Coach Sharon Brummell arrived with the UMES Bowling Team Champions bringing home the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP BOWLING TEAM TROPHY. The games were held in Omaha, Nebraska.
UPDATE! The match will be on ESPN2 this evening @ 7pm.
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Monday, April 14, 2008
UMES Wins National Bowling Tournament, On ESPN2 Tonight!
Coach Sharon Brummell arrived with the UMES Bowling Team Champions bringing home the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP BOWLING TEAM TROPHY. The games were held in Omaha, Nebraska.
UPDATE! The match will be on ESPN2 this evening @ 7pm.
WICO BOE APPOINTMENT
Democratic Central Committee Taking Applications for Board Of Education Post
Salisbury)—The Wicomico County Democratic State Central Committee has opened the process for filling an upcoming vacancy on the Wicomico County Board of Education. Governor Martin O’Malley is scheduled to make the appointment in June.
Interested citizens must reside in Wicomico County. Send a letter of interest and an updated resume to WCDSCC, P.O. Box 988, Salisbury Maryland 21803. The deadline for submitting applications is April 25, 2008. Interviews will begin on Monday, April 28, 2008.
Any questions regarding the appointment, please contact Chairman Ernest Leatherbury, 443-250-1139 or Secretary Jim Ireton, 410-749-5712.
Salisbury)—The Wicomico County Democratic State Central Committee has opened the process for filling an upcoming vacancy on the Wicomico County Board of Education. Governor Martin O’Malley is scheduled to make the appointment in June.
Interested citizens must reside in Wicomico County. Send a letter of interest and an updated resume to WCDSCC, P.O. Box 988, Salisbury Maryland 21803. The deadline for submitting applications is April 25, 2008. Interviews will begin on Monday, April 28, 2008.
Any questions regarding the appointment, please contact Chairman Ernest Leatherbury, 443-250-1139 or Secretary Jim Ireton, 410-749-5712.
Fruitland Police Department Press Release
Case #: 08-917
Incident: Poss w/intent to Distribute CDS (cocaine), Poss CDS, Disorderly Conduct, Resisting Arrest
Bench Warrant – VOP ($20,000 preset bond)
Charged: Andrew Parsons Morris St, Fruitland, MD
AA Male, 42 yoa
On 04/12/08, officers observed Andrew Parsons, wanted on an outstanding warrant for Violation of Probation, in the area of Poplar St. As officers approached Parsons, he fled on foot towards Dulany Ave. After a brief pursuit, officers apprehended Parsons who resisted efforts to place him under arrest. Subsequent to Parsons’ arrest, suspected cocaine was found in his possession.
Disposition: Released to Central Booking
Incident: Poss w/intent to Distribute CDS (cocaine), Poss CDS, Disorderly Conduct, Resisting Arrest
Bench Warrant – VOP ($20,000 preset bond)
Charged: Andrew Parsons Morris St, Fruitland, MD
AA Male, 42 yoa
On 04/12/08, officers observed Andrew Parsons, wanted on an outstanding warrant for Violation of Probation, in the area of Poplar St. As officers approached Parsons, he fled on foot towards Dulany Ave. After a brief pursuit, officers apprehended Parsons who resisted efforts to place him under arrest. Subsequent to Parsons’ arrest, suspected cocaine was found in his possession.
Disposition: Released to Central Booking
A Message From Congressional Candidate Andy Harris
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Friends,
With the General Assembly Session over, I returned full-time to the campaign trail. Every day this weekend I was out meeting voters.
Sunday night, I was the guest speaker in Ocean City for the Worcester County Lincoln/Reagan Day Dinner. The event had a great turnout because of the hard work of the organizers.
The theme of the night was the “Unified Republican Party.” The Republican Party is unified behind John McCain as our nominee for President and myself as our nominee for Congress.
Voters have a clear choice this fall. They can choose the Democratic philosophy of bigger government, higher taxes, and more wasteful government spending,, or they can choose the Republican philosophy of smaller less intrusive government, lower taxes and a lot less spending. They can choose the Democrats desire to decrease the size of our military, or they can choose the Republican philosophy of Winning the Global War on Terror. They can choose the Democratic philosophy of open borders or the Republican philosophy of securing our border and ending illegal immigration.
The choices are clear.
God Bless,
Andy
LIVE From Room 301 In The GOB
That's right, there truly is Wi Fi access in the Government Office Building. I am currently in the Comprehensive Plan Meeting with Rick Pollitt & Mr. Nunan. More to come....
Where Does The Recall Petition Drive Stand?
I met with Jordan Reisman last week and discussed the Recall Petition Drive against the Mayor, Louise Smith and Gary Comegys. Quite frankly, I didn't feel comfortable that I was being told the truth.
When I asked how things were going, Jordan replied, well, I have about 1/2 the signatures against Louise Smith. When I again asked about the Mayor and Comegys he said, well, I thought I'd go after Louise, do you think I should still go after the Mayor?
At that point I felt uncomfortable in believing he actually has a strong signature count against anyone, so I let it be. I have been alerted that WMDT had a story with a quote from that Mayor stating, "The Mayor has said, if there's any corruption in her administration, she'll sign the petition herself."
All that being said, believe what you want.I personally do not believe their drive is as strong as Jordan wants to make it sound. Time will tell.
When I asked how things were going, Jordan replied, well, I have about 1/2 the signatures against Louise Smith. When I again asked about the Mayor and Comegys he said, well, I thought I'd go after Louise, do you think I should still go after the Mayor?
At that point I felt uncomfortable in believing he actually has a strong signature count against anyone, so I let it be. I have been alerted that WMDT had a story with a quote from that Mayor stating, "The Mayor has said, if there's any corruption in her administration, she'll sign the petition herself."
All that being said, believe what you want.I personally do not believe their drive is as strong as Jordan wants to make it sound. Time will tell.
LIVE From The Ocean City Convention Center
We're currently on the third of five speakers expressing their departments and how they work with Volunteers. For the most part, each speaker mentions safety and most importantly, serving their community. Blah, Blah, Blah! Chief See had his chance to speak as well and I'll touch on that more later.
What I have found interesting so far is Montgomery County. They have a $200,000,000.00, that's right, a two hundred million dollar Fire Department Budget! They have 35 Stations, most of which the Volunteers own. They have 1,061 Paid Firefighters and 1,132 Volunteers. They had some 12,000 calls last year. Not a very good comparison to Ocean City.
There is going to be a "closed work session" tomorrow where everyone will have the opportunity to get their side off their chest. More to come.........
Shorebirds Hosts Best Buddies!
The Best Buddies Chapter of Salisbury University was welcomed by the Shorebirds to Sunday's game and I had the privilege to watch the game with them. Everyone was all smiles! Comprised of Salisbury University students, these students take on the honor of being a "College Buddy" to those who have intellectual disabilities. The group is officially recognized by Salisbury University and proudly has over 100 total Buddy members.
The mission of Best Buddies is to enhance the lives of people with intellectual disabilities by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships and integrated employment.
Best Buddies try to find matches between a student and a Buddy to enhance the life of those with intellectual disabilities. When a match is found the two begin a friendship in which the College Buddy engages in activities with their Buddy and keeps contact through phone calls. Currently the minimum requirements are to talk on the phone at least twice a week and hang out twice a month. Amazingly pretty much all of the College Buddies go beyond these standards. Currently they have been able to make 26 matches.
Each month Best Buddies holds a group activity which everyone participates in. They held a Valentines Dance, Picnics at the Zoo, and Shorebirds games which are one of the most anticipated events of the year. Over 60 members of the group showed up for the game! As you can tell by the pictures they had a ton of fun and I had a wonderful time talking with everyone. They all really got into the game and were true fans.
If you have any questions or would like to donate please contact Daphni at dm17116@students.salisbury.edu
Major Meeting All Day In Ocean City
Monday will be a very long day for the OC Mayor, City Council, OC Fire Department and several other Fire Chief's from around the State of Maryland.
I met with Mayor Mehan this evening who invited me out tomorrow from 9 to 5 for an all day meeting with several Fire Chiefs in an attempt to negotiate some kind of agreement with the Volunteer Fire Service in Ocean City.
I'm told one of the Fire Chief's will be Salisbury's very own Fire Chief See. The idea is to open some dialogue with other departments to see just how they can blend such a mix and make it work.
That being said, it looks like I'll be LIVE all day from Ocean City. I'll be sure to drop by the old Dough Roller and do a follow up on what's left in that location as well as some other stories I've been looking into out there.
There's one story I'll touch on and that's a new herb Salvia, (sp?) being sold at many of the Sunsations around town. I'm told it's very similar to LSD and legal across the counter right now. I was also informed many Hospitals are unaware of what it is, therefore they don't know how to treat someone who od's on it. More to come.....
I met with Mayor Mehan this evening who invited me out tomorrow from 9 to 5 for an all day meeting with several Fire Chiefs in an attempt to negotiate some kind of agreement with the Volunteer Fire Service in Ocean City.
I'm told one of the Fire Chief's will be Salisbury's very own Fire Chief See. The idea is to open some dialogue with other departments to see just how they can blend such a mix and make it work.
That being said, it looks like I'll be LIVE all day from Ocean City. I'll be sure to drop by the old Dough Roller and do a follow up on what's left in that location as well as some other stories I've been looking into out there.
There's one story I'll touch on and that's a new herb Salvia, (sp?) being sold at many of the Sunsations around town. I'm told it's very similar to LSD and legal across the counter right now. I was also informed many Hospitals are unaware of what it is, therefore they don't know how to treat someone who od's on it. More to come.....
Sludge Project In Baltimore Inner City
Scientists using federal grants spread fertilizer made from human and industrial wastes on yards in poor, black neighborhoods to test whether it might protect children from lead poisoning in the soil. Families were assured the sludge was safe and were never told about any harmful ingredients.
Nine low-income families in Baltimore row houses agreed to let researchers till the sewage sludge into their yards and plant new grass. In exchange, they were given food coupons as well as the free lawns as part of a study published in 2005 and funded by the Housing and Urban Development Department.
The Associated Press reviewed grant documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and interviewed researchers. No one involved with the $446,231 grant for the two-year study would identify the participants, citing privacy concerns. There is no evidence there was ever any medical follow-up.
Comparable research was conducted by the Agriculture Department and Environmental Protection Agency in a similarly poor, black neighborhood in East St. Louis, Ill.
The sludge, researchers said, put the children at less risk of brain or nerve damage from lead, a highly toxic element once widely used in gasoline and paint. Other studies have shown brain damage among children, often in poor neighborhoods, who ate lead-based paint that had flaked off their homes.
The idea that sludge - the leftover semisolid wastes filtered from water pollution at 16,500 treatment plants - can be turned into something harmless, even if swallowed, has been a tenet of federal policy for three decades.
In a 1978 memo, the EPA said sludge "contains nutrients and organic matter which have considerable benefit for land and crops" despite the presence of "low levels of toxic substances."
But in the late 1990s the government began underwriting studies such as those in Baltimore and East St. Louis using poor neighborhoods as laboratories to make a case that sludge may also directly benefit human health.
Meanwhile, there has been a paucity of research into the possible harmful effects of heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, other chemicals and disease-causing microorganisms often found in sludge.
A series of reports by the EPA's inspector general and the National Academy of Sciences between 1996 and 2002 faulted the adequacy of the science behind the EPA's 1993 regulations on sludge.
The chairman of the 2002 academy panel, Thomas Burke, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, says epidemiological studies have never been done to show whether spreading sludge on land is safe.
"There are potential pathogens and chemicals that are not in the realm of safe," Burke told the AP. "What's needed are more studies on what's going on with the pathogens in sludge - are we actually removing them? The commitment to connecting the dots hasn't been there."
That's not what the subjects of the Baltimore and East St. Louis research were told.
Rufus Chaney, an Agriculture Department research agronomist who co-wrote the Baltimore study, said the researchers provided the families with brochures about lead hazards, tested the soil in their yards and gave assurances that the Orgro fertilizer was store-bought and perfectly safe.
"They were told that their lawn, as it stood, before it was treated, was a lead danger to their children," said Chaney. "So that even if they ate some of the soil, there would not be as much of a risk as there was before. And that's what the science shows."
Chaney said the Baltimore neighborhoods were chosen because they were within an economically depressed area qualifying for tax incentives. He acknowledged the families were not told there have been some safety disputes and health complaints over sludge.
"They were told that it was composted biosolids that are available for sale commercially in the state of Maryland. I don't think there's any other further disclosure required," Chaney said. "There was danger before. There wasn't danger because of the biosolids compost. Composting, of course, kills pathogens."
The Baltimore study concluded that phosphate and iron in sludge can increase the ability of soil to trap more harmful metals including lead, cadmium and zinc, causing the combination to pass safely through a child's body if eaten.
It called the fertilizer "a simple low-cost" technology for parents and communities "to reduce risk to their children" who are in danger of lead contamination. The results were published in Science of the Total Environment, an international research journal, in 2005.
Another study investigating whether sludge might inhibit the "bioavailability" of lead - the rate it enters the bloodstream and circulates to organs and tissues - was conducted on a vacant lot in East St. Louis next to an elementary school, all of whose 300 students were black and almost entirely from low-income families.
In a newsletter, the EPA-funded Community Environmental Resource Program assured local residents it was all safe.
"Though the lot will be closed off to the public, if people - particularly children - get some of the lead contaminated dirt in their mouths, the lead will just pass through their bodies and not be absorbed," the newsletter said. "Without this iron-phosphorus mix, lead poisoning would occur."
Soil chemist Murray McBride, director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute, said he doesn't doubt that sludge can bind lead in soil.
But when eaten, "it's not at all clear that the sludge binding the lead will be preserved in the acidity of the stomach," he said. "Actually thinking about a child ingesting this, there's a very good chance that it's not safe."
McBride and others also questioned the choice of neighborhoods for the studies and why residents were not told about other, possibly harmful ingredients in sludge.
"If you're not telling them what kinds of chemicals could be in there, how could they even make an informed decision. If you're telling them it's absolutely safe, then it's not ethical," McBride said. "In many relatively wealthy people's neighborhoods, I would think that people would research this a little and see a problem and raise a red flag."
The Baltimore study used a compost of sludge mixed with sawdust and wood chips packaged as "biosolids," the term for sludge preferred by government and the waste industry.
"What we did was make the yards greener," said Pat Tracey, a Johns Hopkins University community relations coordinator who recalled helping with the lawn work. "They were bald, bad yards. It was considered sterile fertilizer."
Baltimore environmental activist Glenn Ross says choosing poor neighborhoods destined for demolition makes it hard to track a study's participants. "If you wanted to do something very questionable, you would do it in a neighborhood that's not going to be there in a few years," he said.
HUD documents show the study's lead author, Mark Farfel, has pursued several other studies of lead contamination including the risks of exposure from urban housing demolitions and the vacant lots left behind.
Farfel has since moved to New York, where he directs the World Trade Center Health Registry surveying tens of thousands of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. He denied repeated requests for interviews and referred questions to Baltimore's Kennedy Krieger Institute, the children's research facility that was the recipient of HUD grants with Farfel as project manager.
The institute referred questions to Joann Rodgers, a spokeswoman for Johns Hopkins. She said a review board within its medical school approved the study and the consent forms provided to families that participated. "The study did not test children or other family members living in the homes," she said.
Some of Farfel's previous research has been controversial.
In 2001, Maryland's highest court chastised him, Kennedy Krieger and Johns Hopkins over a study bankrolled by EPA in which researchers testing low-cost ways to control lead hazards exposed more than 75 poor children to lead-based paint in partially renovated houses.
Families of two children alleged to have suffered elevated blood-lead levels and brain damage sued the institute and later settled for an undisclosed amount.
The Maryland Court of Appeals likened the study to Nazi medical research on concentration camp prisoners, the U.S. government's 40-year Tuskegee study that denied treatment for syphilis to black men in order to study the illness and Japan's use of "plague bombs" in World War II to infect and study entire villages.
"These programs were somewhat alike in the vulnerability of the subjects: uneducated African-American men, debilitated patients in a charity hospital, prisoners of war, inmates of concentration camps and others falling within the custody and control of the agencies conducting or approving the experiments," the court said."
Nine low-income families in Baltimore row houses agreed to let researchers till the sewage sludge into their yards and plant new grass. In exchange, they were given food coupons as well as the free lawns as part of a study published in 2005 and funded by the Housing and Urban Development Department.
The Associated Press reviewed grant documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and interviewed researchers. No one involved with the $446,231 grant for the two-year study would identify the participants, citing privacy concerns. There is no evidence there was ever any medical follow-up.
Comparable research was conducted by the Agriculture Department and Environmental Protection Agency in a similarly poor, black neighborhood in East St. Louis, Ill.
The sludge, researchers said, put the children at less risk of brain or nerve damage from lead, a highly toxic element once widely used in gasoline and paint. Other studies have shown brain damage among children, often in poor neighborhoods, who ate lead-based paint that had flaked off their homes.
The idea that sludge - the leftover semisolid wastes filtered from water pollution at 16,500 treatment plants - can be turned into something harmless, even if swallowed, has been a tenet of federal policy for three decades.
In a 1978 memo, the EPA said sludge "contains nutrients and organic matter which have considerable benefit for land and crops" despite the presence of "low levels of toxic substances."
But in the late 1990s the government began underwriting studies such as those in Baltimore and East St. Louis using poor neighborhoods as laboratories to make a case that sludge may also directly benefit human health.
Meanwhile, there has been a paucity of research into the possible harmful effects of heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, other chemicals and disease-causing microorganisms often found in sludge.
A series of reports by the EPA's inspector general and the National Academy of Sciences between 1996 and 2002 faulted the adequacy of the science behind the EPA's 1993 regulations on sludge.
The chairman of the 2002 academy panel, Thomas Burke, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, says epidemiological studies have never been done to show whether spreading sludge on land is safe.
"There are potential pathogens and chemicals that are not in the realm of safe," Burke told the AP. "What's needed are more studies on what's going on with the pathogens in sludge - are we actually removing them? The commitment to connecting the dots hasn't been there."
That's not what the subjects of the Baltimore and East St. Louis research were told.
Rufus Chaney, an Agriculture Department research agronomist who co-wrote the Baltimore study, said the researchers provided the families with brochures about lead hazards, tested the soil in their yards and gave assurances that the Orgro fertilizer was store-bought and perfectly safe.
"They were told that their lawn, as it stood, before it was treated, was a lead danger to their children," said Chaney. "So that even if they ate some of the soil, there would not be as much of a risk as there was before. And that's what the science shows."
Chaney said the Baltimore neighborhoods were chosen because they were within an economically depressed area qualifying for tax incentives. He acknowledged the families were not told there have been some safety disputes and health complaints over sludge.
"They were told that it was composted biosolids that are available for sale commercially in the state of Maryland. I don't think there's any other further disclosure required," Chaney said. "There was danger before. There wasn't danger because of the biosolids compost. Composting, of course, kills pathogens."
The Baltimore study concluded that phosphate and iron in sludge can increase the ability of soil to trap more harmful metals including lead, cadmium and zinc, causing the combination to pass safely through a child's body if eaten.
It called the fertilizer "a simple low-cost" technology for parents and communities "to reduce risk to their children" who are in danger of lead contamination. The results were published in Science of the Total Environment, an international research journal, in 2005.
Another study investigating whether sludge might inhibit the "bioavailability" of lead - the rate it enters the bloodstream and circulates to organs and tissues - was conducted on a vacant lot in East St. Louis next to an elementary school, all of whose 300 students were black and almost entirely from low-income families.
In a newsletter, the EPA-funded Community Environmental Resource Program assured local residents it was all safe.
"Though the lot will be closed off to the public, if people - particularly children - get some of the lead contaminated dirt in their mouths, the lead will just pass through their bodies and not be absorbed," the newsletter said. "Without this iron-phosphorus mix, lead poisoning would occur."
Soil chemist Murray McBride, director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute, said he doesn't doubt that sludge can bind lead in soil.
But when eaten, "it's not at all clear that the sludge binding the lead will be preserved in the acidity of the stomach," he said. "Actually thinking about a child ingesting this, there's a very good chance that it's not safe."
McBride and others also questioned the choice of neighborhoods for the studies and why residents were not told about other, possibly harmful ingredients in sludge.
"If you're not telling them what kinds of chemicals could be in there, how could they even make an informed decision. If you're telling them it's absolutely safe, then it's not ethical," McBride said. "In many relatively wealthy people's neighborhoods, I would think that people would research this a little and see a problem and raise a red flag."
The Baltimore study used a compost of sludge mixed with sawdust and wood chips packaged as "biosolids," the term for sludge preferred by government and the waste industry.
"What we did was make the yards greener," said Pat Tracey, a Johns Hopkins University community relations coordinator who recalled helping with the lawn work. "They were bald, bad yards. It was considered sterile fertilizer."
Baltimore environmental activist Glenn Ross says choosing poor neighborhoods destined for demolition makes it hard to track a study's participants. "If you wanted to do something very questionable, you would do it in a neighborhood that's not going to be there in a few years," he said.
HUD documents show the study's lead author, Mark Farfel, has pursued several other studies of lead contamination including the risks of exposure from urban housing demolitions and the vacant lots left behind.
Farfel has since moved to New York, where he directs the World Trade Center Health Registry surveying tens of thousands of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. He denied repeated requests for interviews and referred questions to Baltimore's Kennedy Krieger Institute, the children's research facility that was the recipient of HUD grants with Farfel as project manager.
The institute referred questions to Joann Rodgers, a spokeswoman for Johns Hopkins. She said a review board within its medical school approved the study and the consent forms provided to families that participated. "The study did not test children or other family members living in the homes," she said.
Some of Farfel's previous research has been controversial.
In 2001, Maryland's highest court chastised him, Kennedy Krieger and Johns Hopkins over a study bankrolled by EPA in which researchers testing low-cost ways to control lead hazards exposed more than 75 poor children to lead-based paint in partially renovated houses.
Families of two children alleged to have suffered elevated blood-lead levels and brain damage sued the institute and later settled for an undisclosed amount.
The Maryland Court of Appeals likened the study to Nazi medical research on concentration camp prisoners, the U.S. government's 40-year Tuskegee study that denied treatment for syphilis to black men in order to study the illness and Japan's use of "plague bombs" in World War II to infect and study entire villages.
"These programs were somewhat alike in the vulnerability of the subjects: uneducated African-American men, debilitated patients in a charity hospital, prisoners of war, inmates of concentration camps and others falling within the custody and control of the agencies conducting or approving the experiments," the court said."
The Daily Times Just Can't Keep Reporters
Here is a list of Reporters who have come and gone with the Daily Times. Have I forgotten anyone?
1. John Bozman
2. Dan Valentine
3. Joe Cacchiolli
4. John Vandiver
5. Joe Gidjunis
6. Monique Lewis
7. Laren Hall-Hughes
8. Katherine Crowell
9. James Fisher
1. John Bozman
2. Dan Valentine
3. Joe Cacchiolli
4. John Vandiver
5. Joe Gidjunis
6. Monique Lewis
7. Laren Hall-Hughes
8. Katherine Crowell
9. James Fisher
"Juno" (2007)
One of the best movies coming out on DVD this week will be Jason Reitmans "Juno", and the title character is a sarcastic and independent-minded 16 year old girl who gets pregnant by her best guy-friend and decides ultimately to give her baby up for adoption. She selects an uber-yuppie couple played by Jason Bateman & Jenifer Garner to adopt her child and develops a deep bond with them over the course of her pregnancy.
Juno, played by Ellen Page, is already ostracized at her high school because she is a noncomformist and she encounters alot of judgemental people in school and out as she gets bigger. In one outstanding scene, she is the target of an ultrasound techinicians' scorn for being a teen mother and her stepmother tells the tech off.Juno also experiences ups and downs in her relationship with Bleeker,the father of her child.Their platonic friendship gets strained, naturally and eventually she discovers she loved him along.
This movie impressed me because it portrayed a very positive and responsible solution to a common social problem.Movies like last years "Knocked Up" make for a hilarious comedy, but how many yuppie fast track women are going to raise a baby with a drunken out-of-work slacker who impregnated them during a boozy encounter? On the other end of the spectrum, characters on TV and movies getting abortions have become the norm in liberal with-it Hollywood. It's just nice to see a story about someone faced with the same problem who takes the high road.
It also has an offbeat soundtrack with tunes by Lou Reed and The Kinks, just to name a couple. "Juno" will be released in two days on DVD and I totally recommend it!
Quote of the Day
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. Thomas Jefferson
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Shorebirds 4, Lakewood 7
The Shorebirds came back from a 2 run deficit from the 2nd inning with a big 3 run 8th with a Tyler Henson providing a two run RBI. Lakewood struck back even harder with a Joel Naughton two run single to put the BlueClaws up 4-3. David Cash followed right back with a RBI single in the bottom of the 9th to tie it up.
Dominic Brown drove in 2 runs in the 11th with a double to dead center. Brown then scored on a Michael Durant Single.
Final Score, 7-4 Lakewood. Delmarva won the series 2-1 and is now 4-4 for the season.
Delmarva plays Hagerstown tommorrow night at 7:05.
Feldman's Under Contract For 1/2 Of His Property
While the Feldman's building has been up for sale for several months now, they have sold the old portion of the structure but not the old Ethan Allen portion, which is newer.
I'm told someone from Cambridge or Annapolis has a contract on it and was supposed to close on it last Thursday but there were some unknown complications. However, they still expect the deal to go through very soon. I'm also told the new owner wants to keep it an Antique Mall.
Don't quote me on this but I was told he sold the old sections for around $450,000.00.
Captain Investment Back On The P&Z Agenda!
If you'll recall, the last time we posted something on this group we packed the house and at the last second the Developer backed out and they're back on the agenda once again. Of course they make it difficult for people to attend, being that it's scheduled for 2:00 in the afternoon but I believe there will be a similar crowd once again.
Scheduled for April 17, 2008
Items starting at 2:00 (5th item)
"City Subdivision Plat"
CAPTAIN INVESTMENTS
Camden Ave. (between Pinehurst & Somerset)
Who is Captain's Investments and why are they so determined to cram in
another house on this parcel?
Below are some links to previous articles we wrote on the Captain Investment Group.
GO HERE for one article on this issue. GO HERE for another article we wrote on this issue.
Scheduled for April 17, 2008
Items starting at 2:00 (5th item)
"City Subdivision Plat"
CAPTAIN INVESTMENTS
Camden Ave. (between Pinehurst & Somerset)
Who is Captain's Investments and why are they so determined to cram in
another house on this parcel?
Below are some links to previous articles we wrote on the Captain Investment Group.
GO HERE for one article on this issue. GO HERE for another article we wrote on this issue.
The Daily Times Fails You Again
While the Daily Times drafted TWO articles in the past two days about how they served alcohol to a minor, they still purposely missed the mark, the biggest point of the story.
I sat back yesterday and waited with anticipation of their bigger and better article today and just as I suspected, it was there. Here's what they missed though. THERE'S NO ACCOUNTABILITY!
I'll NEVER forget Councilwoman Stevie Prettyman bringing this up, FACE to FACE with the heads of the Liquor Board, (not afraid to tell it like it is) and stating, when the Dispensary was caught, NOTHING happened to them! No Fines, No Suspension, NOTHING! There is NO accountability!
How convenient of the Daily Times to have missed that statement. It's no wonder Joe "G" is gone. He missed the mark on this article like he missed the mark on so many others. Oh, this makes me a naysayer, right? I disagree with him being a professional and tell the entire story, after all, that's what we pay them for, right?
If you're a Bar, Restaurant or Convenience Store and you sell to a minor, you could be fined, suspended and or even lose your license completely. Ron Alessi is enjoying yet another branch of Government that has no accountability whatsoever! You see, at the Zoo when animals die by the hundreds per year, no one gives a sh!t because they're not accountable by telling you how many died each year. In the Liquor Dispensary, they're not accountable either and Alessi is involved in both.
Alessi needs a swift kick in the ass out of City/County relations and retire, just like we suggested Bill Duvall do long ago. Things will go further down hill, like they have with Duvall, the Zoo and now the Liquor Dispensary. Very poor job there Joe "G."
Exclusive: Shooting In Salisbury Last Night!
Around midnight there was a shooting outside the Marriott Courtyard in Salisbury - behind the MSP barracks. There was a large, unruly crowd and somebody threw something at an ambulance. Salisbury Police are handling it. More to come......
AMSA Beach Clean-up April 26th
Assateague Island is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. To think that it's right in our backyard blows me away. Many of us go there to drive on the beach time after time, every season. We lay on the beach, fire up the grills, fish, swim in the water, and take for granted that it will always be there for us. But what about for our kids.......and their kids.
Every year the Assateague Mobile Sportsmans Assoc. (AMSA) holds an AMSA Beach Clean-Up Event on Assateague Island during which volunteers gather on the beach and conduct a massive clean-up effort. This results in the removal of hundreds or even thousands of pounds of debris from the beach. This debris washes up on the beach during the winter or is left behind by those who refuse to tread lightly on that which many of us have chosen to make a large part of our families lives.
On April 26, 2008, AMSA will again host this annual event. Volunteers are asked to meet at the tire inflation area on Assateague Island (National Park) at 9:00 a.m. The event should last until about 1:00 p.m. Hot dogs and other refreshments will be provided to volunteers by AMSA. To learn more about the AMSA go to: http://keepersofthebeach.com/
On another note, but definitely relative to this post, is that in previous years, a clean-up volunteer only needed to display a cardboard sign stating "Beach Clean-Up" in the windshield of his/her 4x4, and the requirement for a beach permit would be waived for that day. This year the U.S. National Park Service has elected not to extend that courtesy to the volunteers. This makes it difficult for anyone to volunteer and take their 4x4 onto the beach that day if the fee for the permit is not in their budget at that time. It would seem as though some bureaucrat isn't thinking clearly on this matter. We should all, to the extent possible, call the Maryland District Visitor Information Center @ 410-641-1441 and Ranger Station @ 410-641-3030 and express to them how counter productive this decision really is.
Every year the Assateague Mobile Sportsmans Assoc. (AMSA) holds an AMSA Beach Clean-Up Event on Assateague Island during which volunteers gather on the beach and conduct a massive clean-up effort. This results in the removal of hundreds or even thousands of pounds of debris from the beach. This debris washes up on the beach during the winter or is left behind by those who refuse to tread lightly on that which many of us have chosen to make a large part of our families lives.
On April 26, 2008, AMSA will again host this annual event. Volunteers are asked to meet at the tire inflation area on Assateague Island (National Park) at 9:00 a.m. The event should last until about 1:00 p.m. Hot dogs and other refreshments will be provided to volunteers by AMSA. To learn more about the AMSA go to: http://keepersofthebeach.com/
On another note, but definitely relative to this post, is that in previous years, a clean-up volunteer only needed to display a cardboard sign stating "Beach Clean-Up" in the windshield of his/her 4x4, and the requirement for a beach permit would be waived for that day. This year the U.S. National Park Service has elected not to extend that courtesy to the volunteers. This makes it difficult for anyone to volunteer and take their 4x4 onto the beach that day if the fee for the permit is not in their budget at that time. It would seem as though some bureaucrat isn't thinking clearly on this matter. We should all, to the extent possible, call the Maryland District Visitor Information Center @ 410-641-1441 and Ranger Station @ 410-641-3030 and express to them how counter productive this decision really is.
I am not an AMSA member and I have not been to Assateague Island in quite a few years. But I would like to extend my thanks to the AMSA and all other volunteers for undertaking this most worthwhile effort. If more of us took the time to give back to our communities, the world would be a better place.
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