A quote suitable for Salisbury

I saw this quote from Thomas Jefferson and immediately the City of Salisbury came to mind. Keep this in mind.


We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Samuel Kerchevel, Jul. 12, 1816

Poo dle

If you're not down at the Salisbury Festival this weekend and would like to see some fantastic animals, the Poo dle Show is still going on at the Civic Center. OUCH!

Parker Place Opens For The Summer

The Taylor's have brought life back to the Plaza once again with a beautiful display of antiques, plants and flowers and are ready to sell products.

Their hours are Monday through Saturday, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Sunday 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM. The selection is always great right when they open their doors so when your Downtown this weekend be sure to stop by.

SUPPORT OUR TROOPS AT PARSONSBURG FIRE DEPARTMENT

PARSONSBURG FIRE DEPARTMENT
FRIDAY, MAY 2ND
7 A.M. - 5 P.M.

Help a group of Salisbury University Social Work students give our soldiers the comforts of home...

Help support our soldiers in Iraq . The soldiers that are sent there are missing the comforts of home. There will be a drop off point set up at Parsonsburg Fire
Department next Friday May 2nd, 2008 from 7 A.M. – 5 P.M. Please visit and drop off any items that our troops may need, some ideas are listed below. Help make
this event successful so we can help provide our troops with some pleasures from home.

We will be sending these supplies to Soldiers from Maryland , you can view thank you letters and suggestions for supplies for these soldiers at www.anysoldier.com

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I have listed below the items requested. Remember there are males and females on each of the units. These products will be going to the entire unit, not just one person.

Personal Hygiene & Health

Deodorant, Bath/Body Wash, Hand Sanitizer, Nail Clippers, Lip Balm/Chap Stick,
Tooth Brush, Tooth Paste, combs, shampoo, conditioner, soap, Feminine hygiene
products, Shower gel, baby wipes, hair bands, makeup mascara, brown eyeliner, light lip gloss, buff beige color foundation, Jergens natural glow moisturizing
lotion for medium tones skin, body wash , cough drops, scented and unscented soaps, bug repellant

Food Items

Microwave popcorn, micowaveable soup, candy, beef jerky, crackers, trail mix, energy bars, drink mixes, snack foods with a long shelf life, ramen noodles,
cereal bars, granola bars, lotions, cookies hard candy, chips, packages to flavor water such as cool aid/tea, laundry soap, microwaveable food already in a bowl (Chef-Boyardee)

Linens

sheets for full sized bed, medium sized green socks, male medium sized underwear, female cotton undergarments 5 –9, fabric sheets, laundry soap (without optical brighteners such as Cheer), laundry soap

Recreational Items

Lesson books to learn playing acoustic guitar, puzzle books, reading material, letters, phone cards, dart board, darts, music, movies, medicine balls, stretch bands,

THINGS NOT TO SEND:

- Nothing illegal
- Nothing homemade
- No firearms
- No pork items

FIRST DISTRICT CITIZEN'S FORUM IN MARDELA

COUNCILWOMAN SAMPLE-HUGHES SCHEDULES FIFTH DISTRICT ONE CITIZEN’S FORUM

Wicomico County Councilwoman Sheree Sample-Hughes will hold the fifth in a series of citizen’s forum meetings on Wednesday, April 30th at 7:00 P.M. at the Mardela Fire Department. The previous District One forums have been in Hebron, Delmar, San Domingo and Salisbury. The program will focus on the activities of the recently concluded session of the Maryland General Assembly.

Councilwoman Sample-Hughes said that she will be joined by Delegate Rudolph Cane, County Council President John Cannon and Sheriff Mike Lewis.

Wicomico County District One includes Delmar, Hebron, San Domingo, Salisbury- West Side and Mardela Springs. Mrs. Sample-Hughes said the theme of the forums is “Creating Community Connections.” She commented that the purpose of the forums is to provide citizens with an opportunity to speak face-to-face with their elected officials. She further noted that this is the continuation of the fulfillment of her campaign promise to hold quarterly meetings throughout District One.

Mrs. Sample-Hughes said that “I encourage as many of my constituents who possibly can to join us for this important meeting.”
Sheree Sample-Hughes

Tax Guy Is Right

The photo above was a quick shot coming over the Rt. 90 Bridge heading into Ocean City yesterday around 3:00 PM. Many buildings simply disappeared in the heavy fog. Tax Guy Said.....

"Yesterday, the fog rolled in late, and I was shocked that there was no Worcester county delay. I drove up Coastal Hwy, and kept calling my wife asking if she's sure there was no delay.

Today, she calls me with the delay and I'm just as shocked, cause it was bright sunny and clear on my commute.

It all can be explained with the fact that the fog decision is made around 5am. Yesterday, fog later, today, fog earlier. Just bad timing."

One Year Ago Today

It was one year ago today former City Council Member Lyn Cathcart again confronted Mr. Tim Chaney and started screaming and yelling at him, interrupting the ongoing City Council Meeting. Tim was truly minding his own business and had just sat down after publicly speaking and Lyn simply went off.

Now if Joe Albero would have done that, I would have been escorted out in handcuffs and no one can say that's not true. However, Louise Smith never even stopped the meeting and never confronted Lyn and or demanded she be removed from the meeting.

Lyn continues to come to meetings and be disruptive each and every time and I'd ask that the other Council Members demand she be removed if she ever gets out of line again. I should remind everyone that during the campaign, Tim went to her door and Lyn had her very large dog go after him. She had no control over the dog.

If I were Tim I'd demand the Officer in the room have her arrested if she ever confronts him again.

Wounded Warrior Project Fundraiser Tommorrow!

Tomorrow starting at 4pm at The Monkey Barrel will be hosting 7 bands to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project. Proceeds and donations will go towards numerous financial costs families meet as well as numerous projects which benefit wounded veterans. This is a major national organization!

There will be food and drink specials from open to close and there is no cover before 7pm. This event is 21+ and non college students are welcomed to attend. Bands include Stolen Element, Skitzo Calypso, Pressing Strings, and Poison Orchid. I'm sure there will be a few surprises throughout the night!

So come out to have a great time for an amazing cause! Barrel is once again is delivering another great fundraiser for area and national charities!

https://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/

Congrats to The Capitals!

If anyone thought the Capitals were making the playoffs with 15 games left in the season they would have been called crazy. If anyone picked the Capitals to make the playoffs they still would be called crazy for picking the longshot.

Washington fans can rejoice in a captivating season which had more drama than BALCO and Spygate combined. Winning a near impossible and improbable 11 out of their 12 final games they made their first playoff birth since 2002-2003 season. They took Philadelphia to the max last night loosing in overtime to a Joffrey Lupul power play goal 6:06 into the OT session. This was the second game the Caps brought to overtime in the series and lost it (game 4 of the series).

Alexander Ovechkin had a goal and an assist in the loss and had a total of 4 goals and 5 assists in the 7 game series. He led the league in the regular season with 65 goals and 112 points. Being a playoff bound team enhances the chances of him winning the MVP this year.

This was type of season the O's definitely need; a cheerful ending. Any market, especially with a fledgling team not making the post season, is bolstered by being competitive in the playoffs. A competitive playoff series helps the Capitials in A, it attracts better players to a team which can now be considered a Stanley Cup Contender (See Huet, Green, and Ovechkin); B attracts new fans and brings back those closet fans who have been out to lunch the past couple of years; C gives hope to both players and fans.

The Capitals, both management and players, need to keep this going throughout the summer. I'd like to see Cristobal Huet in net for the whole season, Olie The Goalie (Olaf Kolzig), because Olaf is at the end of his career. It's time for the changing of the guards in net. They need to keep this team young. The addition of the seasoned vet Seregei Federov will help even more after an off season of work with the team. He had a goal and 4 assists in the playoffs as well as 2 goals and 11 assists in 18 games in the regular season.

We'll be seeing them in the playoffs next season...

It's Time To Show Your Support For Your Presidential Candidate

There are less than eight months until the election, an election that will decide the next President of the United States. The person elected will be the president of all Americans, not just the Democrats or the Republicans. To show our solidarity as Americans, let's all get together and show each other our support for the candidate of our choice. It's time that we all came together, Democrats and Republicans alike.
If you support the policies and character of John McCain, please drive with your headlights on during the day. If you support Obama or Hillary, please drive with your headlights off at night.

The North Prong

The Urban River II Project is called "II" because the first stage actually started in the mid 1970's with another Executive Director at the Greater Salisbury Committee, including a different Mayor in City Hall.

The 1970's group cleaned up what they used to call the East Prong which previously was an abandoned Oil Terminal area with Barges, weeds and junk. Today it is an open area along the River Walk Park, a pedestrian bridge and businesses actually started facing the river, rather than backing to it. Since then a Hotel was built as well as a residential health facility.

In the late 1990's, GSC started a process for helping in the clean up of the North Prong to help it become more of an asset to the community. In recent years, GSC put together a task force which included some 20 people representing the North Prong Property Owners, GSC Members, Community Leaders, City Government and others to look at the area, work on visioning for what everyone might see in the future, 20 years from now.

Ultimately this group went to the City in which they received State Assistance in helping develop a professional plan for the area only after input from the community. Ideas, suggestions, venting, were all a part of this meeting held in the new Fire Station Tuesday night. I've been told the company hired has a past of suggesting 99% of every project they have worked on similar to this one was pushed through for development.

Some were concerned that new Condos along the river are NOT selling. As a matter of fact, only 3 out of 42 in one building have been sold. This independent group is offering ideas but were hand picked to deliver exactly what this Mayor wants to hear, Surprise, surprise!

Only time will tell what will happen there but property owners there are hot. One of the property owners complained how he was forced to remove perfectly good storage tanks or he would lose his property to the City. He did so and then came other violations. The interesting part about his situation is, there are several other property owners in that immediate area who also have storage tanks exactly like his and theirs are still standing!

It's all about who you know!

New McDonald's Should Be Finished Soon

The McDonald's on the East side of town near Motor Vehicle looks like it's coming along quickly.

Inacom Trade Show A Huge Success

While more than 1,000 people showed up for this event, each vendor was extremely pleased by the attendance. Like it or not, Wicomico County is growing and this should be a sign of the future.

1 Hour School Delay

Go Figure. There is a 1 hour school delay. Why, I don't know? WBOC has the delays HERE.

Accept It & Move On?

While this has NO reflection on the paid and or volunteer firefighters, upper management is obviously going to sign off and acept the cracks in the new $10,000,000.00 Fire House Floors.

The series of photos provided clearly shows this cracks length and over time will more than likelyshift and get worse. It seems that doesn't matter to both See & Gordy as that may tap into their reserves from such a great bargain deal of $10 mil.

More Gas Humor

This weeks new DVD releases 4-22-2008

I am totally late with this, thanks to technical problems, but just in time for considering what to check out this weekend on DVD.Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has the rare luck to be billed in two of this week's theatrical releases!Read on...

Theatrical Releases:

• "Cloverfield"-The shaky"home movie" type filming of this actually made people dizzy in theaters!It's still a decent horror flick!-Widescreen
• "The Savages"-A deep family drama starring Philip Seymour Hoffman & Laura Linney -Widescreen
• "Charlie Wilson's War"-Cold War era political comedy starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and....Philip Seymour Hoffman!-Widescreen

Other DVD releases this week:

• "The Orphanage"-Widescreen
• "One Missed Call"-Fullscreen

TV this week on DVD:

• "Laverne & Shirley-The 4th Season"-Break out the milk and Pepsi!-4 disc set
• "Friday Night Lights-The 2nd Season"-NBC teen drama-4 disc set

Thats it for this week!

Senator Andy Harris Comes To The Eastern Shore AGAIN!

You can catch Andy Harris on the Bill Reddish Show, 1320 AM at 7:40 AM Thursday morning.

Then he'll be in Ocean City LIVE on WQMR. I don't care what anyone says, this guy has been to our neck of the woods 40 to one compared to Kratovil and some challenge this man as not being from the Eastern Shore!

Start listening to what this man has to OFFER, not say. We need Mr. Andy Harris in Congress and it's time we start making better decisions towards representation throughout Congress, the Senate and especially locally.