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COUNTYEPA Steps Up to Clean Chesapeake Bay Federal government releases strategy to implement more stringent water quality controls to clean up beleaguered Chesapeake Bay. PAGE 5

MONEY‘I Buy Local’ Push UnderwayNew St. Mary’s County independent business association planning events for ‘I Buy Local’ campaign during Small Business Month. PAGE 8

DEFENSEBiofueled Jet Wins Green Hornet Team Environmental AwardFor the fifth consecutive time, the F/A-18 and EA-18G program office’s Green Hornet team at PAX River has won the Environmental Excellence Award. PAGE 13

EDUCATIONHog Wild For St. Michael’s SchoolA few ‘Hogettes’, the unofficial Washington Redskins cheerleading squad, were among the celebrities who participated in a fundraiser for St. Michael’s School in Ridge. PAGE 14

SPORTSChopticon Sophomore Pitches Shutout Against LackeySophomore Brian Clark only allowed one hit while pitching Friday, giving Chopticon their 10th win of the season. PAGE 31

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Business owners received an update recently from the State Highway Administration on progress in planning for a replace-ment Thomas Johnson Bridge.

“This is very significant, and is another example

of steady progress towards bringing

closer to reality the project to build a third

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By Guy LeonardStaff Writer

The Leonardtown town council voted Monday by a 4-0 margin sup-port expansion projects proposed from two town businesses, the Olde Town Pub on Washington Street and the new Rustic River restaurant/Arizona Pizza on Route 5.

Both businesses, which will have to have their requests approved by the county’s Alcohol Beverage Board, want to expand patio and indoor sites off of their main buildings to accom-modate more patrons.

Dina Kulp, manager at Rustic Riv-er, told the town commissioners that the area would not only allow for an extension to the bar business but would also serve as a place for customers to dine.

Rustic River holds a Class B liquor license.

“I think our bar business is less than 10 percent,” Kulp said. “We’re not trying to turn it into a night club scene it’s more of a courtyard.”

The expansion request from Rustic River includes an area spanning 18 feet by 28 feet that would be converted to a

concrete slab surrounded by a 40-inch fence with a gate.

Kulp said that the area would ac-commodate approximately 30 people.

John MacDonald, owner of the Olde Town Pub, has requested extended dining space of 756 square feet; Mac-Donald also asked the town to support allowing his customers to take their al-coholic beverages to the outdoor smok-ing area, which is 450 square feet.

MacDonald said that he would go before the county’s alcohol bever-age board to clear up questions about whether he was allowed to sell alco-holic beverages for take out as well as at his business.

“We’ve been able to sell on and off since we’ve been open,” MacDonald said.

Mayor J. Harry Norris said that the town’s guiding principle was to support the proliferation of restaurants with liquor licenses and not bars and taverns.

“We don’t want to create [only] bars,” Norris said.

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St. Mary’s County Sheriff Tim Cameron congratulates Deputy Melissa Green, who was recognized as deputy of the year during the annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Day held in Leonardtown on Tuesday.

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ewsToday’s Newsmakers In BriefOn the county’s problem of

coming up with $11 million for new emergency communications

“We’re hung out to dry.”

Commissioner Lawrence D. Jarboe (R-Golden Beach)

On the proposal to increase service charges

for water and sewer

“A lot of our rate increase is being driven by healthcare costs.”

MetCom Executive Director Jacquelyn Meiser


Leonardtown Mayor J. Harry Norris told The County Times this week that the town has been in talks with the owner of an aban-doned bar on Route 5 to have it demolished soon, while the town government is talking to property owners to either improve or tear down aging buildings.

Norris said that a fallen home on the Clark Farm site north of downtown, where the Clark’s Rest housing development is slated for construction, will be removed in the next one to two months by site owner Marrick Properties Inc.

In the meantime, the town has been talking with the owner of the vacant Penny’s Bar, developer Wayne Davis, to have it razed.

Norris and town elected officials have been concerned in recent years about the pres-ence of aging and blighted properties in the town limits as an impediment to development as well as risks to public safety.

The downturn in the economy has also meant that many properties slated for redevel-opment have been left to sit as they are; the cur-rent stagnant outlook for the economy meant that that town had to press property owners to do something about the blighted buildings.

“We’re looking at the signage and the old buildings,” Norris said. “We’re looking to clean up the entrance (Route 5) into town.

“It’s not a good impression.”

Traditionally the town has tried to encour-age property owners to clean up aging build-ings or those in poor condition because it has not had the laws in effect itself to enforce prop-erty standards.

Norris said that town government wants to continue that tradition but that the conditions of some buildings cannot be tolerated much longer.

“If we need to pass additional ordinanc-es… we will do that,” Norris said. “That’s for buildings throughout the town and not just along Route 5.”

Norris said that property owners along Lawrence Avenue in town had consented to tearing down two aging buildings in an effort to improve the town’s image.

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A new strategy released by the federal government Wednesday outlines stringent measures to help preserve and restore the Ches-apeake Bay and its watershed nearly one year after President Obama issued an executive or-der directing action to clean it up.

The strategy issued by the Environmental Protection Agency calls for rigorous rules to reduce pollution and improve water quality by enforcing agricultural conservation practices on 4 million acres worth of farms.

The plan also calls for federally protect-ing 2 million additional acres of watershed land and restoring native oyster populations in 20 tributaries of the Chesapeake.

Federal agencies will also institute two-year “milestones” across the six-state region that surrounds the Chesapeake Bay, the plan

states, to ensure continued efforts toward meet-ing strict goals.

Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) said in a state-ment that his administration welcomed the fed-eral strategy but said the state has already taken measures to clean up the bay by restricting crab harvests, pushing for expansion of oyster sanctuaries and passing more stringent require-ments on storm water management systems for developments.

“The next critical task is to integrate programming with federal, state, local and grassroots organizations, targeting resources and personnel to the same geographic levels,” O’Malley said. “Collectively, we can avoid cre-ating new federal programs by enhancing exist-ing state, local and grassroots actions that are well-suited to meet the goals of this ambitious strategy.”

The announcement from the Obama Ad-ministration comes one day after the Chesa-

peake Bay Foundation won a lawsuit in federal court against the EPA, essentially forcing the agency to enforce provisions of the Clean Water Act.

Officials with the foundation said that the EPA had the authority to enact strict pollution controls but had not done so in recent years.

Sue Veith, environmental planner for the county, said that the latest strategy shows a marked shift in the federal government’s level of involvement in turning around the situation for the bay.

“They’ve gone from voluntary to regulato-ry,” Veith said, explaining that the EPA had tra-ditionally gotten voluntary commitments from local jurisdictions to make improvements.

Now the federal government was going to hold them to it.

“The jurisdictions made these voluntary commitments and they didn’t meet them,” Veith said. “What the federal government is saying is

‘We are no longer going to allow you to slide on the commitments you’ve made.’”

Veith said that under the Clean Water Act, the EPA could take actions like stopping devel-opment, which has been linked to increased nu-trients and sediment in local waterways, until water quality improved.

While the EPA had never taken such ac-tion before, she said, they probably will now.

According to the EPA, the federal govern-ment will now establish a maximum daily load for pollutants going into the bay and will ex-pand rules governing storm water management flows.

The plan also calls for closer controls on animal feeding operations that are believed to contribute to pollution in storm runoff.

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Penny’s Bar on Route 5


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Officials with the Metropolitan Com-mission, the county’s water and sewer pro-vider, told the Board of County Commis-sioners Tuesday that their service charges were going up, and they were also entering into a lease for $186,000 a year to get more office space.

MetCom director Jacquelyn Meiser told commissioners that while there were no ad-ditional permanent employees being hired at MetCom, the current Larry K. Petty Build-ing that contains their operations on Com-merce Avenue in Hollywood had become too small.

“We have far, far outgrown that space,” Meiser said. “We have all our closets full, some of them with department heads.”

Meiser said that MetCom was also look-ing at the possibility of eventually buying the office space at a locked in price.

“The less we pay rent, the better off we’ll be,” she said.

Commissioner Lawrence D. Jarboe (R-Golden Beach) questioned the cost of the lease MetCom was negotiating; at about $15,000 a month, Jarboe said the lease en-sured that MetCom would have to raise its customers’ rates by about a dollar across the board.

He also questioned why MetCom need-ed more space when it was not hiring any new permanent employees.

Meiser had said earlier that comings

and goings of construction and maintenance staff at the current facility had pushed the limits of the headquarters, and that putting administration functions in the new of-fice space would allow maintenance crews to use the Petty building more as a central location.

The actual increase for a customer re-ceiving both water and sewer amounted to about 80 cents, while it would be less for a customer receiving just one of those servic-es, Meiser said.

Meiser later told The County Times that the office space under consideration for a lease agreement was in the First Colony development in California and would cost a little more than $1.5 million to buy.

“It’s an option we have not exercised yet,” she said.

The rate increases were being pushed mainly by employee health care costs, Meiser said, which, at $1.29 million, now comprised about 11 percent of MetCom’s budget.

The rates for water and sewer are both going up by about 4 percent. MetCom’s fis-cal 2011 draft budget calls for a 4.23 percent increase in sewer service over fiscal 2010’s $24.14 charge per quarter.

Non-metered customers would see a 3.86 percent sewer service increase accord-ing to the new budget.

The rates for water service for metered customers would also increase by 4.2 per-cent, while non-metered customers would only see a 1.56 percent increase.

Restaurant owners who use MetCom to deal with grease trap waste would see a 23.86 percent hike in their hauling fees, ac-cording to the proposed budget, to $195.57 per 1,000 gallons to be transported, that’s up from $157.90 in 2010.

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission based in Rockville has is-sued a draft environmental impact study that recommends allowing UniStar Nuclear Energy to receive a portion of its license to proceed with building a third nuclear reactor in Calvert County.

The study, issued in mid April, was the result of nearly two years of environmental research into the impacts that the third reactor would bring to the Calvert Cliffs plant, according to UniStar, which is a joint venture between Constellation Energy and Électricité de France.

The draft report is now up for public comment and will be dis-cussed by officials from the regulatory commission with the public May 25 at the Holiday Inn on Solomons Island.

The full public comment period will be open for 75 days.Public comments will be part of the final impact study that UniStar

states they expect to have by the end of the year.“This is a significant milestone in our licensing efforts for the…

project and another step towards meeting the region’s energy needs through secure, reliable, carbon-free electricity generation,” said George Vanderheyden, CEO of UniStar.

Public officials on both sides of the Patuxent River have voiced their support for the third reactor. The immediate infusion of $130 million in business related tax dollars into the state government was viewed as an incentive by elected officials, while the project is set to bring as many as 4,000 temporary construction jobs to the region.

“This is very significant, and is another ex-ample of steady progress towards bringing closer to reality the project to build a third reactor at Calvert Cliffs,” said Delegate Anthony O’Donnell (R. Dist. 29C).

But UniStar, is still waiting for the federal gov-ernment to commit to a guaranteed loan to help fi-nance the project, which could cost as much as $10 billion to build.

“It’s an important part of moving the project forward,” said Kelly Biemer, a spokeswoman for UniStar. “We remain hopeful that we will be a can-didate to receive a conditional commitment from the Department of Energy for a loan guarantee.”

Nuclear Regulator Issues Environmental Approval For Third Reactor

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Commissioners Need to Find $11 Million for Radio System


In what one county commissioner called a “brutal” budget work session, elected lead-ers were told Monday that the county would have to find $11 million in capital funds to buy a state-of-the-art emergency communication system since the vendor for the current system will not service it past 2014.

“That was a big hit,” said Commissioner Daniel H. Raley (D-Great Mills) Tuesday.

Commissioner Lawrence D. Jarboe (R-Golden Beach) said that it was a shock to find out that the vendor would be ending service, but he said that the county should probably hunt for spare parts that could keep the current system running as long as it can to forestall the extra expense.

“It was a brutal budget session,” Jarboe said of the costs commissioners would have to deal with.

But Jarboe, who has been critical of spending in recent budgets, said that the $11 million expense was likely inevitable.

“It looks like it’s coming,” Jarboe said. “We’re hung out to dry.”

The current vendor, Harris Corp., had never before divulged that they would be phasing out service of the system to his knowledge, said Commissioner Thomas A. Mattingly (D-Leonardtown).

And that would be a strike against them if they tried to make a bid for the contract for the new communication system sometime in the future.

“I would expect we’d look hard at Harris the next time the contract is bid,” Mattingly told The County Times. “I don’t think they were as forthcoming as you’d like.

“That won’t be to their advantage.”Mattingly also said that he had been

under the impression that the county would be able to purchase upgrades to improve the current system from Harris Corp in the near future.

“We were understanding there was some potential to do some upgrades, and Harris had made a number of different proposals to work out the interoperability issues.”

David Zylak, public safety director, said that an executive team overseeing the update to the emergency communication system was first informed of the 2014 date when they re-ceived a briefing from an independent con-tractor, RCC Consultants Inc., April 29.

Zylak said that he was unsure when Har-ris Corp. would have told the county about their dropping support of current system.

“It happens all the time, vendors will lead you around by the nose,” Zylak said.

The current 800 megahertz system the county currently uses was a vast improve-ment over the previous low-band radio system used prior to 2001, county officials have said, but it still did not solve problems of interoper-ability between fire and rescue elements here with Charles and Calvert Counties nor did it address the problem of blind spots in radio coverage in certain parts of the county.

Mattingly said that the late revelation about the current system soon being obsolete, revealed by the independent contractor, was actually a blessing because the county had plans to spend $5 million on equipment and new communications towers with the current system to try and solve the problems.

“We’re fortunate it came along so we could have time to react,” Mattingly said. “We would have thrown away that $5 million.

“It’s a shock [the 2014 date] but at the same time it’s to our benefit.”

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Arizona, along with several other states as well as several Maryland counties, has begun to enforce local and state laws regarding illegal aliens since the federal government has contin-uously failed to strictly enforce its own immi-gration laws. Maybe it’s time to revisit the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed by Congress on July 13, 1866 and ratified by the states on July 9, 1868.

Section 1 of this Amendment states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, (my emphasis) are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” Section 2 excludes “Indians not taxed.” It was clearly written to cover emancipated slaves and maybe not as clearly to include those born in the United States and subject to its laws. Native Americans, as separate nations and not showing allegiance to the United States, were excluded. This con-voluted thinking was that if the parents owed allegiance to another nation, they could not be U.S. citizens.

Parents owing allegiance to another coun-try by right of citizenship in that country, hav-ing a child born in this country, are not U.S. citizens by any stretch of the imagination. Giv-ing their child citizenship when the parents are here illegally is an abomination of our Constitu-tion. Native Americans, those most entitled to U.S. citizenship due to generations of living in this land for thousands of years, were not even granted citizenship unless they paid taxes! In Europe, no one would think of traveling to an-other country without the appropriate visas and passport. In no other country in the world are illegal aliens allowed to live freely. In South and Central American countries, illegals are routinely jailed or, if fortunate, deported. We have laws regarding legal immigration and nat-uralization. Why do we not enforce them?

President Obama has sworn to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the United States. Why is he so concerned that Arizona and other

jurisdictions have overstepped their bounds enforcing immigration laws that should be en-forced by his federal government? Are illegal aliens somehow exempt from our immigration laws? Does Homeland Security not believe that terrorists and extremists can enter this country as easily as anyone else along our unprotected borders?

Then there is the hue and cry over the il-legal alien woman who was convicted of vio-lating misdemeanor laws who just happens to have three children. Should she be locked up like anyone else? Why not? Actually she and the three children should be immediately de-ported rather than forcing our society to be re-sponsible for additional costs to care for her on her children while she is in prison. Any other legal citizen would be immediately incarcerated upon conviction and there would be no outcry.

The President is concerned that the legal citizens of this country are no longer enchanted by his false promises. They have become dis-enchanted by his spend-without-thought-for-the-federal-deficit policies. Now that the truth about Obamacare is coming out that healthcare costs will rise faster than before and that health-care resources will have to be rationed due to doctor/nurse/hospital shortages, his popular support is steadily dropping. It seems as if his “concern” for illegal aliens is just another poli-tician trying to somehow get himself another solid voting block by “buying” their votes rather than concern for the safety of our borders and national security. If all illegal aliens were natu-ralized over a period of ten years but forbidden to vote until they became full-fledged citizens, I wonder how much concern he would have over this issue? Among other things he promised “Change We Can Believe In”. When he can’t even support the Constitution, this is certainly NOT change I can believe in!

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The Leonardtown Board of Appeals will hold a hearing on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. at the Leonardtown Town Office, 41660 Courthouse Drive, Leonardtown, MD, 20650. Case #13-10 - 22635 Washington Street – Request for special exception to construct a single family residence in a C-B zoning dis-trict. Copies of the documents pertaining to this case are available for public review at the

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May has been designated Small Business Month, and local businesses are celebrating by joining the Southern Maryland Independent Business Association (SMIBA) for a “Spotlight on Small Businesses” workshop at the end of the month, and a “Lunch & Learn” in June to help small business owners form networks in the community. The association, which is an affiliate of the American Indepen-dent Business Al-liance (AMIBA), now includes 25 businesses in St. Mary’s County, all of which have signed on to further the orga-nization’s “I Buy Local” (IBL) campaign.

“The I Buy Local campaign that we’re do-ing is new,” said Dan Rebarchick, owner of Len-ny’s Restaurant in California, as he described his October meeting with Bob Schaller, Director of Economic & Community Development, during which the two exchanged ideas about how to keep local businesses afloat in the recession.

“I gave him my thoughts on how the county was perceiving and supporting independent busi-nesses,” he said, explaining that exposure would be key to growth. “We wanted to show that the

county was still behind them.”SMIBA, along with the Department of Eco-

nomic & Community Development, will host their St. Mary’s County Spotlight on Small Busi-ness event on Thursday, May 27, offering a free breakfast, a recognition ceremony, a discussion panel on defense contracting and a workshop on using social networking sites like Facebook to

market small businesses. The IBL campaign,

which Rebarchick de-scribed as part of a national movement, is still in its infancy, but their public de-but will take place on June 14.

“We’re planning a “Lunch & Learn”

program … we’re going to invite independent busi-

nesses to a luncheon and invite a speaker to advise them on how to keep

their businesses running,” said Rebarchick, stressing that SMIBA’s Buy Local campaign would focus on education about the benefits of shopping at locally-owned businesses rather than national chains.

“I think the overall goal of the organization is to assist independent businesses in getting ex-posure in the community, and to educate the com-munity on the value of independent businesses supporting the community,” said Rebarchick.

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every $100 spent at a chain, only $13 remained in the community to contribute to tax revenue and create jobs, as compared to $45 spent at local independent businesses (according to a study cited by the American Independent Busi-ness Alliance).

Both events will serve as opportunities to increase SMIBA membership, he added.

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Francis Abell, 67

F r a n c i s “Floyd” Abell, 67, of Hollywood, MD passed away May 7, 2010 at St. Mary’s Hos-pital surrounded by his family and friends. Born January 18, 1943 in Leonardtown, MD he was the son of Henrietta Thompson Abell and the late John Louis Abell,

Jr. He was the loving husband of the late Stephanie Cusic Abell whom he married on March 21, 1964 at St. John’s Catholic Church in Hollywood, MD. Stephanie pre-ceded him in death on March 1, 2010. Floyd is survived by his siblings, Peggy Lacey, John Abell, III (Gloria), and Linda Kirby (Bill), all of Hollywood, MD. He was a fa-ther figure to many of his nieces and neph-ews whom he loved dearly. In addition to his wife and father, he was preceded in death by his sister, Betty Lou Wathen, and his brother-in-law, Francis Lacey. Floyd was a 1961 graduate of Leonardtown High School. He worked for the County until be-ing drafted into the U.S. Army. He served in Vietnam where he earned the Medal of Merit. After his military service, he worked as a stonemason for the Architect of the Capitol, from which he retired. Also after his military service, he joined the 3rd and 6th District Volunteer Rescue Squad. Four years later, he became one of the founding members of the Hollywood Vol-unteer Rescue Squad and served as their first president. After serving as a rescue squad volunteer for ten years, Floyd began to serve his community in another way. He put into operation his own weather station/service, which included a weather line that provided updates and daily forecasts. He was one of the first WRC-TV4 Weather Watchers. He was a member of the Atlan-tic Coast Observation Network, a certified Skywarn Spotter for the National Weather Service, and a member of various other weather organizations. Floyd also enjoyed writing poetry, listening to bluegrass, cre-ating CD’s, crabbing and fishing at his wife’s family home on the Patuxent River. Floyd was a bright ray of sunshine in the lives of so many people-even to those who did not know him personally. While he was very serious about serving and protecting the public with his trustworthy knowledge of the weather, he was also a man with a charming sense of humor, a clever wit, and a big heart. The family received friends on Tuesday, May 11, 2010. in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home Chapel, Leonar-dtown, MD, where prayers were said. A mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at St. John Fran-cis Regis Catholic Church in Hollywood, MD with Fr. Raymond Schmidt officiat-ing. Interment followed at the church cem-etery. Pallbearers were Timmy Mattingly, Christopher Cusic, Patrick Woodburn, Jr., Michael Miedzinski, Jr., Steven Abell, Jr., and Brian Allshouse. Honorary Pallbear-ers will be Harley Cook, Marty Brumback, Bill King, John Zyla, Bobby McGill and Charles (Honkey) Johnson. Memorial con-tributions may be made to St. John’s Cath-olic Church and School 43950 St. John’s Road, Hollywood, MD 20636. To send a condolence to the family please visit our

website at www.mgfh.com. Arrangements provided by the Mattingley-Gardiner

Joseph Biscoe, Jr., 64

Joseph Ed-ward (Top Cat and/or Joe boy) Biscoe, Jr. (64) of Lexington Park passed away May 9, 2010, at St. Mary’s Hos-pital, Leonard-town, MD. Born August 24, 1946 in Great Mills, MD he was the son of the late Joseph Edward

and Mary Florence Barber Biscoe. Joseph survived by his siblings Francis L. Biscoe of Ridge, MD, Sandra B. Barnes of Lex-ington Park, MD, John C. Biscoe of Glen Burnie, MD and James K. Biscoe of Lex-ington Park, MD. Joe was a lifelong resi-dent of St. Mary’s County and attended St. Peter Claver Catholic School. He worked for Insley Construction for 20 years as an Asphalt worker. In his spare time he en-joyed remodeling antique cars. The fam-ily will receive friends on Thursday, May 13th 2010 from 10 – 11 a.m. in the Mat-tingley-Gardiner Funeral Home Chapel, Leonardtown, MD, where funeral services will be held at 11 AM with Fr. Joe Dob-son officiating. Interment will follow in Charles Memorial Gardens, Leonardtown, MD. Pallbearers will be Dexter Williams, Ronelle Shields, Jermaine Smith, John C. Biscoe, Sr., Lloyd Jones, Jr., and Trevon B. Medley. Honorary Pallbearers will be DeMonta Butler and Peter Butler. To send a condolence to the family please visit our website at www.mgfh.com. Arrangements provided by the Mattingley-Gardiner Fu-neral Home, P.A.

Virginia D’Orazio, 84

Virginia “Ginny” Williams D’Orazio, 84 of Lexington Park, MD died Wednes-day, May 5th, 2010. She died at St. Mary’s Nursing Center in Leonardtown, MD. Ginny was born in Compton, MD on July 25, 1925, the daughter of the late Joseph Henry and Rose Mary (Paddy) Williams. Virginia is survived by her sons Michael D’Orazio of Washington, D.C, and Timo-thy D’Orazio of Lawrenceville, GA, two grandchildren and companion Robert O’Donnell and Family. She was preceded in death by her siblings Vernon Williams, Geneive Campbell and Ruby Dingee. She was a lifelong resident of St. Mary’s Coun-ty. Virginia was a schoolteacher with St. Mary’s County public schools for 43 years until retiring in 1993. Services are private. To send a condolence to the family please visit our website at www.mgfh.com. Ar-rangements provided by the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, P.A.

Joan Dean, 75

Joan Mattingly Dean, 75 of Holly-wood, MD died Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 in a motor vehicle collision on MD Rt. 235. She was born in Leonardtown, MD on Au-gust 1, 1934, a daughter of the late Lester and Madeline Mattingly. Joan was a 1952 graduate of St. Mary’s Academy. Follow-ing graduation she attended secretarial school in Washington, DC, before begin-

ning her more than 40-year ca-reer with the First National Bank of St. Mary’s at its main branch in L e o n a r d t ow n , MD, and then at branches in Lexington Park, MD and at the Patuxent River Naval Air Test Center. She and

C. Russell Dean were married on No-vember 22, 1954 and made their home in Hollywood, MD. Throughout their lives, the Dean’s enjoyed traveling, crossing the nation twice by automobile. During retirement they enjoyed cruise/tours to destinations from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to the Panama Canal. Mr. Dean passed away March 8, 1998. Mrs. Dean was a member of St. John’s Catholic Church in Holly-wood, MD, where she had helped with of-fice tasks and cleaning. She was an active member of the community as a past mem-ber of the Hollywood Volunteer Fire Dept Ladies Auxiliary, for which she continued to do volunteer work at dinners and bingo. A lifelong gardener who enjoyed growing f lowers; she was an active garden volun-teer at St. Mary’s City at the time of her death. In the past she had also volunteered as a gardener at Sotterly and assisted at Helping Hands. She remained active in re-tirement, pursuing interests including tap, dance and piano. Joan was known for her beautiful voice and had often been called upon to sing at wedding ceremonies in her earlier years. Many will also remember her for her baking skills, with many cook-ies, apple dumplings and lemon meringue pies shared with friends. Mrs. Dean was also devoted to her four cats. Mrs. Dean is survived by her daughter Gail Dean and son-in-law Douglas Lewis of Cambridge, MD; sisters Carol Garner and husband Thomas of Hollywood, MD, Mary Adams of Park Hall, MD, and Angela Ryan and husband James of Santa Barbara, CA; her brother Aubrey Mattingly and wife Vic-toria of Leonardtown, MD; sisters-in-law Lola Brubacher of Leonardtown, MD, and Elva Mattingly Wood of Mechanicsville, MD; brother-in-law Francis Dean and wife Mary of Leonardtown; MD; sister-in-law Ann Petrisko of California, and numer-ous nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. She was preceded in death by her brothers Lester and James Mattingly as well as her brothers-in-law George Adams and Wil-liam C. Brubacher. The family received friends on Friday, May 7, 2010 at Matting-ly-Gardiner Funeral Home where prayers were said. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Saturday, May 8th, 2010 in St. John’s Catholic Church, Hollywood, MD, with Fr. Raymond Schmidt officiat-ing. Interment followed in Charles Memo-rial Gardens, Leonardtown, MD. Pall-bearers were Aaron Mattingly, Travis W. Mattingly, Bill Dean, Troy Garner, Dustin Horst and Wesley Brubacher. Memorial contributions may be made to the Holly-wood Volunteer Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 79, Hollywood, MD and/or the Well Pet Clinic Spay/Newter Program, 21800 N. Shangri La Drive Unit 16, Lexington Park, MD 20653. To send a condolence to the family please visit our website at www.mgfh.com. Arrangements provided by the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, P.A.

Jeanette Hemming, 59

Jeanette Ann Hemming, 59, of Hollywood, MD died April 28, 2010 in Leonard-town, MD. Born December 13, 1950 in Leonar-dtown, MD she was the daughter of the Mary Al-ice Hemming of Hollywood, MD and the late Hen-ry John Hem-ming. Jeanette is

also survived by her siblings Joan Hem-ming Gotwald of Alexandria, VA, Agnes Cecilia Bentley of Lexington Park, MD, Charles H. Hemming and Joseph Hem-ming both of Hollywood, MD and Patricia Hemming of California, MD as well as her nieces and nephews. Jeanette was greatly loved by her family, her many friends and all who knew her. She touched many lives with her happy smile, warm hugs and un-conditional love. Jeanette enjoyed the sim-ple things in life; her arts and crafts, being by the water, watching cooking shows and taking a car ride on a Sunday afternoon. She participated and won many awards in the Special Olympics throughout the 1990’s. Jeanette was a lifelong resident of St. Mary’s County and attended the Cen-ter for Life Enrichment. The family re-ceived friends on Monday, May 3rd 2010 in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, Leonardtown, MD, where prayers were said at 7 PM. A Mass of Christian burial was held on Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 in St. John’s Catholic Church, Hollywood, MD where Fr. Raymond Schmidt officiated. Interment followed in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were Joseph Hemming, James Carter, John Shimski, Charles Hemming, Robert Gotwald and Bill Sneeringer. Me-morial contributions in Memory of Jea-nette may be made to The Center for Life Enrichment, 25089 Three Notch Road, Hollywood, MD. To send a condolence to the family please visit our website at www.mgfh.com. Arrangements provided by the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, P.A.

William Longley, Jr., 45

W i l l i a m “Billy” Franklin Longley, Jr., 45 of Hollywood passed away on May 6, 2010, at his residence. Born August 2, 1964 in Ch-everly, MD, he was the son of William and Doris Longley of Hollywood, MD. Billy was a heavy equip-

ment operator. He enjoyed fishing and hunting, mostly with his dad and son. Flounder fishing with his family was his favorite. He also enjoyed watching NA-SCAR on Sunday with his family.

In addition to his parents Billy is sur-vived by his wife Lisa Longley of Hol-lywood, MD, children; Rebecca Longley and Joseph Longley both of Hollywood, MD, sister; Margo Donovan, (David) of


Dunkirk, MD, niece and nephews; Heath-er Graham, David Donovan, and Ryan Donovan of Dunkirk, MD, great-nephews; Thomas Clements and Demitrie Zollars both of Dunkirk, MD, also survived by his dog Mac.

A graveside service was held on Tues-day, May 11, 2010 at Queen of Peace Cem-etery, Helen, MD.

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

Arrangements provided by the Brins-field Funeral Home, P.A., Leonardtown, MD

Teresa Mills, 70

G. Teresa Mills, 70, of L e o n a r d t o w n , MD died May 6, 2010 in Wash-ington Hospital Center, Wash-ington, DC. Born November 8th, 1939 in Avenue, MD she was the daughter of the late Thomas Ber-trand and Ann

Louise Russell Thompson. Teresa was the loving wife of Lawrence Mills whom she married on March 5th, 1960. She is also sur-vived by her children Jeffrey Mills (Judy) of Waldorf, MD, Bonnie Tountasakis (La-zarus) of Queenstown, MD, her grandchil-dren; Mitchell Mills and Katelyn Toun-tasakis, her siblings; Sister Mary Martha of Georgetown, Washington, DC, Billy Thompson (Alice Ann) of Mechanicsville, MD, Harriet Cuel (Frank) of Tennessee, George Thompson (Franny) of Hollywood, MD, Johnny Thompson (Janet) of Avenue, MD, Dot Reichard of Leonardtown, MD and sister-in-law Myrtle Thompson of Av-enue, MD. Teresa is preceded in death by her Brother Butch Thompson of Avenue, MD. Teresa graduated from Margaret Brent High School’s class of 1958. She was not a lifelong resident of St. Mary’s Coun-ty and moved here in 1993 from Prince Georges County. Teresa was a Comptroller for various automotive dealerships includ-ing Walker Pontiac for 30 plus years un-til her retirement in 2002. Teresa enjoyed playing bingo, bowling, gambling, playing cards and spending time with her grand-children. The family will receive friends on Thursday, May 13, 2010 from 5 – 8 p.m. in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, Leonardtown, MD, where prayers will be said at 7 p.m. A Mass of Christian burial will be held on Friday, May 14th, 2010 in St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Compton, MD at 11 a.m. where Fr. John Mattingly will be officiating. Interment will follow in Sacred Heart Catholic cem-etery, Bushwood, MD. Pallbearers will be Billy Thompson, Johnny Thompson, Bob-by Thompson, George Thompson, Tommy Thompson and Jay Thompson. To send a condolence to the family please visit our website at www.mgfh.com. Arrangements provided by the Mattingley-Gardiner Fu-neral Home, P.A.

Joseph Spears, Jr., 84

Joseph Alexander Spears, Jr., 84 of Charlotte Hall, MD, known to family and friends as “Joe”, peacefully departed this life on May 6, 2010.

Joe was born on January 28, 1926 in Hollywood, MD to the late Idola Marie

and Joseph Alexander Spears, Sr.Joe accepted Christ at an early age

and was baptized and became a member of St. John’s Catholic Church, Hollywood, MD in 1937.

He was educated in the St. Mary’s County school system where he graduated from Banneker High School in Loveville, MD.

Following graduation, Joe began to service his country by joining the Unit-ed States Navy in 1944. He received an honorable discharge in 1946 and returned home to begin his civilian career by being employed at the local laundry in Leonard-town, MD. While working at the laundry, he met and married his loving and devoted wife of 55 years, Clarice Estelle Whalen, in 1955 and from that union were born two children.

Several years later, he entered into the federal government gaining employment at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, DC where he retired in1984.

Joe enjoyed playing cards, listening to music, and playing the guitar. His sib-lings said he even wrote a song, which is still being sung today by various artists. He loved baseball, cooking out and telling family stories. He also loved being with his grandchildren. They affectionately called him “Daddy Joe” and he responded back by calling them all “Boy” even if they were a girl.

He is preceded in death by two sisters, Delores Somerville and Margaret Nurse.

He leaves to cherish his loving mem-ory, his wife, Clarice Spears; son, Car-lton “Jerry” (Kathy) of Charlotte Hall, MD; daughter, Diane Harris of Waldorf, MD; grandchildren; Monique Ireland of Rhode Island, NY; Delvon Spears of Bry-ans Road, MD; Tamara Spears of King George, VA; JaVita Spears of Hyattsville, MD; Jamaze Spears of Charlotte Hall, MD; Anastashia and Demetrius Harris of Waldorf, MD; two step-grandchildren: Shaunte Barber of Charlotte Hall, MD and Enga Proctor of Waldorf, MD; great-grandchildren: Ariel Ireland of Rhode Island, NY; Ariyan and Delvon Jr. Spears of Bryans Road, MD; Mikala Barber of Charlotte Hall, MD; and Sheldon Proctor, Jr. of Waldorf, MD.

He also leaves behind three sisters: Blanche Spears, Helena Spears and Marie Thomas, all of Lexington Park, MD; four brothers: Francis “Adolf” of Hollywood, MD; Eugene of Huntingtown, MD; Leroy of Lexington, Park, MD; and Aloyisous Spears, of Prince Frederick, MD; and a host of nieces, nephews, other family and friends.

Family will receive friends on Friday, May 14, 2010 from 10 until 11 a.m. in St. John’s Catholic Church, 43927 St. John’s Road, Hollywood, MD 20636. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Interment will follow in the church cemetery.

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

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

William Wood, Jr., 78

William Mitchell Wood, Jr. 78, of Leonardtown, MD formerly of Loveville, Maryland died May 2, 2010 at the Civis-ta Medical Center in La Plata, Mary-land. He was the son of the late Wil-liam Mitchell Wood, Sr. and Ida Mae Jones, born in Loveville, Maryland on May 31, 1931. William is survived by his

wife Frances Cecilia Wood, and his chil-dren, William E Wood of Leonardtown, MD, Timothy A Wood of Loveville, MD, Donna M Dearstine of Helen, MD and six grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his sister Frances M Moore. William worked as a Correctional Officer for St. Mary’s County Government for 20 years until retiring. He was a lifelong resident of Saint. Mary’s County. The family re-ceived friends on Thursday, May 6, 2010 at Mattingley - Gardiner Funeral Home. Prayers were said. A Mass of Christian burial was held at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Morganza, Maryland on Fri-day, May 7, 2010, with Fr. Keith Woods officiating. Burial was at Queen of Peace Cemetery, Helen, MD. Pallbearers were Joey Bowles, Kenneth Zimmerman, Loyd Winger, Tom Haynie, Wayne Dobson and Guy Tippet. To send a condolence to the family please visit our website at www.mgfh.com. Arrangements provided by the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, P.A.

Betty Yarber, 76

Betty Lou Yarber, 76, of St. Inigoes, MD died May 6, 2010 at Washington Hos-pital Center.

Born May 14, 1933 in Ridge, MD she was the daughter of the late Ernest and Florence Ridgell.

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Family received friends on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 in St. Michael’s Catho-lic Church, 16555 Three Notch Road, Ridge, MD 20680. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated with Reverend Lee Fangmyer officiating. Interment was be private.

Serving as pallbearers were her nine grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer Association, Southern Maryland Office, P.O. Box 1889, LaPla-ta, MD 20646 or St. Michael’s Catholic Church, P.O. Box 429, Ridge, MD 20680.

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

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


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Man Arrested On Stalking, Telephone Harassment ChargesOn May 9, 2010 Deputy First Class Scott Ruest responded to the International House of

Pancakes (IHOP) in Lexington Park for a report of a disturbance. Investigation revealed Donald Wayne Norris, 23, of no fixed address had allegedly been harassing an employee of the establish-ment. Norris had been in a relationship with the employee/victim, which had ended and the vic-tim’s current boyfriend witnessed Norris allegedly damage the victim’s vehicle, which was parked at IHOP. Norris initially fled the scene but then returned shortly after Ruest arrived on the scene, police said. Further investigation revealed over the last three to four months Norris has allegedly called the victim’s cell phone numerous times to harass her. The victim told Norris numerous times to stop calling but Norris refused, police say. Norris was also leaving threatening messages on the victim’s cell phone stating he was going to kill her and her current boyfriend, police allege. The victim told Ruest she was scared of Norris. Norris was arrested and charged with stalking, telephone misuse, harassment and destruction of property.

Deputies Charge Inmate With Drug PossessionOn May 7, 2010 Deputy First Class Shawn Cathcart responded to the St. Mary’s County De-

tention Center for a report of a controlled dangerous substance violation. Investigation revealed Kevin Bryan Wright, 25, of California reported to the detention center to begin serving his court ordered sentence. Per detention center intake and booking policy, Wright was searched and as a result of the search, Correctional Officer Krum allegedly discovered a controlled dangerous sub-stance (Ambien) concealed on Wright’s person. Wright was charged with possession of a con-trolled dangerous substance and possession of a controlled dangerous substance while confined in a place of confinement.

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area of Mechanicsville when he observed two vehicles parked in the entrance of Small Beach Park. The park areas of Golden Beach close at sunset and trespassing is prohibited. As Kampf was ap-proaching the vehicles to investigate he observed a clear plastic baggie containing suspected mari-juana in the center console of one of the parked vehicles. Stephen Eric Gross, 19, of Mechanicsville was the owner of the vehicle. Gross was arrested for possession of marijuana. A search incident to the arrest revealed a smoking device allegedly used to consume controlled dangerous substances. Gross was also charged with possession of controlled dangerous substance paraphernalia.


A three day operation last week con-ducted by investigators with the county’s vice/narcotics unit led to the arrest of 43 suspects on drug possession and dealing charges, police reports state, but the leader of the unit said that the recent raids show that prescription drug abuse continues to be a growing problem in St. Mary’s.

“That’s where our investigations are wid-ening,” said Capt. Daniel Alioto. “It’s not just the same old marijuana and cocaine issues.”

One explanation for the growth in pre-scription drug abuse, Alioto said, was the high price for just a small amount of a prescribed medication like oxycontin on the street.

“It’s one dollar a milligram, an 80 milli-gram dose brings $80,” Alioto said. “There’s a huge influx of illegal prescription drug abuse.”

The type of effects on a user abusing pre-scriptions like oxycontin mirrored those of using heroin, Alioto said, which could lead a user to take to intravenous drug use and heroin addiction.

Alioto said that the narcotics division is working on starting a program to allow people with a legitimate prescription of such drugs to safely dispose of unused portions by turning them into law enforcement instead of throwing them away themselves.

The program would not include any buy-back provisions, Alioto said.

The overall effort, named Operation May Flower, netted not only suspects but drugs and firearms, according to police reports.

The operation lasted from May 6 to May 8.

Detectives confiscated almost $10,000 worth of cocaine during one warrant search, according to police reports, at an address on Independence Drive in Mechanicsville.

The narcotics were in powder and rock form known more commonly as crack cocaine.

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Those arrested in connection to the raid included Eric Maurice Chase, 19, of Callaway, Kalvin Jermaine Young, 32, of Mechanics-ville, Gregory Tryman Shingles, 24, of Me-chanicsville and Geral Anthany Holt, 19, also of Mechanicsville

A vehicle stop of a suspect in Leonar-dtown, Benjamin John Lilly, 21, turned up $2,000 worth of marijuana and $1,500 worth in cash, police allege.

A subsequent raid on Lilly’s home in Leonardtown netted an additional $800 in marijuana, $6,600 in cash and electronics val-ued at $3,000, police said.

Jeffrey Brandon Junge, 21, was arrested at Lilly’s home, as was Richard Lee Mattingly, 22, of Callaway when detectives claim he was found carrying marijuana.

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A mother and her 4-year-old child were taken by volunteer ambulance to St. Mary’s Hospital after a crash on Three Notch Road in Mechanicsville in front of Bob Green Siding at approximately 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. Three vehicles were involved, and the Ford Explorer the mother was driving overturned at least one time before coming to rest on its wheels in the grassy median. A Maryland State Police helicopter was dispatched to the scene to transport an injured person, but the helicopter was called off minutes later when the patient requested ambulance transport.

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For the fifth consecutive time, the F/A-18 and EA-18G program office’s (PMA-265) Green Hornet team has won the Chief of Naval Opera-tions Environmental Excellence Award.

The team is being recognized for its efforts in developing successful environmental protec-tion and awareness initiatives, including collab-oration with the Naval Air Systems Command Propulsion and Power team to develop and use biofuel in the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.

“The consistent recognition acknowledges the many innovative initiatives put in place by the government / industry team to ensure the F/A-18 and EA-18G platform and support sys-tems comply with DoD guidance to integrate environmentally sound capabilities whenever possible,” Capt. Mark Darrah, PMA-265 pro-gram manager at Naval Air Station Patuxent River said in a press release.

The Super Hornet is the first Navy aircraft to demonstrate alternative fuel capability using a 50/50 blend of camelina biofuel and the Navy’s primary jet fuel, jet propellant (JP)-5.

The blend of camelina, a U.S.-grown, re-newable flax type grain normally used for feed-stock that is low rainfall tolerant and does not compete with food crops, and JP-5 is estimated to reduce carbon emissions up to 80 percent compared to its petro-leum-based counterpart, accord-ing to recent studies.

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Comprised of government and industry partner experts, the team manages all environmental, safety and occupational health compli-ance guidelines in manufacturing of the aircraft, testing and evalu-ation, maintenance, operations, training -- and eventually, disposi-tion of the aircraft at the end of its life-cycle.

In a combined effort, PMA-265 and Of-fice of Naval Research have invested in a project with industry partner General Electric Aircraft Engines to reduce noise levels. This project in-volves using mechanical chevrons or extensions on the F414 engine nozzle of the Super Hornet.

The project is still in the testing and devel-

opment phase; when implemented, it will be the first installation of jet noise reduction technol-ogy on any high-performance tactical Navy aircraft.

“It is imperative that acquisition programs seek ways to reduce the noise levels,” Rudy said. “The F/A-18 program has embarked on a robust research and development program to deter-mine the best solution to make our jets quieter.”

According to Rudy, studies show the chev-ron project is a viable deployable solution with demonstrated reduction in noise levels and will not affect performance of the aircraft.

The F414 engine is also becoming more efficient through the incorporation of new tech-nologies. Air emission and fuel consumption reductions are the goal of the trapped vortex combustor technology, where partially com-busted air from the cavities mixes with the main air flow resulting in reduced greenhouse gas emissions without compromising the engine’s performance.

The F/A-18 and EA-18G program office es-timates that its carbon footprint will be reduced with all of the energy initiatives. The program office expects to reduce fuel consumption by 27 million gallons per year and reduce greenhouse

gas emissions by 300,000 metric tons annually. Use of the camelina biofuel also reduces con-ventional aviation fuel use by 50 percent and reduces carbon emissions by 84 percent on a life-cycle basis.

Green Hornet Team Wins 5th Environmental Excellence Award

The PMA-265 Green Hornet team is being recognized for its efforts in developing successful environmental protection and awareness initiatives, including development and use of biofuel in the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. Pictured here is the Green Hornet taking off at Naval Air Station Patuxent River.

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The St. Mary’s County Association of Student Councils held elections for the Student Member of the Board of Education position on April 28, 2010, at the General Assembly, where Aditi Simlote, 16, a junior from Leonardtown High School, was elected to the position and will replace the current Student Member of the Board, Emily Hall, a senior at Chopticon High School.

Simlote told The County Times in an email interview that she is excited to work with Board member Cathy Allen, who she said has been a mentor to her throughout her academic career.

“I have known Ms. Cathy Allen since my elementary school years. She has always been a great influence to me, always providing me guidance,” she said. “While Ms. Kelly Hall is not part of the Board of Education, she is part of the county school system and has known and encouraged me throughout my school years.”

Simlote said that she hopes to learn a lot more about the education system by working on the board.

“From being student Member, I really am looking forward to seeing how our education system works and how students can contribute so they can have a say in their own education,” she said.

Simlote has been a longtime participant in Leonardtown High School’s Student Gov-ernment Association, and was elected Presi-dent of the Leonardtown High School Student Counsel Association. She was also nominated for the 2010 Maryland Women of Tomorrow Award. She participates in several leader-ship activities at her school and volunteers with various community organizations. She’s on the Leonardtown High’s Future Business Leaders of America organization, the National Honor Society, and she tutors with the school’s “Tutoring our Peers” program.

“Outside of school, I volunteer at St. Mary’s Hospital. In my free time I enjoy pho-

tography and volleyball,” she said.

Student members on the Board are selected through the St. Mary’s County As-s o c i a t i o n of Student C o u n c i l s (S M A S C ) , which is made up of both public and private high schools and middle schools.

SMASC, then grants interviews to appli-cants, after which five candidates are selected to contest elections at the SMASC Meet-ing (this year held on April 28), where they campaign, give speeches, and participate in a Q&A session before students vote for their representative.

Simlote will not have a voting role on the board, but she will be sharing information with students and the general public on educational concerns, and participating at student-related and school-related activities.

As a new board member, Simlote said she would want to focus on student safety and aca-demic performance.

“I feel the safe driving initiatives recently started should be strengthened and continued in all high schools. Student safety should re-main a priority for all us,” she said. “Beyond this, I would like to see more programs county-wide for bridging the gaps between elementary and middle school and middle and high school to ensure no student falls behind. I would like to provide more help towards planning their future careers.”

After graduation, Simlote said she plans to “attend college and eventually go to medi-cal school to become a doctor, following in my dad’s footsteps.”

Simlote Selected as New Student Board Member

Three members of the legendary Hogettes, the un-official cheerleading squad of the Washington Redskins, were at the second annual benefit golf tournament to benefit St. Michael’s Catholic School at Breton Bay Golf & Country Club. Left is Nick-ette Hogette and Howiette Hogette is at right. Spiggy is not pictured. The Hogettes have helped raise more than $100 million for Capital area charities. The golf tourna-ment was part of a series of fundraisers for St. Michael’s School in Ridge. The school is currently selling tickets for its “Thanks a Million” raffle. A maximum of 1,500 tickets will be sold for $100 each and the winner will receive $100,000. The drawing will be held on June 11 at the annual St. Michael’s School Auction. Festivities at the auction begin at 4 p.m. with an Art Exhibit and Sale featuring local artist Ms.

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Thursday, May 13, 2010 16The County Times Thursday, May 13, 201017 The County Times

By Sean RiceStaff Writer

A state and federal effort to replace the Thomas Johnson Bridge con-necting Calvert and St. Mary’s counties is one of the few major projects still moving forward in Maryland, despite the state’s dismal financial out-look, a State Highway Administration official said last week.

Planning for the bridge replacement began in 2006, with open houses held in 2007 and 2008 to unveil several construction alternatives. The project scope includes not only replacing the bridge, but also widening four-plus miles of Route 4 on both sides of the bridge and reconstructing the intersection of Route 4 and 235 in St. Mary’s County.

The short list of alternatives still on the table range from costing near $550 million on the low end to nearly $950 million on the high end (in dol-lars inflated to year 2020 prices), an SHA official said.

“We’re approaching that ‘B’ number right there, so we’re not dealing with some chump change,” said Russell Anderson, a transportation engi-neer for SHA’s Office of Planning and Preliminary Engineering.

Anderson gave a presentation May 5 on the progress of planning for the Solomons bridge replacement to a joint meeting of the Solomons Business Association and the Solomons Civic Association at the Calvert Marine Museum. The meeting, which was minimally publicized, was a prelude to public hearings SHA plans to conduct starting in September.

With the planning phase for the project nearing completion, public hearings are tentatively set for September in Calvert and St. Mary’s coun-ties to gather a final round of public comment before SHA recommends a design alternative, which is expected in early 2011.

The $950 million figure was estimated using a “worst case” scenario, Anderson said, which includes all the most expensive aspects of the alter-natives. That includes a new four-lane bridge (tearing down the existing bridge), widening four miles of Route 4 in St. Mary’s County and a high-way intersection alternative for the intersection of Route 4 and 235. It also includes a 10- or 12-foot pedestrian/bicycle path running over the bridge and along Route 4, to ultimately connect to the Three Notch Trail running parallel to Route 235 in St. Mary’s County.

The plan for Route 4 in St. Mary’s includes widening the road to two lanes in either direction with a 30-foot grass median in between. Ander-son said the improvements would look much like what’s happening now on Chancellors Run Road.

A new state law increasing regulations for storm water management also adds new costs to the project, Anderson said.

One of the alternatives for the intersection of Routes 4 and 235 would include constructing a “single point urban exchange”, in which Route 4 would cross under Route 235, and Route 235 traffic would travel north and south through the intersection without a traffic signal.

“Any project that is over $500 million to construct … we do a re-gional economic analysis. The purpose is to identify the economic impact

of the no-build and then the proposed improvement alternatives and see what the economic benefit is to the corridor,” Anderson said. “Basically it justifies that we don’t build a bridge to nowhere, and this is definitely a bridge to somewhere … this project is going to be an economic boom to the area.”

He said SHA would be presenting the economic analysis results, along with the environmental impact study results during the September public hearings.

A less expensive option would include building a second span to the bridge, and all options show a new bridge being constructed on the south side of the existing bridge.

Anderson fielded comments and questions from the audience of about 50 at the Calvert Marine Museum, with much discussion focused on the aesthetics of a new bridge, and whether it’s actually possible to locate a new bridge south of the existing bridge.

“There’s no way that you can show me that you can put a bridge and a road in between the visitors center and the bridge, and have it look good,” said Solomons resi-dent Bobby Swann from the crowd.

“The people that live on Solomons Island think a lot of Solomons Island. They are very proud of the town,” he said, adding that the ideas presented look like a word he “can’t say.”

“We’re not in the business of building projects that look like the word you can’t say,” Anderson responded. “We do have concepts that avoid the visitors center … we do have the landscape architects, we do have a de-sign team that does soften the impact as much as we can. We come up with solutions: the bridge design itself, the lighting on the bridge, down to the shade of paint on the bridge, it all pretty much gets done by collaboration.”

Swann and others raised questions about how a second bridge span would look, because Anderson said the potential height of the second span is still being considered.

The current bridge is 140 feet high, and proposals for a second span could put a second bridge as low as 70 feet high.

“You have a 140-foot bridge, and you’re talking about one that’s 70 feet next to it. The aesthetics of that would be terrible,” Swann said. “The current bridge that’s here there’s paintings of it, drawings of it.”

“This is not something that’s going to be designed behind closed doors,” Anderson said, adding that the pur-pose of collecting public comments is to come up with a design that pleases everyone.

“We work tirelessly through the process and through

the design process to make sure that there is a quality product,” he said.It will still be several years before residents could see a new bridge,

Anderson explained. After the planning stage is complete in 2011, then comes the design approval, followed by preliminary engineering, acquir-ing right-of-way space, then finally construction, which will take several years and be divided into phases.

Despite the high price tag, Anderson said SHA knows the bridge replacement is a top priority locally and in the region.

“As things go forward, it is our top priority,” said Jerry Clark, chair-man of the Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland, and also a Calvert County Commissioner.

“I think for this thing to go forward at some point in time, it will need some federal money coming down,” Clark said during the Solomons meeting. “Anybody who’s out there, if you see your congressman or your senator, just drop it in their ear and let them know.”

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John (Jack) Payne said he never intended to get political when he became President of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge (FOP-7) in Great Mills, and so far he’s been pretty successful.

“In an election year like this year, we do host candidate forums down at the FOP … and we do endorse on both the local and the state level,” he explained, “but I’m not in the business of politics. I’d rather not get into that kind of thing if I can help it.”

All the same, Payne, 45, who settled in St. Mary’s in 1981 after moving from Prince George’s County, said his primary focus since being elected FOP-7 President in December has been to increase his organization’s pull with regards to law enforce-ment, much like a union would.

“The biggest thing I want to do is get all of our active members together and unified,” he said, “just to be strong, so as time goes by and the community grows … we’ll have some strength and some pull with the way law en-forcement is going.”

It may be the only way to further the fra-ternal organization’s interests, he said.

“I won’t work in law enforcement long enough to see unionized law enforcement in St. Mary’s County,” said Payne, explaining his support of laws that would establish fed-eral collective bargaining for police, which he described as the “baby steps” to forming that unity. “I do support [collective bargain-ing] because that’s the beginning of us as to the pros and cons of unions, if we choose to go that way.”

“It’s not like our whole mission re-volves around that though,” said Payne, explaining that politics is taking a back

seat to the lodge’s current focus, which is fund-raising to help police officers and their families as well as help local charities and community groups. As part of National Police Week, which runs from May 9 to 15, Payne said the local

FOP would resume its tele-marketing fundraising efforts, which the branch suspended for the last two years because of the economy.

“We just didn’t want to call individuals and ask for money at a time like this when so many people are strug-gling,” said Payne. “We made the conscious decision to not call any residents and bother them at their homes, but people should know that any citizen can donate if they want.”

One thing that’s special about this year’s fundraiser,

said Payne, is that the lodge won’t be hir-ing people to jump on the phones to solicit donations. This year the officers plan to do it themselves.

As the lodge’s newest leader, Payne said he’s willing to brush the politics aside to fo-cus on local matters, and he hopes to establish more events like picnics, BBQ dinners and games this summer for citizens in the county.

“We’re going to open our doors to the community a little bit more,” he said. “I think that’ll be our focus while I’m here.”

The Fraternal Order of Police is the world’s largest organization of law enforce-ment officers, with more than 325,000 active and retired members in more than 2,100 lodges across the country. For more information on

the FOP and the Great Mills chapter, go to www.fop7.com. 33Question

InterviewJeff Baumbach, 53, knows a lot about beer, partly because he enjoys drinking it, but also because he’s made a career out of selling it as manager of International Beverage in Lexington Park. He took a few minutes to discuss his favor-ite brews with The County Times.

CT: What’s your hottest seller this time of year?

JB: India Pale Ales … it’s a hoppier English-style pale ale that originated about the time the English were colonizing India, and they had to send beer to the troops there. Back then it was onboard sailing ships, so they had to come up with some way of keeping the beer from spoil-ing over the months-long voyage to the troops, and they found if you add enough hops, it’ll kill anything and keep it from spoiling … but none of the beers in here have been anywhere near India. They weren’t even made in India back in the day. It’s just a style of beer.

CT: What’s the most expensive bottle you have?

JB: We tend to special order those things if you want them. I mean, you can get a bottle of Louis XIV cognac for about $5,000, and if you’re

willing to put $500 down, I’ll get it for you … but right now I’ve got a $200 bottle of tequila right there, and it will make your clothes fall off if you drink it!

CT: What’s the most disgusting alcoholic drink, in your opinion?

JB: I don’t particularly like barley wine, but I always have people that are pleased to find we have it. I can’t help but thinking ‘how did God arrange your taste buds that you can think that tastes okay?’ But they do … but probably the most disgusting thing I ever drank … was a [Hungarian] version of Jagermeister I don’t particularly know what diesel oil tastes like, but I know what it smells like, which is this herbal brew out of Hungaria. Most people don’t do it more than once.

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• Children’s Book Week celebratedTo celebrate Children’s Book Week

Leonardtown library is offering a program with stories and activities based on the book character, Arthur, on May 15 at 10 a.m. Reg-istration is required for this free program.

• Summer Volunteer Applications now be-ing accepted

Students entering 6th grade or higher this fall can apply to be volunteers this sum-mer at the libraries, assisting with Summer Reading registration, explaining the reading programs and giving out prizes, while at the same time earning community service hours. Applications which are due May 22 are avail-able online or at the libraries. Applicants need to attend one of the following training ses-

sions: May 24 at 6 p.m. or June 1 at 4 p.m. at Lexington Park; May 27 at 6:30 p.m. or June 3 at 6:30 p.m. at Leonardtown; or June 1 at 4 p.m. or June 2 at 5 p.m. at Charlotte Hall.

• Opening reception set for artist Josh Ingraham

An opening reception will be held for local artist Josh Ingraham on May 19 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Lexington Park Library Art Gallery. Ingraham’s artwork, which includes landscapes in oil, watercolors and acrylics, will be on display May 15 through June 30.

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Readers are invited to drop in for any of the following book discussions: Jane Austen’s book, “Northanger Abbey” on May 17 at 6 p.m. at Lexington Park; David Wro-blewski’s book, “The Story of Edgar Saw-telle” on May 20 at 7 p.m. at Leonardtown or Diane Setterfield’s book, “The Thirteenth Tale” on June 7 at 7 p.m. at Charlotte Hall.

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Corgi mix. I’m a complete sweetheart and I’ll make a terrific addition to any family. I get along great with other dogs and I’ve lived with cats. Will YOU be that perfect person to take me home and give me the love and attention I deserve? I’m up to date on vaccinations, neutered, crate and house trained and identification microchipped. For more information, please contact SECOND HOPE RESCUE at 240-925-0628 or email [email protected]. Please Adopt, Don’t Shop!”

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More than 50 volunteers (most of whom were women) spent Saturday working with Patuxent Habitat for Humanity at Chesapeake Ranch Estates on the area’s first-ever Women Build, finishing their framing in record time. Future homeowners Chris and Crystal Jones and their children helped with the building effort, which is to take place on Saturdays for the next 12 to 16 weeks, or until the house is done.

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CHURCH SERVICES DIRECTORYCATHOLICBIBLE CHURCH

PRESBYTERIAN

To Advertise in the Church Services Directory, Call

The County Times at 301-373-4125

BAHA’I FAITH“Consort with the followers of all religions in a spirit of friendliness and fellowship”

Discussions every 3rd Friday, 7:30 pm301-884-8764 • 1-800-22-UNITE

or www.bahai.org

CATHOLIC

CATHOLIC

BAHA’I FAITH

HUGHESVILLE BAPTIST CHURCHA member of the Southern Baptist Convention

8505 Leonardtown Road, Hughesville, MD 20637301-884-8645 or 301-274-3627

Pastor Keith CorrickAssociate Pastor Kevin Cullins

• Sunday Morning Worship 10:30am• Sunday School (all ages) 9:15 am• Sunday Evening Worship & Bible Study 6:00 pm• Wednesday Discipleship Classes 7:00 pm (Adults, youth & Children)

BAPTIST

VictoryBAPTIST CHURCH

Going the Distance

…Making a DifferenceGolden Beach Rd. Charlotte Hall, MD 20622 • 301-884-8503

Robert W. Kyner, Pastor

Sunday School 10:00 amWorship Service 11:00 amSunday Evening 7:00 pmWed. Prayer & Bible Study 7:00 pm

An Independent Baptist Church and Academy

SAYSF Bible Church“Seek And Ye Shall Find”

46544 Rue Purchase RoadLexington Park, MD 20653

[email protected]

Sunday Worship 8:30 am & 11:00 amSunday School 10:00 amSun eve (Sep-May) all ages 6:00 pm

To know Christ and to make Him known

Virgil Mass: 4:30 pm SaturdaySunday: 8:00 amWeekday (M-F): 7:30 amConfessions: 3-4 pm Saturday

St. Cecelia Church47950 Mattapany Rd, PO Box 429

St. Mary’s City, MD 20686 301-862-4600

St. John’sUnited Episcopal

North Sandgates Rd.(1/4 Mile in, on the left) Mechanicsville

Traditional 1928 PrayerbookServices 10:00 am Sunday

Father Joseph H. Dobson, Jr., RectorFather John Ayres, Assistanthttp://www.StJohnsUEC.org

301-373-3862 or [email protected]

EPISCOPAL

GRACE CHAPEL

(Meeting at Mechanicsville Elementary School)Pastor Carl Snyder

Worship Service: 10:00 amPhone: 301-884-3504 • Website:

www.gracechapelsomd.comJohn 8:32

Member of fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches

Grace Chapel

LUTHERANGood Samaritan Lutheran Church, ELCA

9:00 am Worship Service followed by fellowship10:30 am Sunday School for all ages

Located at 20850 Langley Rd. Lex Park just off Great Mills Rd. Also home to Rays of Light Christian Preschool, Our Daily

Bread Food Pantry, St. Mary’s Caring Soup KitchenOffice: 301-863-4740 or [email protected]

Website: www.goodsamlutheran.com

Patuxent Presbyterian ChurchCalifornia, Maryland

301-863-2033Rev Michael R. Jones, Senior Pastor

1 miles South of Thomas Johnson Bridge on Rt. 4

Sunday Morning Worship Services:8:30 am & 11:00 am

Sunday School 9:45 am

With Nursery careWebsite: http://www.paxpres.org

E-mail: [email protected]

UNITED METHODIST

Offering worship and serving opportunities at…

First Friendship campus – Ridge9:00 am Traditional worshipc

St George Island campus – Piney Point9:45 am Children and Adult Sunday School11:00 am Traditional worship

St. Paul’s campus – Leonardtown8:05 am Traditional worshipna

9:15 am Contemporary worshipnca(ASL Interpreted)

10:45 am Contemporary worshipnca

6:00 pm The Refinery (interactive worship)nc

n – nursery providedc- children’s Sunday school also availablea- adult Sunday school also available

www.firstsaints.org301.475.7200

The St. Mary’s Nursing Center Foundation is sponsoring a 7-night cruise departing from San Juan, Puerto Rico on January 22, 2011. This event’s proceeds will benefit our scholarship program. There will be a cruise night on Monday, May 24, 2010 at the Nursing Center’s multi-purpose room from 5 to 9 p.m. which will provid information on the Celebrity Summit ship, ports of call, and other amenities. A small initial deposit of $50 per person will reserve your space and you have six months to pay the remainder. You will fly to San Juan and spend a night there before boarding the Celebrity Summit. Ports of call are: St. Croix, USVI; Basseterre, St. Kitts; Roseau, Dominica; St. Georges, Grenada and Scarborough, Tobago. For full details and booking form visit: www.FourSeasonsTraveltime.net/foundationcruise.html or contact Tracy Dennis of Four Seasons Travel at 301-884-6041 or toll free 866-348-8276.

St. Mary’s Nursing Center Foundation Cruising Again

The COSMIC Symphony closes this concert season with “Beethoven & Bess” on May 15 at Great Mills High School at 7 p.m. and May 16th at Huntingtown High School at 4 p.m. This concert includes Beethoven’s 1st Piano Concerto featur-ing Kirsten Taylor plus selections by the COSMIC Flute Choir, Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances, Gersh-win’s Porgy & Bess Orchestral Suite and Mambo! from West Side Story.

Student art inspired by this concerts pieces will be featured in the lobby.

Tickets available at www.cosmicmusic.org, Educate & Celebrate, Sacchetti Music, Maertens Gifts & Jewelry in Calvert and Allegro Music, the Pax River MWR and, Stevens Studio in St.

Mary’s. The cost is $10, $8 seniors & students, and $25 per family.

COSMIC Symphony Closes With ‘Beethoven & Bess’


Thursday, May 13• Boys & Girls Club Art ReceptionSt. Mary’s College (Commons in Montgom-ery Hall) – 5 p.m.

Artwork by the Boys Girls Club of Spring Ridge Middle School in Lexington Park will be on public display May 13-19 in the Commons in Montgomery Hall of St. Mary’s College of Maryland (SMCM). The exhibi-tion, free and open to the public, begins with a reception at 5 p.m. Thursday, May 13, and will be on view daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, contact the Boyden Gallery at (240)-895-4246.

• Cheesesteak NightVFW Post 2632 (California) – 5 p.m.

Patuxent River Sail and Power Squadron MeetingMixing Bowl Restaurant (Lexington Park) – 5:30 p.m.

Includes presentation by Louis Blancato, head of security at the Liquid Natural Gas Plant operated by Dominion Cove Point LNG, LP at Cove Point in Calvert County. Dinner is at 5:30, speaker at 7 p.m. Call 301-475-3883 for information or registration.

• Lecture: Transitioning from High School to College with Your SeniorSt. Mary’s Ryken Media Center (Leonard-town) – 6:30 p.m.

Dave Hamilton, Certified Education Planner, and director of college advising at St. Mary’s Ryken, will answer these ques-tions and others to help parents and students successfully transition from high school to college or the workforce. The talk is in the Media Center in Romuald Hall on the school’s lower campus. All are welcome and this event is free of charge. For more information call 301-475-2814.

• $1-$2 Charity Hold’EmDonovan’s Pub (California) – 8 p.m.

To benefit Road to Scholarship. For more information call 443-486-3319.

Friday, May 14• Leonardtown Business Association MeetingLeonardtown Winery (23190 Newtowne Neck Rd.) – 8:30 a.m.

For more information, and to join the LBA, please visit www.thelba.org or call Me-linda Owens at 240-925-3959.

• Ladies/Juniors Consignment EventSt. Mary’s County Fairgrounds (Leonard-town) – 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Elly’s Closet will hold a spring/summer upscale consignment event, featuring gently worn and unworn name brand and designer clothing, shoes and accessories. Go to www.EllysCloset.com for more details.

• Mountain Motor NationalsMaryland Int. Raceway (Mechanicsville) – 3 p.m.

Includes 1/4 Top ET 5K (Outlaw Drag Radial). Admission. For more information call 301-884-7223 or visit www.mirdrag.com.

• Fry NightVFW Post 2632 (California) – 5:30 p.m.

• Dinner & DanceValley Lee Firehouse – 6 p.m.

Spring Dine & Dance, sponsored by Tall Timbers 2nd District Optimist Club. $30 in advance, $35 at the door. Live music by “The Wanderers.” Cash bar, raffles, buffet dinner. Proceeds go to Hospice for Kids. For more information or to purchase tickets, contact Jay

Bowes at 301-672-4573.

• Heroes of the Sky Lecture SeriesCollege of Southern Maryland (Leonardtown, Building A Auditorium) – 7 p.m.

CSM presents in lecture Retired United States Navy Captain Stu Fitrell to discuss his book X-Traordinary Planes, X-Traordinary Pi-lots and the numerous military and civilian test aircrafts and the pilots who flew them. CSM, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), will host the NEH traveling exhibit Heroes of the Sky: Adven-tures in Early Flight, 1903-1939, on display on CSMs Leonardtown Campus. Display hours are 3 - 6 p.m., Monday -Tuesday and 12- 2 p.m., Wednesday - Thursday. Free. For more info call 240-725-5312, 443-550-6199, or 301-870-2309, Ext. 5312. www.csmd.edu.

• New Song Coffee HouseChurch of the Nazarene (Leonardtown) – 7 p.m.

Free coffee, live worship music presented by Terry Campbell. Good will offering will be received.

• Special Olympics Deep Stack No Limit TourneyCenter for Life Enrichment (Hollywood) – 7 p.m.

For more information call Jim Bucci at 240-561-1864.

• Newtowne Players Present “Wit”Three Notch Theater (Lexington Park) – 8 p.m.

Drama by Margaret Edson about a fe-male professor with terminal ovarian cancer. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for drama. Showing May 14-30. For more information or to reserve seats, call 301-737-5447 or visit www.newtowneplayers.org.

Saturday, May 15• Greenview Knolls ES Yard SaleGreenview Knolls Elementary School (Great Mills) – 7 a.m.

Tables are available for rent at a cost of $10.00 per space. Vendors are also welcome to sell their items. If it rains, the event will be held inside the school. All proceeds from the Yard Sale and raffle will benefit the Green-view Knolls Elementary School Relay For Life Team. For more details, call 301-863-4095.

• Semi-Annual Yard Sale7th District Rescue Squad Building (Avenue) – 7 a.m.

Donated items, food and baked goods. For more information go to www.sdvfd5.com.

• 1st Annual Fishing RodeoSt, Mary’s River State Park (Callaway) – 8 a.m.

Point Lookout State Park and The Opti-mist Club of Hollywood are proud to present The 1st Annual Fishing Rodeo. This event will be for children 15 years of age and younger. Trophies and certificates will be given out for various categories along with door prizes and grab bags. Lunch will be provided by The Opti-mist Club of Hollywood. Free. 301-872-5688.

• Church Bake/Yard SaleFirst Friendship Fellowship Hall (13723 Point Lookout Rd, Ridge) – 8 a.m. to 12 noon

• Ladies/Juniors Consignment EventSt. Mary’s County Fairgrounds (Leonard-town) – 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

• Patuxent Aeromodelers Open HousGreenwell State Park Flying Field (Holly-wood) – 10 a.m.

Acrobatic demonstrations, static aircraft displays, a fun fly contest, food, drinks, raffles

and an opportunity for visitors to actually take control of a radio controlled model aircraft for an introductory flying lesson. Take route 235 to Sotterley Road. From Sotterley Road turn right onto Steer Horn Neck Road. The flying field is about a 1/2 mile on your left. For more information visit the club’s website at www.paxaero.com.

• SMAWL Pet AdoptionsPetco (California) – 10 a.m.

• Strawberry Festival & Bazaar37597 Zach Fowler Rd (Chaptico) – 1:30 p.m.

Historic Christ Church in Chaptico, MD will have its annual Strawberry Festival and Bazaar. Menu includes strawberry shortcake, fresh strawberry ice cream and pies - straw-berry desserts and Mike’s Barbecue. There will be artists, vendors and live music. Funds raised will help support local charities in St. Mary’s County. For more information, call the parish office at 301-884-3451 or Shelby @ 301-904-2532 or visit www.christepiscopalchap-tico.org.

• Preakness Party/BenefitOlde Breton Inn (Leonardtown) – 4:30 p.m.

7th Annual Preakness Party and Auc-tion to benefit St. Mary’s Nursing Center. Open bar, food and live auction. Cost is $75 per adult, $25 per child 12 & older and chil-dren under 13 are free. Credit cards accepted. For tickets and information, contact Patricial Boles-Buckler at 301-481-6898 or Brenda Pru-ett at 240-298-5019.

• Steak NightVFW Post 2632 (California) – 5 p.m.

• COSMIC Season Finale ConcertGreat Mills High School – 7 p.m.

COSMIC flute choir and orchestra. Pro-gram includes Bernstein’s “Mambo” from West Side Story, Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 1” featuring Dirsten Taylor, Borodin’s “Po-lovtsian Dances” -and- selections from Gersh-win’s “Porgy and Bess” featuring COSMIC’s Community Chorus. For more information, visit www.cosmicmusic.org.

• Wounded Warrior Project Comedy NightSt. Mary’s County Elks Lodge (California) – 8 p.m.

Opening comedian Dan Mahoney with headliner PJ Walsh. For more information call 301-863-7800.

Sunday, May 16• 13th Annual Leonardtown CriteriumWashington Street (Leonardtown) – 7:30 a.m.

This event is a MABRA BAR “Showcase Crit” - cyclists earn Double BAR points. Cy-clists can register on BikeReg.com, by com-pleting the pre-registration form, or in person on race day beginning at 7:30 a.m.

• Car, Truck & Bike ShowMechanicsville Moose Lodge – 8 a.m.

For the Richard A Buckler Sr. Memorial Fund. Music, 50/50, bake sale, food and door prizes. Register for $20 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Trophies will be awarded. Call 301-373-2347 for more information.

• Relay for Life Car WashCiCi’s Pizza parking lot (California) – 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The Great Mills High School Key Club is holding a car wash to raise money for Relay for Life. For more information on Relay for Life, go to www.stmarysrelay.org.

• Drive Thru Chicken Dinner7th District Optimist Club, 21804 Coltons Point Rd (Bushwood) – 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.Proceeds from this event go to support Shop with a Cop.

• LES Car Wash FundraiserAutozone (Leonardtown) – 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Proceeds will go to support Leonardtown Elementary School’s Destination Imagination Team, Peace Peeps, for the Global Competi-tion in Tennessee. For more information please contact LES at 301-475-0250.

• Drive Thru Chicken DinnerHollywood Vol. Fire Department – 12 noon

• 3rd Annual EMS for Kids DayGovernmental Center Lawn (Leonardtown) – 12 noon. Children’s activities, safety seat checks, bicycle safety, Ridge Safety House and ambulance teams provide tours. Also featuring a Teddy Bear Clinic.

• Deep Stack Hold’Em TournamentBennett Building, 24930 Old Three Notch Road (Hollywood) – 2 p.m.

For more information call Bobbi Sprouse at 240-577-0983 or Jim Bucci at 301-373-6104.

• Texas Hold’Em Deep Stack TournamentPark Bingo Hall (California) – 2:30 p.m.

Register by emailing [email protected] or call 301-643-5573.

Monday, May 17• No Limit Texas Hold’Em Bounty TournamentSt. Mary’s County Elks Lodge (California) – 7 p.m.

For more information call Linda at 240-925-5697 or the lodge at 301-863-7800.

• Charity Hold’Em TournamentDonovan’s Pub (California) – 7:30 p.m.

To benefit Road to Scholarship. For more information call 443-486-3319.

Tuesday, May 18• MOMS Club MeetingMechanicsville Firehouse – 10 a.m.

Club for stay-at-home moms zoned for the following Elementary schools: Dynard, Mechanicsville, Lettie Dent, White March and Oakville. Fore more information email [email protected] or call 301-290-0694.

• Special Olympics Hold’Em TournamentBennett Building, 24930 Old Three Notch Road (Hollywood) – 7 p.m.


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

For more information call Christine at 443-624-2746.

Wednesday, May 19• Nature Time at GreenwellGreenwell State Park (Hollywood) – 10 a.m.

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

• Special Olympics Hold’Em TournamentBennett Building, 24930 Old Three Notch Road (Hollywood) – 7 p.m.


• St. Mary’s County Camera ClubSouthern Maryland Higher Education Center (California) – 7 p.m.

Competition night. Theme is “History.” For more information go to www.smccc.org.

To submit information for the community calendar, please send an email to [email protected].


FactunThe sound of E.T. walking was made by

someone squishing her hands in Jello.

By Shelby OppermannContributing Writer

There are two types of people in this world. There are the pie bakers and the cake bakers. I am a pie baker… and only twice a year. I will make three or four strawberry pies tonight or tomorrow for our Strawberry Festival on Saturday, and then in the Fall I will make apple pies for the Fall Festi-val at our church.

Every time the topic of baking one of these two foods comes up, someone says, “I can bake pies but not cakes” or vice versa. It is rare when I meet someone who seems to enjoy baking each one equally well. We cannot all be Martha Stewart clones. Everything she makes is perfect. Though my Mother could make pies and cakes from scratch - perfect each time. What happened to me? I think I was climbing trees when she was baking. Actu-ally my Mother never let me near the kitchen when she was cooking. I was definitely a late starter in the cooking department.

I did try baking in the old kitchen in Clinton when I was probably 12 or 13, as a surprise for my Father one summer day. We had a tree in the back-yard that was a graft of crabapple and apples. One side was crabapple and the other side tiny green apples. Daddy said once that he would love to have some rhubarb pie and remarked that the crabapples gave off a scent that was similar. So I gathered up a pot of those crabapples, made a piecrust off the back of the flour bag, and went to town. After I carefully placed my crust in the pie plate, I dumped that pot of crabapples right on the crust, placed on the top crust, popped it in the oven for an hour and waited for my Father to come home.

I knew he was going to be thrilled with such a delicious treat. But first I had to clean up that bub-bling black mess which was now burnt onto the bottom of the oven. I didn’t realize the pie filling

would burst out of the sides and ooze out. That must be why my Mother always used the fork to put those tiny holes in the crust. Learn by doing. I was sneezing and the dogs were sneezing. It sure didn’t smell quite like it was supposed to, but I was sure it would taste okay.

By the time my Father got home, most of the acrid smell had dissipated, and the pie didn’t smell half bad. He said he would try a piece even be-fore dinner. My Father cut out a pretty good slice of pie, and I watched to see how much he enjoyed his special treat. Well, the look on my Dad’s face will have to last me a lifetime. His eyes got kind of big and his mouth puckered up as he chewed on the crunchy pie. With a half smile, he asked how I baked the pie, and if he could save the rest to take to work with him the next day. I was so proud – he was going to share my pie with all his friends at work. I’m pretty sure now, that he dumped that pie out the minute he had a chance.

Over the years, I got more adept at pie baking, and know you have to quick cook fruits before put-ting them in the filling. I even entered them in the County Fair once or twice, receiving a 2nd place ribbon once. Yes, there were more than two pies in the category.

Last week I was enjoying making cupcakes for a friend’s wedding and was still apologizing to Martha, for not making perfect cupcakes. How do you get the batter not to drip all over the muffin pan when you are filling the cupcakes? You can’t get to the center ones without dripping some batter. If you hold the liners in your hand and fill them, then they wobble all over the place. I was mumbling that Martha probably didn’t spill a drop when I thought mine are made with all the love I can put into them just like my crabapple pie. Who needs more per-fection than that?

To each new day’s adventure, Shelby

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

Aimless Mind

Wanderings

By Linda RenoContributing Writer

Four of these men escaped execution but

their land was confiscated and they were ban-ished from Maryland forever. Three were exe-cuted in the courthouse yard at Frederick. One was Casper Fritchie, father of John Casper Fritchie (husband of Barbara Fritchie).

For those who may not recall this from the often fictionalized history we were fed as a child, Barbara Fritchie supposedly confront-ed Stonewall Jackson and the Confederate soldiers as they marched through Frederick,

Maryland in 1862 by waving the Union flag from her window.

“Shoot me, if you must, this old gray head,But spare my country’s flag,” she said.A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,

Over the face of the leader came;The nobler nature within him stirred

To life at that woman’s deed and word;“Who touches a hair of yon gray headDies like a dog! March on!” he said.Many questioned the authenticity of the

events related in the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier who would later write:

“This poem was written in strict confor-mity to the account of the incident as I had it

A Journey Through TimeA Journey Through TimeThe Chronicle

Apologies to Martha

from respectable and trustworthy sources. It has since been the subject of a good deal of conflicting testimony, and the story was probably incorrect in some of its details. It is admitted by all that Barbara Frietchie was no myth, but a worthy and highly

esteemed gentlewoman, intensely loyal and a hater of the Slavery Re-bellion, holding her Union flag sa-cred and keeping it with her Bible; that when the Confederates halted before her house, and entered her dooryard, she denounced them in vigorous language, shook her cane in their faces, and drove them out; and when General Burnside’s troops followed close upon Jackson’s, she waved her flag and cheered them. It is stated that May Quantrell, a brave and loyal lady in another part of the city, did wave her flag in sight of the Confederates. It is possible that there has been a blending of the two incidents.”

Whittier’s account is also disputed. “History disproves the poem with the fact that the Confed-erate troops never passed by her house. Although

they were within range of sight, they would only have been heard by Mrs. Fritchie if they had yelled to her at the top of their lungs. Similarly,

her responding voice would have been drowned out by the volume of the troops yelling to her, except for those who were standing nearest to her.

The troops marched south on Bentz Street and turned west on Patrick Street. To have passed Bar-bara Fritchie’s house, they would have needed to turn east and march a minimum of 1000 feet to have been at her door. Any Confederate troops marching to her door would have been shot for desertion, as that would have been the charge for dis-obeying their set marching orders.”

The so-called Barbara Fritchie house stands in Frederick, Maryland, but the one she actually lived in was torn down in 1868. The house lo-cated there now is a replica, built in 1927 suppos-edly with some of the materials from the original house. Really? Hmmmmm.

Photo Courtesy of Helen Carroll Beavers Patterson

Book Review“The Rhinestone Sisterhood” by David Valdes Greenwood

By Terri SchlichenmeyerContributing Writer

Elbow, elbow, wrist-wrist-wrist.It’s good to be Queen, but it’s

hard, too. Everybody expects perfec-tion. Letting your hair down (literally) is often forbidden. Doing the “pretend like you’re icing a cake in the air” wave makes sore arms and impressive biceps. And the cheekbone-challenging smile can never stop.

All for prestige and an unimagin-ably small salary.

Such is the life of the women in “The Rhinestone Sisterhood”, and as you’ll see in the new book by David Valdes Greenwood, thousands of girls around the coun-try aspire to it each year.

Before a girl sets her head on wearing a crown, she needs to decide how she’s going to get it. In Louisiana, as in many parts of the country, there are four varieties of pageant: festival (think: Milk Queen); civic (basically, a paid job); scholarship (Miss USA or Miss America); and glitz (where “Jon-Benets of all ages fork over cash to vie for meaningless crowns…”). This book is about the first kind of Queen.

When Chelsea was a little girl, she badly wanted to be Rayne Frog Queen. At a size zero, “like a sparrow wrapped in pink silk”, she was quiet and shy, the kind of girl who hated public speaking. So when one mistake almost made her dream hop away, she surprised every-body – even Chelsea – for finding the guts to stand up for herself.

Lauren, the current Fur Queen, had been a festival queen during her entire college career. After all those years of

absolutely no free time, a severely ill sister, and warring parents, she was looking forward to a respite at the end of her reign, but Hurricanes Rita and Ike had other ideas.

Kristen, says Valdes Greenwood, has one “setting”: herself. Exuberant and willing to do anything in her posi-tion as Cattle Queen (that’s her on the

book’s cover), she jumps in with both flip-flopped feet. But the negativity-fueled Voy boards (an online forum filled with snark) had plenty to say about her reign.

Beautiful Bran-dy had an on-again, off-again career as a Queen; first as Miss Andouille, then Yambilee Queen, and now Cotton Queen. Expected to place in the Top 15 in the Queen of Queens pageant, Brandy knows the pressure’s on…

Think it’s easy being Queen? “The Rhinestone Sister-hood” will show

you that the job is real work and being royalty can be a royal pain.

With an unfettered insider’s view of the inner workings and the drama of small-town festivals, author David Valdes Greenwood pulls aside the vel-vet curtain to reveal a tradition that is de rigueur for every little burg and bor-ough in the U.S. and Canada. Because he let the Frog Queen have warts and because he called things as he saw them otherwise, I think this book would be a crown jewel on anybody’s bookshelf.

If you’ve got plans for parade-viewing this year, wave at the girls in silk and tulle, then read this book. For Queens - former, current, or future - “The Rhinestone Sisterhood” is a book to get your satin-gloved hands on.

c.2010, Crown $25.00 / $29.95 Canada 277 pages

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

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The County Times is always looking for more local talent to feature! To sub-mit art or entertainment announcements, or band information for our

entertainment section, e-mail [email protected].

Serious as CancerBy Andrea ShiellStaff Writer

The full text of John Donne’s “Holy Son-net X” (Death Be Not Proud) is only read aloud once during Margaret Edson’s Wit (spelled W;t by the author), which the Newtowne Players are performing this weekend through May 30, but there are plenty of excerpts and references to the poem, many offered by Dr. Vivian Bearing, the play’s star character, a tough professor who specializes in the metaphysical poets.

It’s not an easy poem for most people to absorb. There is no sing-song-like cadence of iambic pentameter, no emotional superlatives, no sentimentality (if you go in for that sort of thing, you had best stick to Shakespeare). But it is a great example of what Donne’s contem-poraries would have called “metaphysical con-ceit,” or wit.

The same could be said for the play’s star character as she dies of ovarian cancer. There is no sing-song-like sentimentality about Viv-ian. She doesn’t go in for melodrama, but when faced with her own death she realizes that her intellectual pursuits, though lucrative and prestigious, are no substitute for human compassion.

“She’s very much in her head, very edu-cated, not a people person,” said actress Dawna Diaz, who plays Vivian in the Newtowne Play-ers’ production. “She’s not the warm and fuzzy type at all, and yet when she looks back on her life, at the end that’s what she wants … the love and human contact, and she questions whether or not she did it right.”

Diaz, who herself survived thyroid cancer in the early 1990s, said the play stays true to its subject in the details, but for that reason it may not be an easy play for cancer patients to watch. Cancer, like most instruments of death, brings with it quirks and indignities that most people wouldn’t think of unless they’d experienced them first-hand.

“[I remember] the fear, waking up and them telling you that you have cancer in your lymph nodes, feeling like you’re going to die,” Diaz said, adding that she hadn’t read the play or seen Emma Thompson’s 2001 screen adapta-tion before auditioning for this, her Newtowne Players debut. Other than memorizing her lines for this production, she said she kept her expo-sure to the material very limited.

“I didn’t want to taint my idea of who Viv-ian was with what somebody else had done,” she said, but she does have a copy of Emma Thompson’s film, and she’s vowed to watch it after her run at Newtowne is over.

Hers seems like a reasonable approach to a character like Vivian, who’d rather analyze a Donne poem to death than listen to how pretty it sounds. And it’s actually a lot easier to relate to this character the more you see how her brain operates.

Poems like those by metaphysical poets like Samuel Johnson, Henry Vaughan and John Donne tend to stretch metaphors into more conceptual, abstract relationships by extending them throughout the entire poem. One example would be John Donne’s aforementioned sonnet, in which the subject of death could take on zil-

lions of interpretations depending on syntax, grammar, etymology, punctuation and seman-tics, as is ably pointed out to Vivian during one of her flashbacks in the play. For this reason, every mark, every letter counted to poets like Donne, just as every one counts to Bearing, but like so many who try to substitute intellectual-ism for spirituality, Bearing can rattle off the scientific name of every tree in the forest, but she can’t see the forest through the trees, a point that she tearfully acknowledges near the end of the play.

Diaz does well to show Vivian’s realiza-tion of her faults, but her portrayal does seem stiff at times. Characters like Vivian still smile, still laugh and still love, but their love and af-fection are more for words than their writers, and it’s this passion that’s sometimes lacking in Diaz’s delivery. Her monologues about word usage, syntax and semantics – though impres-sive – seem flat and unenthusiastic, which in a way strips some credibility from the charac-ter. While a glib smugness may be perfect for Vivian’s human interactions (at least at first), it doesn’t seem like she’d extend the same lack of excitement to her work. After all, her penchant for painfully intricate analysis would prob-ably be her only way of coping with her own demise.

But the end result is no less powerful. In-deed, it’s hard to watch a character like this not get the point until she exits the earth, but it’s well worth it.

The Newtowne Players will perform W;t by Margaret Edson Thursdays through Sundays, May 14 through 30 at Three Notch Theatre on 21744 South Coral Drive in Lexington Park. Reservations are recommended. For more in-formation or to make reservations, call 301-737-5447 or visit www.newtowneplayers.org.

Newtowne Players Tackle Edson’s “Wit”

Thursday, May 13• Fair Warning Irish Pub BandCJ’s Back Room (Lusby) – 5 p.m.

• Dave NorrisDB McMillan’s (California) – 5 p.m.

• Gretchen Richie Jazz Cabaret: “The Songs of Sinatra” Café des Artistes (Leonardtown) – 6 p.m.

• DJ McNa$tyBig Dogs Paradise (Mechanicsville) – 8 p.m.

• Ladies DJ Dance NightHula’s Bungalow (California) – 8 p.m.

Friday, May 14• Fair Warning Irish Pub BandDonovan’s Pub (California) – 5 p.m.

• Dave NorrisDB McMillan’s (California) – 5 p.m.

• Jim & KathyCatamarans (Solomons) – 6 p.m.

• Anthony RyanSpicers Bar & Grill (Owings) – 8 p.m.

• DJ McNa$tyBig Dogs Paradise (Mechanicsville) – 8 p.m.

• Middle GroundSea Breeze (Mechanicsville) – 8 p.m.

• Bent NickelAnderson’s Bar (Avenue) – 8:30 p.m.

• Backstage PassVera’s White Sands Beach Club (Lusby) – 9 p.m.

• HightestApehanger’s Bar (Bel Alton) – 9 p.m.

• KaraokeClub 911 (Mechanicsville) – 9 p.m.

• Rich MascariTim and Al’s Sports Bar (Chesapeake Beach) – 9 p.m.*

• Captain WoodyMurphy’s Pub (Bryans Road) – 9:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 15• Fair Warning Irish Pub BandDB McMillan’s (California) – 5 p.m.

• The Creole Gumbo Jazz BandWestlawn Inn (North Beach) – 8 p.m.

• Joe MartoneSea Breeze (Mechanicsville) – 8 p.m.

• Nuttin’ FancyTowne Tavern (Cockeysville) – 8:30 p.m.

• DJ BlackyLexington Lounge (Lexington Park) – 9 p.m.

• The CrazeApehanger’s Bar (Bel Alton) – 9 p.m.

• Four of a Kind Cryer’s Back Road Inn (Leonardtown) – 9 p.m.

• Full SteamBlue Dog Saloon (Port Tobacco) – 9 p.m.

• ImpactMartini’s Lounge (White Plains) – 9 p.m.

• JettstreamVera’s White Sands Beach Club (Lusby) – 9 p.m.

• Karaoke w/ DJ Tommy T & DJ TawnaApplebee’s (California) – 9 p.m.

• Mike MeadHotel Charles (Hughesville) – 9 p.m.

• No Green JellyBeenz Hotel Charles (Hughesville) – 9 p.m.

• Pounding SandSouth Ridge Bar (Dameron) – 9 p.m.*

• QuagmireHuntts Tavern (Pomfret) – 9 p.m.

• Three Day RideBig Dogs Paradise (Mechanicsville) – 9 p.m.

Sunday, May 16• Mike MeadeVera’s White Sands Beach Club (Lusby) – 2 p.m.

Monday, May 17• Mason SebastianDB McMillan’s (California) – 5 p.m.

• Open Mic NightScott’s II (Welcome) – 7 p.m.

Tuesday, May 18• Fair Warning Irish Pub BandDB McMillan’s (California) – 5 p.m

• Open Mic NightMartini’s Lounge (White Plains) – 9 p.m.*

Wednesday, May 19• Fair Warning Irish Pub BandCJ’s Back Room (Lusby) – 5 p.m.

• Captain JohnDB McMillan’s (California) – 5:30 p.m.

• Karaoke with DJ HarryBig Dogs Paradise (Mechanicsville) – 7 p.m.

• Open Mic NightHula’s Bungalow (California) – 8 p.m.

• Wolf’s Blues JamBeach Cove Restaurant (Chesapeake Beach) – 8 p.m.

*CALL TO CONFIRM TIME

Dawna Diaz plays Dr. Vivian Bearing in the Newtowne Players’ production of Wit.


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Thurs., May 6

BaseballGonzaga 15, St. Mary’s Ryken 14

Girls’ LacrosseLeonardtown 19, Great Mills 4

Softball

WCAC QuarterfinalsSt. Mary’s Ryken 11, Bishop

Ireton 4

Fri., May 7

BaseballChopticon 11, Lackey 0 (five

innings)North Point 10, Great Mills 3

Calvert 8, Leonardtown 3

Boys’ LacrosseNorthern 12, Chopticon 2

Girls’ LacrosseNorthern 10, Chopticon 6

Softball

WCAC SemifinalsGood Counsel 3, St. Mary’s

Ryken 2 (eight innings)

TennisGreat Mills 7, La Plata 2

Over 250,000 Southern Marylanders can’t be wrong!

From The

SPORTS DESKPlayoff Thoughts and a Call

for Cars and CruisersBy Chris StevensStaff Writer

With the regular season draw-ing to a close and regional play be-ginning this weekend, it marks the close of a nine-month high school sports season that saw a lot of inter-esting developments going on in the field of play. But before we can recap the season, we have to look at the upcoming spring playoffs that will be the end of the aforementioned journey.

The Leonardtown girls’ lacrosse team wrapped up the first seed in the class 4A/3A East Region along with earning their fifth straight SMAC championship this season. While potential match-ups with Chesa-peake, Northern and Broadneck are no cakewalks, the Raiders’ road to the regional final seems to be a less than arduous one, although South River and Severna Park would pres-ent quite a challenge in the regional title game.

The Chopticon baseball team fought to get to the break-even mark (10-10) this season, but in a region full of SMAC foes, they could be the surprise winner with a deep pitching

staff and opportunistic bats. They have a victory in hand against tradi-tional 3A South power La Plata (an 8-1 triumph on April 19) and while Northern has gotten the best of the Braves in two games (11-5 and 12-1) in the regular season, all bets are off in a one-and-done situation.

Their county rival Leonardtown can also make some noise in the 4A East region, as they have Will Pa-gliarulo and David Sapp pacing their pitching rotation, while the offense is led by mashers Brady Jameson and Jared Eaker. The names may be much different from the Leonar-dtown team that made it to the 4A East finals two years ago, but that same potential exists in these Raid-ers, who even with losing two of their final three regular season games, can make a deep run in the playoffs.

Calling all cars…

One of summer’s great pleasures is joyriding, even with gas at an all-time high

(seems like it’s creeping back up to 3 bucks a gallon, isn’t it?).

In joyriding, you will more of-ten than not see your fair share of cars that while turn your head if only for a brief second. It happened to me Monday afternoon as I left the Wawa on 235 in Lexington Park. I swear I saw an original Mini Cooper station wagon. Not a figment of my imagi-nation either.

Well by now, I’m sure you’re asking yourselves “what in the name of a sports page is this guy babbling about?” Allow me to tell you, and ask you for your support.

For this coming summer, ev-ery week in the sports pages of the County Times, we would like to fea-ture one classic or unique car in St. Mary’s County.

The idea came to me a while

ago after seeing a billboard for the annual Leonardtown car show which I missed (sorry!) and in the quest of being the people’s paper and sports section, we want to get the people involved.

So if you know someone with an old car that or if you yourself want to see your car featured in the sports section, I can be reached at the e-mail address provided by at the bot-tom of this very column or by office phone at 301-373-4125.

With your help and rides, we can really bring something unique and different to our publication.

Let’s ride.

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

The regular season has concluded and regional playoffs begin Thursday. For a complete listing of

seeds, dates times and locations of regional playoff games and matches, go to www.mpssaa.org

TennisSouthern

Maryland Tennis Cup Series

The Southern Maryland Tennis Cup aims to promote competitive and fun local tennis play in the tri-county area, where players earn points for participat-ing in local events. Players with the highest cumulative point total at the end of the year will be ac-knowledged as the Cup winners. USTA membership not required.

Check website www.south-ernmarylandtenniscup.org for all tournament events, cost, registra-tion forms and to learn about the point system for the following events:

Breton Bay Open 2010 – May 29-31, 2010(POC: Russ Carrington, 240-925-8068 or e-mail: [email protected])

St. Mary’s College Open 2010 – July 3-5, 2010(POC: Derek Sabedra, 410-610-4300 or e-mail: [email protected])

USTA Tennis Senior

LeaguesSt Mary’s County USTA

Tennis League is looking for Cap-tains and 3.0 & 3.5 rated players for senior men, women and mixed doubles teams. Season runs from June-August. Must be a USTA member and have reached fifty (50) years of age prior to, or dur-ing, the 2010 calendar year. Con-tact Mai-Liem Slade if interested, [email protected] or 301-481-2305.

Tennis Social Doubles

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

5 P.M. Sundays at Leonar-dtown High School, May 27th through August. Contact Cris Si-gler at 410-326-6383 or [email protected].

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

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


By Doug WatsonPotomac Speedway

BUDDS CREEK – Domination. That’s the best way to put it,

as Charlotte Hall’s David Williams scored a convincing win in last Fri-day night’s 30-lap Potomac/Win-chester Challenge limited late model event at Potomac Speedway.

Williams, the defending Po-tomac late model champion, and Ed Pope brought the field down to the waving of the green flag. Williams darted into the race lead, and from that point on, it would be a race for second as Williams would go on to lead every lap of the event wheeling his Sommey Lacey owned Rocket No. 45 to post his 29th career Limited Late Model feature win at Potomac.

However, as Williams led, the battle for second was quite intense. Ed Pope held the runner-up spot through lap-12 until 13th starting and defending LLM track champion Tommy Wagner Jr. took over.

Current points leader Derrick Quade then made it a two-car battle for second as he and Wagner raced closely for several laps until Quade spun from contention on lap-23. At the finish it was Williams taking the win, Tommy Wagner Jr. took second, 11th starting Sommey Lacey posted third, 16th starting Trever Feathers collected fourth and Stevie Long,

who rebounded from an early race flat tire, completed the top-five.

“I have to thank Sommey and Ruth Ann Lacey for giving me the opportunity to drive their car to-night,” Williams stated. “The track got a little slick tonight but the crew had this thing perfect and I think any-one could have driven it tonight.”

Late race lapped traffic was the only challenge Williams faced all night. “Yeah, it got a little tricky out there,” he said. “But everyone gave each other enough room and it was a lot of fun out there tonight.”

Heats for the 28 cars on hand went to Williams, Stevie Long and Matt Morgan with Bubby Tharpe claiming the consolation.

In the 16-lap street stock fea-ture it was defending track champion Kyle Nelson posting his second fea-ture win of the season. Nelson took the lead from Ricky Edmonds on the fourth lap and would then have to re-pel a last-lap challenge by runner-up Eric Johnson to score his 12th career Potomac street stock feature win. Mike Reynolds placed third, 12th starting Kurt Zimmerman was fourth and Scott Wilson completed the top-five. Heats went to Mike Reynolds and Troy Kassiris.

In other action, Tony Garber continued his hot streak as he won his fourth Modified main of the season, Bud Pickeral was triumphant for the

second consecutive event as he col-lected the win in the 15-lap Hobby Stock feature and Larry Fuchs also notched his second win in a row in the 20-lap Strictly Stock contest.

Limited Late Model feature results (30 laps)

1. David Williams 2. Tommy Wagner Jr. 3. Sommey Lacey 4. Trev-er Feathers 5. Stevie Long 6. Ed Pope 7. Matt Morgan 8. Kenny Moreland 9. Bubby Tharpe 10. Moe Harden 11. Kyle Lear 12. Chris Eaton 13. Derrick Quade 14. Paul Cursey 15. Doug Har-dy 16. Leon Lloyd 17. JT McGlanigan 18. Tanner Kerr 19. Tom Chaffins 20. Mike Latham 21. Jimmy Richards 22. Kris Holliday 23. Richard Godfrey 24. Chuck Cox (DNS) DNQ- Rodney Connor, Scott Merryman, Dennis Lamb, Terry Flaherty

Street Stock feature results (16 laps)

1. Kyle Nelson 2. Eric Johnson 3. Mike Reynolds 4. Kurt Zimmer-man 5. Scott Wilson 6. Donnie Smith 7. Stephen Quade 8. Chester Sell-ers 9. Dale Reamy 10. Troy Kassiris 11. Ricky Edmonds 12. Ben Bowie (DNS) 13. Country Prince (DNS) 14. Sam Archer (DNS)

By Chris StevensStaff Writer

Along with a perfect regu-lar season to date, the Leonar-dtown girls’ lacrosse team has also earned the Number One seed in the 4A/3A East regional playoffs, a development that head coach Ken McIlhenny believes will make the quest for the state semi-finals a bit easier.

“It’s huge. It’s great to be home with our field and the home crowd cheering us on,” McIlhenny said. “We’re used to our field instead of turf like teams up the road have, so it will make things much more comfortable.”

The Raiders will play the winner of the Chesapeake (Anne Arundel)/Chopticon first round match-up on Saturday, and provided they win, they would likely begin a semifinal and final challenge with Anne Arundel powerhouses Broad-neck and Severna Park or South River next week.

“All three of those teams

are very fast and very skilled, and it will be a shock to our girls,” McIlhenny said. “The girls just have to be prepared to take it to them and play the kind of lacrosse we know they can play.”

McIllhenny believes the potential quarterfinal game against Chesapeake will be a solid gauge of how the Raid-ers will fare against the better teams in Anne Arundel county.

“We’ll see how that com-pares and if it gives us an in-dication of if we can hang with those three teams,” he said. “It will give us a good idea.”

In spite of the reputation and talents of South River, Broadneck and Severna Park, McIlhenny believes that his team has a very good shot of winning the region and advanc-ing to the state playoffs.

“I’m very confident. Those three teams are very compa-rable,” he said. “If we play our game, than I do believe we have a shot.”

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Thurs., May 13

Men’s Over-40 League (All games start at 6 p.m.)Seabreeze vs. Hobo’s at Back Road Inn

Tri-County Aire vs. Park Sunoco at Knight LifeCaptain Sam’s vs. Hole in the wall at Tippett’s Field

Clements at Anderson’sRita B’s vs. All Star Utility at Fenwick Field

Men’s Slowpitch LeagueBack Road Inn vs. Pax Bombers at Pax River, 6:30 p.m.

Hi Octane vs. Chaney’s at The Brass Rail, 6:30 p.m.The Green Door vs. Budweiser at Captain Sam’s, 6:30 p.m.

VFW vs. American Legion at Ridge American Legion, 6:30 p.m.Bookkeeping By Blanche vs. Grid Iron Grill at Chancellor’s Run, 6:30 p.m.

Fri., May 14

Young Men’s LeagueCaptain Sam’s vs. Flash Point at Anderson’s, 6:30 p.m.

Cryer’s vs. Quade’s at Captain Sam’s, 6:30 p.m.Gary Gray Athletics vs. Seabreeze/BRI at Back Road Inn, 6:30 p.m.

Sun., May 16

Young Men’s/Slowpitch InterleagueBookkeeping by Blanche vs. Gary Gray Athletics at

Moose Lodge, 4:30 p.m.Pax Bombers vs. Seabreeze/BRI at Back Road Inn, 4:30 p.m.

Hi Octane at Captain Sam’s, 4:30 p.m.Flash Point vs. Gridiorn Grill/EF Hall at Chancellor’s Run, 4:30 p.m.

Budweiser vs. Dew Drop Inn at Chancellor’s Run, 6 p.m.Chaney’s vs. Gary Gray Athletics at Moose Lodge, 6 p.m.

Back Road Inn vs. Cryer’s at Back Road Inn, 6 p.m.Green Door/Cullisons vs. Quade’s at Captain Sam’s, 6 p.m.

Mon., May 17

Women’s LeagueSomerville Insurance vs. Chesapeake Custom Embroidery at

The Brass Rail, 6:30 p.m.Bud Light vs. Mix It Up at Knight Life, 6:30 p.m.

Xtreme vs. Southern Maryland Physical Therapy at Anderson’s, 6:30 p.m.Anderson’s Bar at Captain Sam’s, 6:30 p.m.

Back Road Inn vs. Bella Salon at The Brass Rail, 6:30 p.m.ABC Liquors at Moose Lodge, 6:30 p.m.

Women’s Over-30 LeagueS&J Heating vs. Raley’s at Chancellor’s RunRyce Electric vs. Rosebuds at Tippett’s Field

Hole in the wall at Back Road InnCaptain Sam’s v. Hurricanes at 7th District Park

BYE at Moose Lodge

Tues., May 18

Men’s Slowpitch Budweiser vs. Pax Bombers at Pax River, 6:30 p.m.

Young Men’s/Slowpitch LeagueGreen Door/Cullisons vs. Cryer’s at Back Road Inn, 6:30 p.m.

American Legion vs. Quade’s at Captain Sam’s, 6:30 p.m.VFW vs. Flash Point at Anderson’s, 6:30 p.m.

Seabreeze/BRI vs. Bookkeeping By Blanche at Chancellor’s Run, 8 p.m.

Wed., May 19

Women’s LeagueCaptain Sam’s vs. Xtreme at Chancellor’s Run, 6:30 p.m.

Mix it up vs. Knockouts at The Brass Rail, 6:30 p.m.Chesapeake Custom Embroidery vs. ABC Liquors at

Chancellor’s Run, 6:30 p.m.Southern at Moose Lodge, 6:30 p.m.

Bella Salon vs. Southern Maryland Physical Therapy at Anderson’s, 6:30 p.m.

Somerville Insurance vs. Bud Light at Chancellor’s Run, 6:30 p.m.

Potomac/Winchester LLM Challenge Round Two To David Williams

Kyle Nelson First to Repeat in Street Stocks

Raider Girls Earn 4A/3A East’s Top Seed

Katie Finkleston and the Leoanrdtown girls’ lacrosse team will have home-field advantage in the 4A/3A East playoff this coming week.


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LEONARDTOWN – John Flow-ers figured he would come to St. Mary’s Ryken High School Monday morning and sign a few things and talk to a small num-ber of kids – nothing major. However, the 2007 Ryken grad and forward on the West Virginia University men’s basketball team was overwhelmed when several hundred students crowded the Alumni Hall cafete-ria to have pictures signed by and talk to him.

“This was a surprise,” Flowers said outside the cafeteria where students were buzzing about his arrival. “It’s great to have all the students welcome me and show me love.”

Flowers originally attended Thomas Stone High School in Waldorf before trans-ferring to Ryken as a junior and making an immediate impact on the Knights’ basketball fortunes.

He averaged 17.5 points and 12 rebounds per contest as a junior and upped those numbers to 18 points and 13 rebounds a game as the Knights made the WCAC semifinals for the first time in school history. Flowers’ outstanding senior season earned him a spot on the WCAC all-conference first team.

He took his game to West Virginia, where he played a key role in the Moutaineers’ first trip to the NCAA men’s bas-ketball Final Four since 1959 this past March.

That led up to Knights head coach Dave Tallman, an as-sistant when Flowers attended Ryken asking Flowers to stop by during his vacation week. The answer was easy.

“I can’t say no to my old school,” Flow-ers said.

So he sat at a table in the cafeteria and signed numerous pictures and other items, in-cluding the cell phone and dollar ball of fresh-man Dezmon Greene, who was excited to see and get his picture taken with Flowers.

“He’s the man,” Greene said simply of the excitement. “He’s someone that I can look up to.”

“What most people don’t know about John is that he’s a much better person than he is a basketball player,” Tallman said. “When I

asked him to come by, the only thing he wanted in return is gym time. This is good for the school and good for him to see that all the hard work has paid off.”

Flowers, who is on schedule to graduate next spring with a degree in economics, hoped that his visit would inspire all Ryken students, not just athletes, to pursue what they want in life.

“I think it’s good for them to see that dreams do come true,” he said. “If you work hard, anything is possible.”

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Amanda Lucas, 64, from La Plata said she got her 1959 Plymouth Fury convertible from an unlikely place. “I got it in a trash pile, believe it or not … in Minneapolis no less,” she said, going on to explain that the famed “furious one” (which played a starring role in Stephen King’s “Christine,” though the movie model was a ‘58) has an original 361 Golden Commando engine and 727 transmission. She had considered it a lucky find when she bought the car. “The guy didn’t know what he had,” she said, “and I wasn’t go-ing to tell him!”

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Ryken Grad Flowers Returns to a Lot of Love

West Virginia men’s basketball player John Flowers signs autographs for students at his high school alma mater, St. Mary’s Ryken Monday morning.


John Flowers was an All-Washington Catholic Athletic Conference performer at St. Mary’s Ryken.

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Blue CrabsThe Southern Maryland Blue Crabs

were shut out for the first time in their first extra inning game this season, losing 2-0 in 11 innings to the Lancaster Barnstorm-ers on Tuesday night at Regency Furniture Stadium.

Left-handed starter John Halama re-tired the first 11 batters he faced and lasted nine innings. He also struck out two and yielded just three hits. Lancaster righty Ben Fritz had eight strikeouts in seven innings of work, and did not allow a Blue Crabs base runner past second.

Despite brilliant performances from Halama and Fritz, they were both tagged with no decisions. Crabs right-handed reliev-er Connor Robertson pitched the 10th and kept his ERA perfect at 0.00. Fellow righty Chris Mobley (2-1) hoped for similar results in the 11th, but instead the Barnstormers scored the first runs of the game and handed Mobley his first loss.

Lancaster second baseman Toshihisa Nishi led off the inning with a single, and then leftfielder Lloyd Turner made it all the way to second on a throwing error by Mob-ley following a bunt attempt. Mobley’s throw went beyond the reach of first baseman Eric Crozier and into the Barnstormers bullpen.

With Turner at second and Nishi at third and the Blue Crab infield playing in to prevent a run from scoring, centerfielder Jason Perry smoked a base hit past second baseman Casey Benjamin into right field. Nishi and Turner both scored to give Lan-caster a 2-0 lead. Barnstormers’ reliever Tim McNab (3-0) was credited with the win by finishing the 10th. Their closer, right-hander Scott Patterson entered the game in the bot-tom of the 11th and earned his fourth save of the season. The loss drops the Blue Crabs to 10-8, while Lancaster improves to 8-9. The Crabs are currently in first place by a half game over the Long Island Ducks in the At-lantic League Liberty Division.

Crabs Blanked by Barnstormers

St. Mary’s CollegeST. MARY’S CITY – Lauri-

ann Parker (Woodbine, Md./Gle-nelg) of the St. Mary’s College of Maryland women’s lacrosse team was selected by the Department of Athletics and Recreation as an athlete of the month for the second time this year as Parker garnered April Athlete of the Month honors.

The 5-foot-7 first-year mid-fielder helped the Seahawks (8-8) to a 5-1 record in April, including a perfect 4-0 mark in Capital Athletic Conference action. St. Mary’s also put together its longest win streak of the season with six straight vic-tories from March 30 to April 17.

Parker tallied 35 points on 16 goals and 19 assists, averaging 2.67 goals, 3.17 assists and 5.83 assists in six games played. She boasted a .516 shooting percentage, including an .806 shot-on-goal percentage. Parker added as well 12 draw controls, six ground balls, and six caused turnovers.

She notched season-highs of seven goals and nine points in a 13-8 win over No. 17 Stevenson University on April 10 to help the Seahawks secure the No. 3 seed in the CAC playoffs, earning Parker league player of the week (April 12) and www.womenslacrosse.com honor roll accolades. Parker dished out a season-high six assists in a 17-10 win over Marymount (Va.) University in CAC first round action.

Parker tallied at least two helpers in every game while scoring at least one goal in all but one game.

She is currently tied for first in the conference with four game-winning goals while ranking fifth in both assists per game with a 1.75

average and points per game with a 4.12 average. She is also sixth in goals per game with a 2.38 av-erage. Parker is the team leader with 66 points while being second with 38 goals and 28 assists.

OCEAN CITY – First-year Dan Swain (Bal-timore, Md./Calvert Hall) bested 802 competitors in crossing the finish line first at the 2010 Ocean City Half Marathon as the St. Mary’s College of Maryland men’s and women’s cross country teams wrapped up their non-traditional season on Saturday April 24.

Swain averaged a 6:02-mile pace as he fin-ished the 13.1-mile scenic, fast, flat and fun-filled course in 1:18:05.2. The course took runners from the world-famous board-walk all the way to As-sateague Island.

Coming in on Swain’s heels was first-year Nick Pasko (Bel Air, Md./Calvert Hall), finishing second overall in 1:19:38.6 as he averaged a 6:09-mile.

Junior Chris Fearey (Catonsville, Md./Catonsville) broke the top 100 as Fearey placed 98th in 1:46:42.8 while first-year Drew Gordon (Parkton, Md./Hereford) rounded out the Seahawk finishers on the men’s side at 154th (1:52:00.8).

For the women, sophomore Kathleen Tatem (Kensington, Md./Bethesda-Chevy Chase) finished 138th in 1:50:56.2 while first-year Margaret Lillie (Chapel Hill, N.C./Chapel Hill) followed next at 139th in 1:51:05.7 as Lillie placed second in her age group of 19 and under.

First-year Katie Phipps (Severna Park, Md./Chesapeake) notched a 158th-place finish in 1:52:10.6 to finish third behind Lillie in her age group (19 and under).

The coaching staff took part in the action as well as first-year head coach Tom Fisher came in 101st in 1:47:18.6 while assistant coach Jon Tse finished in 116th-place in 1:48:38.7.

Seahawk men: 1. Dan Swain, 2. Nick Pasko, 98. Chris Fearey, 154. Drew Gordon

Seahawk women: 138. Kathleen Tatem, 139. Margaret Lillie, 158. Ka-tie Phipps, 319. Christi Ford (2:03:11.1), 595. Kait McGrath (2:23:07.0)

SMC’s Swain Wins Ocean City Half-Marathon

APRIL ATHLETE OF THE MONTH

HONOR ROLLBASEBALL: MATT BADEN, Jr., Short-

stop (Sunderland, Md./Huntingtown)MEN’S LACROSSE: DENNIS ROSSON, Jr., Attackman (Severna Park, Md./Severn)

MEN’S TENNIS: KYLE FEELEY, Fy. (Baltimore, Md./Mount Saint Joseph)WOMEN’S SWIMMING: KELLY HEYDE, Fr., IM/Fly/Free (Wilton,

Conn./Wilton)

PAST ATHLETES OF THE MONTH

SEPTEMBER – Claire Kodan, Jr., Outside Hitter, Volleyball

OCTOBER – Lauriann Parker, Fy., For-ward, Field Hockey

NOVEMBER – Camontae Griffin, Sr., Guard, Men’s Basketball

DECEMBER – Kelly Heyde, Fy., IM/Fly/Free, Women’s Swimming

JANUARY – Stephanie Saint-Aubin, Sr., Guard, Women’s Basketball

FEBRUARY – Camontae Griffin, Sr., Guard, Men’s Basketball & Kelly Heyde, Fy., IM/Fly/Free, Women’s SwimmingMARCH – Nora Fallon-Oben, Sr., At-

tacker, Women’s LacrosseAPRIL – Lauriann Parker, Fy., Midfielder,

Women’s Lacrosse

Parker Wins April Athlete of the Month



MORGANZA – While Friday afternoon saw four seniors on the Chopticon baseball team honored for their four seasons of excel-lence, it was sophomore pitcher Brian Clark who took center stage.

Called up from the junior varsity within the week and making his first start on the varsity squad, Clark pitched four scoreless innings as the Braves cruised to an 11-0 five-inning win over Lackey, their third straight win and helped the team achieve its goal of finishing with a .500 winning percentage.

“We were able to finish 10-10 overall and 6-6 in the conference,” said first-year head coach Dan Velez. “That’s an accom-plishment for us.”

The Braves got little resistance from the winless Chargers, as Clark baffled them in four innings, allowing just one base hit while striking out three batters.

“It was a big burden, but it was a great opportunity to pitch for my seniors as a sophomore,” Clark said after the game, with his shoulder and elbow wrapped in ice.

Clark admitted to having pre-game jit-ters, but settled in rather quickly as he was backed up by superior defense and an of-fense that took advantage of Lackey’s nu-merous mistakes.

“I was nervous at first, but I know I had everyone behind me,” Clark said. “It was just a matter of throwing strikes.”

Velez was pleased with Clark’s effort, noting that he didn’t get rattled when the Chargers were able to get runners on base.

“He did a great job with the top of their line-up, struggled with the bottom of the or-der, but he didn’t lose his composure,” he said. “He did a great job covering the plate on the wild pitch to stop a runner from scor-ing and he got help from his defense.”

“I’m proud of him, I knew he had the talent,” said senior centerfielder Andrew Mika, who went 2-for-3 at the plate with a run batted in at the plate. “We have a three game winning streak going, so we’re pretty confident and ready for the playoffs.”

Offensively, the Braves collected 13 hits and scored in each of their four turns at the plate, with a six-run fourth inning giv-ing them enough of a lead for the run rule to be invoked.

Six different Chopticon players drove in runs, and the other seven runs came on errors and double steals.

Mika, along with Mitchell Seifert, Glen Brown and Jonathan Nagy were hon-ored before the game and Velez, who was an assistant prior to taking over for Steve Williams this season, looked back on their years fondly.

“They’ve been instrumental in our suc-cess,” he said. “They’ve done everything we’ve ever asked of them.”

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Boys’ and Girls’ Club Charity Golf Tournament Registration Open

The Southern Maryland Boys’ and Girls’ Club golf tournament, scheduled for Thurs-day May 20, is now accepting registration.

The shotgun start is scheduled for 9 a.m. at the Breton Bay Golf Club in Leonardtown, with a $200 prize going to the top team. There will also be closest to the pin and longest drive contests, 50/50 raffle and door prizers.

The cost is $80 per player, which includes 18 holes of golf with cart, lunch buffet and door prizes.

Money and registration is due by Friday, May 7 and all checks should be made payable to “BGCSM Charity Golf Tournament”

For more information, please contact Jason Verbic at 301-866-6948 or Kim Murray at 301-863-3412.

Clark Pitches Chopticon to Senior Day Win

Sophomore Brian Clark pitched four shutout innings as Chopticon blanked Lackey 11-0 in five innings Friday afternoon.

Photo By Chris Stevens

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