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Piney Point Lighthouse site supervisor April Havens poses with participants in the pirate costume contest. Kids will have another chance this year to get pirate name, walk the plank and raise the Jolly Roger at Piney Point Pirates Day on July 28.

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County Commissioner Larry Jarboe is serving out his last term allowable in county government, but said this week he is not ready to give up his quest for a higher elected office.

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David Zylak, former elect-ed county sheriff and later di-rector of public safety for county government, has abruptly left his position as head of public safety at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, The County Times has learned.

An email from Bert Ifill, the interim dean of students at the college, posted on a web blog about the college, did not offer any reason for Zylak’s leaving the post.

“With the departure of David Zylak as Director of Public Safety, the college will im-mediately institute a search process for a new director,” the statement to the campus commu-nity reads.

Melvin McClintock will take over as the interim public safety director, the e-mail stated.

“Mac has provided strong leadership as assistant director of human resources and as an affirmative action/EEO officer in the five years he has been at St. Mary’s, following a dis-tinguished 20-year career in the military,” the statement reads.

Sources with knowledge of the situation say there may have been allegations of mis-conduct on Zylack’s part and he was possibly

forced out of his position. The County Times was unable to confirm these claims as of press time Wednesday, and Zylack could not be reached for comment.

Zylak’s vacating the po-sition follows the dismissal of two other employees at the college in the admissions of-fice who had served for more than 60 combined years for what college officials have said was a reorganization of that office.

Keisha Reynolds, spokeswoman for the college, said that officials could not comment on why Zylak left because it was a personnel matter.

“It is a confidential matter,” Reynolds.Zylak was selected to fill the director's

position at the college’s public safety office full time in early November, according to informa-tion from the college, after several months as interim director.

Reynolds said that Zylak was still under a probationary period of one year from his date of hiring at the full time position.

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More Cameras to be Installed at Leonardtown Wharf


The Leonardtown Town Council voted yesterday to buy more security cameras for the wharf public park to combat incidents of vandalism and theft of town property.

The contract went to C&C Systems for $7,284 to purchase the additional sur-veillance cameras, despite the fact that it was almost double the original price bud-geted by the town of $4,000.

Town leaders said that problems at the wharf, one of the town’s most suc-cessful redevelopment projects, has risen to such a level that more surveillance is needed.

“It kills me that we have so much vandalism down there,” said Council member Leslie Roberts. “We should just go ahead and do it.”

The council approved the action unanimously.

In other news the town council ap-proved the allocation of three equivalent dwelling units of water and sewer sys-tem use for a proposed home construc-tion project that will bring rambler-style homes to the town.

Mike Hutson, the developer of the project who also works for Triton Met-als in California, said that the idea was to keep the cost at about $259,000 per home to make it more attractive for workforce housing.

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Two employees at St. Mary’s College of Maryland have been dismissed as a result of changes in the college’s recruit-ing office, and the change has lead to an on-line petition of alumni to get them their jobs back, along with protests that the new administration at the college is steering it away from its original mission of providing an elite education at an af-fordable price.

A letter from Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Pat Goldsmith to the campus last week stated that Director

of Admissions Richard Edgar and office administrator Lisa Crowe were let go due to a reorganization scheme that cre-ates a new associate director of admissions and financial aid, among one or two other jobs.

Edgar had 25 and Crowe had 37 years of service before being abruptly dismissed.

In the letter, Goldsmith said that the shake-up was nec-essary due to problems in getting the best students to come to the college.

“Admissions at St. Mary’s College is in the process of launching an ambitious, national recruitment campaign de-signed to improve the quantity, quality and diversity of our applicant pool, which has been shrinking in recent years,” the letter states.

An on-line petition said that the move to dismiss the two employees would damage relations between the col-lege and alumni and weakens interactions between faculty and staff, considered one of the lynchpins of the college’s success.

“This is all tied to the direction that the new administra-tion is taking St. Mary’s College of Maryland,” the on-line post reads. “This institution seems to be undergoing an iden-tity crisis. The college has succeeded in being an affordable alternative to private liberal arts institutions.

“However it seems that St. Mary’s College of Maryland is more intent on mimicking these institutions rather than being this alternative.”

A source close to the college said that tension has also grown between faculty and staff who take care of the day to day operations at the college whose salaries have remained frozen and higher level administrators who have seen their salaries increase.

Protests have occurred at the college recently over just this issue.

“If three-fourths of the administration didn’t show up they’d scarcely be missed, but if 10 percent of the faculty and staff didn’t show up for two days there would be chaos,” the source said.

An on-line post on the petition website indicated alum-ni were upset at the change and would likely penalize the college for it.

“If Rich Edgar and Lisa Crowe are not reinstated, I will stop donating my annual contribution to the St. Mary’s Fund and request that the college stop sending me alumni infor-mation,” the post read. “ People deserve to be treated right for their service, not put out to pasture.”

Keisha Reynolds, spokeswoman for the college, said that administration officials are talking to faculty and staff about their concerns over the changes individually.

“We do realize that staff changes can be difficult and emotional,” Reynolds said. “They were made in the best in-terests of the college.”

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Mayor Dan Burris said that crews were still working to take down the last leg Wednesday morning.

The tower, which had stood for nearly a century by some accounts, held some sentimental attachment for

town residents but keeping it was more trouble than it was worth, Burris said.

“There’s some question as to when it was built,” Burris told The County Times. “It was likely in the 20s or 30s.”

The tower once supplied a significant amount of the town’s water, but with a capacity of just 100,000 gallons in modern times it did not really aid the water delivery system anymore, Burris said.

“I would’ve liked to keep it, but the cost to maintain it and bring it up to safety standards would have been $250,000,” he said. “It wouldn’t add any pressure to our water system.”

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Hollywood Volunteer Fire Department (HVFD) won Best Appearing Company Overall at last month’s Maryland State Fire-men’s Association Parade, the first time a department from the western shore, let alone Southern Maryland, has received that distinction.

Overall, the company took home 12 total awards at the annual parade, featur-ing approximately 150 different companies from Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Delaware.

In all, HVFD sent approximately 60 members, some of whom left St. Mary’s at 3:30 a.m., and 10 pieces of apparatus, machinery intended for a specific use – to Ocean City.

“We’re proud to be able to say we won best appearing in the state of Maryland,” said Bill Mattingly, the president and Hollywood Volunteer Fire Department life member.

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After taking home the Second Best Ap-pearing Company for the last two consecu-tive years, Mattingly said Parade Chairman Jamie Bean was determined to get the de-partment over the hump and win the top title.

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Firefigheter Mike “Bubba” Sullivan won the Maryland State Firefighter of the Year award, going above and beyond the call of duty according to HVD’s website, and Danny Davis won Legislator of the Year.

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Bongino Taking Campaign to Southern MarylandBy Guy LeonardStaff Writer

Dan Bongino, an ex-Secret Service agent seeking to unseat incumbent U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, says that his outsider status as some-one who has never run for political office ac-tually makes him the ideal choice over some-one who has been a career politician.

“There’s no foil better than Ben Cardin to run against,” Bongino told The County Times. Bongino, a New York City native and GOP candidate, said that with liberal Demo-crats Cardin and Sen. Barbara Mikulski serv-ing as Maryland’s two senators there is no bal-anced political representation in Maryland.

“A diverse political ecosystem is impor-tant in the state,” said Bongino, who railed against Cardin and other Democrats for al-lowing the possibility of $1.2 trillion in de-fense cuts over the next 10 years due to budget constraints.

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crats hold the keys to keeping the local de-fense industry strong is simply not true.

“You have to defend the country first,” Bongino said. “They don’t protect the base [Patuxent River Naval Air Station], that’s a myth.

“He’s not some big power player, he’s relatively weak,” he said.

Bongino supports developing energy in-dustry alternatives to increase jobs, especial-ly in Western Maryland areas where natural gas is in abundance.

Political decisions to halt development of those resources were destructive to the state’s economy, he said.

“We have $50 billion in natural gas in Western Maryland and we’re not touching it,” Bongino said.

Bongino said his tax position is mod-erate, and instead of seeking a large cut, he called for “holding the line” on tax increases.

Todd Eberly, professor of political sci-ence at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, said

Bongino’s background makes him a convinc-ing candidate, but Democratic strength in Maryland means he has a tough race ahead of him.

Moreover, Bongino needs to make his name known throughout the state, Eberly said, and that means he needs money from national level Republican power brokers who may be looking to spend their money in races where Democrats are more vulnerable.

And while Cardin usually had the lowest approval ratings in Maryland among federal officials, he also did not raise the ire of con-servatives like Mikulski who was more of a firebrand.

“He doesn’t generate that level of pas-sion,” Eberly said, meaning that, while the incumbent is not extremely popular, he also does not have heavy opposition.

“If Bongino’s going to win he’s going to have to do it on his own,” Eberly said.

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Gerry Schuh, 79, lives quietly in retire-ment near Solomons Island but in his younger days during the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the rising stars of shotgun skeet shooting in the United States, with a place on a world championship team.

Schuh said his entry into the world of

sport shooting was a strange one, since he never even grew up around guns, shooting or outdoor sports like hunting.

But one day, decades ago he went out with some friends duck hunting and his poor performance inspired him to learn to do better.

“I couldn’t hit a duck to save my life,” Schuh said. “I was totally frustrated.”

He went to a local skeet range to get some advice from a top shooter named Char-lie Parsons, Schuh said, and after hitting only 13 out of 25 fast moving clay birds his instructor told him he was doing everything wrong.

With some instruction and dedication, the then Ft. Lauderdale insurance business owner started to do better.

“Finally I got 25 out of 25 … and then I finally got 100 out of 100,” Schuh said.

After that, he started to compete, he said.

“I got lucky and I won some tourna-ments,” Schuh said.

Eventually he went on to win the Flor-ida State Skeet Shooting Championship and soon after joined the All American skeet shooting team in 1966.

By this time Schuh was among the na-tion’s top 20 shooters with what was known as a “high overall” score shooting .410, 28, 20 and 12 gauge shotguns.

“To me the 28 gauge was the ultimate in shotguns,” Schuh said, noting its ease of use and low recoil in cracking clay pigeons.

Gun writer Jimmy Robinson, who wrote for Sports Afield magazine decades ago, even dubbed Schuh an “instant All-American.”

Schuh has newspapers clippings and

photos from years ago showing his victories, including winning the world championship for 28 shotgun on a five-man team back in 1970.

He was even featured in a Rolex watch magazine advertisement that has him wear-ing the famous timepiece while shooting.

He still has the watch, he said.Schuh remembers a lot about his time on

the range, especially the lengths competitors would go in buying thousands of dollars in guns and equipment to better their game.

He remembers some Krieghoff-brand, German-designed shotguns he had pur-

chased about 50 years ago for $12,000.“I sold them for $14,000, so I got lucky,”

Schuh said. “You can’t touch a Krieghoff to-day for less than $30,000.”

But he said he’d never forget the day when a shooter whose name he can’t remem-ber came to a range session with a humble High Standard .410 gun and cracked 100 out of 100 after pulling the new gun right out of the box.

After that, Schuh said, he was convinced it was more important what the shooter did than what the gun happened to be.

“It all boils down to what’s in your head,” Schuh said. “You have to lead the [clay] bird. If you stop you’re going to miss him … It’s a lot of concentration.”

His success in the shooting sports lead to his dual budding as a hunter and sports-man, taking game in places like Alaska and Montana with rifles.

But it was an unlikely awakening, he said, since he never had a father growing up and shooting sports are often passed from fa-ther to son.

“I never thought of a gun until my 20s, but I never knew any better,” he said. “But I thoroughly enjoyed it.”

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Jerry Schuh demonstrates the shooting form that propelled him to the top of the skeet game decades ago.

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A Calvert County resident and former St. Mary’s sheriff’s deputy has again been sent to jail after pleading guilty to assault-ing his estranged girlfriend and violating a protective order she had against him.

Steven Michael Vandevander, 43, of Prince Frederick, was charged with assaulting Lydia Steenrod at her Lexington Park home as well as a live-in tenant who tried to break up the alterca-tion in January.

Steenrod, 29, recently passed away of an undetermined cause while Vandevander was awaiting adjudication for his most recent charges.

In coming to Steenrod’s home earlier this year Vandevander violated a protective order stemming from a February 2011 in-cident in which Vandevander had been accused of threatening Steenrod with a shotgun the year prior.

In the latest incident, prosecutors said that Vandevander came to visit Steenrod in violation of the protective order and assaulted her and when John Tucker, her tenant, came to her aid he used pep-per spray on him.

Vandevander’s account of the incident had Tucker assaulting him and Vandevander using the pepper spray in self-defense.

Vandevander has avoided prosecution in the past on first-de-gree assault charges and this time pleaded to the violation of the order and second-degree assault, resulting only in a local sentence of 18 months from an original suspended sentence of five years.

But Judge Melanie Shaw Geter, visiting from Prince George’s County, allowed Vandevander 154 days credit for time served, which means he will spend about another year in jail.

Randall Steenrod, the victim’s father, said that he had hoped for a heavier sentence, if only to ensure that Vandevander had enough time incarcerated to reform his ways.

He said that his daughter suffered continually at Vandevander’s hands and so did his family from watching his daughter’s fear.

“It keeps you in mental turmoil all the time when someone’s abusing your kid,” Steenrod said. “I think he should have gotten five years.”

Geter sentenced Vandevander to a suspended five-year term the last time he came before her in 2011 but did not invoke his backup time in this latest incident.

She threatened Vandevander with backup time, however, if he again violated the law.

Vandevander said he was sorry for the trouble he had caused, but neither Geter nor the family seemed persuaded.

“I’m sorry about all the events surrounding this and I’m sor-ry about the loss of Lydia,” Vandevander said.

“Sometimes sorry just isn’t good enough,” Geter said. “I don’t know what’s going on with you.

“I’m not going to stand for this foolishness. I want you to get it right.”

Vandevander was fired from the sheriff’s office nearly 15 years ago for an excessive use of force claim that was later re-jected by an appeals court.

He got a settlement in back pay and other costs from the county as a result of the case and also collects a retirement benefit from the county sheriff’s retirement fund, according to county human resources officials.

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Scores from the Maryland School Assessment exam indicates St. Mary’s County Public Schools students are head-ed in the right direction. In 2012, 90.4 percent of elementary students scored in the efficient or advanced category for reading, while 92.1 percent scored effi-cient or advanced in mathematics.

Students reading scores are up 1.6 percent and mathematics scores are up 2 percent from 2011.

Although St. Mary’s County middle school students’ scores fell 1.4 and .7 per-cent in reading and math, respectively, from 2011, they still scored higher than the Maryland state average.

“These scores are remarkable when one considers the educational reform we

are undergoing,” Superintendent Michael Martirano said in a press release, refer-encing the recent waiver in the No Child Left Behind law.

The No Child Left Behind waiver cuts the target rate of 100 percent of stu-dents proficient in math and reading to a more realistic timeline. The baseline of the program will now be set to the previ-ous year’s data, and creates a more sen-sible standard for the expected progress

to be made, said Jeff Maher, the Direc-tor of Teacher Learning and Professional Development.

While goals are still being recon-structed, Maryland is also in transition from the Maryland State Curriculum to the Maryland Common Core Standards. Schools will now focus their improve-ment based on its own year-to-year statis-tics instead of other schools results. The new Common Core Standards are sensi-tive to demographic factors.

The waiver also replaces the MSA exam with the Partnership Assessment of Readiness of College and Careers (PARCC) exam. The PARCC exam will likely prepare students with material used by multiple states – similar to the common core concept, Maher said.

The state plans to reset its Annual Measurable Objectives, standards set by the state, for the next six years on a trajec-tory towards 2017.

“With the new Annual Measur-able Objective being communicated to schools for the first time this June, we will spend considerable time this summer refocusing our planning and individual-izing each school improvement plan – as each site will have different targets to reach over the next five years,” said As-sistant Superintendent of Instruction Lin-da Dudderar in a press release.

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Free meals are available to students ages 18 and younger, no questions asked, at two locations in St. Mary’s County this summer.

Lexington Park and George Carver elementary are the program’s host sites; open Monday through Thursday, this year. Lexington Park serves lunch from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m., while free food is available at Carver from 12 until 1 p.m. Both programs end on Aug. 9.

Southern Maryland Coordinator for Share Our Strength Anna Mudd, said all the food served is approved by the United

States Department of Agriculture, and typically consists of normal items found at lunch during the school year.

Lexington Park Elementary Princi-pal Susie Fowler said the school is on av-erage administering 50 free meals a day since the program began on June 18.

George Caver Elementary is serving between 30 and 40 kids daily, said Co-ordinating Supervisor of Food and Nu-trition Services Mike Jones. He believes there are slightly more kids per day at the Lexington Park site because of additional programs at the school coinciding with the summer meals program.

In 2008, Governor O’Malley and Share Our Strength created a coalition

called the Partnership to End Childhood Hunger, a goal Mudd said O’Malley is committed to meeting by 2015.

The initiative aims to raise aware-ness about childhood hunger, increase participation in nutrition programs and develop a plan with strategies and yearly goals to organize the efforts state-wide.

Share Our Strength is a non-profit organization committed to leaving “no kid hungry.”

“Every parent knows that a hungry child is a disadvantaged child,” the Share Our Strength website states. “…They fall behind in virtually every way.”

By providing free summer meals, kids receive nutritious food to help them

grow and thrive and there is plenty of food in America, but what is lacking is the access to it. Share Our Strength works on promoting the End Childhood Hunger efforts so people know when and where to receive free meals, according to the website.

“The lack of awareness that this program exists is our biggest barrier to increasing participation,” Mudd said. “The more people who know about this, the better chance we have to feed hungry kids.”

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Shiver me timbers! Piney Point Light-house Museum is hosting its annual Pirate Day for kids ages 3-9 on Saturday, July 28.

After receiving their own unique pirate names, the young scalawags will participate in a variety of pirate themed activities such as raising the Jolly Roger, walking the plank, getting tattoos and making souvenir tele-scopes and pirate flags.

A cannonball toss, described by mar-keting specialist Kim Cullins as a bean bag war between two sides, is one of the marquee buccaneer-themed events.

“The kids have to throw the bean bags through the holes into the other ship,” Cul-lins said. “It’s kind of like corn-hole.”

The other main event of the day is a treasure hunt, which Cullins told The

County Times is an educational guided tour throughout the entire park. Kids will hunt for treasure by searching for a series of clues, which provides an excellent opportunity to show them everything the Piney Point Light-house Museum has to offer.

Pirate Day officials strongly encour-age kids to get creative; the day will feature a costume contest to recognize the best-dressed pirates. Lighthouse staff and volun-teers heartily look forward to seeing all the kids, loaded with enthusiasm, dressed up as sixteenth century pirates.

Because last year’s inaugural Pirate Day had such a great turnout, lighthouse of-ficials decided to break this year’s program up into a morning session for kids 3-5 and an afternoon session for ages 6-9. The expan-sion allows the program to host more kids and parents.

Pirate Day is also more of a guided tour

this year, which Cullins said is because light-house officials hope to inform all the patrons of the educational benefits of the museum and park as they participate in the scavenger hunt.

Due to the Piney Point Lighthouse’s marine location, the park has perfect atmo-sphere for a pirate filled day of swashbuck-ling for young sea-loving adventurers, Cul-lins said.

“We’re trying to tie in the nautical loca-tion as we provide another activity at Piney Point Lighthouse Museum,” Cullins said.

Pirates and nautical locations allow kids to actualize their creativity, Cullins believes, and recent movies and pirate embellishment seems to have children particularly excited about pirate themed events. The Lighthouse Museum ties in this theme to create another way that kids can have fun with the fad.

“They get their own pirate name, and

really get to be a pirate for a day,” Cullins said.

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To register for Pirate Day or for addi-tional information, call 301-994-1471.

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Photo by Alex PanosSt. Mary’s County Elks Lodge donated $2,000 to the Hollywood Volunteer Fire Department on Tuesday for a “911 Simulator.” The department plans to use the simulator to teach kids the proper procedure of how to make an emergency phone call.

Piney Point Lighthouse volunteer George Brstilo, dressed in his pirate finest, bel-lows a big "Arg!" to the scurvy little pirates visiting the lighthouse.

Piney Point Lighthouse site supervisor April Havens (tall, middle) poses with participants in the pirate costume contest.


Mary Burroughs, 63

Mary Agnes “Aggie” Burroughs, 63, of Avenue, MD, died July 4, 2012, at her home surrounded by her loving fam-ily after a courageous battle with cancer.

Born May 22, 1949, in Leonardtown, MD, she was the daughter of the late John Alfred Trossbach and Teresa Trossbach.

Aggie married Joseph A. Burroughs on January 10, 1970. Together they cel-ebrated 42 wonderful years together. She lived her entire life in St. Mary’s County. She was employed for over twenty-eight years by the United States Postal Service. She truly enjoyed her job and all the people she came to work with and know. She was a member of the Leonardtown Volunteer Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary. Aggie was an active member of Sacred Heart Catho-lic Church and was strong in her faith. Her hobbies included taking bus trips, attending basket bingos, collecting Vera Bradley, and Winnie the Pooh. She loved and enjoyed spending time with her two beautiful grand-daughters. For Aggie, her friends meant the world to her, and she never met a stranger.

In addition to her husband, Aggie is survived by her two sons, Joseph Michael Burroughs of California, MD and Christo-pher Burroughs (Deanna) of Leonardtown,

MD; two grandchildren, Taylor and Sara Burroughs of Leonardtown, MD; eight sib-lings, Thomas Alfred Trossbach (Carolyn) of Leonardtown, MD, Frank Trossbach of Hollywood, MD, Robert Lee Trossbach (Mary Della) of Leonardtown, MD, Ha-zel Trossbach of Hollywood, MD, Linda Owens (Ross) of Leonardtown, MD, Ann Trossbach of Hollywood, MD, Roy Tross-bach (Beverly) of Hollywood, MD, and Catherine Trossbach of Hollywood, MD; her sister-in-laws, Audrey Aud (John) of Park Hall, MD, and Harriet Trent of Cali-fornia, MD, and her brother-in-law Robert Johnson of Hollywood, MD. In addition to her parents, Aggie is preceded in death by her brother-in-laws, James Burroughs and Andrew Burroughs; and her sister-in-laws, Mary Helen Dean and Virginia Johnson.

Family received friends for Aggie’s Life Celebration on Monday, July 9, 2012 with prayers recited by the Reverend Fran-cis Early, at Brinsfield Funeral Home, 22955 Hollywood Road, Leonardtown, MD 20650. A Mass of Christian Burial was cel-ebrated on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 at the Sa-cred Heart Catholic Church, 23080 Maddox Road, Bushwood, MD 20618. Interment followed in Charles Memorial Gardens, Leonardtown, MD.

Serving as pallbearers were Thomas A. Trossbach, Robert L. Trossbach, Frank I. Trossbach, Roy A. Trossbach, John E. Trossbach, Richard A. Trossbach, Michael A. Trossbach, and Jason M. Owens.

Memorial donations may be made to Hospice House of St. Mary’s, P.O. Box 625,

Leonardtown, MD 20650 and the Leonar-dtown Volunteer Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary, P.O. Box 50, Leonardtown, MD 20650.

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

Arrangements by the Brinsfield Funer-al Home, P.A., Leonardtown, MD.

James Bush, 80

James Edward Bush (age 80) of Me-chanicsville, MD entered into eternal rest on Saturday, June 30, 2012 at Washing-ton Hospital Center. Friends visited with the family on Friday, July 6, A Mass of Christian Burial was at Immacu-late Conception Catholic Church 28297 Old Village Road in Mechanicsville, MD 20659. Interment was at Queen of Peace Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Medstar Unit at St. Mary’s Hospital in Leonardtown, Maryland.

James Edward Bush was born August 7, 1931 in Chaptico, MD to the late Mary K. Bush and Theodore R. Talbert. Edward, as he was known, attended elementary and secondary schools in St. Mary’s County. Prior to completing his secondary educa-tion he began working for a State contractor trimming trees for electrical rights of way. Later, Edward went to work for the Depart-ment of Interior where he retired after 30 years of service. In 1954 at the tender age of 23, he met and married his wife Mary A. Thompson of Charles County, MD. They lived a long, fun-filled, and happy life. Ed-ward had a sense of humor that was better than any comic. He always had some saying (that he made up) and stories that would keep you laughing long after he said it. He always had Arlene laughing. Edward loved to cook. He was well known for his cabbage, scal-loped potatoes and ribs. You didn’t invite him to something without him bring at least one of these. Ribs were his main item to bring to the family reunion. Edward moved to Mechanicsville, MD in the late nineties and joined the Church of the Immaculate Conception where he remained a faithful member until his death. Left to cherish his life are his wife, Mary A. Bush; his brothers William M. Talbert (Barbara) of Ft. Wash-ington, MD, James R. Bush of Washington, DC, Thomas Talbert and Theodore Talbert, Jr. of New Jersey; a sister Alice Talbert; a step-sister Brenda Corely of Washington, DC; a niece Lisa M. Talbert of Van Nuys, CA, and a nephew Marc P. Talbert (Judy) of Waldorf, MD along with a host of relatives and friends.

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Bernard Ellis, 72

Bernard “Buddy” Cleo Ellis, 72, of Leon-ardtown, MD, former-ly from Avenue passed away in Leonardtown, MD. Born on January 25, 1940 he was the son of the late Edna Mae and John William

Ellis, Sr. Buddy is survived by his siblings: June Twinam, Lillian Prettyman, Peggy Johnston, Donnie Ellis all of Leonardtown, MD., Anne Aeby of Newark, OH., Joseph Ellis of Herrington, DE., Mary Catherine Gilkerson of WVA., Dorothy Brown, and Charles Ellis both of Dunn, NC. He was preceded in death by his siblings; James Ellis, Walter Ellis, John Ellis, and Tommy Ellis. Buddy attended Margret Brent High School and graduated in 1961. He worked as a mechanic for Bell Motor Company for 44 years retiring in 2009. Buddy enjoyed play-ing ball, spending time with family, watch-ing Mash and Bonaza.

The family will receive friends on Thursday, July 12, 2012 from 9 a.m. – 10 a.m. in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, Leonardtown, MD. A Funeral Ser-vice will follow at 10 a.m. with Deacon Bill Nickerson officiating. Interment will follow in Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery, Bushwood, MD. Pallbearers will be; Paul Tippett Jr., Patrick Hurley, Greg Tippett, Brad Twinam, Robbie Twinam, and Mi-chael Ellis. Honorary Pallbearers will be; William Bussler, Billy Williams, and Mi-chael Lee. Contributions may be made to the Leonardtown Vol. Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 299 Leonardtown, MD.

Agnes Ferguson, 86

Agnes Gwynette Readmond Ferguson, 86 of Hollywood, MD died July 7, 2012 at St. Mary’s Nursing Center.

Born June 4, 1926 in Hollywood, MD she was the daugh-ter of the late James Leonard Readmond and Emma Estelle (Wallace) Readmond.

Agnes is survived by her daughters, Doris M. Howe (John) of Hollywood, MD and Gail L. Ferguson (John Speight) of Landis, NC; grandchildren, John M. Howe (Linda) of Mechanicsville, MD, John S. Howe, III (Caroline) of Abell, MD, James M. Howe (Norma) of Leonardtown, MD, Philip W. Howe of Hollywood, MD, Chris-topher E. Ridgell (Jen) and Amber D. Clay both of Landis, NC; great-grandchildren Sean M. Howe, Jaiden Q. Howe, Ashtyn S. Howe all of Hollywood, MD, Sheldon S. Howe and Clyde M. Howe of Leonardtown, MD and Landon Ridgell, Kamden Ridgell and David Clay of Landis, NC; siblings, Joseph L. Readmond, Robert I. Readmond (Margaret Ann), and William C. Read-mond (Sue) of Hollywood, MD, Catherine L. Jones (John) of Bryans Road, MD and Jean E. Davis (Carl) of Bedford, TX. She is also survived by many nieces and neph-ews as well as her cherished friend Marge Beaudwin. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her siblings John F. Readmond and James P. Readmond.

Family will receive friends for Agnes’ Life Celebration on Thursday, July 12, 2012 from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. at the Brinsfield Funeral Home, 22955 Hollywood Road, Leonardtown, MD 20650. A Funeral Ser-vice will be conducted by Reverend John Wunderlich on Friday, July 13, 2012 at 11 a.m. in the Brinsfield Funeral Home Cha-pel. Interment will follow in Joy Chapel Cemetery, Hollywood, MD.

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Serving as pallbearers will be grand-sons, Chris Ridgell, Binks, James and Wally Howe and great grandsons, Sean and Sheldon Howe.

Memorial contributions may be made to St. Mary’s Nursing Center, 21585 Pea-body Street, Leonardtown, MD 20650 or Hollywood United Methodist Church, 24422 Mervell Dean Road, Hollywood, MD 20636.


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James Grimes, 88

James Benjamin Grimes, 88, of Midlothian, VA, died July 7, 2012.

Born October 22, 1923, in Washing-ton, D.C., he was the son of the late Ben-jamin E. Grimes and Mamie Hamilton Grimes.

Jim married Mary Helen Zierhut Grimes in 1946 and they celebrated 57 wonderful years together before her pass-ing in May 2004. He worked for The Washington Post and in the insurance in-dustry for many years. He moved to St. Mary’s County in 1978 from Accokeek, MD; where he spent 25 years. He was a member of the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Leonardtown, MD. Jim was an avid Redskin fan and season ticket holder. He loved fishing and playing golf at Breton Bay.

Jim is survived by his son, Gary Grimes and four grandchildren (J.G., Jade, Emily and Mary). In addition to his par-ents and wife, he is also preceded in death by his son, Gerald Grimes.

Family received friends on Wednes-day, July 11, 2012, with prayers recited by the Reverend Brian Sanderfoot, at the Brinsfield Funeral Home, 22955 Holly-wood Road, Leonardtown, MD 20650. Interment followed in St. Francis Xavier Church Cemetery, 21370 Newtowne Neck Road, Leonardtown, MD 20650.


Arrangements by the Brinsfield Fu-neral Home, P.A., Leonardtown, MD.

Eric Jones, 49

Eric Lorenzo Jones, born March 2, 1963, beloved son of Marian The-resa Jones-Edwards and the late Char-lie Thompson, was called home on July 4, 2012. He leaves to cherish his memory, his mother and step fa-ther Marian Theresa and Lincoln Edwards; a son, Alonzo Thompson of Laurel, MD; two step brothers, William (Billy) Edwards of Ft. Washington, MD and Mark (Teisha) Edwards of Severn, MD; a half brother, Terry Thompson of California; four uncles, five aunts, a host of cousins, and other rela-tives and friends.

Viewing followed by services were on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at the Bris-coe-Tonic Funeral Home, PA, 2294 Old Washington Road, Waldorf, MD. Private Interment.

Sharon Jordan, 63

Sharon Darlene Jordan, 63 of Califor-nia, MD died on July 2, 2012 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Leonardtown, MD.

Born on January 20, 1949 in Sandy Spring, Maryland, she is the daughter of Eleanor Kolb and the late Elmer Joseph Kuster, Jr.

Sharon worked in the restaurant busi-ness as a Food Preparation Cook. She shared in a number of hobbies, which in-cluded playing bingo and slot machines, hunting for seashells and sharks teeth, and especially spending time with her loving family.

Sharon is survived by her mother, El-eanor Kolb; husband, David Jordan; four children, Robert Poland of Kensington, MD, David Lee Jordan of Churchton, MD, James Jordan of Valley Lee, MD, Daniel Jordan of Greenville, VA; and six grand-children. In addition to her father, Sharon was preceded in death by her son, Joseph Lee Poland; her brother, Ronnie Kuster; and her sister, Rita Diehl.

Family received friends on Sunday, July 8, 2012 at the Brinsfield Funeral Home, 22955 Hollywood Road, Leonardtown, MD 20650. A Memorial Service was held in the Brinsfield Funeral Home Chapel.

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of St. Mary’s, Post Office Box 625, Leonardtown, Maryland 20650.



Florant Moran, 84

Florant “Steve” Otto Moran, 84 of Hollywood, MD passed away peace-fully on July 3, 2012.

Born October 22, 1927 in Saint Marie, IL, he was the son of the late Alphonsus Benjamin and Helena Marie Moran.

Florant joined the United States Navy as a young man. He was proud to be part of the Seabees Construction Battalion and was honorably discharged as a 1st Class Petty Officer after 20 years of service. Upon re-tiring from the United States Navy at Naval Station Argentina, he relocated his family to Hollywood, MD and started a 21-year ca-reer with the Federal Government at Patux-ent River Naval Air Station, retiring from Cedar Point Golf Course.

An avid golfer and pool player, he was received in the Sandy Bottom area and throughout St. Mary’s County as if he had been born here. He is survived by his two sons, Steven Moran and wife Jeannie of Hollywood, MD, Gerald Moran and wife Mindy of Valley Lee, MD, and sisters Te-resa, Mary and Loretta. A special thanks to his two very dear friends Dean Wilson and Charlie Hall for their undying friend-ship through the years.

Family received friends for a Celebra-tion of Life on Saturday, July 7, 2012 at St. John’s Catholic Church, 43927 St. John’s Road, Hollywood, MD 20636. A Memo-rial Mass was celebrated by Reverend Raymond Schmidt. A wake followed at the Patuxent Moose Lodge.

Memorial contributions may be made to St. John Francis Regis Parish, Church Revitalization Fund, 43950 Saint John’s Rd., Hollywood, MD 20636 or the Patuxent Moose Lodge 2393, 23886 Mervell Dean Road, Hollywood, MD 20636.



John Moyer, 48

John Leo Moyer, 48, of Mechanicsville, MD, formerly of La Plata, MD, passed away at home on June 28, 2012 at 11:11am. Throughout his valiant six-year battle with two primary cancers, he never wavered from the uncompromising optimism, courage, and faith that defined his character, and the quick wit and endur-ing smile that reflected his personality.

He is survived by his beloved wife, Louise Bianco Moyer, precious children, Amanda Moyer, and Andrew Moyer, dearly loved step-daughters, Angela Cis-neros and Cassandra Carr (Stephen), loving mother-in-law Angela Bianco, cherished ‘Big Brother’ Brigadier General Stephen L. Huxtable (Vera), Ret. Virginia Army Na-tional Guard, and his many, many wonder-ful true friends.

Born in Newport News, VA on March

2, 1964 to the late Mary Ann Dinova Moyer (Edwin) and the late Michael Yhelka, he is also survived by his real big brother Mickey Moyer (Georgia), twin sister Mary Flem-ing, niece Sara Moyer, and nephews Mike Moyer, David Heiderscheibt, Rodney Blair, Mark Blair, Matt Blair, and Danny Fleming, all of Richmond, VA. He was preceded in death by his parents, sister Anna Wood, and father-in-law Anthony Bianco.

John possessed an infectious joy for life and a love for people that became even more magnified in the last six years. Ex-tremely intelligent with a wonderful sense of humor, John was an inspiration to many. He carried a powerful Message of Hope in the way he lived his life and will always be remembered for his spirit, integrity, hon-esty, and wisdom.

John was an avid ice hockey fan and he greatly enjoyed his years as a season ticket holder for the Washington Capitals and his Section 419 family. A skilled bass fisherman, other favorite passions included golfing, camping, traveling, and riding his Harley - many of the things that his ‘Big Brother’ Steve did with him when he was young.

His wife and family are profoundly grateful for the immeasurable outpouring of support received during his illness. A celebration of John’s life will be held on Sunday, September 2, 2012, arrangements are pending. If so inclined, please consider making a donation in John’s memory to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.

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Charley Page, 85

Charley “Chuck” John Page, 85, of Hol-lywood, MD, passed away Saturday, July 7, 2012, at his home sur-rounded by his family.

Chuck was born January 25, 1927, in Blasdell, NY to the late Reba Dorcas (Feathers) Page and Charles Frances Page.

Chuck served in the U.S. Army dur-ing World War II, spending one year in Okinawa, Japan. He moved to St. Mary’s County to help build the Patuxent River Naval Base. He retired from the Naval Air Station Patuxent River, MD, after working 38 years in the Public Works Department, where he advanced to General Forman, Maintenance Division, Electrical Branch. A devoted Christian, Chuck was active in Lexington Park Baptist Church for 59 years, where he served as a deacon for several de-cades. He also served on the first and third building committees and was active in Sun-day school and young men’s missionary programs. Most recently, he was a member of Leonardtown Baptist Church. He was a life member of the VFW 2632, NARFE, Order of the Eastern Star (Julia Halla 107). He was also a member of Masonic Lodge #223 for 63 years and was an active Tall Cedar. In retirement, Chuck enjoyed being with his family and many friends, traveling and camping. Chuck’s primary passion was people. He invested time and energy into his family and friends, with whom he en-joyed countless memorable camping trips across the United States.

Chuck is survived by his loving wife, Betty Hurst Page, with whom he enjoyed nearly 67 years of marriage; his son, Mi-chael Jay Page (Jennie Sue) of Hollywood, MD; daughters, Jean Hurst Baker (Dar-rell) of Lawrenceburg, KY, and Johanna Louise Marusic (Walt) of Hollywood, MD; his grandson, John Michael Page of Holly-wood, MD; granddaughters, Emily Baker Richard of Nashville, TN, Laura Baker Stearman (Adam) of Greensburg, KY, and Jennifer Susanne Kreller (Joey) of Ellicott City, MD; and great-grandchildren, Mi-chael Aaron Page, Amanda Leigh Plum-mer, and Christopher John Plummer, all of Hollywood, MD. He is also survived by a sister, Geraldine Mayor of Chesapeake, VA, as well as several beloved nieces and neph-ews. In addition to his mother and father, Chuck is preceded in death by his stepfa-ther, Jenie B. Sterns; sister, Eva Underhill; and grandson, Jason Newman Page.

Family will receive friends for Chuck’s Life Celebration on Thursday, July 12, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., with a prayer ser-vice at noon with Reverend Mark Dooley officiating followed by Masonic services, at the Brinsfield Funeral Home, 22955 Hol-lywood Road, Leonardtown, MD 20650. Interment will immediately follow at Joy Chapel Cemetery in Hollywood, MD, with military honors.

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of St. Mary’s, P.O. Box 625, Leonardtown, MD, 20650; Shriners Hos-pital for Children, Processing Center, P.O. Box 1510, Ranson, WV 25438; and Leon-ardtown Baptist Church, 23520 Hollywood Road, Leonardtown, MD 20650.

Serving as pallbearers will be John Page, Michael Page, Christopher Plum-mer, Joey Kreller, Kristopher Newman, and John Hilley.



LCDR Nicholas Potts, 88

LCDR Nicholas Thomas Potts of Lex-ington Park, loving father, grandfather and friend went to be with the Lord on July 3, 2012 at Coastal Hospice, Salisbury, Md. Born Aug. 11, 1923, in Louisville, Kentucky, he was the son of the late Nicholas Thomas Potts and Willie Osbourne Potts. He is survived by six children: Barbara Jo Vaughan of Stuttgart, Ark., Nicholas Thomas Potts of Lexington Park, Md., Lynn Marie Kelly of Berlin, Md., Janet Lee Olson of Lexington Park, Md., Judy Ann Potts of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., and Robert Edward Potts of River View, Fla. He also leaves behind his beloved twelve grandchildren: Michael Carl Shores, Ste-ven Thomas Potts, Nicholas Thomas Potts, Neely Marie Quillin, Kevin Lee Sides, MacKenzie Marie Kelly, Kacie Aubrey Lynn Kelly, Kimberly Ann Kelly, Jennifer Lynn Olson, John Glenn Olson, Melissa Ann Olson, and Emily Marie Olson, as well as thirteen great grandchildren. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Florence Marie Zawislak Potts (Aug. 1988), brother, John Edward Potts, and sister, Aubrey Ann Potts Spoelker. LCDR Nicholas Potts’ (US Navy RET) ca-reer in the Navy spanned over 45 illustri-ous years. He first joined the Navy in 1940 as an enlisted Machinist Mate, qualifying as a jet engine mechanic on several Navy

aircraft. He served as a flight engineer and deployed all over the world with Patrol Bombing Squadron 74 and Airborne Early Warning Squadron Two. He was selected in 1957 to become one of the Navy’s first Limited Duty Officers and he used his ma-chinist mate expertise in leading several test and evaluation facilities. He set up the first jet engine repair shop. Upon retiring from the Navy after 27 years of active-duty service, LCDR Potts served as the Navy’s first civilian Aircraft Maintenance Officer at Naval Air Station (NAS) Patux-ent River. He finally retired in 1985 and settled in St Mary’s County with his family. Nick enjoyed sharing stories of his time in the Navy and was quite the comedian. He was humble and so grateful in regards to all the Navy had benefited him and his family during his long life span, stating this often with heartfelt sentiment. He treasured spending time with his fam-ily and friends, making lasting family memories. All the grandchildren respect-fully addressed him as, “Grandfather.” He spent his younger days hunting, fishing, and traveling the world. He was an avid, happy camper, while “roughing it smooth-ly” in his motor home. Photography and video photography hobbies captured many Kodak moments of his life’s adventure. Upon his retirement in August 1985, the commanding officer issued a proclamation declaring that day be named, Patuxent Riv-er Naval Air Station ~ “ NAS Potts River Day!” Just last September, Nick graciously hosted, his World War II Squadron VPB-74 reunion at the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum and the River’s Edge Confer-ence Center. The 1ooth Year Anniversary (1911-2011) of Naval Aviation celebration was a great weekend of honoring all mili-tary vets. Admiral Mahr presented signed proclamations honoring these Navy war heroes, as well …long time friend, Senator Roy Dyson and St. Mary’s County Com-missioner, President Jack Russell expressed their sincere thanks to the World War II service men for preserving our freedom in America. The Navy’s own elite flight squadron, the Blue Angels performed their thrilling maneuvers with spectacular grace. At Meet the Performers Night, the pilots of various flight teams shook hands and spoke words of admirable respect to the service-men for paving the way to current aviation advancement. Nick was pleased to have been part of helping make a fine mem-ory for his fellow shipmates/ comrades! He was a lifelong member of the NRA, A Distinguished Kentucky Colonel, Sup-porter of the Wounded Warriors Project, Member of Elk’s Lodge BPOE #2092, Fleet Reserve Association Branch # 93, Lexington Park Fraternal Order of Police #7, American Legion Post #197, VFW Post #2632, and many other community organi-zations were dear to his heart. His revered collection of over 100 model navy airplanes are being displayed at the Glen L. Martin Museum, Middle River, Md. Friend and aerial photographer, Stan Piet, (museum curator) has been highly instrumental in the historical preservation and the capturing of Nick’s life accomplishments. In future years, the plane displays and career memo-rabilia will be shared in the “future” new museum on route 235. How exciting this was to Nick. Trust and believe…he will be keeping an eye on the fruition of this great

undertaking. Capt. Ed Foresman, Mari Rondeau, Don House and many other mu-seum volunteers are doing an awesome job. Immaculate Heart Of Mary Church, Our Lady Star of the Sea, and South Point Church are places of worship and praise he enjoyed attending over the years. Vari-ous church and firehouse dinners saw Nick’s enthusiasm while indulging in their scrumptious fried oysters, crab cakes, and Stuffed Ham! His love for the Lord was displayed by being a very friendly and generous man to all he knew and met. A Celebration of Life/ Memorial Ser-vice for our hero Nicholas T. Potts….Our Dad, Grandfather, Uncle Nick, Ship-mate, and friend, will be held on Thurs-day, July 12, 2012 at 7 p.m., at the Patux-ent River Naval Air Museum, 22156 Three Notch Road, Lexington Park, Md. 20653. Internment at the Arlington Na-tional Cemetery will be held at a later date. Full military honors will be extended. Memorial contributions may be made to the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum 22156 Three Notch Road, Lexington Park, MD 20653 Association in Memory of LCDR Nicholas T. Potts, for the New Museum Building fund, www.paxmuseum.com or to the www.woundedwarriorproject.org foundation.

Sharon Ptaszynski, 56

Sharon Mae Ptas-zynski, 56, of Holly-wood, MD, died July 8, 2012 at St. Mary’s Nursing Center in Leonardtown, MD.

Born Novem-ber 11, 1955 in De-troit, MI, she was the daughter of Willis Burke and the late Ju-lia McCardy Burke.

Sharon married Stanley Ptaszynski on September 12, 1975 in Gross Point, MI. In addition to her husband, Sharon is survived by her four beautiful children, Michael Ptaszynski of Glen Burnie, MD, Jason Ptas-zynski of Annapolis, MD, Cory Ptaszynski of Hollywood, MD and Raechel Ptaszynski of Hollywood, MD; and three grandchil-dren, Logan Nobryga, Caleb Ptaszynski, and Noah Ptaszynski.

All services will be private. Condolences to the family may be

made at www.brinsfieldfuneral.com.Arrangements by the Brinsfield Funer-

al Home, P.A., Leonardtown, MD.

Harold Ruffead, Jr., 71

Harold “Skip” Arthur Ruffead, Jr., 71, of Hollywood, MD and formerly of Reston, VA passed away on July 2, 2012 in Leonar-dtown, MD. Born April 28, 1941 in Phila-delphia, PA, he was the son of the late Har-old Arthur Ruffead, Sr., and Ann Halkowitz Ruffead. He is survived by his daughter Erin Ashley Ruffead of Jacksonville, FL.

Skip was a graduate of the University of Maryland, and was self-employed as a Fire Protection Engineer for 45+ years.

The family received friends on Friday, July 6, 2012 in the Mattingley-Gardiner Fu-neral Home Leonardtown, MD. Interment will be private.

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By Sarah MillerStaff Writer

Luke Bryan made a hot night even hotter during his performance in St. Leonard this weekend, getting the audi-ence on their feet, dancing and singing along to his concert standards and a few surprise songs.

Since 2005, St. Leonard Volunteer Fire Department (SLVFD) has brought high quality entertainment to Southern Maryland to heat up the summer. With a Luke Bryan’s concert a sellout at the Bayside Toyota Pavilion, Lynyrd Sky-nyrd coming back for a return engage-ment July 22 and Big and Rich rounding out the summer on Sept. 1, this summer looks to be no exception.

Bryan is a singer and songwriter made popular by songs like “All My Friends Say” and “Rain is a Good Thing.” He has been performing since the mid-2000s. He currently has the No. 1 single on the Billboard country charts with “Drunk on You.” His opening act Friday night was the River City Gang.

“I don’t have one more ticket to sell,” said concert co-coordinator Roberta Bak-er during the week leading up to the con-cert. The fire department has had sellouts before, but normally there are some scat-tered seats left to sell in the days leading up to the concert. Baker said she knew Bryan would be popular, but she didn’t know he’d be that popular.

Bryan’s concert brought out people from all walks of life, from high school and college students to county govern-ment employees. And, while most art-ists stick with their most popular songs

and selections from their most recent releases, Bryan broke off from his origi-nals to do a medley in the middle of the concert where he covered a wide range of artists and musical genres. Songs dur-ing his medley included “Faithfully” by Journey, “Enter Sandman” by Metallica and even “Someone Like You” by Adele. He showed off his musical proficiency vo-cally and instrumentally, rocking a guitar and piano with equal ease and never let-ting the energy level in the stadium drop for a minute.

Lusby resident Stephanie Marcino said the deviation from his own songs was “pretty awesome.” She said she likes hearing artists interpretations of different songs and genres. She hadn’t expected him to divert from his own works that way, though it was a welcome surprise.

“It was definitely not what I was ex-pecting,” Marcino said, adding her per-sonal highlight was when Bryan sang “Drunk on You,” one of her favorite songs.

Despite the heat inching past 100 degrees Friday, the crowd was out in full force, and people were out of their seats the minute Bryan took the stage and dancing all night, even singing along and filling in the blanks when Bryan held his mic out to the audience. He even joked around with the audience, noticing women out numbered men in the crowd and telling the men if they couldn’t find a lady to dance with, they weren’t trying hard enough.

For 16-year-old Kalie Stotler, of Leonardtown, Bryan’s mid-set changeup was just as much fun as when he was singing his popular songs like “Coun-

try Girl (Shake it for Me).” She said his “messing around” with the crowd seemed like his way to get everyone to relax, if they weren’t already.

Stotler said she is a huge fan of Bryan, and has been looking forward to the concert since it was announced. She even got a special pass to go right up to the edge of the stage during the second and third songs and take pictures up close while he was singing, which she said was “really cool.”

SLVFD President George Anderson said this was not the first act with a sellout crowd. He said they go through a booking agent, and only bring in top acts. Other high sellers have been Sugarland, Reba McEntire and Eric Church.

Baker said they take suggestions from the public and listen to the radio to see what’s popular. Traditionally, country acts have drawn larger crowds so they try to book a couple of those each summer.

Food and beverages were available all night, with the only downside being a sellout on water. By 8 p.m., the only bev-erages available were beer, sangria and other alcohol, which was remedied after Anderson went and got another pallet of water. He said they plan to have a larger supply on hand during the next concert.

“It was an error on our part and we hope it won’t happen again,” Anderson said.

One vendor said the fire department was the only one allowed to sell water during the concert, which Anderson cor-roborated. He said they don’t allow for duplication of vendors, allowing only one stand to sell pizza or one to sell snow cones.

“That’s just the way we do it,” An-derson said.

Marcino said she was surprised they ran out of water, and even if they went and got more that shouldn’t have happened.

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She suggested they add shaded areas to the venue, especially if people are going to show up two hours before show time.

At the lines for vendors, the snow cone line was consistently the longest, with crowds seeking relief from the heat with a frozen treat.

Coming up next is Lynyrd Skynyrd on July 22. The classic southern rock group has been active since the 1960s with hit such as “Freebird,” “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Gimme Three Steps.” The opening act will be Drake White. Ticket prices for Lynyrd Skynyrd are $56 for premium seats, $46 for reserved seats and $41 for general admission.

Lynyrd Skynyrd is a return act for SLVFD, but they are not alone in that classification. Anderson said there have been other artists to come back to Cal-vert, like Jason Aldean.

Big & Rich has been releasing hit af-ter hit since 2004 and is known for “Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy),” “Comin’ to Your City” and “Lost in this Moment.” They will appear on Sept. 1 , and the pen-ing acts include Cowboy Troy and Brad-ley Gaskin. Tickets are $50 for premium seats, $45 for reserved seats and $40 for

general admission.Traditionally, St. Leonard hosts

three concerts per summer. Last year there were only two, and this year the number was four, including Eric Church on June 2. She said Eric Church was a surprise. Early in the year, they send out queries to several agencies for bands to appear at the fire station. Sometimes they get refusals, but more often they hear nothing if St. Leonard doesn’t fit into a band’s schedule.

Baker said they inquired about Eric Church but got no reply, so they booked the other three bands assuming he would not be coming out. Then they got a call from his agency with an earlier proposed date, and added it to the summer lineup.

The money made goes to the artist, opening acts and the lighting and stage crew. The remainder goes to the fire sta-tion to buy equipment and tools that nor-mally wouldn’t be in the budget.

“Fundraising is an integral part of firefighting,” Baker said.

Items purchased include thermal imaging equipment that can differenti-ate between body heat and heat from a fire, making it easier and quicker to find

people and animals trapped in a burn-ing building. They also purchased LED lights for their trucks so when they are pulled over on the side of the road they are easier to spot.

“Safety is paramount,” Baker said.Safety at the concerts is paramount

as well. Anderson said they structure se-curity around the crowd expected, and,

even with 6,000 people out to see Luke Bryan, nothing got out of hand.

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Smart Meters and Reliable Electric Service Go Hand-in-Hand

In the short span of 11 months, Southern Maryland has been battered by Hurricane Irene and a Derecho that led to two of the three largest outage events in the 75-year history of Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO).

Those two weather events were re-sponsible for more than 170,000 power

outages, but the outage restoration fol-lowing those two massive storms show-cased the world class dedication and skill of our linemen, contact center staff and others who worked so hard to get the lights back on for our customer-members.

Safe, efficient and timely outage restoration does not happen by accident.

SMECO has invested millions in upgrad-ing utility infrastructure and outfitting our crews and others with the latest tech-nology to help them restore service as quickly and safely as possible. We have a seamless process where a customer-member reports an outage, it is grouped with other outages and crews are dis-

patched to the affected location. Our linemen have laptops in their trucks to ensure they are getting real-time out-age information and to allow our Op-erations personnel to remotely track them on our system which improves efficiency and safety.

This technological evolution has occurred over the past 10 years here at SMECO, but we are not done. We applied last month to the Maryland Public Service Commission for full deployment of Automated Metering Infrastructure, commonly referred to as Smart Meters. This is an invest-ment that will have tangible, industry-recognized impacts in improving our service reliability and outage restora-tion processes. These meters allow us to remotely determine if a customer-member or a business has electricity. Today, we are dependent on someone answering the phone or sending a service crew to a specific account to verify if it’s energized. With these new meters, we will be able to remotely send a radio frequency signal and re-ceive instantaneous verification if that account is energized or not. This will greatly improve our outage restoration

efficiency, our record keeping and overall business process.

We have installed these meters at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station and Webster Field in St. Mary’s County in 2011. Homes and businesses in a neigh-borhood in Waldorf have had these me-ters as part of a 1,000-meter pilot pro-gram since March 2011. These safe and secure meters have saved time and money allowing us to remotely and accurately read meters without dispatching a truck and meter reader. These are just some of the operational benefits. Eventually, these meters will be able to send updated elec-tricity usage information that a customer will access through a secure Internet por-tal at their homes or businesses.

Our mission at SMECO is to provide safe, reliable electricity to our customer-members at the lowest possible price. This mission and dedication to our cus-tomer-members has led to awards and statewide recognition, but this cannot continue without sound investments in proven and safe technology such as smart meters.

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As a long term, full time homemaker, wife, moth-er of two and grandmother of 5 granddaughters, I just want to publicly show appreciation to the local ambu-lance crew who recently took me to St. Mary’s Hospi-tal for health evaluations from Wildewood Village in California.

My husband followed shortly thereafter with an overnight bag of necessities. Our youngest daughter and her family showed their concerns at St. Mary’s Hospital. After spending three days upstairs there, I was trans-ferred to the Rehab Nursing Center next door to the St. Mary’s Hospital in Leonardtown. We have been encour-aged by the nurses, the aids, the dining room person-

nel, even the multi-tasking therapists and the ladies who clean patient’s rooms.

The therapists room gets very crowded with individ-ual patients, therapists, computers and a variety of need-ed medical equipment. Most of us patients are seniors who need different areas of health care improvements.

St. Mary’s county has as its largest employer Patux-ent River Naval Air Station in Lexington Park. Thank you to the rescue teams and fire department’s teams. Some have put in log years of community service here in St. Mary’s and Charles counties.

We long-term residents appreciate your training, your quick responses to accidents on the roads as well as

prompt medical needs of residents and business men and women and expectant parents.

I am using a wheelchair here at the Rehab Center. I am getting stronger with every day usage. I am learning to use a walker too. Many are praying the Holy Spirit will strengthen me and my husband Bill so we can get well enough to return home.

We hope the therapists can get an enlarged room or bigger space to meet the health needs of out growing community.

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IN THE MATTER OF ASHLEY NICHOLE WALKERFOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ASHLEY NICHOLE LEE

In the Circuit Court for St. Mary’s County, Maryland

Case No.: 18-C-12-000933 The above Petitioner has filed a Petition for Change of Name in which she

seeks to change her name from Ashley Nichole Walker to Ashley Nichole Lee. The petitioner is seeking a name change because:

She wishes to have the same surname of her children.Any person may file an objection to the Petition on or before the 5th day of

August, 2012. The objection must be supported by an affidavit and served upon the Petitioner in accordance with Maryland Rule 1-321. Failure to file an objection or affidavit within the time allowed may result in a judgment by default or the granting of the relief sought.

A copy of this Notice shall be published one time in a newspaper of gen-eral circulation in the county at least fifteen (15) days before the deadline to file an objection.

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On June 20, the St. Mary's County Sheriff’s Office K-9 unit provided a presentation to the Muscular Dystrophy Association Camp held for Maryland children who are members of the MDA. The Sheriff’s K-9 Unit is comprised of five deputies and seven canines. More than 50 campers participated in the camp held at Camp Maria in Leonardtown, a sheriff’s office press release states.

The K-9 presentation included demonstrations of K-9 obedience techniques; how K-9 dogs re-act to an individual who is resisting the verbal commands of their handler; and how a K-9 searches and retrieves evidence discarded during the commission of a crime.

Campers were also shown how “K-9 Mike”, a 7-year-old Golden Retriever, trained in explo-sive detection and can sniff out hidden explosives. In addition, the campers were able to pet and interacted with “K-9 Cooper”, the Sheriff’s Office bloodhound, who is trained to track and locate missing persons. Even though the temperatures reached nearly 100 degrees, the campers, deputies and canines had a great time sharing the educational experience, the release states.

On June 30, the Hollywood Lions Club held its annual crab feast for the purpose of inducting new officers for the 2012-2013 Lions year. In addition to installing Joe Joseph as President and his new Board of Directors, the Club was pleased to induct four new members, a press release states.

Conducting the installation and induction ceremonies was Lion Don Beeson, the new District Governor for Lions District 22C. The Hollywood Club was honored to have Lion Beeson, a member of the Sandy Springs Lions Club, perform the ceremonies just one day in advance of assumption of his new duties and responsibilities as our District Governor.

To induce its Club members to recruit new members, the Hollywood Lions Club announced in 2011 the availabil-ity of two one-time membership recruitment awards. The awards, designated the Sam Hill Memorial Awards, con-sisted of a Lions themed ladies necklace and a special pin that Lion Hill (a member of the Hollywood Lions Club prior to his passing in 2009) had collected during his 50 years as a Lion. Receiving the awards were Lion Mary Ann Yount for bringing in the first new female member and Lion Jim Hodges for bringing in the first new male member of the Club.

What if you could make one simple change every day for a week that would have a positive impact on your health, your local economy and the health of the planet? Join the thousands across Maryland who will take the Buy Local Challenge ("I pledge to eat at least one item from a local farm every day during Buy Local Week") from July 21-29, and you'll enjoy food that's fresh and nutritious while you support local farmers.

The Buy Local Challenge (always the last full week in July) will celebrate its sixth anniversary in 2012. It was designed by the Southern Maryland Agricultural Develop-ment Commission (SMADC) to highlight the environmen-tal, health and economic benefits farms provide. Partici-pants are encouraged to shop at farms, farm stands, farm-ers' markets and grocers that offer locally grown food and wine, and dine at restaurants that include local farm food

and wine in their menus, a SMADC press release states."The Buy Local Challenge has gained incredible mo-

mentum and continues to grow nationally," said Christine Bergmark, executive director of SMADC. "Through a part-nership between SMADC and the Healthy Food in Health Care Program, three new states (Michigan, Washington, and California ) will join the over 40 hospitals in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Northern Virginia that are now purchasing locally grown fruits and vegetables, meat and poultry."

In 2012, the Maryland Department of Agriculture and SMADC have teamed up to offer the "Take the Buy Local Challenge with Friends" contest. Friends everywhere are encouraged to take the Challenge together in fun and cre-ative ways and post their photos and a description of their participation to the Buy Local Challenge Facebook page.

The winning group of friends will receive a prize basket valued at $200. In addition, a donation of fresh local farm food valued at $200 will be made in the winners' name to local families in need via the Maryland Food Bank and partners statewide. Full contest details can be found at the BLC website www.buy-local-challenge.com. Photos can be uploaded to www.facebook.com/marylandbuylocalchal-lenge or emailed to [email protected].

"It's easy for anyone to make this simple commitment with so much great farm food available at this time of year in our area," said Bergmark. "But our goal is also to remind people that without consumer support, many local farms may not thrive, or even survive at all, for future generations. We would like to see this Buy Local Challenge concept continue to fuel the growing trend toward healthy choices for ourselves and our planet every day of the year."

Outgoing Hollywood Lions Club President Mary Ann Yount passes the gavel to new Club President Joe Joseph.

New members along with their member-sponsors. From left is Mary Ann Yount and Samantha Abell; Bill Derby, Jeffrey Frantz, Jim Hodges; and Chris Perrygo along with Danny Dixon who stood in for Club Sponsor Marguerite Bean.


St. Mary’s County residents Natalie Mroz, Sara Cochran and Anna Staats represented South-ern Maryland at the first International Convention of Curvy Girls Scoliosis Sup-port Groups. The event was held at the Hyatt Regency Long Island in Hauppauge, New York. More than 150 attendees traveled from 23 states and Canada for three days of education by na-tional speakers and includ-ed workshops and health management techniques.

The presenters in-cluded leading orthopedic experts in the field of treat-ment, research and support for those struggling with this skeletal challenge. Among those addressing the group included the CEO of the National Scolio-sis Foundation and renowned physicians from NY Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center and the Shriners Hospital for Children- Philadelphia. Additional session explored the Schroth Method of Treatment and an introduction to the Rigo Cheneau Brace by leading orthotists from around the country.

“It’s awesome to finally meet the girls in person who I have been interacting with through the com-puter for more than two years. I have known many of them for a while now, so we have shared a lot and helped one another through some rough times,” said Cochran, of Leonardtown. “We are grateful to Towne Dentistry, Paragon Properties, bake sale cus-tomers and the other private donors who helped us attend the convention.”

In an effort to “pay it forward”, the Curvy Girls also donated dozens of braces which they had out-grown along with activity kits to F.O.C.U.S. The foundation was started in 1998 and brings valuable

medical care to patients from throughout North-west Africa and other third world countries who are suffering from severe scoliosis and other spine ab-normalities. The Curvy Girls recognize their good fortune in the broad access to medical choices in the U.S. They realize the role they can play in aiding those with limited options and fewer resources, the press release states.

Scoliosis is the lateral bending and twisting of the spine that, when progressed, causes body defor-mities and compromises internal organs. It affects seven million people in the U.S. with diagnosis most commonly occurring in pre-adolescence. The dis-ease shows progression ten times more frequently in girls than boys.

Curvy Girls is a network of peer led support groups that meet in person and electronically. For more information about the Southern Maryland Chapter of Curvy Girls, go to [email protected].

Mad Scientist explores dreamsJohn Sullens with Mad Science

will explore the world of dreams at the July 16 Professional Performanc-es. Charlotte Hall Library’s program will be at 10 a.m. at White Marsh Elementary School, Leonardtown Library’s will be held at 12:30 p.m. at Leonard Hall Recreation Center, and Lexington Park Library’s will be held at 3 p.m. at the library. These free programs are sponsored by the Board of Library Trustees.

Mobile Career Centers to visit libraries

The Southern Maryland Job-Source Mobile Career Center will be at Lexington Park library on July 18, Charlotte Hall library on July 19 and Leonardtown library on July 20 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day to provide services to job searchers. A teen specialist will be at Lexing-ton Park and Leonardtown to assist teens.

Teen programs include “Minute to Win It,” video editing and scaven-ger hunt

Teens will have 60 seconds to complete each of six challenges us-ing household items in the library’s version of “Minute To Win It” at Charlotte Hall library on July 16 at 2 p.m. Registration is required.

Leonardtown branch will of-fer a teen video-editing workshop on creating and editing camera-less videos on July 20 at 2:30 p.m. Reg-istration is required.

The Virtual Scavenger Hunt is underway with a different hunt each week. Daily clues are posted and accessible from the teen webpage. Weekly prizes are awarded in a ran-dom drawing of those participating.

Variety of activities planned for children

Children with their parents can drop in from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. to

enjoy fun reading activities togeth-er on July 18 at the Charlotte Hall branch.

Charlotte Hall branch will host the stuffed animal sleepover on July 19. After a storytime at 6 p.m. chil-dren will leave their animals for a sleepover at the library. A slide show of the animals’ adventures will be shown the next day when they pick up their animals.

St. Clements Island Museum staff will present a program on nighttime Maryland animals at the Leonardtown library on July 19 at 6 p.m. Registration is required for this free program.

The following computer class-es are being offered for children ages 9 through 12 at the Leonardtown li-brary: Introduction to Word on July 19 at 2:30 p.m. and Introduction to PowerPoint on July 26 at 2:30 p.m. Registration is required.

A free movie about the Mup-pets reuniting to save the Muppet Theater will be shown at Charlotte Hall on July 20 at 2 p.m. and at Lex-ington Park on July 26 at 11 a.m. Snacks will be provided.

Workshops to explore eReaders and genealogy

Library staff will demonstrate the various eReaders and download-ing process of library eBooks at an eReader Workshop at Leonardtown library on July 23 at 2 p.m.

Lexington Park library will offer an Intermediate Genealogy hands-on class that will cover the 1940 census data plus National Ar-chives and Family Search resources on July 30 at 5:30 p.m. Registration is required for both.

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Miss Lisa Van Tassel organized the 1st Annual Hot Rod & Custom Car Show “Cruisin’ For A Cure” to benefit the American Cancer Society on behalf of Home Towne Real Estate. This event was held on June 3, at the Charlotte Hall Plaza as many outstand-ing Street Rods fired up early that morning and rolled into the plaza to be judged in competition against one another. This was one of many fund raisers Lisa has coordinated since the beginning of 2012 to benefit the American Cancer Society on behalf of Home Towne Real Estate. In the photo is Karen Towne owner of Home Towne Real Estate, Ricky Thompson, with his trophy for Best of Show, as they stand in front of his beautiful ’55 red with black Chevy and Lisa Van Tassel who organized this 1st Annual Hot Rod & Custom Car Show “Cruisin’ For A Cure” to benefit the American Cancer Society on behalf of Home Towne Real Estate. This first time car show raised $3,300 for the American Cancer Society.


Thursday, July 12• Zumba FitnessHollywood Volunteer Rescue Squad (23469 Rescue Lane, Hollywood) – 5:45 p.m.

Hollywood Volunteer Rescue Squad Fundraiser Zumba Fitness Classes. Every Tuesday and Thursday from 5:45-6:45 p.m. The cost is $7 per class or $25 for five classes. For information call 301-757-2336.

Friday, July 13• Free Meals for Cow CostumesChick-fil-A (First Colony Center, 45150 First Colony Way) – 5-7 p.m.

Chick-fil-A at First Colony Center Offers FREE meals to Cow-clad Cus-tomers on Cow Appreciation Day. If you are planning to steer clear of black cats and sidewalk cracks on Friday the 13th, why not change your luck completely by dressing as a cow instead? Chick-fil-A will celebrate is annual Cow Appreciation Day event by offering a free meal to any customer fully dressed as a cow. Custom-ers dressed “head to hoof” in cow attire will be rewarded with a FREE Chick-fil-A meal (breakfast, lunch, or dinner), which includes an Entrée of choice, a side item and a 20 oz. beverage of choice. For those “too chicken” to wear full cow costumes, Chick-fil-A will award a complimentary Entrée to customers dressed in partial cow attire, such as a spotted scarf, purse, hat or other accessory. Chick-fil-A created a website dedicated to the occasion, www.cowappreciationday.com, which can be found on our facebook page, Chick-fil-A at First colony Center. On this website you can find costume ideas, downloadable spots, masks, and other bovine themed accessories.

Chick-fil-A at First Colony Center will have a costume contest that will be decided by our Facebook fans. The cat-egories are, Best Calf (kid cow), Best Cow (adult), and Best Dressed Herd (3-10). We will also have games and photo ops. Prizes will be awarded for every 100th customer.

• Rover Concert SeriesSt. Mary’s College (18952 E. Fisher Road, St. Mary’s City) – 5 p.m.

The evening’s program will feature music by George Frideric Handel, with guest performances from countertenor Roger O. Isaacs and soprano Joan McFar-land. St. Mary’s College’s own Larry Vote will take over conducting duties for Jef-frey Silberschlag, who will play the trum-pet. The Chesapeake Orchestra will be accompanied by the River Concert Series Festival Choir, made up of talented area high school students, members of the St. Marie’s Musica, and the St. Mary’s Col-lege Choir and Chamber Singers. Roger Isaacs, who hails from South Africa, has performed as a soloist with many of the ar-ea’s most prominent choral groups. He has performed a wide range of musical acts and has been active in opera. He currently

performs both as a soloist and with vari-ous ensembles. Joan McFarland has been a member of the St. Mary’s College faculty since 2002. She sings with professional en-sembles and especially enjoys performing and recording the music of J.S. Bach and the French baroque. McFarland also con-ducts children’s choirs and directs college productions. The River Concert Series is free and open to the public.

• Author S.E. Simpson Book Signing EventQutie Pies (20855 Callaway Village Way, Callaway) – 5-7 p.m.

S. E. Simpsonwill be available to sign copies of her book, Ginger & the Bully.

From the book: My name is Lucretia Virginia Ryan, and if you think it’s easy to go through life with a name like that, then you probably think doing a no-handed cartwheel is easy. At least I have a nick-name that suits me: Ginger.

Ten-year-old Ginger Ryan is dread-ing starting fourth grade. She and her best friend, Melody, have been split up for the first time since kindergarten, and Ginger has the meanest teacher in school, Ms. Lin-dell. Just when she thinks things couldn’t get any worse, they do. The new kid in school shares the same last name as Gin-ger, so he sits right next to her. Typically, he turns out to be the class bully. Todd Ryan makes it his goal in life to make Gin-ger’s life a living nightmare. As if that’s not bad enough, Ginger is also dealing with a pesky older brother and a best friend who has turned into a snob. Fourth grade is sup-posed to be fun. So how could things go so horribly wrong?

Ginger tries everything from ignor-ing Todd to purposefully throwing up on him, but Todd is relentless. Will Ginger and the Bully survive the fourth grade?

Saturday, July 14• Schwan’s Truckload FundraiserRidge Volunteer Fire Depatment (13820 Point Lookout Road, Ridge) – 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

The Ridge Volunteer Fire Depart-ment Auxiliary will be holding a Schwan’s Truckload Fundraiser on the second Satur-day of each. Schwan’s will be available to fill orders. To guarantee the availability of the items, pre-orders may be made on their website at www.schwansfundraising.com/orderForm.aspx using Event ID 39903. The next date is July 14th. Catalogs may also be requested via their website. See you there. Contact 301-872-5671 for ad-ditional information.

• Southern Maryland Sun & Music FestivalCalvert County Fairgrounds (140 Calvert Fair Drive, Barstow) - July 14-15, 12 p.m.

Spirits in the Sky Benefit LLCis pleased to present its first Southern Mary-land Sun & Music Festival The following charities will be participating in this year’s festival: Calvert Hospice, End Hunger in

Calvert County, Project ECHO, Marines helping Marines, Calvert Alliance against Substance Abuse, Hunter’s Hero’s, Ani-mal Relief Fund, Calvert Animal Welfare League, and Humane Society of Calvert. The Festival event planners have put to-gether a schedule of events which com-bines a music festival, wine festival, arts and crafts festival, craft beer festival and a charity fund raiser into one spectacular event. The event will boast music from national, regional, local bands and musi-cians both days on two stages. Headliners include The Fabulous Thunderbirds from Austin Texas, The Patty Reese Band, The Kelly Bell Band, voted the best blues band in the Mid-Atlantic, Courtlyn Carr from Nashville, along with the local bands Sam Grow and No Green Jelly Beenz. In addi-tion, the event planners also have reached out to many of the local musicians that play in so many of the great Southern Maryland venues. The local musicians have donated their performance to help the awareness of our local charities.

Some of the other activities include, wine tasting from Maryland wineries, craft beer tasting from national and local breweries, great food from local caterers and restaurants, arts and crafts from local artists and exhibits from local merchants. Jim Zirakian and Jim Meunier, the event planners, proclaim their dedication to pro-viding an atmosphere that will help bring support to our local charities along with striving for economic development for the tri-counties of Southern Maryland. The event will provide cash contributions to one or several local charities from a fixed portion of each ticket purchased. Other charity exposures will include free exhibit space during the 2 day event along with website and social media support. The event planners are asking that if any lo-cal charities would like to be a part of this year’s Festival, to please contact them at the above email address. In addition, there are still openings for sponsorship opportu-nities, vendors, artists, and wineries. If you wish to be a part of this first annual event, please contact us. For up to date informa-tion, visit www.somdsunmusicfest.org.

• The War of 1812 – “The Choice” Liv-ing History Event #2Sotterley Plantation (44300 Sotterley Lane , Hollywood) – 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m.

The second War of 1812 Living His-tory event, “The Choice” will be held at Sotterley Plantation. The war with the British brought hardship to the plantation but a chance at freedom for the enslaved. At the living history presentations you will meet the people who lived and labored at Sotterley during the summer of 1814. Come to one of our events and be a part of the drama as slaves must make a difficult and daring choice. What will you decide? In FY2011, Sotterley was awarded grants from the Maryland Heritage Area Au-thority, the Maryland Humanities Coun-cil, and the Southern Maryland Heritage

Area Consortium to create a living history script from Sotterley’s unique story of the War of 1812, as well as the costuming and props needed for the production. Now that the script and costuming had been com-pleted it was time to begin production, and Old Line Bank stepped forward to generously sponsor the production phase of this project. Due to the support from these three organizations, Sotterley will now be able to share a unique story with a perspective rarely told about the War of 1812. This event is free to the public, but space is limited. Advanced reservations can be made by calling the Sotterley office at 301-373-2280.

Sunday, July 15• Universal LoveHollywood Recreation Center (24400 Mervell Dean Road, Hollywood) – 10:30 a.m.

Worship Service Topic: George de Benneville was a medical doctor, preacher, teacher, writer, translator, friend of the ref-ugee, advocate for Native American rights and the welfare of indentured servants, host to European nobility through his own aristocratic background, and friend to such men as Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush. “Let us search ourselves well,” de Benneville said, “and test thoroughly what is within us, whether it degrades or el-evates us.” The pathway to Universal Love begins here, he said. Can his life, words and his deeds help us discover and prac-tice a Unitarian Universalist liberal theol-ogy of Universal Love relevant to our own lives today? Everyone welcome! Sunday School available. For more information, visit www.uufsm.org for details.

Monday, July 16• Sotterley Colonial FarmSotterley Plantation (44300 Sotterley Lane , Hollywood) – 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m.

Summer Mini Camps at Sotterley Plantation

July 16 - 18, 2012 - Grades 6 - 8July 23 - 25, 2012 - Grades 3 - 5 Students will have the opportunity to

learn about Sotterley’s history as a farm-ing community in creative and fantastical-ly fun ways! Children will be working on team projects, hiking in the morning, visit-ing animals, experiencing nature, learning and experiencing foodways of the colonial period, learning about tools, planting, eco-system, and animal husbandry, learning how the river and the tidewater was and is still unique, crabbing, fishing, playing Co-lonial games, making items to take home and more! Small group format, teamwork, problem solving, hands-on sensory ac-tivities. Groups are limited to 25 students. Tuition is $95. Tuition for children of Sot-terley Members is $85. Registration is now open. Print registration form directly from www.sotterley.org.

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Tuesday, July 17• Zumba FitnessHollywood Volunteer Rescue Squad (23469 Rescue Lane, Hollywood) – 5:45 p.m.

Hollywood Volunteer Rescue Squad Fundraiser Zumba Fitness Classes. Every Tuesday and Thursday from 5:45-6:45 p.m. The cost is $7 per class or $25 for five classes. For information call 301-757-2336.

• Home Grown Farm Market OpenHome Grown Farm Market (21078 Three Notch Road, Lexington Park) – 11 a.m.

The Home Grown Farm Market is a producer only market aimed at provid-ing fresh produce, flowers, plants, meats, cheeses and baked goods to the Southern Maryland community while promoting sustainable agriculture.

Wednesday, July 18• No Limit Poker Tourney & Cash

GameBennett Building (24930 Old Three

Notch Road, Hollywood) – 7 p.m.$40 No Limit Poker Tournament

starts at p.m. $25 to the Prize Pool and $5 to the Charity gets you $5000 in chips 50/50 Raffle of $10 gets you another $5000 in chips if you arrive before 6:50 p.m. you get an additional $2,500 in chips. Cash games with dealers available with $1/$2 blinds. Playing in the tournaments and cash games will earn your way into a guaranteed $10,000 tournament on Sat-urday, October 6th to be held at the Hol-lywood Fire Deptartment Carnival Hall. Earn 60 hours for the full $250 Buy In or 30 hours for half of the buy in. There is a $50 add on for additional chips. All food and drinks are free. All proceeds benefit Special Olympics/St.Mary’s County. For more information, contact Jim Bucci,Sr at 301-373-6104 or 240-298-9616.

Thursday, July 19• Hollywood Volunteer Fire Depart-ment CarnivalHollywood Volunteer Fire Department (24801 Three Notch Road, Hollywood) – 7 p.m.

The Hollywood Volunteer Fire De-partment’s annual carnival will be held July 19-22 and again July 26-30 beginning at 7 p.m. each night. Featured will be food, rides, and games. Unlimited rides every night for $10, or tickets may be purchased separately. Free nightly prizes (must be present to win). Free nightly bicycle raffle for ages 12 and under (must be present to win). A Treasure Chest cash prize will be raffled the last night of the carnival. Visit www.hvfd7.com.

Friday, July 20• River Concert SeriesSt. Mary’s College of Maryland

(18952 E. Fisher Road, St. Mary’s City) – 5 p.m.

The ever-popular St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s River Concert Series on the shores of the St. Mary’s River begins its 14th year on June 22 and runs every Friday through July 27. The weekly celebration includes world-class music and delicious food from local vendors. Gates open at 5 p.m. and concerts start at 8 p.m. Renowned guest artists, including jazz vocalist Hilary

Kole, pianist Brian Ganz, and jazz musi-cian Don Stapleson will join music director Jeffrey Silberschlag and the Chesapeake Orchestra. The outdoor concerts are free and open to the public, and picnic baskets are welcome. For more information, visit the River Concert Series website at www.smcm.edu/riverconcert.

This summer, the evening celebra-tions of music include works from the Czech Republic, France, and Germany performed by international artists includ-ing mezzo-soprano Edita Randova, pianist Cziky Boldizar, and tenor Roger Isaacs. An Independence Day celebration will include some of John Williams’ famous movie themes and classic American jazz music, concluding with the “1812 Overture” and fireworks. On July 20, the Chesapeake Or-chestra welcomes the River Concert Series Festival Choir. The grand finale on July 27 will showcase an abundance of jazz, Blues, and folk artists. This week’s selection will be A Wagnerian Finale for 2012 (in case the Mayans are right). At least the world will go out with a bang—this performance features the compositions of Wagner and Debussy, the latter of which will be ac-companied by a sixteen-woman chorus and electronics. Piano soloist Brian Ganz will perform Grieg’s energetic Concerto for Piano.

• The Wizard of OzGreat Mills High School (21130 Great Mills Road, Great Mills) – 7 p.m.

The Board of County Commissioners for St. Mary’s County and the Department of Recreation and Parks are pleased to an-nounce this year’s Summerstock Musical performance will be “The Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum. The production will be held at Great Mills High School on Fri-day, July 20 through Sunday, July 22 and Thursday, July 26 through Sunday, July 29. Sunday evening shows begin at 5:00 p.m. with all other evening shows beginning at 7:00 p.m. There will also be a matinee on Saturday, July 28 at 1 p.m. Ticket prices are $14 for adults, $12 for senior citizens 60 years and older and $6 for children 10 and under. Matinee prices are $10 for adults, $8 for senior citizens 60 years and older and $4 for children 10 and under. Ticket sales will begin at 8:00 a.m. on June 4 for online purchases www.stmarysmd.com/recreate or walk in purchases at the Recreation & Parks main office in Leon-ardtown. Patrons purchasing their ticket online must print their ticket and bring to the show for admittance. Online ticket purchases are highly encouraged due to the possibility of shows selling out and must be purchased no later than 10 p.m. the day before the show you plan to attend. Doors to the school will open one hour before each performance for ticket sales and pa-trons will enter the auditorium for general seating thirty minutes before each show time. Cash only will be accepted for ticket sales at the door. Please call 301-475-4200 ext. 1800 for more information.

Saturday, July 21• SunRise YogaLeonardtown Pier – 7:30 a.m.

Free open community yoga practice, weather permitting. Bring your yoga mat, waterbottle and a canned food item for do-nation to a local food pantry. Sponsored by Evolve Yoga and Wellness.

• No Limit Poker Tourney & Cash GameBennett Building (24930 Old Three Notch Road, Hollywood) – 7 p.m.

$40 No Limit Poker Tournament starts at p.m. $25 to the Prize Pool and $5 to the Charity gets you $5000 in chips 50/50 Raffle of $10 gets you another $5000 in chips if you arrive before 6:50 p.m. you get an additional $2,500 in chips. Cash games with dealers available with $1/$2 blinds. Playing in the tournaments and cash games will earn your way into a guaranteed $10,000 tournament on Sat-urday, October 6th to be held at the Hol-lywood Fire Deptartment Carnival Hall. Earn 60 hours for the full $250 Buy In or 30 hours for half of the buy in. There is a $50 add on for additional chips. All food and drinks are free. All proceeds benefit Special Olympics/St.Mary’s County. For more information, contact Jim Bucci,Sr at 301-373-6104 or 240-298-9616.

Sunday, July 22• Spiritual RenewalHollywood Recreation Center (24400 Mervell Dean Road, Hollywood) – 10:30 a.m.

Worship Service Topic: Charles Chauncy refused to accept emotional con-viction as the sole criterion and foundation for religious faith. The human mind, he in-sisted, must also give assent to the written word of God, and human behavior toward self and others must also be transformed. His rigorous use of reasoning to find, ana-

lyze, and explain the fundamental human elements entailed in spiritual experience is his legacy to us. Can Chauncy’s legacy help us construct a Theology of Spiritual Renewal relevant to our lives today? Ev-eryone welcome! Sunday School available. Visit www.uufsm.org for details.

• No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em TournamentSt. Mary’s County Elk’s Lodge (45779 Fire Department Lane, Lexington Park) – 2 p.m.

Buy-in $60.00/$4,000 in chips. Top ten percent of places paid. A $5 add-on gets you an additional $1,000 in chips and your name in a 50/50 drawing for the money ac-cumulated in the add-on pool. Blinds start at $25/$50 and progress from there every 30 minutes. Earn points for every tourna-ment you participate in. Number of points you earn is determined by how many peo-ple go out before you. Points count towards the Spring/Summer Leaderboard Chal-lenge that ends in August. Any tourna-ment could be a double points tournament, determined by a flip of the coin just prior to tournament start!

Those accumulating the most points will receive a free roll to the $100 Lead-erboard Challenge Tournament scheduled for August. Number of players receiving the free roll will be determined by the amount of money that accumulates in the pool at the end of the season. Side games available. Food and beverages available for purchase. Please enter through the side of the building.

summer dinnerTrinity Episcopal Church

47477 Trinity Church Rd • St. Mary’s City

Crab Cakes • Baked Ham • Fried Chicken

Saturday, July 21st 12 noon - 5 pm

Parsley potatoes, green beans, coleslaw, beets, applesauce and roll. Dessert available.

Gift Shop and Bake Shop. Served family style in the Parish Hall or use our Drive-thru Carry Out!

Adults $23, $8 for children 6-12 yrs., children 5 yrs. and under eat free!

Call 301-862-4597 for more information • Email [email protected]


Sunshine and Summertime By Sarah MillerStaff Writer

From well-known local artists like the Sam Grow Band to breweries like the Ruddy Duck, the first ever Southern Maryland Sun and Music Fest will have something to offer everyone this weekend at the Cal-vert County Fairgrounds.

The Southern Maryland Sun and Music Festival started as an idea for a wine festival. Co-founder Jim-my Zirakian said his friend and partner Jim Meunier called him with the idea back in December and they started calling around to see if they could pull it off.

They first approached historic St. Mary’s City as a venue, but were told they only allowed one wine festi-val per year and that was already booked. After some more research, Zirakian said they decided to “step it up a notch,” transforming the initial wine festival into an “all inclusive” two-day event with wine, beer, music and all types of vendors.

With two stages, 13 performers, five Maryland wineries, including Port of Leonardtown and Cove Point Winery, a number of local breweries and vendors on site ranging from local artists to Harley Davidson and even Calvert Kettle Corn, the event blossomed into a festival.

Doors open at 11 a.m. both days, and close at 9 p.m. Saturday and 4:30 p.m. Sunday, though just be-cause the party at the fairgrounds is over doesn’t mean people have to go home, Zirakian said. Six local bars, Seabreeze Restaurant & Crab House, Big Dogs Para-dise Bar & Liquor Store, Monterey Mexican Restau-rant, Ruddy Duck Brewery & Grill, The Greene Turtle and Toots’ Bar will all be ready and rocking with bands to keep the party going.

Musicians booked include The Fabulous Thun-derbirds, Patty Reese, Sam Grow Band, Deanna Dove, Groove Span, Courtlyn Carr and David Norris, among others. After party musicians at participating bars in-clude Six Gun South, The Sammus Theory and Awake the Atrium.

Zirakian credits Calvert Tourism Specialist Joyce Baki and the Department of Economic Development with helping he and Meunier take the festival off the drawing board.

He said all of economic development “put their arms around us” and helped the men develop the idea, cut through the red tape and set up Spirits in the Sky, LCC and arranged meetings with various boards, such as the Liquor Board. They even helped the men pick a weekend and a venue.

“It seemed to work out perfectly,” Zirakian said.Baki said her job is to help promote events and help

people take ideas from a dream to reality. Events like the Southern Maryland Sun and Music Fest are more than something going on at the fairgrounds over the weekend. People come from out of town for something this large, meaning they will be looking for places to stay and eat and even check out other area attractions.

“There are so many things it’s going to touch,” Baki said.

She said economic development helped develop a

list of possible venues and dates. For the festival, Baki said the fairgrounds was a good location because there are only two ways in and out, which will help with crowd control, and a stage already in place. There is also parking for between 1,500 and 2,000 cars.

Because the scope of the festival is so expansive, Zirakian said they will start planning for next year al-most immediately.

“Once this is over, we’re going to take the week off,” Zirakian said.

There are committees for everything from the bands to the vendors. Because it is a new event, Zira-kian said there were “100 no’s” for every one sponsor they secured, but as the event got attention more and more sponsors made offers. He said he anticipates next year being even bigger and better. Zirakian’s goal is to make the Sun and Music Fest the “largest event in Southern Maryland.”

As a way to give back to the community, a number of local charities will have booths at the festival free of charge, and a portion of ticket ales will go to Cal-

vert Hospice and End Hunger. Zirakian said plans are to rotate the charities getting money every year, and continue to allow local charities to advertise free at the festival. There will also be a Ride for Wounded War-riors Project July 14, leaving from Spider Hall Farm in Prince Frederick and touring Southern Maryland, stop-ping at participating venues to pick up “special memen-tos,” according to the website. Registration is at 10 a.m. and riders leave at 11 a.m. Registration is $28 per rider.

Tickets can be purchased on-line at $28 for a one-day pass, $38 for a two-day pass, $125 for a one day VIP pass and $175 for a two day VIP pass. Tickets can also be purchased at the gate for an additional $4 each. Zirakian said he recommends purchasing tickets in advance.

For more information, to purchase tickets or to get involved in planning next year’s event, visit www.somdsunmusicfest.org.

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Live Music: “River Concert Series: Come Ye Sons of Art”St. Mary’s College of Maryland (18952 E. Fisher Rd St. Mary’s City) – 8 p.m.

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Roll Bunco TournamnetVeterans of Foreign Wars 2632 (23282 Three Notch Rd, California) – 7 p.m.

Live Music: “Jennifer Cutting and OCEAN Celtic Band”(St. Charles Towne Center, Waldorf) – 7 p.m.

Live Music: “Sam Grow Band”CSM LaPlata Campus (8730 Mitchell Road, La Plata) – 7 p.m.

Saturday, July 14

Live Music: “No Green JellyBeenz”Vera’s White Sands Beach Club (1200 White Sands Drive, Lusby) – 9:30 p.m.

Southern Maryland Sun and Music FestivalCalvert County Fairgrounds (140 Calvert Fair Dr. Prince Frederick) – 12 p.m.Live Music: “Vendetta”Fat Boys Country Store (41566 Medleys Neck Road, Leonardtown) – 9p.m.

Live Music: “Wildegood”Sea Breeze Restaurant (27130 South Sandgates Rd., Mechanicsville) – 8 p.m.

Live Music: “The Not So Modern Jazz Quartet”The Westlawn Inn (9200 Chesapeake Avenue, North Beach) – 7:30 p.m.

Live Music: Musikgarten, Family Mu-sic for Mixed AgesAnnmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center (13480 Dowell Road, Solomons) – 10 a.m.

War of 1812 Living History EventSotterley Plantation (44300 Sotterle Lane, Hollywood) – 1 p.m.

Potomic Jazz and Seafood FestivalSt. Clement’s Island Museum (38370 Point Breeze Road, Coltons Point) – 6 p.m.

Live Music: “Sammus Theory”Ruddy Duck Brewery (13200 Dowell Road, Dowell) – 8 p.m.

Sunday, July 15

Southern Maryland Sun and Music FestivalCalvert County Fairgrounds (140 Calvert Fair Dr. Prince Frederick) – 12 p.m.Live Music: “Snakebite”Sea Breeze Restaurant (27130 South Sandgates Rd., Mechanicsville) – 3 p.m.

Big Game Texas Hold’em TournamentSt. Mary’s County Elks Lodge (45779 Fire Department Lane, Lexington Park) – 2 p.m.

Monday, July 16

Monday Morning MoviesCalvert Library Prince Frederick (850 Costley Way, Prince Frederick) – 10 a.m.

Professional Performance: “John Sul-lens of Mad Science”St. Mary’s County Libraries – 10 a.m.

Team TriviaDB McMillan’s (23415 Three Notch Road, California) – 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, July 17

CSM Twilight “No Green JellyBeenz”CSM Leonardtown Campus (22950 Hol-lywood Road, Leonardtown) – 6:30 p.m.

Live Music: “Fair Warning”DB McMillan’s (23415 Three Notch Road, California) – 4 p.m.

Wednesday, July 18

CSM Twilight “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown.”CSM LaPlata Campus (8730 Mitchell Road, La Plata) – 8:30 p.m.

Beginner Line Dance LessonsHotel Charles (15110 Burnt Store Road, Hughesville) – 7 p.m.

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Handcrafted housewares and nature’s bounties are now available at a Morganza one-stop shop. “Kee-pin’ It Local,” a maker’s market full of items made or grown in Southern Maryland, recently celebrated its first week in business.

The store features jewelry, pottery, home décor and paintings handmade by local residents. Local farmers contribute to the all-county store by providing fruits and vegetables, fresh baked goods and USDA ap-proved meats.

Co-owners Shari Knowlton and Deb Webb’s goal was to create a “gathering place” in the county where people can “meet and shop” for locally produced items.

“We created a space where you can come and get everything Southern Maryland has to offer,” Knowlton said.

The store receives its merchandise from local resi-dents who visit the shop’s website and upload photos of potential store merchandise, Knowlton said. If Keepin’ It Local likes what they see, it can be on the sales floor in a matter of days.

Much business is “word of mouth,” she told The County Times, explaining most of their merchants in-quire about housing fine arts, crafts, jewelry and fur-niture with the shop after hearing Keepin’ It Local is looking to add pieces to its sales floor.

Knowlton also claimed all of the produce is so fresh it practically comes in right off the farm, with the exception of the meats that travel to Virginia to receive USDA approval before returning to the county.

The store came to fruition when Webb’s signifi-cant other, Mike, bought the building, a former U.S. Post Office located at the intersection of Routes 242 and route 5, several years ago in hopes of changing the zoning laws and tearing it down.

They were denied new zoning, and so the decision was made to work with the preexisting law instead of around it.

Knowlton, a County resident since 1994, has al-ways had an appreciation for items locally made. She saw an opportunity in the building to house wood cab-inetry she sold by craftsman Pat Woodburn she was selling, and talked to Webb about using some of the vacant space as a display room.

Webb liked the idea, and decided to use another room or two to display some of the local produce of the area where she lived as a child, before returning to the county seven years ago.

“It started out to be a little place and ended up working on the entire building,” Knowlton said.

Along with being good friends for five years, Webb and Knowlton complement each other perfect-ly as business partners. Webb “has a love of nature,” Knowlton said, which Webb utilizes as primary man-ager of produce. She coordinates the sales of baked goods, fruits and vegetables, meats and is even respon-sible for the plant arrangements for sale.

Knowlton, meanwhile, falls back on her passion for fine arts and experience selling handmade cabine-try to manage the art, furniture and jewelry aspect of the business.

While the shop is already open, Keepin’ It Local will be celebrating its grand-opening in September with a week of events and a “meet and greets” with local farmers and artists.

One of the things the owners are most proud of, Knowlton said, is creating a multipurpose store that has the small local feeling of a friendly meeting place, which people will be coming in and out of seven days a week.

Together the pair has restored a building to reflect the bar and small shops in the building’s past, before it housed a post office and apartments.

“We took it back to its original state,” Knowlton explained.

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Local rock and roll cover band GeeZer got their groove on at the First Friday cel-ebration on Town Square in Leonardtown on July 6.

Although temperatures were near 95 degrees, attendees beat the heat by listen-ing to cool music and relaxing in the shade under trees on the Square’s lawn.

GeeZer rhythm guitarist Frank Taylor believes the Leonardtown Business Asso-ciation (LBA), who organizes First Friday, should be applauded for their efforts to bring everyone in town together.

“It brings some life back into Leonard-town,” Taylor said.

LBA President Dan Norris said the as-sociation continues to support and promote First Friday because it brings a relaxed at-mosphere to the town, which is the result of live entertainment from store to store, and provides local residents an opportunity to see what different businesses have to offer.

LBA Vice-President Joe Orlando, owner of Fenwick Books, featured young author Melissa Kriz at a book signing in his shop. Orlando said Kriz, who debuted her novel “The Three Stones of Asche” at Fen-wick Books back in early June, was brought back to the shop due to popular demand.

Members of the community in the au-

dience got a chance to kick back, relax, and enjoy some music. Mark Stokel, employee of a nearby McKay’s grocery store, made the short jaunt over after work to enjoy the festivities

“I’m here to hang out under the mag-nolia trees and listen to music,” Stokel told The County Times while his 6-year-old son, Mark Stokel Jr., ran through a sprin-kler on the Square’s north lawn.

Tom Unkle, who said he regularly at-tends First Friday events, often comes out to enjoy the music as well and even follows a few of the different bands that perform. For him, the opportunity to just leisurely stroll in a “beautiful little town” is enough to draw him down to the square.

“It’s just nice to relax and enjoy some music after a week of work,” Unkle said.

Booths were set up along the road of various businesses and groups featuring new promotions.

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Bella Music School was promot-ing some of the many classes they of-fer right around the corner on Fenwick Street.

Overall, First Friday brings to-gether an already close community and helps them “meet and greet” various people, Norris explained, and the feel-ing of a small, at home and tight knit community can be contagious.

“Even people from out of town feel welcome when they come here,” Norris said.

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Members of GeeZer perform on the Town Square during First Friday. Photos by Alex Panos


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Beginners as well as those with inter-mediate level experience are welcome. Cost is $40 which includes instruction and all materials needed to complete your painting. To sign up or for more information call 301.737.5670 ext. 1658.

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Loffler Senior Activity Center will host its annual Loffler Luau on July 26. The fun begins at 10 a.m. and continues until 2 p.m. This party will be sprin-kled with dancing (Music by DJ Mean Gene), a hula demonstration, fashion runway (wear your best tropical garb in case you are asked to stroll down our runway), 50/50 Raffle, and a feast prepared by our own chef which will feature Huli Huli Chicken, Rice Pilaf, Pineapple Chunks, Sesame Cabbage Salad, Cucumber Salad and Key Lime Pie. Tickets ($8 suggested donation) are required and are available at Loffler Se-nior Activity Center. We will meet you at the door with a lei hand-selected to complement your outfit. For more infor-mation call 301.737.5670 ext. 1658.


By Linda RenoContributing Writer

If you think that children marrying against the wishes of their parents or being lazy happens only in to-day’s world, think again. If you don’t like it, write

them out of your will. On May 18, 1829, John Baptist Farr did exactly that but made it clear if his children changed their ways they could have a part of his estate. They apparently didn’t.

“Whereas my daughter, Elizabeth Farr, has been disobedient to my counsel and ad-vice, has treated me unkindly, and persisted and still insists on intermarrying and con-necting herself with Henry Hilton, son of Henry Hilton of St. Mary’s County, contrary to the advice and affectionate entreaties of a father, and whereas my son, Benedict Farr has, from time to time, for some years past, spurned my advice, refused to listen to the counsel of a father or to obey his commands, and became idle, I am apprehensive about leaving him any part of my estate because he would waste it and I am also apprehensive about leaving my daughter anything because Henry Hilton would waste it in the event of her marriage to him.

I am, however, desirous of not depriving them from all benefit of my estate but wish to give some part of my estate to my son, John Farr in trust for their benefit. I therefore de-

vise the remaining half of the residue of my estate to my son, John Farr in trust for my daughter, Elizabeth Farr and my son, Bene-dict Farr….to annually pay the interest or profits…to Elizabeth and Benedict equally.

If my daughter, Elizabeth Farr should marry Henry Hilton as I have strictly forbid-den, her interest in my estate is to cease and her share is to be equally divided among my other children. If, on the other hand, she marries a sober, industrious, and discreet man that meets with the approval of my son, John Farr or conducts herself for two years after my death with industry and prudence, in an unmarried or single state of life, John is to pay to her all of the estate devised to her and she is to be in full possession of it.

In addition, if my son Benedict Farr will go to work after the present year and will prove himself an industrious, prudent, discreet youth and by his industry show and prove that he is able to support himself in credit and good repute, John is to pay to him, two years after my death, all of the estate de-vised to him and he is to be in full possession of it. If Benedict should marry a prudent, discreet, and industrious woman, John is to also pay over his part of my estate.”

Elizabeth ignored her father and married Henry Hilton, Jr. on December 26, 1829. She was deceased by 1838 and Henry went on to marry twice more (Ann Joy in 1838 and Eliza-beth Joy in 1841). Benedict Farr married Cath-erine Curtis in 1842. No further record of him has been found.

A Journey Through TimeA Journey Through TimeThe Chronicle

Wanderings Going BattyBy Shelby OppermannContributing Writer

It’s just as I suspected. Our house is as batty as we are. No, we don’t have “bats in the belfry”, but we do have bats in our shut-ters. At first glance it doesn’t seem possible that anything other than insects could fit between the slats of the vinyl siding and the sliver of space where the shutters begin. The bats have found that sliver of space to be an inviting opening. Early this morning just as the tangerine glow of the sun was starting to show, I was drawn to the bay window in the living room to lots of dark shapes flying back and forth faster than any bird I had seen. I pressed my nose close to the glass and then could also hear the thump of the bats against the house. As it was still more dark than light at this time, it was difficult to make out what the shapes were. I really had no idea at first that they were bats. I thought that they only traveled at dusk and through the night. It only makes sense that the bats would need to return to their “shutter cave” at some point.

A little research on many different sites from about bats.com to several university sites such as Penn State revealed that bats are a very important and beneficial part of our Earth’s never-ending life cycle. Depending on the species, bats can eat anywhere from 1200 to 3000 insects per night. Translate that

in St. Mary’s County to MOSQUITOES! That’s what I hope anyway. About nine spe-cies live in the Northeastern United States. The bats at our house look to be the Little Brown Bat or Big Brown Bat. “Vampire” type bats are primarily down south, way down south like Mexico. And they can stay there too.

When the bats return to their cozy little homes at dawn it is called swarming. They fly back and forth very fast until they finally settle in for their day long rest. Sounds like me when I have caffeine too close to bed-time, or when I cocktail-waitressed until two in the morning. You have to wind down and do something to get all that excess energy out. I used to clean all night then, maybe I should start waitressing again. Oh, but I digress.

I guess this transfers our home from sin-gle family to duplex or more like quad-plex status. They have taken up residence in four of our ten shutters. Maybe we have a quint-plex since we share our house with them .The reason I know it is only four shutters is quite simple. One of the articles said the way to tell if Bats are nesting in your eaves, attic, or un-der the rain gutters is a tell-tale brown stain trailing from the openings. There will also be the droppings – guano. After all this fun research, Tidbit and I went out front to find the truth. All this time, I figured birds were

living behind the shutters, but upon closer in-spection I realized that what I thought were leaves and twigs were actually bat poop ooz-ing out. Yuck! Wait ‘til I point this out to the grandkids – they will think this is so cool. I wonder if using a broom to sweep the ex-posed guano off will disturb the bats greatly.

What to do? My inclination is to leave them there, and scrape the guano at the edges. The bats don’t hurt anybody, and as was stated are actually beneficial to our yard. Or I could get one of John Mould’s beauti-fully handcrafted bat houses (from the Crafts Guild of St. Mary’s next door to my shop) so future generations could “leave the nest” so to speak. I’m sure the teen Bats would love that. If a bat can make it to their teens, they have a good chance of making it to adulthood and living for twenty years or more. From the sound of all their squeaks and fluttering wings it already sounds as if overcrowding could be an issue. That way they might not use their right of eminent domain or squat-ter’s rights and spread their city to our other shutters. I read that it took three years for one colony to finally move in to their new quar-ters, and that was after the original extra-large bat McMansion had collapsed under their weight. Bats get very attached to their home. I’m kind of at-tached to

this same home.When I came in to write this, I could

still here the bats thumping around getting settled. Two of the shutters are on either side of this office window. I bet they really hate it when that pesky woodpecker starts drill-ing on the house every morning. It’s like having noisy neighbors you can’t get rid of. Even when we are not here, our house has this whole world of life going on. Bats in the shutters, woodpeckers drilling for food, ants trying their best to get back in the laundry room for cat food, the occasional wolf and various spiders, and fall field mice, we have a virtual nature center all the time. I suppose I should never feel lonely again if Robert is at a meeting. I could tap on the interior wall behind the shutters in code.

I think I will get a few bat houses this year, not so they leave their shuttered ex-istence, but so they will bring their friends and eat every last mosquito in our yard. As of now, the mosquitos are winning hands down.

To each new day’s dawn adventure, Shelby

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

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Prepare Your Home Before a Party

Host a Specialty Spa Party at Home

The rising cost of consumer products or services has left many budget-conscious people at a loss as how to enjoy themselves, espe-cially when planning a party. But fun does not need to be sacrificed in the name of frugality. Just recreate some of your favorite activi-ties at home for a fraction of the cost of going out.

Analysts at Goldman Sachs estimate that the global skin care beauty industry is worth $24 billion, while the make-up industry is worth $18 billion. Haircare products generate $38 billion annu-ally, and the $15 billion perfume industry is growing as much as 7 percent each year. Many people routinely engage in beauty and personal grooming procedures, including manicures, pedicures, massages and facials. As a result, the concept of hosting spa par-ties has become more commonplace. But instead of venturing out to expensive salons and day spas, a growing number of people are attempting to hold the party at home in an attempt to save money. These pampering parties have become quite the rage with both adults and young girls who want to experience the same amenities as their mothers.

Most homes can be transformed into relaxing oases where guests are treated to many different self-indulgent procedures. Here’s how to hold your own spa party at home.

* Set the tone of the party by having pre-soaked and micro-waved face towels set aside in a bowl to hand out to arriving guests. Keep the towels warm by covering the bowl in plastic wrap. Add a few drops of lavender oil when heating so that the towels smell fresh and invoke feelings of relaxation.

* Have a set amount of inexpensive flip-flops set up for guests to wear. Use a permanent marker to personalize the shoes with guests’ names so that the sandals do not get mixed up with someone else’s. You may also want to purchase terry cloth robes or wraps for the guests or request on the invitation that guests bring their own.

* Establish the mood of the event by investing in some New Age or relaxing instrumental classical music. Set up your mp3 player in an inconspicuous area of the room so that the music be-comes part of the background and does not overwhelm guests. Candles are often an integral part of setting a relaxing scene. Keep lights dim and place scented candles in a sandalwood, lavender or vanilla aroma around the space. This will entice the senses of vi-sion and smell.

* There are a few different options regarding who will per-form the spa services on guests. If the number of people attending is small, you may want to do them yourself. Otherwise you can pair up guests to do them on one another, which is possible for manicures and pedicures. Think about setting up different spa sta-tions around the room so guests can take turns treating themselves. Still, you can find out how much it would cost to hire one or two professionals to come into your home and perform spa services. This may be more comfortable if the party involves massages or facials. Check with a local cosmetology school to find out if stu-dents would be willing to service guests at your party. This may be a more affordable option.

* Create calming centerpieces of natural elements. This could simply be a small container with some catnip growing or a vase with water and reflective beads. Don’t choose items that are too loud. You want the atmosphere to be quiet and calming.

* Provide light and refreshing snacks and beverages. Look to fruit skewers or small finger sandwiches. Choose non-alcoholic drinks like punches or sparkling waters, which won’t dehydrate. Bite-size items work well so guests won’t be hampered by dishes or cutlery.

* Provide guests with little take-away bags full of samples of the items that were used at the party. This way they can take home not only memories of a relaxing event, but continue the pampering at home.

The thought of having peo-ple over to your home for a party may sound enjoying or com-pletely terrifying. After all, wel-coming guests into your home requires ample cleaning and or-ganization of different rooms to ensure both the guests and you feel comfortable.

Even the most experienced hostess may feel nervous about preparing her home for guests. Although prepping the house may seem like a burden -- espe-cially if yours family tends to err on the messy side -- don't call in the maid service just yet. All it usually takes is straightening up a few key rooms to give guests a good impression.

* Begin where guests will enter the home. This is usually the entryway or foyer. Make room in and tidy up the coat closet so guests will have places to stow their coats. Assess the entry area and consider a floral arrangement on a table by the door to make it more inviting. Remove any clut-ter that congregates in the en-try, including shoes, mail or dog leashes. Put them in a basket and move it to a closet or storage area. Give the floor a thorough clean-ing or vacuuming. Think about placing an air freshener nearby so guests will be greeted with a pleasant fragrance.

* Focus on the room or rooms where guests will be spending the majority of their time. In most cases, this is a dining area or living space. Because these are of-ten the places where families spend the most time, they may require some significant tidying up. First and foremost, remove any clutter, especially items that have been left around but belong in other ar-eas of the house. Even the most spotless home can look messy or unclean if there is a lot of clutter. If you don't have the time to move everything to where it belongs, simply box it up and move it to the garage or basement for the time being.

* Dust, vacuum and/or mop the primary en-tertaining areas. Now is the time to do the thor-ough cleaning you might have been putting off. Move the furniture and clean the dust bunnies that have collected. Wipe down the windows and slid-ing doors that tend to collect fingerprints. Use the vacuum nozzle to clean cobwebs from corners and debris from narrow areas where it tends to accu-mulate. Think about using a carpet powder when vacuuming to give the home a fresh fragrance.

* Take inventory of shelves and tables in the rooms. You don't want guests inadvertently bump-ing into delicate items and causing breakage. If there are items that you don't want touched or po-tentially damaged, move them out of the way.

* Spend ample time cleaning bathrooms or powder rooms. Restrooms need to be spotless and sanitary. Devote a lot of your cleaning time to doing a thorough cleaning. Use a bleach-and-water solution to wipe down showers, toilets and

sink areas. Make sure to clean any spots off of mirrors and scrub tile floors so that they are free from hairs and any sticky residue from hairstyling products. Be sure there are no rings in the toilet. Although you may feel like you can skip cleaning in the shower or bathtub -- and even hide items behind frosted doors or shower curtains -- clean it anyway. Some guests may peer behind the curtain and get an eyeful. Be sure to empty the wastebas-ket and set out fresh towels.

* Keep children's rooms closed if the party is for adults. Kids' rooms won't need to be cleaned if the party is strictly for adults. However, if kids will be coming, they're likely to spend time in your kids' rooms and these rooms will need to be straightened up. Older children should take re-sponsibility for their own rooms.

* Move larger items to increase space. Mov-ing big pieces of furniture out of rooms and set-ting up folding chairs and tables can accommodate more guests.

* Be prepared to react quickly to food and drink stains. Stains are likely to happen, so keep this in mind when hosting. If you have a great fear of carpeting or furniture being soiled, choose bev-erages and foods that are light in color. Otherwise, stock up on carpet and upholstery cleaner and hope for the best.

If you are extremely pressed for time to clean and your budget allows, you may want to hire a cleaning service to come in prior to the party and do a thorough, professional job.

Hosting a party at home requires a certain amount of cleaning.


Accommodating Overnight Guests

Create Professional Looking DessertsDessert makes

the perfect finish-ing touch to a spe-cial event. Hosts and hostesses fre-quently fret over which foods to serve at their par-ties, and that in-cludes dessert.

But hosts won’t need a pro-fessional pastry chef to serve some imaginative and impressive des-serts. In fact, it’s easy for even nov-ice foodies to make their own delicious desserts.

* Invest in a star decorator’s tip and pastry bag. There’s no limit to what you can do with a simple pas-try bag, icing and a decorative tip. Instead of slather-ing frosting on cup-cakes, use the tip to pipe on individual stars or swirls so the cupcakes look dressed up. The same concept can be applied when baking a cake in a molded pan-and-pipe on the frosting to create the design. You can also use it to add a dab of homemade whipped cream to a serv-ing plate aside a slice of pie. Get creative with your pastry tip and explore different possibilities.

* Make garnish sauces. Professional chefs understand that many people eat with their eyes. That means guests may be more inclined to “ooh and ahh” over desserts if they are presented in a special way. Take a cue from restaurants and garnish the plate pri-or to adding the dessert. Create simple sauces from cooked-down strawberries or raspberries with sugar and water. Or look to pre-made syrups. Grab that bottle of chocolate sauce and create a de-sign on a dish and then place the dessert on top.

* Use leaves or flowers. In addition to sauces on the plate, you may want to add a few mint leaves or an edible flower to cleanse the palate. This adds a touch of class to the presentation and makes guests feel special.

* Create individual servings. A dessert served in an individual ramekin or tin can be a nice presentation in itself. Plus, guests may feel like you individually created each dessert with them in mind. Individual servings look and serve well, rather than having a larger dessert demolished by slices or scoops.

* Go for the wow factor. Certain desserts lend themselves to dramatic display. Creme brule or flambe desserts will catch atten-tion. Simply lighting a meringue-topped pudding on fire for a few minutes also can create a memorable moment. Use a good-quali-ty liqueur for fire-enhanced desserts, so the alcohol can burn off quickly and evenly.

* Embrace the use of fondant or gum paste. These pastry art materials are frequently used by professional pastry chefs. They’re essentially a moldable dough made out of sugar. Fondant can be rolled to cover cakes, cut to turn into intricate shapes or hand-mold-ed to be turned into figurines or other edible pieces. Just about any dessert can be enhanced with a fondant trinket. Make a flower or a heart out of fondant and lay it aside a slice of cake. Give in to a child’s sense of whimsy by molding edible cartoon characters for them to enjoy at a birthday party. Fondant-covered petit fours may be delicious and eye-catching.

* Use cookie cutters to create different shapes. Instead of a standard layer cake, use cookie cutters to cut out cake pieces and then layer them with frosting in between. Think about baking a pie and cutting out a piece of the pre-baked top crust with a cookie cut-ter that gives a clue to the filling inside (i.e., an apple cutout for an apple pie). Place on top of the crust before baking.

Creating special desserts doesn’t require much effort or any specialized skills.

Entertaining isn’t always just about hosting an evening of cocktails and appetizers or present-ing your home as the meeting place for the next holiday celebration. Entertaining also extends to welcoming guests for a night or more when certain conditions warrant an overnight stay.

There are many different reasons a guest might need to stay over for a night or two. Perhaps a relative from afar is visiting, and you’ve spared him or her the expense of paying for a hotel. Some friends may need a layover spot between traveling. Some hosts prefer to err on the side of safety when a party gets a bit too rowdy by offering a place to crash for the night.

Whatever the reason for hosting an overnight guest, there are different steps you can take to make sure the person feels comfortable staying in your home. Be courteous to his or her needs, even if it infringes on your own comfort for the time being.

* Have a private area for sleeping. Some guests are content to crash on the couch for a night, but the courteous host will offer a better place in which to retire. Not every home is equipped with a spare bedroom, but there are ways to make ex-isting spaces more comfortable and private. Offer your own room for the time being, seeing as you will have full run of the rest of the house and know the comings and goings of daily routines. Other-wise, ask one of the children to bunk with another and prepare his or her bedroom for your guest. If you have an out-of-the-way den or office, you may be able to set up a futon or fold-out sofa there for your guest.

* Keep special linens on hand. You probably want to make a good impression, and that involves making the bed with crisp, clean sheets and blan-kets. Keep a set of guest linens in a bag with a sheet of fabric softener or a little potpourri sack

to ensure the sheets always smell fresh. Now is not the time to drag out those old floral sheets that have seen their share of wear and tear.

* Have extra grooming essentials at the ready. Guests look to the special accommodations at ho-tels to feel comfortable. These are often sample-sized bottles of shampoo and mouthwash, or even an extra toothbrush. It’s easy to overlook essen-tials when you’re packing in haste. Therefore, be the perfect host or hostess by offering a gift bag full of some toiletries and other necessities. A nice, new face towel and wash cloth may be ap-preciated as well.

* Tailor the menu for your guests. You’re like-ly going to break bread with your houseguest, so be sure to ask which foods they like and if there any that are best avoided. Have some snacks avail-able so guests can help themselves.

* Free up the spare bathroom. If yours is a home with two or more full bathrooms, set aside one solely for your guest. Sometimes it can be em-barrassing or uncomfortable for guests to shower in the family bathroom. Having a bathroom set aside specifically for guests can make the stay even more enjoyable.

* Find out which creature comforts your guest desires. Some people like to sleep with an eye mask to block out the light. Others like to watch TV alone in the evening. Some may need a fan or a white noise machine to drift off into slumber. See if you can accommodate your guest further by ca-tering to any special preferences they might have.

* Leave pockets of personal time available. Some hosts or hostesses feel that they’re being ac-commodating by planning a full itinerary. How-ever, some guests would simply enjoy some quiet time alone. Be sure to pepper the stay with mo-ments of group activities but also some chances for guest and host alike to spend some time alone.

Using a pastry bag and decorator tip, you can quick-ly turn cupcakes into designer cupcakes.

Hosting an overnight guest means putting her needs first.


In 40 years of IHRA drag racing, there has never been a sportsman drag race bigger than this.

A grand total of $5,000 to win in each IHRA class, completely open fields consisting of both IHRA and NHRA competitors and a spot in the year-end Summit Racing Equipment Tournament of Champions up for grabs makes this the must-attend sportsman drag race of the summer.

And in just a few short days, the biggest sportsman drag race in IHRA history will finally come to life as many of the nation’s top racers will be in attendance at the historic Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Spectacular July 13-15 at legendary Maryland International Raceway.

“The Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Spec-tacular is an event designed by the racers for the racers. We have listened closely to what racers want and we are giving them just that and that is what makes this race so special,” said IHRA President Aaron Polburn. “This is their week-end to shine. We have opened the doors to racers of all lev-els and all backgrounds to come together in one place and battle it out with the best for big money and bragging rights.

“This is what sportsman drag racing is all about and we are proud to give back to those that support us while also welcoming new racers to the IHRA family.”

The Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Spectacu-lar all gets underway on Friday, July 13 with a test and tune for all racers followed by a full day of qualifying and first round eliminations on Saturday. Racers will conclude the event on Sunday with a huge purse, Ironman, national event contingency and a spot in the Summit Racing Tournament of Champions for IHRA members all up for grabs.

Racing will be conducted in IHRA’s seven regu-lar classes of Top Sportsman, Top Dragster, Super Stock, Stock, Quick Rod, Super Rod and Hot Rod, in addition to competition in Top ET, Mod ET and Junior Dragster.

Entry into the event is only $200 with $5,000 to win plus national event contingency going to the winner in each of the regular IHRA touring classes.

And to add to the grandness of the event, for the first time ever, the IHRA has opened its doors to allow all IHRA

and NHRA members to compete in one event for the top prize at IHRA’s biggest-ever sportsman drag race July 13-15.

And the entire event will take place at one of the finest drag racing facilities in the world – Maryland International Raceway.

MIR features a state-of-the-art facility and a track known for its ability to produce record times. Over the years Maryland International Raceway has become well known as the place to set records thanks to an elevation of only 80 feet and many current IHRA national records still stand thanks to the Budds Creek facility.

There are also amenities galore at MIR, for fans as well as racers. Maryland International Raceway boasts plenty of paved parking, spectator seating for over 10,000 fans and

tons of extras including a playground, full-service pit-side café, beautiful restrooms and more making each racers stay at MIR an unforgettable experience.

Don’t miss the biggest sportsman drag race this season at Maryland International Raceway as the IHRA celebrates 40 years of thrilling drag racing action July 13-15.

On Friday, gates will open at 9am and racing will start at 5pm. On Saturday, gates will open at 8am and racing will start at 9am. On Sunday gates will open at 8am and racing will start at 10am. A pit pass for adults is just $20 per day, or $10 per day for the spectator side. Children 12 & under are free each day.

For more detailed information on these events call the 24-Hour Dragline Hotline at 301-884-RACE or visit us at www.mirdrag.com.

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How to Prevent or Alleviate Symptoms of Seasickness � theWater

Few things can spoil a day at sea faster than a bout of seasickness. People from all walks of life can experience motion sickness, whether it occurs on the water, in a mov-ing car or even on an amusement park ride. Those who have experienced it may avoid activities that spark symptoms or may be eager to find ways to prevent it in the future.

Evidence suggests that seasickness can affect nearly all the passengers on a cruise ship during rough water con-ditions. Seasickness often occurs as a result of a conflict of bodily senses. A fluid-filled canal in the inner ear called the vestibular system controls a person's sense of balance, tell-ing the body that it is moving. When you are in an enclosed ship cabin or not paying attention to the moving ship around you, the ears will tell you that you are moving, but your eyes may advise the brain that you're not. This conflict can cause your body to be out of balance and can also create discom-fort in the digestive system and feelings of nausea.

Researchers at the Naval Medical Center in San Di-ego, California, reported in 2003 that 70 percent of research

subjects with severe motion sickness had abnormalities of the vestibular system. These abnormalities are often found in patients diagnosed with migraines or Meniere's disease. Therefore, if you are prone to headaches, you may have a heightened risk for motion sickness.

There are many different symptoms of seasickness. These include fatigue, cold sweats, headache, increased salivation, vomiting, rapid breathing, difficulty concentrat-ing, panic, frequent yawning, and even a buzzing sensation.

If you are interested in preventing seasickness, there are some things to try. It may take some trial and error to find the method that works for you, as there is no universal cure for sufferers of seasickness.

* Avoid troublesome foods. Do not eat greasy or acidic foods or dairy products several hours before traveling. It's best to avoid heavy foods that will be sloshing around in your stomach when setting sail. In addition, steer clear of diuretics like alcohol and caffeine that can cause your body to dehydrate faster.

* Drink plenty of water. Even partial dehydration low-ers your body's resistance to the stress caused by a boat ride.

* Avoid being overheated, which can exacerbate feel-ings of nausea.

* Eat a light meal a few hours before going out on the water. This will keep stomach acids busy on food rather than causing agita on the trip.

* Try to avoid the cabin and other contained spaces. Fresh air and the ability to look at the horizon can help bal-ance the information received from the eyes and the ears.

* Stay in the center of the boat, which is often the steadiest area. The bow and the stern will have more mo-tion and can contribute to seasickness.

* Avoid lying down if you become queasy. It's best to

stand up and look at the horizon. You also may want to steer the boat for a few minutes. This can reset the signals being received by the brain.

* Natural remedies, such as ginger, can alleviate stom-ach ailments. The same can be said of sucking on pepper-mint candies.

* For those who have found that natural remedies don't work, prescription medications or over-the-counter remedies might work. Many of the medicines offered for seasickness, such as Dramamine, are antihistamines. Side effects can include drowsiness, so caution should be used if operating machinery. Longer trips may require a prescrip-tion medication called scopolamine. Formerly used in a transdermal skin patch, travelers must now ask their doctor to prescribe it in the form of a gel. In gel form, scopolamine is most effective when smeared on the arm or neck and cov-ered with a bandage.

It is important for adults not to try these remedies on a child before consulting with a doctor to ensure they are safe. Some medications are not to be used in children under the age of 6.

Although there is no cure for seasickness, most of the symptoms can be prevented or controlled through different methods. It is easier to prevent seasickness rather than treat it once it is in full force. Keep in mind that setting your sights on the horizon and preventing the balance of mes-sages being received by the brain to go off kilter is one of the easiest ways to prevent seasickness and other forms of motion sickness.

If you are planning a trip, experiment with nonmedical remedies on a docked boat. Otherwise, talk with your doc-tor about which methods he or she advises for bad cases of motion sickness.


By Keith McGuireContributing Writer

Nothing gives me greater pleasure than cooking up the catch of the day to provide dinner for my family and guests – except maybe catching that catch of the day!

Most of the fish that I’ve served up lately have been cooked outside on the grill. It is unbelievably easy! First of all, I fillet every-thing. Fish that I plan to cook on the grill are filleted with the skin and scales left on, except white perch which are scaled and fil-leted with the skin left on.

I rinse the fillets in clean water, pat them dry with a paper towel, lay them out on a cook-ie sheet skin side down, and sprinkle/rub on some seasoning. I like Zatarain’s Blackened Seasoning, but even Old Bay will do. Then I fire up the gas grill and let it get up to the

high temperature setting. The fillets of larger fish: stripers up to 25”, bluefish up to 20” and large flounder are transferred from the cookie sheet directly to the grill and cooked for 10 minutes. Smaller croaker and white perch fillets are done the same way, but transferred from the cookie sheet to a seafood cook-ing tray with holes in it, and cooked for just 5 minutes. The flesh of the fish separates nicely from the skin with a spatula or turner, and can be transferred nicely to dinner plates without the skin. Umm, umm!

My most recent fishing trip was an evening on the lower Patuxent River. I was joined by two fishing buddies, Richard Ever-son and Bill DeLorme. We launched the “Ordinary Angler” at the Solomons boat

ramp at around 5:00 PM. Using small jigs and spinner baits, we

quickly caught 10 really nice white perch up to 11 inches. Then we moved to oyster bot-tom in an area that was 10 – 35 feet deep to see if we could find croakers. After an hour or two, we had 4 croakers in the boat up to 14 inches and released a multitude of smaller ones. Then Bill hooked something different. As it broached the surface of the water, it be-came obvious that it was a flounder. I quickly netted it for Bill and the measurement of 17 1/8 inches proved that it was a keeper! Holy smokes! A keeper flounder!

We fished for a while longer, and as the sun went down, Richard and I both hooked up on rockfish: mine was 24 inches and his was 23 inches. By 9:30 PM we had the boat on the trailer and headed home to split up the catch. Some of the fish were served for dinner the next day in our three households.

Public Meeting: The Patuxent River Chapter of the Coastal Conservation Association, Maryland, is having their monthly meeting on July 16th at 7:00 PM at Zahniser’s Yachting Center Pool Bar on Solomons Island. The meeting is free and open to the public. Scott Mc-Guire and Chris Moe will demonstrate techniques for fishing with a variety of artificial lures and flies in the Zahniser’s pool. If you have a favorite lure or technique, the pool can be

used for you to conduct your own demonstra-tion during the meeting. Refreshments and appetizers will be available from the pool bar.

Remember to take a picture of your catch and send it to me with your story at [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 supporting local conservation organizations.

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By Ronald N. Guy Jr.Contributing Writer

Like most degenerate sports fans, I seamlessly adapt to lulls in the calen-dar of events. Hit me with the end of the football sea-son and I nestle up to col-lege basketball through March Madness. No col-lege hoops? Cue up the NHL and NBA playoffs. This time of year, with only one major sport in action, presents the greatest challenge to my considerable sports fan survival skills. During July I resemble Bear Grylls in the midst of a barren wasteland with no appar-ent hope for survival (perhaps a slight embellishment). What sustains me, unlike Bear who would undoubtedly scour for potable water, unearth some edible insects and fashion a makeshift shelter, is the imminent return of the NFL. Knowing the return of Ameri-can’s game is near triggers a religious trolling of the usual websites and T.V. channels – getting uncomfortably ob-scure, as necessary - for any justifiably relevant pigskin news.

Recently, I happened upon a little gem from “ The Worldwide Leader In Sports”: an analysis of the NFC East for the 2012 season. After a predict-able flip through familiar entities like Michael Vick and the improved Eagles, Eli Manning and his “Gi-ant” cast of defending champs and the flashy but habitually under-achiev-ing Dallas Cowboys, the

experts offered brief, obligatory com-ments on the ‘Skins, the least attractive and championship-irrelevant member of the NFL’s flagship division. The paci-fying verdict was that, while improved, the ‘Skins are destined to finish in the NFC East cellar…again.

Ouch. That hurt. But I get it. The ‘Skins have done nothing between the lines to earn any other forecast. They’ve been awful for so long that not even the presence of a dynamic talent (RGIII), several interesting acquisitions and a strong coaching staff can portend anything more than another last place finish. No offense to these experts and their “Doubting Thomas” analysis of the

‘Skins, but there’s often a latent reaction to the performance curve. It’s human nature to assume that known, but aging teams will continue to be what they’ve always been (the seen) and to underes-timate talented but unproven commodi-ties (the unseen). The best prognostica-tors and General Managers align with the performance curve and sense talent and outcomes before they happen. As a matter of fact, the best leaders in any profession possess a similar ability to connect the right person with the right job at the right time. The deft ability to accurately predict future performance of others - to sense what can and likely will be, before it happens - contributes tremendously to an organization’s suc-cess and has a transformational impact on the talented and unproven worker that just needed an opportunity and an advocate.

For the sake of the story and its ac-companying point, I’ll share a personally embarrassing moment. I was a shy kid, painfully so. Arriving at my first t-ball practice (my initial foray into organized athletics), I launched into one of those uncontrollable, inconsolable nuclear meltdowns all parents fear. The sight of all those kids on the field was intimidat-ing and the realization that I would have

to perform among them was simply overwhelming. There was zero chance, as far as I was concerned, of me exiting the car and taking the field. However, my irresistible emotional force met an immovable object: my steadfast moth-er. Mom had watched me obsess over any type of ball since birth and use any spherical object capable of being thrown or bounced to wreak havoc throughout her house. Despite my theatrical objec-tions, she knew I belonged and would thrive on that field. Whether it was her dedication to my happiness or her san-ity (probably both), she coaxed me off planet irrational and onto that baseball field. It proved to be the humble start of a meager but fulfilling athletic career that produced some of the best friends and memories of my life. Thanks, mom, for knowing the happy ending I’d yet to experience.

So does all this philosophical drib-ble and storytelling mean that I think the ‘Skins will finish better than 4th in the NFC East this season? Admittedly, that’s still something I need to see to believe.

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