Seaborn<br />
Mechanicsville, Md.<br />
<strong>Maryland</strong> Will Always<br />
Have a <strong>Southern</strong> History,<br />
Heritage and Geography<br />
The St. Mary's <strong>County</strong> Division of Tourism<br />
website states that during the “Civil War” <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
had “Union loyalty and <strong>Southern</strong> sympathy,”<br />
a sophistry that is popular lately with those who are<br />
attempting to revise <strong>Maryland</strong>'s history. <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
was held in the Union by force as the North's own official<br />
records bear out. The website also implies that<br />
St. Mary's <strong>County</strong> was divided in that ugly internecine<br />
conflict because though most St. Mary's whites<br />
were “secesh,” 600 African-Americans “from”<br />
the county wore blue. In the occupied South, and<br />
that includes <strong>Maryland</strong>, however, there naturally<br />
would have been many slaves and freedmen joining<br />
the Union army. They would have had no such opportunity<br />
in unoccupied <strong>Southern</strong> states. The fact<br />
that black <strong>Maryland</strong>ers fought for the North does not<br />
prove the state's loyalty to Lincoln. It is a non sequitur<br />
to consider a conquered <strong>Southern</strong> state a loyal<br />
Northern state.<br />
And completely disregarding latitude, the Division<br />
of Tourism calls Point Lookout a Northern<br />
prison and designates <strong>Maryland</strong> as “physically part<br />
of the North.” To the contrary, the infamous Point<br />
Lookout was not located in the North any more than<br />
was Virginia's Fortress Monroe. It was a prison established<br />
by the Yankees in occupied <strong>Maryland</strong>,<br />
it's purpose as much to keep the local secessionist<br />
population in check as to keep Confederate soldiers<br />
penned up. <strong>Maryland</strong> is south of the Mason-Dixon.<br />
For a little geographical perspective, consider that<br />
ninety percent of <strong>Maryland</strong> lies east not north of<br />
Virginia. Annapolis is south of Winchester, while<br />
the southernmost point of <strong>Maryland</strong> is well south of<br />
Charlottesville.<br />
Until more recent times <strong>Maryland</strong> has been<br />
considered part of Dixie by most Americans. She is<br />
being reconstructed by South haters, by carpetbaggers<br />
who despise the Old Line State but who have<br />
come here for the jobs created by military installations,<br />
the vast federal bureaucracy in nearby D.C.<br />
and local governmental offices such as the Division<br />
of Tourism. These newcomers with a profound<br />
and uninformed condescension have destroyed our<br />
way of life, ridiculed our ancient Tidewater speech<br />
and traditions to near extinction, replaced our comity<br />
with Northern rudeness and vulgarity. They<br />
have even tried to outlaw our state song because its<br />
words, including a reference to “Northern scum,” irrefutably<br />
affirm that which they have tried so smugly<br />
to deny. But no matter how many lies about our<br />
state these Yankee-come-lately cultural cleansers<br />
promote, <strong>Maryland</strong>, which Jefferson Davis called<br />
the Outpost of the South, will always have a <strong>Southern</strong><br />
history, heritage and geography.<br />
Joyce Bennett<br />
Chairman<br />
<strong>Maryland</strong> League of the South<br />
Clements, <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
P.O. Box <strong>25</strong>0<br />
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From My Backyard<br />
to Our Bay was first<br />
developed by the Baltimore<br />
<strong>County</strong> Soil Conservation<br />
District. From there, the<br />
booklet was given to each<br />
of the Soil Conservation<br />
Districts in the Chesapeake<br />
Bay watershed area for<br />
customization. If the 17.5<br />
million residents who live in<br />
the watershed area of the<br />
Chesapeake Bay read this<br />
booklet, and took to heart<br />
its suggestions and best<br />
practices, the Chesapeake<br />
Bay would see a dramatic<br />
increase in health. Obtain<br />
a FREE copy of the<br />
booklet by going to the St.<br />
Mary’s River Watershed<br />
Association, smrwa.org and<br />
downloading it. The booklet<br />
is available at Wentworth<br />
Nursery in Charlotte Hall;<br />
Chicken Scratch in Park<br />
Hall; The Greenery in<br />
Hollywood; Good Earth<br />
Natural Food; and the St.<br />
Mary’s Soil Conservation<br />
District in Leonardtown.<br />
Join your local watershed<br />
association and make a<br />
difference for Our Bay!<br />
smrwa.org<br />
From my Backyard to our Bay<br />
A St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Resident’s Guide to Improving Our Environment and Drinking Water<br />
Keeping Water Away From Your House and Basement<br />
Drainage<br />
of surface<br />
and<br />
subsurface<br />
water is an<br />
important<br />
concern for every homeowner. Rain<br />
gardens and rain barrels are two<br />
effective ways to keep your house and<br />
basement protected from water damage.<br />
Another factor in good drainage is<br />
proper grading. Gentle slopes convey<br />
runoff away from house and basement.<br />
Water is not left standing against walls or<br />
causing water pressure to build up under<br />
the basement floor.<br />
Wet basements can result from water<br />
passing through cracks in the basement<br />
walls, through the joint between the<br />
basement wall and the floor, or through<br />
the basement window well. If you have<br />
problems, check the exterior grading to<br />
ensure that rainwater will flow away from<br />
the house. Flower beds and foundation<br />
plantings may hold water against the<br />
walls. When regrading, avoid placing<br />
soil against wood or siding. Grading<br />
requires a county permit. For more<br />
information, call the St. Mary’s<br />
<strong>County</strong> Dept. of Planning and Zoning<br />
at 301-475-4200 ext. 1500.<br />
Inspect all areas where downspouts from<br />
the gutters around the house discharge<br />
onto the ground. Twice a year, clean out<br />
all gutters and downspouts to prevent<br />
overflows that will drip water too close to<br />
the foundation.<br />
Because the flow from a downspout will<br />
be forceful in a storm, make sure that the<br />
area where it drains across the ground is<br />
adequately protected with either sturdy<br />
vegetation, stone, or gravel. Usually<br />
a splash block of concrete or plastic<br />
placed directly under the downspout<br />
outfall will absorb the initial force of water<br />
gushing from the downspout. This will<br />
help disperse the water’s erosive energy<br />
and move it away from the foundation. A<br />
rain barrel may be an excellent option for<br />
managing water from your gutters.<br />
In some settings with difficult terrain or<br />
poorly drained soils in low-lying areas,<br />
the only solution may be an underground<br />
drainage system. There are several<br />
options for creating such a system: Rain<br />
gardens allow excess water to slowly<br />
soak into the soil.<br />
A dry well is a small pit filled with<br />
crushed stone. An infiltration test must<br />
be conducted prior to construction to<br />
determine if the dry well is appropriate<br />
to the site.<br />
An infiltration trench collects and filters<br />
rainwater and then permits it to soak<br />
into the soil rather than flowing directly<br />
into the water system. The trenches are<br />
backfilled with stone aggregate and lined<br />
with filter fabric. Research has shown<br />
that infiltration trenches can remove up<br />
to 90% of sediments, metals, coliform<br />
bacteria, and organic matter. Up to 60%<br />
of phosphorous and nitrogen can be<br />
removed by infiltration trenches. To help<br />
prevent surface water from standing<br />
in your yard, maintain a slight slope<br />
that drains toward a swale (an earthen<br />
channel) or storm drain. Whenever you<br />
concentrate runoff, you increase its<br />
erosive potential, so it’s best to maintain<br />
a stand of sturdy vegetation in the swale<br />
to prevent a gully from forming.<br />
Where to get help with…<br />
DRAINAGE PROBLEMS<br />
• St. Mary’s Soil Conservation District,<br />
301-475-8402 ext. 3<br />
This is the tenth in a series of articles that Mary Ann Scott (maryann.scott58@yahoo.com) has adapted from From My Backyard to Our Bay in the hopes of increasing<br />
awareness of the powerful booklet that could do so much to help the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Look for the next article in next week’s <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong>!<br />
From My Backyard to Our Bay<br />
A St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Resident’s Guide to<br />
Improving Our Environment and Drinking Water<br />
are you<br />
Bay-Wise?<br />
Bay-Wise landscapes<br />
minimize negative impacts<br />
on our waterways by using<br />
smarter lawn management<br />
techniques and gardening<br />
practices. The University<br />
of <strong>Maryland</strong> Extension<br />
Master Gardener Bay-Wise<br />
program in St. Mary’s<br />
<strong>County</strong> offers hands-on<br />
help with managing your<br />
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The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Thursday, July <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2013</strong> 24<br />
The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong> runs complimentary obituaries as submitted by funeral homes and readers.<br />
We run them in the order we receive them. Any submissions that come to<br />
news@countytimes.net after noon on Tuesdays may run in the following week’s edition.<br />
Stephen Agnatius Abell, 68<br />
An Independent Family-Owned Funeral Home<br />
Serving <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong> for over 100 Years<br />
Michael K. Gardiner, C.F.S.P., C.P.C.<br />
Funeral Director/President<br />
Providing trusted service to the community for over 100 Years<br />
41590 Fenwick Street • P.O. Box 270 • Leonardtown, <strong>Maryland</strong> 20650<br />
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Stephen “Steve”<br />
Ignatius Abell, 68,<br />
of St. Leonard, Md.,<br />
formerly from Hollywood,<br />
Md., passed<br />
away in Prince Frederick,<br />
Md., on July 19.<br />
Born on September 22,<br />
1944 in Hollywood,<br />
Md., he was the son of<br />
the late James Dawkins and Mary Violet<br />
Dean Abell. He was the loving husband<br />
of Janet Elaine Arnold Abell whom<br />
he married on September 2, 1967 in Mt.<br />
Morris, MI, and who preceded him in<br />
death on May 4, 2008. Stephen is survived<br />
by his son Robert W. Abell of the<br />
Eastern Shore, grandson Robby (Erin) of<br />
St. Leonard, Md, 3 great grandsons, and<br />
numerous nieces and nephews. He is<br />
also survived by his siblings; Michael<br />
S. “Stanley” Abell of Hollywood, Md.,<br />
David C. “PeeWee” Abell of Hollywood,<br />
Md., Mary Agnes “Binky” Taylor of Alabama,<br />
Catherine V. “Ginny” Arnold of<br />
Flint, MI. Steve was preceded in death by<br />
brothers; Joseph Bernard Abell, James<br />
Thomas Abell, Sr., James Dawkins Abell,<br />
Jr., and sister Frances P. “Patsy” Burnette.<br />
Stephen served in the United State<br />
Army from July 9, 1965 to April 28, 1967,<br />
earning the National Defense Service<br />
Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Vietnam<br />
Campaign Medal, and Vietnam Service<br />
Medal. Stephen also worked at the United<br />
States Pentagon, Washington, DC. He<br />
enjoyed walking the boardwalk in Solomon’s<br />
Island and loved family gatherings.<br />
The family recieved friends on Monday,<br />
July 22, from 5 to 8 p.m. with prayers<br />
recited at 7 p.m. in the Mattingley-Gardiner<br />
Funeral Home, Leonardtown, Md.,<br />
with Father Eamon Dignan officiating. A<br />
Funeral Service was held on Tuesday,<br />
July 23, at 10 a.m. in the Mattingley-Gardiner<br />
Funeral Home, Leonardtown, Md.,<br />
with Father Keith Woods officiating. Interment<br />
followed in St. John’s Catholic<br />
Cemetery, Hollywood, Md. Pallbearers<br />
were; Michael Abell, Allan Abell, J.B.<br />
Abell, Don Arnold, Randy Abell, and<br />
Robert Abell. Contributions may be<br />
made to Hospice of St. Mary’s P.O. Box<br />
6<strong>25</strong> Leonardtown, MD, and/or St. John’s<br />
Catholic Church 43927 St. John’s Road<br />
Hollywood, MD 20636.<br />
Clarence Russell, 85<br />
ADJ C. R. Russell<br />
was born on May<br />
9, 1928 in East Prairie,<br />
Mo., he was the son of<br />
the late Charles Harrison<br />
and Edith Mabel<br />
Phipps Russell. He<br />
subsequently attended<br />
High School in East<br />
Prairie, Mo., receiving<br />
his diploma in 1945.<br />
Entering the Navy in July, 1945, as<br />
a Seaman Recruit, ADJC Russell served<br />
with the occupation forces in Japan until<br />
1946, when he left active service. Returning<br />
to active duty in 1948 he again was<br />
stationed in Japan and Guam until June,<br />
1950.<br />
Following a period of civilian life<br />
from 1950 to 1956, ADJC Russell reported<br />
to VR-2 at NAS Alameda, CA, beginning<br />
his association with the aviation<br />
community. Changing his rating to Airman,<br />
ADJC Russell began the long road<br />
of advancement to his present rate. He<br />
served with Fleet Air Support Squadron<br />
Eight, Attack Squadrons One Ninety Two,<br />
One Twenty Five, and Twenty Two, and<br />
NAS Patuxent River, Md. He reported<br />
to Attack Squadron Seventy Five in August,<br />
1970 and has served as Night Maintenance<br />
Control Chief, and Carrier Air<br />
Wing Maintenance Control Chief.<br />
ADJC Russell married the Former<br />
Frances Mae Freeland of Charleston, Mo.,<br />
on September 2, 1950 and who passed<br />
away on December 22, 1995. ADJC Russell<br />
is survived by his wife Mary Lue Davenport<br />
whom he married on May 27, 1999.<br />
He is survived by his children; William<br />
Richard (Rick)Russell of Glendale, AZ.,<br />
Charles (Rocky) Dean Russell (Becky) of<br />
Lexington Park, Md., Sheila Marie Miller<br />
(Gye) of Baltimore, Md., Christi Brewer,<br />
of Beckley, West Virginia, 8 grandchildren;<br />
Michael Russell of Glendale, AZ.,<br />
Mark Russell of Cheyenne WY, Tabbetha<br />
Russell of California, Md., Sandra<br />
Scott of Lusby, Md., Michael George of<br />
Lexington Park, Md., Nicole George of<br />
Scotland, Md., Ricky Woodburn of California,<br />
Md., Kenny Woodburn of Ridge,<br />
Md. Mr. Russell is preceded in death by<br />
great grandson Hunter Scott, daughter-inlaws;<br />
Ann and Kathy Russell. Mr. Russell<br />
retired from the United States Navy<br />
in 1973, and worked for Dyncorp, and<br />
Wildwood Builders. He enjoyed guns,<br />
gunsmithing, gun collecting, dogs, collecting<br />
things, and his grand kids.<br />
The family will receive friends on<br />
Friday, July 26 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the<br />
Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home,<br />
Leonardtown, Md.<br />
A Funeral Service will be held on<br />
Friday, July 26 at 5 p.m. in the Mattingley-<br />
Gardiner Funeral Home Chapel, Leonardtown,<br />
MD with Pastor Doug Hayes. Interment<br />
will be private.<br />
Contributions may be made to Hunters<br />
Heroes 317 Pinto Lane Lusby, MD<br />
20657.<br />
Doris Gatton, 81<br />
Doris “Jeanne” Gatton,<br />
81, of Leonardtown,<br />
Md., died on July 22, in<br />
Leonardtown, Md. Born<br />
September 11, 1931 in<br />
Baltimore, Md., she was<br />
the daughter of the late<br />
Leonard August Sunderland<br />
of Baltimore, Md.,<br />
and Evelyn Moran of St.<br />
Mary’s <strong>County</strong>, Md. Her birth mother Evelyn<br />
Moran died when she was two years old and<br />
her dad remarried when she was seven years<br />
old. She was raised by Florence D., a widow,<br />
and Leonard A. Sunderland. She was the wife<br />
of Phillip Alfred “Al” Gatton of Leonardtown,<br />
whom she married on July 4, 1952 in Compton,<br />
Md. She is survived by her daughter Sandy<br />
and son in law George and granddaughter<br />
Shannon Dent (Rob) of Leonardtown; her<br />
daughter Joyce and son in law Preston and<br />
granddaughter Melissa Long (Brandon) of<br />
Mechanicsville and her son Lenny and his<br />
wife Tracy of Hollywood, Md., great granddaughter<br />
Hailey and great grandson Christopher.<br />
Mrs. Gatton was a graduate of <strong>Southern</strong><br />
High School, Baltimore, Md., “Class of 1950”<br />
and a member of the marching band and orchestra.<br />
Mrs. Gatton was a work study student<br />
in high school and attended Burroughs Business<br />
Machine School, learning to work on<br />
a billing machine which typed the bills and<br />
orders. She was employed by Meds Hat’s, for<br />
three years where she was a typist and phone<br />
operator in the work study program. Mrs. Gatton<br />
was employed at the Patuxent River Naval<br />
Air Station for five years 1950-1955 and she<br />
was employed at the courthouse for five years.<br />
She left the courthouse in 1970 to take over<br />
the Hills Club in Mechanicsville with her husband<br />
Al and their three children. They stayed<br />
there for twenty years until 1990. She has<br />
been attending St. Paul’s Church since 1957<br />
where she taught Sunday school and sang in<br />
the church choir. She has been in a church<br />
choir since she could read. She has done much<br />
volunteer work at church through the years. It<br />
is such a joy to give yourself to God and to<br />
help others. Mrs. Gatton has been a board<br />
member, trustee and on the building committee<br />
for the new church, and also served on the<br />
Alter Guild as a communion steward. She has<br />
been a member of the Mechanicsville Rescue<br />
Squad Auxiliary for <strong>25</strong> years in 2008. She<br />
was a member of the Mechanicsville Lioness<br />
Club for many years, where she was Charter<br />
President for eighteen months. She loved to be<br />
with her family, read, crochet, and learning to<br />
knit. She loved watching her children, grandchildren,<br />
and great-grandchildren growing up.<br />
She loved her poodle Cody and loved being<br />
around friends. She was “Nanny” to many of<br />
her family’s young friends. She has been in<br />
Hands in Praise Choir for three years and just<br />
loved it, she also loved working in Vacation<br />
Bible School.<br />
The family received friends on Thursday,<br />
July <strong>25</strong>, from 5 to 8 p.m. with prayers<br />
recited at 7 p.m., in the Mattingley-Gardiner<br />
Funeral Home, Leonardtown, Md. A Funeral<br />
Service will be held on Friday, July 26, <strong>2013</strong><br />
in First Saint’s Community Church, St Paul’s<br />
Campus, Leonardtown, Md with Pastor Paul<br />
Wunderlich officiating. Interment will follow<br />
in Charles Memorial Gardens, Leonardtown,<br />
Md. Pallbearers will be; Mock Mattingly,<br />
Earl Newton, Rob Dent, Brandon Long,<br />
Brenda Gardiner, and Jerry Downs. Honorary<br />
Pallbearers will be the Mechanicsville Volunteer<br />
Rescue Squad Auxiliary, and Mechanicsville<br />
Volunteer Rescue Squad.<br />
Memorial contributions may be made to<br />
the Mechanicsville Volunteer Rescue Squad<br />
P.O. Box 15 Mechanicsville, MD 20659, St.<br />
Paul’s Methodist Church VBS Fund, 2<strong>25</strong>50<br />
Point Lookout Road, Leonardtown, MD<br />
20650.<br />
Samone L. Van Noordt, 49<br />
Samone L. Van<br />
Noordt, 49 of Drayden,<br />
<strong>Maryland</strong>, died unexpectedly<br />
on July 21.<br />
Born in New York<br />
City on June 14, 1964,<br />
she was the daughter<br />
of Rose (Dye) Raskin<br />
and David Raskin.<br />
On July 28, 1986<br />
she married Glenn Drew Van Noordt in<br />
Manchester, New Hampshire. Due to his
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military career, they moved to St. Mary’s<br />
county in 2006 from California.<br />
Samone enjoyed traveling and camping.<br />
She was active with Special Olympics<br />
of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong>.<br />
Samone is survived by her husband,<br />
Glenn D. Van Noordt; her son, Michael<br />
D. Van Noordt of Drayden, <strong>Maryland</strong>;<br />
her parents, Rose and David Raskin of<br />
Yuma, Arizona; and mother-in-law, Joan<br />
Van Noordt of Caswell Beach, North<br />
Carolina.<br />
Family recieved friends for Samone’s<br />
Life Celebration on Thursday, July <strong>25</strong>,<br />
from 5 to 8 p.m. at Brinsfield Funeral<br />
Home. Interment was private.<br />
For those desiring, contributions in<br />
memory may be directed to the Special<br />
Olympics of St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong>, <strong>25</strong>926<br />
Whiskey Creek Road, Hollywood, MD<br />
20636.<br />
Arrangements by the Brinsfield Funeral<br />
Home, P.A., Leonardtown, MD.<br />
Patricia Ann Kragh, 58<br />
Patricia Ann “Patsy”<br />
Kragh of Callao,<br />
VA (formerly of Port<br />
Tobacco, MD) died on<br />
July 21, at Georgetown<br />
University Hospital in<br />
Washington, DC. She<br />
was 58 years old.<br />
Patsy was a contracting<br />
officer with<br />
the Dept. of NAVY at Naval Surface<br />
Weapons Center in Indian Head, Md.<br />
She loved gardening, her chickens,<br />
sewing, bowling, painting, weaving,<br />
summers at Marshall Hall Park, and<br />
working at Kabin on the Korner in Bryans<br />
Road, Md., but most of all spending<br />
time with her grandchildren and family<br />
members. She recently moved to a new<br />
home in Callao, Va.<br />
Daughter of the late Harry Hugh<br />
Lehman and Agnes Frances Burch<br />
Lehman. She is also preceded in death by<br />
her son, Joseph Edward Kragh; and her<br />
brother, Stevie Hugh Lehman.<br />
She is survived by her husband of 40<br />
years, Joseph L. Kragh; two sons, Randy<br />
Kragh and Justin Kragh; three brothers,<br />
Harry, Karl, and John Lehman; three sisters,<br />
Debbie Prohaska, Donna Dimichele,<br />
and Beth Lehman; and three grandchildren,<br />
Tyler Kragh, Zachary Kragh, and<br />
Seth Hood.<br />
Friends received on Thursday, July<br />
<strong>25</strong>, from 4 to 8 p.m. with Wake Service<br />
at 7 p.m. at Raymond Funeral Chapel. Interment<br />
will be on Friday, July 26, <strong>2013</strong><br />
at 11 a.m. at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church<br />
Cemetery, 4590 St. Joseph Way, Pomfret,<br />
MD 20675.<br />
Memorial contributions may be sent<br />
to Lymphoma Association.<br />
Arrangements provided by Raymond<br />
Funeral Service.<br />
Diana Lavon, 50<br />
Diana Lavon<br />
(Burke) Veluz, 50, of<br />
Mechanicsville, Md.,<br />
and formerly of Oxon<br />
Hill, Md., passed away<br />
on July 20, at home due<br />
to complications with<br />
diabetes and heart.<br />
She was born on<br />
December 3, 1962 in<br />
Charlestown, WV, daughter of the late Earl<br />
Burke and Mary Llewelyn (Cole) Budd.<br />
Diana was a dedicated mother, daughter,<br />
sister, and friend. She loved reading romance<br />
novels, playing cards with the family,<br />
and watching movies.<br />
In addition to her dad, Diana was predeceased<br />
by her grandmother, Edith Dorsey<br />
Quinn of Montgomery, West Va..<br />
Diana is survived by her mother, Mary<br />
L. Budd; stepdad, Lester H. Budd; son,<br />
Yaohu-Caf Burke Veluz “Jacob”; brothers,<br />
Bruce Burke and John Nichols (Tammy<br />
Poole); sister, Linda Baxter; aunt & uncle,<br />
Betty and Paul Deckard; and Nieces &<br />
Nephews, Bruce Baxter, Jr., Rusty Baxter,<br />
Faith Burke, Patrick Burke, Michael Burke,<br />
David Poole, John Nichols, Jr., Kristina<br />
Nichols, Cody Nichols, and Cory Nichols.<br />
Family and friends will be received for<br />
Diana’s Memorial Life Celebration Gathering<br />
on Saturday, July 27, from 4 to 6 p.m.<br />
at Brinsfield-Echols Funeral Home, 30195<br />
Three Notch Road, Charlotte Hall, MD<br />
20622. A Memorial Service will begin at 6<br />
p.m. on Saturday at the funeral home.<br />
In Lieu of Flowers, donations to help the<br />
family with funeral expenses may be made<br />
payable to: Linda S. Baxter and mailed to:<br />
Jacob Veluz c/o Linda S. Baxter, 39163 Birch<br />
Manor Drive, Mechanicsville, MD 20659.<br />
Arrangements provided by Brinsfield-<br />
Echols Funeral Home.<br />
Patsy Julia Spolar, 46<br />
Patsy Julia Spolar,<br />
46, of St. Leonard,<br />
<strong>Maryland</strong> passed away<br />
on July 19, in Prince<br />
Frederick, <strong>Maryland</strong>.<br />
She was born September<br />
11, 1966 in Chicago,<br />
Illinois to Jan and Julia<br />
Petrilla.<br />
Patsy married John<br />
on May 14, 1988 in Oak Lawn, Illinois, and<br />
in the fall of 1995, they moved their family to<br />
Calvert <strong>County</strong>.<br />
She had a love for her family, cats and<br />
the cartoon character, Scooby Doo.<br />
Patsy is preceded in death by her<br />
mother, Julia Petrilla and her sister, Emma<br />
Petrilla.<br />
Patsy is survived by her husband John<br />
Spolar, their daughters, Monique and her<br />
husband Collin, Kristen, Elizabeth and her<br />
husband Chris, and Crystal. She is also survived<br />
by her father, Jan Petrilla and her sister<br />
Helen and her husband Patrick and her niece,<br />
Ashley. Grandmother of Kaleb, Ella, Ashley,<br />
Amber, Gabby, Dakota, Emily, Dennis,<br />
and Jonathan.<br />
The family will receive friends on Friday<br />
July 26 from 10 to 11 p.m. at the Rausch<br />
Funeral Home, 4405 Broomes Island Road,<br />
Port Republic, <strong>Maryland</strong> where services will<br />
follow at 11 a.m. Interment is private.<br />
Arrangements provided by Rausch Funeral<br />
Home.<br />
Benjamin Paul Altimus, 46<br />
Benjamin Paul<br />
Altimus, 46, of Prince<br />
Frederick, <strong>Maryland</strong>,<br />
passed away on July 18,<br />
in La Plata, <strong>Maryland</strong>.<br />
He was born on October<br />
<strong>25</strong>, 1966, in Washington,<br />
DC, to Richard and Helen<br />
Altimus.<br />
Ben enjoyed country<br />
music. He enjoyed spending family time<br />
with his loved ones. He was always there to<br />
lend a helping hand to anyone in need. He<br />
will be missed by all who knew and loved<br />
him.<br />
Ben was a loving husband, father, and<br />
son. He devoted his life to his wife and<br />
children.<br />
He is survived by his wife Danielle Altimus,<br />
sons, Dustyn Altimus, Kyle Murphy,<br />
and Andrew Altimus, parents, Richard and<br />
Helen Altimus, of Newburg, Md.; brother<br />
Travis Altimus of Newburg, Md., nieces,<br />
Kaylee and Tiffany; Mother-in-law and Father-in-law,<br />
Ricky and Debbie Buckmaster<br />
of Prince Frederick, Md.; Brother-in-laws<br />
and Sister-in-laws, Ricky and Cindy Fenstomocher<br />
of Huntingtown, Md., Dennis and<br />
Kristie Scribner of Mechanicsville, Md.,<br />
nieces and nephews, Krystle, Kaitlyn, Robbie,<br />
Logan, Cameron, Austin, Cooper, and<br />
Cole; great-niece Ava.<br />
The family received relatives and<br />
friends for viewing on Tuesday July 23, from<br />
10 to 11 a.m. in the Rausch Funeral Home. A<br />
funeral service will follow at 11 a.m., interment<br />
was be private.<br />
Memorial contributions in the memory<br />
of Benjamin Altimus can be made to Calvert<br />
Hospice, P.O. Box 838 Prince Frederick,<br />
MD 20678.<br />
Arrangements provided by Rausch Funeral<br />
Home.<br />
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Lathroum Breaks<br />
Winless Drought With<br />
Saturday Potomac Win<br />
By Doug Watson<br />
Contributing Writer<br />
March of 2011 was the last time Mechanicsville<br />
Md.’s Jamie “The Jet” Lathroum stood in Potomac<br />
speedway’s victory lane. All that changed last Saturday<br />
night as Lathroum was on a mission as he scored<br />
his first Potomac Late Model feature win of the season<br />
in the 35-lap “Rumble on the River” and the $<strong>25</strong>00<br />
payday that went along with it. In scoring his 11th career<br />
late Model win at the track and overall 59th at the<br />
speedway, Lathroum earned an extra $300 from race<br />
sponsor Three Mules Welding Supply making his take<br />
on the night a cool $2800.<br />
Friday Winchester winner JT Spence and Lathroum<br />
were the front row for the start of the event.<br />
Spence lead the first lap of the race before Lathroum<br />
slid into the top-spot on lap-2. Lathroum would go on<br />
to lead the distance, but it was no means an easy trip to<br />
victory lane. Spence and Jason Covert gave Lathroum<br />
all he could handle during the middle portion of the<br />
event before Spence dropped from contention on lap-<br />
28. Covert was all over Lathroum the final 7-circuits,<br />
but could not make the pass, as Lathroum streaked to<br />
the enormously popular win. “I didn’t think I was ever<br />
going to win here again.” A happy Lathroum stated<br />
in Potomac’s victory lane. “JT (Spence) gave me just<br />
enough room up there in turn-four to get by to get the<br />
lead and we were able to hold them off.” Adjustments<br />
to his winning MBH no.6 after qualifying was the key<br />
to Lathroum’s winning run. “Huey and the boys threw<br />
some things at this car after the heat race and changed<br />
just about everything but the driver.” Said Lathroum.<br />
“The car was as good as it’s been down here in a long<br />
time and I’m just glad to get a win for all the crew and<br />
Three Mules Welding Supplies. Without them I probably<br />
wouldn’t be racing.” Trever Feathers was solid<br />
taking third, Stevie Long was fourth with point leader<br />
Dale Hollidge rounding out the top-five. Spence set<br />
fast time in time trials with a one-lap time of 15.100<br />
with heat race wins going to Lathroum and Spence.<br />
Scotty Nelson drove to his second win of the season<br />
in the 16-lap Street Stock feature. Chuck Bowie<br />
lead the first 4-laps before Nelson took the race lead<br />
for good on lap-5. Nelson would then survive a lap-14<br />
caution to post the win. Point leader Darren Alvey was<br />
second, Friday Winchester winner Mike Franklin was<br />
third, Marty Hanbury took fourth with Mike Raleigh<br />
completing the top-five. Franklin was the heat winner.<br />
Darren Henderson also became a repeat winner<br />
with his second win of the season in the 20-lap Crate<br />
Late Model feature. Henderson started on the pole and<br />
would lead all 20-laps, but had to withstand a late-race<br />
surge from eventual runner-up Kerry King Jr. to score<br />
Leonardtown, MD (July 22, <strong>2013</strong>) - Prepare<br />
your student athlete for the upcoming school year by<br />
getting his or her sports physical on August 3 from<br />
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Specialty Physicians Suite of<br />
the MedStar St. Mary’s Outpatient Pavilion in Leonardtown,<br />
Md.<br />
Care providers from MedStar St. Mary’s and<br />
MedStar Physicians Partners (MPP) will be on hand<br />
to conduct the sports physicals on a first come, first<br />
served basis. Athletes must bring their <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association<br />
the win. Point leader John Imler was third, Frankie<br />
Latham took fourth with Race Alton rounding out the<br />
top-five. King was the heat winner.<br />
Sam Archer won for the third time this season in<br />
the 15-lap Hobby Stock main. Archer started on the<br />
pole and would lead all 15-laps to secure the win. Archer’s<br />
winning run almost came to a halt as he blew a<br />
tire coming down for the checkered flag but he had just<br />
enough to hold off Jonathon Raley for the win. Matt<br />
Tarbox was third, ninth-starting Brian Adkins was<br />
fourth with point leader Jamie Sutphin completing the<br />
top-five. Heats went to Raley and Sutphin.<br />
Defending track champion Kevin Pollard raced<br />
to his fourth win of the season in the nightcap 15-lap<br />
U-Car feature. Pollard took the lead from Michael<br />
Pfaff on lap-6 and drove off to score the win. Pfaff<br />
came home second, Billy Hill was third, Friday Winchester<br />
winner Kevin Oates was fourth with Mark<br />
Pollard rounding out the top-five. Heats went to Pfaff<br />
and Mark Pollard.<br />
Late Model feature finish<br />
1. Jamie Lathroum 2. Jason Covert 3. Trever Feathers<br />
4. Stevie Long 5. Dale Hollidge 6. Jason Miller 7. Kerry<br />
King 8. Brad Omps 9. Kyle Hardy 10. JT Spence<br />
11. Kenny Moreland 12. David Williams 13. Derrick<br />
Quade 14. Kyle Lear 15. Rich Marks 16. Ryan Hackett<br />
(DNS)<br />
Street Stock feature finish<br />
1. Scotty Nelson 2. Darren Alvey 3. Mike Franklin<br />
4. Marty Hanbury 5. Mike Raleigh 6. Dale Reamy<br />
7. Johnny Oliver 8. Chris Maxey 9. Chuck Bowie 10.<br />
Teddy Dickson 11. Stephen Quade 12. Mike Latham<br />
Crate Late Model feature finish<br />
1. Darren Henderson 2. Kerry King Jr. 3. John Imler<br />
4. Frankie Latham 5. Race Alton 6. Richard Harden 7.<br />
Timmy Booth<br />
Hobby Stock feature finish<br />
1. Sam Archer 2. Jonathon Raley 3. Matt Tarbox 4.<br />
Brian Adkins 5. Jamie Sutphin 6. Greg Morgan 7. Ed<br />
Pope Jr. 8. Kenny Sutphin 9. John Burch 10. Jimmy<br />
Gardner 11. Jerry Deason 12. Billy Crouse 13. Tommy<br />
Randall 14. Gage Perkins 15. Jimmy Randall 16. Matt<br />
Krickbaum (DNS)<br />
U-Car feature finish<br />
1. Kevin Pollard 2. Michael Pfaff 3. Billy Hill 4. Kevin<br />
Oates 5. Mark Pollard 6. Mikey Latham 7. Erica Bailey<br />
8. Ryan Clement 9. Speed Alton 10. Megan Mann<br />
11. Max Martin 12. Cori French 13. DJ Powell 14. Sam<br />
Raley 15. Charlotte Ball<br />
Sports Physical Examinations Offered<br />
at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital<br />
(MPSSAA) sports physical examination form signed<br />
by their parent or guardian. The signature gives legal<br />
consent for the examination to take place. Athletes<br />
should dress is comfortable clothing and wear shoes<br />
that can be easily removed.<br />
The cost is $30 per sports physical examination<br />
payable by cash or check only. Checks should<br />
be made to MPP.<br />
For more information, call MPP at St. Clements<br />
at 301-997-0611.<br />
By Ronald N. Guy Jr.<br />
Contributing Writer<br />
Thursday, July <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2013</strong> 26<br />
A View From The<br />
Bleachers<br />
Orange Crush<br />
Anything that sparks memories of the<br />
baseball big screen classic “Bull Durham” is<br />
a welcomed thing and Baltimore Orioles first<br />
baseman Chris Davis has revitalized the classic<br />
flick. The movie paints a perfect portrait<br />
of how baseball fans imagine life in the minor<br />
leagues: small towns, seedy bars, primitive<br />
transportation, groupies, veteran players<br />
clinging to a gig and rising stars with sights<br />
on the big leagues. The movie offers something<br />
for everyone that’s ever picked up a bat<br />
or just horsed around and raised some Cain in<br />
a small town. In the characters there’s an aspect of the baseball players we<br />
almost were, the girls we used to chase or the rascals we used to be in our<br />
youths (and maybe still are today).<br />
The lead actor, Kevin Costner, is cast as Crash Davis, a veteran<br />
catcher of many minor league seasons and a brief appearance in the major’s.<br />
Crash is sent to the Durham Bulls to bring along a prized young<br />
pitching prospect played by Tim Robbins. Add in a groupie or two, plenty<br />
of beer and baseball players with too much time on their hands and voila,<br />
you have a blockbuster.<br />
Crash Davis was a real major leaguer with Philadelphia Athletics in<br />
the 1940s, but it was his inspired character in “Bull Durham” that made<br />
the name famous. The connection between “Bull Durham”, Crash Davis<br />
and Chris Davis is the latter’s “Bull Durham” adapted nickname of<br />
“Crush.” Unlike Crash Davis who was the minor league’s all-time homerun<br />
leader, Baltimore’s orange-clad Chris “Crush” Davis led the major’s<br />
with 37 homeruns at the All Star break.<br />
Davis’ remarkable homerun tally would have had great significance<br />
prior to the steroid era. From 1961 to 1998, the hallowed single-season<br />
homerun record was Roger Maris’ 61 bombs in the 1961 season. Mark<br />
McGwire first broke Maris’ record in ’98 when he hit 70 homeruns; Barry<br />
Bonds’ 73 homeruns in 2001 is the current record. Or is it? When approached<br />
during the All Star break Crush Davis didn’t mince words in<br />
citing Maris’, not Bonds’ “enhanced” tally, as the real single-season homerun<br />
record. It’s an opinion shared by many.<br />
This is not meant as another indictment of Bonds or the era where<br />
baseball was as much science project as a game. Athletes have always<br />
sought ways to enhance performance, whether it was “greenies” (amphetamines)<br />
during Maris’ time, the lawlessness of the steroid era or today’s<br />
rampant use of painkillers and anti-inflammatory medications (and who<br />
of us doesn’t use caffeine daily as a “performance enhancer”?). The line<br />
between “heroic” attempts to achieve/sustain excellence and the unethical<br />
is an individual call. Crush Davis’ comments absolutely fan the flame of<br />
that ever-present, on-going and healthy debate in the game of baseball.<br />
I, for one, am on Crush’s side. However, here’s what’s complicated<br />
about the steroid era: there’s a blurred gray line demarcating what baseball<br />
defined as illegal and what it could test for accurately. That indiscriminate<br />
line doesn’t have to exist in the court of public opinion, though. Davis is<br />
willing to toss Bonds’ record out entirely. Maybe you’re not willing to go<br />
that far. What is almost universally true (a rare item that unites red and<br />
blue states) is the feeling that what McGwire, Bonds and so many of their<br />
contemporaries did just wasn’t right. It might not have been illegal or even<br />
against baseball’s rules, but it was just wrong.<br />
Complexities of steroid era aside, that’s the consequential reality.<br />
McGwire and Bonds might not be criminals, but they stretched the<br />
bounds of society’s ethical tolerance. They achieved baseball immorality<br />
by maximizing all resources at their disposal. The penance being paid for<br />
their decisions, as represented by Davis’ opinion, is just now being understood<br />
and it offers this warning: in so many facets of life, it is not only if,<br />
but how you reach the pinnacle of your profession. Personal achievement<br />
clouded by manipulation, broken rules or ignored ethical standards, will<br />
complicate and diminish the accomplishment itself. Will sitting on the<br />
throne still be worth it? Again, it’s a question that tests our personal compass,<br />
but I, and apparently Crush Davis, hope the answer’s no.<br />
Send comments to rguyjoon@yahoo.com
27 Thursday, July <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2013</strong><br />
The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Sp rts<br />
This Friday and Saturday, July 26 to 27 the world's<br />
fastest doorslammers are headed to MIR when the new<br />
X-treme Drag Racing League (X-DRL) visits the East<br />
Coast for the X-DRL "Mayhem at the Creek". All of the<br />
top doorslammer stars will be at MIR, as the X-DRL heats<br />
up two action-packed July nights at MIR in its inaugural<br />
season.<br />
Be there to witness all the 200+mph mayhem from the<br />
world's best drivers as they roar down the MIR track with an<br />
amazing event you definitely don't want to miss. The event<br />
will featured Pro X-treme, Pro Nitrous, X-treme Pro Stock,<br />
Pro Turbo, X-treme Pro Mod, Top Dragster, Top Sportsman,<br />
Pro Junior Dragster, and the Supercar Showdown.<br />
Gates open on Friday at 8 a.m. and there will be 3 qualifying<br />
sessions for every class at 3 p.m., 5:30 p.m., and 8<br />
p.m. Gates open on Saturday at 8 a.m. and the final qualifying<br />
session will be at 1 p.m. First round of eliminations for<br />
all classes will begin at 4 p.m. and the pre-race ceremony<br />
will begin at 6:30 p.m. Second round of eliminations will<br />
Through the generosity<br />
and efforts of Capital Welding<br />
of Waldorf, the <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
Sabres Ice Hockey Club<br />
has benefited again this year<br />
from the Capital Welding Golf<br />
Tournament held at Swan Point<br />
Golf Club on July 9. Several<br />
members of the club including<br />
Club Board members, Coaches<br />
and supporters came out to lend<br />
their support to this 14th annual<br />
event.<br />
The Sabres thank Capital<br />
Welding for their generous and<br />
consistent support of our efforts<br />
to bring "the coolest game on<br />
earth" to the <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
area."<br />
X-DRL "Mayhem at the Creek" at MIR<br />
take to the track at 7 p.m., followed by the third round at 9<br />
p.m. and the finals at 10:30 p.m.<br />
Adult admission for Friday is just $20, and adult admission<br />
for Saturday is $<strong>25</strong> or you can purchase a 2-day<br />
pass for $40. Kids 6-11 are $5 per day. There will also be<br />
a junior ticket available for ages 12-15 for just $10 but must<br />
show student ID or state ID.<br />
ABOUT THE X-DRL<br />
Based in Kerrville, Texas, the X-treme Drag Racing<br />
League is a premier sanctioning body for the sport of<br />
eighth-mile drag racing. The professional categories featured<br />
in the X-DRL are Pro Junior Dragster, SuperCar<br />
Showdown, Top Sportsman, Top Dragster, X-treme Pro<br />
Mod, Pro Turbo, X-treme Pro Stock, Pro Nitrous and Pro X-<br />
treme, the world’s quickest and fastest doorslammer class.<br />
The <strong>2013</strong> X-DRL seasons consists of nine action-packed<br />
national events that will take place throughout the United<br />
States. For more information on the X-DRL, visit www.X-<br />
DRL.com.<br />
Annual Event Benefits<br />
SOMD Sabres Hockey Club<br />
From left, John Dade, Jim Pilkerton, Bill Coady, Joe Bowling, Mark Eagles, Bernie<br />
Saunders, John Albers, Brandon Harrington, Brian Keelan<br />
The <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong> Sabres Hockey Club participates in the Chesapeake Bay Hockey<br />
League (CBHL) and the Capital Corridor Hockey League (CCHL). The Sabres' home arena is the<br />
Capital Clubhouse in Waldorf, MD and draws players from Charles, St. Mary's, Calvert, Prince<br />
George's, King George counties and beyond. The Sabres offer a range of ice programs including<br />
learn to play hockey, recreational teams, travel teams and skills sessions.<br />
For more information, visit www.somdsabres.org<br />
By Doug Watson<br />
Contributing Writer<br />
<strong>Maryland</strong> Clay Dirt<br />
Despite the Weather, Potomac Perseveres<br />
The Mid-Atlantic region has been in the grips of<br />
traditional “Summertime” weather conditions the last<br />
few weeks and last Saturday night was no different.<br />
Temps in the high 90’s and near 100% humidity with<br />
showers and thunderstorms was the forecast once again<br />
for last weekend’s racing event at <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong>’s<br />
Potomac speedway. As predicted the rain came, and<br />
came hard, as a heavy downpour invaded the speedway<br />
2-hours prior to race time, leaving the speedway staff in<br />
a quandary. The decision was made to press on with the<br />
show and the tall task of preparing the rain soaked Potomac<br />
surface began. Former Potomac promoter Pete<br />
Cameron and Ronnie Hollidge (husband of Potomac<br />
and Winchester speedway’s general manager Denise<br />
Hollidge) dug in and started preparing the surface.<br />
With nearly a foot of wet soupy mud on the track the<br />
Cameron/Hollidge duo and the entire speedway track<br />
staff went to work. Hot-laps were scheduled to start at<br />
7:30 p.m. with race time at 8 p.m. With that goal out of<br />
reach, the team pressed on and had the surface ready<br />
by 9:30 p.m. The first heat race of the night started at<br />
10 p.m. and 151 laps of green flag racing later, that included<br />
heats and features, was checkered at 1 a.m. Was<br />
it late, yes, but the hard work paid off as the Potomac<br />
faithful was treated to a great night of racing where a lot<br />
of other tracks would have thrown in the towel. Great<br />
job Potomac!<br />
Hankerd Signs<br />
With Angels<br />
Organization<br />
The First Half Liberty Division<br />
Champion <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
Blue Crabs announced<br />
that Blue Crabs outfielder Cyle<br />
Hankerd has signed with the<br />
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim<br />
organization and will report to<br />
its Double A Arkansas club.<br />
The announcement was made<br />
by Blue Crabs Manager Patrick<br />
Osborn.<br />
The move comes as no surprise<br />
as Hankerd disemboweled<br />
Atlantic League pitching to the<br />
tune of a .322 average with 22<br />
homers and 61 RBI in 81 games.<br />
His 61 RBI were a <strong>Southern</strong><br />
<strong>Maryland</strong> team-high. Hankerd’s<br />
last appearance as a Blue Crabs<br />
came in Saturday’s game against<br />
the York Revolution when he<br />
went 2 for 4, with 2 homers, and<br />
3 RBI.<br />
At the time of his departure,<br />
Hankerd led the Atlantic League<br />
with 22 homers. He was named<br />
the Atlantic League Player of<br />
the Month for June after batting<br />
.410 (41-100) in 27 games with 11<br />
home runs and 26 RBI. Hankerd<br />
also had a triple, nine doubles,<br />
22 runs scored, 10 walks and a<br />
stolen base as he helped navigate<br />
<strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong> to a first half<br />
Liberty Division title. Hankerd<br />
hit safely in 22 of the 27 games<br />
he played in June and had 14<br />
multi-hit efforts.<br />
Originally a 3rd round pick<br />
of the Arizona Diamondbacks in<br />
2006, Hankerd spent five years<br />
in their system. He has also<br />
spent time in the Philadelphia<br />
and Chicago (AL) systems.<br />
As first half champions,<br />
the Blue Crabs will have home<br />
field advantage in the first round<br />
of the Atlantic League Playoffs<br />
(best-of-five), against the second<br />
half winner. The first round<br />
series begins with Game 1 on<br />
Wednesday, September 18 and<br />
Thursday, September 19th at<br />
the opponent’s home field. The<br />
series will then shift to Regency<br />
Furniture Stadium for Game 3,<br />
4 (If necessary), & 5 (If necessary)<br />
at Regency Furniture Stadium.<br />
Game 3 will be played on<br />
Friday, September 20th. Gates<br />
will open at 6:00pm to the public<br />
and a fireworks extravaganza<br />
will follow the game. To purchase<br />
playoff tickets please call<br />
301-638-9788 or log onto www.<br />
SOMDbluecrabs.com.<br />
The Blue Crabs play 140<br />
regular season games in the Atlantic<br />
League, considered the<br />
highest level of Minor League<br />
Baseball. Atlantic League players<br />
are “Major League ready”<br />
and in the last 15 years, over<br />
600 players have graduated from<br />
Atlantic League clubs to Major<br />
League organizations, making<br />
the League a preferred route for<br />
experienced players to be scouted<br />
by Major League Baseball.<br />
The Blue Crabs play at Regency<br />
Furniture Stadium in Waldorf,<br />
<strong>Maryland</strong>. The franchise just<br />
clinched its fifth consecutive<br />
playoff berth as they claimed the<br />
first half Liberty Division Crown<br />
on Monday, June 24. Please call<br />
301-638-9788 or visit www.somdbluecrabs.com<br />
for more information<br />
and to save your seat at<br />
the ballpark today!
SENIOR LIVING<br />
The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Thursday, July <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2013</strong> 28<br />
St. Mary’s Department of Aging<br />
Programs and Activities<br />
“Team Trivia” Night Out at Fitzie’s<br />
The Department of Aging & Human<br />
Services will host a Team Trivia<br />
night on Thursday, August 15 from 5:30<br />
– 9:30 p.m. Team Trivia is a live hosted<br />
Trivia Game played in teams. Teams are<br />
registered upon arrival. Teams will be<br />
given time to answer questions selected<br />
by the host, and prizes will be awarded.<br />
The event location is Fitzie’s Marina on<br />
21540 Joe Hazel Road, Leonardtown,<br />
MD 20650. Enjoy a fun night of trivia,<br />
great music, great food and prizes. Tickets<br />
are $20.00, which includes include:<br />
Party Appetizers, Cheese/Cracker/<br />
Cocktail Platter, Veggie Platter, Crab<br />
Ball Platter, Shrimp Cocktail Platter,<br />
Chicken Wings, Chicken Tenders,<br />
Meatballs, Tea, Soda, Water and a Cash<br />
Bar. Tickets can be purchased at any<br />
senior activity center through August<br />
5. For more information call 301-475-<br />
4200, ext. 1050.<br />
Learning Is ForEver (L.I.F.E)<br />
The fall semester of the LIFE program<br />
will be under way soon. Booklets<br />
will be available for pick-up at each of<br />
the three Department of Aging & Human<br />
Services Senior Activity Centers<br />
beginning Monday, Aug. 5, as well as<br />
at the <strong>County</strong> libraries and on-line at:<br />
www.stmarysmd.com/aging.<br />
Registration for fall programs<br />
begins on Monday, Aug. 19, and is<br />
taken on a first-come, first-served basis<br />
through the mail or walk-in, at the<br />
senior activity centers. Many interesting<br />
and exciting day tours are planned,<br />
including tours to the War Memorials in<br />
Washington D.C, Pentagon, Ft. McHenry<br />
in Baltimore, Leonardtown Winery,<br />
B & O Railroad Museums in Baltimore<br />
and Ellicott<br />
City (complete with a train ride), Stratford<br />
Hall & Ingleside Winery in Virginia,<br />
St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Amish & Mennonite<br />
Communities bus tour, Annapolis<br />
Statehouse, and so many more! Don’t<br />
miss the bus. Be sure to sign up early<br />
as space fills quickly. For more information,<br />
call Alice Allen at 301-475-4200,<br />
ext. 1063, or by email at Alice.Allen@<br />
stmarysmd.com. And remember, learning<br />
is forever!!<br />
Midsummer Celebration<br />
On Thursday, Aug. 8, the Bruster’s<br />
Ice Cream Truck will be at the Loffler<br />
Senior Activity Center to help us celebrate<br />
the middle of summer. Bruster’s<br />
will be offering us a special, select menu<br />
of their famous confections. In addition<br />
to the ice cream, you can check out the<br />
art, which will be on display, and enjoy<br />
the three-part harmonies of Folk Salad<br />
Trio. This is an inter-generational event<br />
so make plans to bring the kids and<br />
grandkids! The fun takes place from 1-3<br />
p.m. Advance reservations and tickets<br />
are required and will be available at the<br />
Loffler Senior Activity Center--price to<br />
be determined. For more information,<br />
call 301-737-5670, ext. 1658.<br />
Deadline for Basket weaving class at<br />
Northern Senior Activity Center<br />
On Thursday, Aug. 1 & 8, from 1<br />
to 4 p.m., make an attractive and practical<br />
picnic basket at the Northern Senior<br />
Activity Center. This two part class is<br />
taught by Pam King, an experienced<br />
weaver who volunteers at the center.<br />
This unique basket features a wooden<br />
handle and a cloth lid; measuring<br />
10”x17”x8” high. The cost for the kit is<br />
$40 and includes all basket weaving materials<br />
and instruction. The deadline to<br />
sign up is Friday, July 26, space is limited<br />
at this time payment must be made.<br />
Checks should be made payable to the<br />
instructor.<br />
Wanted: Antique Car Buffs<br />
Interested in volunteering to show<br />
off your wheels? Call 301-475-4002,<br />
ext. 1003, to sign up before Wednesday,<br />
August 21. On Friday, August 23, from<br />
10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the 5th annual 50’s<br />
Sock Hop and Antique Car Show will<br />
be held at the Northern Senior Activity<br />
Center. Volunteers with cars get in free<br />
to enjoy dancing and a ‘50’s style lunch.<br />
Have a fun time on the dance floor with<br />
1950’s Sock Hop music by our favorite<br />
DJ, Mean Gene. There is plenty of time<br />
to check out the numerous varieties of<br />
antique cars shown in the parking lot.<br />
An old fashioned drive-in diner cheeseburger<br />
lunch with fixings, fries, coleslaw,<br />
baked beans and soda pops will be<br />
served at noon.<br />
Shoe Swap Arrivals<br />
We are now accepting shoe donations<br />
for the shoe swap event held annually<br />
at the Northern Senior Activity Center.<br />
Trade in quality, clean, hardly-worn shoes<br />
for a credit to get another pair of shoes at<br />
no charge. Shoe screening is selective<br />
-- only very good quality shoes (no slippers<br />
or beachwear) without any or much<br />
wear will be accepted. Do you have event<br />
shoes worn only once? Or shoes you just<br />
had to have but never wore at all? These<br />
shoes just may be perfect for someone<br />
else to choose at the swap event on Aug.<br />
9 at 12:30 p.m. Donations are due to the<br />
Operations Manager by noon on Monday,<br />
Aug. 5. For more information, contact<br />
301-475-4002, ext. 1002.<br />
Take a Trip to Williamsburg, VA to<br />
see the Grand Illumination<br />
Get your Christmas season off to<br />
a high-spirited start by going on this<br />
3-day, 2-night trip to Colonial Williamsburg<br />
to experience the sights<br />
and sounds (and smells!) of the glorious<br />
holiday season Dec. 7-9. The cost<br />
is $610.00 per person. This trip is<br />
full of activities, which include lunch<br />
in a colonial tavern, wine tasting, an<br />
evening at Christmas Town, a Busch<br />
Gardens Celebration, an opportunity<br />
to go to Sunday Mass or a visit<br />
to a local coffee shop, a Guided Tour<br />
of Colonial Williamsburg, some free<br />
time to explore the town’s museums<br />
or go shopping in Merchant’s Square.<br />
In Colonial Williamsburg, on Sunday<br />
evening, kicks off the Grand Illumination,<br />
which will include fireworks,<br />
musical entertainment, dancing, caroling<br />
and dramatic presentations. The<br />
final day begins with a shopping trip<br />
to The Williamsburg Pottery, which<br />
has recently been renovated .This tour<br />
includes deluxe motor coach transportation,<br />
two nights’ accommodations,<br />
baggage handling, two deluxe continental<br />
breakfasts, 1 lunch, 2 dinners,<br />
all admissions and guide services, taxes<br />
and tips. NOTE: This trip includes<br />
activities, which require considerable<br />
mobility, because the grounds in Williamsburg<br />
are often unpaved, and there<br />
is lots of walking all three days of this<br />
trip. Call Joyce Raum, 301-737-5670,<br />
ext. 1656 to learn more.<br />
Loffler Senior Activity Center 301-737-5670, ext. 1652; Garvey Senior Activity Center, 301-475-4200, ext. 1050<br />
Northern Senior Activity Center, 301-475-4002, ext. 1001<br />
Visit the Department of Aging’s website at www.stmarysmd.com/aging for the most up-to date information.<br />
By Linda Reno<br />
Contributing Writer<br />
Caleb Jarvis Taylor<br />
Caleb Jarvis Taylor was born in St.<br />
Mary’s <strong>County</strong> in 1753.<br />
When he left home he<br />
was a teacher and a Catholic.<br />
“After an absence of<br />
a few years, he returned,<br />
not only a Protestant,<br />
but a Methodist, with authority<br />
to preach.”<br />
Caleb married<br />
Sarah Craighead in Allegheny<br />
<strong>County</strong>, Pennsylvania<br />
on October 2, 1791 and shortly<br />
thereafter they moved to Mason <strong>County</strong>,<br />
Kentucky. “Henceforth he was destined<br />
to be a representative man in the Church<br />
in the wilderness…Distinguished for his<br />
refined manners, his masterly intellect,<br />
his great zeal, and his uncompromising<br />
devotion to the Church, he was welcomed<br />
wherever he went.”<br />
Caleb had not forgotten about his<br />
St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> roots and the family<br />
members still living here. In 1806 he<br />
wrote to his cousin*, Jenifer Taylor, “I<br />
only recollect you as a child; and you<br />
remember me as a young man. But our<br />
situations are materially changed. You<br />
are now in the meridian of life; busied in<br />
its pursuits, and (perhaps) pleased with<br />
its prospects; while I am traveling down<br />
its declivity toward its close, admonished<br />
by gray hairs and wrinkles that I must<br />
shortly enter by the gate of death into a<br />
world unknown, where the greater part<br />
of my former acquaintance and relations<br />
are gone.”<br />
About the same time he wrote to another<br />
St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> cousin, William<br />
Evans ”Should you receive these lines,<br />
they may bring to your recollection that<br />
there was a person called Caleb Jarvis<br />
Taylor, who had the honor of being related<br />
to you, and frequently the pleasure of<br />
your company. The honor he still retains,<br />
A Journey Through Time<br />
The Chronicle<br />
but the pleasure is now circumstantially<br />
denied.<br />
I sometimes, indeed, in an hour of<br />
seclusion from the world’s affairs, imagine<br />
myself a welcome visitant at your<br />
house, or accompany you in your little<br />
excursions of fishing, fowling, etc., and<br />
talk to you of our former past times, till<br />
reason represses the airy flights of fancy,<br />
and tells me that I am yet in Kentucky,<br />
and may probably never pass its bounds.<br />
Should we now meet accidentally,<br />
I suppose we should scarcely recollect<br />
each other; for I am told that time has<br />
improved your person, while her rude<br />
hand has been by no means favorable to<br />
mine, having bowed my head somewhat<br />
lower than nature had placed it, and<br />
strewed upon it the honors of age pretty<br />
liberally…<br />
I am also informed that you have a<br />
wife…They say yours is handsome, sensible,<br />
and virtuous…I have also a wife; and<br />
though she may not possess the above<br />
qualities in as great a degree of perfection<br />
as yours, yet I suppose she is far better<br />
than I deserve.<br />
I am too busily engaged in procuring<br />
a sufficient support for my family<br />
to spend time in visiting the land of<br />
my nativity, though, like most old men,<br />
it gives me pleasure to think on it, and<br />
my few surviving friends who are yet its<br />
inhabitants.”<br />
Caleb Jarvis Taylor died June 6, 1816<br />
in Campbell <strong>County</strong>, Kentucky.<br />
*In those days “cousin” could mean<br />
nephew.
29 Thursday, July <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2013</strong><br />
The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Newsmakers<br />
Making Strides of Improvement<br />
By Kimberly Alston<br />
Contributing Writer<br />
From the formation of the St. Mary’s<br />
Striders back in 2008, they have maintained<br />
a mantra of, “one team, one family”.<br />
While individual members of the<br />
Striders come from different schools and<br />
vary in age, their differences are put aside<br />
when it comes to preparing for events and<br />
bettering each other, doing what they can<br />
for each other and helping each other get<br />
better.<br />
Because the St. Mary’s Striders are<br />
a community-based team, they are not<br />
affiliated with any one school. That does<br />
not mean that being part of the team can<br />
be an excuse for grades to drop during<br />
the school year. Head Coach Tony Porter<br />
introduced the Striders as a way to, “give<br />
students with less than stellar academics<br />
a way to compete”. He explained that<br />
each student on the team has to keep up<br />
a minimum grade point average (GPA) or<br />
he invokes mandatory tutoring sessions.<br />
“Just because we are not associated with<br />
the school, doesn’t mean we don’t support<br />
the school,” Porter said.<br />
Since the St. Mary’s Striders began,<br />
they have competed each year.<br />
“We compete in every USA Track<br />
and Fields event,” Porter said. He went<br />
on to say that members have their own<br />
strengths and weaknesses, but the main<br />
goal is not to win medals. “I enjoy when<br />
they win” Porter said, “I even celebrate<br />
with them, but they only need to better<br />
themselves each time they compete”.<br />
Coach Porter has been with the<br />
Striders since its beginning. “We started<br />
with four kids,” Porter said. This year,<br />
with 32 athletes ranging in age from six<br />
to 61, Porter is thrilled, but not too surprised<br />
at how far the team has come. This<br />
year alone, the Striders had 17 compete<br />
in regionals and from there; six athletes<br />
have qualified for the Junior Olympics<br />
Nationals Meet, going on this weekend.<br />
There are four 4x1 members competing<br />
in the National’s Meet along with a<br />
high jumper and a hurdler. While some of<br />
the competitors this weekend have been<br />
running for years,<br />
Autumn Robinson, a high jumper,<br />
qualified in her first year with the team.<br />
“It’s a big deal because this is my first<br />
time,” she said, “I surprised myself”.<br />
Allen Hicks, a 4x1 member, said that<br />
while he’s been running for about six<br />
years, the Striders are more competitive<br />
than he was used to.<br />
“They are more disciplined than in<br />
school,” echoed teammate Kordell Blake.<br />
He said that while he participates in more<br />
than one sport, he will probably stick with<br />
track because, “ it makes you try harder”.<br />
“We compete like we train,” Porter<br />
said. While those who qualified for Nationals<br />
may focus a bit more on the event<br />
they are competing in, the entire team<br />
practices together and cheers each other<br />
on. The mentorship program that the<br />
Striders have adopted is one of the main<br />
goals of the team. Having older kids on<br />
the team set examples for the younger<br />
ones is very important to the coaches.<br />
“We want them [older team members]<br />
to take a child and help them improve<br />
in what they’re doing,” Porter said.<br />
“The main goal is for everyone to learn,<br />
improve and do better.”<br />
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BLAST from the PAST for <strong>25</strong> Years!<br />
Gracie Myles the Director of Gracies's<br />
Guys and Gals Dance Studio celebrated<br />
her <strong>25</strong>th recital this past June. A Reunion<br />
Dance featuring close to 50 dancers from<br />
the past years participated in a dance at the<br />
recital. This year to celebrate the milestone<br />
of being in business for over two decades<br />
the show troupe danced at Walt Disney<br />
World in January and held a banquet in Solomons<br />
at Lady of the Sea’s Banquet Room,<br />
the end of June. The show troupe under the<br />
direction of Gracie Myles had a successful<br />
competition season, and ended with the<br />
national finals in Virginia Beach at Ticket<br />
to Broadway, in which over 30 studios<br />
from Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York,<br />
New Jersey, Indiana, Ohio, and <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
participated in. Several of the routines that<br />
competed this past season placed high gold,<br />
platinum and a perfect platinum score and<br />
received many judges’ awards! Some of<br />
the highlights of the competition season<br />
was the Petite show troupe, average age 10,<br />
who competed their tap routine “December<br />
1963” choreographed by Gracie Myles.<br />
They received top championship score for<br />
large groups for 12 and under at Beyond the<br />
Stars National competition as well as Thunderstruck,<br />
and at Thunderstruck National<br />
Competition this routine received the highest<br />
score for all 12 and under routines! This<br />
routine also received a technique award at<br />
Beyond the Stars National Competition.<br />
Another routine that did extremely well this<br />
year was “Gravity”, choreographed by Justin<br />
Myles, in the teen small group tap category,<br />
always scoring platinum or perfect<br />
platinum, and was top scoring champions at<br />
Dancers, Inc., Beyond the Stars and Ticket<br />
to Broadway, plus received the choreography<br />
award at Beyond the Stars and at Ticket<br />
to Broadway! “Gravity” also received the<br />
Tap Excellence Award at the Thunderstruck<br />
Competition! Other group routines that<br />
scored well this competition season include<br />
Take Over choreographed by Sam Price,<br />
a hip hop routine that scored platinum at<br />
Ticket to Broadway at finals, Do Ya Wanna<br />
Dance, choreographed by Lisa Martoni, receiving<br />
high gold at several competitions,<br />
and Cosmic Jam, choreographed by Grace<br />
Myles, Justin Myles, Lisa Martoni and Sam<br />
Price, which received the Entertainment<br />
Award at Thunderstruck and the highest<br />
scoring teen routine.<br />
The opening routine of this year’s<br />
recital entitled “We Tap”, which was choreographed<br />
by Justin Myles and Grace<br />
Myles, , also went to Ticket to Broadway<br />
national finals. It received a platinum and<br />
a Dance Call back to compete in the Dance<br />
Off. This was especially exciting because<br />
this routine was taught in two weeks! “We<br />
Tap” received the second highest score for<br />
all super groups in the teen division on a<br />
nationals finals leveT! “We Tap” will be<br />
competing in the upcoming season for the<br />
year 2014.<br />
Three dance troupe routines also competed<br />
this year. Dance Troupe students are<br />
in training to become show troupe members.<br />
At Thunderstruck national competition<br />
at a regional level, “I’m Still Standing”,<br />
the teen dance troupe received a high gold<br />
and got first place in the teen division, Beat<br />
It, received high gold, in the age division<br />
9-10 year olds, and Chapel of Love, in the<br />
age category 7-8, received a platinum and<br />
got first place for all apprentice routines in<br />
the 12 and under division. All these routines<br />
were choreographed by Gracie Myles.<br />
The parents got into the act at Ticket<br />
to Broadway’s national finals competition<br />
which was held July 5 to July 9. There were<br />
seven parent routines and “Blast from the<br />
Past”, the routine from Gracie’s Guys and<br />
Gals Dance Studio won first place! The<br />
parents’ routine featured imitations of Elvis,<br />
Jerry Lee Lewis, The Weather Girls,<br />
Tina Turner, The Jackson Five, Tom Jones,<br />
Richard Simmons and a turn on YMCA,<br />
the Village People turned out to be members<br />
of the AARP to the tune of YMCA!<br />
The parents received a standing ovation<br />
not only from the judges but from the entire<br />
audience. It was truly a blast! The<br />
parents that participated are: Grace Myles,<br />
Lisa Martoni, Aimee Superior, Michelle<br />
Leclerc, Shawn Jones, Jeff Dillon, Kathy<br />
Redman, Ben Redman, Amy Downs, Bonnie<br />
Schulmeyer, Jane Farrell, Sandy Lyon,<br />
Patrick Lyon, Patrick Hogan, Anthony Petett,<br />
Marnie Krzywdik, Jim Moore, Bill<br />
Geyer, and Chantel Petett,<br />
Many soloist and duos competed as<br />
well, and received high gold to platinum<br />
throughout the year! In the solo category at<br />
finals, Melanie Downs and Shannon Gleason<br />
achieved a dance call back to compete<br />
in the Dance Off, which comprised of the<br />
top ten soloists in the teen (ages 13-15) and<br />
senior (ages 16-19) age divisions. “We Tap”<br />
and “Gravity” were the two group routines<br />
that were called back, and Samantha Estacion<br />
and Shannon Gleason’s tap routine was<br />
also called back.<br />
The kids that competed in dance<br />
troupe this year are: Merideth Bailey, Shelby<br />
Bean, Ashlyn Broom, Lexi Burkhardt,<br />
Jennifer Cardinal, Taylor Frietchen, Ashley<br />
Hazzard, Michael Hedspeth, Shy-Ann Hill,<br />
Dreylen, Howard, Gabrielle Huffman, Jasmine<br />
Kohler, Samantha Lang, staci Lang,<br />
Aachary Leclerc, Alajane, Leeman, Briana<br />
Levi, Riley McCloskey, Chandler Moore,<br />
Ashley Mudd, Madison Mushrush, Alicia<br />
Pilkerton, Patrick Schwartz, Luke Seep,<br />
and Carley Worch.<br />
The kids in show troupe this past year<br />
are: Hannah Bailey, Tyshonna Butler, Kaelyn<br />
Dillon, Melanie Downs, Samantha Estacion,<br />
Melinda Farrell, Cami Frick, Juliana<br />
Geyer, Shannon Gleason, Sydney Guthrie,<br />
Jaida Harris, Erin Hogan, Torrie Janiszewski,<br />
Chelsea Krzywdik, Jamie Laurel, Brittany<br />
Lyon, Kayla Lyon, Ashleigh Martoni,<br />
Gabrielle Moore, Mallory Moore, Alyssa<br />
Morrison, Erica Mundie, Samantha Myles,<br />
Casey Normyle, Cassie Oliver, Brynn<br />
Owen, Gabrilee Petett, Janna Petett, Kayla<br />
Purcell, Haley Redman, Taylor Richards,<br />
Christine Wagner, Baille Wathen, and Jordyn<br />
Wilhoit.<br />
A note of interest is that Justin Myles<br />
one the main teachers at Gracie’s dance studio,<br />
who graduated Point Park University<br />
with a dance degree, has toured with the<br />
off broadway show “Stomp”, performed at<br />
Busch Gardens, Tap Dogs in Reno, NV, and<br />
Disney. He was also the recipient in 2012 of<br />
three Phoenix Awards as a local musician<br />
one of which was for the best cover song<br />
“Rock Bottom” available on itunes. He<br />
will be teaching a drumming class, as well<br />
as body percussion, tap and contemporary<br />
classes.<br />
Gracie’s is gearing up for another<br />
exciting year. If you’d like info on taking<br />
classes at Gracies, visit their website:<br />
GraciesGuysandGalsDanceStudio.com or<br />
email Gracie at GraciesGandG@aol.com<br />
for registration dates!<br />
Truckload Sale to Benefit the Hollywood<br />
Volunteer Rescue Squad<br />
Schwan’s Home Service Fundraiser to be held on Saturday, August 3 from 10<br />
a.m. to 3 p.m.<br />
Hollywood Volunteer Rescue Squad is excited to announce that we are doing a<br />
Schwan’s Home Service Fundraiser.<br />
• You can come and purchase your favorite Schwan’s items directly from a<br />
Schwan’s Home Service representative at 43<strong>25</strong>6 Rescue Lane (off Route 235) in<br />
Hollywood, <strong>Maryland</strong> on Saturday, August 3, <strong>2013</strong> from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The truck<br />
will be filled with a variety of items to purchase on the spot.<br />
Pre-orders are also encouraged! Go online at www.schwansfundraising.com/<br />
orderform.aspx or call 1-888-SCHWANS using Campaign ID 43786:<br />
• Over 350 quality products to choose from. Certainly something to fit every<br />
eating occasion, flavor profile and nutritional need.<br />
• No waiting for products; you are able to take them home the day of the sale<br />
and there is no markup on any products.<br />
• Schwan’s donates up to 20% of total sales from the event to the Hollywood<br />
Volunteer Rescue Squad.<br />
• Pre-orders will be bagged according to who ordered it, so if you are picking<br />
up for someone have their names handy. If someone forgets to pre-order, we will<br />
have a truck filled with a variety of items to purchase on the spot.<br />
• Schwan’s Gift Cards for future purchases can be ordered by visiting www.<br />
schwans.com or by calling 1-888-SCHWANS. When ordering, use the Campaign<br />
ID 43786.<br />
Thank you in advance for your support!
31 Thursday, July <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2013</strong><br />
The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Community<br />
Lexington Park Lions Club<br />
Installs New Officers<br />
The Lexington Park Lions Club celebrated<br />
67 years of service to the community on Monday,<br />
June 24, with awards and the installation of officers<br />
for the <strong>2013</strong>-2014 Lion year.<br />
Ceremonies began with a tribute to the memories<br />
of those Lions who died during the past Lion<br />
year: John Bradford, Francis Hewitt, Ed Russell, and<br />
Chester Lynch. These gentlemen were dedicated Lions<br />
and led by example. We were blessed by their<br />
friendship and learned from their mentoring.<br />
King Lion Bob Hayward recognized Bruce<br />
Maynard as our newest Melvin Jones Fellow, citing<br />
his dedication to Lionism and his contributions to the<br />
club and to the community. This fellowship award<br />
is the highest form of recognition afforded by Lions<br />
International, and the recipient joins an elite corps<br />
of representatives serving as role models for Lions<br />
around the world.<br />
The King Lion presented Myra Raspa, Bonnie<br />
Alvey, Carol Lawson, and Lee Maynard with Certificates<br />
of Appreciation for their many contributions<br />
in support of Club activities and events. These ladies,<br />
although not Lions Club members, are tireless<br />
in their behind-the-scenes work on our behalf and we<br />
are grateful for their participation.<br />
King Lion Bob also presented Certificates of<br />
Appreciation to officers, Board members, and several<br />
club members in recognition of their efforts during<br />
his three year tenure as King Lion. Several members<br />
were also recognized for 100% attendance during the<br />
Lions year.<br />
Ceremonies continued with the swearing in of<br />
the new slate of officers: President and King Lion<br />
Kenneth “Buzz” Shelley; Amanda Fast, 1st Vice<br />
President; Bruce Maynard, 2nd Vice President; Stacey<br />
Loftis, Secretary; Jess Davis, Treasurer and Lion<br />
Tamer; Jim Dodson, Tail Twister; and the Board of<br />
Directors: Robert “Bob” Hayward, Past President ;<br />
Johnny Alvey; Tami Gary; and Angie Everett.<br />
The evening drew to a close with remarks from<br />
both the Past President, Bob Hayward, and the new<br />
King Lion, Buzz Shelley, and concluded with the official<br />
passing of the gavel.<br />
First Friday Summertime<br />
Raffle Event in Leonardtown<br />
Friday, August 2nd from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., music begins at 6PM<br />
Historic Leonardtown<br />
is heating up for<br />
First Friday as the Leonardtown<br />
Business Association<br />
welcomes Miles<br />
From Clever, playing live<br />
on the Square. In addition<br />
to this popular and<br />
engaging rock/pop band,<br />
the LBA hosts its annual<br />
Summertime Raffle Event. Purchase tickets to win the grand prize ... a<br />
46” HD Flat Screen Color Television, or one many gift certificates and<br />
gift baskets offered by participating Leonardtown Business Association<br />
members. Tickets are $1 each or 12 tickets for $10 and may be purchased<br />
now through August 2 by 6:30 p.m. at Olde Towne Insurance, The Good<br />
Earth, North End Gallery, Fenwick Street Used Books and Music, Fuzzy<br />
Farmers Market, or The Port of Leonardtown Winery. First Friday in August<br />
is very family friendly, with free kids arts and crafts on the Square<br />
hosted by St. Mary’s Macaroni Kid and Yellow Door Art Studios. Enjoy<br />
a variety of demos, receptions, dinner specials, and performances<br />
throughout downtown and in the many businesses uptown on Route 5/<br />
Point Lookout Road. For more information go to www.leonardtownfirstfridays.com<br />
Ceremonies continued with the swearing in of the new slate of officers: President and<br />
King Lion Kenneth “Buzz” Shelley; Amanda Fast, 1st Vice President; Bruce Maynard, 2nd<br />
Vice President; Stacey Loftis, Secretary; Jess Davis, Treasurer and Lion Tamer; Jim Dodson,<br />
Tail Twister; and the Board of Directors: Robert “Bob” Hayward, Past President ; Johnny<br />
Alvey; Tami Gary; and Angie Everett. 5<br />
Open your home, share the world!<br />
YFU-USA is looking for host families in the St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> area!<br />
Youth for Understanding (YFU),<br />
one of the most well respected intercultural<br />
exchange programs, is currently<br />
looking for host families in your area<br />
that are willing to open their homes<br />
and hearts to high school students from<br />
around the world. Each student is excited<br />
to be immersed in American culture,<br />
and you could be a part of that<br />
experience!<br />
Hosting is a fun and rewarding way<br />
for your family to learn first-hand about<br />
another country from a student who has<br />
grown up there. All International students<br />
are prepared to follow the family’s<br />
rules, they come insured and come with<br />
their own spending money. We ask that<br />
each host family provides a place for the<br />
student to live, three meals a day and<br />
transportation to and from school. YFU<br />
even provides extra volunteer support in<br />
the area for all the families and students.<br />
You hold the key to the start of<br />
lifelong friendships! To learn more<br />
about hosting, Email or call your local<br />
YFU Field Director Tchi Sogoyou today<br />
tsogoyou@yfu.org; 618-690-0755<br />
or toll-free at 1-866-235-9795, x<strong>25</strong>07.<br />
Join the fun and make a difference! The<br />
deadline for school enrollment is fast approaching,<br />
so please act now.
The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Thursday, July <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2013</strong> 32<br />
To submit your event listing to go in our Community Calendar,<br />
please email news@countytimes.net with the listing details by 12 p.m.<br />
on the Tuesday prior to our Thursday publication.<br />
Friday, July 26<br />
• Recreation and Parks to Present<br />
“Hairspray” Summerstock Production<br />
Great Mills High School Auditorium,<br />
Leonardtown, 7 p.m.<br />
The St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Department of<br />
Recreation and Parks, in association with<br />
the Board of <strong>County</strong> Commissioners, are<br />
pleased to announce this year’s Summerstock<br />
Musical performance will be “Hairspray”<br />
by Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman.<br />
Tickets are priced at $14 for adults, $12 for<br />
seniors 60 years and older and $6 for children<br />
10 years and under. Matinee tickets<br />
are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and $4 for<br />
children.Tickets are now available and can<br />
be purchased online at www.stmarysmd.<br />
com/recreate/summerstock or in person<br />
at the Recreation & Parks main office in<br />
Leonardtown. Patrons purchasing ticket(s)<br />
online must print their ticket(s) and bring<br />
to the show for admittance. <strong>Online</strong> ticket<br />
purchases are highly encouraged due to<br />
the possibility of shows selling out. Tickets<br />
must be purchased no later than 10:00 p.m.<br />
the day before the show you plan on attending.<br />
Doors to the School will open one<br />
hour before each performance for ticket<br />
sales and patrons will enter the auditorium<br />
for general seating thirty minutes before<br />
each show time. Cash only will be accepted<br />
for ticket sales at the door. For more<br />
information please call 301-475-4200 ext.<br />
1800.<br />
• Carnival<br />
Hollywood Fire Department, 7 p.m.<br />
The Hollywood Volunteer Fire Department’s<br />
annual carnival will be held<br />
July 18-21 and again July <strong>25</strong>-29 beginning<br />
at 7 each night. Super Heroes will be<br />
present July 20, from 7 to 9 p.m. Featured<br />
will be food, rides, and games. Unlimited<br />
rides every night for $10, or tickets may be<br />
purchased separately. Free nightly prizes<br />
(must be present to win). Free nightly bicycle<br />
raffle for ages 12 and under (must<br />
be present to win). A Treasure Chest<br />
cash prize will be raffled the last night<br />
of the carnival. Owned and operated by<br />
HVFD. Visit www.hvfd7.com for more<br />
information.<br />
• Quality Furniture Sale<br />
St. Mary’s Fairgrounds, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.<br />
New Quality Furniture Sale to Benefit<br />
Patuxent Habitat for Humanity. Hurry<br />
in for best selections. Delivery Arrangements<br />
can be made. Call 301-737-6273 or<br />
email info@patuxenthabitat.org for more<br />
info.<br />
Saturday, July 27<br />
• Downtown Tunes<br />
41660 Courthouse Drive, P.O. Box 1,<br />
Leonardtown, 6 to 9 p.m.<br />
Enjoy live, outdoor concerts in Leonardtown<br />
all through the summer. Bring a<br />
chair or blanket to sit on, or make reservations<br />
for an outdoor table at one of Leonardtown’s<br />
restaurants. Downtown Tunes<br />
will be held on the Square in Leonardtown<br />
from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturdays.<br />
• Recreation and Parks to Present<br />
“Hairspray” Summerstock Production<br />
Great Mills High School Auditorium,<br />
Leonardtown, 1 and 7 p.m.<br />
The St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Department of<br />
Recreation and Parks, in association with<br />
the Board of <strong>County</strong> Commissioners, are<br />
pleased to announce this year’s Summerstock<br />
Musical performance will be “Hairspray”<br />
by Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman.<br />
Tickets are priced at $14 for adults, $12 for<br />
seniors 60 years and older and $6 for children<br />
10 years and under. Matinee tickets<br />
are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and $4 for<br />
children.Tickets are now available and can<br />
be purchased online at www.stmarysmd.<br />
com/recreate/summerstock or in person<br />
at the Recreation & Parks main office in<br />
Leonardtown. Patrons purchasing ticket(s)<br />
online must print their ticket(s) and bring<br />
to the show for admittance. <strong>Online</strong> ticket<br />
purchases are highly encouraged due to<br />
the possibility of shows selling out. Tickets<br />
must be purchased no later than 10:00 p.m.<br />
the day before the show you plan on attending.<br />
Doors to the School will open one<br />
hour before each performance for ticket<br />
sales and patrons will enter the auditorium<br />
for general seating thirty minutes before<br />
each show time. Cash only will be accepted<br />
for ticket sales at the door. For more<br />
information please call 301-475-4200 ext.<br />
1800.<br />
• Auction and More<br />
Mt Zion United Methodist Church, 27108<br />
Mt Zion Church Rd, Mechanicsville, 9 a.m.<br />
Doors open at 11 a.m. to view auction<br />
items, auction begins at 2 p.m. with Rodney<br />
Thompson of Homestead Auctions.<br />
Woods Gospel Band performing at noon.<br />
Pinch, Mascot of the So. Md. Blue Crabs<br />
Baseball Team arrives at 12:30 p.m. Car<br />
wash 9 a.m. to noon, proceeds benefit Mt.<br />
Zion Youth Groups. There will be Rada<br />
Cutlery Sale, Bake Sale, Homemade Ice<br />
Cream and Rita B’s Catering will be available<br />
for lunch. For further information,<br />
call Tom Keller at 301-481-6388. Proceeds<br />
raised from the auction will enable the Mt.<br />
Zion United Methodist Men continue their<br />
charity donations.<br />
• Carnival<br />
Hollywood Fire Department, 7 p.m.<br />
The Hollywood Volunteer Fire Department’s<br />
annual carnival will be held<br />
July 18-21 and again July <strong>25</strong>-29 beginning<br />
at 7 each night. Super Heroes will be<br />
present July 20, from 7 to 9 p.m. Featured<br />
will be food, rides, and games. Unlimited<br />
rides every night for $10, or tickets may be<br />
purchased separately. Free nightly prizes<br />
(must be present to win). Free nightly bicycle<br />
raffle for ages 12 and under (must<br />
be present to win). A Treasure Chest<br />
cash prize will be raffled the last night<br />
of the carnival. Owned and operated by<br />
HVFD. Visit www.hvfd7.com for more<br />
information.<br />
• Pork Loin and Beef Sandwich Sale<br />
American Legion Post 221, 21690 Colton’s<br />
Point Rd (Rt. 242), Avenue, 11 a.m. to 4<br />
p.m.<br />
American Legion Post 221 is sponsoring<br />
a pork loin and beef sandwich sale.<br />
Pork loin, sliced roast beef, and BBQ beef<br />
sandwiches will be sold on both Saturday<br />
and Sunday. Sandwiches will cost $5 each.<br />
Call 301-884-4071 for further information.<br />
Visit www.alpost221.webs.com for more<br />
information.<br />
• Quality Furniture Sale<br />
St. Mary’s Fairgrounds, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.<br />
New Quality Furniture Sale to Benefit<br />
Patuxent Habitat for Humanity. Hurry<br />
in for best selections. Delivery Arrangements<br />
can be made. Call 301-737-6273 or<br />
email info@patuxenthabitat.org for more<br />
info.<br />
Sunday, July 28<br />
• Recreation and Parks to Present<br />
“Hairspray” Summerstock Production<br />
Great Mills High School Auditorium,<br />
Leonardtown, 3 p.m.<br />
The St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Department of<br />
Recreation and Parks, in association with<br />
the Board of <strong>County</strong> Commissioners, are<br />
pleased to announce this year’s Summerstock<br />
Musical performance will be “Hairspray”<br />
by Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman.<br />
Tickets are priced at $14 for adults, $12 for<br />
seniors 60 years and older and $6 for children<br />
10 years and under. Matinee tickets<br />
are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and $4 for<br />
children.Tickets are now available and can<br />
be purchased online at www.stmarysmd.<br />
com/recreate/summerstock or in person<br />
at the Recreation & Parks main office in<br />
Leonardtown. Patrons purchasing ticket(s)<br />
online must print their ticket(s) and bring<br />
to the show for admittance. <strong>Online</strong> ticket<br />
purchases are highly encouraged due to<br />
the possibility of shows selling out. Tickets<br />
must be purchased no later than 10:00 p.m.<br />
the day before the show you plan on attending.<br />
Doors to the School will open one<br />
hour before each performance for ticket<br />
sales and patrons will enter the auditorium<br />
for general seating thirty minutes before<br />
each show time. Cash only will be accepted<br />
for ticket sales at the door. For more<br />
information please call 301-475-4200 ext.<br />
1800.<br />
• Carnival<br />
Hollywood Fire Department, 7 p.m.<br />
The Hollywood Volunteer Fire Department’s<br />
annual carnival will be held<br />
July 18-21 and again July <strong>25</strong>-29 beginning<br />
at 7 each night. Super Heroes will be<br />
present July 20, from 7 to 9 p.m. Featured<br />
will be food, rides, and games. Unlimited<br />
rides every night for $10, or tickets may be<br />
purchased separately. Free nightly prizes<br />
(must be present to win). Free nightly bicycle<br />
raffle for ages 12 and under (must<br />
be present to win). A Treasure Chest<br />
cash prize will be raffled the last night<br />
of the carnival. Owned and operated by<br />
HVFD. Visit www.hvfd7.com for more<br />
information.<br />
• Pork Loin and Beef Sandwich Sale<br />
American Legion Post 221, 21690 Colton’s<br />
Point Rd (Rt. 242), Avenue, 11 a.m. to 4<br />
p.m.<br />
American Legion Post 221 is sponsoring<br />
a pork loin and beef sandwich sale.<br />
Pork loin, sliced roast beef, and BBQ beef<br />
sandwiches will be sold on both Saturday<br />
and Sunday. Sandwiches will cost $5 each.<br />
Call 301-884-4071 for further information.<br />
Visit www.alpost221.webs.com for more<br />
information.
33 Thursday, July <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2013</strong><br />
The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Monday, July 29<br />
• Carnival<br />
Hollywood Fire Department, 7 p.m.<br />
The Hollywood Volunteer Fire Department’s<br />
annual carnival will be held<br />
July 18-21 and again July <strong>25</strong>-29 beginning<br />
at 7 each night. Super Heroes will be<br />
present July 20, from 7 to 9 p.m. Featured<br />
will be food, rides, and games. Unlimited<br />
rides every night for $10, or tickets may<br />
be purchased separately. Free nightly<br />
prizes (must be present to win). Free<br />
nightly bicycle raffle for ages 12 and under<br />
(must be present to win). A Treasure<br />
Chest cash prize will be raffled the last<br />
night of the carnival. Owned and operated<br />
by HVFD. Visit www.hvfd7.com for<br />
more information.<br />
• Roundtable Discussion for Families<br />
and Caregivers of People with Autism<br />
Spectrum Disorders<br />
Leonardtown Library, 23<strong>25</strong>0 Hollywood<br />
Road, Leonardtown, 6 to 8 p.m.<br />
If you are a family member or a caregiver<br />
of a person with an autism spectrum<br />
disorder (ASD), please join us. Our goal<br />
is to gather information from, and share<br />
information with, families of people with<br />
ASDs in all three <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
counties across all age ranges and levels<br />
of disabilities, regarding school services<br />
in all three school systems. Families<br />
and caregivers of people with ASDs, or<br />
who are suspected of having an ASD<br />
who do not have an IEP or a 504 Plan for<br />
whatever reason are also welcome. One<br />
information is gathered, group participants<br />
will determine courses of action,<br />
and follow-up meetings or activities may<br />
be scheduled. Light refreshments will be<br />
provided; please RSVP to Missy at 301-<br />
884-4662 or to Terri at terri@autismsupport-somd.org<br />
Tuesday, July 30<br />
• CSM Twilight Performance Series:<br />
Sam Grow<br />
Leonardtown Campus, 22950 Hollywood<br />
Rd., Leonardtown, 6:30 p.m.<br />
Rock singer-songwriter and musician<br />
Sam Grow, will close out the <strong>2013</strong><br />
season of CSM’s Twilight Performance<br />
Series. Each week the series features a<br />
different performance on each campus.<br />
Bring a picnic with a lawn chair or blanket.<br />
No alcoholic beverages permitted.<br />
Free. Call 301-934-7703, 240-7<strong>25</strong>-5499,<br />
443-550-6199 or 301-870-2309, Ext. 7703<br />
or visit www.csmd.edu/Arts for more<br />
information.<br />
Wednesday, July 31<br />
• Colonial Kids Archaeology<br />
Architecture<br />
St. John’s Site Museum, Historic St.<br />
Mary’s City, 10 a.m.<br />
Beat the heat at this weekly event<br />
focusing on archaeology at the St. John’s<br />
Site. Find out how archaeologist “read”<br />
the soil to learn about architecture in the<br />
colony. Ages 6+ with adult. $5 per child<br />
($4/ child members). For information call<br />
240-895-4990 or email info@stmaryscity.org.<br />
• Storytime and Stuffed Animal<br />
Sleepover<br />
Lexington Park Library, 6:30 p.m.<br />
Children of all ages can leave their<br />
stuffed animal for a sleepover after story<br />
time. When they pick it up the next day,<br />
they can watch a slideshow of its overnight<br />
adventures. Free. 301-863-8188<br />
• CSM Twilight Presentation: The<br />
Fisherman and His Wife<br />
La Plata Campus, 8730 Mitchell Rd., La<br />
Plata, 9 a.m.<br />
The Fisherman and His Wife is a<br />
play about a German fairy tale collected<br />
by the Brothers Grimm about a poor fisherman<br />
who catches a golden flounder that<br />
claims to be an enchanted prince. The<br />
family-friendly performance will close<br />
out the <strong>2013</strong> season of CSM’s Twilight<br />
Performance Series. Each week, the series<br />
features a different performance on<br />
each campus. Bring a picnic with a lawn<br />
chair or blanket. No alcohol permitted.<br />
Free.<br />
Thursday, August 1<br />
• American Legion Post 221 Meeting<br />
21690 Colton Point Rd., Avenue, 8 p.m<br />
American Legion Post 221 invites<br />
all active duty personnel and veterans<br />
to join out monthly meeting on the first<br />
Thursday of each month at 8 p.m. Visit<br />
our website at www.alpost221.webs.com<br />
or email us at alpost221@netscape.net.<br />
For more information, call Mike Barbour<br />
at 301-769-4569.<br />
Professional Performance series<br />
ends with a science show<br />
The last Professional Performance will be a<br />
spectacular science show of bubbling potions and<br />
amazing chemical reactions by Mad Science on<br />
July 29. The program is geared for ages 5 years<br />
and older. Charlotte Hall branch’s performances<br />
will be held at White Marsh Elementary at 10<br />
a.m., Leonardtown’s will be held at Leonardtown<br />
Elementary at 12:30 p.m. and Lexington Park’s<br />
will be at the library at 3 p.m. Those attending<br />
are asked to bring a non-perishable food item for<br />
the local food pantry.<br />
Stuffed Animal Sleepover is back<br />
Children can bring their stuffed animals for a<br />
storytime at 6:30 p.m. on July 31 at Lexington<br />
Park branch and on Aug. 6 at the Leonardtown<br />
branch. After storytime, they can leave the<br />
animals for a sleepover. A slide show of their<br />
adventures will be showing when the kids pick<br />
them up on Friday.<br />
Anne Hathaway film to be shown<br />
This Friday at 2 p.m. Lexington Park library will<br />
show the movie in which Anne Hathaway won the<br />
<strong>2013</strong> Oscar for Best Actress. In this PG-13 rated<br />
film, a paroled prisoner agrees to care for a factory<br />
worker’s daughter after the mother’s death.<br />
Excavating the Ocean Floor<br />
Using hands-on activities, children ages 10<br />
Library<br />
Items<br />
years and older, will explore and discover how<br />
archaeologists excavate underwater in brackish<br />
water. The program presented by NAWCAD<br />
Education Outreach Office and growing STEMS<br />
will be held this Saturday at 2 p.m. at Charlotte<br />
Hall branch, on Aug. 2 at 10 a.m. at Leonardtown<br />
branch, and on Aug. 9 at 9:30 a.m. at Lexington<br />
Park branch. Registration is required.<br />
Writing Contest open for teens<br />
A Teen Writing Contest is underway and teens<br />
have until Aug. 10 to submit their original stories<br />
or poems to stmateens@stmalib.org. Their entries<br />
should answer the question, “What’s beneath<br />
the surface?” The winner will receive magnetic<br />
poetry and Natalie Goldberg’s book, “Writing<br />
Down the Bones.”<br />
Space is available for the camera-less video-editing<br />
program being offered at Leonardtown branch<br />
on Friday at 10:30 a.m. and the Get More from<br />
Google class at Lexington Park branch on Aug. 9<br />
at 2 p.m. Registration is required for both.<br />
Programs focus on eBooks and<br />
PowerPoint<br />
Leonardtown branch will offer a class for adults<br />
on how to download eBooks for Smart Phones<br />
on Aug. 5 at 2 p.m. An introductory class on<br />
PowerPoint will be conducted at the Lexington<br />
Park branch on Aug. 8 at 5:30 p.m. Both require<br />
registration.<br />
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By Kimberly Alston<br />
Contributing Writer<br />
Searching for Musicians<br />
Alchemical Records’ next gig is at the Prince<br />
Frederick Library for the first ever library-sponsored<br />
music industry seminar.<br />
In its inaugural meeting, the goal of this year’s<br />
seminar is to “provide an opportunity for young musicians<br />
to learn and network through the music industry,”<br />
according to coordinator Robyn Truslow.<br />
Working with Alchemical Records founder<br />
Daniel Hill, Truslow has gathered a range of industries<br />
representing different sides of the music industry<br />
to educate those interested in pursuing music as a<br />
career on their expectations of artists as well as offer<br />
advice in goal setting.<br />
Alchemical Records is an independent label,<br />
founded by Hill in 2009. Hill strived to become a<br />
musician since he was 14 years old. As a label, Alchemical<br />
Records has the ability to book bands, build<br />
websites, schedule recording, publish and promote<br />
the artists they represent. The function of a label, Hill<br />
said, is to “represent a variety of artists with similar<br />
genres and common goals as musicians.” He chose<br />
to start his own label “because there was no one else<br />
available to mentor younger artists.”<br />
As an independent label, Alchemical Records<br />
has more control over time and the type of music<br />
preformed. They also have the ability to focus on individual<br />
artists, as well as share and grow resources<br />
without them having to claim the label itself.<br />
“It is naïve to think that just because you play,<br />
someone will hire you,” Hill said, adding that it is<br />
unfortunate that there are so many misconceptions<br />
about the amount of work it actually takes to<br />
get signed. He wants to become a voice for younger<br />
artists. Hill hopes that with the help of the Music<br />
Seminar, he will be able to reach out to people with<br />
a genuine interest in advancing themselves in their<br />
music. Not only as performers but also as managers,<br />
sound engineers, photographers and cover artists as<br />
well because, “it all is necessary to keep growing an<br />
building,” Hill said.<br />
There are ten speakers scheduled to make an appearance<br />
at the seminar, as a way for people to get<br />
a variety of perspectives in a general, broad information<br />
session. Hill believes that people are actually<br />
willing to help each other in the music industry, but<br />
that there is not enough information readily available<br />
for people to know where to go for help. Hill<br />
also hopes to “prepare someone for reality”. The music<br />
industry, he said, is not an easy place to make a<br />
break. Most labels have a specific type of look and<br />
sound in their heads beforehand and although a band<br />
may be good, if they do not fit the set image, they<br />
may not get a chance.<br />
Alchemical Records is represented as a rock label,<br />
but because “rock” is such a broad term, they can<br />
Hairspray Performance<br />
The St. Mary’s Recreation and<br />
Parks Summerstock program is proud<br />
to put on the Broadway musical,<br />
Hairspray, from July 26- 28 at Great<br />
Mills High School. The musical is being<br />
preformed by children ages 12 to<br />
21, and is a family friendly production.<br />
To purchase tickets, visit www.<br />
stmarysmd.com/recreate, the Recreation<br />
and Parks Main Office, or buy<br />
them at the front door of the show.<br />
Tickets are $6 for children 10 and under<br />
($4 for the matinee) Adults tickets<br />
are $14 ($10 matinee) and seniors 60<br />
and older are $10 ($8 matinee). The<br />
play will run Friday and Saturday evenings<br />
at 7 p.m., Sunday evening at 3<br />
p.m. and there will be a matinee on<br />
Saturday at 1 p.m. Great Mills High<br />
School is located at 21130 Great Mills<br />
Rd., Great Mills. For more information,<br />
call 301-475-4200 ext. 1800.<br />
be flexible in their music, with styles ranging from<br />
alternative to having a country or bluegrass feel to<br />
it. While there is “not a ton of money to back it up,”<br />
as Hill states, Alchemical is still looking to represent<br />
more people. Hill believes that there is “ hope, that if<br />
you’re willing to put everything into it, it is possible”.<br />
The Annual Music Industry Seminar, hosted by<br />
Calvert Library, will take place on Saturday, July 27,<br />
at the Prince Frederick branch library, 850 Costley<br />
Way, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event is free and open<br />
to the public. For more information, contact the library<br />
at 410-535-0291.<br />
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Going On<br />
Thursday, July <strong>25</strong><br />
• Karaoke with DJ Tommy T<br />
Babes Boys Tavern (2890 Old Washington<br />
Rd., Waldorf) – 8 p.m.<br />
• Dave Norris<br />
DB McMillan’s (23415 Three Notch<br />
Rd., California) 6 p.m.<br />
• Justin Myles Experience<br />
Ruddy Duck Brewery (13200 Dowell<br />
Road, Dowell) - 8 p.m.<br />
• DJ Charlie Thompson<br />
Toot’s Bar (23971 Mervell Dean Rd.,<br />
Hollywood) – 8:30 p.m.<br />
Friday, July 26<br />
• Some Assembly<br />
The West Lawn Inn (9200 Chesapeake<br />
Ave., North Beach) -7:30 to 10<br />
p.m.<br />
• Bar Dogs<br />
Quade’s Store (36786 Bushwood Wharf<br />
Road, Bushwood Wharf) - 8 to 11 p.m.<br />
• Smoke Creek Rounders<br />
Ruddy Duck Brewery (13200 Dowell<br />
Road, Dowell) - 8 p.m.<br />
• The Swagg<br />
Toot’s Bar (23971 Mervell Dean Rd.,<br />
Hollywood) – 8:30 p.m.<br />
• Absinthe<br />
Gilligan’s Pier (11535 Popes Creek Rd.,<br />
Newburg) – 9:30 p.m.<br />
• Victoria Saunders<br />
66 Beans Coffee Lounge (29948 Three<br />
Notch Rd., Charlotte Hall) 7 p.m.<br />
• Furlough Fridays<br />
Sotterley Plantation (44300 Sotterley<br />
Lane, Hollywood) 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.<br />
Saturday, July 27<br />
• Kappa and Paul<br />
The West Lawn Inn (9200 Chesapeake<br />
Ave., North Beach) -7:30 to 10 p.m.<br />
• Bar Dogs<br />
Dennis Point Marina (46555 Dennis<br />
Point Way, Drayden) -7:30 to 10:30 p.m.<br />
• The Colliders<br />
Ruddy Duck Brewery (13200 Dowell<br />
Road, Dowell) - 8 p.m.<br />
• Downtown Tunes: The Piranhas<br />
Leonardtown Restaurants (Leonardtown<br />
square) - 6 to 9 p.m.<br />
In Entertainment<br />
• David Flood<br />
Spinnakers Restaurant (16244 Millers<br />
Wharf Rd Ridge)- 6 to 10 p.m.<br />
Sunday, July 28<br />
• Billy Breslin Songfest<br />
The Wine Cottage (16040 Woodlawn<br />
Drive Ridge, MD 20680) -1 p.m.<br />
Monday, July 29<br />
• Team Trivia<br />
DB McMillan’s (23415 Three Notch<br />
Rd., California) 6:30 p.m.<br />
• Team Trivia<br />
Ruddy Duck Brewery (13200 Dowell<br />
Road, Dowell) - 7 p.m.<br />
• Karaoke<br />
Toot’s Bar (23971 Mervell Dean Rd.,<br />
Hollywood) - 9 p.m.<br />
Tuesday, July 30<br />
• $2 Guinness Live Music<br />
DB McMillan[‘s (23415 Three Notch<br />
Rd., California) 4 p.m.<br />
• Justin Myles<br />
Ruddy Duck Brewery (13200 Dowell<br />
Road, Dowell) - 7 p.m.<br />
• Karaoke with DJ Tommy and DJ OT<br />
Hard <strong>Times</strong> Café (1120 Smallwood<br />
Drive, West Waldorf)- 7:30 p.m.<br />
• $2 Tuesday<br />
Toot’s Bar (23971 Mervell Dean Rd.,<br />
Hollywood) 11 a.m.<br />
Wednesday, July 31<br />
• Super Magic Man<br />
Ruddy Duck Brewery (13200 Dowell<br />
Road, Dowell) - 6 to 8 p.m.<br />
• Wolf’s Blues Jam<br />
Londontowne Pub (726 Londontowne<br />
Rd., Edgewater) 8 p.m.<br />
• $6 Burgers<br />
DB McMillan’s (23415 Three Notch<br />
Rd., California) 11 a.m.<br />
• Happy Hour Karaoke with DJ Tommy T<br />
Big Fish Grille (1260 Crain Hwy, Crofton)<br />
5:30 p.m.<br />
• Team Trivia<br />
Toot’s Bar (23971 Mervell Dean Rd.,<br />
Hollywood) 7 p.m.<br />
Thursday, August 1<br />
• Dave Norris<br />
DB McMillan’s (23415 Three Notch<br />
Rd., California) 6 p.m.<br />
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CLUES ACROSS<br />
1. English monk (Olde English)<br />
5. Computer music standard<br />
9. South African prime<br />
minister 1948-54<br />
10. A column of vertebrae<br />
12. Noisy kisses<br />
14. Pairing<br />
17. Taxi drivers<br />
18. Jason’s princess consort<br />
19. Amu Darya river’s old name<br />
20. Founder of Babism<br />
23. Confederate soldier<br />
24. Lubricate<br />
<strong>25</strong>. A woman of refinement<br />
27. Mister<br />
28. Make up something untrue<br />
32. Mountainous region of Morocco<br />
33. Mutual savings bank<br />
35. Where angels fear to tread<br />
42. Distance to top (abbr.)<br />
43. Roman poet<br />
44. Hebrew unit = 10 ephahs<br />
46. Tai (var. sp.)<br />
47. Bishop (abbr.)<br />
48. Tropical Asian starlings<br />
49. Performance of an action<br />
51. Animal neck hairs<br />
52. Manufacturers<br />
54. Repeat a poem aloud<br />
55. Consumers of services<br />
57. Supernatural forces<br />
58. Gulp from a bottle<br />
59. Root of taro plant<br />
CLUES DOWN<br />
1. Fronts opposite<br />
2. Am. moose<br />
3. Cony<br />
4. Article<br />
5. Manuscript (abbr.)<br />
6. Inches per minute (abbr.)<br />
7. Circle width (abbr.)<br />
8. Entangle<br />
9. Wet or dry eye degeneration<br />
11. Best duck for down<br />
12. Chase away<br />
13. Saying or motto<br />
15. Bird beak<br />
16. 4th US state<br />
20. Cry made by sheep<br />
21. General’s assistant (abbr.)<br />
22. Ball striking club<br />
<strong>25</strong>. Parkinson’s<br />
spokesperson’s initials<br />
26. 12th Greek letter<br />
29. A bang-up quality<br />
30. Unidentified flying object<br />
31. Root mean square (abbr.)<br />
34. Small swimsuits<br />
36. Sacred Hindu syllable<br />
37. Workplace for<br />
scientific research<br />
38. Schenectady <strong>County</strong> Airport<br />
39. Fabric with a corded surface<br />
40. Biblical Sumerian city<br />
41. Composition for nine<br />
42. 3 line Japanese verse<br />
45. Tear down<br />
46. Arrived extinct<br />
48. Former Portuguese seaport<br />
in China<br />
49. 1/10 meter (abbr.)<br />
50. Increased in size<br />
51. Sewing repair of a garment<br />
53. ___ Lanka: island country<br />
54. Radioactivity unit<br />
56. Hollywood’s Lone Wolf initials<br />
57. Of I<br />
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39 Thursday, July <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2013</strong><br />
The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Wanderings<br />
of an<br />
By Shelby Oppermann<br />
Contributing Writer<br />
Aimless<br />
Since I’ve been a little rough on my body lately,<br />
and it seems to be out to get me too, I’ve had the opportunity<br />
to see some neat programs on TV that I don’t<br />
normally get to see. The Public TV stations: WETA,<br />
MPT, and the BBC stations seem to be the most fun<br />
for me right now. A few months ago, I was so excited<br />
to see “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane” a 1962 suspense<br />
movie starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.<br />
I was in such admiration how two huge stars could do<br />
a movie which hit so close to the bone. They were both<br />
playing aging actresses who lived their lives through<br />
their past greatness. All their flaws were out for the<br />
world to see. If that movie were made today, they<br />
would have both probably had a life-style lift and lots<br />
of injections – which is anyone’s or their right. But I<br />
don’t think the movie would have been as effective. As<br />
I read about the history of the movie on-line I found all<br />
sorts of rumors that the two actresses did not get along<br />
that well. Who will ever know for sure?<br />
“What Ever Happened to Baby Jane”, along with<br />
“Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte” The Shuttered Room”,<br />
“The Bad Seed”, and “The Innocents” were the horror<br />
stories I remember of my childhood. They were definitely<br />
nothing like the scary computer generated movies<br />
of today. Now there seems to be no end to the many<br />
ways a person can be murdered. And there is no end to<br />
the very bloody, graphic methods shown. I guess I like<br />
the movies of suspense more than horror. Who could<br />
beat Alfred Hitchcock for spiraling levels of anxiety<br />
and suspense?<br />
Now, my Mother on the other hand went for gore.<br />
She said, “The more blood the better.” I know we went<br />
to see “The Night of the Living Dead” at least three<br />
times. My Mother used to try to keep me awake to see<br />
those kinds of movies at home, but I couldn’t make it to<br />
the end of any of them. And if I was able to stay awake,<br />
I would hide behind my Father’s recliner in the living<br />
room, peeking out occasionally.<br />
Mainly, I love watching the British mysteries.<br />
They do get quite graphic at times, but there is so much<br />
to figure out. I can watch Inspector Morse, Inspector<br />
Lewis, and Midsomer Murders over and over, and get<br />
some new bit of information every viewing. The most<br />
fun of watching the British mysteries is trying to figure<br />
out what they are talking about. There are so many<br />
dialects from all over the United Kingdom – just like<br />
the regional dialects here in the United States. Sometimes<br />
I can only follow along only by watching; though<br />
over all these years of watching and listening to British<br />
mystery audiobooks, I have pretty much figured out<br />
the differing terminologies and dialects.<br />
I wonder if the British have trouble following our<br />
shows too? Maybe, one day, when I have nothing to do<br />
– I will compile a list of words and phrases which could<br />
be printed out to decipher the language...but that might<br />
take the fun out of watching. Never mind, I’d rather be<br />
in…suspense.<br />
To each new day’s adventure,<br />
Shelby<br />
Mind<br />
“Summer<br />
Fun in<br />
St. Mary’s”<br />
Please send your comments or ideas to: shelbys.wanderings@yahoo.com<br />
or find me on facebook: Shelby<br />
Oppermann<br />
Born to Rule Our Hearts<br />
Laura Joyce<br />
Contributing Writer<br />
It seems like all we’ve talked about<br />
for weeks, maybe even months. When will<br />
you arrive? We know you’re not really our<br />
baby, but we all feel a little bit of ownership<br />
of those nine long months: we started<br />
out with sympathy during the early bouts of<br />
morning sickness, and moved on to celebrating<br />
those first fluttering movements and the<br />
sight of your mother’s growing belly. Then,<br />
of course, when it was finally time, we exchanged<br />
phone calls and text messages to alert each other to every<br />
rumor of progress, every sign that you were well and truly<br />
on your way. Maybe it seems odd, since you’re their baby, not<br />
ours, that a few of us got teary-eyed when you finally arrived.<br />
How could we not, though, seeing that exquisite little round face,<br />
those impossibly tiny fingers and toes, all the perfect features?<br />
You’re a lucky baby, no doubt about that. There’s your<br />
birthright, for starters, being born to a prince of a father and a<br />
mother who may not have been born into royalty but is every<br />
bit as rare: down to earth, lovely, warm-hearted, and kind to the<br />
core. Then there’s your kingdom: when you look at the Earth’s<br />
surface, and all the places you could have landed as a baby, you<br />
really hit the jackpot.<br />
On leaving the hospital after your birth, you took up residence<br />
in a home filled with a castle’s worth of love, accompanied<br />
by two hands-on parents who wouldn’t dream of foisting<br />
off diaper duty and midnight feedings onto a succession of<br />
nannies. Your parents will make sure that there are plenty of<br />
“I love you’s” and big, generous bear hugs and kisses, the kind<br />
of unrestrained affection that helps a child grow into a loving<br />
adult. It’s obvious just from seeing them in action that there will<br />
also be rules and structure, but without the rigidity that creates<br />
an inflexible and uptight adult. By blending spontaneity with<br />
Is there more to that<br />
“gut” feeling?<br />
By Debra Meszaros CSN<br />
www.MXSportsNutrition.com<br />
responsibility, laughter with lessons, giving with taking, and<br />
by nurturing awareness that many have less, and gratitude for<br />
the blessings you’ve been given, your parents will raise you to<br />
have a common touch. Your reign will reflect your upbringing,<br />
and all of us who admire and respect your parents have the very<br />
highest of hopes.<br />
Welcome to the world, Princess Ella Grace! (You<br />
thought I was welcoming the royal baby? I’m very happy for<br />
William and Kate, of course—any baby is cause for joy, after<br />
all—but I can’t see spending 500 words on them when the beautiful<br />
Ella entered the world right here, just a handful of days ago,<br />
in this wonderful part of the world where steamed crabs and<br />
stuffed ham win out over a pint and a packet of crisps).<br />
So again, let me say it: welcome to the world, Ella<br />
Grace. You have the most extraordinary good fortune! You were<br />
born in America, where it is freedom, not riches or royal blood,<br />
that makes this the land of opportunity. You were born to parents<br />
who will do what good parents everywhere do, loving you<br />
and sacrificing for you and giving you every advantage, except<br />
perhaps a title (you’re on your own for that one, but who knows?<br />
There may be a single prince looking for his queen-to-be in <strong>25</strong><br />
or 30 years). And, as if your birthplace and parents aren’t riches<br />
enough, you were born healthy, and there is no crown, no castle<br />
that can top that.<br />
One more thing, though. You’ve also inherited a lifetime of<br />
loyal subjects: grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins, all of<br />
the friends who love your parents. You don’t ever need to worry<br />
about pretenders to your throne, or troublesome bands of errant<br />
knights. Your subjects have your back. We’re are all standing<br />
by, poised like sentries at the gates to your kingdom, ready to<br />
protect you as you grow into your reign.<br />
I love hearing from you; feel free to contact me at<br />
thewordtech@md.metrocast.net if you have comments or questions<br />
about the column.<br />
Does the physical health of your “gut”<br />
influence your mental and emotional health?<br />
Is there more to the old saying “I’ve got<br />
a gut feeling”?<br />
The answers may lie in the “gut-brain”<br />
connection.<br />
More and more of the information surfacing<br />
through recent studies are proving that<br />
there is much more to the health status of your<br />
“gut” then previously thought. Mainstream<br />
medicine is finally accepting and supporting<br />
the link between the probiotics (beneficial bacteria) and overall<br />
health. Probiotics are known for their immune and digestive<br />
support but we are now realizing that they mean much more, that<br />
they indeed play a role in the gut-brain connection.<br />
The Vagus nerve is the connection, the highway between<br />
your gut and your brain. Not only information travels this path,<br />
so do beneficial and “bad” bacteria. The proper balance of beneficial<br />
and bad bacteria in your gut affects physical, mental, and<br />
emotional aspects of health via this pathway. When a 85/15 ratio<br />
of beneficial to bad bacteria is maintained, the foundation for<br />
good health is set. When this ratio becomes unbalanced (when<br />
“bad” is greater than 15%) the bad bacteria (Candida) then travels<br />
systemically…often to the brain. One of proper functions of<br />
Candida (of the 15% ratio) is to collect heavy metals, to keep<br />
them from your organs; but if candida is in areas where it does<br />
not belong, it will collect or transport metals wherever it resides.<br />
Cognition can be greatly affected by the misplaced Candida as it<br />
clogs cellular function. Mental health conditions like ADD and<br />
ADHD often have a systemic Candida situation contributing to<br />
the condition.<br />
Another interesting discovery is the influence of beneficial<br />
bacteria in respect to anxiety and depression. It appears that beneficial<br />
bacteria is connected with the function of the insular cortex<br />
of the brain, your emotion and sensation center. Practicing a<br />
diet that is focused on high vegetable and fiber content supports<br />
beneficial bacteria. A diet high in carbohydrates and processed<br />
fats negatively affects beneficial bacteria, supporting Candida<br />
instead. In particular Lactobacillus rhamnosus, a beneficial bacteria<br />
strain, is associated with GABA levels, a neurotransmitter<br />
involved in stress management and controlling anxiety and<br />
depression.<br />
Neurons reside in both your brain and your gut, neurons<br />
that produce neurotransmitters like serotonin. Serotonin is involved<br />
in mood control, depression, and aggression. The highest<br />
concentration of serotonin is in your intestines, not your brain.<br />
So the health of your gut is directly associated with serotonin<br />
production. This may be one of the reasons antidepressants are<br />
often ineffective, because they only control serotonin in the<br />
brain, with no effect on the gut.<br />
Like many other aspects of health, your diet can have a<br />
huge influence. Eliminating sugar, especially fructose, artificial<br />
sweeteners, especially aspartame, wheat, chlorine, fluoride,<br />
and genetically engineered foods can help the body maintain<br />
mental and emotional balance. Optimizing your gut health with<br />
fermented, unpasteurized foods containing beneficial bacteria<br />
without sugars is an ultimate way to reseed your gut with beneficial<br />
bacteria. If fermented vegetables, Lassi, Natto, or Kefir is<br />
just not your thing, then there’s always the option of supplementing<br />
with a good quality, multi-strain, probiotic.<br />
©<strong>2013</strong> Debra Meszaros MXSportsNutrition.com. All rights reserved;<br />
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read through the diet and lifestyle information, you must know that everything<br />
within it is for informational purposes only and is not intended as a<br />
substitute for advice from your physician or other health care professional.<br />
I am making no attempt to prescribe any medical treatment. You should<br />
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professional before starting any diet, exercise or supplementation<br />
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