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Thursday, June <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
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Archaeologists<br />
Unearth Original<br />
Newtowne Chapel<br />
See Page 6<br />
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Diversification in St. Mary’s<br />
See Page 10<br />
One Dismissed,<br />
One Resigned From<br />
School System<br />
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What’s Inside<br />
The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Thursday, June <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong>13 2<br />
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450 class leader Ryan Villopoto is coming<br />
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“People are jumping ship,<br />
and it causes us great concern<br />
to be able to equalize that.”<br />
–Superintendent Michael Martirano on school employees.<br />
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The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Thursday, June <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong>13 4<br />
Federal Judge, College Trustee Dies<br />
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By Guy Leonard<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, a retired<br />
federal jurist who handed down a landmark ruling<br />
against the Microsoft Corporation died Saturday.<br />
He was 76.<br />
Jackson, who lived in Compton, was also a<br />
member of the St. Mary’s College of <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
Board of Trustees.<br />
Glen Ives, a fellow trustee, said Jackson’s<br />
service on the board would be missed as he had<br />
led several committees tasked with its business<br />
over the years.<br />
“He was just a gentleman in every sense of<br />
the word,” Ives said. “He was really dedicated to<br />
the college and to the community.<br />
“He took it very seriously.”<br />
Jackson’s ruling against Microsoft for violating<br />
anti-trust statues came in <strong>20</strong>00 and was<br />
hailed as one of the biggest anti-trust cases in<br />
U.S. history.<br />
Jackson ruled that Microsoft acted as a monopoly<br />
in the marketplace after an 18-month trial<br />
in U.S. District Court and said the corporation<br />
should also be broken up.<br />
A federal appeals court overturned Jackson’s<br />
decision to have the company split but retained<br />
his ruling that Microsoft acted as a monopoly.<br />
They chastised Jackson personally, though,<br />
for behavior during the trial that pushed the envelope<br />
of partiality against the software giant’s case<br />
and also for holding numerous furtive interviews<br />
with the media while the case was being litigated.<br />
“We vacate the final judgment on remedies,<br />
because the trial judge engaged in impermissible<br />
ex-parte contacts by holding secret interviews<br />
with members of the media and made numerous<br />
offensive comments about Microsoft officials in<br />
public statements outside of the courtroom, giving<br />
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actual bias, we hold that the actions of the trial<br />
judge seriously tainted the proceedings before the<br />
District Court and called into question the integrity<br />
of the judicial process.”<br />
The court also ruled that Jackson’s violations<br />
of judicial ethical standards “were deliberate,<br />
repeated, egregious and flagrant.”<br />
The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong> interviewed Jackson<br />
more than a year before his death where he recounted<br />
a 22-year career on the bench.<br />
He remembered many drug and gang related<br />
cases during his tenure as well as the case<br />
against Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry<br />
that eventually led to his imprisonment on drug<br />
charges.<br />
“I had a lot of memorable cases, but it is hard<br />
to pick out a favorite. As a judge we aren’t supposed<br />
to develop an emotional attachment,” Jackson<br />
had said.<br />
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COUNTY<br />
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Thursday, June <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong>13 6<br />
Archaeologists<br />
Unearth Original<br />
Newtowne Chapel<br />
By Guy Leonard<br />
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Archaeologists and<br />
volunteers from around the<br />
state converged on Newtowne<br />
Neck this week.<br />
They have finally found the<br />
exact site of the chapel that<br />
existed there in 1662.<br />
Scott Lawrence, one of<br />
the chief archaeologists with<br />
the Archaeological Society<br />
of <strong>Maryland</strong> (ASM) said the<br />
major discovery was of a<br />
posthole in the cemetery of<br />
St. Francis Xavier church.<br />
This posthole is positive<br />
proof that this was the<br />
exact site of the Newtowne<br />
Chapel, one of the oldest<br />
original Catholic chapels in<br />
the United States.<br />
The latest find culminates two-and-ahalf<br />
years of research and excavation of the<br />
site, about one-third of a mile from St. Francis<br />
Xavier.<br />
“Last year I could’ve told you where it<br />
was within <strong>20</strong> feet, now I can tell you it’s<br />
here,” Lawrence told The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong>.<br />
“It’s one of the first Catholic 17th century<br />
chapels excavated in <strong>Maryland</strong>.”<br />
The 1662 site was in use as a chapel<br />
with land used for burials until 1704 when<br />
a power shift in the <strong>Maryland</strong> colony led to<br />
a ban in the public practice of Catholicism.<br />
The chapel was dismantled for decades but<br />
St. Francis Xavier church was built to replace<br />
it in 1731 when regulations against<br />
Catholics were not so stringently enforced.<br />
Scott Lawrence, of St. Mary’s City, points to the exact spot<br />
where archaeologists found one of the original post holes for<br />
the Catholic chapel built in 1662 in Newtowne Neck, making<br />
it one of the first in <strong>Maryland</strong> and the nation.<br />
Photos By Guy Leonard<br />
Jeanne Marsh, right and Teddi Silver, far right, clean and scrub artifacts<br />
excavated from the dig at Newtowne Neck where archaeologists<br />
say they have found the original site of the 1662 Catholic chapel.<br />
Fr. Brian Sanderfoot, church priest at St.<br />
Francis Xavier, said the discovery helped parishioners,<br />
many whose families have worshipped<br />
there for centuries, have a greater<br />
connection to their history.<br />
It’s a fantastic discovery for us here at<br />
St. Francis Xavier,” Sanderfoot said. “Now<br />
we can be confident about where we’ve<br />
been on this neck for 350 years as Catholic<br />
people.”<br />
At the cemetery where the dig team<br />
found the posthole, Sanderfoot said the location<br />
of the find matches the description of the<br />
land as recorded in the original deed signed<br />
by the landowner William Breton.<br />
Breton donated the land to the community,<br />
a copy of the original deed stated.<br />
The deed acted like a map with which<br />
the archaeologists could confirm<br />
the original chapel’s location.<br />
Jim Gibb, another archaeologist<br />
on site based in Annapolis, said<br />
the Newtowne Chapel was unique<br />
in that it was not constructed by the<br />
Society of Jesus or any other arm<br />
of the Catholic Church, but by the<br />
community themselves.<br />
The original deed stated as<br />
much.<br />
“That’s what makes it important,”<br />
Gibb said. “This really was<br />
the hub of the community.”<br />
In their excavation of the old<br />
chapel the group has also found<br />
numerous other artifacts including<br />
nails and shards of pottery and<br />
even unmarked graves interspersed<br />
among those that are marked.<br />
The pottery shards were found<br />
at a site just behind the original<br />
chapel, Lawrence said, leading the<br />
team to believe, though not conclusively,<br />
that it was the site of the parish<br />
priest’s home in the 17th century.<br />
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COUNTY<br />
NEWS<br />
By Alex Panos<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Commissioners Postpone<br />
School Budget Approval<br />
Though the commissioners approved<br />
the county budget late last month, which<br />
includes $89.9 million of local monies<br />
for the $189.2 million school budget, St.<br />
Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Public Schools will have to<br />
wait another week for the county commissioners<br />
to approve their budget.<br />
Superintendent Michael Martirano<br />
noted the school system met every deadline<br />
and marker requested of them, but the<br />
commissioners are still not comfortable<br />
that they have had enough time to review<br />
the numbers.<br />
Martirano presented the budget for<br />
approval last Friday, and he said he had to<br />
wait until coming to an agreement with the<br />
teacher’s unions before going public with<br />
the numbers.<br />
Commissioner President Francis<br />
“Jack” Russell and Commissioner Larry<br />
Jarboe were ready to move forward with<br />
the budget the school system presented,<br />
but commissioners Todd Morgan, Cynthia<br />
Jones and Dan Morris voted to wait.<br />
Morris was out of town last weekend,<br />
Jones never received the email due to computer<br />
problems and Morgan, who said he<br />
was “sort of dismayed” with such short<br />
notice, wanted more time to crunch the<br />
numbers.<br />
“Maybe the numbers are right, I don’t<br />
know,” Morgan said.<br />
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numbers were reported to the commissioners<br />
as soon as possible, he hopes in the<br />
future for more communication during the<br />
negotiations so they have an idea of what<br />
to expect.<br />
“I just don’t want to make a rash decision,”<br />
concluded Morris.<br />
Martirano said the top priority in his<br />
budget was to provide higher salaries for<br />
teachers, and to create a more competitive<br />
salary scale in St. Mary’s that was “way<br />
off” regional and state levels.<br />
Nearly 85 percent of the entire school<br />
budget goes to employee salaries, Martirano<br />
said, adding “In our business, quality<br />
matters.”<br />
He continued, employees need to be<br />
compensated for the increasing demands<br />
on them through reforms and teacher<br />
evaluations.<br />
“People are jumping ship,” Martirano<br />
said, “and it causes us great concern to be<br />
able to equalize that.”<br />
He also expects position changes, renaming<br />
and shuffling in the near future,<br />
and the new agreements with the unions<br />
will help prepare the staff for the changes.<br />
“Our school system is not just primed<br />
for today, but has an eye on the future,”<br />
Martirano said.<br />
Jones said she is concerned with the<br />
reduction of money being spent in the<br />
classroom, and would like the Board of<br />
Education not to continue taking money<br />
out of providing textbooks and educational<br />
materials.<br />
Martirano said the decrease in classroom<br />
spending is due to the shift to the<br />
“21st century classroom,” and utilizing<br />
more technology on a daily basis.<br />
“Textbooks are becoming obsolete,”<br />
he said.<br />
The school budget will be revisited<br />
during the commissioners meeting on<br />
Tuesday.<br />
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Thursday, June <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong>13 8<br />
Leadership <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
Celebrates Class Of <strong>20</strong>13<br />
Fifth Group Graduates Prestigious Regional<br />
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Guest speaker and CEO of The Strathmore, Eliot Pfanstiehl (left), and<br />
LSM Executive Director Karen Holcomb greet Class of <strong>20</strong>13 graduate<br />
Bob Schaller (right) during a graduation ceremony held last month.<br />
Many, throughout<br />
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Gladys Jones<br />
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their experience and is there<br />
at commencement to ask<br />
them ‘What now?’, encouraging<br />
them to apply their<br />
leadership skills in their<br />
communities in a tangible<br />
way. This year, he said, the<br />
class members Pfanstiehl put<br />
on the spot during the ceremony<br />
were able to provide<br />
thoughtful and thorough<br />
answers.<br />
Bert Johnston, current<br />
president of LSM, said, “Eliot<br />
is just a remarkable fellow<br />
and a natural leader, able<br />
to get into your head in the<br />
most wonderful way.”<br />
Scassero and Johnston<br />
shared the sentiment that<br />
Pfanstiehl’s connection to<br />
LSM is of great benefit for<br />
both the program itself and<br />
the participants who are able<br />
to learn from him.<br />
Members of the Class of<br />
<strong>20</strong>13 shared some thoughts<br />
about completing the regional<br />
leadership program<br />
during the graduation ceremony,<br />
many acknowledging<br />
the friendships formed<br />
and memories made along<br />
the way.<br />
“I have been enlightened,<br />
educated and, at times,<br />
entertained. Now that I have<br />
experienced so much during<br />
this journey, I am forced<br />
out of my ‘bubble’ and compelled<br />
to do more within my<br />
community,” shared Martina<br />
Arnold, Development Director<br />
at the College of <strong>Southern</strong><br />
<strong>Maryland</strong>.<br />
CPA and partner with<br />
Askey, Askey & Associates<br />
Glenn Frank stated, “The<br />
program opened my eyes to<br />
the prevailing cooperative<br />
spirit that strives to bring<br />
balance and reinforcement<br />
to our community’s values.”<br />
“I am always amazed<br />
to find out how much I still<br />
don't know about this region<br />
that has been my professional<br />
and personal home for<br />
over 17 years,” said Director<br />
of Health Connections<br />
at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital<br />
Lori Werrell. “I learned<br />
something in every session<br />
that I can use in my work<br />
and gained a network of colleagues<br />
I hope to continue to<br />
be in contact with long after<br />
this experience is over.”<br />
“LSM has equipped me<br />
with an abundance of knowledge,<br />
long lasting friendships,<br />
and a long list of things<br />
that I want to do to give back<br />
to the community,” stated<br />
Kristina Moore, Director of<br />
Human Resources for The<br />
Arc of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong>.<br />
“I will truly be thankful<br />
for all the laughs, all the<br />
tears, all the experiences,<br />
and the footprints made on<br />
my heart,” she added.<br />
Several others commented<br />
on the group’s many<br />
shared eye-opening experiences<br />
and their newly-sparked<br />
personal interests in volunteering<br />
and getting more involved<br />
in beneficial community<br />
and regional projects.<br />
Scassero stated, “I continue<br />
to be impressed by the<br />
great participants we find<br />
year after year.”<br />
“For the fifth year,<br />
the Leadership <strong>Southern</strong><br />
<strong>Maryland</strong> program has<br />
brought together a group<br />
of individuals from various<br />
educational and professional<br />
backgrounds and created a<br />
strong, connected network<br />
of leaders who will apply<br />
the leadership skills they’ve<br />
gained in dynamic ways<br />
that will benefit both their<br />
respective communities and<br />
the region as a whole,” said<br />
LSM’s Executive Director<br />
Karen Holcomb.<br />
Leadership <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
is an independent, educational<br />
leadership development<br />
organization designed to broaden<br />
the knowledge base of mid to senior<br />
level public and private sector<br />
executives about the critical<br />
issues, challenges, and opportunities<br />
facing the region. Leadership<br />
<strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong> is a notfor-profit<br />
organization.
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Thursday, June <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong>13 10<br />
Business Startups Could Help Innovation,<br />
Diversification in St. Mary’s<br />
By Guy Leonard<br />
Staff Writer<br />
More than half a dozen technology<br />
business startups, many with a<br />
genesis at the University of <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
in College Park, converged<br />
at Smartronix in Hollywood on<br />
Wednesday in search of knowledge<br />
on how to find new markets in the<br />
private sector and with the military<br />
acquisition agencies like Naval Air<br />
Systems Command (NAVAIR).<br />
But community business leaders<br />
and defense industry insiders<br />
there at the meeting said these startups<br />
had the talent to help make both<br />
consumer and defense related products<br />
that could help diversify the local<br />
economy.<br />
Economic diversification for<br />
the first time in decades has received<br />
the political and financial<br />
support of local elected leaders who<br />
now see that dependence on the federal<br />
government’s military research,<br />
testing and acquisition dollars may<br />
no longer be enough to prop up the<br />
county’s long-lived prosperity.<br />
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Staff Writer<br />
community can help them,” said<br />
Matt Scassero, the point man for<br />
a consortium looking to make St.<br />
Mary’s <strong>County</strong> a hub for unmanned<br />
aviation research and development.<br />
“What we’re trying to do here is<br />
change the economy.”<br />
Ben Solomon, one of the founders<br />
of Hyperion Technologies that<br />
specializes in robotics said that local<br />
defense industry specialists had<br />
just as much to learn from startups<br />
as the startups had to learn from<br />
them about finding out how to deal<br />
with government.<br />
“Our main goal is dialogue and<br />
mutual learning,” Solomon said.<br />
“We need more startups in the environmental<br />
ecosystems.”<br />
“We want them selling to the<br />
public as well as to the defense<br />
industry.”<br />
NAVAIR representatives were<br />
just as interested in learning about<br />
new technologies and innovative<br />
business strategies, Solomon said.<br />
“They’re [startups] used to getting<br />
products to market with limited<br />
resources,” Solomon said. “Startups<br />
have the experience at that and<br />
know how to be efficient.”<br />
Some of the ideas at the gathering<br />
included mass notification<br />
technology for natural disasters or<br />
threats to the public, trauma and<br />
wound sealers like foams and putties<br />
for battlefield bleeding cases<br />
and laser identification of chemical<br />
compounds taken on a paper swab<br />
in the field without the need for<br />
lengthy lab analysis.<br />
Glenn Colby, of L-3 Communications<br />
based in Salt Lake City,<br />
Utah, told entrepreneurs and industry<br />
insiders alike that real innovation<br />
from startups took a lot of<br />
collaboration and openness when it<br />
came to sharing ideas, coupled with<br />
the agility to pivot from ideas that<br />
did not work well to concepts that<br />
did.<br />
This nimble mode of thinking<br />
and doing business would inevitably<br />
lead to culture clashes with the<br />
defense industry with its layers of<br />
process and accountability.<br />
“What makes innovation work<br />
is degrees of freedom,” Colby said.<br />
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Third Eye Comics Moves to St. Mary’s<br />
Seeking a larger customer base and more room, Third Eye Comics moved from Prince<br />
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Opening day on June 15 was busy, with 75 customers in line before they opened their<br />
doors and a line at least <strong>20</strong> deep at the register until 3 p.m.<br />
“It was awesome,” said owner Steve Anderson.<br />
The California location is more centrally located for customers south of Prince Fredrick<br />
and in St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong>. Customers north of Prince Frederick tend to go to Third Eye<br />
Comic’s Annapolis location, Anderson said.<br />
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Thursday, June <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong>13 12<br />
One Dismissed, One Resigned<br />
From School System<br />
By Guy Leonard<br />
Staff Writer<br />
An assistant principal at Great Mills<br />
High School was terminated earlier this<br />
month, school officials said, after an internal<br />
investigation alleged that he had inappropriate<br />
relations with students while just<br />
last week a teacher at the James A. Forrest<br />
Technical Center in Leonardtown resigned<br />
over alleged inappropriate comments he<br />
made about certain students.<br />
Christopher Carden had served at the<br />
high school for about six years before he<br />
was terminated, said Gregory Nourse, assistant<br />
superintendent for finance and human<br />
resources, before the school system terminated<br />
his employment.<br />
“He was not having a physical or sexual<br />
relationship with a minor,” Nourse said<br />
of the school system’s investigation into<br />
Carden’s conduct.<br />
Initially investigators with the St.<br />
Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Sheriff’s Office were<br />
brought in on the investigation, Nourse said,<br />
but they found no evidence of any crimes.<br />
Sheriff Timothy K. Cameron confirmed<br />
that agency investigators had found<br />
no evidence of criminal wrongdoing and<br />
that the case was closed.<br />
“There was no crime committed,”<br />
Cameron said.<br />
Carden had the right to appeal his dismissal<br />
to the school board, Nourse said, but<br />
he did not file an appeal.<br />
Attempts to contact Carden for comment<br />
on this story were unsuccessful.<br />
Also, Nourse said that Ernest Laurel, a<br />
technical instructor with the school system,<br />
resigned June 14 over allegations that he had<br />
made inappropriate comments about some<br />
students.<br />
Laurel had been hired by the school<br />
system back in <strong>20</strong>06, school system human<br />
resource records showed.<br />
Attempts to contact Laurel for comment<br />
were unsuccessful.<br />
Nourse said this school year had been<br />
an unusual one because of the dismissals or<br />
resignations of several teachers, including<br />
Arturo Vicente Leon III, a middle school<br />
teacher charged with soliciting sex from a<br />
minor on-line.<br />
“This has been a red letter year for<br />
people not exercising the best judgment,”<br />
Nourse said, adding that all three men had<br />
passed pre-employment background checks<br />
before being hired.<br />
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Teacher Charged with<br />
Soliciting Minor Resigns<br />
By Guy Leonard<br />
Staff Writer<br />
A teacher accused of soliciting sex<br />
from a minor child over nearly a year’s<br />
time has resigned his position with the<br />
St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Public Schools system,<br />
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arrested and charged June 8 with propositioning<br />
an undercover Baltimore<br />
City detective who had been posing as<br />
a 14-year-old girl on line.<br />
Leon tendered his resignation<br />
June 14, said Gregory Nourse, assistant<br />
secretary for finance and human<br />
resources.<br />
Despite his resignation, Leon will<br />
still receive four more paychecks from<br />
the system because he had served out<br />
the entirety of the school year per his<br />
contract.<br />
When Leon was confronted by<br />
Baltimore City detectives about the<br />
chat room conversations he had, he<br />
told them that he was responsible for<br />
the online missives but said he had<br />
never engaged in that behavior at<br />
school, court papers stated.<br />
Nourse said Leon had never had<br />
any complaints lodged against him<br />
Arturo Vicente Leon III<br />
from students or parents.<br />
“The only good thing [about the<br />
investigation] was it wasn’t one of our<br />
kids,” Nourse said.<br />
Leon was hired by the school system<br />
back in Oct. <strong>20</strong>06.<br />
He faces charges of soliciting sex<br />
from a minor and displaying lewd material<br />
to a minor; he was released on<br />
bond the same day after his arrest.<br />
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New College President a<br />
Troubleshooter<br />
By Guy Leonard<br />
Staff Writer<br />
In choosing a new interim<br />
president to lead St. Mary’s<br />
College of <strong>Maryland</strong> the institution’s<br />
board of trustees believes<br />
that Ian Newbould not<br />
only cherishes the liberal arts<br />
heritage of the college but also Ian Newbould<br />
has experience in dealing with its student recruiting<br />
problem.<br />
Gail Harmon, chair of the trustee board, said Newbould<br />
was able to make strong improvements at his last<br />
place of employment, University of Mary Washington<br />
in Fredericksburg, Va., especially in their admissions<br />
department.<br />
“He’s a great believer in our mission but he’s also<br />
a problem solver,” Harmon said. “He put a lot of energy<br />
into a turn around at that school.”<br />
There, he revamped the office’s policies, procedures<br />
and personnel, Harmon said.<br />
The college’s woes started earlier this summer<br />
when out going president Joseph Urgo revealed to faculty,<br />
staff and students that the incoming freshmen class<br />
would be diminished by 150 students, resulting in a $3.5<br />
million shortfall in the college’s planned $71 million<br />
budget.<br />
Since then Urgo has decided to leave the college;<br />
sources inside the institution said he was facing criticism<br />
for his decisions to replace key personnel in the<br />
college’s admissions department during his two years<br />
of leadership.<br />
Newbould said at Mary Washington he started a<br />
study that showed weaknesses in the admissions department,<br />
that it needed to be modernized and given a<br />
new management culture.<br />
There was also a shift in thinking there, he said, in<br />
emphasizing recruiting students instead of waiting for<br />
them to apply.<br />
“The study told us we needed hunters not gatherers,”<br />
Newbould said.<br />
Newbould told The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong> he was uncertain<br />
what his plans for the admissions office would be,<br />
save for filling the vacancy of the vice president for<br />
admissions.<br />
“We will be bringing somebody in to fill that vacancy”<br />
Newbould said. “There will be a change at the<br />
top.”<br />
Newbould said he would also help to address the<br />
lapses in confidence amount college staff and faculty in<br />
the aftermath of the abrupt announcement of the enrollment<br />
shorfall.<br />
“You have to work with people, make them comfortable<br />
and let them know the problems are surrounded<br />
and being taken care of.”<br />
Harmon said Newbould would start officially August<br />
1 and serve for one calendar year. She said the<br />
trustees did not expect a complete turnaround at the<br />
college but they were hopeful for strong results.<br />
“There are a lot of questions, and data he needs to<br />
analyze,” Harmon said. “I think he’ll make a substantial<br />
improvement.”<br />
Newbould has a doctoral degree in history and has<br />
<strong>20</strong> years of experience as a college president at three<br />
different institutions.<br />
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Chopticon Class<br />
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Front Row (L-R): Samantha Matthew-Collingsworth, Sonny Farren, Matthew<br />
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Chopticon teacher Donna Liverman and her government<br />
class present Leonardtown Lion George Kirby with 85 pairs of<br />
previously used eyeglasses, which were collected throughout<br />
the year. Leonardtown Lions are one of 5 Lions Clubs in St.<br />
Mary’s <strong>County</strong> that collect used eyeglasses and hearing aids for<br />
Lions Club International. Eyeglasses and hearing aids are then<br />
refurbished and sent to those in need throughout the world. All<br />
5 Lions Clubs assist local residents in need of vision examinations,<br />
hearing tests and new glasses.
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Thursday, June <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong>13 14<br />
Reva Joyce Smith Earns CSM’s Academic<br />
Achievement in Teacher Education Award<br />
Photo Courtesy of the College of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
CSM Associate Professor/Teacher Education Program<br />
Coordinator Elizabeth Settle, right, presented the<br />
<strong>20</strong>12-13 Academic Achievement in Teacher Education<br />
Award to Reva Joyce Smith, of Lexington Park. “Reva<br />
is a secondary education major with a focus in art who<br />
has demonstrated outstanding academic achievement<br />
and her commitment and dedication to teaching. She has<br />
been a substitute in the St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Public School<br />
system for the last five years where she has substituted<br />
for teachers, secretaries and assistant principals. She<br />
has worked with students in virtually every subject and<br />
every grade. During the spring semester, she also completed<br />
her teacher education practicum at the high school<br />
level and received a glowing evaluation from her mentor<br />
teacher, who commented on her professionalism and initiative<br />
in becoming an active part of the classroom and<br />
learning as much as possible while she was there. Reva<br />
already demonstrates one of the most important qualities<br />
of a good teacher, which is first, be a learner. Reva will<br />
be continuing her studies at the University of <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
College Park in the fall, where she will major in studio art<br />
and art education,” said Settle.<br />
Smith was a recipient of the Thomas J. Murray Memorial<br />
Scholarship for the <strong>20</strong>12-<strong>20</strong>13 academic year. For<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 Conservations<br />
Districts in the Chesapeake<br />
Bay watershed area for<br />
customization. If the 77<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 from your local<br />
library; Chicken Scratch in<br />
Park Hall; The Greenery<br />
in Hollywood; Good Earth<br />
Natural Food and the St.<br />
Mary’s Soil Conservation<br />
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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 />
The Critical Area<br />
Continued from last week…<br />
Approved activities in the Critical Area<br />
will likely require planting of native<br />
trees, shrubs, or herbaceous plants<br />
to offset/mitigate the impacts of the<br />
changes to the land, vegetation, and<br />
lot coverage. Because a vegetated<br />
buffer provides many benefits for<br />
water quality and habitat, an important<br />
component of the Critical Area law and<br />
State regulations is a requirement to<br />
establish native vegetation in the buffer.<br />
You must also retain existing forest<br />
vegetation and mitigate for any removal<br />
of vegetation in the Critical Area.<br />
Mitigation rates are determined by the<br />
scope of development and clearing<br />
permitted on the land. The amount<br />
of planting and planting locations are<br />
determined on a site by site basis<br />
using set criteria established in state<br />
regulations. Zoning, building and/or<br />
grading permits must be displayed on<br />
the property prior to start of any work.<br />
If you see work that you think may be<br />
a Critical Area violation, call the St.<br />
Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Department of Land Use<br />
Join your local watershed<br />
association and make a<br />
difference for Our Bay! This is the fifth in a series of articles that Mary Ann Scott (maryann.scott58@yahoo.com) has adapted from From<br />
My Backyard to Our Bay in the hopes of increasing awareness of the little booklet that could do so much to help<br />
QBH St smrwa.org<br />
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Photo from http://www.chesapeakebaysampler.com<br />
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CRITICAL AREA ISSUES<br />
• St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Dept. of Land Use<br />
and Growth Management, 301-475-<br />
4<strong>20</strong>0 ext. 1500.<br />
• <strong>Maryland</strong> Chesapeake Bay Critical<br />
Area Commission, dnr.state.md.us/<br />
criticalarea<br />
• Chesapeake Bay Foundation,<br />
410-268-8816, A Citizen’s Guide to<br />
Protecting Wetlands, http://www.cbf.<br />
org/Document.Doc?id=163<br />
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Native<br />
plant list, http://dnr.maryland.<br />
gov/criticalarea/project_review/<br />
bufferresourceguide/pdfs/section8_<br />
chesapeakenatives.pdf<br />
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No. 103
Crime &<br />
Punishment<br />
The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Thursday, June <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong>13 16<br />
Mechanicsville Woman Faces Murder Charges<br />
By Guy Leonard<br />
Staff Writer<br />
A Mechanicsville woman who<br />
allegedly shot her boyfriend while on<br />
a weekend getaway in Virginia back<br />
in April now faces murder charges<br />
after he died in the hospital from his<br />
wounds.<br />
Lillian Mae Levy, 77, was<br />
charged with the April 27 shooting<br />
of 62-year-old James Thomas while<br />
at Wilderness Presidential Resorts<br />
in Spotsylvania <strong>County</strong>, local police<br />
there said, with a small caliber<br />
handgun.<br />
Thomas, who suffered head<br />
wounds and underwent surgery to<br />
remove the bullet fragments from<br />
his skull, died May 9 after being in a<br />
coma in intensive care.<br />
Since then, William Neely, the<br />
county attorney for Spotsylvania<br />
<strong>County</strong>, has charged Levy with first<br />
degree murder.<br />
Capt. Jeffrey Pearce, Spotsylvania<br />
<strong>County</strong> sheriff’s investigator,<br />
said Levy shot Thomas in the back of<br />
the head while he was laying down<br />
inside their resort trailer after a domestic<br />
dispute.<br />
Levy is alleged to have walked<br />
out to her vehicle and removed a .22<br />
caliber revolver to commit the alleged<br />
shooting, Pearce said.<br />
He added that detectives have<br />
Former High School Teacher<br />
Pleads to Child Sex Abuse<br />
not fully ascertained what the details<br />
of the domestic dispute were.<br />
“We’re still running down those<br />
leads,” Pearce said.<br />
There was no evidence that<br />
Thomas had offered any violence<br />
to Levy, Pearce said, and there appeared<br />
to be no sign of struggle between<br />
the two in the trailer.<br />
guyleonard@countytimes.net<br />
Levy<br />
By Guy Leonard<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Lowell Johnson, accused<br />
last year of sexually<br />
abusing children given into<br />
his care over several years,<br />
accepted an Alford plea<br />
Monday that may result in<br />
his receiving a prison sentence<br />
of between 10 to 18<br />
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Johnson, who worked<br />
as a teacher at Great Mills<br />
High School up until his<br />
arrest last year on various<br />
counts, remains on bond<br />
pending his sentencing later<br />
this summer.<br />
There were five victims<br />
in all, prosecutors said,<br />
including foster children as<br />
well as children Johnson<br />
and his family had adopted.<br />
An Alford plea is not<br />
an admission of guilt by the<br />
defendant but an acknowledgement<br />
that the state<br />
would bring enough evidence<br />
to trial to convict the<br />
defendant beyond a reasonable<br />
doubt.<br />
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started their investigation<br />
July 13 last year when an investigator<br />
from Child Protective<br />
Services reported<br />
the suspected abuses, police<br />
had reported.<br />
According to charging<br />
documents filed in county<br />
District Court, one victim,<br />
who was 15 years old, said<br />
during a counseling session<br />
that Johnson, 65, abused her<br />
sexually when she was under<br />
his care.<br />
The first victim described<br />
one incident, where<br />
she was allegedly fondled<br />
repeatedly by Johnson,<br />
while she was sleeping on<br />
a pullout couch in one of<br />
the rooms of his Rosewood<br />
Drive home, court records<br />
state.<br />
The same victim said<br />
she saw Johnson in a bed<br />
with another female under<br />
his care where Johnson had<br />
his hand under her shirt.<br />
The second victim told<br />
police she had been in Johnson’s<br />
care since she was adopted<br />
at the age of 12 years<br />
old.<br />
She told police that she<br />
and Johnson had sexual intercourse<br />
several times by<br />
the time she was in the 11th<br />
and 12th grades between<br />
Johnson<br />
the age of 15 and 17 years<br />
old, charging documents<br />
stated.<br />
“I think the first step in<br />
the healing of these children<br />
is for Johnson to take responsibility,”<br />
said Assistant<br />
State’s Attorney Julie White<br />
who prosecuted the case.<br />
“And that’s what happened<br />
[Monday].”<br />
Barricade Suspect<br />
Arrested<br />
guyleonard@countytimes.net<br />
The St. Mary’s<br />
<strong>County</strong> Bureau of<br />
Criminal Investigations<br />
is an investigative<br />
team comprised<br />
of Detectives from<br />
the St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong><br />
Sheriff’s Office and<br />
the <strong>Maryland</strong> State<br />
Police, Leonardtown<br />
Barrack. The unit Maier<br />
was established on<br />
July 1, <strong>20</strong>03 and is based in Leonardtown,<br />
<strong>Maryland</strong>.<br />
On June 17 at 2:48 a.m. police units responded<br />
to a residence in Hollywood, <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
for the report of disturbance with a subject<br />
inside the residence armed with a handgun<br />
and in possession of Marijuana. Upon<br />
arrival of police units three subjects were<br />
observed attempting to barricade the garage<br />
door to prevent entry to the residence. Three<br />
persons fled the residence through another<br />
door and were detained. A fourth subject remained<br />
inside armed with a handgun and refused<br />
multiple orders to exit the residence by<br />
arriving police units. A perimeter was quickly<br />
established and nearby residents notified.<br />
St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Emergency Services<br />
Team and Critical Incident Negotiations<br />
Team were notified and responded to the<br />
scene. Numerous attempts to contact the suspect<br />
were initiated with negative results. The<br />
suspect could be seen moving about inside<br />
the residence but refused all communication<br />
attempts. The Emergency Services Team deployed<br />
a non lethal chemical agent into the<br />
residence which had no effect on the suspect.<br />
Emergency Services Team members<br />
made entry to the residence and arrested Andrew<br />
R. Maier, age 19, of California, <strong>Maryland</strong>.<br />
Maier was transported to the St. Mary’s<br />
<strong>County</strong> Detention Center, charged with Possession<br />
of an Unregistered Firearm, Possession<br />
of Unregistered Firearm by person under<br />
21 years of age, Possession of a Controlled<br />
Dangerous Substance (Marijuana), Three<br />
(3) counts Possession of CDS Paraphernalia<br />
and Malicious Destruction of Property under<br />
$500. Maier is currently awaiting an appearance<br />
before the District Court Commissioner.
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Disorderly Conduct<br />
On June 14, <strong>20</strong>13,<br />
Deputies responded to<br />
Plaza Azteca Lexington<br />
Park, <strong>Maryland</strong> for the<br />
report of a patron being<br />
disruptive and disorderly.<br />
Deputy L. Phillips<br />
made contact with Arthur<br />
Edward Lyall, 40, of<br />
Great Mills, <strong>Maryland</strong>.<br />
Lyall<br />
Investigation revealed Lyall was belligerent<br />
and became involved in an argument with<br />
another patron. After Deputies arrived, Lyall<br />
continued to be belligerent and verbally<br />
uncooperative. Lyall was arrested and<br />
charged with Disorderly Conduct.<br />
Trespass: Private<br />
Property and Fail to<br />
Obey Lawful Order<br />
On June 15, <strong>20</strong>13,<br />
Deputies responded to<br />
a residence on Sue Dr.,<br />
Lexington Park, <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
for an unwanted<br />
guest. Investigation revealed<br />
Thomas Oakley<br />
Burch 3rd, 49, no fixed<br />
address became involved<br />
Burch<br />
Crime &<br />
Punishment<br />
SHERIFF’S BLOTTER<br />
The following information is compiled directly from publicly released police reports.<br />
in a dispute with the victim, while visiting<br />
her residence. Burch was told to leave by<br />
the victim and he refused. Upon Deputies<br />
arrival, the victim advised Deputies she<br />
wanted Burch to leave and not return to the<br />
property. Burch was told to leave the residence<br />
and advised by Deputy Gaskill not to<br />
return. Burch initially complied with Deputy<br />
Gaskill however, later in the evening<br />
Deputies responded back to the residence<br />
after victim called to report Burch was<br />
back at the residence causing a disturbance.<br />
Deputy Gaskill made contact with Burch<br />
in the driveway of the victims’ residence<br />
and was arrested. Burch was charged with<br />
Trespass: Private Property and Fail to Obey<br />
a Lawful Order.<br />
Theft<br />
On June 15, <strong>20</strong>13,<br />
Deputy B. Gaskill responded<br />
to the Wal-Mart<br />
in California, <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
for a report of a shoplifter<br />
in custody. Victoria<br />
Jenise Woodland, 23,<br />
of California, <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
Woodland<br />
entered the Wal-Mart,<br />
removed various items from store shelves,<br />
walked past all points of purchase and attempted<br />
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Mart Loss Prevention and detained. Woodland<br />
was arrested and charged with theft.<br />
2nd Degree Assault<br />
On June 15, <strong>20</strong>13,<br />
Deputy P. Lance responded<br />
to a residence<br />
on Liberty St., Lexington<br />
Park, <strong>Maryland</strong> for<br />
the report of an assault.<br />
Investigation revealed<br />
Joseph Cephus Harrod<br />
2nd, 27, of Lexington<br />
Park, <strong>Maryland</strong> engaged<br />
Harrod<br />
in a dispute with the victim. The dispute<br />
escalated into a physical assault when Harrod<br />
attempted to strangle the victim, leaving<br />
visible injury to the victim. Harrod was<br />
arrested and charged with two counts of 2nd<br />
Degree Assault.<br />
Theft<br />
On June 15, <strong>20</strong>13,<br />
Deputy J. Lloyd responded<br />
to the Wal-Mart<br />
in California, <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
for a report of a shoplifter<br />
in custody. Joseph<br />
Warren Pilkerton, 67, of<br />
Pilkerton<br />
Lexington Park, <strong>Maryland</strong> entered the Wal-<br />
Mart, removed various items from store<br />
shelves, walked past all points of purchase<br />
and attempted to exit the store without paying<br />
for the items. Pilkerton was stopped by<br />
Wal-Mart Loss Prevention and detained.<br />
Pilkerton was arrested and charged with<br />
theft.<br />
Possession of a Controlled<br />
Dangerous Substance<br />
On June 16, <strong>20</strong>13,<br />
Deputy P. Lance conducted<br />
a traffic stop<br />
at the intersection of<br />
Great Mills Rd and<br />
Chancellors Run Rd,<br />
Lexington Park, <strong>Maryland</strong>.<br />
Deputy Lance<br />
made contact with<br />
the driver Alehandro<br />
J. Brown, 40, of Atlanta, Georgia and<br />
observed a white powdery substance<br />
around Browns mouth and nose. Additionally,<br />
Deputy Lance observed in<br />
plain view a small plastic bag containing<br />
suspected powder cocaine. Brown was<br />
arrested and charged with CDS Possession<br />
- Not Marijuana and CDS Possession<br />
- Paraphernalia.<br />
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The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Abortion<br />
Thursday, June <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong>13 18<br />
By Glenn Mollette<br />
Celebrating family on these summer holidays or any<br />
day is always a special day.<br />
However, all holidays are tough days for many. While<br />
millions celebrate others wonder about what might have<br />
been. Some have lost a child while others made tragic decisions<br />
to end a life.<br />
Abortion is sad and heartbreaking. I oppose abortion.<br />
I do not believe many people want to go through with<br />
an abortion. Over the years I've known many people who<br />
have looked back at an abortion with heartbreak and grief.<br />
My first wife and I had a stillborn baby. He would have<br />
been our third son. We named him Jesse Caleb. We were<br />
told just hours before the delivery was scheduled that there<br />
was no heartbeat. The baby would be delivered but he would<br />
be dead. I sat for about three hours in the delivery room and<br />
held beautiful Jesse Caleb. He looked perfect. However, the<br />
umbilical cord had gotten a kink in it, cutting off the oxygen<br />
supply and ending his life. At that time, I had never wept<br />
or grieved any harder than I did at the loss of my beautiful<br />
child. Losing Jesse made me so very grateful for my two<br />
sons Jared and Zachary. Today they are both grown men<br />
serving in our military.<br />
As I held my child I could never have dreamed of killing<br />
him prior to his birth. I do not believe anyone holding<br />
a newborn baby would decide to kill that baby. However,<br />
many have made the decision to terminate a pregnancy.<br />
Most often they are in need of counseling, emotional support,<br />
forgiveness and hope.<br />
Years earlier we lost twins. Karen was about three<br />
months pregnant at the time. Things were going wrong with<br />
the pregnancy and she was bleeding. The doctor said things<br />
were not good and a D&C was necessary. This was a decision<br />
that was made between our family and the doctor.<br />
What if someone from the county or even the Federal Government<br />
had to be consulted before the D&C took place?<br />
We were obviously miscarrying the babies.<br />
A government official could have delayed the procedure,<br />
wanted more information, said no or said yes. I do not<br />
believe the Federal Government or any government official<br />
should be involved in this process. I do not believe in abortion<br />
as a form of birth control. However, I do believe that<br />
decisions concerning pregnancies and abortions must be<br />
made between the mother, the family, and the doctor.<br />
Women and couples make decisions to abort that are<br />
later regretted with more sorrow and emotional scars. For<br />
many years I served as a pastor and heard many sorrowful<br />
stories from women who had abortions and greatly regretted<br />
them.<br />
There are cases that involve the mother's health. There<br />
are the cases that involve rape and incest. In these types of<br />
cases, decisions must be made between the mother, the family,<br />
physician and counselor.<br />
Glenn Mollette is the author of American Issues: Every<br />
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Keystone XL Doesn’t Need DC Cops<br />
By Robert L. Bradley Jr.<br />
If the President is serious about his promise<br />
to "grow the middle class," he needs to approve the<br />
Keystone XL pipeline.<br />
Last year, the administration blocked construction<br />
of the project, which would carry<br />
830,000 barrels of crude oil from Canadian shale<br />
formations to American refineries in the Gulf<br />
Coast.<br />
The White House recently announced it<br />
would not reconsider Keystone approval for another<br />
six months. However, newly appointed Secretary<br />
of State John Kerry has hinted that officials<br />
may decide sooner.<br />
Keystone XL is a clear win-win for consumers<br />
and producers. Construction and operation<br />
of the pipeline would create an estimated <strong>20</strong>,000<br />
jobs.<br />
U.S. refineries would produce more gasoline,<br />
diesel fuel, and other petroleum products that are<br />
part of countless consumer products. And increasing<br />
the southward flow of crude oil would help<br />
cement energy relations with Canada and reduce<br />
imports from less reliable countries.<br />
Keystone XL would help move this country<br />
toward less dependence on Middle East oil -- a<br />
stated goal of U.S. policy since the 1973 Arab Embargo<br />
forty years ago.<br />
A chief criticism of the pipeline is that it<br />
would markedly contribute to global climate<br />
change.<br />
The Sierra Club even condones "civil disobedience"<br />
-- that is, breaking the law -- to stop the<br />
project. Indeed, the club's president recently joined<br />
a gaggle of C- and D-list celebrities at a Keystone<br />
protest where invite-only participants zip-tied<br />
themselves to the gates of the White House.<br />
But the truth is that burning all of the pipeline's<br />
deliveries will have no measurable effect on<br />
global climate according to official climate models.<br />
Critics also claim the pipeline would damage<br />
a water aquifer beneath Nebraska. But Keystone's<br />
planned pathway has been specifically rerouted<br />
to avoid such an outcome. And the pipeline has<br />
been fully approved by the relevant Nebraskan<br />
authorities.<br />
The Administration's decision not to approve<br />
Keystone was clearly a deep bow to radical environmentalists.<br />
Fully 53 Senators from both parties<br />
are urging the White House to approve the project.<br />
Ironically, blocking the pipeline promises to<br />
increase, not decrease, global carbon emissions. If<br />
Canada cannot sell its oil to the United States, it<br />
will market to China. And China is not subject to<br />
the same restrictions on energy use and emissions<br />
as facilities here in the United States. China's refineries<br />
generate significantly higher volumes of<br />
emissions than American ones.<br />
Blocking Keystone XL is an affront to America's<br />
energy consumers and energy producers.<br />
That insult would, unfortunately, add to Obama's<br />
war on coal, push to federalize hydraulic fracturing,<br />
and wasted "green energy" handouts for the<br />
wind, solar, ethanol, and electric car industries.<br />
The Obama Administration should stand up<br />
to those special-interest groups more concerned<br />
with fundraising than good global citizenship.<br />
America's middle class should truly come first<br />
with a permit to build.<br />
Robert L. Bradley Jr. is CEO of the Institute<br />
for Energy Research and author, most recently, of<br />
Edison to Enron: Energy Markets and Political<br />
Strategies (John Wiley & Sons). He blogs at www.<br />
masterresource.org.<br />
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STORY<br />
Local Riders Ready for Pro Showing<br />
Eric McKay<br />
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Age: 27<br />
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Age <strong>20</strong><br />
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By Alex Panos<br />
Staff Writer<br />
<strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong> has a number<br />
of motocross riders returning home<br />
this weekend to race as professionals<br />
in the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross<br />
Championship.<br />
The race will be held at<br />
Budd’s Creek Motocross Park in<br />
Mechanicsville.<br />
Brandon Short, media manager<br />
for Next Level Sports, said every track<br />
on the circuit is unique because the terrain<br />
varies based on the region and the<br />
soil is dependent on the climate of the<br />
area.<br />
He said the elevation change at<br />
Budd’s Creek allows the audience to<br />
get a great view of the track from wherever<br />
they sit.<br />
Budd’s Creek MX Park has a<br />
strong legacy, and has hosted motocross<br />
events for over four decades.<br />
It became part of the Lucas Oil<br />
Pro Motocross Championship in 1989.<br />
According to a press release, the<br />
track has fluid layout built into the hills<br />
of the area, and features a soil mix of<br />
sand and clay that creates a challenging<br />
track.<br />
“Everybody looks forward to racing<br />
at Budd’s,” Short said.<br />
Motocross pro and Mechanicsville<br />
native Kenny Day, 25, always<br />
reflects on the number of professionals,<br />
and top talent that have raced on<br />
the track at Budd’s Creek each time he<br />
returns home.<br />
“It’s something I always take in,”<br />
Day said.<br />
He is looking forward to the hills<br />
and track width at Budd’s Creek, because<br />
most tracks are not nearly as<br />
hilly and the wider track allows lanes<br />
to form up in different ways.<br />
Day trains as a runner in order to<br />
work on his speed on the track.<br />
He pushes himself in five-minute<br />
increments to prepare for three-minute<br />
laps, and says remaining focused is the<br />
biggest key to success.<br />
Day said all the racers on the circuit<br />
have become like family, and to be<br />
able to return home as a professional,<br />
at the highest level, it’s exciting to see<br />
his local family of riders come and support<br />
him.<br />
Robert Kraft, 24, of Charlotte<br />
Hall, said in addition to the hills and<br />
elevation change at Budd’s Creek,<br />
he too is looking forward to competing<br />
in a professional race back in his<br />
hometown.<br />
“It’s just a good feeling,” he said<br />
of having hundreds of friends and relatives<br />
see him compete.<br />
<strong>20</strong>-year-old Nick Lane of Great<br />
Mills, meanwhile, says returning home<br />
to the track he’s been racing on for 11<br />
years is about “the coolest part” of racing<br />
on Saturday.<br />
“Nothings like racing at home,”<br />
he said.<br />
Lane, who will graduate from<br />
College of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong> with<br />
a degree in Business Administration<br />
Management in the fall, has been<br />
working on adding speed and charging<br />
the track in anticipation for Saturday’s<br />
race.<br />
He believes if he can stay consistent,<br />
he has a great shot of making<br />
a strong showing in front of the home<br />
crowd.<br />
Tony Archer, <strong>20</strong>, of Hughesville<br />
has been racing since he was 8 years<br />
old.<br />
Archer is looking forward to<br />
racing on the up and down elevation<br />
at Budd’s Creek as well, and says the<br />
hometown support is a nice change<br />
from the rest of the tour.<br />
“Usually racers are kind of unknown,<br />
but [racing in your hometown]<br />
we have a lot of support,” Archer said.<br />
He needs to improve on speed<br />
through corners on Saturday, he said,<br />
and has been working on being aggressive<br />
on the track.<br />
He feels a bit more pressure coming<br />
into Saturday then at other tracks,<br />
adding it’s his home track and he hopes<br />
to perform well for friends and family.<br />
“I’m supposed to be doing well<br />
here,” he said of returning home.<br />
Eric McKay, of Hollywood, will<br />
be competing in his second pro race of<br />
the year on Saturday.<br />
He hopes to use the experience of<br />
his home track to his advantage, and is<br />
focusing on the top <strong>20</strong>.<br />
The trip to Budd’s Creek is the<br />
fifth stop on the 12-race championship<br />
circuit – The competitor who racks up<br />
the most points at the end of the season<br />
is named the champion.<br />
Currently Washington state native<br />
Ryan Villopoto is atop the 450<br />
Class Championship Standings with<br />
193 points, and Ryan Dungey of Minnesota<br />
is in second with 177 points.<br />
German native Ken Roczen leads<br />
the 250 class with 185 points, and Eli<br />
Tomac, from Colorado, is on his heels<br />
in second with 170.<br />
The big names have returned to<br />
the track this year, Short said, be it from<br />
injury or hiatus, and the race should be<br />
as exciting as its been in years.<br />
In 40 years of motocross history,<br />
Short said this year features the best<br />
lineup of racers the sport has ever had,<br />
and called it the most competitive field<br />
in the history of the sport.<br />
“The sport has gotten faster,”<br />
Short said, adding the sport has become<br />
much more competitive and grown in<br />
popularity as well. “It’s at a level it has<br />
never been before.”<br />
Short attributes the higher level<br />
of performance to advancements in<br />
equipment and riders utilizing revolutionary<br />
training tactics.<br />
He added, the riders enjoyed an<br />
off week last weekend, so he expects<br />
the field to be refreshed, sharp and<br />
ready to ride.<br />
“Everyone should be at peak performance<br />
now,” Short said.<br />
The riders will take to the track<br />
at 8:30 a.m., and the motocross racing<br />
begins at 1 p.m.<br />
In addition to Saturday’s professional<br />
riders, Short said there will be<br />
amateur races on the track Friday.<br />
For additional information, and<br />
for tickets to all rounds, visit allisports.<br />
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Thursday, June <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong>13 22<br />
Local Author Debuts Book Series<br />
By Alex Panos<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Local author John Deckelmann recently<br />
published the first story in his series of books,<br />
featuring love, war and mythical creatures.<br />
The book, titled “The Legends of Capia,”<br />
is set in a fictional world in an environment<br />
similar to ancient Rome.<br />
In the series opener, the main character, in<br />
a country that is under the control of an oppressive<br />
empire, eventually rises to the throne.<br />
To make matters more complicated, she<br />
falls in love with a general who, ironically, is<br />
the same person that takes part in a battle with,<br />
and eventually captures, her father.<br />
This begins what Deckelmann called “a<br />
series of events” that ultimately lead her to<br />
interact with the nightcrawlers – a mythical<br />
vampire-like species.<br />
The book is similar to many popular mythical<br />
themed television and book series that have<br />
grown popular over the last decade, such as the<br />
Twilight Series, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter,<br />
The Walking Dead and a large number of<br />
super hero themed movies.<br />
Deckelmann, who resides in California,<br />
Md., says his series brings a new element to the<br />
table that has yet to be explored.<br />
“It’s different than your average vampire<br />
[book],” he said.<br />
He aimed to have the series appeal to<br />
young adults, and wanted to keep the book as<br />
a “quick read” to accommodate a fast paced<br />
lifestyle.<br />
Deckelmann also believes once people<br />
read the first book they will become interested<br />
in the entire series – he expects the series to be<br />
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He said the second book is already completed,<br />
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It took Deckelmann around eight months<br />
to write the book he describes as a pretty easy<br />
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Newsmakers<br />
Association Honors One of Its<br />
Own at A River Affair<br />
On Sunday, June 2, The St. Mary’s<br />
River Watershed Association hosted its<br />
third annual A River Affair on the State<br />
House lawn at Historic St. Mary’s City.<br />
During the soiree, recognition was given<br />
to the group’s own executive director,<br />
Bob Lewis. A man many cited as the<br />
driving force behind getting the community<br />
involved in the Association’s efforts<br />
to restore the St. Mary’s River.<br />
Joe Anderson, the group’s board<br />
president, said, “Every organization has<br />
to have a spark plug, and for us that’s<br />
Bob Lewis.”<br />
During the presentation, Del. John<br />
Bohanan delivered a stack of commendations<br />
for the honoree he called “tenacious”<br />
and stated, “Whatever Bob Lewis<br />
is doing, it’s not for him but for the good<br />
of the community and the health of the<br />
St. Mary’s River.”<br />
Bohanan presented Lewis with a<br />
letter from Gov. Martin O’Malley which<br />
proclaimed him “Chesapeake Bay Ambassador”<br />
and letters of praise from Senators<br />
Mikulski and Cardin, Congressman<br />
Steny Hoyer and a <strong>Maryland</strong> state<br />
flag from the General Assembly.<br />
The St. Mary’s Board of <strong>County</strong><br />
Commissioners also acknowledged<br />
Lewis’ local leadership. Commissioner<br />
president Jack Russell proclaimed “you<br />
da man, Bob,” adding, “his leadership<br />
has been instrumental in developing and<br />
implementing many effective programs<br />
and projects that contribute to the ongoing<br />
restoration of the St. Mary’s River.”<br />
When asked to respond, Lewis was<br />
humble and told the crowd, “This is all of<br />
you, it’s not me … it’s your giving, your<br />
support, your hard work that brought me<br />
to this stage today.” Lewis gave thanks to<br />
his partner, Merideth Taylor, and friends<br />
and colleagues Joe Anderson and Richard<br />
Holden.<br />
“It’s really an honor to receive this,”<br />
Lewis said, jokingly calling himself “an<br />
expert at herding cats.”<br />
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Although Lewis was the man of the<br />
hour, he was also, as always, the man behind<br />
the scenes making sure everything<br />
went smoothly. He ensured a friendly<br />
welcome at check-in and took payments<br />
and offered appreciation for the guests<br />
who supported his and the Association’s<br />
work by bidding on the many items from<br />
the silent and live auctions.<br />
Holden, the group’s treasurer, said<br />
that even the morning of the event,<br />
Lewis was there to resolve a minor crisis<br />
and stated, “Organizations like this simply<br />
can’t run without someone like Bob<br />
Lewis at the helm.”<br />
“We’re really very fortunate to have<br />
him here and so committed.” Holden<br />
headed up organizing the A River Affair<br />
event for the second year, which ended<br />
up being the most successful fundraiser<br />
to date.<br />
More than <strong>20</strong>0 guests attended and<br />
enjoyed the beautiful view of the river<br />
as they dined on a catered brunch and<br />
imbibed on beverages from Slack Winery.<br />
High-energy auctioneer and local<br />
notable Dan Raley worked the crowd<br />
to garner bids on items like exquisite<br />
works of art, an heirloom-quality quilt<br />
and vacation packages. A variety of<br />
auction items from local art and handmade<br />
pottery, furniture and jewelry to<br />
spa packages and a wheelbarrow full of<br />
beer were donated by local businesses<br />
to be sold in the silent auction throughout<br />
the event, with all proceeds going to<br />
new and continuing projects aimed at<br />
improving the health of the St. Mary’s<br />
River.<br />
Several dozen reef balls, the building<br />
blocks of the three-dimensional oyster<br />
reef project, and thousands of spat,<br />
or baby oysters, were sold. The kayak<br />
raffle was also immensely popular.<br />
In all, the event raised $44,077.<br />
Board member Bob Paul said,<br />
“[Lewis] has been an inspiration to us<br />
all.”<br />
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“He’s tireless and we don’t pay<br />
him nearly enough money,” Paul, also a<br />
founding member, stated.<br />
Board Secretary Todd Rudolph<br />
shared, “I’m thrilled to have him as our<br />
executive director because he’s great at<br />
getting us to align our strengths and get<br />
stuff done.”<br />
Lewis’ grant proposal approval rating<br />
continues to be enviable and he oversees<br />
nearly everything the Association<br />
is involved with, often right there in the<br />
field or on the water, getting his hands<br />
dirty alongside kids on a field trip or<br />
volunteers.<br />
A native of New York, Lewis has<br />
lived in St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> and has been<br />
an integral part of the efforts to restore<br />
the St. Mary’s River for several years,<br />
earning multiple awards for his service<br />
and serving as a valuable member on<br />
community boards.<br />
Bohanan told Lewis, “Even though<br />
you weren’t born here, you have <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
in your blood and we’re all forever<br />
grateful that you do.”<br />
Bob Lewis is celebrated at this year’s A River Affair<br />
for his ceaseless efforts to restore the St. Mary’s<br />
River and its watershed. Gov. Martin O’Malley<br />
sends proclamation dubbing Lewis “Chesapeake<br />
Bay Ambassador”.<br />
General Estate Auction<br />
Fri. June 21 st - 6 p.m.<br />
Annual Independence<br />
Day Auction<br />
Thursday, July 4 th - 9 a.m.<br />
NOW TAKING<br />
CONSIGNMENTS FOR<br />
FUTURE GUN AUCTION!
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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 />
Louis Edward Holley, 82<br />
Louis Edward<br />
Holley, 82 of Hollywood,<br />
Md. died June<br />
12, at his residence.<br />
A native of Perquimans<br />
<strong>County</strong>, N.C.,<br />
Louis was born on<br />
March 21, 1931. He<br />
was the son of the late<br />
George Holley and<br />
Mary (Sutton) Holley.<br />
Louis married Mary H. (Curtis) Holley<br />
on March 15, 1953; there were no children<br />
from this union. Louis worked for<br />
many years as a driver for the Evening Star<br />
newspaper in Washington, DC. After many<br />
years working for several companies, Louis<br />
decided to be an independent dump truck<br />
driver. Later they moved to St. Mary’s<br />
<strong>County</strong>. In 1975, he started a refuse business.<br />
Louis and Mary worked together for<br />
nineteen years until Louis became ill and<br />
they retired.<br />
Louis enjoyed car racing, motorcycle<br />
races and gardening. Louis and Mary<br />
joined the Bethesda United Methodist<br />
Church in 1994 and were faithful members<br />
under the direction of Pastor Irvin Beverly.<br />
Louis is survived by his wife and<br />
companion, Mary Holley as well as many<br />
nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. In<br />
addition to his parents, Louis was preceded<br />
in death by two sisters, Ollie M. Holley<br />
Roundtree and Erma L. Holley.<br />
Family received friends on Saturday,<br />
June 15, from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m. at the<br />
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Bethesda United Methodist Church, Valley<br />
Lee, Md. A Funeral Service was conducted<br />
by Pastor Irvin Beverly. Interment followed<br />
in Charles Memorial Gardens.<br />
Condolences to the family may be<br />
made at www.brinsfieldfuneral.com.<br />
Arrangements by the Brinsfield Funeral<br />
Home, P.A., Leonardtown, Md.<br />
Peter John Antonovich, 72<br />
Peter John “Pete” Antonovich, 62 of<br />
Valley Lee, Md. died June 5, at MedStar St.<br />
Mary’s Hospital.<br />
Born October 3, 1950 in Leonardtown,<br />
Md. he was the son of the late John<br />
Antonovich and Eileen Deloris (Zhan)<br />
Antonovich.<br />
Pete graduated from Great Mills High<br />
School in 1968 and served in the U.S. Air<br />
Force from 1969 until 1973. He worked for<br />
C&P Telephone and then Verizon as a cable<br />
splicer for over 30 years until his retirement<br />
in <strong>20</strong>00. Pete held a private pilot’s license<br />
and enjoyed Mustang car restoration.<br />
Pete is survived by his wife, Eva Maria<br />
Antonovich of Panama City, Panama, and<br />
his brothers, James Antonovich of Alexandria,<br />
Va. and Paul E. Antonovich of Park<br />
Hall, Md. In addition to his parents, he was<br />
preceded in death by his brothers, Frank S.<br />
Antonovich and James Bailey Antonovich.<br />
Family received friends on Monday,<br />
June 17, from 10 a.m. until noon at the<br />
Brinsfield Funeral Home. A funeral service<br />
was conducted by Deacon Ammon Ripple<br />
Brinsfield-Echols Funeral Home, P.A.<br />
30195 Three Notch Road<br />
Charlotte Hall, <strong>Maryland</strong> <strong>20</strong>650<br />
(301) 472-4400<br />
at in the Brinsfield Funeral Home Chapel.<br />
Interment followed in Holy Face Cemetery,<br />
Great Mills, Md.<br />
Condolences to the family may be<br />
made at www.brinsfieldfuneral.com.<br />
Memorial contributions may be made<br />
to the American Kidney Association,<br />
6110 Executive Boulevard, Rockville, Md.<br />
<strong>20</strong>852.<br />
Arrangements by the Brinsfield Funeral<br />
Home, P.A., Leonardtown, Md.<br />
Phillip Roy Jett, Sr., 44<br />
Philip Roy Jett,<br />
Sr., 44 of Leonardtown,<br />
Md., entered<br />
Heaven's Gate on June<br />
10, at St. Mary’s Hospital.<br />
Philip was born<br />
on June 13, 1968 to<br />
the late William Jett,<br />
Sr. and Sandra Caine<br />
Jett. Philip married<br />
Deanna King Jett and<br />
from this union they had three children:<br />
Philip, Jr., Justin and Hannah and one other<br />
daughter, Brittany.<br />
Philip was employed as an auto body<br />
technician. He was a hardworking man who<br />
loved to be a jokester. He was a compassionate<br />
father, brother and friend to many<br />
people. Philip had a love for animals and for<br />
showboating his Harley and classic cars.<br />
Philip was preceded in death by his<br />
parents, William Jett, Sr.and Sandra Jett<br />
Murray.<br />
In departing this life, Philip leaves<br />
his fond memories to his children, Philip<br />
Jett, Jr., Justin Jett, Hannah Jett and Brittany<br />
Jett; two grandchildren, Carleigh and<br />
Carter Fields; his loving and devoted fiancé,<br />
Melissa Adkins; two sisters, Lisa Walter<br />
and Jennifer Barnfather; two brothers,<br />
Richard Jett and James “Boomer” Murray<br />
and a host of other relatives and friends. We<br />
all will miss you, Philip.<br />
Family united with friends on Wednesday,<br />
June 19, at 10 a.m. until time of service<br />
at 12 noon at Briscoe-Tonic Funeral Home.<br />
Interment was at St. Thomas Episcopal<br />
Church Cemetery.<br />
In lieu of flowers, donations may be<br />
made to the Philip Roy Jett, Sr. Memorial<br />
Fund through PNC Bank.<br />
Dr. William (Bill) James Marek,<br />
M.D., M.P.H., 76<br />
Dr. William (Bill)<br />
James Marek, M.D.,<br />
M.P.H., 76 of California,<br />
Md. passed away<br />
peacefully on June 13<br />
in Leonardtown, Md.<br />
He was born on<br />
May 27, 1937 in Baltimore<br />
to the late William<br />
Paul and Christine<br />
Elizabeth Marek.<br />
He is also predeceased by his daughter<br />
Katherine (Katie) Lynn Marek.<br />
He is survived by his wife JoEllen Ann<br />
Marek, whom he was married to for more<br />
than 47 years, his son David Michael Marek<br />
and his wife Rebecca (Becky) L. Marek,<br />
grandchildren Autumn L. Marek, Colton<br />
T. Marek, Logan M. Marek, Megan A. Williams<br />
and her husband Carl E. Williams III,<br />
and Charles (Chas) J. Haynes, III.<br />
After graduating from the University<br />
of <strong>Maryland</strong> in 1960 with a B.S. in microbiology,<br />
Bill worked as a federal agent for the<br />
U.S. Food and Drug Administration for two<br />
years. In 1966, he graduated from the University<br />
Of <strong>Maryland</strong> - School of Medicine.<br />
After a medical residency at South Baltimore<br />
General Hospital he then became Director<br />
of the Nursing Home Administration<br />
Medicaid Program for the <strong>Maryland</strong> State<br />
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene<br />
from 1968-1972. After graduating in 1972,<br />
from Johns Hopkins University with a masters<br />
in public health, Dr. Marek then served<br />
as Health Officer for St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> a<br />
position he held for 24 years until his retirement<br />
in 1996.<br />
Throughout his career, Bill found time<br />
to serve on numerous boards and commissions,<br />
including the Med Chi Public Health<br />
Committee and the Nursing Home Physician<br />
Training Committee. He was also a<br />
founding member of the Walden Sierra<br />
board as well as the Three Oaks Homeless<br />
Shelter board and a founding member and<br />
the first president of the Wildwood Village<br />
Condo Association.<br />
He was a passionate Civil War buff and<br />
enjoyed researching Civil War medical history<br />
and family genealogy.<br />
The family received friends for Dr.<br />
Marek’s Life Celebration on Monday, June<br />
17 with a prayer service at Brinsfield Funeral<br />
Home, 22955 Hollywood Road in Leonardtown.<br />
Mass was said on Tuesday, June<br />
18 at Our Lady’s Church, 41348 Medley’s<br />
Neck Road in Leonardtown with interment<br />
Wednesday, June 19 at Cedar Hill Cemetery,<br />
5829 Ritchie Highway, in Baltimore.<br />
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that<br />
you make memorial contributions to any of<br />
the following: Diabetes Action Research<br />
and Education Foundation, 426 "C" Street,<br />
NE, Washington, DC <strong>20</strong>002; Health Share<br />
of St. Mary's, Box 1<strong>20</strong>8, Leonardtown, Md.<br />
<strong>20</strong>650; and Hospice of St. Mary's, P.O. Box<br />
625, Leonardtown, Md. <strong>20</strong>650.<br />
Condolences to the family may be<br />
made at www.brinsfieldfuneral.com.<br />
Arrangements by the Brinsfield Funeral<br />
Home, P.A., in Leonardtown.<br />
Johnny James White, 59<br />
Johnny James<br />
White, 59, Mechanicsville,<br />
Md., passed<br />
away on June 13 at his<br />
residence, surrounded<br />
by his loving family.<br />
Johnny was born on<br />
July 28, 1953 in Canton,<br />
Ohio to the late<br />
Arthur Jesse White<br />
and Bernadine Rose<br />
Thompson.<br />
Johnny was a member of the Blessed<br />
Redeemer Baptist Church, Charlotte Hall,<br />
Md. He was employed as an electrician and<br />
did security surveillance, as well.<br />
Johnny leaves to cherish his fond<br />
memories, his wife, Joanne Green White;<br />
four children, Crystal Rose Warren, of<br />
Rutherfordton, N.C., Jesse Albert Green, of<br />
Mechanicsville, Dawn Loretta Cooper, of<br />
Mechanicsville and Patricia Sheleen Graham,<br />
of Prince Frederick, Md., two brothers,<br />
Arthur J. White, Jr., of Hartville, Ohio<br />
and Bobby J. White, of Canton, Ohio; two<br />
sisters, Lorain D. Cliffton, of Louisville,<br />
Ohio and Sandra D. Yomans, of Reva, Va.<br />
and a host of other relatives and friends.
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Services will be private. For more details,<br />
you may call 1-828-429-2850.<br />
Arrangements by Briscoe-Tonic Funeral<br />
Home, Mechanicsville, Md.<br />
Darrell Dee Stubbs, 55<br />
Darrell Dee<br />
Stubbs, 55, of Lexington<br />
Park, Md.,<br />
was greeted at the<br />
Gates of Heaven on<br />
June 15. He was the<br />
son of the late John<br />
and Irene Stubbs,<br />
born on April 5,<br />
1958 in Fairmont,<br />
W.Va.<br />
At 19 years old, Darrell joined the<br />
U.S. Navy where he served his country<br />
for <strong>20</strong> years and at retirement was ranked<br />
a 1st Class Aviation Store Keeper. During<br />
his naval career, he was awarded<br />
the following medals: Navy and Marine<br />
Corps Achievement, Good Conduct, National<br />
Defense, Southwest Asia and two<br />
Expeditionary.<br />
While stationed in Lexington Park,<br />
Darrell met the love of his life, Cecelia<br />
(Darlene) Woodland and the two married<br />
on Christmas Eve in 1986.<br />
In his spare time, Darrell enjoyed<br />
playing bid whist and was an avid Dallas<br />
Cowboys fan. He also loved listening<br />
to the oldies but goodies and sharing<br />
his favorite meal of spaghetti with his<br />
granddaughter.<br />
He was preceded in death by his<br />
parents and a long-time friend, Vernon<br />
Coates.<br />
Darrell is survived by his wife, Cecelia;<br />
his daughter, Tesha Stubbs; two<br />
sons, Darrell Stubbs II and Dominic<br />
Pendleton, seven grandchildren, three<br />
sisters, Margaret Holman, Genevieve<br />
(Gary) Freed and Carolyn Stubbs; four<br />
brothers, John (Martha) Stubbs, Robert<br />
(Beverly) Stubbs, Videll (Sandra)<br />
Stubbs and Julian (Mildred) Stubbs; in<br />
laws, Joseph and Thelma Woodland;<br />
brothers-in-law, Joseph “Al” Woodland<br />
and David Woodland; one sister-in-law,<br />
Ellen (Daryl Bogier; a special friend,<br />
Jackie Butler and a host of other relatives<br />
and friends.<br />
Family united with friends on<br />
Wednesday, June 19 for visitation at<br />
Briscoe-Tonic Funeral Home, 38576<br />
Brett Way, Mechanicsville, Md. Interment<br />
was private.<br />
Theodore “Teddy”<br />
Richard Wathen, 77<br />
Theodore “Teddy”<br />
Richard Wathen,<br />
77, of Leonardtown,<br />
Md. passed away at<br />
his home on June<br />
12 in Leonardtown,<br />
Md. Teddy was the<br />
son of the late John<br />
Richard and Mary<br />
Thelma Tippett Wathen.<br />
He is survived<br />
by his longtime companion Carlene<br />
Insley, siblings; Kenneth L. Wathen of<br />
Leonardtown, MD, Judith W. DiGiovanni<br />
of Port Tobacco, Md., and his devoted<br />
nieces and nephews. Teddy graduated<br />
from St. Mary’s Academy in 1953 and<br />
was a farmer, retiring in 1995. Teddy<br />
was a lifetime member of the Leonardtown<br />
Volunteer Fire Department and a<br />
longtime Country and Bluegrass Musician.<br />
The family received friends<br />
on Thursday, June 13 from 5 p.m. to 8<br />
p.m. in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral<br />
Home, Leonardtown, Md. A Funeral<br />
Service was held on Thursday, June 13<br />
at 7 p.m. in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral<br />
Home Chapel with Deacon George<br />
L’Heureux officiating. Interment was<br />
private. Contributions may be made to<br />
the Hospice House of St. Mary’s P.O.<br />
Box 625 Leonardtown, Md. <strong>20</strong>650, and/<br />
or the Leonardtown Volunteer Fire Department<br />
P.O. Box 50 Leonardtown, Md.<br />
<strong>20</strong>650.<br />
Grace Fox Stauffer, 74<br />
Grace Fox Stauffer, 74 of Mechanicsville,<br />
MD died June 14 at her residence.<br />
Born February 21, 1939 in Pennsylvania,<br />
she was the daughter of the late<br />
Enoch Heckendorn and Catherine Fox<br />
Brubaker.<br />
Mrs. Stauffer was preceded in death<br />
by her husband, David Z. Stauffer on<br />
April 5, <strong>20</strong>13.<br />
She is survived by her children;<br />
Edwin L. (Dora) Stauffer, Steven W.<br />
(Pauline) Stauffer, Bryan S. (Gladys)<br />
Stauffer, Tony W. (Elaine) Stauffer, Connie<br />
L. (Michael) Stauffer, Joel D. (Anna<br />
Mary) Stauffer, Melinda F. (Lester)<br />
Martin, Glenn A. (Karen) Stauffer all of<br />
Mechanicsville, MD, Richard E. (Emily)<br />
Stauffer, Brenda E. (Wayne) Martin<br />
of Leonardtown, MD, Lori A. (Weaver)<br />
Martin of Selinsgrove, PA, and Diane V.<br />
(Clifford) Martin of Port Trevorton, PA,<br />
siblings; Paul F. Brubaker of Scottsville,<br />
KY, Arlene Stauffer of Port Trevorton,<br />
PA, Anna Mae Aucker of Elk Horn, KY,<br />
Elsie F. Stauffer of Port Trevorton, PA,<br />
Irma F. Zimmerman of Bainbridge, OH,<br />
Marvin F. Brubaker of Commodore, PA,<br />
Nancy F. Zimmerman of Mechanicsville,<br />
MD, Eleanore F. Brubaker of Atlas,<br />
PA, and Alvin Lee F. Brubaker of<br />
MO, also survived by 74 grandchildren<br />
and 17 great-grandchildren. In addition<br />
to her parents and husband Mrs. Stauffer<br />
was preceded in death by her grandson,<br />
Kevin Stauffer, and siblings; John F.<br />
Brubaker, and Irvin F. Brubaker. Mrs.<br />
Stauffer was a homemaker.<br />
The family received friends on<br />
Monday, June 17 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.<br />
and from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the family<br />
home located at 25725 Loveville Rd.,<br />
Mechanicsville, Md.<br />
A Funeral Service was held on Tuesday,<br />
June 18 at 10 a.m. in the Loveville<br />
Mennonite Church.<br />
Arrangements provided by the Mattingley-Gardiner<br />
Funeral Home, P.A.,<br />
Leonardtown, Md.<br />
Joan Patricia “Patsy’<br />
Russell Wise, 82<br />
Joan Patricia<br />
“Patsy’ Russell Wise,<br />
82 of Leonardtown,<br />
Md. passed away on<br />
June 14 at her residence.<br />
Born March<br />
1, 1931 in Clare,<br />
Iowa, she was the<br />
daughter of the late<br />
Emmett Robert and<br />
Marie Rebecca Heller Russell. Pat was<br />
the loving wife of Walter Wise, whom she<br />
married on May 1, 1954 in Leonardtown,<br />
Md.<br />
Pat is survived by her children; Joan<br />
M. Wise of Leonardtown, Md., Jeannette<br />
E. (John) Loving of Mechanicsville, Md,<br />
Kathi Russell (Randy Hoffman) Wise<br />
of Leonardtown, Md., Judith A. Wise of<br />
Easton, Md, Walter “Bobby” R. (Cynthia)<br />
Wise of Chaptico, Md., Beverly Jean<br />
Wise, of Fairfax, Va., and special niece<br />
Judy Sanger Balta, siblings; Mary Lou<br />
Mickelson of Duncombe, Iowa, Jerome<br />
T. Russell of Kerrville, Texas, Johanna<br />
Fawcett of Fort Dodge, Iowa, Judith<br />
Combs of Leonardtown, Md., and Daniel<br />
Russell of Fort Dodge, IA., also survived<br />
by 8 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.<br />
In addition to her parents Pat<br />
was preceded in death by a grandson; Tyler<br />
S. Collins, and siblings; Robert Russell,<br />
Elaine Sanger, Barbara Maier, Kathleen<br />
Hanson, twin brother James Russell,<br />
William Russell, and John Russell.<br />
Pat graduated from Barnum High<br />
School, she then went on to graduate<br />
from St. Joseph’s School of Nursing<br />
earning her RN Degree, she moved to St.<br />
Mary’s <strong>County</strong> in 1954 from Clare, Iowa.<br />
During most of her career Pat worked<br />
at St. Mary’s Nursing Center, where she<br />
was Director of Nursing, she also worked<br />
at the Jude House in Bel Alton, Md.,<br />
and was a transport Nurse for the Leonardtown<br />
Volunteer Rescue Squad. Pat<br />
enjoyed shopping, enjoying good food,<br />
socializing with friends, family, gardening,<br />
watching the stock market, dancing,<br />
gambling, playing cards, and watching<br />
the Redskins, Nationals, and the Orioles.<br />
The family received friends on<br />
Monday, June 17 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.<br />
with prayers recited at 7 p.m. in the Mattingley-Gardiner<br />
Funeral Home, P.A.,<br />
Leonardtown, Md. A Mass of Christian<br />
Burial was celebrated on Tuesday, June<br />
18 at 12 p.m. in Our Lady’s Catholic<br />
Church, Leonardtown, Md. with Father<br />
Brian Sanderfoot officiating. Interment<br />
followed in the church cemetery. Pallbearers<br />
will be; Mike Klear, David James<br />
Downs, Francis Balta, Matthew Loving,<br />
Tem Weiland, and Cole Collins. Honorary<br />
pallbearers will be; Bernie Beavans,<br />
and Robert Combs.<br />
Friends gathered at Olde Breton Inn<br />
following interment.<br />
Memorial contributions may be<br />
made to the Leonardtown Volunteer Rescue<br />
Squad, P.O. Box 299, Leonardtown,<br />
MD. Arrangements provided by the<br />
Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, P.A.<br />
To Place A Memorial,<br />
Please Call<br />
301-373-4125<br />
or send an email to<br />
info@somdpublishing.net
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Fifth grade students at Sotterley.<br />
Green Holly Elementary School<br />
Profile<br />
Fast Facts<br />
Principal: Wauchilue Adams<br />
Assistant Principals:<br />
Cynthia Fletcher, Karen Mattingly<br />
School Hours: 8:45 a.m.-3:45 p.m.<br />
Phone: 301-475-5511, ext. 136<br />
Fax: 301-475-4254<br />
46060 Millstone Landing Rd<br />
Lexington Park, MD <strong>20</strong>653<br />
Green Holly Elementary Provides<br />
Rich, Diverse Instruction<br />
Green Holly Elementary School<br />
provides rich, diverse instruction for 503<br />
students. We have 32 classes that service<br />
three year olds to 5th grade. Green Holly<br />
provides two sessions of the 3 year old<br />
class, Pre-School Special Education, Pre-<br />
Kindergarten, and Pre-Kindergarten Special<br />
Education. We are very fortunate to<br />
provide three classes of instruction to the<br />
Community Based students in the SAIL<br />
Program, an Infants and Toddlers and the<br />
LEAP Speech class. Our school is proud<br />
to promote our students to our feeder<br />
schools Esperanza Middle, Spring Ridge<br />
Middle and Great Mills High School.<br />
Technology<br />
• There are Smartboards in all classrooms<br />
• Intermediate students were introduced<br />
to the Kindles for reading instruction (ebooks)<br />
this year.<br />
• Special Education classrooms utilize<br />
iPads to differentiate instruction.<br />
Achievement/Recognition<br />
• We are a PBIS Gold <strong>Maryland</strong> Recognition<br />
School for the second year.<br />
• Based on <strong>Maryland</strong> School Assessments,<br />
our school made Adequate Yearly<br />
Progress for this school year.<br />
• We received the Community Transformation<br />
Grant which is a partnership with<br />
MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital Health Connections.<br />
Through the partnership, our<br />
students received information on ways to<br />
become healthier through eating right and<br />
exercising.<br />
• We are a Green School.<br />
• Because of our recycling efforts, the<br />
Dream Machine Recycle Program selected<br />
Green Holly as a recipient of the Star-<br />
Board Link EZ2 Interactive Unit. This<br />
portable device allows teachers without<br />
a Smartboard (such as Physical Education)<br />
to prepare interactive lessons with<br />
students.<br />
• Our fifth grade students were chosen to<br />
participate in the Starbase Atlantis Program,<br />
a partnership between SMCPS and<br />
Patuxent River Naval Air Station.<br />
Programs offered during the school day<br />
• Chat and Chew- presenters included<br />
Wendy Binkley, Judy Center Coordinator<br />
and Dawn Simpson, School Liaison for<br />
Patuxent River NAS.<br />
• Disability Awareness Day<br />
• Multicultural Day<br />
• Adult Education<br />
• The Judy Center Play and Learn<br />
Workshops<br />
• Band and Strings<br />
• Chorus<br />
Programs offered in the evening<br />
• Adult Education (for English Language<br />
Learners)<br />
• Future Leaders Of the World<br />
• Guitar Club<br />
• Poetry Night with Anthony Keith<br />
• Monthly Grade Level Instructional Information<br />
Parent Nights<br />
PTA Sponsored Events<br />
• Movie Nights<br />
• Donuts for Dads<br />
• Muffins for Moms<br />
Staff Contributions to Charity<br />
The staff has made over $2,000 in Casual<br />
for a Cause donations to the following<br />
charities:<br />
• American Red Cross<br />
• Susan G. Komen<br />
• Toys for Tots<br />
• Shop with a Cop<br />
• Chopticon High School<br />
• Special Olympics<br />
• <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong> Food Bank<br />
• Hospice of St. Mary’s<br />
• Spring Ridge Middle School<br />
Presenters from Multicultural Day.<br />
Pre-Kindergarten students enjoy field trips and instructional activities.<br />
Pre-Kindergarten students enjoy field trips and instructional activities.
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Community<br />
Lions Club Installation<br />
Ceremony<br />
St. Mary’s Academy<br />
Class of 1951<br />
Gives Money for<br />
Healthcare Unit<br />
Lions Club International District 22-C District Governor Elect , Dee Hawkins,(center) is shown<br />
introducing the newly elected Leonardtown Lions Club Board of Directors, following her Installation<br />
Ceremony, June 8, at the Olde Breton Inn. The Leonardtown Lions meet the first Wednesday of<br />
each month ( except September and December) at 7:00 pm at the Olde Breton Inn. More information<br />
contact Lion George Kirby, 301-475-3188.<br />
Pictured (L-R) Lion Paul Hood,treasurer;Lion Carl Raley, membership chair;Lion David Guyther,<br />
director; Lion Frank Nuhfer, director, Lion Hilda Mae Gatton, director; DGE Dee Hawkins;<br />
Lion Don Fincham, 2nd VP;King Lion Chad Miller;Lion Charles Robey,lion tamer;Lion George<br />
Kirby, past King Lion. Absent when picture was taken: Lion John Brown, tail twister; Lion Hayden<br />
Hammett, 1st VP;Lion Mike Payne, Secretary; Lion Dan Slade, 3 VP; Lion Jim Davis, director.<br />
On May 5, Dr. John Fenwick, president of the St. Mary’s Academy Class of 1951, presented<br />
Dr. Patrick Jarboe’s wife, Margaret, and their son, Tom, $990 toward the purchase of a new<br />
mobile healthcare unit on behalf of the class of 1951. The mobile healthcare unit will be<br />
names “The J. Patrick Jarboe Mobile Health Center.” The class of 1951 knew how dear this<br />
unit was to Dr. Jarboe and they are honored to be a part of the legacy.<br />
CAT OF THE WEEK<br />
I must find a home. My foster mom can no longer<br />
keep me. My name is amelia. I was born in the<br />
spring of <strong>20</strong>12. I have been rescued from a kill shelter<br />
and now have a second chance to find my furever<br />
home. I am super friendly and I like to chat. I love<br />
to be petted and am very well adjusted. I am fully<br />
vetted which means i have been spayed, vaccinated<br />
against rabies and distemper, de-wormed, and even<br />
micro chipped. My adoption fee is only $75. I am<br />
a love girl and can't wait to find my own family. If<br />
you would like to adopt me, please fill out an application<br />
and email it to diane at<br />
diane@feralcatrescuemd.Org. If you have questions<br />
you can call 301-481-0171. PS: I like dogs! Oh and<br />
also feral cat rescue has many cats and kittens that<br />
need to find homes. Check out their website and look<br />
at the pics and bios!<br />
St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong><br />
Honors POWs & MIAs<br />
Flag is permanently raised at Government Center<br />
The Board of <strong>County</strong> Commissioners for St. Mary’s<br />
<strong>County</strong> honored <strong>Maryland</strong>’s Veteran, POW and MIA<br />
soldiers and sailors by officially raising the POW/MIA<br />
Flag on the Government Center grounds during the annual<br />
Flag Day celebration on June 14.<br />
St. Mary’s now joins other counties across the state<br />
in remembering those who have yet to return home from<br />
war by officially flying the flag. Currently it is estimated<br />
that about 148 <strong>Maryland</strong>ers remain missing from the<br />
Korean War and 25 from the Vietnam War. In all, over<br />
1,600 Americans remain unaccounted for in Southeast<br />
Asia. Officially, no one from St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> is classified<br />
as missing.<br />
Members of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong> ABATE were given<br />
the honor of raising the POW/MIA flag. The group<br />
attends many ceremonies across the state to post the<br />
POW/MIA flag. They have played an important role in<br />
St. Mary’s Flag Day annual event.<br />
“This year St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Government remembers all those who remain<br />
missing in action and those who have returned after facing unimaginable hardship as<br />
a prisoner of war,” said Commissioner president Jack Russell. “We proudly join our<br />
sister counties in flying the POW/MIA Flag in their honor.”<br />
The POW/MIA flag will continue to fly at the Government Center until all who<br />
are missing have been accounted for.<br />
Members of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong> ABATE<br />
prepare to raise POW/MIA flag on<br />
Government Center flagpole
Community<br />
The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Thursday, June <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong>13 28<br />
By Doug Watson<br />
Contributing Writer<br />
Budds Creek, MD- Severna Park Md.’s<br />
Kyle Lear scored his first feature win of the<br />
season in last Friday nights <strong>20</strong>-lap Limited<br />
Late Model headliner at Potomac speedway.<br />
The win for Lear, the 14th of his Potomac<br />
career, made him the fourth different winner<br />
in the Limited Late Model ranks at the<br />
track this season.<br />
Class rookie Jimmy Jesmer Jr. and<br />
Kyle Lear shared the front-row for the start<br />
of the event. Lear made the most of his good<br />
fortune as he shot into the race lead at the<br />
drop of the green flag. Fourth-starting Ryan<br />
Hackett slid into second on lap-3 and set his<br />
sights on Lear. The duo waged a furious<br />
battle over the final 17-laps, but Lear would<br />
hold tough to score the win. “This is a great<br />
way to start the weekend.” Lear stated in<br />
Potomac’s victory lane. “Our car was pretty<br />
good tonight because we were able to run<br />
on the top or bottom.” Lear stated. “It feels<br />
pretty good to finally get our first win of<br />
the season.” Superb track conditions aided<br />
in Lear’s winning run. “The track was real<br />
racy tonight.” Said Lear. “Anytime the track<br />
has two grooves, as a racer, you have nothing<br />
to complain about.” Daryl Hills, who<br />
Lear Breaks the Ice,<br />
Scores Potomac First of Friday<br />
Latham Top Dog in Street Stock Challenge<br />
came out of his semi-retirement was third,<br />
Tommy Wagner Jr. took fourth with 9th<br />
starting Derrick Quade rounding out the<br />
top-five. Wagner scored the heat race win.<br />
Mike Latham drove a flawless race<br />
to score his second win of the season, and<br />
30th of his career, in the 25-lap Potomac/<br />
Winchester challenge event for the Street<br />
Stocks. Winchester invaders Craig Parrill<br />
and Mike Franklin were the front row<br />
for the initial green of the event. Franklin<br />
would lead the race for 3-laps before fourthstarting<br />
Mike Latham took the top-spot on<br />
lap-4. Latham, and eventual runner-up Darren<br />
Alvey, raced door-to-door over the next<br />
21-circuits with Latham prevailing at the<br />
finish. Franklin held on for third, Parrill was<br />
fourth with Barry Williams rounding out<br />
the top-five. Heats went to Alvey, Franklin<br />
and David Kaiser.<br />
Ed Pope Jr. scored his first-career Hobby<br />
Stock feature win in the divisions 15-lap<br />
feature. Pope started on the pole and would<br />
lead the distance, however, he would have<br />
to hold of a late race rush from 10th starting<br />
Jamie Sutphin to post the win. Jerry Deason<br />
was third, Brian Adkins was fourth with<br />
Kenny Sutphin completing the top-five.<br />
Deason was the heat winner.<br />
Mark Pollard became a two-time Potomac<br />
winner with his win in the 15-lap U-<br />
Car feature. Pollard started on the outside<br />
of the front-row and would romp home to<br />
a relatively easy win. Kevin Pollard came<br />
from twelfth to finish in second with Erica<br />
Bailey third, Billy Hill fourth and Tom Paddock<br />
filling the front five. Heats went to<br />
Paddock and Jason Wilkins.<br />
Buddy Dunagan scored his first win<br />
of the season in the nightcap 15-lap Strictly<br />
Stock feature. Dunagan took the race lead<br />
from Ray Bucci on lap-4 and would go on<br />
take the win by a wide margin over eventual<br />
runner-up John Hardesty. JJ Silvious was<br />
third, Jimmy Suite took fourth with Johnny<br />
Hardesty rounding out the top-five. Ed Pope<br />
Sr. scored the heat race win.<br />
Limited Late Model feature finish<br />
1. Kyle Lear 2. Ryan Hackett 3. Daryl<br />
Hills 4. Tommy Wagner Jr. 5. Derrick<br />
Quade 6. Jimmy Jesmer Jr. 7. Robbie Emory<br />
8. Tyler Emory 9. Dave Adams 10. James<br />
Carte<br />
Street Stock feature finish<br />
1. Mike Latham 2. Darren Alvey 3.<br />
Mike Franklin 4. Craig Parrill 5. Barry Williams<br />
6. Terry Staton 7. Stephen Quade 8.<br />
Mike Raleigh 9. Brain Luttrell 10. Bill Pifer<br />
11. Scott Wilson 12. Dickie Tharp 13.<br />
Marty Hanbury 14. Mike Grady Jr. 15. Dale<br />
Reamy 16. Buddy Wilson 17. Johnny Oliver<br />
18. Frankie Dove 19. Mike Corbin <strong>20</strong>. Josh<br />
Wilkins (DNS) 21. David Kaiser (DNS)<br />
Hobby Stock feature finish<br />
1. Ed Pope Jr. 2. Jamie Sutphin 3. Jerry<br />
Deason 4. Brian Adkins 5. Kenny Sutphin<br />
6. Tommy Randall 7. Jonathon Raley 8.<br />
Matt Tarbox 9. Matt Krickbaum 10. Greg<br />
Morgan (DNS) 11. Kyle Nelson (DNS)<br />
U-Car feature finish<br />
1. Mark Pollard 2. Kevin Pollard 3.<br />
Erica Bailey 4. Billy Hill 5. Tom Paddock<br />
6. David Rhodes 7. Ryan Clement 8. Dylan<br />
Alton 9. Max Martin 10. Corey Swaim 11.<br />
Sam Raley 12. DJ Powell 13. Cori French<br />
14. Megan Mann 15. Jason Wilkins 16.<br />
Mikey Latham<br />
Strictly Stock feature finish<br />
1. Buddy Dunagan 2. John Hardesty 3.<br />
JJ Silvious 4. Jimmy Suite 5. Johnny Hardesty<br />
6. Ray Bucci 7. Nabil Guffey 8. Ed<br />
Pope Sr. 9. Paul Jones<br />
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This Friday night, June 21, MIR will host the Speed Unlimited Midnight Madness<br />
Series. The Midnight Madness series is a great place to check out street legal drag<br />
racing, hang out with your friends, enjoy great food, meet new people, and cruise the<br />
pits. You can even enter your own streetcar or street bike into the event for time runs,<br />
grudge runs, or trophy racing. It’s safe, fun, affordable, and legal. Plus, this Friday<br />
night will feature the Outlaw Drag Radial heads-up class. Gates will open at 6:30pm<br />
and first round eliminations will start at 10 p.m. for all classes. General Admission for<br />
adults is $10, and kids 11 & under are free. Race Entry Fee is only $<strong>20</strong>.<br />
On Saturday, June 22, MIR will host the Speed Unlimited ET series. The event<br />
will feature Top E.T., Mod E.T., Motorcycle, Jr. Dragster, and Test & Tune. The Summit<br />
Super Series programs will be in effect this Saturday. Gates will open Saturday at<br />
1 p.m. with time runs starting at 2 p.m. J/D Eliminations will start at 4pm and eliminations<br />
for all other classes start at 6pm. General Admission for adults is $15, and kids<br />
11 & under are free.<br />
On Sunday, June 23, MIR hosts the rescheduled 19th annual Big Rig Truck Nationals<br />
with a full day of gear jamming, 18-wheelin excitement. This event features<br />
a huge custom all-truck show, all truck drag racing, and manufacturer’s midway. If<br />
you love trucks, MIR has them from the smallest pick up to the giant big rigs. Plus<br />
witness the “Transaurus” a car eating, fire-breathing dinosaur! It’s a fire show like you<br />
have never seen before! You'll also see a huge custom truck show, with hundreds of<br />
trucks, and you can enter your own truck, with show classes for every type of truck.<br />
Make sure to visit the large truck vendor midway, with special deals on new trucks,<br />
used trucks, tires, chrome and custom accessories. The Big Rig Truck Nationals also<br />
features all truck drag racing with classes for every type of truck where you can enter<br />
your own truck and take a shot at cash purses, with E.T. handicap style racing where<br />
anyone can win. Gates will open at 9 a.m. and eliminations will begin at 3 p.m. Admission<br />
is $<strong>20</strong> and that includes a free pit pass. Children 6 to 11 are $5.<br />
For more detailed information on these events call the 24-Hour Dragline Hotline<br />
at 301-884-RACE or visit us at www.mirdrag.com
29 Thursday, June <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Announcin<br />
Issued Marriage Applications for April <strong>20</strong>13<br />
April 1, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
Deborah Ann Jordan, 53<br />
Lusby, Md<br />
Alvin Leroy Guice, Jr.<br />
Mechanicsville, Md<br />
April 3, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
Stephanie Lynn Rand, 25<br />
Waldorf, Md<br />
Steven Anthony Lancaster, 24<br />
Waldorf, Md<br />
April 4, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
James Lanelle Nelson, Sr., 57<br />
Great Mills, Md<br />
Betty Ann Holley, 52<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Renee Michelle Abell 32<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Aytan Kurgun 32<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
April 5, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
Crystal Ann Stephens, 27<br />
Great Mills, Md<br />
Mark Christopher Ames, 29<br />
Great Mills, Md<br />
Glenn Larence Hollander, 30<br />
Leonardtown, Md<br />
Maria Christine Sterling, 31<br />
Leonardtown, Md<br />
Steve John Newton, 33<br />
Lusby, Md<br />
Amanda Lynn Grumbine<br />
Lusby, Md<br />
Barbara Ellen Spriggs, 52<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Charles Francis Means, 36<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Angela Noel Watters, 34<br />
Mechanicsville, Md<br />
Scott Allen Dorsey, 39<br />
Mechanicsville, Md<br />
April 6, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
Timothy Charles Ayers, 27<br />
Mechanicsville, Md<br />
Kristen Lauren Williams, 26<br />
Mechanicsville, Md<br />
Michael Stephen McHenry, 27<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Bethany Jerrine Dehart, 26<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
April 8, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
Jacqueline Carmel Rivers, 53<br />
Upper Marlboro, Md<br />
Joel Deon Burgess, 45<br />
Upper Marlboro, Md<br />
Amanda Rae Patterson, 24<br />
Mechanicsville, Md<br />
Travis Andrew Belfield, 24<br />
Mechanicsville, Md<br />
William David Duncanson, 21<br />
California, Md<br />
April Joanna Shew, <strong>20</strong><br />
Baltimore, Md<br />
Nakita Laquette Williams, 35<br />
Park Hall, Md<br />
Joseph Jeremiah Kelly, Jr., 45<br />
Park Hall, Md<br />
Eric Christopher Pulliam, 25<br />
Great Mills, Md<br />
Stephanie Lynn Burgess, 29<br />
Great Mills, Md<br />
April 9, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
Ross William Simpson, 33<br />
California, Md<br />
Rebecca Lee Ware, 29<br />
Arlington, Va<br />
Kevin Scott Haynes, Sr., 46<br />
Avenue, Md<br />
Pamela Marlene Simmons, 46<br />
Avenue, Md<br />
Carl Edward Williams, III, 24<br />
California, Md<br />
Megan Alyse Haynes, 23<br />
California, Md<br />
April 10, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
Kayla Therese Schneider, 24<br />
Leonardtown, Md<br />
Jonathan Robert Bagley, 25<br />
Leonardtown, Md<br />
April 11, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
Rachel Leann Leslie, 27<br />
LaPlata, Md<br />
Megan Rose Gouveia, 24<br />
LaPlata, Md<br />
April 12, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
Linnea Marie Morgan, 32<br />
LaPlata, Md<br />
James Michael Farley, Jr., 36<br />
LaPlata, Md<br />
Geoffrey Thomas Eldridge, 34<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Katy Michelle Gann, 26<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
April 16, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
Robert Ernest Bowles, Jr.,, 40<br />
Charlotte Hall, Md<br />
Alicia Marie Scott, 38<br />
Charlotte Hall, Md<br />
April 17, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
Dale Russell Maxwell, Jr., 29<br />
Mechanicsville, Md<br />
Tracy Elizabeth Long, 24<br />
Mechanicsville, Md<br />
Tharcie Sharijuana Smith, 34<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Joseph Henry Payne, IV, 36<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Christopher Shawn Bassford, 26<br />
Charlotte Hall, Md<br />
Amanda Lynn Quade, 22<br />
Charlotte Hall, Md<br />
Drew Owen Evans, 40<br />
Leonardtown, Md<br />
Kristen Nicole Skillin, 37<br />
Leonardtown, Md<br />
April 18, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
Maureen Elizabeth Carver, 30<br />
Catonsville, Md<br />
Edward Joseph Maximo, 34<br />
Baltimore, Md<br />
Lauren Yvette Horlock, 28<br />
Mechanicsville, Md<br />
John Russell Zimmerman, 31<br />
Mechanicsville, Md<br />
Samuel Dean Gafford , 51<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Anna Belinda Zeliinski, 38<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Reina Aminta Ramos Hernandez, 41<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Rodolfo Alcides Barraza Zuniga, 39<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Megan Lynn Nueslein, 22<br />
Hollywood, Md<br />
Kevin Thomas Fallin, 23<br />
Great Mills, Md<br />
April 19, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
Alexander Wyndham Brehm, 32<br />
Prince Frederick, Md<br />
Elizabeth Noel Monroe, 23<br />
Prince Frederick, Md<br />
Bonnie Jean Crigger, 37<br />
Mechanicsville, Md<br />
William Francis Ruffner, Jr., 55<br />
Mechanicsville, Md<br />
Hannah Susanne Garland, 23<br />
Mechanicsville, Md<br />
Kevin Daniel Johnson, Jr., 21<br />
Mechanicsville, Md<br />
Lovine Jeanine Marvin, 24<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Vincent William Mikuls, III, 25<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Lisa Ann Winger, 56<br />
Prince Frederick, Md<br />
Kevin James Orsie, 54<br />
Prince Frederick, Md<br />
Melissa Irene Richards, 21<br />
Callaway, Md<br />
Gregory Lee Copsey, 23<br />
Callaway, Md<br />
April 22, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
Kathryn Susanne Barnes,<br />
Bel Air, Md<br />
Marshall Michael Motulski, 28<br />
Warwick, Ri<br />
Christopher James Adams, 23<br />
California, Md<br />
Beverly Lauren Taylor, 23<br />
California, Md<br />
Rebecca Guzman Alfaro, <strong>20</strong><br />
Patuxent River, Md<br />
Williams Perez, 25<br />
Brooklyn, Ny<br />
April 23, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
Michael Andrew Fee, 26<br />
Severna Park, Md<br />
Tiffany Ann Jones, 25<br />
Pasadena, Md<br />
Juan Antonio Portillo Merino, 36<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Ismelda Marisol Perez Diaz, 31<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
April 24, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
Anthony Michael Skubon, 24<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Carolyn Rose Commons, 22<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
April 25, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
Victoria Lyn Guthrie, 19<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Brock Taylor Booth, 21<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Theresa Louise Nikolaus, 25<br />
Leonardtown, Md<br />
Andrew James Bell, 25<br />
Leonardtown, Md<br />
Alissa Marie Bailey, 27<br />
Leonardtown, Md<br />
Scott Anthony Xavier, 25<br />
Leonardtown, Md<br />
April 26, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
Katelyn Theresa King, 21<br />
Mechanicsville, Md<br />
Anthony Richard Gagliano, 25<br />
Mechanicsville, Md<br />
John Kevin Gray, 40<br />
Mechanicsville, Md<br />
Shelly Lynn Stuller, 38<br />
Mechanicsville, Md<br />
Theresa Ann Tenaglia, 27<br />
Hyattsville, Md<br />
Benjamin Andrew Toll, 28<br />
Hyattsville, Md<br />
Heath Saad Tabet, 23<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Kathryn Lynn McCaffery, 23<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Jason Alan Hintze, 31<br />
Waldorf, Md<br />
Kelly Lynn Snyder, 31<br />
Waldorf, Md<br />
Pamela Nicole Bennett, 21<br />
Leonardtown, Md<br />
William John Parsons ,25<br />
Leonardtown, Md<br />
Joseph Todd Seward, 18<br />
Great Mills, Md<br />
Victoria Hil-Wah Yuen, <strong>20</strong><br />
Leonardtown, Md<br />
April 29, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
Marilyn Georganne Kariean, 27<br />
Gulfport, Ms<br />
John Michael Bushea, 31<br />
Norforlk, Va<br />
Emily Rose Walter 26<br />
Annapolis, Md<br />
Sean Connor Ross 25<br />
Annapolis, Md<br />
Trina Lashay Wilson, 29<br />
Patuxent River, Md<br />
Decarveus Giovanni Madison, 28<br />
Patuxent River, Md<br />
Christopher Logan Firestien, 43<br />
California, Md<br />
Elizabeth Ann Kennedy, 48<br />
California, Md<br />
Leanne Inez Serman, 24<br />
Leonardtown, Md<br />
Jonathan Howard Mattingly, 24<br />
Leonardtown, Md<br />
Michael Leslie Snow, Jr., 34<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Jennifer Marie Pickard, 33<br />
Lexington Park, Md<br />
Allison Marie Shafer, 24<br />
Silver Spring, Md<br />
Daniel Jonathan Gross, 24<br />
Silver Spring, Md<br />
Joshua Paul Bennett, 27<br />
St. Inigoes, Md<br />
Amber Christine Riethmuller, 27<br />
St. Inigoes, Md<br />
Denise Marie Buckley, 25<br />
Callaway, Md<br />
Vincent James Pontorno, 25<br />
Callaway, Md<br />
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SENIOR LIVING<br />
The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Thursday, June <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong>13 30<br />
St. Mary’s Department of Aging<br />
Programs and Activities<br />
Vestibular Disorders and How They Relate<br />
to Balance<br />
Good balance requires reliable sensory<br />
input from the individual’s vestibular<br />
system (the balance system of the inner ear).<br />
Most people are familiar with the problems<br />
associated with the aging of senses such as<br />
vision and hearing. However, the vestibular<br />
system is another sensory system that can<br />
also begin to function poorly with age, leading<br />
to a diminished quality of life and poor<br />
balance. At this presentation, hosted by the<br />
Garvey Senior Activity Center on Tuesday,<br />
June 25 at 11:00 a.m. and presented by<br />
Hearing Professionals and Gateau Physical<br />
Therapy, participants will learn more about<br />
specific vestibular disorders in older adults,<br />
precautions, and ways to improve balance.<br />
Sign up for this presentation by calling<br />
301.475.4<strong>20</strong>0, ext. 1050.<br />
Core and Abs Class on Wednesdays<br />
Do you want to strengthen your core<br />
muscles to help with lower back pain and<br />
maintain posture and balance? Dave<br />
Scheible teaches this class on Wednesdays<br />
at 2 p.m. at Loffler Senior Activity Center.<br />
You can try it out for free. This class is used<br />
in conjunction with a fitness card (fitness<br />
cards are $30 and are good for 10 fitness<br />
classes.) For more information call 301-737-<br />
5670, ext. 1658.<br />
Asian Culture Presentation<br />
On Monday, June 24, from 9:30-11:00<br />
a.m., a presentation on Asian Culture will<br />
be held at the Northern Senior Activity<br />
Center. Ms. Bobbie Ridley will talk about<br />
Asian culture, show slides, Origami demonstrations,<br />
and take questions. Egg rolls<br />
and puff pastries will be served as a sample<br />
food. Call 301-475-4002, ext. 1001 or stop<br />
by the front desk to sign-up by noon, Thursday,<br />
June <strong>20</strong>.<br />
MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital Health<br />
Connections Screenings<br />
On Friday, June 28, at 1:00 p.m., free<br />
Glucometer (glucose testing) and blood<br />
pressure checks will be available at the<br />
Northern Senior Activity Center. The Med-<br />
Star St. Mary’s Hospital Health Connections<br />
travel to each Senior Activity Center<br />
to offer information and services concerning<br />
many health related issues. They will<br />
arrive at the Garvey Senior Activity Center<br />
at 9 a.m. and the Loffler Senior Activity at<br />
11 a.m., anyone wishing to have their blood<br />
pressure and glucose levels checked is welcome<br />
to stop by. No appointment necessary.<br />
Strength Training on Tuesdays<br />
Every Tuesday at 10 a.m. Dave<br />
Scheible teaches this class designed to increase<br />
the strength of your muscles (including<br />
your heart) through the use of small<br />
weights and your own body weight. Studies<br />
have shown that strength training can<br />
help to reverse some of the symptoms of<br />
aging including bone loss. This class meets<br />
at Loffler Senior Activity. For more information<br />
call 301-737-5670, ext. 1658 or just<br />
stop in.<br />
Limitations No More<br />
At the Loffler Senior Activity Center<br />
we have a practitioner of Emotional Freedom<br />
Technique, an energy-based self-help<br />
technique that has had dramatic results with<br />
issues such as pain, fears, stress, weight<br />
gain, allergies and so much more. Richele<br />
McLeod is a registered nurse who continues<br />
to study this healing art that is based on<br />
the tenets of acupuncture but uses tapping<br />
that you do yourself. She will show you<br />
how to practice this method on your own<br />
for continued improvement. Frequently a<br />
person can find relief after only one session.<br />
Other issues may require more, but it is<br />
something you can continue to do for yourself.<br />
Richele’s sessions are gentle and are<br />
appropriate for anyone. An initial session<br />
will last 1 ½ hours, subsequent sessions, (if<br />
needed) will be 1 hour. The initial session<br />
includes a 30 minute introductory period.<br />
If, after that time, you are not already having<br />
some relief, you may discontinue the<br />
session and will be charged nothing. To<br />
continue for the next hour is $45. Richele<br />
will be at Loffler Senior Activity Center<br />
June 25 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. She accepts<br />
walk-ins when space is available but appointments<br />
take priority. You can schedule<br />
a session with her by calling 240-925-4309.<br />
For more information call 301-737-5670 ext.<br />
1658<br />
Loffler Senior Activity Center 301-737-5670, ext. 1652; Garvey Senior Activity Center, 301-475-4<strong>20</strong>0, 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 />
Reasons to Include More<br />
Dairy in Your Diet<br />
A healthy diet can improve quality of life and reduce a person's risk of developing<br />
disease or other negative health conditions. For example, a diet rich in fruits and vegetables<br />
can boost the immune system and promote cardiovascular health, lowering your<br />
risk of heart disease in the process.<br />
While the benefits of including fruits and vegetables in your diet are widely known,<br />
the medical benefits of dairy are often overlooked. The following are a handful of ways<br />
that dairy products like low-fat milk, cottage cheese and yogurt can make a nutritious<br />
and beneficial addition to your diet.<br />
• Dairy packs a protein- and calcium-laden punch. One cup of nonfat yogurt can<br />
provide as much as one-third of your daily recommended calcium intake and nearly<br />
<strong>20</strong> percent of your daily recommended protein intake. Though dairy products like ice<br />
cream don't pack the same nutritious punch as yogurt, healthier fare like reduced-fat<br />
cheese and skim milk can go a long way toward meeting your daily intake of protein<br />
and calcium.<br />
• Dairy is a great source of vitamin D. In addition to providing sufficient calcium<br />
and protein, dairy also helps men, women and children boost their vitamin D. That's<br />
especially important in the winter months when people tend to get less exposure to the<br />
sun. Exposure to the sun is a natural way to boost your vitamin D, but the shorter days<br />
and colder weather of winter can make it hard to get sufficient vitamin D during that time<br />
of year. Dairy products like low-fat milk can boost your vitamin D, which can improve<br />
your bone health and, according to recent research, might help reduce your cancer risk.<br />
• Dairy may help lower your blood pressure. Men and women with high blood<br />
pressure might benefit from including more dairy in their diets. In a study of 5,000<br />
adults, Spanish researchers found that those who reported consuming the most low-fat<br />
dairy products were more than 50 percent less likely to develop high blood pressure than<br />
those who consumed less low-fat dairy. Though researchers are not certain as to the<br />
reason behind low-fat dairy products' impact on blood pressure, some theorize that their<br />
calcium and protein content are likely behind the benefit.<br />
• Dairy benefits your bones. Dairy has long been known to improve bone density.<br />
But it's not just seniors who benefit from the bone-strengthening impact of dairy.<br />
Youngsters who consume dairy can also expect an increase in bone mass, which can<br />
make them less susceptible to injuries like broken bones. Seniors who consume dairy<br />
to improve their bone density should know that a recent study from researchers at the<br />
Institute for Aging Research found that not all dairy products are equal when it comes<br />
to improving bone density. While milk and yogurt were linked to higher bone mineral<br />
density, dairy products like cream and ice cream contain less protein, calcium and vitamin<br />
D and more fat and sugar than yogurt and milk, and these products may actually be<br />
associated with lower bone mineral density.<br />
Though there are many ways men and women can improve their overall health,<br />
it's important to consider the nutritional value of dairy when making any alterations to<br />
your diet.<br />
A Journey Through Time<br />
By Linda Reno<br />
Contributing Writer<br />
The<br />
Philip Henry Dorsey<br />
stayed in California for seven<br />
years. Upon his return he<br />
settled in St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong>.<br />
At the time of the 1860 census<br />
he was living in Leonardtown.<br />
In November 1863<br />
he was elected sheriff and<br />
served one term.<br />
During his tenure as sheriff, he had a wide<br />
variety of issues to deal with. The war was now<br />
over and he would have to deal with all criminal<br />
activity, some of which had undoubtedly been<br />
suppressed with the presence of Federal troops.<br />
The August 19, 1865 edition of the Baltimore Sun<br />
reported:<br />
“Homicides in St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong>, Md.—<br />
During the past few weeks, the Negroes in some<br />
sections of this county have been making rather<br />
a fearful abuse of their enlarged legal privileges,<br />
and two homicides and a stabbing affray have<br />
been the result. About two weeks since, Adam,<br />
formerly a slave to John L. Hebb, Esq., and an inoffensive<br />
and well-behaved Negro man, was shot<br />
and killed by a Virginia ‘contraband,’ whilst engaged<br />
in the harmless sport of wrestling. The survivor<br />
claimed that the shooting was the result of<br />
an accident; and in the absence of proof to the contrary,<br />
such was the finding of the coroner’s jury.<br />
A few days afterwards, a Negro named Gustavus<br />
Langley had a misunderstanding with one of his<br />
associates and stabbed and severely wounded<br />
Chronicle<br />
Philip Henry Dorsey, Pt. II<br />
him. The injured party is still in a dangerous condition<br />
and doubts are entertained of his recovery.<br />
On Saturday night last, a Negro named Somerset<br />
Hebb stabbed and instantly killed his brother, in<br />
a family broil, to defend his own life, he states,<br />
from a murderous attack by the deceased.”<br />
On December 21, 1865 just a month after<br />
his tenure as Sheriff ended, Philip married Ann<br />
“Annie” L. Bryant at Havre de Grace in Harford<br />
<strong>County</strong>. Then in 1873 he was elected as <strong>County</strong><br />
Commissioner; in 1885 he was appointed postmaster<br />
of the St. Clement’s Bay post office (he<br />
resigned in 1887); and in 1891 he was elected as<br />
Register of Wills. Life was pretty good for Philip<br />
and Annie, at least until the summer of 1895.<br />
“Luke B. Dorsey was killed by lightning on<br />
Tuesday evening while running for cover from a<br />
storm with his brother, Phil. H. Dorsey, near Hill<br />
Top. Son of Phil. H. Dorsey, Register of Wills.<br />
He was about 19 years old. Buried at All Saints<br />
Church yesterday afternoon.” (The Enterprise,<br />
August 31, 1895).<br />
“Mrs. Philip H. Dorsey d. on the 31st ultimo.<br />
Her death is believed to have been influenced by<br />
the sudden and unexpected death of her son, Luke<br />
B. Dorsey who was killed by lightning on the<br />
29th ultimo. Consort of Philip H. Dorsey. Buried<br />
in All Saints burial ground.” (The Enterprise,<br />
September 7, 1895).<br />
Philip Dorsey died October 21, 1899 and is<br />
buried at All Saint’s Episcopal Church beside his<br />
wife. He and Annie had eight children, seven of<br />
whom lived to adulthood—the only child they<br />
lost in infancy was Alexander Stephens Dorsey,<br />
born in 1874; died in 1877.
What’s<br />
What’s<br />
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The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Going On<br />
Thursday, June <strong>20</strong><br />
• Dave Norris<br />
DB McMillan’s (23415 Three Notch Road,<br />
California) – 6 p.m.<br />
• Mike Starkey<br />
Toot’s Bar (23971 Mervell Dean Road,<br />
Hollywood) – 8:30 p.m.<br />
• GrooveSpan Duo<br />
Monterey’s Restaurant (11753 Trueman<br />
Road, Lusby) – 6 p.m.<br />
• Mixed Business<br />
Ruddy Duck Brewery (13<strong>20</strong>0 Dowell<br />
Road, Dowell) – 7:30 p.m.<br />
Friday, June 21<br />
• Charles Thompson<br />
Toot’s Bar (23971 Mervell Dean Road,<br />
Hollywood) – 8:30 p.m.<br />
• HydraFx<br />
ABC Liquors and Lounge (22741 Three<br />
Notch Road California) – 7 p.m.<br />
• The Piranhas<br />
Ruddy Duck Brewery (13<strong>20</strong>0 Dowell<br />
Road, Dowell) – 9 p.m.<br />
• Some Assembly<br />
The Westlawn Inn (9<strong>20</strong>0 Chesapeake Avenue,<br />
North Beach) – 7:30 p.m.<br />
• Three Sixty Band<br />
Anthony’s Bar and Grill (10371 <strong>Southern</strong><br />
<strong>Maryland</strong> Blvd, Dunkirk) – 9 p.m.<br />
• Bucket List<br />
The Blue Dog Saloon and Restaurant (7940<br />
Port Tobacco Road, Port Tobacco)<br />
– 8 p.m.<br />
• Angie Miller<br />
Running Hare Vineyard (150 Adelina<br />
Road Prince Frederick) – 6 p.m.<br />
• No Green Jelly Beenz<br />
Port Tobacco Marina (7610 Shirley<br />
Blvd.,Port Tobacco Village) – 10 p.m.<br />
Saturday, June 22<br />
• R and R Train<br />
Toot’s Bar (23971 Mervell Dean Road,<br />
Hollywood) – 8:30 p.m.<br />
• Uncle Steve’s Band<br />
Morris Point Restarant (38869 Morris<br />
Point Rd Abell) – 6 p.m.<br />
• Historic St. Mary’s Beer Festival<br />
Historic St. Mary’s City (18751 Hogaboom<br />
Lane, St. Mary’s City) – 1 p.m.<br />
• The Colliders<br />
Ruddy Duck Brewery (13<strong>20</strong>0 Dowell<br />
Road, Dowell) – 8 p.m.<br />
In Entertainment<br />
• One Louder<br />
Vera’s White Sands Beach Club (1<strong>20</strong>0<br />
White Sands Drive, Lusby) – 9:30 p.m.<br />
• Kappa and Paul<br />
The Westlawn Inn (9<strong>20</strong>0 Chesapeake Avenue,<br />
North Beach) – 7:30 p.m.<br />
• Mike Butler<br />
Running Hare Vineyard (150 Adelina<br />
Road Prince Frederick) – 12 p.m.<br />
• Legends<br />
Cryer’s Back Road Inn (2<strong>20</strong>94 Newtowne<br />
Neck Road, Leonardtown) – 9 p.m.<br />
• Price of Freedom Music Fest<br />
7th District Optimist (21804 Colton Point<br />
Road, Avenue) – 2 p.m.<br />
• Gracie’s Guys and Gals 25th Reunion<br />
Recital<br />
Huntingtown High School (4125 N. Solomons<br />
Island Rd, Huntingtown) – 12 p.m.<br />
• Rock the Dock, Summer Concert<br />
Series<br />
Chesapeake Beach Resort & Spa (4165<br />
Mears Ave., Chesapeake Beach) – 6:30<br />
p.m.<br />
Sunday, June 23<br />
• The Piranha’s<br />
Toot’s Bar (23971 Mervell Dean Road,<br />
Hollywood) – 3 p.m.<br />
• Matt Zimmerman<br />
Running Hare Vineyard (150 Adelina<br />
Road Prince Frederick) – 1 p.m.<br />
• Gracie’s Guys and Gals 25th Reunion<br />
Recital<br />
Huntingtown High School (4125 N. Solomons<br />
Island Rd, Huntingtown) – 2:30 p.m.<br />
• Sunday Jazz and Requests<br />
Café des Artistes (41655 Fenwick Street,<br />
Leonardtown) – 5 p.m.<br />
Monday, June 24<br />
•Fair Warning<br />
DB McMillan’s (23415 Three Notch Road,<br />
California) – 5 p.m.<br />
Tuesday, June 25<br />
•Mason Sebastian<br />
DB McMillan’s (23415 Three Notch Road,<br />
California) – 5 p.m.<br />
Wednesday, June 26<br />
• Rock the Dock Summer Concert Series:<br />
Beach Music<br />
Chesapeake Beach Resort and Spa (4165<br />
Mears Ave., Chesapeake Beach) – 7 p.m.<br />
Please submit calendar listings by 12 p.m. on the<br />
Tuesday prior to our Thursday publication.<br />
Book Review<br />
“Nine Years Under”<br />
by Sheri Booker<br />
c.<strong>20</strong>13, Gotham Books<br />
$26.00 / $27.50 Canada<br />
272 pages<br />
By Terri Schlichenmeyer<br />
OW contributor<br />
Sitting around all summer<br />
would’ve been so wrong.<br />
And that’s why you found a<br />
job that year between classes. No<br />
more parental hand-outs, no more<br />
wearing clothes your mom bought<br />
you, no more borrowing the car.<br />
With your own job, you had your<br />
own money to buy your own things,<br />
maybe help out at home, or sock<br />
some away. Finding work, yep, was<br />
the right thing to do.<br />
For then-15-year-old Sheri<br />
Booker, the savings from her very<br />
unique job went towards college. In<br />
her new memoir, “Nine Years Under,”<br />
she explains why it was a job<br />
she’d been dying to get.<br />
Fifteen-year-old Sheri Booker<br />
felt “ignored by God.”<br />
She didn’t realize that “hospice<br />
care was the beginning of the<br />
end,” so when her Great-Great-<br />
Aunt Mary died of cancer, Booker<br />
was surprised – and lost. Growing<br />
up in Northeast Baltimore, she had<br />
few heroes. Aunt Mary was one of<br />
them, but Booker didn’t feel like<br />
she had “permission to mourn.”<br />
She didn’t feel like going to<br />
church, either, but her parents insisted.<br />
It was there that Booker ran<br />
into one of the church’s deacons,<br />
Mr. Albert Wylie, who also owned<br />
one of Baltimore’s many African-<br />
American funeral homes.<br />
He didn’t ask her how she was<br />
handling her loss. Instead, he offered<br />
her a job.<br />
For four hours a night, a few<br />
nights a week, Booker answered<br />
the phones and the door at Albert P.<br />
Wylie Funeral Home. She thought<br />
it might be weird, but it wasn’t –<br />
it was interesting, and she did her<br />
work well. Soon, she was assisting<br />
with viewings and she learned her<br />
first lesson: never let clients see you<br />
cry.<br />
But that was difficult. Witnessing<br />
the grief of families who lost<br />
someone elderly was hard enough.<br />
Wylie Funeral Home also did a<br />
brisk business with the city’s poor,<br />
the gang-bangers and drug addicts.<br />
Still, it was a job Booker enjoyed<br />
and soon, she started doing<br />
errands for Mr. Wylie. Then she did<br />
paperwork, filing, and bookwork.<br />
Eventually, she dressed bodies<br />
and assisted as much as she legally<br />
could. She became an honorary<br />
member of the Wylie family for<br />
nine happy years, but in work – as<br />
in life - all good things must come<br />
to an end…<br />
Looking for something with a<br />
great plot? Something different,<br />
delightful, but a little dark? Then<br />
you need “Nine Years Under.”<br />
With knowledge, a willingness<br />
to disclose, and a good amount of<br />
humor, author Sheri Booker not<br />
only shares the story of her tenure<br />
as a funeral home assistant and<br />
the duties she assumed, she also<br />
gives readers a sense of what goes<br />
on behind closed doors there. She<br />
weaves this information – some of<br />
which is graphic – in with observations<br />
on mourners, neighbors, and<br />
the industry as a whole. I loved that<br />
Booker finds a certain amount of<br />
comedy in death and preparing for<br />
its rituals, and her musings on funerals<br />
are priceless.<br />
This is a wonderful, wonderful<br />
book that sounds squirmy, yet is<br />
anything but. So grab “Nine Years<br />
Under” – because if you think<br />
you’ll like it, you’re dead right.<br />
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Thursday, June <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong>13 32<br />
June All Month Long<br />
• ZUMBA Class PSA<br />
Mechanicsville Vol. Fire Department Social<br />
Hall, 7 p.m.<br />
The Mechanicsville Vol. Fire Department<br />
Ladies Auxiliary is Sponsoring<br />
ZUMBA Fitness Classes every Tuesday<br />
and Thursday Nights. Classes are $6 each<br />
with Punch Cards available for $30. Beginning<br />
June 11, <strong>20</strong>13 we will have ZUMBA<br />
TONING from 6-6:45. Classes are $5 each<br />
with punch cards are available for $25.<br />
Come Join the Fun!<br />
• Camp Green Lake<br />
St. Mary’s Public Library, Lexington Park,<br />
2 to 4 p.m.<br />
To help maintain their reading skills,<br />
kids ages 10 and older can participate in<br />
Camp Green Lake, a book group that will<br />
meet every Wednesday at Lexington Park<br />
branch starting June 19 and ending August<br />
14. This book discussion of Louis Sachar’s<br />
book, “Holes,” has an interactive twist as<br />
the kids will listen to and read along with<br />
a librarian, chat about the story, and then<br />
participate in activities and crafts.<br />
Friday, June 21<br />
• Steak and Shrimp Night<br />
American Legion Post 221, located at<br />
21690 Colton Point Rd (Rt. 242), in Avenue,<br />
5 to 8 p.m.<br />
This is an excellent opportunity to<br />
get out and meet people in the community.<br />
There are several menu items for the adults<br />
and kids to enjoy at a reasonable price. Call<br />
301-769-4569 or visit www.alpost221.webs.<br />
com/.<br />
• SMART Recovery Self-Help Network<br />
Meeting<br />
Beacon of Hope Recovery and Wellness<br />
Center is located in Millison Plaza, Lexington<br />
Park, 7 p.m.<br />
SMART (Self-Management and Recovery<br />
Training) Recovery meetings are<br />
free and open to the public self-help meetings<br />
for anyone struggling with any type of<br />
addictive behavior. Recovery tools based<br />
on modern cognitive/behavioral methods<br />
as well as insight and support from other<br />
group members are a part of the success of<br />
the program. A lay facilitator certified in<br />
SMART Recovery (a registered trademark<br />
of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Self-Help<br />
Network, Inc leads groups.<br />
For more information, call Laura at<br />
301-997-1300 x 804 or email lauraw@<br />
waldensierra.org.<br />
Saturday, June 22<br />
• Household Hazardous Waste Collection<br />
Appeal Landfill at 401 Sweetwater Road, 8<br />
a.m. to 2 p.m.<br />
The Calvert <strong>County</strong> Department of<br />
Public Works, Division of Solid Waste, will<br />
host a household hazardous waste collection<br />
day on Saturday, in Lusby. The event<br />
will give Calvert <strong>County</strong> residents the opportunity<br />
to safely dispose of hazardous<br />
substances free of charge.<br />
During the collection day, a licensed<br />
contractor will collect household hazardous<br />
waste for proper disposal. Collection is limited<br />
to Calvert <strong>County</strong> residents only and<br />
proof of residency is required. Waste from<br />
commercial businesses is prohibited.<br />
This service ensures that Calvert<br />
<strong>County</strong> meets all state and federal requirements<br />
with regard to the safe collection of<br />
household hazardous waste.<br />
Hazardous waste commonly found<br />
in the home includes materials such as oilbased<br />
paints, gasoline, gas/oil mix, pool<br />
chemicals, solvents, fertilizers, prescription<br />
drugs, explosives and other items usually<br />
labeled with the words “TOXIC,” “DAN-<br />
GER,” “POISON” or “WARNING.” These<br />
items should be separated from regular<br />
household trash and disposed of in an environmentally<br />
friendly way.<br />
Latex paint, however, is not hazardous<br />
and will not be accepted at the event. Latex<br />
paint may be thrown out with regular<br />
trash once it has dried. Small amounts of<br />
latex paint can be left to dry in an open can.<br />
Larger amounts can be combined with oil<br />
absorbent, kitty litter or paint hardener until<br />
it is hard.<br />
<strong>County</strong> residents may drop off trash,<br />
recyclables and certain other materials at<br />
customer convenience centers and the Appeal<br />
Landfill, including motor oil and oil<br />
filters, antifreeze, batteries, cooking oil and<br />
various types of light bulbs.<br />
Hazardous waste collection days are<br />
held four times a year in Calvert <strong>County</strong> –<br />
one Saturday in March and September at<br />
the Mt. Hope Community Center and one<br />
Saturday in June and November at the Appeal<br />
Landfill.<br />
For more information, call the Calvert<br />
<strong>County</strong> Department of Public Works, Division<br />
of Solid Waste, at 410-326-0210 or visit<br />
www.co.cal.md.us/hazardouswaste for a<br />
full listing of materials accepted<br />
Sunday, June 23<br />
• James Johnston: From Slave Ship to<br />
Harvard<br />
Historic Sotterley, Inc. P.O. Box 67 Hollywood,<br />
Md., 3:00 p.m.<br />
Accomplished attorney and journalist<br />
James Johnston discusses the true story<br />
of six generations of an African-American<br />
family in <strong>Maryland</strong>, the Yarrows and their<br />
in-laws the Turners, from arrival on a slave<br />
ship in 1752 to Harvard in 1923 to today. A<br />
narrative of black struggle and achievement<br />
from paintings & photographs to court records<br />
& oral histories.<br />
The Boeing Company sponsors the<br />
Sotterley Speaker Series<br />
Committed to community support<br />
and service, The Boeing Company has<br />
been dedicated to promoting education<br />
and the arts within the <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong><br />
community. This generous sponsorship allows<br />
our Speaker Series to be free of charge<br />
for the general public. Due to limited seating<br />
advanced reservations are requested.<br />
Please call 301-373-2280 to make your reservation<br />
today<br />
• Vendor Quarter Auction<br />
Knights of Columbus Hall, Ridge, 1 p.m.<br />
Paddles are $3 each. Items are a bid<br />
between $0.25 to a $1. Vendors will be:<br />
Celebrating Home, Damsel in Defense, Fibi<br />
and Clo, Lia Sophia, Miche, thirty-one, K<br />
and K Designs, Scentsy, Tomboy Tools,<br />
Mary Kay, Cookie Lee, and Cheeky Sweet<br />
Boutique. Food and Drinks will be on Sale<br />
along with Baked Goods & a 50/50 Raffle.<br />
• Annual June Dinner<br />
Sacred Heart Church, 23080 Maddox Rd.,<br />
Bushwood, noon to 4 p.m.<br />
Sacred Heart Church in Bushwood<br />
will be holding their Annual June Dinner.<br />
The menu includes, crab cakes, country<br />
ham, fried chicken, potato salad, coleslaw,<br />
green beans, beets, rolls and tea. The cost is<br />
$24 for adults, $6 for children 12 and under<br />
and $24 for drive-thru carry-outs.<br />
Monday, June 24<br />
• Uncle Pete Concert<br />
St. Mary’s Public Library<br />
The popular Professional Performances<br />
held on Mondays during the summer<br />
will kick off on June 24 with a kids’ concert<br />
by Uncle Pete. Charlotte Hall branch’s<br />
performance will be held at White Marsh<br />
Elementary at 10 a.m., Leonardtown’s<br />
will be held at Leonardtown Elementary<br />
at 12:30 p.m. and Lexington Park’s will be<br />
at the library at 3 p.m. Uncle Pete’s performances<br />
are made possible by a grant<br />
from St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Art Council and<br />
matching funds from Friends of St. Mary’s<br />
<strong>County</strong> Library. Those attending are asked<br />
to bring a non-perishable food item for the<br />
local food pantry.<br />
• Yoga and Expressive Arts Summer<br />
Program<br />
Joy Lane Healing Center, 9 a.m.<br />
Kids will enjoy a combination of yoga<br />
and art adventure with time and space to<br />
play. Bring your yoga mat if you have one.<br />
no yoga or crafting experience necessary<br />
Dates June 24-June 28 (5 day morning<br />
program)<br />
Time: 9 to 11:30 a.m. The fee per child<br />
is $135, which includes craft supplies. Reservations<br />
are required.<br />
Ages: 4-7 years<br />
Activities: Yoga class, breathing exercises,<br />
eco-based art, healthy snack, games,<br />
nature walks, journaling, relaxation and<br />
more<br />
Tuesday, June 25<br />
• Grant Proposal Writing<br />
St. Mary’s Public Library, Lexington Park,<br />
1 p.m.<br />
For those new to grant proposal writing<br />
or who want to improve their writing,<br />
Lexington Park Library is offering a live<br />
webinar that will cover the basics of writing<br />
a standard proposal as well as tips communicating<br />
with funders. The free webinar<br />
presented by the Foundation Center will<br />
be on June 25 at 1 p.m. Registration is<br />
required.<br />
Wednesday, June 26<br />
• Spirit Night Fundraiser<br />
Chick-Fil-A, First Colony Center<br />
45150 First Colony Way<br />
California, 5 to 7 p.m.<br />
There’ll be “live” Bluegrass Music &<br />
raffles in the parking lot. You’re welcome<br />
to bring your lawn chairs. A portion of the<br />
evening’s proceeds go toward the Bluegrass<br />
for Hospice-<strong>20</strong>13, a fundraiser to benefit the<br />
“Hospice House of St. Mary’s”<br />
Thursday, June 27<br />
• Senior Bullying Presentation<br />
Lexington Park Adult Community, Lexington<br />
Park, 1:30 p.m.<br />
Triad/SALT (Seniors & Law Enforcement<br />
Together) will be hosting a presentation<br />
on Senior Bullying. The presentation<br />
engages participants with a working definition<br />
of what bullying behaviors are, gives<br />
examples of how these behaviors appear<br />
in senior living communities, offers strategies<br />
for bystanders and those experiencing<br />
bullying to address the behaviors, and also<br />
provides a dialogue about why bullying<br />
might be happening in senior living communities.<br />
The presentation is free and all<br />
are welcome to attend. For more information,<br />
contact Jennifer Hunt at 301-475-4<strong>20</strong>0<br />
ext. 1073.<br />
• Concert: Sheltered Turtle<br />
St. Mary’s College of <strong>Maryland</strong> Campus<br />
Center, 6:30 p.m.<br />
“Sheltered Turtle,” a guitar solo act,<br />
will perform on the St. Mary’s College of<br />
<strong>Maryland</strong> Campus Center patio. “Sheltered<br />
Turtle” is an autobiographical, acousticpercussive<br />
fingerstyle guitar solo act by<br />
multicultural musician Henry Nam. Following<br />
in the footsteps of guitarists Michael<br />
Hedges, Preston Reed, and Leo Kottke,<br />
Nam blends rhythmic chords, pianistic<br />
melodies, and heart-pounding percussion<br />
parts in his exuberant live performances.<br />
His debut release, “Runaway Sketchbook”<br />
(<strong>20</strong>13), is the first volume of an ambitious,<br />
year-long project to record a backlog of four<br />
years of original material exclusively in locations<br />
that enhance natural acoustics.<br />
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Library Items<br />
Kids’ Book Group Has an Interactive<br />
Twist<br />
A book group for kids 10 years and older<br />
is meeting on Wednesdays at Lexington Park<br />
branch from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Kids will listen<br />
to and read Louis Sachar’s book, “Holes,” along<br />
with a librarian, chat about the story, and then<br />
participate in activities and crafts.<br />
LEGO Fun Planned<br />
Leonardtown branch will offer LEGO Fun<br />
on June 21 for kids 3 to 6 years old at 2 p.m. and<br />
at 3:30 p.m. for ages six and older. LEGO Fun<br />
will be held at Charlotte Hall branch on June 28<br />
for ages 3 to 6 year olds at 10:30 a.m. and for<br />
ages six and older at 2:30 p.m.<br />
Basics of Writing Grant Proposals<br />
Offered<br />
A live webinar presented by the Foundation<br />
Center on the basics of writing a standard<br />
proposal will be offered at Lexington Park<br />
branch on June 25 at 1 p.m. The free webinar<br />
will also provide tips on communicating with<br />
funders. Registration is required.<br />
Professional Performance Series<br />
Kicks Off Monday<br />
A kids’ concert full of dancing, music and<br />
laughter will be presented by Uncle Pete on<br />
June 24 kicking off the library’s Professional<br />
Performance series. A free performance by<br />
a different performer will be held each Monday<br />
through July 29. Charlotte Hall branch’s<br />
performances will be held at White Marsh<br />
Elementary at 10 a.m., Leonardtown’s will be<br />
held at Leonardtown Elementary at 12:30 p.m.<br />
and Lexington Park’s will be at the library at<br />
3 p.m. Uncle Pete’s performances are made<br />
possible by a grant from St. Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Art<br />
Council and matching funds from Friends of St.<br />
Mary’s <strong>County</strong> Library. Those attending are<br />
asked to bring a non-perishable food item for<br />
the local food pantry.<br />
Kids Will Explore Rocks<br />
Kids ages 7 to 12 years old will explore<br />
and identify various rock types using household<br />
items at Rockin’ Out at Leonardtown branch on<br />
June 28 at 10 a.m. This program will be presented<br />
by growing STEMS. Registration is<br />
required.<br />
Weekly Crafternoons Return<br />
Starting the week of June 25, kids 4 to 12<br />
years old can stop by and make a craft anytime<br />
between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. at Charlotte Hall<br />
and Lexington Park libraries on Tuesdays and<br />
Thursdays and at Leonardtown library on Tuesdays.<br />
A different craft project is planned each<br />
week through August 1. Supplies are provided.<br />
CHURCH SERVICES DIRECTORY<br />
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BAPTIST CHURCH<br />
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301-884-8645 or 301-274-3627<br />
Pastor Keith Corrick<br />
Associate Pastor Kevin Cullins<br />
• Sunday Morning Worship<br />
• Sunday School (all ages)<br />
• Sunday Evening Worship & Bible Study<br />
• Wednesday Discipleship Classes<br />
(Adults, youth & Children)<br />
St. Cecelia Church<br />
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6:00 pm<br />
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CATHOLIC CHURCH<br />
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Vigil Mass:<br />
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By Alex Panos<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Price of Freedom Music Festival returns<br />
to Seventh District this weekend, featuring<br />
popular local bands such as Sam Grow Band,<br />
No Green Jelly Beenz, Jukebox Thieves and<br />
HydraFx.<br />
While Sam Grow is the only returning<br />
act, Rick Mattingly, the festival chairperson,<br />
believes the music will be similar to last<br />
year’s lineup.<br />
He is excited for the talent that is coming<br />
together Saturday; adding HydraFX does<br />
it all, the Beenz know how to get the crowd<br />
involved, Sam Grow is starting his country<br />
music career and Juke Box Thieves cover a<br />
variety of songs and styles.<br />
There will be something for everyone to<br />
enjoy, Mattingly continued, including southern<br />
and classic rock, country music and even<br />
hip-hop.<br />
“It’s going to be a big party,” he said.<br />
The festival also includes a car show<br />
this year.<br />
All different types of vehicles will be<br />
on display, says Mattingly, and prizes will<br />
be administered in four different categories<br />
– trucks, cars, classic cars and a people’s<br />
choice award.<br />
The festival will raise money for A<br />
Community That Shares (ACTS) in order<br />
to help provide medical equipment, such<br />
as wheelchairs and crutches, to those that<br />
would otherwise not have access to it.<br />
The equipment would be “outrageously<br />
expensive,” says<br />
Mattingly, and the<br />
funds help give a<br />
wider spectrum of<br />
people access to it.<br />
The group is<br />
adding onto its current<br />
building as well,<br />
and needs funding to<br />
help move forward<br />
with the project,<br />
says Mattingly.<br />
This is the second<br />
year the event<br />
will be for charity –<br />
last year money was<br />
raised for military<br />
veterans.<br />
Before the name<br />
change, Seventh<br />
District use to hold<br />
the festival strictly<br />
as a social event,<br />
known then as the<br />
“Swamp Romp,” and<br />
No Green Jelly Beenz<br />
Freedom Fest This Sat<br />
featured predominantly bluegrass music.<br />
When Mattingly took over as coordinator,<br />
he decided to take the event up a notch<br />
and make it a charity event.<br />
“It’s the same concept,” Mattingly explained<br />
of the social atmosphere he has<br />
replicated with the new version of the festival,<br />
adding his changes have instead been<br />
focused on raising money for local charities.<br />
“Now we try to make it a little more<br />
personable.”<br />
Last year around 600 people showed up<br />
for the festival, and this year through additional<br />
promotion and word of mouth, Mattingly<br />
is hoping for 800 to 1,000 patrons.<br />
“I’m hearing a lot more buzz about it<br />
this year than I did last [year],” Mattingly<br />
said.<br />
He is looking forward to the community<br />
atmosphere that will be present throughout<br />
the day, adding “everybody knows everybody<br />
in Seventh District.”<br />
The festival will be held at Seventh District<br />
Optimist Field, located just before the<br />
fire department and American Legion.<br />
The car show kicks off at 11 a.m., and<br />
music begins at 2 p.m.<br />
Mattingly says the show will wind<br />
down around 10 p.m.<br />
Tickets are available online for $10, or<br />
at the gate on Saturday for $15.<br />
Visit 7thdistrictoptimist.org or contact<br />
Mattingly at 240-538-79<strong>20</strong> for more<br />
information.<br />
alexpanos@countytimes.net<br />
Hydra Fx
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St. Leonard VFD Concert Series Kicks Off<br />
Local Musician Sam Grow opened for Country Music Stars Lauren Alaina and Joe Nichols this past Sunday at the St. Leonard VFD Concert Series.<br />
Photos by Mike Batson Photography<br />
<strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong> Music Fest<br />
Features Bands, Bars and Poker<br />
Photos by Mike Batson Photography<br />
More than a dozen bands took the stage and entertained the crowds during the second <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maryland</strong> Sun And Music Fest, including Scarletta, left, who closed out the first day of the show, and the<br />
Kelly Bell Band, right, who closed out the second day of the festival. The Ruddy Duck, DB McMillians, Montereys Mexican Restaurant, The Greene Turtle, Big Dogs Paradise and DiGiovanni’s in Solomons<br />
hosted after parties.
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Yard Sales<br />
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Fri, June 21 & Sat, June 22<br />
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Garden Supplies, Shrubs, Tools, Books,<br />
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24040 Brubacher Lane<br />
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Multi Home Yard Sale. Saturday, June<br />
22nd, from 6:30 a.m. to Noon. Lyard<br />
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Golden Retriever Rescue of <strong>Southern</strong><br />
<strong>Maryland</strong> (GRRSM) is holding a Yard<br />
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is located between Sheetz and the<br />
Cheseldine Car Wash on Rt. 235 in St.<br />
Mary’s <strong>County</strong>.) Items include lots of<br />
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entertainers, clothes), young boy clothes,<br />
rocking chair, kitchen items, boating<br />
life jackets, training ski’s, slip n slides,<br />
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for Princess whom came to rescue as<br />
an owner surrender from St. Mary’s<br />
<strong>County</strong>. Funds raised will help pay for her<br />
multiple vet visits and surgery to remove<br />
a cancerous tumor. GRRSM is a nonprofit<br />
501(3)(c) all volunteer organization<br />
dedicated to finding homes for Golden<br />
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CLUES ACROSS<br />
1. __ Dhabi, Arabian capital<br />
4. Invests in little enterprises<br />
8. Stalk of a moss capsule<br />
12. Beach material<br />
14. Maneuver in a game<br />
15. A castrated male chicken<br />
16. Write bad checks<br />
17. Sewer inhabitants<br />
18. Farewell (Spanish)<br />
19. Player makes 3 goals in one game<br />
22. Greek rainbow goddess<br />
23. Tax collector<br />
24. Make unhappy<br />
27. Hygienic<br />
32. Double-reed instrument<br />
33. Beetle Bailey’s dog<br />
34. Fee, ___, foe, fum<br />
35. One dish meal<br />
38. Goatlike antelope<br />
40. Consumed food<br />
41. Peels<br />
42. Emerald Isle<br />
43. Duties helpful to others<br />
45. Fragments of cloth<br />
47. Frozen water<br />
48. Spanish river<br />
49. Stated an inquiry<br />
56. Laid-back California county<br />
57. Fearless and daring<br />
58. Sound after its source has stopped<br />
59. Blackboard rock<br />
60. A domed or vaulted recess<br />
61. Six (Spanish)<br />
62. French city<br />
63. Herringlike clupeid fish<br />
64. Oriental sauce<br />
CLUES DOWN<br />
1. Requests<br />
2. Spoken in the Dali<br />
region of Yunnan<br />
3. Up to the time of<br />
4. Common ankle injury<br />
5. Tedium<br />
6. 9th Greek letter<br />
7. Abnormal closed body sac<br />
8. One who obtains pleasure<br />
from other’s pain<br />
9. Long narrative heroic poem<br />
10. Possessed by force<br />
11. Autonomic nervous system<br />
13. Treats with contempt<br />
15. Bears<br />
<strong>20</strong>. Before<br />
21. Light ringing sound<br />
24. Blends of soul and calypso<br />
25. Fall off in intensity<br />
26. Gives medicine<br />
27. Gross receipts<br />
28. Square measures<br />
29. Ablaze<br />
30. Incapable of flexibility<br />
31. Bears, sheep or goats<br />
33. An open skin infection<br />
36. Effeminate<br />
37. Competed in a speed test<br />
39. Supplies with air<br />
44. Short stays<br />
45. Sown a lawn<br />
46. 60 min. units (abbr.)<br />
48. Second largest<br />
Oklahoma city<br />
49. Fence picket<br />
50. 2nd largest Algerian<br />
port city<br />
51. Camel or goat fabrics<br />
52. 19th Hebrew letter<br />
53. Frosts<br />
54. 17th state<br />
55. Inquisitorial<br />
56. Manuscripts (abbr.)<br />
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39 Thursday, June <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong>13<br />
The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Wanderings<br />
of an<br />
By Shelby Oppermann<br />
Contributing Writer<br />
Aimless<br />
Mind<br />
A Week of<br />
Surprises<br />
Oh boy, it’s the start of birthday week again! My husband’s<br />
birthday was Tuesday, and mine will be Saturday. I used<br />
to get so excited, but now it’s more of a nice night out to eat<br />
dinner – though a cookout is fine with me too. My husband gets<br />
a double whammy with Father’s Day on Sunday and his birthday<br />
two days later every year. His daughter, Michelle, and two<br />
of our grandkids, Leigha and Logan took him out for crabs at<br />
Seabreeze Restaurant. Not a bad Father’s Day.<br />
I took the opportunity while my husband was out having<br />
crabs Sunday evening to have a quick bite at somewhere where<br />
he normally wouldn’t eat. It was another one of those achy days,<br />
and I didn’t want to cook for myself, so Tidbit and I went to<br />
the AJ Hibachi Express in Charlotte Hall near Tequila Grill<br />
and April’s Pool and Spa. I love Japanese cuisine, so this was<br />
a treat. The restaurant smelled heavenly when I walked in. I<br />
ordered the steak and scallop combination, which comes with<br />
a salad, soup and fried rice. I always like the YumYum and<br />
ginger dipping sauces. I had an enjoyable time talking to my<br />
server Tina, whose husband, Jim, along with his brother, Andy<br />
make up the AJ in the name AJ Hibachi. Andy is the sushi master<br />
and Jim is the griller. I have yet to try their sushi, but the<br />
grilling was perfect. Tina was so kind; we showed each other<br />
pictures – mine of the grandkids, and she of their 4 month old<br />
cute baby. Tina also sent me out with a nice bowl of water for<br />
Miss Tidbit, and showed me how to use the chopsticks properly.<br />
I finally got it! When I asked her how you can pick up the rice<br />
with the chopsticks, and made a comment that this is why she<br />
was so thin, she replied, “We use a spoon for the rice.” Oh, that<br />
explains it. Another employee, Ye was ever so attentive; your<br />
table is kept picked up and neat. And I think if you ask Tina,<br />
she will show you the picture of Jim’s carved watermelon that<br />
looks just like a turtle – what a great centerpiece for an event. I<br />
was also told that they will be making new, big changes on their<br />
menu soon. I can’t wait!<br />
I must admit, we actually already started birthday week a<br />
little early. Saturday night we traveled over to Ingleside Plantation<br />
Winery in Leedstown, Virginia for their “Dancing under<br />
the stars” night set in their beautiful courtyard. If you haven’t<br />
been there, it takes about an hour or less to get there from Mechanicsville<br />
and you feel like you are really far away. Their<br />
courtyard is surrounded by trees and grapevine intertwined<br />
with tiny white lights. In the center sits a soothing three tiered<br />
fountain with geraniums and violets at the base. I love finding<br />
a table near the fountain. On Saturday night, the musical entertainment<br />
was provided by the Rappahannock Pops Orchestra,<br />
and dinner was catered by The Inn at Montross. The meal was<br />
absolutely delicious. I am still amazed that my husband agreed<br />
so readily to an evening of jazz and big band music. But, once<br />
they threw Marvin Gaye and Al Green into the mix – he was<br />
even happier. We stayed the night in Colonial Beach, and happily<br />
awoke to a Father’s Day classic car show.<br />
If this was the start of birthday week then I am in excited<br />
anticipation for tomorrow and Saturday. Sam Grow, No Green<br />
Jelly Beenz here we come!!<br />
MOOve Over<br />
Cow’s Milk<br />
By Debra Meszaros CSN<br />
www.MXSportsNutrition.com<br />
Could which beverage you choose<br />
really make a difference in maintaining<br />
health?<br />
What about alternative milks, are<br />
they really better than cow’s milk?<br />
After decades of controversy, it’s<br />
beginning to look like the dairy industries<br />
portrayal of cow’s milk being<br />
healthy is gradually deteriorating. Alternative<br />
milk products are plentiful in<br />
any supermarket; but are they really the<br />
better choice?<br />
Hand’s down the winner in the milk department is<br />
breast milk. No formula or alternative milk product can<br />
compete in the nutrition department. The advantages to<br />
making the choice to breast feed your child is enormous.<br />
Somewhere in this process the idea arose that humans<br />
should consume milk from another animal, and commercial<br />
cow’s milk production was born. In the beginning raw<br />
milk was produced; then pasteurized milk, than homogenization<br />
was added to the process. Today’s milk products<br />
are so far removed from nature that any benefits we<br />
thought may have originally existed have vanished. It is<br />
no longer a living food. Try feeding commercial milk to a<br />
baby calf; I think you’d be surprised at the results.<br />
Get over it<br />
Drinking cow’s milk as been a main stay for a very<br />
long time; many generations helped shape the way most<br />
people view it. What it once was is not what it is today.<br />
Sinus issues, ear infections, rashes, and auto immune responses<br />
are often linked to milk. Like sugar, cow’s milk is<br />
also a food choice that most people will defend; but there<br />
are some very beneficial alternatives to cow’s milk that one<br />
might want to consider. The word milk has a much broader<br />
perspective now.<br />
Nuts, grains, soy and more<br />
The structure of cow’s milk is intended to support a<br />
baby calf that will grow to be 700-1500 lbs, humans are<br />
much smaller. The mammal that comes closest to human<br />
size would be goat. Goat’s milk is much closer to human<br />
milk in unpasteurized form. Its fat molecules are about<br />
one-tenth the size of those in cow’s milk, which makes it<br />
easier to digest.<br />
Soy milk gained popularity quickly but is not “soy”<br />
good. I’ve yet to understand the practice of infants consuming<br />
soy milk. Besides the genetic modification issue, it often<br />
contains toxins, has a negative affect on the endocrine and<br />
immune systems, and reduces the assimilation of certain<br />
nutrients. In infants the phytoestrogens within soy produces<br />
tens of thousands times more estrogen compounds than normal.<br />
Not too good for hormonal balance.<br />
Pre-packaged rice milk contains no enzymes, its protein<br />
and nutrients altered, which leaves it to be mainly carbohydrate.<br />
It is also moderately inflammatory and contains<br />
natural amounts of arsenic.<br />
Grain milks are easily digested, low in sugar, usually<br />
a complete protein source, and contain fiber and minerals.<br />
Almond milk is best, homemade. If you choose to<br />
purchase it from your local supermarket, as with any other<br />
variety you choose, unsweetened is the way to go. There is<br />
a small warning that goes along with consuming almond<br />
milk; it is high in Omega 6 fatty acids. It is suggested to<br />
balance your omega 6 intake with omega 3, so bring on<br />
the fish oil!<br />
Hemp, chia, flax, and hazelnut are also good choices<br />
for alternative milks with good amounts of nutrition but<br />
the king of nuts is coconut. Coconuts are considered a nut<br />
but really are a fruit. Coconuts have less sugar and more<br />
protein and fat than most fruits; have a high amount of<br />
minerals which helps boost hydration. The high fat content<br />
of coconut milk has its advantages but like any good thing,<br />
over consuming it is not suggested. The practice of rotational<br />
dieting again proves the best foundation for building<br />
a healthy diet.<br />
So next time you reach for that cow’s milk container,<br />
remember there are better choices.<br />
©<strong>20</strong>13 Debra Meszaros MXSportsNutrition.com. All rights<br />
reserved; no duplication without permission. DISCLAIMER: When<br />
you read through the diet and lifestyle information, you must know<br />
that everything within it is for informational purposes only and is<br />
not intended as a substitute for advice from your physician or other<br />
health care professional. I am making no attempt to prescribe any<br />
medical treatment. You should not use the information here for diagnosis<br />
or treatment of any health problem or for prescription of any<br />
medication or other treatment. The products and the claims made<br />
about specific products have not been evaluated by the United States<br />
Food and Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose,<br />
treat, cure or prevent disease. You should consult with a healthcare<br />
professional before starting any diet, exercise or supplementation<br />
program, before taking any medication, or if you have or suspect<br />
you might have a health problem. Confirm the safety of any supplements<br />
with your M.D., N.D. or pharmacist (healthcare professional).<br />
Some information given is solely an opinion, thought and or<br />
conclusion based on experiences, trials, tests, assessments or other<br />
available sources of information. I do not make any guarantees or<br />
promises with regard to results. I may discuss substances that have<br />
not been subject to double blind clinical studies or FDA approval or<br />
regulation. You assume the responsibility for the decision to take any<br />
natural remedy. You and only you are responsible if you choose to<br />
do anything with the information you have read. You do so at your<br />
own risk. I encourage you to make your own health decisions based<br />
upon your research and in partnership with a qualified health care<br />
professional.<br />
To each new day’s adventure,<br />
Shelby<br />
Please send your comments or ideas to: Shelbys.wanderings@yahoo.com<br />
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