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Sunday, June 07, 2009

Business Owner Finds Man Deceased In Office


Location of Incident: Aqua Leisure Plus, 35465 Wolfneck Rd., Rehoboth, Delaware, Sussex County

Date and Time of Occurrence: Sunday, June 07, 2009, at approximately 10:50 a.m.

Resume: At approximately 10:50 a.m. this morning, the business owner of Aqua Leisure Plus entered the store in order to open. He soon discovered a person slouched over in a chair in the office. Upon this discovery, the owner fled the store and called 911.

Delaware State Police Patrol Units responded to the business, and found a male subject deceased.

This investigation is ongoing and it appears the subject may have been in the middle of committing a burglary when he died of unknown causes. The body of the male was turned over to the Medical Examiner's Office and his name will not be released at this time, pending notification of the family.

One Year Ago Today

Sheriff Lewis joined Tim Chaney in District 1 for their annual cookout.
Unfortunately after the event Mike Elliott was in an accident leaving the event.

A fundraiser event was held at the Civic Center for a new Skate Park.

This was Today's Wildlife Photo One Year Ago Today

Fatal Collision - Rt. 50 @ Sixty Ft. Rd


LOCATION: U.S. Rt. 50 at Sixty Ft. Rd., Pittsville, Wicomico Co., Md.

Vehicle One Dr.: Jacqueline Shorter, 71 yrs. old female, Salisbury, Md.
Pronounced at Peninsula Regional Medical Center as a result of injuries sustained in the collision.

Vehicle One: 1988 Honda Civic

Vehicle Two Dr.: Granville McCauley, 69 yrs. old, Stephenson, Va.
Minor Injuries - Treated and released from Peninsula Regional Medical Center.

Vehicle Two: 2000 Chrysler Grand Voyager

BRIEF RESUME:

Vehicle one, a 1988 Honda Civic was attempting to cross westbound U.S. Rt. 50 and continue northbound onto Sixty Foot Road when it failed to yield the right of way to vehicle two which was westbound on U.S. Rt. 50 in the slow lane. Vehicle two is a 2000 Chrysler Grand Voyager. The operator of vehicle one was transported to Peninsula Regional Medical Center where she was pronounced due to injuries sustained in the collision. The driver of vehicle two and his passenger were treated and released with minor injuries.

The investigation is continuing. It does not appear speed or alcohol was involved. Occupants in both vehicles were wearing their seatbelts.

More Bodies From Downed Jet Found


By ALAN CLENDENNING, AP

Brazil (June 7) — Three more bodies were found Sunday in the ocean near the spot where an Air France jet is believed to have crashed a week ago, bringing the total number of bodies plucked from the water to five, Brazil's military said.

Authorities also said pilots searching the mid-Atlantic also spotted an undetermined number of additional bodies from the air and are sending ships to recover them, said Navy Capt. Giucemar Tabosa Cardoso.

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Muir Boda's Letter To The Editor


City should address its election cycle, benefits

Salisbury has two issues that need to be addressed in the near future -- compensation for elected officials and reviewing the municipal election cycle. Common sense and levelheaded discourse will bring consensus on a solution.

With the recent controversy over health benefits for elected officials, the problem is this is not included in the municipal code as a part of the compensation package. Historically, this has been offered to elected officials and was simply added in the budget; hence, the precedent and policy argument. But the municipal code and Salary Review Committee never offered health benefits as part of the compensation package.

The benefit as used by council members is worth more than $7,000, making total compensation for those who use it at $17,000. The Salary Review Committee should revisit it this year and make a recommendation to codify, should they so opine. It should be added to the compensation package.

Next, I believe the municipal election cycle should be returned to the fall, with the national and state elections. This will increase voter turnout and reduce the number of election cycles. It will also allow a newly elected mayor time to settle in and execute priorities with his or her own budget in the spring.

Though this was changed several years over concern that local candidates were lost in the shuffle, the consequence has been less participation at the polls.

Muir Boda

Salisbury

As seen in today's Daily Times.

The Sunday Daily Times


Is it me or is the Sunday Daily Times a big bore today? I scanned through the articles, many of which were already posted here a day or two ago but if you're thinking of spending your hard earned money at the Newspaper Stands today, you'd be better off buying a cup of coffee and a donut for the same kind of money. Just my opinion.

UPDATE: Am I missing something or did the Daily Times completely forget to write a story about D-Day for the second day in a row?

Laurence Juber LIVE TONIGHT In Easton


Laurence Juber, live tonight at the Avalon Theater in Easton. Laurence spent many years as Paul McCartney's lead guitarist for the band Wings, now does great solo acoustic finger picking style of many songs we all grew up with. The show starts at 8PM, there is a guitar workshop with Juber starting at 3PM for just another $10 if there is room left. GO HERE to see his video.

Today's Wildlife Photo

The Seven Wonders Of The World

This is beautiful, thought that you might enjoy it. I've read it before as a script, but haven't seen it as a pictorial. If you don't click on this video, you'll never really know........

ALZHEIMERS' EYE TEST

Count every ' F ' in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

(SEE BELOW)

HOW MANY ?

WRONG, THERE ARE 6 -- no joke.

READ IT AGAIN!

Boy Scouts Of America Somerset Outstanding Citizen Award Dinner


The Tri-County District of the Del-Mar-Va Council, Boy Scouts of America, will hold its annual Somerset County Outstanding Citizen Dinner on Friday, June 19, 2009 at the Somerset County Civic Center in Princess Anne. This year the Boy Scouts will honor Austin Cox Sr. Austin has been and continues to be an active member of the Lower Shore community.


The Somerset Outstanding Citizen Dinner is the annual opportunity for the community’s leadership to gather and celebrate the successes of the Boy Scouting program in our area. The dinner is built around recognizing a person who uses the character traits taught in Scouting to make our community a better place. While running what is now Delmarva's air conditioning, heating, plumbing and electrical specialist, Austin has personified all that is good about the business community and its people. Along with running a business he has been active in the Crisfield Fire Company, the Crisfield City Council, the Elks, the American Legion, Kiwanis, the J. Millard Tawes Museum, the Heritage Foundation and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. As part of his work with the museum he has worked with children to better understand the eco-systems of the bay. He has built a crab shanty to reproduce for educational purposes what the life is like and the things necessary to make a living from the water. Over 600 children have participated in this experience. This year Austin is one of ten D-Day veterans to accompany twenty girls and boys from the USA to France. The purpose is to commemorate the invasion of Europe and to teach the students what the landings were like from those who were actually there at the time.


The event will draw over 150 people to recognize Austin for his service. The Outstanding Citizen Dinner will hopefully raise over $20,000 to help support scouting programs and services. Over 15,000 youth are served by the Del-Mar-Va Council, Boy Scouts of America annually. Special efforts are made to reach urban, rural, minority, handicapped, and underprivileged youths, who will benefit most from Scouting’s values-based programs.


Individual tickets are $35.00 and event sponsorships are available. On line registration is available at www.dmvc.org/tc-ocad . Reservation and Advertizing deadline is June 12, 2009.

Will You Dance With Me?

Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they haven't thought about it, don't have it on their schedule, didn't know it was coming or are too rigid to depart from their routine.

I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut back. From then on, I've tried to be a little more flexible.

How many women out there will eat at home because their husband didn't suggest going out to dinner until after something had been thawed? Does the word 'refrigeration' mean nothing to you?

How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you watched 'Jeopardy' on television?

I cannot count the times I called my sister and said, 'How about going to lunch in a half hour? She would gas up and stammer, 'I can't. I have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday, I had a late breakfast, It looks like rain.' And my personal favorite: 'It's Monday.' She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together.

Because Americans cram so much into their lives, we tend to schedule our headaches. We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to ourselves when all the conditions are perfect!

We' ll go back and visit the grandparents when we get Steve toilet-trained. We'll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet... We'll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids out of college.

Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The
days get shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a litany of 'I'm going to,' 'I plan on,' and 'Someday, when things are settled down a bit.'

When anyone calls my 'seize the moment' friend, she is open to adventure and available for t rips. She keeps an open mind on new ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five minutes, and you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of Roller blades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord..

My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream. It's just that I might as well apply it directly to my stomach with a spatula and eliminate the digestive process The other day, I stopped the car and bought a triple-Decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy.

Now....go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to......not something on your SHOULD DO list. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Make sure you read this to the end; you will understand why I sent this to you.

Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round or listened to the rain lapping on the ground? Ever followed a butter20fly's erratic flight or gazed at the sun into the fading night? Do you run through each day on the fly? When you ask ' How are you?' Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done, do you lie in your bed with the next hundred chores running through your head? Ever told your child, 'We'll do it tomorrow.' And in your haste, not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch? Let a good friendship die? Just call to say 'Hi?

When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened gift.....Thrown away..... Life is not a race Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over.

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WCDC Inmate Found Guilty Of Assault On Correctional Officer


On Friday June 6, 2009 the case of State of Maryland vs Brinton Cox was brought to trial. As you may recall Brinton Cox is the inmate who attacked Sergeant Victor Stone on January 8, 2009.

After months of delays by the defense(this was the forth time the case was called to court) Brinton Cox was called to face his accuser. The prosecution called four witnesses who testified that Mr. Cox threw or pushed Sergeant Stone against the metal steps in his housing unit. You can get more information by going to a previous post, WCDC Officer injured by inmate posted on January 8, 2009. All four prosecution witnesses testified that Mr. Cox did assault Sergeant Stone. The defense had called for witnesses to show, but nobody showed up in Mr. Cox's defense. Mr. Cox did take the stand in his defense, changed his mind when his attorney informed him that the prosecution could bring up past criminal acts. Mr. Cox declined to testify and ran back to his seat. The Judge, Honorable Bruce Wade, found Mr. Cox guilty on all charges. When the judge proceeded to sentencing he imposed a Pre Sentencing Investigation due to Mr. Cox's extensive violent criminal convictions. Mr. Cox will be sentenced after the investigation is completed. Mr. Cox is facing 15 years to be served consecutive to any other sentences. This is not any normal sentence though. Because it involves a assault on a correctional officer, all time is to be served day for day with no parole or probation possible.

I wish to commend Sergeant Stone and his witnesses for their diligence in seeing this process through. The court system is sometimes slow and cumbersome, but justice will prevail.

Aging With Pleasure

I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving Family for less gray hair or a flatter belly. As I've aged, I've Become kinder to myself, and less critical of myself. I've become my Own friend. I don't chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for Not making my bed, or for buying that silly cement gecko that I didn't Need, but looks so avante garde on my patio. I am entitled to a treat,
To be messy, to be extravagant.

I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before They understood the great freedom that comes with aging. Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful Tunes of the 60 &70's, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a Lost love ... I will.

I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging Body, and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite The pitying glances from the jet set. They, too, will get old. I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just As well forgotten. And I eventually remember the important things.

Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not Break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what Give us strength and understanding and compassion.

A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the Joy of being imperfect.

I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, And to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on My face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.

As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about What other people think. I don't question myself any more. I've even Earned the right to be wrong.

So, to answer your question, I like being old. It has set me free. I Like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but While I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have Been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every Single day (if I feel like it).

Who Am I? (UNCLASSIFIED)

Who am I?

* I was born in one country, raised in another. My father was
born in another country. I was not his only child. He fathered several
children with numerous women.

* I became very close to my mother, as my father showed no
interest in me. My mother died at an early age from cancer.

* Later in life, questions arose over my real name...

* My birth records were sketchy and no one was able to produce a
legitimate, reliable birth certificate.

* I grew up practicing one faith but converted to Christianity, as
it was widely accepted in my country, but I practiced nontraditional beliefs &
didn't follow Christianity, except in the public eye under scrutiny.

* I worked and lived among lower-class people as a young adult,
disguising myself as someone who really cared about them.

* That was before I decided it was time to get serious about my
life and I embarked on a new career.

* I wrote a book about my struggles growing up. It was clear to
those who read my memoirs that I had difficulties accepting that my father
abandoned me as a child.

* I became active in local politics in my 30's then with help
behind the scenes, I literally burst onto the scene as a candidate for national
office in my 40s. They said I had a golden tongue and could talk anyone into
anything. That reinforced my conceit.

* I had a virtually nonexistent resume, little work history, and
no experience in leading a single organization. Yet I was a powerful speaker and
citizens were drawn to me as though I were a magnet and they were small roofing
tacks.

* I drew incredibly large crowds during my public appearances.
This bolstered my ego.

* At first, my political campaign focused on my country's foreign
policy. I was very critical of my country in the last war and seized every
opportunity to bash my country.

* But what launched my rise to national prominence were my views
on the country's economy. I pretended to have a really good plan on how we
could do better and every poor person would be fed & housed for free.


* I knew which group was responsible for getting us into this
mess. It was the free market, banks & corporations. I decided to start making
citizens hate them and if they were envious of others who did well, the plan was
clinched tight.

* I called mine "A People's Campaign" and that sounded good to all
people.

* I was the surprise candidate because I emerged from outside the
traditional path of politics & was able to gain widespread popular support.

* I knew that, if I merely offered the people 'hope,' together we
could change our country and the world.

* So, I started to make my speeches sound like they were on behalf
of the downtrodden, poor, ignorant to include "persecuted minorities"
like the Jews. My true views were not widely known & I needed to keep them
unknown, until after I became my nation's leader.

* I had to carefully guard reality, as anybody could have easily
found out what I really believed, if they had simply read my writings and
examined those people I associated with.

* I'm glad they didn't. Then I became the most powerful man in
the world.. And the world learned the truth.

*Who am I?











ADOLF HITLER

WHO WERE YOU THINKING OF???

Scary isn't it???

WANTED!!!!!!!!


If you happen to be one of these people and or know of any one of these people, please make contact with them and let them know they are WANTED by Delmar High for the Class Reunion of 1974. Thanks Folks. The contact information is on the flyer. Just click on the image to enlarge it.

"You MAY BE TALIBAN IF..."

The US troops in Afghanistan proved they have retained their sense of humor, one of them sent this. "You MAY BE TALIBAN IF..."

1. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer.

2. You own a $3,000 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can't afford shoes..

3. You have more wives than teeth.

4. You wipe your butt with your bare hand, but consider bacon "unclean."

5. You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide.

6. You can't think of anyone you haven't declared Jihad against.

7. You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry explosives in your clothing.

8. You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs.

9. You have nothing against women and think every man should own at least one.

10. You've always had a crush on your neighbor's goat.

Why Seniors Are So Special

An Elephant Never Forgets - Her Friend

(CBS) It's the last thing you'd expect to see emerging from the woods of Tennessee - the last two things actually. Which is why CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman knew the story of Bella and Tarra would be big. He just had no idea how big.

"Tarra and Bella have agents now?" Hartman asked.

"It's all your fault," said Scott Blais, a cofounder of the elephant sanctuary.

"It is all your fault," agreed Carol Buckley, the other cofounder.

Buckley and Blais run The Elephant Sanctuary outside of Nashville.

"When that piece aired we were just bombarded with offers," Buckley said. "Books, movies, any number of things."

If you saw the original story, you know how elephants come here from zoos and circuses one by one - but stay here two by two.

"Every elephant that comes here searches out someone that she then spends most of her time with," Buckley said.

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10 FINKERS

Ole vas vorking at the fish plant up nort in Dulut vhen he accidentally cut off all ten of his finkers.

He vent to da emergency room in the Clinik and vhen he got dar da Norsky doctor looked at Ole and said, "Let's have da finkers and I'll see vhat I can do."

Ole said, "I haven't got da finkers."

"Vhat do you mean, you hafen't got da finkers?" he said. "Lord-it's 2009 and Ive's got microsurgery and all kinds of incredible techniques. I could hafe put dem back on and made you like new! Vhy didn't you brink da finkers?"

Ole says........"How da fock vas I suppose to pick dem up?

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