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What does “back to school” mean to you?

“To me it means work,” said Rob-ert Dylanharin, 15, an incoming sophomore at Great Mills High School. “They always give us work and you have to do it, so that’s a pain … but also it means you get to see friends.”

“As of a couple of years ago

it would have meant going back to Mor-gantown for school,” said Cory Wood-

burn, 23, from St. Inigoes,

“but now it’s just getting

back to doing something everyday.”

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newsmakersThe Clydesdales team from Suttler Post Farm in Mechan-icsville swept the Howard County Fair on Aug. 8, coming in first, second and third in the halter class. SEE PAGE 19

Curtis P. Litten, a Calvert County commissioner candidate who last year pleaded guilty to mailing the severed head and feet of a dead buzzard to Commissioner Jerry Clark, has been charged with theft in a case involving a sister newspaper of The County Times in Calvert County. SEE PAGE 6

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Leonardtown officials announced Wednesday they have purchased two parcels of land owned by a developer at the Leonardtown Wharf, after more than a year of legal wrangling.

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Dawn Pipkin, an instructional resource teacher at Leonardtown Middle School, has been appointed to the Maryland Council for Educator Effectiveness by Governor Martin O’Malley. Governor O’Malley recently an-nounced his appointments to the Maryland Council for Educator Effectiveness; the University System of Maryland Board of Regents; the Blue Ribbon Commission on Transportation Funding; the State Health Services Cost Review Commission; and the Task Force to Study Nanobiotechnology.

“I am proud to announce the appoint-ments to the various Boards and Com-missions across the State. Each appointee brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise that will serve as an asset to the Boards they will serve on,” said Governor O’Malley. “We have worked hard to compile a list of individuals from across our State with di-verse educational, career, geographic, gen-der and ethnic backgrounds to continue to help protect Maryland’s priorities.”

“Dawn Pipkin is one of our highly ef-fective Board Certified teachers who has a full grasp on the pedagogical strategies and curriculum models designed to improve teaching and learning for all students,” said Dr. Martirano, superintendent of schools. “She is an outstanding selection for the Maryland Council for Educator Effective-ness and she has my full confidence and support.

O’Malley Appoints Pipkin to Maryland Council for Educator Effectiveness

By Guy LeonardStaff Writer

Leonardtown officials announced Wednesday they have purchased two par-cels of land owned by a developer at the Leonardtown Wharf, after more than a year of legal wrangling that started in April 2009 with the town condemning both parcels.

The settlement of the sale of the prop-erty took place Aug. 13, according to a press release from the town government, which resolved the continuing legal fight.

The land had been previously owned by developer Ron Russo, who had sought several years ago to build a mixed-use proj-ect at the wharf of office space and retail shops, including a restaurant.

In 2008, the town’s zoning appeals board declared Russo’s plans for the proj-ect had expired, but a Circuit Court ruling earlier this year overturned that ruling, but did not say anything about the condemna-tion exercise initiated by the town.

Earlier this summer both Russo and town leadership agreed to continue nego-tiation on the price of the land, however, leading to the final settlement.

Since the condemnation exercise be-gan the wharf has been divided between public parklands and the two parcels owned by Russo, cordoned off by fences.

The fences have since been taken down.

According to the press release the

town purchased the property for $1.5 million, with total wharf parcel being ap-praised at $6 million in value.

Russo still owns two houses on either side of the end of Washington Street abut-ting the wharf property.

“This property is the centerpiece of a continued effort toward revitalization of Leonardtown’s most valuable asset, our waterfront,” Mayor J. Harry Norris said in the press release.

Norris said in a later interview that the town government would have to determine what the next step would be for the wharf, but he said he believed that having business there in conjunction with park space was the ideal.

“Economic development is still a big part of this project,” Norris said, adding that expanding the parkland might come first.

“There’s been an increased use of that park and we know we need additional parking and perhaps expansion of the park itself,” Norris said.

For business development, Norris said that the town might pursue grant money to build facilities for transient docking of boats, whose crews would come to visit the town and patronize town businesses.

The anchor for bringing in pleasure boaters would likely be a restaurant at the wharf, though, Norris said, and be the cen-ter for other business development there.

“A restaurant will drive any other eco-nomic development,” Norris said.

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A developer wants to build a central water system on property in Mechanicsville but many local residents have opposed the project because of concerns of extra develop-ment coming into the area.

In a letter writing campaign to the Board of County Commissioners, about 100 residents have stated that they want the commissioners to move ahead with plans to rezone the land at the corner of Flora Corner Road and Route 5 to the rural preservation district per the recently approved Comprehensive Plan.

This would effectively preserve the land and ensure it could not be developed easily.

The Comprehensive Plan focuses on broad land usage police in the county and in its latest iteration concentrates the majority of the county’s acreage into the rural preserva-tion zone.

But what is coming before the county commission-ers for a vote in the coming weeks is whether to amend the Comprehensive Water and Sewer Plan to allow for the addition of the water system for the proposed Multiflora Estates.

Commissioner Thomas A. Mattingly (D-Leonard-town) said that he would not want to see the Mechanicsville community have to deal with the potential that could come from the developer Multiflora LLC.

“I’m probably the strongest advocate for keeping that land in the rural preservation district,” Mattingly said. “I don’t think it should be open to intense development.”

Mattingly said that the commissioner board should be moving to a final vote on the county’s overall zoning ordinances, which would enact the comprehensive plan, by the end of this month or possibly in the beginning of September.

“If we stay consistent with the comprehensive plan it should be reflected in the zoning ordinance,” Mattingly said.

The developer has already submitted a concept plan for potential build out of some of the land in Mechanics-ville, which included 115 lots, of which there are 24 already approved by the county’s planning commission, Derick Berlage, director of land use and growth management said Tuesday.

Those lots could one day have single-family detached homes on them, he said.

“We know that’s one possible scenario they could be planning,” Berlage said.

The land category there, however, must be upgraded to allow for a central water system before any more lots have a chance for approval, Berlage told The County Times.

“You can’t get more than 24 lots approved without cen-tral water,” Berlage said.

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Mechanicsville Residents Opposing Central Water Project


A new base of operations for the University of Maryland’s oyster re-covery effort could increase the number of larval oysters available for re-seeding in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.

The new Oyster Setting Facility at the Horn Point Laboratory near Cambridge, under the operation of the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Science, should be able to produce up to two billion seed oysters, also known as spat.

The ability to give oysters clean shell to set to is critical in preserving their life cycle to full maturity.

“This level of production was only dreamed of a decade ago,” a press release from the center stated. “The construction of the facility will allow [the center] researchers to more than double the number of oyster spat-on-shell available for Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts.”

The new facility located on the Eastern Shore adds on to an oyster hatchery already in operation, and center officials believe the new facility will make it more cost effective to raise larval oysters to help with reseed-ing efforts.

The fate of the native oyster is far from certain. Maryland natural re-sources officials continue to push for their sanctuary projects which would take large swaths of productive river bottom and restrict all oyster harvest-ing in an effort to increase the decimated population of the animal, seen as a critical asset to cleaning up water pollution.

Oyster harvests are reportedly at about one percent of their historical productions, state natural resources department officials have said.

Regional watermen hold out hope that the increased number of spat available for replenishing the species will eventually help revitalize their own dwindling numbers.

Tommy Zinn, president of the Calvert County Watermen’s Associa-tion, said that the new facility was perhaps the largest of its kind on the East Coast.

“It’s a big deal, it’s state of the art,” Zinn said of the setting facility. “They pump out hundreds of millions of spat every summer.”

Zinn said that the Horn Point Laboratory provides much of the spat for the multi-jurisdictional Oyster Recovery Project but also for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.

Individual watermen often get seeding oysters from the facility through the Oyster Recovery Project he said.

Zinn said the new facility could help in the effort to repopulate the species if the spat were used wisely. He and other watermen have opposed the state’s plans to enact more sanctuaries because it would restrict them from making a living and cause productive bottom to become silted over and worthless for oyster production for lack of being worked.

“I think it will be a benefit,” Zinn said of the new facility. “But a lot of [the spat] goes on sanctuaries, we’d like to see more of it go on natural oyster bars.”

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New Facility Raises Hopes for Oyster Recovery


The president of the St. Mary’s Coun-ty Fair Association says that Christmas in

April and Holy Face Church in Great Mills will have to share the fair-grounds in 2011 but the director of the

volunteer group that helps re-

pair residents homes free of charge said it could hamper their

operations.

Mary Ann Chasen, Christmas in April’s director, said that the putting together of the event with Holy Face’s spring celebra-tion might mean volunteers would have to repair fewer houses.

“We’re trying to figure out how to get things done,” Chasen told The County Times Monday. “It means we’ll probably have to do less homes.

John Richards, chair of the fair association president, which operates the grounds on behalf of the county commissioners, said that the organization’s fears about next years event were unfounded.

He said that construction volunteers would have access to more than one entrance to the fairgrounds and that they would have access to several buildings to warehouse an influx of build-ing and repair supplies that come in about one week before con-struction begins.

Christmas in April locally repairs of rebuilds about 22 homes each year.

Richards explained that both events have been held at the fairgrounds for years but the scheduling of the two for varying weeks is seldom a problem.

“It happens once every seven years when these events col-lide,” Richards told The County Times, citing changes in the cal-endar for the difference. “I couldn’t move the spring festival [of

Holy Face] to the next week because there’s another event.”Richards said that Christmas in April has been allowed to

use the fairgrounds free of charge or any rent for years, and that arrangement would continue.

“We allow them to use the fairgrounds, we don’t get any money from them,” Richards said.

But Howard Thompson, president of the board of directors for Christmas in April, said that when he met with Richards sev-eral weeks ago to discuss the problem, he was not told about being allowed to use extra buildings.

It was even suggested to him, Thompson said, that Christ-mas in April could use extra storage containers or tents for its operations; items the organization would have to rent.

That would have taken funding away from the actual con-struction efforts, Thompson said.

“He told us we wouldn’t be able to use the fairgrounds the way we were used to,” Thompson said of his meeting with Rich-ards. “We’re just trying to work around this, I just want to make it go smoothly.”

Thompson was also worried that the trucks used to haul construction supplies during the operation posed a liability to the many attendees expected for Holy Face’s spring event.

“Trucks and kids don’t match,” Thompson said.

Dual Events Will Have To Share Fairgrounds in 2011Photo by Guy LeonardMechanicsville citizens are opposing central water for a piece of farmland where development might occur.


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Curtis P. Litten, a Democrat candidate for commissioner in Calvert County has been charged with theft for allegedly using local newspapers to further his campaign by illegally placing his cam-paign literature inside them.

Litten is the man who pleaded guilty in 2008 to an assault charge for mailing a threatening note and the severed head and feet of a dead buzzard to Commissioner Jerry Clark.

According to charging documents filed by Calvert law officers, Litten is accused of inserted his own campaign fliers into issues of both the Chesapeake Current newspaper, owned by South-ern Maryland Publishing, and the Calvert Inde-pendent newspaper.

Charging documents state that law officers were told of campaign cards that read “stop the pig” that had been placed into the pages of the Calvert Independent. The paper’s ownership stated that they noticed 105 papers missing from several distribution boxes the first week of August.

The president and general manager of the Calvert Independent, Charles L. Mister, informed police that the paper had a $30 loss of revenue as a result, because the placing of campaign literature in the paper’s pages is done as a paid insert.

Police learned on Aug. 4 of allegations from Diane Burr, owner and executive editor of the Chesapeake Current, that copies of that publication had been removed from distribution racks and re-placed in some cases with pink pieces of paper that stated in part “according to recent court documents

the … elite has determined that you will be pros-ecuted for dumping mulch on your own property.” The documents also stated that County Commis-sioner Linda Kelley, and “thug” State’s Attorney Linda Martin and two “Nazi minion” Calvert law enforcement officers conspired to arrest Litten several days after he filed as a candidate for county commissioner.

The document also accused Kelly of attempt-ing to stymie the efforts of an organization known as the Calvert County Anti-Corruption League, court documents state. The evidence led to an in-vestigation for theft of services.

Just one day later, police were informed by two witnesses that Litten had re-moved several bundles of the Ches-apeake Current from in front of a business in Dunkirk where he left a copy of the flier.

Copies of the political leaflet were also found in a Calvert Inde-pendent distribution box as well as a Chesapeake Current box.

Court papers go on to state that other witnesses saw someone matching Litten’s description com-mitting other violations, including a Calvert Independent reporter who saw Litten shoving campaign cards into copies of their newspapers at a location in Prince Frederick.

Other businesses also reported unauthorized distribution of what appeared to be Litten’s campaign material in the form of business

cards at their establishments.When the owner of the publishing company

of the Chesapeake Current, Thomas F. McKay, called Litten to tell him to stop defacing the paper, Litten threatened him with violence and said he could do with the papers as he pleased.

Litten was charged with two counts each of theft and theft scheme. Litten has recently been arrested for illegal dumping at the former Sunder-land post office land, which his family owns.

Editor Sean Rice contributed to this article.

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ing contested offices in the 2010 Primary Election will be held on Monday evening, Aug. 23, at the Lexington Park Library. All local candidates, including those unop-posed in the primary election, are in-vited to “meet and greet” the public and to offer campaign literature in the lobby of the library beginning at 6 p.m. The forum will begin at 6:30, the League of Women Voters said in a press release.

The forum, sponsored by the League of Women Voters of St. Mary’s County in conjunction with the St. Mary’s County Public Li-brary, will consist of two sessions.

The first session will present candidates for the office of County Treasurer on the Democratic ballot, followed by candidates for State Del-egate of District 29A on the Repub-lican ballot.

After a short break, the forum will continue with candidates on the Republican ballot for County Com-missioner President and Commis-sioner seats for Districts 1 and 2.

The forum will be taped by the St. Mary’s Public Library and will then be placed on the library web-site www.stmalib.org for access by the public. DVDs of the forum will also be available for check-out at the library branches.

Candidates Forum Coming Monday

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Legal Notices:Open end contract for improvements, alterations, repair or maintenance to water distribution and sewerage collection systems, roads, curbs, drainage devices and sidewalks

The Commissioners of Leonardtown will accept sealed bids from qualified firms for Services for Public Works to be provided to the Towns water distribution system, sewerage collection system, roads, curbs, sidewalks, and storm water devices.

Interested bidders shall obtain a copy of the RFP by contacting Tony Wheatley, Capital Construction Coordinator, Town of Leonardtown P.O.B 1, 41660 Courthouse Dr. Leonard-town, Maryland 20650. Or call 301-475-9791.

A pre-bid meeting will be scheduled for August 25, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. at the Town office conference room. A bid opening will be scheduled for September 8, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.

The Commissioners of Leonardtown reserves the right to reject any and all bids and proposals, and to accept any proposal deemed to be in the best interest of the Town.

Commissioners of Leonardtown request for bids Snow and Ice Control Program

The Commissioners of Leonardtown are currently accepting bids to perform snow and

ice removal services within the corporate limits of Leonardtown. Approximately 9.4 miles of municipal streets and parking lots will be included in the contract.

Since bidders will have different equipment, the contract will be awarded on a “best value” basis. The bid will consist of hourly rates for various pieces of equipment. The bid will be for one two-year term with two two-year options.

Interested bidders should obtain a copy of the RFP by contacting Tony Wheatley Capital Construction Coordinator, Town of Leonardtown P.O.B. 1, 41660 Courthouse Dr. Leonardtown, Maryland 20650. Or call 301-475-9791.

A pre-bid conference will be held on August 26, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. at the Town office con-ference room. A bid opening will be held September 8, 2010 at 2:00 p.m., at which time they will be publicly opened and read.

The Commissioners of Leonardtown reserve the right to reject any and all bids and pro-

posal, and to accept any proposal deemed to be in the best interest of the Town.

Commissioners of Leonardtown request for bids printing of Leonardtown Beacon newsletters

The Commissioners of Leonardtown are currently accepting bids to perform design and

printing of the Leonardtown Beacon newsletter. The Beacon will be produced three times per year. This will be a one-year contract with two – one-year options.

Interested bidders should obtain bid materials from the Town Office, located at 41660 Courthouse Drive, Leonardtown, MD or by calling 301-475-9791, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Sealed bids will be accepted until 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 7, 2010, at which time they will be publicly opened and read.

The Commissioners of Leonardtown reserve the right to reject any and all bids and propos-

als, and to accept any proposal deemed to be in the best interest of the Town.

Commissioners of Leonardtown request for bids street sweeping services

The Commissioners of Leonardtown are currently accepting bids to perform street sweep-

ing services within the corporate limits of Leonardtown. Approximately 9.4 miles of municipal streets will be included in the contract. The bid will be for a 3 year contract with 2 one-year options.

Interested bidders should obtain bid materials from the Town office, located at 41660 Court-house Drive, Leonardtown, MD or by calling 301-475-9791, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

A pre-bid conference will be held on Friday, August 27, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. at the Town of-fice. Sealed bids will be accepted until 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, at which time they will be a publicly opened and read.

The Commissioners of Leonardtown reserve the right to reject any and all bids and propos-

als, and accept any proposal deemed to be in the best interest of the Town.

I was fascinated by Robert Waxman’s Aug. 11 letter to the editor in the Enterprise. In that letter he extolled the merits of Steny Hoyer’s saving and expanding the activities at Webster Field.

If I understand Mr. Waxman, he strongly supports a single dimension politician who freely uses “pork” (earmarks) to ensure re-election.

As I aged I’ve come to the realization that there are many more issues that affect my fam-ily than just the bases. I have come to realize that our current politicians have bred a culture of dependency contrary to what our founding fathers established for this great nation. As such, they have eroded our personal freedoms and religious underpinnings. I have become a “Constitutionalist” believing that our found-ing fathers established a system of government based on the timeless nature of people (wants, desires, need for community, rewards for hard work, greed, corruption, etc. – you can research these attributes as well as I). I also erroneously believed that in our representative government, our elected representatives were our PAID sur-rogates to read and understand proposed leg-islation and to vote based on our interests (not theirs).

Mr. Waxman does not extol Steny Hoyer’s actions other than the pork barrel bases issue. Nowhere is anything said about the impact on individuals and families of the astounding na-

tional debt, runaway spending, massive regu-lations, imposed health care, increased taxes, monetary policy, economic and physical secu-rity, unfunded federal mandates imposed on states and communities such as ours.

Steny Hoyer is the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, as such he is respon-sible for making sure his caucus is voting as the house leadership desires. We know he has been very effective over the last four years with such actions as: the “got to have” stimulus or our un-employment will go above 8.5%; the health care bill that the majority of Americans said “NO” to; an additional bailout spending of $29 billion after Mr. Hoyer’s much touted “PayGo”; etc.

I could go on and on describing how we are adversely impacted by voting for a one-issue candidate. I must admit I too succumbed to the “Hoyer saves the Bases” mentality, and have erroneously voted for him in the past. To you, the electorate of Maryland’s 5th congres-sional district, I am truly sorry for having done so. It will not happen again.

The choice is not “Democrat” versus “Re-publican.” Rather, it is between the beginnings of totalitarianism and personal freedom. Steny is on the totalitarian side of the spectrum that I cannot endorse.

Robert JacksonHollywood, MD

Slow Down With ‘Hoyer Saves the Bases’ Baloney

The Board of Library Trustees and staff of the St. Mary’s County Library want to thank those who helped to make the library’s 2010 summer programs such a huge success.

More than 11,000 children and their fami-lies enjoyed story times, six different profes-sional performers, “crafternoons”, and three different summer reading clubs.

This success would not have been possible without our many sponsors. Thanks goes to Bruster’s Real Ice Cream, Chick-Fil-A, Bob Ev-ans, Checker’s, Dunkin’ Donuts, Rita’s Italian Water Ice, SMECO, Ledo’s Pizza in Lexington Park, Friends of St. Mary’s County Library Inc., Board of Library Trustees, Target, St. Mary’s County Arts Council, Baltimore Ori-

oles, Busch Gardens, and Southern Maryland Blue Crabs baseball team. A special thanks to St. Clement’s Island Museum staff and John Busby who provided programs for us.

We especially thank White Marsh El-ementary School, Leonard Hall Recreation Center and Leonardtown Elementary School for allowing us to use their facilities for Char-lotte Hall and Leonardtown libraries’ profes-sional performances. Thanks to The County Times for helping us attract our record break-ing crowds!

Janis Cooker, Youth Coordinator St. Mary’s County Library

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College of Southern Maryland Leonardtown Campus Wellness and Aquatics Center

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Askey, Askey & Associates CPA, LLC, a certified public accounting/business consulting firm serving the Southern Maryland region, an-nounces the appointment of Glenn R. Frank, III, CPA, to partner effective immediately.

Glenn will lead the firm’s tax practice and will also play a key role in the firm’s business consulting practice, providing technical ac-counting and advisory services.

Glenn joined Askey, Askey & Associates in December of 2006. After graduating from the University of Maryland, Glenn worked for 5 years at a local Southern Maryland CPA firm where he first met Robert W. Askey, CPA, CFE, CFFA.

Early in his career Glenn developed a focus on client service out of a genuine desire to help others, a press release states. For 16 years Glenn served in the tax practice of RSM McGladrey, Inc., a leading national business consulting, ac-

counting and tax firm. Glenn’s position with McGladrey was as Manager, Tax Services in their Alexandria, Virginia office.

His experience involves a wide variety of business consulting in tax related activities such as corporation and S-Corporation planning; partnership planning; individual tax planning, and administrative dealings with the Internal Revenue Service. He has broad experience within many industries including technology, real estate and construction, wholesalers and re-tailers, telecommunications, restaurateurs, pro-fessional and legal service organizations.

“We are extremely delighted that Glenn has agreed to join Askey, Askey & Associates, CPA, LLC as our Partner,” said Robert W. Askey, Managing Partner. “He brings a wealth of cur-rent technical accounting and tax knowledge to the firm, as well as significant financial services experience.”

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To commemorate the close of St. Mary’s County’s first Restaurant Week, Café des Artistes owners Karleen and Loic Jaffres invited a host of local growers and community members for a special wine dinner last Thursday.

Live music was supplied by in-house local piano player Randy Richie and guest trumpet player Zach Silberschlag.

“Many of our customers never realized how many delicious products were available locally,” remarked Karleen after the event, going on to say many have stopped to ask her for phone numbers and addresses for local growers. She added that she plans to include information on local growers on the restau-rant’s website at www.cafedesartistes.ws.

Pictured here from Thursday evening’s wine dinner, from left to right: Ridge Cleary

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The Navy’s new submarine hunting air-craft program, the P-8A, has received approval to begin low rate production.

The P-8A program reached “Milestone C” at Naval Air Station Patuxent River on Aug. 11, after a comprehensive review and subsequent approval by the Defense Acquisition Board. This approval brings the Poseidon one step closer to Initial Operating Capability (IOC) for the fleet in 2013.

Naval Air Station Jacksonville will host

the first operational P-8A squadron.“The team has worked extremely hard to

reach this major acquisition milestone,” PMA-290 Program Manager Capt. Mike Moran said in a press release “The airplane is performing very well in testing which should result in an on-time and on-budget delivery to the warfighters.”

The P-8A will replace the P-3C that has served the Navy since the 1960s as the primary aircraft for anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare.

P-8A Poseidon Program Approved For Production

One of the Navy’s new P-8A Poseidon test aircraft turns toward home at NAS Patuxent River during a test flight. The P-8A program reached Milestone C and is now cleared for low rate production.

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Carol Cusick, 49

Carol Ann Farthing Cusick, 49 of Hollywood, MD, and formerly of Dis-trict Heights, MD, died on August 9, 2010 in Washing-ton Hospital Center, Wash-ington, DC. Born Decem-ber 20,1960 in Washington, DC. She was the daughter of the late Eldridge Custer and Mary Chucci Farthing. Carol was the loving wife

of Robert Walton Cusick whom she married on April 19, 1996 in Leonardtown, MD. She is survived by her children; Brandon M. Farthing of Leonardtown, MD, Eric P. Stickell of Hol-lywood, MD, Kristopher W. Cusick of Easton, MD, David A. Cusick of Great Mills, MD and Kyle V. Cusick of Hollywood, MD. Carol is also survived by her siblings; Barbara Bonham of Summerville, SC, Delores J. Carroll of Mills River, NC and William E. Farthing of Fay-etteville, NC. She is preceded in death by her brother Robert Eldridge Farthing.

Carol graduated from Suitland Senior High School and attended the University of Phoenix. She moved to St. Mary’s County in 1995 from District Heights, MD. Carol was a homemaker and enjoyed writing, arts and crafts and collect-ing angels. She also enjoyed listening to coun-try music and computers. Pallbearers will be Brandon M. Farthing, Eric P. Stickell, David A. Cusick and Kyle V. Cusick.

The family received friends on Friday Au-gust 13, 2010 in the Mattingley-Gardiner Fu-

neral Home Chapel Leonardtown, MD where prayers were said. Services were held on Satur-day August 14, 2010 in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home Chapel with Deacon Bill Nick-erson officiating. Interment followed in Charles Memorial Gardens, Leonardtown, MD.

Contributions in memory of Carol may be made to Leah’s House Inc., P.O. Box 203, Calla-way, MD 20620. Condolences may be left to the family at www.mgfh.com. Arrangements pro-vided by Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, P.A.

Brooke Hart, 4 months

Brooke Leigh Hart, 4 months of Lexington Park, MD died August 12, 2010 at Georgetown University Hospital.

Born March 26, 2010 in Baltimore, MD she was the daughter of Jessica N. St. Clair and Brian T. Hart, Jr.

In addition to her par-ents, Brooke is survived by

her grandparents, Susan and Brian Hart, Sr. of Greensburg, PA and Susan Roberts and Greg St. Clair of Little Rock, WA, great grandpar-ents, Charleen and William Hart of Greens-burg, PA, and great-great grandfather William E. Hart of New Stanton, PA.

Family received friends on Wednesday, August 18, in the Brinsfield Funeral Home, 22955 Hollywood Road, Leonardtown, MD 20650. A funeral service was conducted. In-terment will be on Thursday, August 19, 2010

at 3 p.m. at West Moreland Memorial Park, Greensburg, PA.

Condolences to the family may be made at www.brinsfieldfuneral.com.

Arrangements by the Brinsfield Funeral Home, P.A., Leonardtown, MD.

Mary Aud, 84

Mary Lillian Aud, 84 of Lexington Park, MD passed away on August 13, 2010 at Georgetown University Hospital. Born March 31, 1926 in Blacki-stone, MD, she was the daughter of the late John H. and Mary L. Quade Pilkerton.

She was the eighth of 12 children. She spent her

childhood years in the Bushwood and Clements areas. Her father died when she was 9 so fam-ily was very important to her, relying on older siblings for guidance and support. She always loved being active, playing sports in school. She loved going to dances as a teenager, bowl-ing, tennis, and water skiing. She also enjoyed playing cards with family and friends and go-ing to Bingo.

She met her husband, George Robert Aud, and married at 19 at Holy Angel’s Church on October 18, 1945. She supported her husband in his careers as a businessman and politician throughout their marriage of over 63 years, but her primary vocation was always being a moth-er and grandmother. They raised 6 children but she was a special “Aunt Mary” or “Aunt Dinkie” to innumerable nieces, nephews and extended family and friends. She had a joy for life and people, and always made you feel loved and special. Her home was always the gathering place for family and friends.

She is survived by her children: Patricia A. Aud and her husband William Rutter, George R. Aud, Jr. and his wife Dee Aud, Joseph Allen Aud and his partner Robert Coons, Mary Di-ane Redmond and her husband Charles Red-mond, Michael Miles Aud, and George R. Aud III and his partner Chris Porter; survived by 10 grandchildren, and one brother John Pilkerton. In addition to her parents and husband, Mrs. Aud was preceded in death by 1 grandchild, Jeffrey Leland Redmond, 1 great-grandchild, Karli Addison Aud, and 10 siblings; Anna-Mae Pilkerton, Violet Seuss, Julia Spencer, Beatrice Aud, Rose-Lee O’Connell, Walter Pilkerton, Franklin Pilkerton, David Pilker-ton, Marshall Pilkerton and Joseph Pilkerton.

Family received friends for Mrs. Aud’s Life Celebration on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 with prayers recited. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 in Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, with Father Jack Kennealy officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Lexington Park Vol. Res-cue Squad, P.O. Box 339, Lexington Park, MD 20653 and/or Hospice of St. Mary’s, Inc., P.O. Box 625, Leonardtown, MD 20650.


Arrangements provided by the Brinsfield Funeral Home, P.A., Leonardtown, MD.

Dolores Mercer, 79

Dolores Marie Mercer, 79 of Lexington Park, MD died August 11, 2010 at St. Mary’s Hospital.

Born October 18, 1930 in Union Town, PA she was the daughter of the late Frank James and

Gladys (Yaunger) James.Dolores previously

worked in a Hallmark Store and retired from Sears & Roebuck. She enjoyed meeting people, arts and crafts and gardening. She was a devoted mother and grandmother and loved to can jams and jellies.

Dolores is survived by her children, Char-lene Knott of Great Mills, MD, Sharon Boudreau of NH, Gary Mercer of Glen St. Mary’s, FL, and Huey Mercer of Waycross, GA, nine grandchil-dren, and twelve great grandchildren. She is also survived by the children of her life long com-panion, the late George C. Hopkins, who she helped raise. They are Linda Hopkins of FL, and Georgie Hopkins of WA. She is survived by her siblings, Jerri Salyers of LaPlata, MD, Joyce Mathis of Ellicott City, MD, Patty Broskey of Kiesterville, PA, Vicki Foy of Frederick, MD, Debbie Buxmann, and Benny Weaver of New Windsor, MD. She was preceded in death by her brothers, Bud James and Harold James.

Family received friends for Dolores’s Life Celebration on Saturday, August 14, 2010 in the Brinsfield Funeral Home, P.A., 22955 Hol-lywood Road, Leonardtown, MD 20650. A funeral service was held. Interment followed in Immaculate Heart of Mary Cemetery, Lexing-ton Park, MD.

Serving as pallbearers were Mike Langley, Rusty Tarleton, Keith Fairfax, Ardene Carroll, Bill Lee and Jimmy Hicks.

Contributions may be made to the Lexing-ton Park Volunteer Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 339, Lexington Park, MD 20653.


Arrangements by the Brinsfield Funeral Home, P.A., Leonardtown, MD.

George Ridgell, 70

George Frederick Rid-gell, 70 of Scotland, MD passed away on August 11, 2010 at his residence.

Born March 4, 1940 in St. Mary’s County, MD, he was the son of the late Joseph A. and Cecilia P. Ridgell.

George was a life long resident of St. Mary’s County, MD. He served in

the U.S. Air Force from 1962 to 1966. He was a Firefighter for the Federal Government. George was a member of St. Michael’s Catholic Church, Ridge Volunteer Fire Department and the Amer-ican Legion- Post 235.

George is survived by his wife Joyce Ann Ridgell of Scotland, MD, siblings; Catherine P. Dean of Scotland, MD, Gregory T. Ridgell of Mechanicsville, MD, Florence S. Wolf of Scot-land, MD, Eleanor J. Tippett of Leonardtown, MD and Clara Norris of Leonardtown, MD.

Family received friends on Tuesday, Au-gust 17, 2010 in St. Michael’s Catholic Church where a Memorial Mass was conducted with Monsignor Karl Chimiak and Father Joseph Bayne officiating.

Interment will be private.Memorial contributions may be made to

Hospice of St. Mary’s, Inc., P.O. Box 625, Leon-ardtown, MD 20650 and/or the Ridge Volunteer Rescue Squad, P.O. 456, Ridge, MD 20680

Condolences to the family may be made at www.brinsfieldfuneral.com

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Don’t put all the blame on MetroCasts’ local Director of Operations for deciding on the second-to-last week of May to suddenly switch the 3-hour time slot for cablecasting public-access programs on channel 10 from the 9 p.m. to 12 a.m time slot to a 12 a.m. to 3 a.m. time slot.

He is simply being a loyal servant doing what the corporate master wants done in all the Metro-Cast franchises, which is get rid of public-access programming from channel 10, or at least from times when viewers might watch channel 10, so channel 10 staff can produce all the locally origi-nated programming shown in times when view-ers might watch channel 10 and thus make more money from paid advertising.

The Director of Operations said I was show-ing old reruns and viewers did not want to watch those old reruns. He said I needed to show new programming that viewers would want to watch. Actually he sabotaged the growing progress this year toward the kind of new programming that is needed, which is programming produced by many individuals and noncommercial organizations working in affiliation with the 501(c)(3) nonprofit

named “Community Television in St. Mary’s, Inc.”, which they need to become members of and rejuvenate it.

I started showing reruns about 2 years ago as the basis for making it as easy as possible for new producers to introduce new videos and to learn the value of working together as members of the nonprofit. From 9 p.m. until 12 on Fridays I started rerunning my 3-hour programs from 8 years ago, and on Thursdays from 10 p.m. until 12 I started rerunning my 2-hour public-access programs from the 1990s. I urged other individu-als and noncommercial organizations to come to the monthly meetings of the nonprofit, on the last Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the Leonardtown SMECO building’s meeting room, and to bring videos, which can be on DVDs (rather than the VHS tapes that channel 10 still requires to be submitted for public-access cablecasting), or to come prepared to be videotaped at the meetings. The videos from a meeting are inserted by me in the 9 p.m. hour on the Thursdays of the following month.

When that hour became inadequate, I wanted to preempt my reruns to insert the new program-

ming by others. I wanted to make all 3 hours on both Thursday and Friday available for new pro-ducers and their new programming, so they could introduce their new programming when viewers expect to see public-access programming.

But since the second last week in May, Met-roCast is demonstrating they want to sabotage the progress that was growing this year. MetroCast abolished public-access programming from the time slot when viewers expected to see public-ac-cess programming, showing it only after midnight without any notice it was being shown then. Met-roCast is well aware potential new public-access producers do not want to produce videos if the get cablecast only after midnight. Feedback I get con-vinces me that many viewers do want to watch my reruns, especially the Friday-night reruns from 2002.

The 2002 3-hour reruns which got switched, and I expect will get switched in the remainder of this month, to after midnight showed Holy Face Church’s Spring Fling at the Fairgrounds, bike races in Leonardtown, dedication of the restored chapel at Ryken High School, the Piney Point lighthouse reopening celebration, the Blue/Gray Day demonstrations by reenactors at Point Look-out, a St Maries Musica performance, the June

28 25th-Hour band performance at Tall Timbers Marina, a Bernie Fowler/Tom Wisner wade-in at Myrtle Point Park with Hollywood Elementary 5th graders, The 2001 and 2002 Christmas in April fund raisers at the Big Foot Hunt Club with music by the Ralph Butler band, the first annual Swim for the Environment from Virginia to the Point Lookout beach, the Round Midnite band performance on Saturday night on the River Con-cert stage following a Friday night River Concert, the July 6 25th-Hour band performance at Tall Timbers Marina and the July 4 Freedom Fest at the Fairgrounds.

To encourage residents in the county to come to this month’s meeting of the nonprofit “Commu-nity Television in St. Mary’s”, on Tuesday July 27 at 6:30 p.m. in the Leonardtown SMECO build-ing, I will make a DVD copy of any of the pre-ceding reruns and give it at the meeting to anyone who calls me and asks for it. My phone number is listed in the phone book. I hope attendees will agree MetroCast should switch back the Friday time slot and reshow these reruns at 9 p.m., as well as switching back the Thursday time slot.

David TriantosLeonardtown MD

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The upcoming election promises to be a diffi-cult one for incumbents, especially for Democrats, who make up a large majority of elected officials in Maryland. Many have atrocious voting re-cords, which became apparent since the last elec-tion when the Democrats ended up with control of the Presidency and both Houses of Congress. They immediately begin to accelerate their efforts to make this country into a socialist nation.

Socialism is a godless political system where the government is supreme and owns and controls everybody and everything. On a small scale, it is like a slave plantation which most Americans, especially blacks, know a lot about. On a very large scale, it is the USSR (Union of Soviet Social-ist Republics). They were our enemy during the Cold War from 1945 until their collapse in 1989. Older Americans, especially those who fought in Korea or Viet Nam, or emigrants from socialist countries can tell you about life under socialism.

Besides numerous laws and regulations that already control many aspects of our lives, our government has for some time controlled our lives through taxes, deficit spending, health care (Medicare and Medicaid), retirement (Social Se-curity), etc. President Obama and the Democrat controlled Congress have taken this country much further into socialism by adding considerable debt (economic stimulus bill) and much more control of health care (Health Care Reform Bill), home

mortgages (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac), col-lege student loans, two automobile manufactur-ers, several banks, etc. They are now planning more taxes by allowing the Bush tax cuts to ex-pire and more control through Cap and Trade and other programs.

I was amazed when I read that the NAACP endorsed the policies of President Obama and his administration at their recent annual meeting. It is incomprehensible that as representatives of the descendents of former plantation slaves, they would support the Democrats’ effort to make us into a socialist nation. It is equally incompre-hensible that many blacks vote for Democrats, who would take them along with the rest of the country into government-imposed slavery. And when one also considers that most blacks claim to be Christians, it is impossible to understand why they ever voted for the pro-abortion, pro-homo-sexual Democrat Party in the first place.

The saying “Elections have consequences” certainly proved true since the last election. It is our responsibility to seriously study the posi-tions of the candidates and their parties before we vote in November; this election will decide whether or not our country continues on the road to socialism.

Robert BoudreauxWaldorf, MD

The U. S., a Future Socialist Republic?

When serious engine trouble hits, the En-gine Repower Council (ERC) recommends that vehicle owners ask themselves if they should repower or replace the vehicle. Many motorists don’t consider repowering and instead take on the financial burden of buying a new car. That choice can result in a cost difference of thou-sands of dollars.

With repowering, the vehicle’s engine is disassembled, cleaned, machined and remanu-factured to be as good as new. This is the best option, since repowered engines are depend-able, reliable and backed by excellent warranty programs. Some may choose a used or junk yard engine. The risk here is that the used en-gine has an unknown performance and mainte-nance history, which means you may be asking for more problems.

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Three Arrested, Charged For Drug Possession

On Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 2:07am, TFC C. M. Evans initiated a traffic stop in the area of Maryland Route 235 and First Colony Boulevard on a silver Toyota Camry for a traffic violation. Upon making contact with the occupants of the vehicle, Evans observed suspected controlled dangerous substance paraphernalia in plain view on the floor board of the vehicle. A probable cause search of the vehicle revealed additional paraphernalia and controlled danger-ous substances, police alleged. Subsequently, Dale Lee Justus, Jr., 18, of Hollywood, Thomas Charles Richardson, 18, of California and a female juvenile, 17, of Hollywood were arrested for possession of marijuana, possession of ecstasy, and possession of paraphernalia. The juve-nile was transported to the Maryland State Police Barrack and released to a guardian pending further action by juvenile services. Justus and Richardson were transported to the St. Mary’s County Detention Center.

Detectives: Drugs Passed To Detention Center Inmate

Vice/Narcotics Detectives began a joint investigation with Department of Corrections staff at the St. Mary’s County Detention Center related to possible contraband being delivered. As the investigation concluded, it was discovered that Stephanie Lynn Thomas, 36, of Hughesville, had allegedly sent two separate greeting cards to the Detention Center to inmate Jacob Steven Traas, 25, of Hollywood. One card contained adderall and the second contained suboxone. The pills were reduced to a powdered form and secreted within the card. Both suspects were charged accordingly and are awaiting hearings in the District Court.

Detectives, Tactical Team Conduct Drug Raid

Vice/Narcotics detectives were assisted by the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Services Team in executing a search and seizure warrant on a Mechanicsville

home. Marijuana, cocaine and related paraphernalia were recovered, police alleged. Michael Brian Dyson, 36, of Mechanicsville, was arrested. Additional charges are pending a review with State’s Attorney Richard D. Fritz.

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A Lexington Park man remains incarcer-ated without the possibility of bond after coun-ty law officers have accused him of abusing his own child so violently that it caused her death.

Charging documents filed by Detective William E. Raddatz of the Bureau of Criminal Investigations allege that Brian Thomas Hart, 21, had caused severe injuries to his daughter, Brooke Hart, who was born as a premature baby in March.

Charging documents state that Brook Hart died Aug. 12 and an autopsy the following day showed the infant had suffered seven lateral rib fractures to her left side and three lateral rib fractures on her right side.

The infant also suffered from a head in-juries and a hematoma, charging documents stated, and the medical examiner said that the injuries resulted from two separate incidents due to the healing progress of the ribs.

Police reports show that the victim’s mother returned home to their apartment Aug. 7 on Aspen Way to find that Brian Hart had at-tempted cardiopulmonary resuscitation on his daughter and was transported to Georgetown University’s hospital where doctor’s first told detectives that the infant exhibited signs of child abuse.

Raddatz stated in charging documents that the injuries to the infant were at least a week apart.

While at the hospital Brian Hart initially told detectives that he had no knowledge about how the injuries to his daughter occurred.

“He provided a number of bogus stories as to how the injuries might have occurred to detectives at the hospital and when questioned at the sheriff’s headquarters,” Raddatz wrote in charging documents.

But then the defendant told detectives that he was taking care of his daughter on two

separate occasions when he allegedly caused the injuries, charging documents stated.

About two weeks ago the defendant picked up the infant and shook her forcefully in an at-tempt to make her sleep, court papers state.

The victim had been crying but stopped after being shaken, Brian Hart told detectives, though he admitted he “shouldn’t have done it,” charging documents state.

The defendant stated on another occasion that when he had not slept and the victim start-ed to cry that he picked her up and again shook her violently, this time causing her head to snap back, charging documents stated.

On Aug. 7 the defendant picked up the infant with enough force that likely caused the last set of injuries, charging documents allege about the defendant’s statement to police.

“The defendant stated he didn’t want to hurt his daughter,” charging documents read.

Hart was charged with first-degree child abuse that caused the death of his infant daughter.

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One of the employees running the annual carnival for Ridge Volunteer Fire Department has been charged with slapping a juvenile girl during the festivities.

According to charging documents filed against James Plummer Mister, Jr., 47, of Prince Frederick, the victim in the case told police that Mister was upset that her boyfriend, who worked for Mister at the carnival, when he left his post on several occasions to see her.

Mister allegedly confronted the girl and told her to stop bothering his employee when a verbal altercation ensued, court papers reveal, and then reportedly slapped the victim in the face with an open hand.

Police found the victim suffering from a bleeding nose and upper lip as a result of the alleged assault, court papers reveal.

But witnesses for both defendant and vic-tim had different stories to tell about who pro-voked who, charging documents state.

Three witnesses told police that Mister struck the young girl without any provocation, but two other witnesses told law officers that

Mister was defending himself from the alleged victim because she had thrown her cell phone at him and was attempting to strike Mister.

Mister was the one arrested on charges of second-degree assault but was later released from the St. Mary’s County adult detention center.

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School officials gathered at the James A. Forrest Career and Technology Center in Leon-ardtown last Thursday for a small kick-off cer-emony for the Adopt-A-School program, which this year is part of Superintendent Michael Mar-tirano’s continuing safety program, this time operating with the goal of putting uniformed police officers at every elementary school in the county.

“This is the next level of safety and securi-ty for our school system,” said Michael Wyant, Director of Safety and Security for St. Mary’s County Public Schools. “The Adopt-A-School program will match current St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s deputies with elementary schools that currently do not have the support of a school re-source officer … and they are all volunteering for this position.”

“It’s one more opportunity to expand our security operations for our students,” said Mar-tirano, going on to praise the fact that the initia-tive will not add personnel costs to the school system’s budget.

“We already have a wonderful partner-ship with the Sheriff’s Office,” her said, “and

the Sheriff now has gotten individuals from his department to volunteer at each one of our el-ementary schools, where they’ll develop a rela-tionship with our kids and our staff.”

Deputies will not only police school grounds, but take an active role in mentoring students, participating in school activities and preventing delinquency, said Martirano.

“My kids did go to schools in the county … and this way I feel like I’m giving something back to the countless hours and dedication of our teachers,” said Captain Steve Hall, who was there to speak on behalf of Sheriff Timo-thy Cameron at Thursday’s ceremony, where he signed on to adopt Greenview Knolls Elemen-tary School.

“I think as time goes on, we’ll all really ben-efit from this,” said Hall, “ and there’s nothing like the way an elementary school child looks at you when you’re in uniform. It’s priceless.”

Deputies have surpassed the Superinten-dent’s goal of matching 10 deputies with el-ementary schools in the county, and so far 14 have signed up to adopt a school. Wyant said that the school system and the Sheriff’s office are both recruiting officers and hope to have all 18 elementary schools paired with deputies by the end of the school year.

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As schools across the county prepare to open their doors for the first day of classes on August 25, crews are putting their last touches on the first phase of renovations at Leonardtown Middle School, including a new security vesti-bule, new cosmetic renovations near the entrance, new administrative offices and storage rooms, new flooring, new practice rooms for the orchestra and band classrooms, and additions to serv-ing lines in the school’s cafeteria.

“At any given time there were 90 to 100 individuals at this site,” remarked Superintendent Michael Martirano as he toured the site on Tuesday, going on to praise the work of contractors from Scheibel Construction who have been hard at work all summer.

“I’m just amazed, it doesn’t even look like the same school,” he added.

Planning for the school’s renova-tions has been going on for a year, said Brad Clements, Chief Operating Offi-cer for the school system, going on to say that bids were awarded mid-year so that builders could order their supplies and equipment.

At spring break, crews removed ceilings in the hallways, working nights throughout the rest of the school year and then completing the demolition after classes let out, said Clements, going on to explain that the next step for work crews will be gutting and rebuild-ing the classrooms as the school switches from open “pod” classrooms, where classes occur in the open within sight of one another, to a more traditional system of closed classrooms.

“For now they’ve redone the outside and the cosmetic look, and the important thing they’ve done here is put in all the water and

electric infrastructure so that throughout the school year they’ll start doing the pods,” said Clements, going on to say that demolitions for the next phase had been completed ahead of schedule, and sections of the school would be closed off as renovations on the classrooms were completed.

Phase three will be a continuation of con-

verting the pod classrooms, said Clements, explaining that work would continue over next summer and into the fall. Incoming 6th graders will be bused to the annex behind Benjamin Banneker Elementary for their core classes, while 7th and 8th graders will remain the build-ing throughout the rest of the project.

Clements said the total price tag for all three phases of renovations at Leonardtown Middle School is expected to come to around $11 million.

First Round of Renovations Wraps Up at LMS

Stacey Maffei with the SMCPS Division of Supporting Services and Superintendent Michael Martirano check out the new floor-ing at Leonardtown Middle School, where the first phase of lim-ited renovations is being completed.

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And while some pundits and defense industry observers see opportunity for contractors at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, especially with the announced closure of the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Va., others are not nearly as optimistic about the future of the relationship locally between the military and the private sector.

Todd Morgan, vice president of the Southern Maryland Navy Alliance, said that the nature of the business on the base, NAVAIR’s purchasing of weap-ons systems and equipment for the U.S. Navy, meant that the local economy would still remain strong.

“The money stays the same,” Morgan said. “I see the big winners being the primes [manufacturers] and us because we’ll be buying the weapon systems.”

Del. John Bohanan (D-Dist. 29B) said that the directive from the Pentagon could give Pax River the opportunity to seek work that still has to be done, moreover the directive said that contractors involved in the critical acquisition of weapons and equipment were eligible for exemption from the cuts.

“That’s going to soften a lot of that effect,” Bo-hanan told The County Times, adding that the closure of Joint Forces Command could mean opportunities for more work to be done at Pax River, not less.

“There may also be an opportunity for us… for further consolidation,” Bohanan said. “I don’t think we have to hit the panic button.”

And with the turnover of engineers and other em-ployees a constant on the base, program offices will still be looking for qualified personnel to staff their projects, Bohanan said.

“It doesn’t mean the need will go away.”As the government pushes to reduce the number

of contractors the same effort is going into returning the duties they have been performing for the past de-cade or so to the civil service.

But while one workforce may shrink and another expand, there has always been an ebb and flow of the types of labor dealing with the base.

“We need to be looking for opportunity as op-posed to assuming doom and gloom,” Bohanan said. “We’ve always functioned that way.”

Bohanan said that the move to cut contractor po-sitions in favor of government workers reflects a re-alization that the nation can no longer afford massive deficits when comes to spending, military or other-wise, even if there were two wars happening.

“Everybody wants the government to operate more like a business and that’s what the DOD is trying to do,” Bohanan said.

But not everyone agrees with that assessment.Lee Moon, head of Iona Moon, Inc, a business

management and marketing consulting firm that rep-resents local contractors, said that the cutting of contractor positions in favor of government civil service jobs could actually cost taxpayers more be-cause the government was purchasing not just labor but also would be paying greater benefits without the option to easily dis-miss employees for lack of performance as they could with contractor labor.

Moreover, the gov-ernment has been hiring contractors to fill the jobs they want for programs and leaving contractors without the work they had come to depend on.

“The biggest pain is the in-sourcing,” Moon told The County Times. “They’re not taking the best of the

best, they’re taking everybody.“I’ve had clients who’ve lost their workforce by as

much as 10 to 40 percent.”Some contractors are starting to feel resentment

at this kind of treatment, she said, because skilled em-ployees are often hired away on short notice and the subsequent contract work they were doing disappears.

“The contractors are kind of outraged that they’re loyalty is not being recognized,” Moon said. “They’re not being given a chance to recover. They’ve lost all that revenue.”

And while small business related to the base’s functions may be in trouble, there is not much contrac-tors are willing to say about it in public, Moon said, for fear of reprisal.

“Folks are afraid to talk about it, they’re afraid of angering their client,” Moon said.

Glen Ives, former commanding officer at Pax River and now a senior manager at Sabre Systems, Inc., said that contractors were still waiting for specifics when it came to the latest directive from the Pentagon.

“It’s still kind of early to tell what the impact is going to be,” Ives said. “Does it mean [cutting contrac-tor positions] across the services? Is it going to affect acquisition?

“That hasn’t been communicated yet.”The latest directive added to the economic climate

of the country as a whole had the small business com-munity concerned, Ives said.

“Just the state of the economy makes people ner-vous,” Ives said. “And there’s always going to be con-cerns” when it comes to directives from the Secretary of Defense.

The economy and the subsequent push to stream-line the Department of Defense’s operations was a sign that while the work at Patuxent River Naval Air Sta-tion has been stable, there are no guarantees that will continue.

“We have to be cognizant of the fact that nothing is sacred,” Ives said. “It tells me that everything’s on the table.

“We want to stay relevant.”Diversifying what kind of functions the base pro-

grams pursue, mostly aircraft and their concurrent sys-tems, was perhaps the best way to do that, Ives said.

One new facet of the base being examined was providing support capabilities for special operations forces that are so in demand for fighting in the War on Terror.

“With a lot of the things they use, there are also a lot acquisition services they use,” Ives said. “I think that role is going to increase. They may need it in six months, they may need it today, but we can’t wait five years to give it to them.”

Efficiency and speed are key to keeping the work environment afloat on base, he said.

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NewsmakersSuttler Post Clydesdales Sweep Howard County Fair


As county fair season draws crowds to fairgrounds across Maryland, the fa-mous Clydesdales from Suttler Post Farm in Mechanicsville are already raking in the awards, having swept Howard County Fair’s horse pull competition on August 8.

Wayne Mast, the owner of Wayne’s Signs & Engraving who also keeps and trains Clydesdales, said that he took six horses with him to the Howard County Fair which was held in West Friendship, Maryland from August 7-14.

Wayne’s horses came in first, second and third in the halter class. They also came in first in the six-horse hitch, and earned top honors in the team, tandem and the men’s cart competitions. The Clydes-dales came in second in the four-horse hitch, the unicorn hitch and the ladies cart competition.

“We had a good show and a good day,” said Wayne, go-ing on to explain that he had taken six of his nine horses to compete; Al, Roy, Pappy, Gunner, Ben and Toby.

So far it’s been a busy season for Wayne’s Clydesdales, who are traveling between events and competing with the help of their sponsor, Blue Seal Feeds.

“We’re booked from now until just about the end of Au-

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In the meantime Wayne said that his biggest goal is to get more people out to public events to see his horses, which he has been collecting and training for ten years. Last year the horses took home top honors in five contests at the Maryland State Fair in Balti-more County.

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• Opening reception planned for photographersMembers of St. Mary’s County Camera Club are displaying their

work at the Lexington Park Library Art Gallery through Sept. 30. The public is invited to an opening reception on Aug. 19 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. to meet the members and discuss their work. Artists interested in display-ing artwork at the library gallery should contact Candy Cummings at 301-863-6693.

• Candidates’ forum scheduled

St. Mary’s County League of Women Voters will sponsor a candi-dates’ forum on Aug. 23 at Lexington Park Library from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. The forum, sponsored by the League of Women Voters of St. Mary’s County in conjunction with the library, will feature the candidates for the contested offices in the upcoming primary. Residents can submit ques-tions to the candidates during the program or email them in advance to [email protected]. The forum will be taped by the library and made available to the public via the library’s website and on DVDs to checkout.

• New Chapter Chats offered for Tweens

Lexington Park is offering Chapter Chats, a new program designed for tweens, children 8 to 11 years old. The first Chapter Chat will be Sept. 7 at 4 p.m. and Rick Riordan’s book, “The Lightning Thief” will be discussed. Fun book-related activities are also planned. Registration is requested.

• Families invited to evening storytimes and Lego programs

Families can drop in and enjoy a Lego evening storytime at Lexing-ton Park on Sept. 1 at 6:30 p.m. Charlotte Hall and Leonardtown will offer an evening storytime on Sept. 2 at 6 p.m. Leonardtown will also offer a Lego storytime at 6:30 p.m. Lego’s are provided.

• TAGs plan writing workshops

A writing workshop is planned at the next TAG (Teen Advisory Group) meetings, which will be at 5 p.m. at Charlotte Hall and at 5:30 p.m. at Leonardtown, both on Sept. 9 and on Sept. 14 at 5:30 p.m. at Lexing-ton Park. Teens will learn how to use rhythm, beat, rhyme and more to express their feelings and thoughts through poetry. The workshops will help gear the teens up for the Poetry Slam scheduled on Oct. 23. Snacks provided.

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Public auditions for the department of theater, film, and media studies’ first play of the year at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Noel Coward’s come-dy of manners, Hay Fever, will be held 6 -10 p.m. Wednesday, September 1, in the Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall Fine Arts Center. Callbacks will be Thursday, September 2. Performance dates are October 14-17 and 21-24.

No experience is required to audition, although reading the play before auditioning is strongly recommended. Copies of the play are on reserve at the circulation desk of the college library. For your audition, prepare a contempo-rary monologue of your own choosing. Principal speaking roles are for four men and four women.

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Local anglers will have the chance to learn from one of the most experienced light tackle and fly fishing guides on the Chesapeake Bay at the Wednesday, Aug. 25, meeting of the Coastal Conservation Association Maryland Patuxent River Chapter.

The meeting is free to the public and will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the St. Mary’s County Elks Lodge #2092, 45779 Fire Department Lane, California.

Captain Brady Bounds will speak on a variety of topics, take questions from the audience, and prom-ises to answer in great detail any question relating to light tackle and fly fishing within the realm of his experience.

“This is your opportunity to hear and understand the system that a veteran guide uses to make decisions that pay off in finding fish that others can’t, finding fish during extreme conditions, and making fish bite even if they are not hungry,” Bounds said in a CCA press release.

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Opportunity to Challenge a Fishing Guide

The Hard Bargain Players are per-forming the award winning play “Equus”, written by Peter Shaffer and directed by David M Thomas.

Shaffer’s “Equus” tells the story of Dr. Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist who at-tempts to treat a young man, Alan Strang, suffering from an unnatural and patho-logical religious and sexual fascination with horses.

“Equus” does contain male and fe-male nudity and is intended for mature audiences only. Those younger than 17 years old must be accompanied by a legal guardian.

Show dates are Friday and Saturday nights from August 6 – 21 beginning at 8:00 p.m. each evening at the Amphithe-ater at Hard Bargain Farm, 2001 Bryan Point Rd., Accokeek, Maryland 20607.

Admission is $10 for adults and $8 for students and seniors and shows begin each evening at 8:00pm. To reserve show tickets, email [email protected], or call 301-292-5727 to request tick-ets. All shows are rain or shine and will only be cancelled in the event of severe weather.

For more information go to www.HBPlayers.org.

Hard Bargain Players Play Last Weekend of “Equus”


Thursday, August 19• Myrtle Point Park Beach CleanupMyrtle Point Park (24050 Patuxent Blvd., California) – 8:30 a.m.

The Friends of Myrtle Point Park are hosting two special clean up days on Aug. 19 and Aug. 21, targeting fishing line along the beach. Wear long sleeves, pants, good shoes and gloves. A small pocketknife will suffice for remov-ing the line. For more information call Bob at 410-394-1300 or Dud-ley at 301-475-1858.

• Maryland Dep. Of Environ-ment Public Information Hear-ing: Oyster AgricultureCommissioners’ Meeting Room, Chesapeake Building (41770 Bal-dridge St., Leonardtown) - 10 a.m.

Regarding Permit Application Number 10-WL-0741 for the Ray-mond Combs project, located off of Myrtle Point on Mill Creek and the Patuxent River. For more informa-tion call 410-537-3000.

• Wing NightVFW Post 2632 (23282 Three Notch Rd., California) – 5 p.m.www.vfwpost2632.com.

• Basket Bingo BenefitMechanicsville Vol. Fire Depart-ment Social Hall (28165 Hills Club Rd., Mechanicsville) – 5:30 p.m.

Basket Bingo event to benefit the Mechanicsville Vol. Rescue Squad. Baskets will include Pam-pered Chef items. Doors open at 5:30, bingo starts at 7. For table reservations, call Joyce Downs at 301-884-8829.

• Auditions for Sotterley Ghost WalkSotterley Plantation (44300 Sotter-ley Lane, Hollywood) – 6 p.m.

Open audition for Sotterley Plantation’s Civil War Ghost Walk, which will take place Oct 14-16. Those interested in acting, help-ing behind the scenes (tech), or costumes can come to auditions or call the Events Coordinator at 301-373-2280.

• Slaughterhouse Public Infor-mation MeetingRoofing By George (38582 Brett Way, Mechanicsville) – 7 p.m.

A 1,575-square-foot slaugh-terhouse on 30 acres off of Reeves Road is proposed in Mechanics-ville, between the Cedar Grove Farm and Four Meadows subdivi-sions. Land use and growth man-agement staff members have been invited to attend. For more infor-mation on the proposed plans, call 301-475-4200 ext. 1500.

• Newtowne Players: Laundry & Bourbon and Lone StarThree Notch Theatre (21744 S. Cor-al Dr., Lexington Park) – 8 p.m.

The Newtowne Players will perform these two one-act com-edies by James McLure Thurs-days through Sundays, Aug. 6-

22. Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for students, senior citizens and the military. Thursday shows are $10 general admission. Light refreshments and beverages are also available for purchase at the theatre. Note: Some material may be inappropriate for children. Res-ervations are recommended; call 301.737.5447 or visit www.new-towneplayers.org.

Friday, August 20• Steak and Shrimp NightAm. Legion Post 221 (21690 Colton’s Point Rd., Avenue) – 5 p.m.

Visit website at www.al-post221.webs.com, or call 301-884-4071 for more information.

• FOP Poker TournamentFOP-7 Lodge (21215 Chancellors Run Rd., Great Mills) – 7 p.m.

• Texas Hold’EmVFW Post 2632 (23282 Three Notch Rd., California) – 7 p.m.

For more information or to pre-register contact Brian at poker@vfw2632 or call 240-925-4000.


Reservations are recommend-ed; call 301.737.5447 or visit www.newtowneplayers.org.

Saturday, August 21• MVFD Ladies Auxiliary In-door Yard SaleMechanicsville Vol. Fire Depart-ment Social Hall (28165 Hills Club Rd., Mechanicsville) – 7 a.m.

Table rental is $10. Food, re-freshments and baked goods will be available. For more information, call 301-884-3900 after 7 p.m.

• FREE Community Yoga PracticeLeonardtown Wharf (Washington St., Leonardtown) – 7:30 a.m.

Participants should bring their own mat and supplies, and a canned food item for donation. For more information call Pat at 301-373-8850.

• Myrtle Point Park Beach CleanupMyrtle Point Park (24050 Patuxent Blvd., California) – 9 a.m.

The Friends of Myrtle Point Park are hosting a cleanup day, tar-geting fishing line along the beach. Wear long sleeves, pants, good shoes and gloves. A small pock-etknife will suffice for removing the line. For more information call Bob at 410-394-1300 or Dudley at 301-475-1858.

• Volunteer Orientation at SummerseatSummerseat Farm (26655 Three Notch Rd., Mechanicsville) – 9 a.m.

Volunteers needed to help with special events, gardening, vine-yard, general maintenance, public-ity, and caring for the animals. Pre-sentations will be offered on each of these subjects. Summerseat is a beautiful farm in Mechanicsville with its original land grant dat-ing as far back as June 1678. This historic property was purchased in order to preserve the estate and prevent it from being developed. For more information, call Dudley Lindsley at 301-475-1858; email [email protected].

• SMAWL Pet AdoptionsPetco (45205 Worth Ave., Califor-nia) – 10 a.m.

For more information go to www.SMAWL.org.

• Auditions for Sotterley Ghost WalkSotterley Plantation (44300 Sotter-ley Lane, Hollywood) – 10 a.m.

Open audition for Sotterley Plantation’s Civil War Ghost Walk, which will take place Oct 14-16. Those interested in acting, help-ing behind the scenes (tech), or costumes can come to auditions or call the Events Coordinator at 301-373-2280.

• 6th Annual St. Mary’s County Agricultural Land Preservation PicnicWoodbury Equestrian Center (19475 Woodbury Way, Leonard-town) – 4 p.m.

Bring side dish or dessert to share. RSVP by Aug. 18. For more information call 301-475-4200.

• Special Olympics No Limit Cash GameBennett Bldg (24930 Old Three Notch Rd., Hollywood) – 4 p.m.

For more information call 240-577-0240 or 240-286-7964.

• Steak Night / KaraokeVFW Post 2632 (23282 Three Notch Rd., California) – 5 p.m.

Karaoke starts at 8:30 p.m. For more information call 301-862-3247.

• Benefit Dance for Ronnie HallHoly Angels Catholic Church (21340 Colton Point Rd., Avenue) – 6 p.m.

Benefit to help Ronnie Hall, who’s been diagnosed with cancer. $12 cover, BYOB, food and other items for sale. For more informa-tion call 240-925-2709.

• Texas Hold’Em “Saturday Nite Special”Park Bingo Hall (22608 Three Notch Rd., Lexington Park) – 7 p.m.

To register, email [email protected] or call 301-643-5573. No e-mail on the day of the event.



Sunday, August 22• 5th Annual Pink Ribbon LuncheonJT Daugherty Conference Center (22111 Three Notch Rd., Lexington Park) – 2 p.m.

Benefit for Cancer Support Group of Southern Maryland, Inc. Lunch, local speakers, silent and live auction, 50/50 raffle and each guest receives a 2010 Longaberger Horizon of Hope breast cancer basket. Cost is $75 per person. Auction donations also graciously accepted. For more information or reservations, call Denise Pietsch at 301-475-3192.

• Bi-Annual Bull RoastAm. Legion Post 221 (21690 Colton’s Point Rd., Avenue) – 12 noon

All profits go towards several American Legion Programs. Carry Outs & sandwiches will also be available. For advance tickets or fur-ther info call 301-769-4544/2220.


• Newtowne Players: Laundry & Bourbon and Lone StarThree Notch Theatre (21744 S. Cor-al Dr., Lexington Park) – 3:30 p.m.


Monday, August 23• St. Mary’s Commission for Women Monthly MeetingCaerter Building (23110 Leonard Hall Dr., Leonardtown) – 5:30 p.m.

Group studies issues including employment, education, child care, health, women in elected office, fi-nancial management, entrepreneur-ship, banking and credit, housing, land ownership, domestic violence and legal rights. For more infor-mation call 301-475-4200 x 1846, or email [email protected].

• Primary Election Candidates ForumLexington Park Library (21677 D St., Lexington Park) – 6 p.m.

Forum hosted by the League of Women Voters will feature can-didates running for contested of-fices in the 2010 Primary Election. All candidates, including those unopposed in the primary election, are invited to “meet and greet” the public and to offer campaign litera-ture in the lobby of the library be-ginning at 6 p.m. The Q&A forum begins at 6:30. Submit questions to candidates for the evening’s pro-gram in advance by emailing [email protected].

• No Limit Hold’Em “Bounty” TournamentSt. Mary’s County Elk’s Lodge (45779 Fire Department Lane, Cal-ifornia) – 7 p.m.

For more information call the

Lodge at 301-863-7800, or Linda at 240-925-5697.

Tuesday, August 24• Patuxent River NAS Job FairJT Daugherty Conference Center (22111 Three Notch Rd., Lexington Park) – 3 p.m.

Event is open to military com-munities and the general public. Companies participating in this event are BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, SAIC, Boeing Company, DMG Securities to name a few. The companies will be looking for candidates in aviation, Civil engi-neering, HVAC, transportation, telecommunications, computer-re-lated networking/administration, IT, electronics, office management, security, intelligence, customer service, and much more. For more information contact John Catalano at [email protected].

• $25 Texas Hold’EmCadillac Jack’s (21367 Great Mills Rd., Lexington Park) – 7:30 p.m.

All proceeds go to “Start-A-Life.” For more information call Christine at 443-624-2746.

• $35 No Limit Hold’EmBennett Bldg (24930 Old Three Notch Rd., Hollywood) – 7 p.m.


Wednesday, August 25• Nature Time at GreenwellGreenwell State Park (25450 Rose-dale Manor Lane, Hollywood) – 10 a.m.

Pre-registration (no later than 24 hours in advance) is required via email - [email protected] - or by calling the Greenwell Foundation office at 301-373-9775.

• $35 No Limit Hold’EmBennett Bldg (24930 Old Three Notch Rd., Hollywood) – 7 p.m.



• Learn Fishing Secrets!St. Mary’s County Elk’s Lodge (45779 Fire Department Lane, Cal-ifornia) – 7:30 p.m.

Local anglers will have the chance to learn from one of the most experienced light tackle and fly fishing guides on the Chesa-peake Bay.

Captain Brady Bounds will speak on a variety of topics, take questions from the audience, and promises to answer in great detail any question relating to light tackle and fly fishing within the realm of his experience. The meeting is free to the public. For more information call the Lodge at 301-863-7800.


By Shelby OppermannContributing Writer

My cousin stayed the night with us two weeks ago. We had a lovely cook-out at the fire pit and he and I stayed outside talking or sitting in companionable silence for a few hours. Once I went in to help with clean-up and asked if he was o.k. He said he was fine just sitting out there listening to the sounds of frogs, and other night sounds. My cousin remarked that he doesn’t hear many of these sounds in his development in Anne Arundel County. It made him think back to when they all first moved into his house in 1958, and how it was surrounded by trees and farmland. Now he is surrounded by houses that replaced the countryside and the nature sounds he loved so much.

I wonder what my cousin would have thought of what I heard last week. I heard the strangest sound a few mornings back. Well, Tid-bit and I heard it. There was a knocking sound, coming I thought, from the back yard – almost like someone hammering a nail in place. Tidbit and I were in the front yard doing our daily ritual of walking the trails when this loud noise began. We started walking around the house and then the sound appeared to be coming from across the street. We walked in that direction and the sound then seemed to come from the neighbor’s yard. This was weird.

I know everyone is thinking it must have been a woodpecker. No, it was louder and con-stant. This went on for at least fifteen minutes with Tidbit and I turning and turning to find the source of the sound. Each direction I turned in was then the opposite from which the sound came from. I started to think my husband was hitting shoes to clean them off on the back deck railing. We walked around back and there was no one, and then the sound seemed to come from the roof. We made our way around the entire house, and by that time it seemed to come from

a neighbor’s house several doors down. It was starting to feel surreal. Everywhere I was it was someplace else. How do I write out “The Twi-light Zone” theme? Do do Do do…Do do Do do?

Back in the front yard, I was confused again – listening to the drain pipes and scanning the trees, roof, and houses. Turning and turning, get-ting dizzier and dizzier ( I won’t read this part of the article to my husband since he will have some comment to make about that). It was most unsettling. I do get a type of migraine called a basilar artery migraine which creates rhythmic vibrations in the back of my head, and makes me think there is loud music being played at a dis-tance. I thought the neighbors were having loud parties every night until my husband convinced me that there was no music playing anywhere. This probably explains a few more things, huh?

This sound is now an unsolved mystery to me. Every morning I will now be listening for it. It took a long time to partially solve another sound I heard a few years ago. I awoke with heart pounding to hear what I thought was someone screaming, and lots of thrashing noises in the woods. My husband said it was probably an owl making their screeching noises as it found it’s prey. To me it was just this nightmarish sound that wouldn’t go away. You know, I never heard these sorts of sounds in Clinton.

I tell my husband how spiritual our trails are to me, especially the main center trail, and he reminded me of the stories we have heard about our development covering some Native Ameri-can burial grounds. I truly hope this is not true, and hope we have not disturbed anyone’s peace. It does make one wonder though…

To each new day’s adventureShelby

Please send comments or ideas to: [email protected].

of an Aimless Mind

Wanderings

By Linda RenoContributing Writer

Ferdinand Howard Bond was born in St. Mary’s County November 21, 1833. His brother, Charles J. Bond was born in 1844. They were the sons of William Bond and Ann Cusic. Both entered the Union Army, enlisting at Baltimore in 1862 and both were assigned to Compa-ny C, 4th Infantry, Maryland Volunteers.

Ferdinand Bond was shot in the right hip at the Battle of Hatcher’s Run (near Petersburg, VA) February 6, 1865. He ap-plied for a pension in 1877 but the military said he “was not incapacitated for obtaining his subsistence by manual labor.”

He reapplied in 1889. This time the military even ques-tioned that he’d been shot!

9/20/1889: Deposition of Dr. L. S. Sutton, age 56, Leonard-town, St. Mary’s Co., Md. “I am a practicing physician, gradu-ated at the University of Maryland in Baltimore in March 1854. I attended Mr. F. Bond’s father’s family and himself before the war. He was then, altho not a large man, a strong, vigorous and perfectly healthy young man. I have also attended F. Bond’s family since the war for several years. Have known him for 35 years. I have today given him a searching examination, not the only one of several and I unhesitatingly repeat what I have told him. I find him suffering from the effects of a gun shot wound which was said to have been received at Hatcher’s Run during the late war. It has most seriously affected him….I

might say wholly incapacitated [him] from supporting himself and family by manual labor.”

10/1/1889: Deposition of Joseph Hayden, age 56 of Hollywood, St. Mary’s Co., Md. “I was a Corporal in Co. H, 1st Regt., Maryland Infantry Vols., was present for duty at the Battle of Hatcher’s Run, Va. Feb. 6, 1865. Was personally acquainted with Ferdinand Bond, the claimant and do know of my own personal knowledge that the said Bond at that date did receive a gun shot would of the right hip while in the line of duty. My acquaintance has continued from 1865 to date 1889 and I do know of my own personal knowledge that he has continued to suffer from the gun shot wound of the right hip. Walks with a stiffness in his right leg and complains of severe pains in his right hip on account of gun shot wound received as aforesaid.”

2/5/1890, based on a physical examina-tion by military doctors: “Ferdinand Bond, the Claimant lives in Leonardtown, Md. The claimant is suffering from a disability ob-tained in the service, viz., a gun shot wound of the right hip. Claimant states that he has rheumatism of the right leg and back and is unable to stoop. Laid up in bed twice a year.

Claimant is 56 years old, 5’ 7” tall, and weighs 130 lbs. Gen-eral physical condition below par somewhat emaciated. Has a debilitated appearance. We

fail to find either scar of entrance or exit of ball although he insists that he received a wound over the hip. The condition of his heart must necessarily interfere with the performance of manual labor.”

To be continued next week.

Who’s There?

A Journey Through TimeA Journey Through TimeThe Chronicle

Photo Courtesy of Helen Carroll Beavers Patterson

Book Review“The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”

by Aimee Bender

By Terri SchlichenmeyerContributing Writer

The recipe is the original, in her handwriting. You’ve figured out that a “handful” equals one cup and a “pinch” is a quarter teaspoon. You’ve measured and spooned and sifted faithfully.

So why can’t you get any-thing to taste the way Grandma made it? You wish she was around to tell. What mysterious addition made food different when it came from her kitchen?

Ask Rose. There’s always something extra in her food, but in the new book “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake” by Aimee Bender, it’s rarely edible.

It started on the cusp of Rose Edelstein’s ninth birthday. Rose’s mother was excited to have time to bake a special cake, a lemon one from a delicious-sounding recipe. From the oven, it smelled wonderful, but one bite and Rose knew something was wrong. Despair overwhelmed her and she couldn’t finish.

Hardly anyone would believe her, for sure. Rose’s father was always working and when he was home, he was exhausted and barely had energy for TV-watching. Her brother, Joseph, was a strange boy who loved math and physics and being alone. Her moth-er, the source of all sad food, was wrapped up in a new job that was fulfilling in a new-job sort of way. The only person who didn’t scoff was George, Joseph’s best friend, and Rose loved him for it.

By age twelve, the “gift” was honed so well that Rose could taste the difference be-tween oranges from Florida and oranges from California. Her tongue knew each factory,

each grass-feeding beef farm, every garden from every state. She tasted anger and happi-ness, love and machinery. Her odd ability never left her, and it was strong enough to know that her mother was having an affair.

At age seventeen, Rose cooked her first meal and ate it, not recognizing the factory taste of herself. That was the year Joseph disappeared for the last time, her mother start-ed sleeping in his old bed night after night, and Rose’s father took up jogging after dark. It

was the year that Rose made a fool of herself over George.

But it was also the year that Rose found the restaurant she’d been searching for all her life. There, spinach was spinach and onions had no meaning. There, food was for savor-ing and secrets were safe.

There are a lot of adjectives that can be used to describe author Aimee Bender’s latest novel: quirky, weird, odd. Also: compelling, addictive. The ultimate fact is that “The Par-ticular Sadness of Lemon Cake” is probably the strangest book you’ll never want to put down.

But here’s the thing: I say that with no small amount of amazement. I wasn’t too keen on the plot of this book at first, but Bender’s precocious Rose made me stay. I was glad I did, because this book turned out to be purely irresistible.

Perfect for vacationing, weekending, or for book groups, I think you’ll like “The Par-ticular Sadness of Lemon Cake”. If you’re in the mood for something different, you’ll eat this book up.

c.2010, Doubleday $25.95 / $30.00 Canada 304 pages


Wha

t’s Going On For family and community events, see our calendar in the community section on page 22.

In Entertainment

The County Times is always looking for more local talent to feature! To submit art or band information for our entertainment

section, e-mail [email protected].

A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock-n-Roll

We post nightlife events happening in Calvert, Charles and St. Mary’s counties. To submit an event for our calendar, email [email protected]. Deadline for submissions is Monday by 5 p.m.

Concert Season Finds Hot Spots in Southern Calvert

Thursday, August 19• Dave NorrisDB McMillan’s (23415 Three Notch Rd., California) – 5 p.m.

• Fair Warning Irish Pub BandCJ’s Back Room (12020 Rousby Hall Rd., Lusby) – 5 p.m.

• Diane Daly (jazz vocalist)Back Creek Bistro (14411 Dowell Rd., Dowell) – 6:30 p.m.

• Open Mic NightChef’s American Bistro (22576 Macarthur Blvd. San Souci Plaza suite 314, California) – 6:30 p.m.

• St. Leonard Concert Series: Reba McEntireBayside Toyota Pavilion (200 Calvert Beach Rd., St. Leonard) – 7 p.m.

• DJ NightBig Dogs Paradise (28765 Three Notch Rd., Mechanicsville) – 8 p.m.

• Ladies DJ Dance NightHula’s Bungalow (23900 N. Patux-ent Beach Rd., California) – 8 p.m.

• Thirsty Thursdays KaraokeCadillac Jack’s (21367 Great Mills Rd., Lexington Park) – 8 p.m.

• Trivia NightGridiron Grill (20855 Callaway Vil-lage Way, Callaway) – 8 p.m.

Friday, August 20• Dave NorrisDB McMillan’s (23415 Three Notch Rd., California) – 5 p.m.

• Fair Warning Irish Pub BandDonovan’s Pub (22767 Three Notch Rd., California) – 5 p.m.

• Live JazzChef’s American Bistro (22576 Ma-carthur Blvd. San Souci Plaza suite 314, California) – 6 p.m.*

• Randy Richie (jazz piano) Café des Artistes (41655 Fenwick St., Leonardtown) – 6:30 p.m.*

• DJ/Line DancingHotel Charles (15100 Burnt Store Rd., Hughesville) – 7:30 p.m.

• Patty & CarlRuddy Duck Brewery (13200 Dow-ell Rd., Dowell) – 7:30 p.m.

• Country Music Jam SessionSt. Mary’s Landing (29935 Three Notch Rd., Charlotte Hall) – 8 p.m.

• Karaoke NightCadillac Jack’s (21367 Great Mills Rd., Lexington Park) – 8 p.m.

• Ladies DJ Dance NightHula’s Bungalow (23900 N. Patux-ent Beach Rd., California) – 8 p.m.

• Wolf’s Blues JamFat Boys Country Store (41566

Medley’s Neck Rd., Leonardtown) – 8 p.m.

• Crushing DayGilligan’s Pier (11535 Popes Creek Rd., Newburg) – 9 p.m.

• HighwireApehanger’s (9100 Crain Hwy., Bel Alton) – 9 p.m.

• KoruptMemories (2360 Old Washington Rd., Waldorf) – 9 p.m.

• Locked-n-LoadedMurphy’s Pub (6971 Indian Head Hwy., Bryans Road) – 9 p.m.

• OutbreakVera’s White Sands Beach Club (1200 White Sands Dr., Lusby) – 9:30 p.m.

Saturday, August 21• On the Beach – 2 p.m.U2 Tribute Band – 9:30 p.m.Vera’s White Sands Beach Club (1200 White Sands Dr., Lusby)

• Sam Grow Trio – 2 p.m.No Pets 4 Noah – 8 p.m.Gilligan’s Pier (11535 Popes Creek Rd., Newburg)

• Joe MartoneTorpedo Bar and Grill (46555 Den-nis Point, Drayden) – 3 p.m.

• Fair Warning Irish Pub BandDB McMillan’s (23415 Three Notch Rd., California) – 5 p.m.

• Randy Richie (jazz piano) Café des Artistes (41655 Fenwick St., Leonardtown) – 6:30 p.m.*

• Bent NickelToot’s Bar (23971 Mervell Dean Rd., Hollywood) – 8 p.m.*

• Jim Ritter & The Creole Gumbo Jazz BandWestlawn Inn (9200 Chesapeake Ave., North Beach) – 8 p.m.

• KaraokeQuade’s Store (36786 Bushwood Wharf Rd., Bushwood) – 8 p.m.

• Nuttin’ FancySea Breeze Restaurant (27130 South Sandgates Rd., Mechanics-ville) – 8 p.m.

• Three SixtyBeach Cove Restaurant (8416 Bayside Rd., Chesapeake Beach) – 8 p.m.*

• DJ/Dance NightCadillac Jack’s (21367 Great Mills Rd., Lexington Park) – 9 p.m.

• Full SteamApehanger’s Bar (9100 Crain Hwy., Bel Alton) – 9 p.m.

• Hate the ToyBlue Dog Saloon (7940 Port Tobacco Rd., Port Tobacco) – 9 p.m.

• Karaoke w/ DJ Tommy T & DJ TApplebee’s (45480 Miramar Way, California) – 9 p.m.

• Miles From CleverCryer’s Back Road Inn (22094 Newtowne Neck Rd., Leonardtown) – 9 p.m.

• Others May FallCalypso Bay Dock Bar (421 Deale Rd., Tracey’s Landing) – 9 p.m.

• The CrazeBig Dogs Paradise (28765 Three Notch Rd., Mechanicsville) – 9:30 p.m.

Sunday, August 22• Full SteamGilligan’s Pier (11535 Popes Creek Rd., Newburg) – 3 p.m.

• Middle GroundSea Breeze Restaurant (27130 South Sandgates Rd., Mechanicsville) – 3 p.m.

• Country Music Jam SessionSt. Mary’s Landing (29935 Three Notch Rd., Charlotte Hall) – 4 p.m.

Monday, August 23 • Mason SebastianDB McMillan’s (23415 Three Notch Rd., California) – 5 p.m.

• Open Mic NightScott’s II (7050 Port Tobacco Rd., Welcome) – 7 p.m.*

Tuesday, August 24• Fair Warning Irish Pub BandDB McMillan’s (23415 Three Notch Rd., California) – 5 p.m.

• HydraFXRuddy Duck Brewery (13200 Dow-ell Rd. Dowell) – 7:30 p.m.

• Open Mic NightMartini’s Lounge (10553 Theodore Green Blvd., White Plains) – 9 p.m.*

Wednesday, August 25• Fair Warning Irish Pub BandCJ’s Back Room (12020 Rousby Hall Rd., Lusby) – 5 p.m.

• Captain JohnDB McMillan’s (23415 Three Notch Rd., California) – 5:30 p.m.

• KaraokeBig Dogs Paradise (28765 Three Notch Rd., Mechanicsville) – 7 p.m.

• Sloe JimGilligan’s Pier (11535 Popes Creek Rd., Newburg) – 7 p.m.

• Wolf’s Blues JamBeach Cove Restaurant (8416 Bayside Rd., Chesapeake Beach) – 8 p.m.*CALL TO CONFIRM


The sweltering summer sun never seems to squelch the desire to hear your fa-vorite singer, and this year music fans may be braving the heat in record numbers as national recording acts grace two of the biggest stages in Calvert County.

One look at both the Calvert Marine Museum and St. Leonard Volunteer Fire Department’s biggest fundraisers can speak volumes about how both organizations have worked to fill the local need for great entertainment while boosting their own fundraising efforts.

Calvert Marine Museum reawakened itself as a concert venue in the 1990s, and since then they’ve hosted international recording artists including Bob Dylan, The Allman Brothers, Chicago, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams Jr., Styx, 38 Special and the Steve Miller Band, among others.

This year the venue will welcome 80s recording icons Pat Benetar and REO Speedwagon on September 3, with guitar virtuoso Tyler Bryant opening the show.

“This is actually our 25th anniversary,” said Vanessa Gill, Director of the Calvert Marine Museum Society, going on to comment on the museum’s pre-1995 concert era, when their biggest fundraiser featured “sea chanters” performing at a Memorial Day nautical music event for just a couple hundred listeners.

“We’d be out on a little barge on the water and people would line up with lawn chairs on the boardwalk,” said Gill, “and that was our biggest event then … but peo-ple were really seeking out music here,” so it made sense for the museum to expand its offerings.

After hosting California recording artists Los Lobos, Calvert Marine Museum lined itself up with sponsors and built a new stage.

Now the venue boasts 5,200 seats, all of which Gill expects to fill with this year’s 30th anniversary show for Pat Benetar and REO Speedwagon during their “Love on the Run” tour.

“Ticket sales are really good for this one. I think we’ve got a lot of 80s music fanatics in this area,” said Gill, adding though that –despite the buzz— there are still some tickets available, so concert-goers should act fast.

Tickets are $50 for premium seats and $40 for reserved seats, and can be pur-chased online at www.calvertmarinemuseum.com, by phone at 1-800-787-9454, or in person at Prince Frederick Ford/Dodge. To become a museum member and get your tickets in advance, call 410-326-2042, ext. 16.

Just down the street, St. Leonard Vol. Fire Department has already kicked off its 2010 concert season, using their 5,500-seat facility to host Foreigner with local open-ing act One Louder on August 14.

Next to the stage will be Reba McEntire with special guest Melissa Peterman on August 19, followed by Jason Aldean with special guest Uncle Kracker on September 19.

Since its start in March 1987, St. Leonard Vol. Fire Department has grown from a small group of volunteers with one fire truck and one ambulance to a force with more than 100 members and a whole fleet of trucks, ambulances and equipment.

And for the last five years St. Leonard’s volunteers have been hosting concerts at the pavilion near the firehouse with national recording acts Huey Lewis, Sugar-land, Hootie and the Blowfish, Lynyrd Skynyrd and others helping to fashion the department’s pavilion as one of the area’s most popular venues for the nation’s biggest performers.

“We have some great names, and a lot of people think it’s a great fundraiser,” said Roberta Baker, the department’s Fundraising Chair who’s been working with Co-Chair Bill Lankford to put this year’s concert series together.

“For us the challenge is to raise funds and sell enough tickets to maintain our goal,” she said, going on to explain that the concerts all serve as the department’s biggest source of funding for equipment and training, and she’s been happy to see that attendance has been good despite the downturn in the economy.

“Some years are challenging, and some shows are better than others,” Baker said, “but every bit of money we raise, 100 percent of it goes back into the community.”

General public sales for this year’s concerts are still being held, with tickets costing $45 for premium seats and $40 for reserved seats. Tickets can be purchased at St. Leonard Vol-unteer Fire Department on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m., at Bayside Toyota in Prince Frederick, or by calling TicketMaster at 410-547-SEAT.

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By Keith McGuireContributing Writer

Many know that the worst time to fish is when the wind is out of the east. “Winds from the east, fishes bite least,” the old tim-ers say. As if to disprove the axiom, I de-cided to head out early Thursday morning in advance of the storms. I caught a couple of very small bluefish, one toad fish and a really big cow-nosed ray – fish that obvi-ously didn’t get the weather report – and wondered why the more desirable species are so hard to find when conditions are not the most favorable.

On Saturday evening I took my wife to Regency Stadium to watch a baseball game. The Southern Maryland Blue Crabs seemed to be in good form and quickly took the lead with a home run in the first inning. A two-run home run in the third inning put the Long Island Ducks on top, and things stayed that way until Ron Lord – the favorite cheerleader for the team – broke out the cowbell. Suddenly, all sorts of cowbells appeared in the stands with people shaking them and beating them with sticks as the South-ern Maryland Blue Crabs were at bat in the sixth inning. Crack! A long home run by the Blue Crabs first baseman tied the score. Things were looking better, but not good enough to win and the game went into extra innings. As the Blue Crabs came to bat in the 10th inning, Ron Lord got out his favorite cowbell and again started beating it with a stick. The fans with cowbells went berserk with their own cowbells. The sec-ond baseman drew a walk and the designated hitter came to bat. A cacophony developed as the cowbells clanked among the screams of the fans. The designated hitter swung his bat, send-ing the ball to the center field fence as the win-ning run scored.

Finally, I thought, now we get to see the fireworks! As the blasts, booms and flashes kept us awe struck for a while, I got to thinking about those cowbells. Surely, they had something to do with the score. No one used their cowbells when the Long Island Ducks were at bat, and the Blue Crabs’ bats certainly responded to the clanging!

I went out the very next morning and pur-chased a very big cowbell. If you decide to fish on the next east wind and see my boat over your favorite spot, pay no attention to the clanging sounds. It will be me employing the power of the cowbell to catch bigger, more desirable, fish. Bring your own cowbell (BYOCB) and join me!

Fishing ReportThe east wind certainly affected catching

this week. Anglers were able to catch a few perch, croakers, bluefish and spot, but not with the regularity of recent weeks. Stripers were really tough to find. Most days, the wind kept

smaller boats off the Bay, so the reports of

Spanish mackerel, redfish, cobia, and others dropped off significantly. I heard of one 21 inch flounder be-ing caught on Sunday morning under the walkway bridge at Hog Point on the Naval Air Station. The Hughesville American Legion had their annual fishing tour-nament and fish fry on Saturday morning. As reported to me, it was a good thing that members were able to contribute prior catches to the fish fry, or they might still be hungry.

Do you have a current fish picture and a story of a great catch? If so, send an email to [email protected].

Keith has been a recreational angler on the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries for over 50 years; he fishes weekly from his small boat during the season, and spends his free time sup-porting local conservation organizations.

Thurs., Aug. 19

Men’s Over 40 LeagueSeabreeze vs. Hole in the wall

at Tippett’s FieldTri-County Aire vs. Hobos at Back Road inn

Anderson’s vs. All Star Utility at Fenwick Field

Park Sunoco vs. Clement’s at Anderson’s Bar

Captain Sam’s vs. Rita B’s at Moose Lodge

Mon., Aug. 23

Women’s Over 30 LeagueHole in the wall at Moose Lodge

Raley’s at Captain Sam’sRyce Electric vs. S&J Heating at Anderson’s BarBack Road Inn vs. Hurricanes at 7th District Park

St. Mary’s County Softball

Standings

Men’s Slowpitch League

1. Hi Octane 27-62. BRI 26-73. Chaney’s 25-84. Green Door 17-165. Pax Bombers 1 5-176. Budweiser 14-197. Grid Iron Grill 12-218. A Bookkeeping By Blanche 5-2810. VFW 2632 3-27

Young Men’s League

1. Seabreeze/BRI/Moose Lodge 24-12. Gary Gray’s Athletics 21-53. Cryers 19-74. Dew Drop Inn 19-95. Quade’s Shockers 12-136. Flash Point 6-217. Captain Sam’s 3-25

Women’s League

Division 11. Somerville Insurance 20-12. Southern 15-63. Bud Light 15-64. Mix It Up 12-95. CCE 11-10

Division 21. Captain Sam’s 13-82. Back Road Inn 11-103. Anderson’s Bar 10-114. Bella Salon 9-125. Southern Maryland Physical Therapy 7-14

Division 31. Knockouts 11-102. ABC Liquors 9-123. Moose Lodge 4-174. Xtreme 0-21

(Final Regular Season Standings)

The Power of the Cowbell

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August 26th and September 2ndLeonard Hall Recreation Center in

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Women’s meeting Thursday September 2ndCo-Ed meeting Wednesday September 8thMen’s meeting Thursday September 9thAll meetings at Leonard Hall Recreation

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Charlotte Hall’s Williams Scores 74th Win at Potomac

By Doug WatsonPotomac Speedway

Budds Creek, MD – David Williams of Charlotte Hall scored his second Limited Late Model feature win of the season last Friday night at Potomac Speedway.

The win for Williams, in a MasterSbilt owned by Joe Adams and Wayne Quade, was his 30th career Limited Late Model win and his overall 74th triumph at Potomac.

Williams and Stevie Long shared the front row for the start of the 20-lap event. Williams surged into the race lead as the pack entered turn one, and would even-tually go on to lead every lap of the feature to post the win.

As Williams led, the battle for second was quite a dandy. Stevie Long, Paul Cursey and Kyle Lear ran close the entire event, but could not get close to Williams to mount a challenge and they would finish in that order at the drop of the checkered with Kenny Moreland com-pleting the top five.

“That car was like driving a Cadillac tonight,” Wil-liams said. “Joe and Wayne and all the guys on the crew had this car just about perfect tonight.”

The win was Williams’ third overall feature win of the season in his third different race car.

“We’re having a blast,” he stated. “Not many guys get the opportunity to drive the cars that I do and I want to thank everyone who has given me the chance to do so.”

Heat race wins went to Williams and Paul Cursey.Troy Kassiris made the most of his front row start-

ing spot to collect his third feature win of the season in the 16-lap Street Stock feature. As Kassiris led, current point leader Kurt Zimmerman gave Kassiris all he had, but would have to settle for runner-up honors.

Walt Homberg was third, Donnie Smith collected fourth and Craig Tankersley rounded out the top five. Zimmerman won the heat.

In other action, Rusty Alton continued his winning ways as he scored win number three in the 15-lap Hobby Stock feature, Richard Gwizdale would also triumph for the third time this season in the 15-lap four-cylinder main and Ed Pope Sr. was victorious for the first time this season in the 20-lap Strictly Stock main event.

Late model feature finish (40-laps)1. David Williams 2. Stevie Long 3. Paul Cursey

4. Kyle Lear 5. Kenny Moreland 6. Derrick Quade 7. Ed Pope 8. PJ Hatcher 9. Tommy Wagner Jr. 10. Dave Ad-ams 11. Allan Canter 12. Pat Wood 13. Matt Morgan

Street stock feature finish (16-laps)1. Troy Kassiris 2. Kurt Zimmerman 3. Walt Hom-

berg 4. Donnie Smith 5. Craig Tankersley 6. Scott Wil-son 7. Dale Reamy 8. Teddy Dickson 9. Sam Archer 10. Mike Reynolds 11. Dale Smith (DNS) 12. Billy Crouse (DNS)

Thurs., Aug. 19

Boys’ SoccerChopticon at Patuxent (scrim-

mage), 6 p.m.

Girls’ SoccerPatuxent at Chopticon (scrim-

mage), 6 p.m.

Fri., Aug. 20

Field HockeyCalvert at Chopticon (scrim-

mage), 4 p.m.

VolleyballChopticon at Calvert (scrim-

mage), 5:30 p.m.

Sat., Aug. 21

Boys’ SoccerSt. Mary’s Ryken at Northeast

(scrimmage), 9 a.m.

Field HockeyLeonardtown at St. Mary’s Ryken

(scrimmage), 10 a.m.

FootballLa Plata/Thomas Stone at Chop-

ticon (scrimmages), 10 a.m.Great Mills at St. Paul’s (scrim-

mage), 10 a.m.

St. Mary’s Ryken at Central Mary-land Christian/St. John’s (scrim-

mages), 2 p.m.

Mon., Aug. 23

Boys’ SoccerThomas Stone at St. Mary’s Ryken (scrimmage), 4 p.m.

VolleyballGreat Mills at McDonough

(scrimmage), 6 p.m.St. Mary’s Ryken at Thomas Stone (scrimmage), 4 p.m.

Tues., Aug. 24

Boys’ SoccerLa Plata at Chopticon (scrim-

mage), 6 p.m.

Girls’ SoccerChopticon at La Plata, 6 p.m.

Wed., Aug. 25

Girls’ SoccerCalvert at St. Mary’s Ryken

(scrimmage), 4 p.m.

GolfChopticon/Great Mills/Calvert/

Westlake at Chesapeake Hills, 4 p.m.

By Chris StevensStaff Writer

Summer is coming to a close, even though the hot streaks will continue well into September, and that means the sports season is heating up locally and all across the nation.

The summer vacation is ending for the high school kids and practices have already began for all fall sports. Each school has a team poised to make noise on the regional and possibly the state level, so do yourself a favor and check out some of the county youngsters give their all as they compete for conference and state championship glory.

Meanwhile, a little ways up 235, the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs con-tinue to make a mockery of the Atlantic League, winning the Liberty Division’s first half championship along with an overall record of 65-40, by far the best in the league.

What’s more amazing is the Blue Crabs are dominating the Atlantic League in spite of losing several play-ers (John Halama, Jarrett Grube, Justin Christian, Kody Kirkland and Jason Lane) to Major League organizations. After making the Atlantic League Fi-nals in just their second season, the Crabs could very will be champions in their third season.

On the major league level, the Bal-timore Orioles took a major step back towards respectability by hiring veteran manager Buck Showalter.

Showalter, a veteran manager with

a no-nonsense attitude, has the Orioles playing their best ball of the season, winning nine of their first 13 games un-der his watch. Of course it’s just a small sample, but with the O’s young talent and Showalter’s disciplined leadership, the Orioles are in much better shape than they were to start this season.

At Nationals Park, the Nats are pretty much playing for 2011, as Ste-phen Strasburg is on a pitch count and management were recently trying to come to terms with their next young talent, slugger/outfielder Bryce Harp-er. The negotiations with Harper had been contentious to say the least, with Strasburg recently chiming in, saying “If he doesn’t want to be here, we don’t want him here.” Apparently Strasburg’s words were motivation enough to get a deal done, as Harper signed earlier this week for five years and 9.9 million dollars. Looks like the Nats are serious about contending.

The Redskins and Ravens had their first exhibition contests this past weekend, with the Skins coming out the clear winner by dropping 42 points on the Buffalo Bills Friday evening. Quarterback Donovan McNabb looked very strong in limited actions and nary a complaint has been lodged about the defensive effort. The Redskins Nation mood is positive and excited, and hopes that the Redskins could be a surprise team in the NFC are reasonable.

The night before the Skins showed their new-look team to the world, the Ravens pulled out a 17-12 win over the

Carolina Panthers, in spite of missing several defensive players, including All-World safety Ed Reed, with inju-ries. Quarterback Joe Flacco has no shortage of weapons in the backfield, but the acquisition of wide receiver An-quan Boldin might be the best one of the off season. The huge and sure-handed Boldin gives Flacco an unquestioned deep threat as well as a guy who’s not afraid to catch the tough passes across the middle. In a tough division like the AFC North, Boldin will add more skill and attitude to an already fearless team.

The Skins and Ravens are set to battle Saturday at FedEx Field, so fans of both teams will be interested to see how their teams develop – and who wins the Battle of the Beltway.

Finally, the little guys are taking center stage. The series begins Friday August 20 and it’s always a fun time to see kids of all ages from around the world strut their stuff on the baseball diamond. If you’ve never been to the LLWS and Williamsport, PA’s Howard J. Lamade Stadium, it’s a treat every sports fan should experience once.

Then again, there a lot of treats for sports fans this time of year, so don’t be afraid to go out and enjoy them while the weather’s still good.

Questions? Com-ments? Complaints? Send ‘em all to Chris at [email protected].

SPORTS DESKDog Days Of August Have Plenty To Watch For

From The

Tournament Dates: Saturday, August 28th - Mixed Doubles Saturday, September 18th - Gender Doubles

Both tournaments use a modi-fied compass format. Teams will be placed in brackets that guarantee three matches. Tournament fees go to benefit the SMCM tennis program and the SMCTA.Registration going on now!

Location: St. Mary’s College Somer-set Tennis Complex

Times: Play begins 8 a.m. both days. Players should plan to arrive 20 min-utes early to check-in.

In case of rain: Rain dates are the fol-lowing Sunday each week.

Who may enter: All adults and youth

16 and older. Entries for the gender doubles tournament is limited to 8 men’s and 8 women’s teams. The mixed doubles tournament is limited to 16 entries.

Cost: $40 per team. T-shirts and drinks will be sold on-site.

Registration Form: Print form from SMCTA website http://www.stmarys-tennis.org.

You must be logged into the site to download the registration form.

Registration Details: Registration forms must be received by August 25th for the Mixed tournament and by September 15 for the Gender tourna-ment. Send registration form and a check payable to SMCTA to:

SMCTAP.O. Box 375Hollywood, MD 20636

4th Annual Quasi-Compass Doubles BashThe St. Mary’s County Tennis Association and St. Mary’s College of

Maryland Tennis present the 4th Annual Quasi-Compass Doubles Bash

Social Doubles for Adults is held twice weekly and consists of infor-mal doubles matches, put together by the site coordinator, based on that day’s attendance. All who show up will get to play.

• 5 P.M. Sundays at Leonardtown High School, May 27th through Au-gust. Contact Cris Sigler at 410-326-6383 or [email protected].

• 5 P.M. Thursdays at Great Mills High School, June 6th through Sep-tember. Contact Bob Stratton at 443-926-2070 or [email protected].

The league fee is $25 for the Leonardtown site and $30 for the Great Mills site. Fees include court costs and balls. No registration is required.

Tennis Social Doubles



It is safe to say that bicycles and bike racing are life for Mike Schwartz.

“This shop is all I’ve ever wanted to do,” said Schwartz, the owner and founder of Mike’s Bikes, which has been in business in Lexington Park for 30 years now. “I made my mother happy by graduating from St. Mary’s College and opened this shop up within a year.”

The shop was open for more than 15 years when a bicycle-racing track was built at Chaptico Park, and Schwartz decided to become a vender at the track. However, something else caught his attention.

“I was there selling parts when I said ‘I may as well see what the fun is about,’” he said of racing. “I was 40 years old when I started racing.”

Schwartz, by his own admission, wasn’t very good when he got start-ed. “It took me three and a half years to win my first race,” he says. “I was horrible.”

However, as time went on, Schwartz got better and has made the top 10 of the ABA twice, including this year. He is currently ranked eighth na-tionally in the 51-55 age class.

While just getting into the sport of racing, Schwartz also has a team of young racers he travels with to various American Bi-cycle Association racing events.

“I formed the team in 2000 because I just got tried of racing by myself,” he says simply.

The featured attraction wherever Schwartz and his racers go is their big green school bus, which he purchased in 2002 to transport his team and various pieces of equipment around to different places.

The team is happy to be on board with Schwartz, as he’s not just their leader, but also a father figure.

“Mike will take care of you when you need help,” says 14-year old Lane Visele of Callaway. “He’s pretty much a like second parent.”

“When you’re racing for Mike, it’s like being part of a family,” 15-year old Russell Johnson of Mechanicsville said. “When you’re racing, you know you’re not alone.”

16-year old John Otto of Lexington Park agrees.

“It helps out because this keeps me out of trouble,” he said. “He always nags about our school work, too.”

The most experienced member of the team (and the longest-standing mem-ber), 20-year old Deion Harris of Lexington Park, had just moved to St. Mary’s County when he discovered Schwartz’s shop.

“A couple of kids I knew were coming here, so I just kept hanging out around here until Mike offered me a job. I’ll have been here five years in October.”

Harris enjoys the travel aspect of racing bikes all over the East Coast and many other places.

“I didn’t get to a travel a lot until I started doing this,” he said. “Now I get to see a lot of places.”

Harris is Schwartz’s prized pupil, possessing a natural ability for racing before he picked up the skill to go with it.

“Deion was a natural – he didn’t know a lot about the sport, but he just clobbered everybody his first time on the track,” Schwartz said. “Nobody could beat him until he started going up against the experts.”

Schwartz offers an opportunity for any one interested in racing bikes.

“Just come on up to the track and give it a try,” he says.

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Photo By Frank MarquartLane Visele, left, who won this state qualifier race, says that Mike Schwartz has been like “a second parent.”

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Regency Furniture Stadium, home of the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs, has been named the DigitalBallparks.com “2010 Ballpark of the Year.” The honor comes in the third season for the facility.

DigitalBallparks.com is one of the most recognizable online encyclopedias for professional baseball stadiums, both major and minor league, and is considered a valuable

industry resource, a press release states. The unique look of Regency Furniture Sta-

dium, straying from the beaten path of typical ballpark design, is what stood out most to Dig-italBallparks.com.

With its distinctive tobacco barn design to reflect Southern Maryland, the website pro-claims “this uniqueness has made this ballpark stand out from the others and become one of the jewels of minor league baseball.”

Once inside, several more aspects of Re-gency Furniture Stadium impressed Digital Ballparks. In reference to the Texas Road-house Corral in left field:

“There are picnic areas, and then there are picnic areas. This

ballpark has a huge tented section

that takes up all of left

field…The corral is fronted by a monstrous BBQ pit that serves up an All-You-Can-Eat BBQ two-hour. buffet.”

The more upscale “Legends Club” at the stadium was also highlighted:

“If you prefer the luxury of air-conditioned indoor eating, that can be done as well at the Legends Club…an indoor catering area down the 3rd baseline that holds a slightly more up-scale experience for business functions…base-ball dining for the well civilized. The view from the Legends Club is one of the best in the house.”

Other unique features of Regency Furni-ture Stadium that impressed Digital Ballparks included “Crabby Cove,” the Blue Crabs 54,000 gallon bumper boat pond, with a sand beach area below where parents still have a terrific view of the game in left-center field, while be-ing able to keep an eye on their children as well as they play.

Known as one of the most family-friendly facilities in all of minor league baseball, the “PNC Kids Zone” Playground also stood out, complete with slides, a bounce house, obstacle courses and even a rock climbing wall.

The luxury suites at Regency Furniture Stadium span two levels, and each have their own bathroom facilities and private seating ar-eas outside, allowing each suite holder to take ownership of their own unique space.

Despite the modern amenities, the 2010

Ballpark of the Year was also lauded for its ability to make the baseball purist feel at home as well. The Wrigley Field/Fenway Park-like manual scoreboard left an impression; “The scoreboard located down the left field line pays homage to the ballparks of yesteryear…Some-one actually sits behind the scoreboard all game and puts the numbers on the board in real time. Isn’t the lack of technology wonderful?”

As another benefit of winning this very prestigious award from DigitalBallparks.com, Regency Furniture Stadium is now a perma-nent member of the website’s “Ballpark Hall of Fame,” joining other top facilities such as brand new Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio, home of the Columbus Clippers in the Triple-A In-ternational League, last year’s Ballpark of The Year winner.

“This is truly a great honor, it is very gratifying to be recognized with this award,” said Southern Maryland Blue Crabs General Manager Chris Allen. “From our entire front office and organization, I’d like to thank Eric and Wendy Pastore from DigitalBallparks.com for all of their kind words about our facility, and for visiting us. Charles County has done an in-credible service to this community by bringing this stadium to us. We are a very proud group today.”

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Blue Crabs Get The Jump On Bridgeport


The Southern Maryland Blue Crabs batted around and then some in the first in-ning of their game at Bridgeport, scoring seven runs on their way to a 9-2 victory over the Bluefish Tuesday night.

Jeremy Owens and Ben Harrison hit back-to-back homers to highlight the frame, in which seven different Blue Crabs collected hits, with Shaun Cumberland and Casey Benjamin reaching twice on singles. Cumberland and Benjamin would later add home runs as well, pushing the Crabs’ round-tripper total to four on the

evening.That was all the support lefty starter

Craig Anderson would need, as he ran his record to 9-3 on the season, pitching seven innings and striking out five batters.

The Blue Crabs improved their Atlan-tic League-best second half record to 25-11, currently ½ game ahead of the Bluefish for first place in the Liberty Division.

Southern Maryland closes out their brief road trip before returning home for a seven-game home-stand Friday, as they host the Camden Riversharks for a three-game series over the weekend. The series opener begins at 7:05 p.m.

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Chance to Challenge a Guide at CCA Chapter Meeting

Local anglers will have the chance to learn from one of the most experienced light tackle and fly fishing guides on the Chesapeake Bay at the Wednesday, Aug. 25, meeting of the Coastal Conservation Association Maryland Patuxent River Chapter. The meeting is free to the public and will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the St. Mary’s County Elks Lodge #2092, 45779 Fire Department Lane, California.

Captain Brady Bounds will speak on a variety of topics, take questions from the audi-ence, and promises to answer in great detail any question relating to light tackle and fly fishing within the realm of his experience.

“This is your opportunity to hear and un-

derstand the system that a veteran guide uses to make decisions that pay off in finding fish that others can’t, finding fish during extreme conditions, and making fish bite even if they are not hungry,” said Bounds.

Captain Brady was once heard at a local ramp telling a well wisher, “Thanks for the sentiments, but luck has nothing to do with fishing.” Learn why he stands by that state-ment. Attendees are invited to bring their chart books and a Sharpie pen for note taking.

The meeting is free. Wings, other food and beverages will be available for purchase beginning at 6:30 p.m. for those attending the meeting.

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lia – As they stay in the hunt for back-to-back D-League championships, Sandringham will undoubtedly call on their premier big man to help get the Sabres across the line.

Sam Burum, a 6-7 Melbourne native, has been central to Sandring-ham’s D-League success in the last two seasons. As the Sabres swept all before them in last year’s competi-tion, Burum was the team’s second highest scorer, averaging 12.8 points per game.

Importantly, his numbers are also up in areas that are not com-monly associated with the 4-5 posi-tion. Burum is 50% behind the three point line, and also averages over one steal and one assist per game across the last two years.

But perhaps these figures are not surpris-ing when it’s revealed who Sam admires as a player.

“Dirk Nowitzki has always been my fa-vorite player. Like him, I’ve always tried to be a skilled forward that can play inside and out-side, with big and small skills.”

Reflecting his all-round ability, Burum’s best D-League game this season was possibly against Dandenong in round 14, when he had 32 points, 10 rebounds, three assists, two steals and a block.

This kind of output has seen Burum re-warded with seven games in the SEABL team,

and the forward/center contributed 12 points and three rebounds in 12:28 minutes against the Chargers in round 16.

It is easy to understand why Burum’s game is on the rise given that he has recently returned from a stint at a Division III college in the US.

Under the tutelage of head coach Chris Harney, Burum was the starting center at St Mary’s College of Maryland. Last sea-son, he averaged 9.9 points and 5.2 boards for a team that finished with a 26-4 overall record and took the Capital Athletic Conference championship.

The Seahawks also progressed to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Division III tour-nament, before being bundled out byFranklin & Marshall College.

And while Burum would love to one day compete at the highest level, he remains fo-cused on somewhat more immediate goals.

“I have always wanted to play basketball professionally and it has been one of my goals to try and play in Australia or overseas. I am also about to enter my last year of college and I want to have a successful senior season.

“But right now my main goal is to help us win our last three games of the season, hope-fully sneak into the playoffs and win back-to-back D-league titles. I just want to continue to try and play at the highest level I can.”

The Southern Maryland Hockey Club recreational program is designed to provide hockey players an opportunity to learn and de-velop skills in a team setting. The recreational program is also designed to assure equal op-portunity to participate for all skill levels. Play-ers of all skill levels are welcome. No tryouts required.

These teams participate in the Capital Corridor Hockey League (CCHL). The league is part of the Southeastern District of USA

Hockey (www.usahockey.com). Our home arena is Capital Clubhouse in Waldorf, MD (www.capitalclubhouse.com).

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Online Registration is Now Open for Southern Maryland Sabres Rec Hockey

Sabres Recreational Hockey 2010-2011 begins in October

SMCM’s Burum Center of Attention for Australian Team

Sam Burum

THURSDAY August 19, 2010


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