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county Nearly 100 supporters and reporters showed up at the Calvert County Courthouse lawn on Wednesday for George Owings’ ofcial announcement of hisrun for the governor’s ofce. SEE PAGE 4

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Owings Running for GovernorBy Guy LeonardStaff Writer

George Owings, a former Calvert County state delegate andSecretary of Veterans Affairs under the Robert Ehrlich administra-

tion, formally announced Wednesday he is running in the Demo-cratic primary to unseat Gov. Martin O’Malley.

Owings made his announcement at the Calvert County court-house complex and quickly took to criticizing what he called theO’Malley administration’s bent for taxation, spending and attackingbusiness interests.

“The time to return to a day of good government is upon us,”Owings said to a crowd of about 100 supporters, and media. “Thephrase often repeated ‘Government that works has turned into aveiled and empty promise.”

Owings said that tax increases implemented by O’Malley’sadministration in its early days had the opposite affect on the statebudget it had expected.

“It killed business,” Owings said, adding that if elected gover-nor he would institute a budget process that would focus “our eyeson necessities and not luxuries.”

“You work with business, not against business,” he said.Owings key example of this was O’Malley’s pressure on the

Public Service Commission to examine the deal between power provider Constellation Energy and Electricite de France to construct

a new reactor at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant.Local ofcials in favor of the deal said that O’Malley’s insis -

tence on rate concessions for BG&E customers could have scuttledthe deal.

“That would have cost Southern Maryland 4,000 constructionjobs,” Owings said.

Owings candidacy comes at a time when O’Malley’s popular-ity seems to have weakened; according to a recent Clarus ResearchGroup poll only 39 percent of residents polled wanted to see himremain governor, while 48 percent wanted someone else as Mary-

land’s chief executive.“Governor O’Malley is now below 50 percent

across-the-board in the triple crown of re-election poll metrics: trial heat, generic re-elect, and job ap- proval,” said Ron Faucheux, president of Clarus

Research Group in a statement of the late 2009 poll.“O’Malley faces two major problems that are drag-ging him down. First, his issue ratings are lackluster,especially on economic and scal matters. Second,he’s polling only 34 percent of independents against[former Gov. Robert] Ehrlich.”

Some politicos around the state have speculatedthat Ehrlich will once again make a run for governor in 2010.

Todd Eberly, a political science professor at St.Mary’s College of Maryland said he did not believeOwings could beat O’Malley because the incumbenthad a solid base in the Democratic party establish-ment in Montgomery and Prince George’s countiesas well as Baltimore City, but Owings candidacycould appeal to the more conservative elements inSouthern Maryland, the Eastern Shore and in West-ern Maryland.

This could have the affect of boosting a Republican challenger like Ehrlich should he choose to run.

“O’Malley would certainly be the front runner in the primary… but in no way would I say O’Malley’s seat is safe,” Eberly said.

With Democrats nationwide suffering retirements or declinesto run among its key players, Eberly said, Maryland Republicansmight do well in 2010 as they did in 2004.

“If he [Owings] can run strong in those areas it can revealweaknesses for O’Malley,” Eberly said.

Owings, 64, of Dunkirk, said that he could not promise therewould be no tax increases in coming scal years — government hadits costs, he told reporters — but there were things in the state budget

that needed to be removed to save money.One example, he said, was in duplication of serv

cies like the Department of the Environment and the D

Natural Resources.Annapolis lobbyist and fellow Democrat Bruce Bout in support of Owings’ candidacy.

“Voters need a choice, that’s what primaries are fsaid. “This current administration is all about taxing, back they’re going to tax people like crazy.”

Bereano said that Owings pedigree in local and made him a formidable opponent to O’Malley.

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Top Stories of 2009

Today’s Newsmakers In Brief

By Guy LeonardStaff Writer

In light of recent word from the state De- partment of Assessments and Taxation that property tax assessments for residential prop-erties in the northern end of the county havedecreased by some 16 percent elected ofcialssay that there are no plans in the near future toincrease the tax rate to compensate for fallingrevenues.

“I don’t think we’ll raise any tax rates,”said Commissioner Thomas A. Mattingly

(D-Leonardtown). “We’ll probably see somedecrease in revenues but we can make adjust-ments in the budget.

“It wasn’t unexpected,” he said.With a ve percent tax cap on primary res-

idences in the county, ofcials say, the amountof decrease in revenues up front might be di-minished because homeowners with a $100,000home with a 15 percent increase in assessmentwould only pay on $105,000 of value.

Where it could have the most effect, theysay, would be with secondary residences thatare not protected by the tax rate cap.

Several years ago tax rates went up for properties in the northern, middle and southern portions of the county, sometimes as high as 60 percent, and ofcials are now concerned that

there will be just as precipitous a dation as their was an increase abouago.

Commissioner Daniel H. RalMills) said that despite this the ratreduction for the county would years to be felt severely.

“They’ll have to go down 10 tin three or four cycles to see an imtax bill,” Raley said. “But there’s some drop in revenue.”

Raley said local government to be cautious with expenditures b

looming loss of revenues over the years, but right now no increases inare being considered seriously.

“That’s off the table, noboabout that; but I’m not sure we canyield either,” Raley said.

Commissioner Lawrence D.Golden Beach) said that the comeasure, which he has pushed for would keep residents’ tax bills con

prior increase in assessments, was “I would hope the other co

would listen to the public,” Jarboe times you have to make do with les

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When County Commissioner Lawrence D.Jarboe (R-Golden Beach) offered to make a per-sonal letter to Gov. Martin O’Malley a consentletter for all commissioners to support the state’snew proposed plans for more oyster sanctuariesin local waters it didn’t take long to draw strongopposition.

Commissioner President Francis Jack Rus-sell, a longtime waterman, quickly said that Jar-boe could send the letter along on his own but heshouldn’t expect his support for the governor’splan.

One of the elements of the O’Malley planis to put an oyster sanctuary at the headwatersof the St. Mary’s River, Russell said, and thatwould effectively destroy one of the last bastionsof oyster harvesting open to local watermen.

“To have a sanctuary in the head of theSt. Mary’s River is an example of someone notknowing what they’re talking about,” Russellsaid in response to Jarboe’s proposal.

After the meeting Russell said that thecounty’s eponymous river has exhibited naturaloyster growth to some degree every year for thepast 50 years and was the only waterway in thecounty to do so.

“There’s plenty of other space for oyster

sanctuaries,” Russell said, saying that Fort Pointnear Webster Field Annex in St. Inigoes would be a good spot because it had not produced oys-ters for a long period of time and would not im- pede watermen from making a living.

“It’s [putting an oyster sanctuary in the St.Mary’s River] going to screw things up becauseno one is going to be able to work that bottom,”Russell said. “It’s just another few nails in thecofn.”

Jarboe said that the governor’s proposal,which still has to go to public hearings andwould be administered by the Department of Natural Resources, would help to seed moreoysters in both the St. Mary’s and Patuxent Riv-er and help make the Chesapeake Bay a thrivingestuary again.

The revival of the oyster is widely seen asone of the best ways to help clean up the bay be-cause the mollusks lter out sediments and other

pollutants.Russell said that oyster sanctuaries were not

popular with watermen but they would acceptthem as long as they did not prove an obstacle totheir already struggling harvesting operations.

“The governor’s plan can work very well but they’ve got the wrong place for these sanctu-aries,” Russell said.

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Commissioner PresidentSlams O’Malley’s Oyster Plan

Part 2Part 2We at The County Times are recapping the top news sto-

ries of 2009 to give readers a glimpse of the most interesting and eventful news of the past year. This week we look back and

give snippets from the top stories from July to December, Seethe sports and education sections of this newspaper for the topstories of the year in education and sports . All stories printed in The County Times can be viewed in their entirety onlineat www.Countytimes.net. Check out the archive for full pageviews of each issue of the paper.

July

Hoyer: Fun Timesin Congress Are Over -July 9

After 28 yearsrepresenting Mary-land in Congress, Rep.Steny Hoyer, told theLexington

Park Rotary Clubon Monday that the

days of Congress’ reckless spending with no thought to the fu-ture are over.

“Let me say something politicians don’t like to say: It was

easy for a long period of time. I’ve been in Congress since 1981,and for most of those years, we bought but didn’t pay, and everybody loved it,” Hoyer said.

For Dorsey, Politics Is InThe Blood - July 9

Walter B. Dorsey, former state senator and veteran countystate’s attorney, can remember when his father Philip Dorsey,who later became a CircuitCourt judge, ran against AlanCoad for the state senate seatin 1934 and lost by some 500or 600 votes. His father, unde-terred by defeat, went on to wina delegate’s seat in 1936.

It was the beginning of what some have called the

“Dorsey Machine” of local politics when his father ate seat, a position of considerable power, he said.

“Everybody’s referred to it as the ‘Dorsey Mac

implies corruption,” he said. “The only thing I camy father tried to help a lot of people personally an jobs.”

Woman Pleads Guilty To Wal-Mart Bomb ThreA Lusby woman accused earlier this year of m

separate bomb threats at the CaliforniaWal-Mart Super Store where she was employed

guilty to three of those felony counts, according to tor on the case.

“When she made her confession… she said sheto go to work.”

August

New Bingo Licenses Mean ADF Could Reopen DoOfcials with the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s

conrmed that they have approved two new bingolocal charities that want to operate fundraisers at the

On what programs are at risk this year when the legislature

works on the state budget

“All of it, we’re beyond certain programs at risk.”

House Minority Leader Del. Anthony O’Donnell (D-Dist. 29C)

On the possibility of raising tax rates in light of decreased

property assessments

“That’s off the table, nobody’stalking about that.”

Commissioner Daniel H. Raley (D-Great Mills)

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Hall in Mechanicsville, which has been closed for weeks sinceits community foundation arm was denied a license.

“Where bingo is held is irrelevant, the law is the law,” Capt.Alioto said. “There is no more ‘Here’s your bingo license, go dowhatever you want.’”

Commissioners Call Redevelopment Grant ‘Bailout’ - Aug. 13Commissioner President Francis Jack Russell said he did

not allow a proposal to accept federal grant money to buy and

then demolish an old gas station on Great Mills Road to cometo a vote by the Board of County Commissioners because itsmacked of bailing out a private company.

“I’m a little disappointed with the county commissioners for not even bringing it to the table,” said Paul Colonna, vice presi-dent ofBesche Oil. “We didn’t rebuild there because it wasn’t[economically] feasible.”

September

Hoyer FacesAngry Crowd at

Town Hall – Sept.3

Steny Hoyer,who representsSouthern Mary-land, was greetedalternately withcheers and boosfrom some of the1,500 people whopacked the North

Point High Schoolgymnasium.

[M]any in thecrowd roundly booed Hoyer’s panel members as they spoke,claiming they were wasting precious time to ask questions.

“We don’t want to hear these people!” one person shoutedfrom the crowd.

“No one would be required to join the public plan,” Hoyer said.

New Local Winery Accepts First Batch of Grapes – Sept. 3As Rich Full-

er, president of theSouthern MarylandWine Growers Co-

op, unloaded the rstgrapes of the seasonat the front entranceto the new Leon-ardtown Winery, itseemed he couldn’thold back a smile.

“This is a big

day,” said Fuller.The new facility, a former State Highway Administration

building on Route 5 in Leonardtown, had nally been trans-formed into a functioning winery after years of working to getthe project off the ground.

Hospital Merger Means More Jobs, Services – Sept. 24 Leaders of St. Mary’s Hospital and Med-Star Health say

their merger, announced this week, will result in expanded ser-

vices in Southern Maryland and additional job opportunities atthe hospital.

“We reached out to MedStar. We initiated this process,” saidChristine Wray, president and CEO of St. Mary’s Hospital. Un-like what typically comes to mind when two companies merge,there will be no layoffs or reductions in services.

October

Is O’Malley Jeopardizing Power Plant Expansion? -Oct. 8Many local Republicans and Democrats alike are accusing

Gov. Martin O’Malley of playing politics with the multi-billiondollar merger.

“I don’t want anything to jeopardize the expansion of the plant,” said Gary Hodge, chairman of the Tri-County Councilfor Southern Maryland. “I think it’s unfortunate that projectsof this magnitude and complexity get entangled in bureaucraticturf wars.”

County Asks For $750,000 Back From Schools – Oct . 15The mood was somewhat somber at the Board of Education

meeting on Wednesday as members deliberated on how to return$750,000 to the county to cover shortfalls due to reductions inmoney coming from the state.

“In the last month we have been informed by … the CountyCommissioners, … of the cuts from the state … it was deter-mined that we would be responsible for $750,000 of that cut,”said Superintendent Michael Martirano.

Missing Chopticon Student Found Dead - Oct. 29A urry of police activity surrounding the search for a

missing teenager came to a close on Tuesday afternoon whenauthorities found the student dead in his truck from what was

believed to be a self-inicted gunshot wound.“We’re just devastated,” said Chopticon Principal Garth

Bowling. “… and our concern is for our faculty, too … becausequite a few of these teachers knew this student and they’re goingthrough a hard time as well.”

November

Delegates Differ On County Spending – Nov. 5Southern Maryland delegates have different takes on the

decit the state faces in 2011.Del. Anthony O’Donnell (R-Dist. 29C) says that the short-

fall is about $3 billion, while hiscounterpart on the other side of the aisle, Del. John Bohanan (D-Dist.29B), says it’s more like $2

billion.“The state has overspent in

my opinion, every time we get arevenue statement it seems to getworse,” said O’Donnell.

Restaurant At The End Of The Airport? - Nov. 19

Discussions are underwaywithin the Airport AdvisoryCommittee to bring a restaurantto the terminal at St. Mary’sCounty Airport.

“We have a great airport here,” Airport Advisotee Chairman Jim Davis said. “This is a chance to mThis airport can be a rst class facility for aircraftnot too distant future … We want to make this beautwe have into a more useful resource for the commun

December

Leonardtown Mayor Wants Board To Look Abrary Sites - Dec. 3

Mayor J. Harry Norris has asked the St. MaLibrary Board to consider other sites for the new lfor Leonardtown since funding for the project seequestion.

Originally planned for construction on the H property on the outskirts of town on Hollywood Rhas said that he wants to see the library much closertown area.

“If they’re not going to move ahead in the neathe library then I asked that they reconsider the locasaid.

Presidential Helicopter Program May Get ResurreAfter being cancelled last spring, the president

program may be on its way back, according to sommade by the top acquisition ofcial for the nation’s

The helicopter program was one of the most toects to come to Patuxent River Naval Air Station butwere lost when the program was scrubbed.

“We can’t let that happen this time. We need

requirements so the program becomes doable,” saiCarter, assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisitiogy and Logistics.

2009 Year In Review Contin


The Board of County Commissioners ofcially closedout a state grant of $182,000 that would have been used to

fund a small crisis facility for tri-county youth in need of shelter, but state cuts had doomed the facility to close back in September.

Bennett Connelly, director of the county’s Departmentof Human Services that helped administer the shelter inCalvert County, said that given the dire scal situation at thestate level, the chances of getting the three-year-old plan anew life were poor.

“I wish I could say yes but given the scal picture inMaryland you can’t predict when that’s going to happen,”Connelly said.

The program was a cooperative venture between thethree Southern Maryland counties that allowed young peoplewho were in crisis that did not have security issues to have asafe place to stay.

When it was started in 2006, Connelly said, it was theonly crisis facility of its type in the region; before that youngpeople had to be transferred by referral to a facility in Fred-

erick or Baltimore.Young people will have to go to one of those facilities

again, Connelly said.“It worked well, we served over 100 kids,” he said. “They

were closer to their families and to their home schools.

“We could resolve those problems and get them homequicker.”This is just one of the cuts that have impeded the work

at the relatively new human services department; overallthe department has lost $2 million in grant money from thestate since July, Connelly said, which is the greatest sourceof funding.

And the nancial outlook is only growing worse, hesaid.

“What we’ve experienced this year may be better thanwhat we’ll see next year,” Connelly said.

Commissioners lamented the loss of the facility project.

“This one really hurts, this is a shame,” Commissioner Daniel H. Raley said. “They needed help and this helpedthem.”

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With Grants Closed Out, Youth ShelterHopes Fade Away

Cpl. Wayne Milam, right, looks over a plaque given to him by the St. MaCounty Commissioners celebrating his retirement rom the sheri’s ofce. ShK. Cameron, middle, said that Milam was a valuable deputy.“He’s had a distinguished career,” Cameron said. “He’s trained a lot o pea lot o supervisors.” Capt. Michael Merican stands at let.

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This will be a year to remember. It willprobably take us about six months to actuallybegin to feel the impact of the new tax struc-tures that have been or are in the process of being put in place. We people don’t really paymuch attention to our government until weactually feel their hands in our pockets, grab-bing our wallets. That feeling will be soon toarrive.

There is one ray of ‘sunshine’. That raycan be dened as the 2010 election season.WE have a chance to elect some conservativeswho will immediately take charge in Washing-ton and rescind some of the conscatory taxesand laws and programs that our socialist dicta-tors have passed.

One politician we can hopefully get rid of Steny Hoyer who pushed so hard for the ObamaCare bill that will tax us until 2014 before itgoes into effect. Another will be Mikulski – she wants the health care bill, too. Who can wereplace them with? Let’s nd conservativesout there somewhere who have the intestinalfortitude to stand up and do what’s right – getus out of this mess.

I really don’t believe many people grasp

how artfully the new taxes will steal our mon-ey. Everything form over-the-counter-drugs,Medicare cuts, higher income taxes, andhigher taxes on investments, to the screamingination rates that’s just around the corner isgoing to make us punch drunk trying to nd

a way to survive. It doesn’t take an economicguru to look at what’s happening. Just openyour eyes. If we ran our households the waythe elected socialist are running our countrywe’d be bankrupt in a few months- unless we,like our government, had our money machinein the basement where we could print our dol-lars. But even that would only work for a littlewhile.

If people would just stop and look atwhat’s happening in places like Venezuela and

North Korea, then imagine those happeningsoccurring in the country, it is sobering. Never happen here, you say? Think again. All ittakes is a couple late night votes and it hap-

pens. Nationalization like in Venezuela? Al-ready happened – regardless of what the pollssay. Devaluing our money? It’s in process aswe speak. Print enough money and the dollar loses its value. So devalue it.

LET’S WAKE UP, PEOPLE! We haveone chance to get the socialist out of Washing-ton. If we pass up that chance in November 2010, we won’t be able to change anything in2012. If that happens, I fear our new nationalmotto will change from “In God We Trust” to

“Workers Of The World, Unite.” Our glori-ous Starts and Stripes will add a hammer andsickle. Is that what we want?

James HilbertMechanicsville, Md

2010 Will Be a Year to Remember

Motorists in most of the country face se-vere weather conditions for at least part of thewinter. The thought of a breakdown, an en-gine not starting or otherwise being strandedis stressful as it is, but those things happeningin freezing winter weather add another level of threat. An investment of an hour or so to haveyour vehicle checked is all it takes to have peace

of mind and help avoid the cost and stress of abreakdown during harsh weather.Battery - Very cold temperatures will re-

duce a vehicle’s battery power so it’s importantto keep the connections clean, tight and corro-sion-free. Unfortunately, batteries don’t alwaysgive warning signs before they fail completely.If your vehicle’s battery is more than threeyears old, it’s wise to replace it.

Antifreeze - The typically recommendedmixture of antifreeze (coolant) and water in-side most vehicles’ radiator is 50:50. When

properly mixed, antifreeze provides excellentanti-boil, anti-freeze and anticorrosive proper-ties. Coolant should be ushed and relled atleast every two years in most vehicles. As areminder, don’t make the mistake of adding100 percent antifreeze.

Oil - Change to low-viscosity oil, as it willow more easily between moving parts when

cold. Drivers in sub-zero driving temperaturesshould drop their oil weight from 10-W30 to5-W30 as thickened oil can make it hard tostart the car.

To make sure your car is ready for theroad this winter, visit the Car Care Council’sWeb site at www.carcare.org and check out the

popular digital Car Care Guide.

Rich White, Executive Director Car Care Council

Winterize Your Vehicle and HaveOne Less Worry

Many Americans with so called “clunk-ers” have considered the purchase of a new car,but the cost in today’s economic climate maybe prohibitive. The Engine Repower Councilsuggests that keeping your current vehicle run-ning efciently is a sensible alternative that cansave big money in the long run.

Edmonds.com reports that the average car loan payment is $479 per month over a four-year period. For the cost of an average downpayment on a new car or truck, you can re-power your vehicle’s worn out engine with aremanufactured/rebuilt engine. Consideringthat nearly $23,000 can be saved by skippingcar loan payments for the life of a four-year loan, installing a remanufactured/rebuilt en-gine is clearly a very sound and cost effectiveinvestment.

With repowering, a vehicle’s engine or anidentical one from another like-vehicle, is com-pletely disassembled, cleaned, machined and

remanufactured/rebuilt. Unlike used or junk yard engines with an unknown performanceand maintenance history, remanufactured/rebuilt engines are dependable, reliable and

backed by excellent warranty programs.In addition to its nancial benets, re-

manufactured/rebuilt engines also save the tre-mendous amount of energy used in processingdiscarded engines and vehicles. It also saves anincredible amount of raw materials that wouldhave been used in building a new engine.

To learn more about the benets of install-ing a remanufactured/rebuilt engine, visit theEngine Repower Council’s Website at www.enginerepower.org.

Dave Wooldridge, ChairmanEngine Repower Council

Keeping Your Clunker Can Save Your Wallet

By Marta Hummel Mossburg

The Washington Examiner What $2 billion decit? The pre-led bills before the Maryland legislature show

narrow interests and bigger spending will dominate debate when legislators convene onthe 2010 session.

For example, Sen. Robert Garagiola, D-Montgomery County, wants Marylande$40,000 to build a tai chi court at Cabin John Park. The exercise may promote "serengentle movements," as described by the pre-eminent Mayo Clinic. But can't proponentthemselves?

Sen. Edward Kasemeyer, a Democrat representing Baltimore and Howard countaxpayers to go into debt for $250,000 to help the Columbia Association Inc. improve Woods Park. For those not in the know, the Columbia Association is a private organizatioard funded by homeowners on the property it oversees and by fees from nonresidents facilities.

Del. Aisha Braveboy, D-Prince George's County, wants $250,000 to improve the WDay Care Center. That's great for Walker Mill's employees and parents whose childrenschool, but not for everyone else who receives no subsidies for child care.

I wonder if these legislators made a personal donation to fund the causes for whilavishly pledge taxpayer dollars. More importantly, these proposals make a joke of HouMichael Busch's statement that the state government is all "bone and gristle."

The bond bills are small expenses compared to other proposals, however.With expanded Medicaid rolls eating up an ever larger percentage of the budget

Carter Conway, D-Baltimore City, wants to force insurers to expand in vitro fertilizationCan Conway explain how a procedure that can only be described as nonessential anmore than $10,000 per cycle (many couples need more than one), when offered to wom

bearing age in Maryland, will help to contain costs and provide greater access to basservices? Maryland already has one of the highest number of health care mandates in tmaking insurance more expensive.

Del. Michael Smigiel, R-Caroline, Cecil, Kent and Queen Anne's counties, and DelD-Montgomery County, should be praised for proposing separate pieces of legislationtransparency in the state. And Smigiel deserves special recognition for legislation to mafor the state to condemn private property to hand it over to well-connected developers.

But what's missing is serious legislation, like amending state employee pensions tomore affordable to taxpayers, to align tax receipts with expenditures. In a Departmenttive Services report, Michael Rubenstein wrote, "The decline in the system's funded 78.6 to 65.0 percent, and projections that the funding ratio will continue to approach 5in coming years, are just the latest signs that the state will face a signicant scal challfor retiree costs in the years ahead."

And that's not even counting health care for state retirees. Taxpayers should not blegislators manage to balance the budget this election year. A failure to make substantive

state budget in 2010 only means higher taxes in 2011 and beyond. Examiner Columnist Marta Mossburg is a senior fellow with the Maryland Publi

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Just by recycling one aluminum can, enough energywould be saved to have a TV run for three hours.

From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan. 23, appraisers for jewelry, furniture, glassware, pottery, artwork,music boxes, dolls and coins will be available atthe St. Clement’s Island Museum to evaluate your antiques and collectibles.

A fee for dolls, coins and jewelry will be $5for the rst two items and $10 per additional item.Fees for ne arts items are $5 per item with a two-item limit.

Space is limited and items will be viewed on

a rst come, rst serve basis. Appraisals are verbalevaluations and not certied appraisals for insur -ance purposes.

Certied appraisals would be available byappointment at a later date. There will also be afree soup tasting sponsored by the ChincoteagueSeafood Company.

For more information, contact the St. Clem-ent’s Island Museum by 301-769-2222 or visitwww.stmarysmd.com/recreate/museums

Appraiser Fair Coming to St. Clement’s Island

By Bryan JaffeContributing Writer

The newest “big box” department storein the county is on course to open in less thanthree months, and will anchor the one of thecounties’ newest shopping strips in LexingtonPark.

Kohl’s, one of the nation’s leading department store chains, is expected to open itsdoors in late March to do business,and will be followed by a RiteAid drug store as well as severalsmaller shops in the new Lexing-ton Village shopping.

“We have about 25,000 – 30,000 square feet of shop tenantscoming in,” said Craig Cohen,

project manager for CGR Devel-opment, the company responsiblefor the new center. “They varyfrom nail places to restaurants to

convenience stores.”Cohen was unable to go intodetail about the specic vendorswho are looking into the newspace due to ongoing negotia-tions and requests by the vendorsfor privacy until agreements arereached.

We are in the process of leas-ing out another 40,000 square feet of which weare looking at letters of intent and negotiatingleases now,” Cohen added. He said the entireshopping center is about 180,000 sq. ft., withKohl’s being the single largest component of itat just under 90,000 sq. ft.

With the opening date for Kohl’s comingclose, the company is looking for people to ll

positions such as Area Supervisor, Customer Service Area Supervisor, Department SalesSupervisor, Operations Area Supervisor and

other sales specialists. Information on avail-able positions and how to apply is availableon the Kohl’s careers Web site, http://www.kohlscareers.com/aboutkohls/newstores/

store/?storeID=305.Cohen said that Rite Aid wil

struction in the rst quarter of 20 be located at the corner of Buck HeRoute 235, which is directly acrossisting CVS Pharmacy.

The development spans 25 awith 18 currently devoted to the ncenter, and sits on what used to beMobil Home Park. The trailer pa

of 94 lots, and a controversy eruptresidents were rst told in 2007 thahave to nd new land for their mand relocate.

According to Cohen, the acnot used for this shopping centerfor “mixed use,” meaning it couldmore retail outlets, ofce space odential purposes.

“We have a preliminary site a 110,000 – 120,000 square foot of

adjacent to the shopping center,” Cam not saying that we are buildinga matter of public record, we do happroval.”

St. Mary’s Newest ‘BiBox’ Store Opening So

New signs went up this week at the site of the Kohconstruction on Route 235 in Lexington Park. The store open within three months.

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The F/A-18 and EA-18G

program ofce Finnish Inte-grated Product Team (IPT)visited Finland in September to participate in the roll out of the Finnish Air Force’s one-of-a kind twin-seat F/A-18 Daircraft.

Also known as the“Frankenplane,” the modiedF/A-18D HN-468 Hornet, con-

verted from a single-seat F/A-18C aircraft, was unveiled torepresentatives from the Finn-

ish government, U.S. govern-

ment and industry partnersresponsible for building theaircraft.

The roll-out of the air -craft occurred in September 2009.

The idea of building the modied aircraftcame about after two Finnish F/A-18 aircraft col-

lided during a ight exercise in November 2001.While one aircraft crashed and the pilot ejectedsafely, the other Hornet was able to land with oneengine. However, that aircraft’s front fuselage

was damaged beyond repair. After a long search,a compatible front fuselage from a twin-seat F/A-18 B model aircraft was found in Canada and wasbuilt with the remaining F/A-18 aircraft that wassalvageable.

“Like all the projects, this needed a vision.In this case, the vision was transferred to the greatend product, the F-18 D-model aircraft from thecombination of F-18 B/C/D-model design andparts,” Petri Korhonen, former Finnish Air Force

HN-468 “Frankenplane” project manager saidin a press release. “The dedication of the project partners was outstanding and exceeded all our expectations.”

The primary partners of the project werethe Finnish Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the Finnishgovernment’s partner Patria, the Boeing Com-

pany and Canadian Forces.“The real magic came into this project

via direct labor of individual people from allof the partners. These people worked hard for this vision and showed their professional skillsand dedication right from the beginning of this project. These people created something specialand showed that anything is possible in our F-18community when there is a will present,” Kor -honen said.

The Finnish Air Force will now use themodied aircraft for training.

The “Frankenplane” roll out followed a visit by Finnish Air Force ofcials to NAVAIR. Dur -ing the visit, Finnish Air Force Maj. Gen. Jarmo(Charles) Lindberg presented a plaque of appre-

ciation embedded with a pair of Finnish pilot’s

wings to NAVAIR’s Finland IPT team.“The Hornet is the main tool of the FinnishAir Force. We are extremely grateful for the co-

operation of NAVAIR, PMA265 and the FinlandIPT team,” Lindberg said.

Finland’s air force has 63 Hornets in itseet, including 56 single-seat “C” models andseven “D” dual-seat models.

“It is especially gratifying for the FinlandF/A-18 team that General Lindberg came here tovisit us and present us with the plaque as a thank-you for all the good work the team has done,”said Bill McDonald, F/A-18 Finland programmanager. General Lindberg has been a joy towork with. We look forward to working with histeam for continued success in the future,”

“Looking back on where we started towhere we are now, we had a very good Hornet.But it’s going to be a lot better,” Lindberg said.

One-of-a-Kind ‘Frankenplane’Delivered To Finland

The Finnish Air Force’s “Frankenplane” makes its debut in Halli, Jamsa,Finland.

The NAVAIR Communications Security Management Team will host the annual NAVAIR Crypto Conference at the Patuxent River Base Theater Jan. 26-28.

The conference will present the latest updates on Communications Security topics such ascrypto modernization, legacy crypto support, Electronic Key Management System (EKMS), KeyManagement Infrastructure (KMI), validation process for COMSEC requirements and COMSECtraining to program managers and/or their designated representatives. The conference is open toall NAVAIR program ofces, COMSEC users, and Fleet COMSEC operators.

Security clearances are required to attend. Information on registration, submission of se -

curity clearances, agenda, and other pertinent information is available on the PMA 209 website:http://www.navair.navy.mil/PMA209/conference/comsec.as p.

Registration for this event will close on Jan. 22.

NAVAIR CommunicationsSecurity Conference

Bill McDonald, F/A-18 Finland program manager or NAVAIR’s F/A-18 and EA-18G program ofce, acceptsa plaque o appreciation on behal o his Finland team rom Jarmo Lindberg, commanding general o the Finnish Air Force.

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Lillian Cowan, 100

Lillian Ma-rie Kidd Cowan,100 of Leonard-town, MD, diedTuesday, Decem-

ber 22, 2009 atSt. Mary’s Nurs-ing Center after receiving thelast rites of Holy

Mother Church.Born September 19, 1909 in Bis-

marck, MO, she was the only child of Birt Thomas and Mary MagdaleneO’Loughlin Kidd. She lived the ma-jority of her life in her beloved St.Louis, MO.

Working from a young womanin sales and as a buyer for the sta-tionary department, she retired fromStix, Baer and Fuller DepartmentStore, St. Louis, MO.

Lillian was a devout catholicand parishioner of Our Lady’s Catho-lic Church, Medleys Neck, MD. Shewas educated solely by the Ursuline

nuns in Missouri; she was a talentedpianist and artist.As a great supporter of Fr. Flana-

gan’s Boys Home, she was an Honor-ary Citizen of Boys Town Nebraska.She was a life long member of theDaughter’s of Isabella, St. Louis of France Circle #170. She belonged tothe Christian Ladies Sodality at St.Aloysius Gonzaga Parish, St. Louis,MO. While living in Leonardtownshe had been an active member of the St. Mary’s County Chapter of the American Red Cross. Havingbeen married to the late Roland Leo“Red” Cowan, she leaves her onlychild Elizabeth Lynn “Bee” Fenwick and her husband Dr. John FrancisFenwick. She is survived by twograndchildren, Dr. Lynn Mary Fen-

wick (Timothy Gerard Buhler) andJohn Kidd Fenwick, (Susan CeceliaFenwick), also survived by four trea-sured great-grandchildren; KristinMichelle and Erin Lynn Buhler andRyan Kidd and Andrew Fenwick,three special cousins survive; ThedaWill, Hentschel and Walter Neil Kiddof St. Louis, MO, and Ben Kidd Smithof Corpus Christi, TX, she was theaunt of Thomas Cowan of Highland,NY, Mary Means of Mason, OH andMarjorie Ouelette of Walpole, MS.

Always a “Lady” Lillian pos-sessed great beauty within as well aswithout. She spent a lifetime givinggenerously of her time and tirelessenergy to her family, many friendsand acquaintances. She was a gentle,humble, quiet, compassionate, loving

woman who shall be remembered for her twinkling blue eyes, wonderfulsmile and infectious laughter.

Family will receive friends onSaturday, January 9, 2010 from 10a.m. to 11 a.m. in Our Lady’s Catho-lic Church, Leonardtown, MD a Me-morial Mass will be celebrated at 11a.m. in the church with Father JohnMattingly ofciating. Inurnmentwill be at a later date in St. John theApostle Catholic Church Cemetery,Bismarck, MO in the foothills of theOzark Mountains.

In lieu of owers contribu-tions may be made to Hospice of St.Mary’s, Inc., P.O. Box 625, Leonard-

town, MD 20650Arrangements provided by the

Brinseld Funeral Home, P.A., Leon-ardtown, MD

Clayton Cullison, Sr., 66

Clayton Ed-ward “Eddie”Cullison, Sr., 66,of Valley Lee,MD died Decem-

ber 16, 2009 at hisresidence fromcomplications of congestive heartfailure.

Born Febru-ary 19, 1943 in Valley Lee, MD, hewas the youngest child of the latePaul Edward Cullison and MaryMagdalene (Wood) Cullison.

Mr. Cullison attended LittleFlower School and St. Michael’sSchool before starting his own busi-ness. He was a self-employed exca-vating contractor for over 46 years

and had recently turned the businessover to his son. He loved his chosen

profession and many people will re-member his smiling face. He dearlyloved his family, especially workingwith his son. He also loved his farmand raising crops and cows for plea-sure, certainly not for prot. He wasa long time member of the St. Mary’sCounty Farm Bureau, having onceserved on the Board of Directors.

Mr. Cullison is survived by hiswife of thirty-eight years, BarbaraHenderson Cullison, his son, Clay-ton Edward “Eddie” Cullison, Jr. andwife Theresa Anne, two granddaugh-ters, Gracie Anne and Lily Elizabeth.He is also survived by his brother Joseph Richard “Dickie” Cullisonand wife Regina of St. George Island,

MD, sisters, June C. Diesel of Balti-more, MD and Mary Virginia Woodsof Fairfax Station, VA , many niecesand nephews, great nieces and neph-ews and great-great nieces.

A Memorial Service will be heldon Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 1 p.m.at the Take It Easy Ranch, 45285 TakeIt Easy Ranch Rd., Callaway, MD.

Memorial contributions may bemade to your favorite charity or ser-vice organization.

Condolences to the family may be made to www.brinseldfuneral.com

Arrangements by the BrinseldFuneral Home, P.A., Leonardtown,MD.

Michelle Frankenberg, 39Michelle Marie Frankenberg, 39

of Great Mills, MD, went to be withthe Lord, December 31, 2009.

Born August 18, 1970 in Platts- burgh, NY, she is survived by her sonAndrew Jock, mother and step-father Cindy and Eugene Trudeau, adoptedfather Gilbert Jock and her naturalfather Kenneth Besaw, siblings; JodyCollins, (Cody), and Cory Jock, (Do-nyl) nieces and nephews; Christo-

pher Collins, Cody Jock, Brad, Cort-ney, Emily and Jacob.

Michelle was an accountantfor McKay’s Food Store. She was alay speaker for the Bethesda United

Methodist Church. Michelle was in-volved and loved all the children ather church. She worked extensivelywith the homeless; she touched many

people’s hearts and will be missed byall who knew her.

Family will receive friends for Michelle’s Life Celebration on Thurs-day, January 7, 2010 from 5 p.m. to 8

p.m. in the Brinseld Funeral Home,P.A., Leonardtown, MD, where

prayers will be recited at 7 p.m. byReverend Keith White. A MemorialService will be conducted on Friday,January 8, 2010 at 11 a.m. in Bethes-da United Methodist Church, ValleyLee, MD with Reverend Irving Bev-erly ofciating. Interment will be

private.In lieu of owers memorial

contributions may be made to ThreeOaks Homeless Shelter, P.O. Box 776,Lexington Park, MD 20653.

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

Arrangements provided by theBrinseld Funeral Home, P.A., Leon-ardtown, MD 20650

Reginald Hunt, 58

Mr. Regi-nald “Reggie” D.Hunt, 58, of Leon-ardtown, MD, theson of the lateWilliam I. andVera E. (Ross)Hunt was born inBaltimore, MDon April 20, 1951.He entered into

eternal life on December 31, 2009 athis residence.

Reggie was educated in the Bal-timore City Public School System.He was employed for many years

with Western Electric and LenoxCorporation. For the last four years,he was employed by Cedar Lane As-sisted Living facility where he was adedicated worker.

On December 31, 2002, he wasunited in holy matrimony to BerthaM. Young. This union was blessedwith seven years of happy and lovingtimes. Reggie, affectionately calledRennin, Jeggie, and Old Man, was aloving husband, son, father, grandfa-ther, uncle and brother. He was dedi-cated to his family and was alwaysthere when needed.

He leaves to cherish his memoryhis loving and devoted wife, Bertha,three daughters, Jacqueline, Sher-onda, and Kimberly, one son, James,three sisters, Dorthea, Darlene andVictoria, three brothers, Bryant, Du-

prae and Nakia, fourteen grandchil-dren, three great-grandchildren, oneaunt, Catherine Scott, mother-in-law,Theresa S. Young, ve sisters-in-law, two brothers-in-law, and a hostof nieces, nephews, and special andloyal friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents and daughter, Lisa Gray.

Family will receive friends for Reggie’s Life Celebration on Sunday,January 10, 2010 from 11 a.m. until 12

p.m. in the Brinseld Funeral Home,22955 Hollywood Road, Leonard-town, MD 20650. A Funeral Ser-vice will be conducted at 12 p.m. in

the funeral home chapel. Intermentwill be private.

Serving as pallbearers will beSamuel Eggleston, Nobal Campbell,Pat Scriber, Victor Thomas, KevinGoldring and Jason.

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

Arrangements by the BrinseldFuneral Home, P.A., Leonardtown,MD.

Robert Ludke, 56

Robert Alan“Bob” Ludke,56, of California,MD passed awaysuddenly on De-cember 31, 2009at St. Mary’sHospital. BornJuly 19, 1953 inWashington, DC,he was the son of

the late Richard Myton Ludke and

Sibyl Areta Ludke of Ocala, FL. Heis also survived by his brother Rich-ard Ludke, Sr. of Milton, FL and hissister Kathryn (Ludke) McCollum of California, MD as well as numerousnieces, nephews, great nieces andgreat nephews. Bob’s career spannedover 20 years with Security Engi-neering Inc. in Dorsey, MD where hewas an operations manager. All ser-vices are private. Condolences may

be left to the family at www.mgfh.com. Arrangements provided by theMattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home,P.A.

Doris McLaren, 85

Doris Vir-

ginia McLaren,85 met her Lordand Savior sur-rounded by fam-ily and friendsDecember 31,2009 at her resi-dence in Lexing-ton Park, MD.

Born May 7, 1924 in Washing-ton, DC, she was the daughter of thelate Roland Samuel Kent, Sr. andPauline Frances Headley Kent.

She graduated from EasternHigh School in Washington, DC withintentions of becoming a nurse. Sheworked at Sibley Hospital before she

began her Civil Service Career at theTreasury Department. In February1944, she met her late husband, Wil-

liam T. McLaren, a sailor at Patuxent(Pax) River, MD while ice-skatingat Uline Arena. They were marriedSeptember 28, 1944. She transferredto the Supply Department at PatuxentRiver, where she worked for severalyears. She had three children, the lateWilliam T. McLaren, Jr., MarleenMcLaren McDaniel (Jack) of Byron,GA and the late Sheila Joy Katzberg(Robert).

Doris loved working with chil-dren and also worked at the DaycareCenter near the Flat Tops then at theLexington Park Library where she be-came a librarian, specializing in chil-dren’s books. She loved entertainingchildren. She was honored in 2006

as one of the top 10 SuTeachers in the United taught the 4-year-old clasington Park Baptist Chu53 years, retiring just a feShe was always involveShe volunteered her serever there was a need oknew she would enjoy wchurch or in the commun

She loved her chuand had many wonderfSt. Mary’s County. Shelife met a stranger. Shetive member of the Red

NARFE, Ofce on AKOPS and volunteered Health Fair and many othtions. She and her late hutraveling to visit family States as well as abroad,Scottish Games, The Oyand many other countShe was the woman behwho became a lifetimeBay District Volunteer ment, who helped build Gun Club at Pax and a li

ber of the Lexington PaRescue Squad.She was the matr

Kent family and was ado be terribly missed by ily and all who knew hemany hours keeping cwith her brother and sisters-in law as well as thand friends. She was liand grandmother gureand nieces. She loved hthe home of pictures anfamily and friends. Ssharing her many pictvideotapes and telling vthe items in the sunroomfavorite room as she wa

by so many memories.Doris loved being

yard, watching the birds ing where she would to plant new owers. Shfrom her husband’s moin Buffalo, NY, the couginia, neighbors, and mHer fellow gardener, also made sure her yardgroomed while taking visit her. She took joy in

plants with anyone and lif they survived. If the ptransplant well, she hadtaking the time to gurwere planted as she instr

In addition to her dis survived by her ado

brother, Roland SamuelAshtabula, OH, her sisteRandall (Jene) of Suffolk

lis Irene Watkins of Chand Sandra Louise HueMD. Sisters-in-law, Pof Salamanca, NY, LouRichmond, VA, and Dof Buffalo, NY. DauCheryl McLaren of AshGrandchildren, Kara (Bryan) of Lexington Parliam Thomas McLaren (

Newberry, FL, Michael Ken (Colleen) of Fredericand Robert (Robbie) LeeCalifornia, MD, and Scand Shaun McDaniel ofGreat grandchildren, JMattingly, Charlize Jo

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Juliane Moss, 56

Juliane Mary Moss, 56 of Cali-fornia, MD, died December 28, 2009at Georgetown University Hospitalin Washington, DC. She was born

on June 1, 1953, in Detroit, MI. Thefamily received friends on Monday,January 4, 2009 in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, Leonard-town, MD, where a funeral servicefollowed with Pastor Tim Grossfrom Leonardtown Church of theNazarene will be ofciating. Inter -ment will be private. Arrangementsprovided by the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, P.A.

William Norris, 71

William Max Norris, 71, of Col-tons Point, MD died December 27,2009 at his residence.

Born June 13, 1938 in Wades-boro, NC, he was the son of the late

William Archie Norris and WincyAnn (Parsons) Norris.Mr. Norris was a dedicated hus-

band and father who was well knownfor his generosity. He was a veryaccomplished musician and was pas-sionate about music. He loved beingactive in his church and could alwaysmake people laugh.

Mr. Norris is survived by hiswife, Joan Marie (Watson) Norris,daughter, Kathleen Maria Norris of Coltons Point, MD, and sisters, BethReynolds and Ramona G. Campbellof Troy, NC. In addition to his par-ents, he was preceded in death by ason, Stephen W. Norris.

Services will be private.

Condolences to the familymay be made at www.brinseld-funeral.com.

Doris Shreve, 79

Doris Eliz-abeth Ayers

Shreve, 79, of St. Inigoes, MD,and formerly of Hyattsville, MD,died on Wednes-day, December 30, 2009 at her home in thecare of her lov-

ing family following a courageous battle with cancer.

Born July 10, 1930 in Wash-ington, DC she was the daugh-ter of the late Douglas Ayers andElizabeth O’Brien Ayers. She was

preceded in death by her husbandof 47 years Andrew David Shreveand their son Michael AndrewShreve. She is survived by her children Teresa (Billy) Eldridge of

Manassas, VA, Sharon Freeman of St. Inigoes, MD, Andrew David,Jr. ( Patti) Shreve of Chester, MD,Dennis (Judy) Shreve of GlennDale, MD and Deborah (Tommy)Fairfax of St. Inigoes, MD, a sister,Elizabeth A. Orndorff of Elk ridge,MD, a brother Patrick T. Rogersof Hyattsville, MD. She is alsosurvived by 12 grandchildren, in-cluding Jamie Freeman Carignanwhom she nurtured from birth,17 great-grandchildren, includingAubrey Carignan her sunshine.

Doris devoted her life raisingher family and was retired fromthe Center for Life Enrichment inHollywood, Maryland where shehelped serve the disabled commu-nity for 20 years. She was also a

member of St. Michael’s CatholicChurch in Ridge, MD. She en-

joyed playing cards, eating crabs,working crossword puzzles andgoing to Ocean City, MD with her family.

Family and friends were re-ceived for Doris’s Life Celebrationon Saturday, January 2, 2010 in St.Michael’s Catholic Church, 16566Three Notch Road, Ridge, MDwhere a funeral mass was offeredReverend Lee Fangmyer, pastor of the church was the celebrant.

In lieu of owers, memo-rial contributions may be madeto The Hospice House, c/o Hos-

pice of St. Mary’s, P.O. Box 625,Leonardtown, MD 20650 or theRidge Volunteer Fire Department,P.O. Box 520, Ridge, MD 20680or Ridge Rescue Squad, P.O. Box456, Ridge, MD 20680.

Condolences may be made tothe family at www.brinseldfu-neral.com

Arrangements provided bythe Brinseld Funeral Home, P.A.,Leonardtown, MD 20650

Joseph Trossbach, Sr., 71

Joseph Bernard J.B. “Sonny”Trossbach, Sr., 71 of Dameron,MD passed away on December 30,2009 at St. Mary’s Hospital.

Born June 20, 1938 in Dam-

eron, MD he was the son of thelate Bernard E. and Nettie L.Trossbach.

Mr. Trossbach was a life longSt. Mary’s County resident and alife member of St. Michael’s Cath-olic Church. Sonny was a mem-

ber of the St. Mary’s County FarmBureau and Knights of Columbus

#2065, St. Michael’s Council.Sonny is survived by his wife

Rita C. Trossbach of Dameron,MD, sons; Joseph “Sonny, Jr.”(Nikki)Trossbach, of Dameron,MD and Thomas “Tom” (Abby)Trossbach of Dameron, MD alsosurvived by his grandchildren;Tessie, J.C., Mary and TravisTrossbach.

Family received friends onSunday, January 3, 2010 in St. Mi-chael’s Catholic Church, where aMass was celebrated on Monday,January 4, 2010 with Father LeeFangmeyer ofciating. Intermentfollowed in the church cemetery.

Pallbearers were; J.C. Tross- bach, Tom “Charlie” Bradburn,Ricky Long, Chuck Marmor, J.D.Biscoe and John Kovich.

Memorial contributions may be made to St. Michael’s SchoolFund, P.O. Box 429, Ridge, MD20680 and/or Ridge Volunteer Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 456,Ridge, MD 20680

Condolences to the familymay be made at www.brinseld-funeral.com

Arrangements provided bythe Brinseld Funeral Home, P.A.,Leonardtown, MD

Jennie Welch, 87

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Elamore DeanWelch, 87 of Mechanicsville,MD passedaway on Janu-ary 1, 2010 ather residence.

Born April7, 1922 in Scot-land, MD she

was the daughter of the late Nel-son and Edith Ridgell Dean.

Mrs. Welch was a lifetimeresident of St. Mary’s County, shewas a homemaker.

Jennie enjoyed owers, birds,singing and reading.

In addition to her parentsJennie was preceded in death byher husband Rodolph “Rody” V.

Welch son Paul Welch, and broth-ers; Nelson, John, Joe and JamesDean.

She is survived by her chil-dren; Mary An n Stine (Raymond),of Mechanicsville, MD,

Linda Hanson (David), of Mechanicsville, MD, Edith Da-vis (Eddie), of Ridge, MD, JohnWelch (Loretta), of Mechanics-ville, MD, Genevieve Thompson

(Tommy), of MechanicArleen Oliver (Henryicsville, MD, Gary Weof California, MD, Joa(Dick) of HollywoodJoyce Oliver (Mike), icsville, MD. siblings;cure, Cecelia Clark, Dean all of Scotland

survived by 24 grandcgreat-grandchildren agreat- grandchild.

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Briefs Fight Broken Up At Local Bar

On December 27, 2009, Deputy Matthew Rogers responded to the Dew Drop Inn in Hfor a reported disturbance. While on the scene Rogers observed a ght between two perdoorway area of the business. The alleged aggressor was identied as Daniel Caleb YoMechanicsville. Young was arrested, charged with disturbance of the public peace and the custody of the St. Mary’s County Detention Center pending an appearance before thCourt Commissioner.

Woman Arrested For Alleged Assault

On December 30, 2009, Deputy Matthew Rogers responded to a residence in Hollywoland for an assault. Upon arrival, he learned Alewtina A. Musarro, 50, became involved ment with family members. During the argument, the male victim tried to intercede betwearguing parties. Mussaro subsequently allegedly struck the victim in the neck with a wine ing injury. Mussaro was arrested, charged with assault and released to the custody of theCounty Detention Center pending an appearance before the District Court Commissioner

Man Charged With Smashing Window At Homeless S

On December 31, 2009, Cpl John Kirkner responded to the Three Oaks homelessLexington Park for a dispute. James Calvin Morgan, 45, of Lexington Park was outside and had been denied access due to his alleged intoxicated state. Kirkner directed Morgan t property at the request of the building management and complied. Morgan subsequentabout an hour later and allegedly smashed out a front door window using a plastic childrcausing $300 in damage. Morgan was located hiding under a trailer in the parking lot ofOaks Center and was arrested. Morgan was charged with property destruction and releacustody of the St. Mary’s County Detention Center pending an appearance before the DisCommissioner.

Man Arrested For Refusing To Leave Mechanicsville B

On December 31, 2009, Cpl Kevin Somerville responded to Big Dogs Paradise in Mville for a person refusing to leave the establishment. Upon arrival, Cpl Somerville learneP Ferguson Jr., 58, of Mechanicsville had been asked to leave the business by managemeof his reported poor behavior but had refused. Somerville repeated the management’s rFerguson to leave several times and after the suspect’s alleged multiple refusals placed arrest for trespass. Ferguson was released to the custody of the St. Mary’s County Detent pending an appearance before the District Court Commissioner.

Man Charged With Domestic Assault

Deputy Mattew Rogers responded to a residence in Leonardtown for an assault. UpRogers learned John Melvin Mattingly, 53, of Leonardtown became involved in an arguhis girlfriend, the reported victim. During the argument, Mattingly allegedly struck the vihead with his st causing injury. John M Mattingly was arrested, charged with assault anto the custody of the St. Mary’s County Detention Center pending an appearance before tCourt Commissioner.

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Scott Davis, the man tried unsuccess-fully for attempted murder in the shootingof a former Marine after a bar ght in GreatMills last year, took a plea Monday to two18-month terms in the local detention center and two years of supervised probation on hisrelease.

Davis, 29, of California pleaded to onecount of rst-degree assault and one count of second-degree assault Monday resulting fromthe Nov. 10, 2008 shooting.

Assistant State’s Attorney James Tanav-age said that since the last jury came to animpasse on Davis’ guilt — there were ques-tions that Davis could have been defendinghimself against larger assailants — the pleawas a compromise both sides agreed on.

“I think it’s a fair compromise basedon the facts of the case,” Tanavage told The

County Times. “We have many versions of what happened… and its difcult to pin downwhat version is correct.

“Alcohol certainly had an affect on bothsides of the case, I would surmise.”

The incident started when the victimJason McGrath, and several friends began toght with Scott Davis and his acquaintancesat Donovan’s Pub on Route 235; McGrath tes-tied during the rst trial that he believed thatDavis and his friends had made pro-Muslim

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soon ensuedand spilled outinto the parkinglot, according tocourt testimony, with Davis and friends even-tually making there way to a nearby liquor store to take care of wounds they suffered.

McGrath and friends wandered to thesame location and when they recognized Da-vis, they started to charge the vehicle Davisand another person were in.

Davis then pulled out a small-caliber pis-tol and shot McGrath in the upper chest near the shoulder.

In the rst trial the prosecution arguedthat Davis and his friends could have left theentire area much sooner and avoided a con-frontation; the defense argued that Daviswas defending himself from aggressors whowould not stop pressing the ght.

David Densford, Davis’ attorney, de-clined to comment on the outcome of the

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Middle Schools Set to Improve

on AYP (July 30, 2009)

The Maryland State Board of Education reportedthat three St. Mary’s County middle schools failed tomake AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) this year.

At Spring Ridge Middle School, 38.9 percent of African American students, 40.2 percent receivingfree or reduced-price meals and 55.4 percent of stu-

dents in special education programs failed proficien-cy tests in reading. On the math test, 50.9 percent of special education students fell short.

50 percent of Special Education students atMargaret Brent Middle School failed to meet statestandards for reading, and 50.6 percent tested below proficient in mathematics.

Leonardtown Middle School students in specialeducation programs tested below the state standardfor reading proficiency as well, with 41.3 percentfailing to meet state goals.

This data reflected subgroup shortfalls in stu-dent performance based on the state’s Annual Mea-

surable Objectives.

Evergreen Highlighted as

Schools Open (Aug. 27, 2009)

Superintendent Michael Martirano joined Boardof Education Chair Bill Mattingly, Chief OperatingOfficer Brad Clements and County Commissioner President Francis Jack Russell for a whirlwind meet-and-greet tour of Leonardtown Middle School, Leon-ardtown High School and Evergreen ElementarySchool, the first new school to be built in the countysince 1981, and the f irst LEED certified green schoolto be built in St. Mary’s.

The highlight of the Superintendent’s tour ca melater in the morning as his group arrived at Ever-green Elementary to find parents and students linedup in front of the school waiting to get inside.

Clements said that the school system would useEvergreen’s design as a model for the elementaryschool that will be built on the Hayden property near Leonardtown in 2013.

SMCPS to Look Into

Upgrading Athletic Facilities

(Oct. 1, 2009)

At the St. Mary’s County Board of Educationmeeting on Tuesday, Dr. Andrew Roper, director of physical education and athletics for St. Mary’s Coun-ty Public Schools, presented a plan to the board thatwould take a very thorough look at improving ath-letic facilities at each of the county’s high schools,

with synthetic grass fields topping the upSMCPS will assemble a committee t

charged with the task of thoroughly st

condition of the current athletic facilitiesschools and deciding which facilities neerepair, with a final report due next May.

County Asks for $750,000

(Oct. 15, 2009)

The Board of Education was informcause of state cuts the school system wosponsible for returning $750,000 to thehelp balance the budget for 2010.

Schools Superintendent Michael Mar“This is something of an anomaly right nthing we’ve never dealt with … where wetold mid- year – not even mid-year – thatsponsible, in essence, for returning mofunding source,” he said, presenting the options on how to pull the money withoexisting programs.

The Board ultimately decided to use mthe school system’s general fu nd balancetaled about $13 million, and compensate wments to the school’s operating budget in

“This way it has no disruption of and we’ll continue with business as uMartirano.

Community Mourns Lost

Student (Nov. 12, 2009)

Jordan Scott Paganelli, a senior at LeHigh School, enjoyed a moment of triumlosing his battle with cancer when he wan honorary diploma by Superintenden

Martirano and Leonardtown Principal Daat his home on Nov. 5, in the presence of family who gathered to celebrate the occa

“He fought a very courageous fighstruggle and this fight has very much dcommunity in the past several weeks,” srano in a statement. “It is never easy whabout the loss of any individual in our cIt is most difficult when we learn about life with one of our young people, becausof our young people as our future and ouour light.”

Paganelli passed away at his home five days before his 18th birthday.

Anne Fogel, a special educa-tion teacher at Spring Ridge Mid-dle School, had been named theSam Kirk Educator of the Year bythe Learning Disabilities Associa-tion of America.

Fogel was selected in the fallof 2009 to represent the State of Maryland for this national award

by the Learning Disabilities As-sociation of Maryland. The SamKirk Educator of the Year awardis given annually to an educator who has made outstanding con-tributions to the education of per-

sons with learning disabilities. Itis named in honor of the late Dr.Samuel A. Kirk, psychologist,educator, scholar, humanitarian,and pioneer in the eld of learningdisabilities.

“Anne Fogel is very deserv-ing of this award and I am so proudof her,” Michael J. Martirano, su-

perintendent of schoolssaid in a press release..“She is caring, compas-sionate, dedicated, andhard working on be-half of each one of her students.”

Fogel joined St.Mary’s County Public

Schools in 1976 as ateacher at Great MillsHigh School. Shortlythereafter, she became

part of the team thatopened what was re-ferred to as the “new”Leonardtown HighSchool. Her career thenled her to Town Creek Elementary School, fol-lowed by her currentassignment at SpringRidge Middle Schoolwhere she has taughtfor the past eight years.Colleagues credit Fogelfor having a “plethora of knowledge” and experi-ence teaching at many

levels, including collegelevel courses. Currently,

she serves as the vice president of the Learning Disabilities Associa-tion of St. Mary’s County, an or-ganization she joined in 1987, andalso served as the chapter’s librar-ian and secretary since that time.

Fogel Wins Sam Kirk

Educator of Year

St. Mary’s County Pub-lic Schools has been awarded acompetitive, three year grant of

$251,956 by the Department of Justice Ofce of Juvenile Justiceand Delinquency Prevention for strategic enhancements to the Fu-ture Leaders of the World (FLOW)Mentoring program. FLOW Men-toring was one in thirteen orga-nizations across the country toreceive funding under this nationalinitiative.

FLOW Mentoring will usethis grant to support expansion of,and programmatic enhancementsto, its middle school group mentor-ing programs, which are currentlyrunning in all four SMCPS middleschools. The funds will also be

used to start group mentoring pro-grams in each public high schoolin the county.

This strategic enhancementis a partnership between FLOWMentoring and Tri-County YouthServices, Boys and Girls Clubsof Southern Maryland, St. Mary’sCounty Business, Education andCommunity Alliance, Saint Mary’sCounty College Access Program,St. Mary’s College of Maryland,St. Mary’s County Department of Juvenile Services, and Big Broth-ers Big Sisters. For more informa-tion, please contact Sarah Tyson,

program manager, at 301-475-5511x.145, or visit www.smcps.org/mentor.

SMCPS Receives $251,956For FLOW Mentoring

Anne Fogel, a special education teacher at Spring Ridge Middle School, was surprised with balloons,fowers and a visit rom Superintendent Michael Martirano and Board o Education Chairman Bill

Mattingly to announce her selection as the national Sam Kirk Educator o the Year.

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Glen Ives, retired navy captain and former commander of Patuxent River Naval Air Station,says that his last assignment may be the force be-hind St. Mary’s County’s still vibrant economydespite the national recession but its also a greatconnector of people and communities.

“It’s not just about the economy,” said Ives,who lives with his wife Barbara in California,“The people who live here and work on the basethey’ve got relatives who are in the armed servic-es. On the Fourth of July you can see it.”

Barbara, also a retired Navy captain, said thatthe base and the navy and contractor work forcesact like a glue to the overall community.

“It brings together those who are new to thearea and those who’ve been here forever,” she said.

“And it brings in new people with new ideas.”But the same things that have made the base

so prosperous, growth of programs and employ-ment, are the same things that made Ives’ com-mand there a challenge from day to day.

Finding enough space for all the programsand activities there was always a challenge, Ivessaid, and growth outside the base was always onhis mind because it could interfere with ight op-erations if it was too close to runways.

“The one thing we couldn’t afford to do wastake our eye of the ball,” Ives told The CountyTimes.

Ives said that the cooperation between thecounty and the base on growth, particularly theagreement they struck up during his command toconsult on any encroachment issues has helpedcement the lifeline between the two.

Ives said that the relationship must continueif the county is to depend on the base for virtually80 percent of the local economy.

“If you don’t [support the growth] the missionwill go elsewhere,” Ives said.

That’s not the only challenge a base com-mander has at Pax River, he said.

With so many people working on the baseand spread out over such a large area, providingsecurity is always a challenge.

“That’s the thing you were concerned aboutas base commander, it’s always a challenge tohave enough security folks,” Ives said, addingthat the loss of the Marine Corp security detach-ment at the base to overseas commitments didn’thelp matters.

“You have 22,000 people and a lot of propertythere, so from day to day you’re going to have se-curity issues,” Ives said, adding that an additional300,000 people visit the base every year.

Keeping the base up to environmental stan-dards was also one of many tasks Ives dealt with,he said, especially along the shoreline.

Ives said that during his command the navyspent $35 million ensuring that erosion didn’t takeits toll on the shoreline.

In recent years the navy has done more to

connect with the community outside the gate, hesaid, especially in the form of STEM (science,

technology, engineering and mathematics) pro-grams for public school students.Individual service men and women who had

to leave the base to serve in either Iraq or Af-ghanistan often left families behind who neededsupport, so Barbara helped set up a pilot programto offer them help in coping, including fundingactivities for them to enjoy.

Local businesses and private donations camein easily, she said, further cementing the connec-tion with the base and its mission.

“Other bases were trying to copy what wewere doing,” she said. “We had over 300 familiesin the program.

“The base attracts a community orientedgroup of people. There’s a camaraderie here, ev-eryone cares about each other.”

Ives said that the base’s future for the next 15to 20 years is likely solid, with continued growth

and expansion of its mission of testing the navy’snew aircraft. But beyond that time frame, he said,the community needs to use its resources wiselyto prepare for any fundamental change in the ar-ea’s economy.

“We’re smart enough to recognize things canchange,” Ives said. “We have about a generation…

but my concern is what comes after that, becausethey navy’s going to change.”

With projects like the Joint Strike Fighter coming to Pax River, which some defense punditshave claimed could be the last manned ghter for the entire U.S. military inventory, the fundamen-tal mission of the base may change or go awayaltogether.

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The County Times Thursday, January 7, 2010

Newsmakers A Celebration of Tom WisnA live concert and CD release celebrating

Tom Wisner’s life and work: “Follow on theWater: A Celebration of the Bay’s Life in Storyand Song” will be held at the Calvert MarineMuseum on Friday, Jan. 29.

Wisner has dedicated his life to chroni-cling the rich traditions of our regional water-ways. He will be joined on stage by local mu-

sicians and long-time friends and associates,Frank Schwartz, Teresa Whitaker, Mac Walter,and John Cronin, singer/songwriters and pow-erful performers.

“This new production, Follow on the Wa-ter, is an ensemble of stories ‘to hear, to tell, tosing’,” says Wisner from his home in CalvertCounty. “They have been collected and craftedover years of interviews and through heartyfriendships, culled from the energy of the earthand burnished by the Chesapeake sun. They are

the songs and stories of the sailing oystermen,”he says, “the sun-tanned, quiet breed of water-men whose lives are bound in the regional tra-ditions to follow on the water.”

Frank Schwartz grew up in Baltimore,Maryland, and is the oldest of three sons of deaf parents. Having been a musician for mostof his life, that journey continued when he mar-

ried singer, songwriter, and storyteller TeresaWhitaker. They performed at the SmithsonianFolk Life Festival in Washington, DC, as partof a special honoring of the 25th anniversary of Tom Wisner’s Chesapeake Born album, alongwith friend and acoustic guitarist Mac Walter.Schwartz has two recordings: Things Have AWay Of Working Out and Below The Radar.

Three-time WAMMIE winner Mac Wal-ter is a versatile and dynamic master of theguitar. In the 1960s, Mac developed his uniquengerstyle approach to playing folk, rock,

blues, jazz, and country. Mac and his cousin,John Cronin, began playing together as teen-agers and developed their unique style over the past 35 years. The acoustic ngerstyle andharmonies they project together is amazing.Cronin, who lives in British Columbia, spentseven years working in the hugely popular IanTyson Band touring Canada and the USA. Tom

Wisner, describes John’s playing as “the heartof the guitar.” Mac Walter and John Croninhave produced two CDs entitled Cousins andSecond Cousins.

Battling lung cancer for the last year, TomWisner has long been heralded as the “Bard of the Bay.” His vast repertoire of bay-orientedsongs has been featured on national TV andforms a part of the Smithsonian FolkwaysCollection. Tom Wisner is the recipient of the2003 John Denver award of the World Folk

Music Association. He also received a LifetimeAchievement Award in 2007 from the Chesa-

peake Music Institute.Since the 1960s, Tom Wisner has pio-neered the use of original songs and storiesto heighten awareness of the national treasureknown as the Chesapeake Bay. With Dr. SaraEbenreck of St. Mary’s College he co-foundedthe project CHESTORY: The Center for theStory of Chesapeake Life and Culture, de-signed to encourage artists of many disciplinesto heighten awareness of Chesapeake Bay ecol-ogy and culture.

This musical tribute to our waters, watermen, and artists wil

the release of Tom Wisner’s nawhich will be available for sale tTickets are $20 in advance or $25and may be purchased at www.camuseum.com. Doors open at 6:30

begins at 7:30 p.m. Seating is limvance purchase is recommended.

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A live concert and CD release celebrating Tom Wisner’s life and work is being held aMarine Museum on Friday, Jan. 29.

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The trend in bridal gowns is toward straplessand bare shoulder styles, creating the perfect can-

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apartment is something to enjoy. Oftentimes involving a fewfun trips to the furniture store totry out a new couch or armchair,

buying new home furniture isone way to tailor a home or apart-ment in your personal image.

When choosing home furnish-ings, many people simply want themost comfortable or most visuallyappealing piece they can nd. How-ever, there are other things to con-sider as well.

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Styles come at a variety of prices, with the materials

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• Needs. Needs also play a bigrole when choosing furniture. Apart-ment dwellers don’t necessarily needas much furniture as someone in ahome. While an apartment might

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be as big, so overdoing it with furni-ture could leave you holding the bagdown the road.

Personal style and preference aren’t the only things thatdictate certain wedding day decisions. In fact, a host of styleguidelines exist to help brides and grooms make the rightchoices on their big day. For example, while a man might havea specic tuxedo style in mind for his wedding day, somethingsuch as the time of the ceremony can dictate which styles are

appropriate. A morning ceremony, for instance, typicallycalls for a cutaway, or morning coat, with the ushers in match-ing strollers. For early afternoon ceremonies, however, it’stypical for men in the wedding party to wear tuxedos withouttails. Grooms who really want to wear tails should only do sofor ceremonies that begin after 4 p.m., as tails are consideredtoo formal for ceremonies beginning earlier in the day. Whenwearing tails, a white vest and bow tie, but no cumberbund,is the traditional style. When planning a wedding, it’s best tokeep in mind that tradition as well as personal style shoulddictatecertain decisions. To learn of any additional norms andtraditions, consult a wedding planner.

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$10. 9 9 Adu l ts • $ 4. 9 9 K ids

1 2 & UnderDrinks Included

Jan 13, 10 a.m., is the deadline for makingreservations for the St. Mary’s County Chap-ter 969, National Active and Retired FederalEmployees Association (NARFE) luncheon/meeting. The luncheon/meeting will be heldat Olde Breton Inn in Leonardtown, Friday,January 15. The cost of the luncheon buffet is$14.50. The social hour begins at 11:00 a.m.and lunch is at noon.

Presentations will be made at the Janu-

ary meeting to Dorothy Flynn, AlAssociation & Kathy Franzen, HosMary’s.

Reservations for lunch are r- call Judy Lofin, 301-872-0064. will be charged for the cost of lunervations are not kept or cancelldeadline.

If you are interested in onlythe meeting, it begins at 12:45 p.m.

Elliot Lawrence of the Mechanicsville Optimist Club presented Catherine DiCristofarLibrarian at Charlotte Hall, a check to purchase LEGOs for the upcoming LEGO prograat Charlotte Hall. The program will be January 11 at 6 p.m. Children 6-12 can regist

NARFE, Chapter 969 Luncheo

On December 23, the Rope N Wranglers 4-H Club donated more than 150 coats toOaks Center in Lexington Park that were collected during their Annual Coat Drive. P

club members Mary Trossbach, Travis Trossbach, Tyelr Ledman, Shelby Sasscer, JC & Charlie Sasscer.

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Thursday, January 7• So. Md. Mobile CompassionCenterSt. Paul’s Lutheran Church (Me-chanicsville) – 10 a.m.

Provides food, clothing andspiritual care to people in need. Ba-sic need items are provided free of charge to those seeking assistance.

Nominal donations for items are re-quested from visitors who can afford

it. For additional information call301-884-5184.

• Wing NightVFW Post 2632 (California) – 5

p.m.

• Am. Legion Post 221 MeetingAL Post 221 (Avenue) – 8 p.m.

Open to all active duty person-nel or veterans. Call 301-884-4071or go to http://www.alpost221.webs.com/ for more information.

Friday, January 8• So. Md. Mobile CompassionCenterSt. Paul’s Lutheran Church (Me-chanicsville) – 10 a.m.

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

p.m.

• Special Olympics Deep Stack NoLimit TourneyCenter for Life Enrichment (Holly-wood) – 7 p.m.

Saturday, January 9• All You Can Eat Breakfast8 to 11 a.m. Valley Lee Fire HouseValley Lee, MD

$8.00 Adults, $4.00 Childrenages 5-12, Children under 5 - FREE

Sponsored (and prepared) bythe 2nd District Fire Dept. & RescueSquad Auxiliary.

• Winter Scrapbook DayFather Andrew White School(Leonardtown) – 9:30 a.m.

Day includes lunch, dessert,and drinks plus door prizes & seatfavor. Scrapbooking vendors will

be available on site with productsto purchase to help you get start-ed. Here’s your chance to learn toscrapbook or to have a day away towork on your albums. Cost is $30in advance or $40 at the door. Con-tact Kim Norris at 301-475-0147 or [email protected] to re-serve your seat.

• So. Md. Mobile CompassionCenterSt. Paul’s Lutheran Church (Me-chanicsville) – 10 a.m.

• Legendary Ladies of SongGreat Mills High School – 7 p.m.

Sue Matthews and a sextetof musicians from Wings Produc-tions will be performing the musicof three legendary ladies of song;Rosemary Clooney, Doris Day andPeggy Lee. Last of the ve concertsfor the season in the LeonardtownRotary Performing Arts Series. For more information please call 301-

475-6999 or go to www.leonard-townrotary.org.

• Pax River Rugby FundraiserDB McMillan’s (California) – 7

p.m.A $5 dollar wrist-band will get

you drink specials all night. Therewill also be rafes which will includegift cards/certicates and a rugby

jersey valued at $80. Newcomersand people interested in joining arewelcome. For more information, go

to www.paxriverrugby.com.

• Texas Hold’Em Tournament – Saturday Night SpecialPark Bingo Hall (California) – 7

p.m.

• Owl ProwlMyrtle Point Park (California) – 8

p.m.Meet outside the gate to the

park at 8 p.m. Dress warm and bringa ashlight. Children must be ac-companied by an adult. For moreinformation call: Bob Boxwell:410-394-1300 or Dudley Lindsley:301-373-2551, email: [email protected].

Sunday, January 10• All-You-Can Eat BreakfastThe Hollywood Volunteer RescueSquad Auxiliary is sponsoring andAll-You-Can Eat breakfast from7:30 to 11 a.m. at the Rescue Squad

building on Route 235 in Holly-wood, The menu will be: SausageGravy and Biscuits, Sausage Links,Bacon, Scrambled Eggs, Fried Pota-toes, Pancakes, Escalloped Apples,assorted juices, coffee, tea and hotchocolate. The cost will be adults$8; children ages 5-12 years $4 andchildren under age of 5 are free.

• Celtic Concert SeriesSt. Mary’s Ryken High School

(Leonardtown) – 7:30 p.m.Montreal based Québécoisgroup, Genticorum, after a standingovation performancelast year, returnsto Leonardtown.Workshops from2pm - 4pm will in-clude: Yann Falquet,guitar accompani-ment and alternatetuning; Alexandrede Grosbois-Ga-rand, ute/penny-whistle; and PascalGemme, ddle andfeet. Admission $25.Order tickets onlineat http://cssm.org.

Monday,January 11

• Small BusinessRoundtableLenny’s Restaurant(California) – 8:30a.m.

Agenda willinclude developingthe Buy Local, BuySt. Mary’s cam-

paign and a reviewof the tabulated

survey results from November meeting listing specic challengesfacing local businesses. Coffee andlight refreshments will be served.For additional information, contactHans Welch, Manager, BusinessDevelopment, DECD, at 301-475-4200 x1407 or email [email protected].

• No Limit Texas Hold’Em“Bounty” TournamentSt. Mary’s County Elks Lodge

(California) – 7 p.m.

Tuesday, January 12• 4-H Volunteer Training21580 Peabody St. (Leonardtown)

– 5 p.m.University of Maryland Exten-

sion Youth Development Volunteer Training. You must have this train-ing in order to work with our youthin the county. 4-H includes sewing,robotics, engineering, ying, cook -ing, theater, science, math as wellas small animals for pets and com-

panions and livestock. Registrationrequired. Call 301 475-4478.

• Special Olympics No LimitHold’Em TourneyBennett Building, 24930 Old Three

Notch Rd (Hollywood) – 7 p.m.

Wednesday, January 13• Special Olympics No LimitHold’Em TourneyBennett Building, 24930 Old Three

Notch Rd (Hollywood) – 7 p.m.

• We need Members!!The regular monthly meeting of the Hollywood Volunteer RescueSquad Auxiliary will be held at 7

p.m. at the Rescue Squad buildingon Route 235 in Hollywood. Any-one wishing to become a member

of the Auxiliary is encouraged toattend. For more information, call240-298-7956.

• Children can build LEGO creationsSpace is still available at the LEGOs program at Charlott

Jan. 11. Children, ages 6-12 years old, will have the opportunitLEGO creations from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Those attending s

bring their own LEGOs. This free program is being sponsored bchanicsville Optimist Club. Registration is required.

• Story times resume the week of January 11

Daytime storytimes for babies, toddlers and preschoolers wthe week of January 11. A new Wiggle-giggle storytime will be oTuesdays at 10:30 a.m. at Charlotte Hall. Children at tending LPark’s toddler story times from Jan. 11 through Jan. 25 are askea teddy bear with them to story time. A complete listing of story themes can be found on the Kids page at www.stmalib.org.

• Options to pay college expenses to be discussedTim Wolfe, Director of Financial Aid at St. Mary’s Colle

with a local high school career counselor, will discuss the optiable to help pay college expenses. The FAFSA form will be dLeonardtown will host the free program on Jan. 20, LexingtonJan. 27, and Charlotte Hall Feb. 3. All three programs begin at 7registration is required.

• Friends of the Library annual brunch scheduledThe public is invited to the Friends of the Library (FO

brunch. It will be held on Jan. 23 at St. George’s Episcopal Valley Lee and will begin with a breakfast buffet at 11 a.m. GueBen Click, St. Mary’s College English Professor and Director of

Lecture Series, will discuss “Mark Twain’s Advice: A River is WReading and the Importance of Cigars, Whiskey and Swearing”tions are due by Jan. 15. Call 301-737-2456 for more informatio

• Leonardtown Library hosts Home School Science Fair

The Home School Science Fair will be held at the Leonard brary on Jan. 19. The public can view the students’ projects froto 7:30 p.m. Students interested in participating should visit thehome school page from the Kid’s page at www.stmalib.org for ation and more details.

• Family fun planned

Families can enjoy an afternoon of gaming or a free mov25. Gaming fun will begin at 1:30 p.m. at Charlotte Hall. Leowill show a 2009 PG movie at 2 p.m. This animated adventure scientist who tries to solve world hunger only to see food fall fromin abundance. Snacks will be provided at each event.

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meet me you will all in LOVE. I’m a very good puppy and I get along great with other dogs and small children. I’m very smart

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Today’s ‘retirement’ is not the same as your parent’sFewer and fewer employees are covered by an employer penlongevity of Social Security is in doubt. With life expectanrise, tomorrow’s retirees will spend signicantly more time iand will rely more on their personal savings. Learn how tosecure and successful retirement and avoid common retireme

mistakes by understanding your sources of retirement incomeThe free Retirement and Investments Workshop topics wallocation of investments in your retirement plans, understand

benets and the differences between IRA, Roth IRA and 401Minimum Distribution, and guidance on determining how ma retiree can withdraw from savings. The Retirement and Workshop is being presented in partnership with the SoutherAgricultural Development Commission and Wealth Managners, an independent nancial planning rm located in Waldo

pany products will be offered or recommended. The workshopsolely as a way for farming families and residents of Southerto become more informed about their retirement planning opt

The workshop is free to the public and will take place on WJan. 20 at 6 p.m. in the SMECO Auditorium located at 15035Road in Hughesville. Registration is requested. For more infoto RSVP please contact SMADC staff at (301) 274-1922. In cellation due to inclement weather cal l (301) 274-1922 and enta recording. For more information on related programs visit twebsite: www.somarylandsogood.com.

Retirement Planning aInvestments Worksh

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By LindaRenoContribut-ing Writer

WilliamStone was

named the

rst Protes-

tant Gover -nor of Mary-

land in 1648.

G o v e r n o r Stone invited

the Puritans, then living in Virginia, to takesanctuary in Maryland and about 300 settledalong the Severn River. In 1652, the Puritansand William Claiborne joined forces, forcingGovernor Stone to resign and took control of Maryland.

On March 25, 1655, at the Battle of theSevern [the rst naval battle on American soil],Governor Stone with a force of 130 Maryland-

ers unsuccessfully attempted to regain controlof the colony. Several Marylanders, despite the

promised “quarter” in return for surrender,were executed.

On April 15, 1655 Verlinda (Graves) Stonewrote to Lord Baltimore:

“I am sorry at present for to let your Hon-our understand of our sad condition in your

Province. So it is, that my Husband, with therest of your Councell went about a month agowith a party of men up to Anne-Arundell Coun-ty, to bring those factious people to obedienceunder your Government…Sunday the 25th of March they did ingage with the people of Anne-

Arundell, and lost the eld, and not above veof our men escaped; which I did conceive ranaway before the ght was ended; the rest all taken, some killed and wounded; my Husband hath received a wound in his shoulder, but I heare it is upon the mending.

My Husband, I am condent, dthat they would have engaged, buttoo true to all our great damagesheare, being better provided then did expect…

Captaine Heman was one of cell of War, and by his consent had all the Prisoners hanged; butter given, they tried all your Coua Councell of War, and Sentenceupon my Husband to be shot to deawas after saved by the Enemies owand so the rest of the Councellorsby the Petitions of the Women, with

friends which they found there; William Eltonhead was shot to ddeath I much lament, being shot inand also Lieutenant William LewMr Leggat and a German, which Mr. Eltonhead, which by all Relati

I did heare of, the like barbarous adone amongst Christians.

They have Sequestred my Hutate, only they say they will allownance for me and my Children, wh

lieve will be but small. They keep mwith the rest of the Councell, and

cers, still Prisoners…They will as suffer him to write a Letter unto will have the perusal of what he w

And they give out words, thawon the Country by the sword, anwill keep the same, let my Lord Prin what Writing he pleaseth. The Gof Hemans, since his coming down

Arundell to Patuxent, hath boastedthe rst man that was shot of our P

Hemans the Master of the Goa very Knave, and that will be madto appear to your Lordship for he my Husband most grossly.”

Maryland was restored to Lorin 1656 through appeal to Oliver C

A Journey Through TiThe Chroni

Men Who Fought Together in World War II Reunited

(AP) – More than a half century af -ter they marched across Europe together,two World War II veterans were reunitedrecently in a Baltimore County rehabilita-

tion facility. Nathan Garrett and Kernie Thomp-

son kept in touch after they both settledin Baltimore after the war, but they hadn’tseen each other in decades. They recog-

nized each other immediately last monthin the physical therapy room of Manor Care in Catonsville. The two old friendsshared a room while they were both at thefacility.

“We went through a whole lot in Eu-

rope,” said Thompson, 84. “Garrett was agood soldier and a good friend.”

They served in the Army’s 599 Ord-

nance Ammunition Company, an African-American unit responsible for getting bul-lets and shells to the front lines, includingduring the D-Day invasion in Normandy,France, in June 1944.

For about three years, they lived intents in Belgium, Germany, France, the

Netherlands and other countries. Therewere close calls, like the time Germansoldiers shot up a latrine just after Thomp-

son had walked out. There were disturb-

ing sights, such as animals blown apart by

land mines.

“Those are things you never fsaid Garrett, 90.

“It was a frightening experienceed Thompson, who is known as To“But the Lord brought us through.”

Both men were discharged inThompson, a Baltimore native, reto the city. Garrett was born in ruralCarolina, but ended up joining relatBaltimore. He worked at Bethlehemas did Thompson for a time.

Garrett worked as a laborer at thmill until 1981. Thompson had left th

in 1957, but the two occasionally binto each other.Still, before the chance meet

Manor Care, it had been decades sinclast saw each other, the men estimat

In late December, Garrett begatient physical therapy for his chroni

pain at Manor Care. In one of the he spotted a familiar face. Thompsothere to recover from recent knee sur

“When Mr. Garrett saw his lofriend, it was like a 90-year-old mturned into a child,” said Daniel Canother Manor Care patient who sareunion. “The whole place just stoppwatched them.”

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F Pinocchio is Italian for “pine head.”

By Shelby OppermannContributing Writer

Boy, I really don’t want to take therest of the Christmas decorations down.I’ve found that the more surfaces I cover with Christmas villages, greenery and

berries, are less surfaces I have to dust.I keep putting the decorations out a littleearlier each year. I’m hoping my husbandwon’t notice for a few years, but by thetime we look like Christmas in Easter,he might know something is different.This is why there is Christmas in July.Another woman, at some point, guredout this trick as well.

In fact we received a second seriesof a new Christmas village from two of our grandchildren. I was thinking of keeping them in the boxes, and then lastSaturday decided no, I wanted them uptoo. Well, you can probably imagine thatdidn’t go over too good. My husbandsaid, ”Why do you want to put out morestuff, when we are going to be taking all

of it down this weekend?” I replied thatwe were still waiting to celebrate Christ-mas again on the 9th with our other two grandchildren. He said we couldcelebrate without all this “stuff”. Thensaid, “Don’t you remember in ”How theGrinch stole Christmas” that even after he stole all the Who’s whopaloopas androast beast, that the Whos still celebrated

just as before?” Wow, it was hard to ar-gue with his scientic logic. But, the vil-lage went up.

The Twelve (extra) Days of Christ-mas are not enough time for me. That’swhen I have the time and energy to do allmy Christmas projects…and then it’s toolate. I always think this is the year I will

start painting my Christmas ornaments early;start shopping earlier, and decorate earlier and

better. I almost look forward to the Twelve Daysof Christmas more; everyone is relaxed, andyou still have plenty of parties to attend. Youcan give presents to everyone you couldn’t gettogether with before or on Christmas. And, It’s

a perfectly legal time frame with wyour Christmas cards out. Oh yescards, how many days do I have lonly until January the 6th. I never started that family newsletter 20+ haven’t sent cards out in three yearfamily and friends know I love anthem very much, in spite of this lawe can add a 13th and 14th day of C

Of course, being the curios puI began to wonder where the TweChristmas idea began. I had looke9 years ago, only to nd out whaTwelfth Night. It is actually the evtwelfth day. I thought it would be a Twelfth Night party. Never had iabout it again, until now. In religioua time including several feast days lthe baptism of Jesus, and the visit Magi that proclaim Jesus is LordThis is said to be “the beginning ofmation of the Gospel”. Some peoplhomes blessed with Holy Water onday. Then, Aha!! Upon researchingther, I found that taking down Chri

rations before the twelfth day was bring bad luck upon your home fothe year. Apparently tree fairies win with the greenery, and would bfew cold winter weeks, but, if leftthe twelfth night they would createdon’t know how this gures in wicial tree, but I’m not willing to riskcrazed tree-fairies wreaking havochouse. Now, I know the reason forthat goes wrong for us each year. I it was so simple: just leave your Chup until the proper day. I guess weeverything up until the 9th now, orthe Whos of Whoville, and the treespend another crazy year with us.will drive them crazy rst.

To each new day’s adventure,Shelby

Please send comments or [email protected].

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“On the Eighth Day of Christmas

By Terri SchlichenmeyerContributing Writer

One look in the mirror conrmedit: yep, you looked as bad as you felt.

Cold, u, or just some nasty bug?Didn’t matter. You croaked in sick to work, then hunkered down on thesofa beneath a warm blanket, withsome daytime TV to sleep by. Couldthere possibly be a better place torecuperate?

Did you ever wonder – once youfelt better, of course- what goes on behindthe scenes of those TV

programs? In the new

mystery “The MorningShow Murders” by AlRoker and Dick Lochte,Chef Billy Blessingworks hard backstage onWake Up America! butthe chef’s goose is aboutto be cooked.

Billy Blessing hashis plate full. Folksacross the country rec-ognize him for his cook-ing segments on WorldBroadcasting Compa-ny’s Wake Up America! There’s a reality show inthe works, and elite NewYorkers know Chef Billy

by the signature dishes he

serves in his restaurant.But Chef Billy hasn’t

always been successful.His past is riddled withminor crimes and shadycharacters; so much sothat it’s easy for the copsto make Billy the num-

ber one suspect whenRudy Gallagher, thenetwork’s head man andBilly’s nemesis, is found

poisoned.It didn’t help mat-

ters that the tainted foodcame from Billy’s bistro.

But there are plenty of peoplewho have reason to want Rudy dead.Gretchen, Rudy’s supposed-ancée,

doesn’t seem too mournful that her in-tended was killed. There are a lot of women who have been cozying up toRudy – a new one every few days – andany one of them could be the murder-er. And then there was that time Rudywas in a bar in Kabul, where he nar-rowly missed being in the middle of a

bloodbath…When it becomes obvious that

detectives don’t believe he’s innocent,Chef Billy goes in search of clues butsoon wishes he hadn’t stirred the situ-ation. Rudy Gallagher – and the other dead men that follow – was in plenty

of hot water, and the evidence pointsto a mysterious international killer who calls himself “Felix the Cat”.

And Felix is about to pounce onChef Billy.

Doesn’t it sometimes seem likeevery TV celebrity fancies him- or herself as an author? Guess what? AlRoker really is.

“The Morning Show Murders” isa pretty decent whodunit with somenice plot twists and a few charactersthat are so unredeemable that you al-

most can’t wait to see them dead. I alsothought it refreshing that Billy Bless-ing is a chef who happens to be on TV

and just wants himself exonerated.Authors Al Roker and Dick Lochtedidn’t make him out to be some part-time meddlesome detective wanna-be,and I liked that.

My sole complaint about this book was the ripped-from-the-headlinestiresome Middle Eastern tie. Lately,it seems like every mystery / actionnovel contains one and – hello! – it’sgetting stale.

Still, if you’re hungry for a reasonto stay up late, reading on the sofa, this

book will do the trick. “The MorningShow Murders” is delicious fun.

Boo k Re v ie w“The Morning Show Murders”

by Al Roker and Dick Lochtec.2009, Delacorte Press $26.00 / $32.00 Canada 312 pages

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Thursday, January 7K • David NorrisDB McMillan’s (California) – 6 p.m.

Friday, January 8• David NorrisDB McMillan’s (California) – 6 p.m.

• Dave & KevinRuddy Duck Brewery (Solomons)

– 7 p.m.

• Line Dancing / Solid GoldEntertainment

Hotel Charles (Hughesville) – 7:30 p.m.

• Comedy Night – Brian Lee, Ro-

berta J and Greg ActuallyFat Boys Country Store (Leonard-town) – 8 p.m.

• Mike MeadBlue Dog Saloon (Port Tobacco) – 8

p.m.

• Almost KingsHula’s Bungalow (California) – 9

p.m.

• BoneDrift Away Bar & Grill (Cobb Is-land) – 9 p.m.

• Evil CecilApehanger’s (Bel Alton) – 9 p.m.

• Karaoke NightClub 911 (Mechanicsville) – 9 p.m.

K • Nuttin’ Fancy BandScott’s II (Welcome) – 9:30 p.m.

• Roadhouse BandMartini’s Lounge (White Plains) – 9

p.m.

Saturday, January 9• Dave & KevinCatamaran’s (Solomons) – 6 p.m.

• DJ BlackyLexington Lounge (Lexington Park)

– 7 p.m.

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

• No TraceBlue Dog Saloon (Port Tobacco) – 8

p.m.*

• Blackout BrigadeHotel Charles – front bar (Hughes-ville) – 9 p.m.

• Captain WoodyApehanger’s (Bel Alton) – 9 p.m.

K • The CrazeBig Dogs Paradise (Mechanicsville)

– 9 p.m.

• Four of a KindCryer’s Back Road Inn (Leonard-town) – 9 p.m.

• HY JinxHotel Charles – party room (Hughes-ville) – 9 p.m.

• Karaoke with DJ Tommy T andDJ TApplebee’s (California) – 9 p.m.

K • No Green JellyBeenzHula’s Bungalow (California) – 9

p.m.

K • Roadhouse BandMartini’s Lounge (White Plains) – 9

p.m.

• QuagmireScott’s II (Welcome) – 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday, January 13• Captain JohnDB McMillan’s (California) – 6

p.m.*

• Wolfs MusicBeach Cove (Chesapeake Beach) – 8

p.m.

*Call to confrm

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entertainment section, e-mail andreashiell@countyt

‘Avatar,’ ‘Trek,’ 8 OtheScore Nominations

Go i ng O n

For family and community events, see our calendar in the communitysection on page 21.

(AP) – Science-ction scored big with the Produceof America, with “Avatar,” “Star Trek” and “District 9three of the 10 nominations Tuesday for the group’s honors.

The group representing Hollywood producers also best-picture nominations to the animated blockbuster “

World War II hit “Inglourious Basterds” and the criticites “The Hurt Locker,” “Precious: Based on the NoveBy Sapphire,” “Up in the Air,” “An Education” and “In

The Producers Guild followed the lead of the AAwards and doubled its best-picture eld to 10 nominseason.

“Up” also is nominated for best animated lm, alo

“9,” “Coraline,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox” and “The PrincessFrog.”

The guild picks typically are a good forecast for thtual best-picture lineup at the Oscars, whose nominatio

out Feb. 2.If Oscar choices run the same way, the show will

mass appeal organizers had sought to bring to Hollywoogest party. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sdoubled the best-picture eld last summer, hoping to broader range of lms into the awards fold, including th blockbuster fare the Oscars often have lacked in recent

“The Dark Knight,” 2008’s biggest hit, earned a bture nomination a year ago from the Producers Guildoverlooked for the top Oscar category. Its omission wasa factor in the decision to expand the best-picture elorganizers saying they felt there were more than ve serving nominations.

TV ratings for the Oscar show, on a general decl

the last few decades, usually climb in years when hare in the running. The Oscars had their biggest audiewhen “Titanic,” the modern box-ofce king with $1.worldwide, dominated the ceremony 12 years ago.

“Avatar” is “Titanic” director James Cameron’s rative lm since then. The sci- epic has topped $350domestically and shot past the $1 billion mark worldwit appears headed to the No. 2 spot in the record books g

behind “Titanic.”The Producers Guild lineup includes four other b

“Up” and “Star Trek,” both $200 million smashes, antrict 9” and “Inglourious Basterds,” which topped $100each.

The other nominees present a mix of star power acal raves.

The recession-era comic drama “Up in the Air” han adult-audience favorite with plenty of box-ofce pleft and the celebrity appeal of star George Clooney.

The Iraq War drama “The Hurt Locker” has dominhonors from critics groups and did solid independent business. The teen dramas “Precious” and “An Educatthe South Africa tale “Invictus,” directed by Clint Eand starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, also hastrong arthouse earners featuring some of the year’s m

claimed performances.Other Producers Guild nominees:• Documentary: “Burma VJ,” “The Cove,” “

“Soundtrack for aRevolution.”• Long-form television: “Georgia O’Keeffe,” “Gr

dens,” “Little Dorrit,” “Prayers for Bobby,” “The P“Taking Chance.”

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1/8-13/09Fri., Jan. 8

Boys’ BasketballGreat Mills at Huntingtown,

7 p.m.St. Mary’s Ryken atArchbishop Carroll,

7:30 p.m.

Girls’ BasketballHuntingtown at Great Mills,

6:30 p.m.Archbishop Carroll at St.

Mary’s Ryken, 7 p.m.

Ice HockeySt. Mary’s Ryken vs. La Plataat Capital Clubhouse, 5 p.m.

Leonardtown at Bowie,

7 p.m.

SwimmingLeonardtown at

Lackey,7:30 p.m.

WrestlingSt. Mary’s Ryken at Northern

Tournament

Sat., Jan. 9

Boys’ BasketballArchbishop Curley at

St. Mary’s Ryken, 6 p.m.

Mon., Jan. 11

Boys’ BasketballChopticon atGlen Burnie, 6:45 p.m.

Calvert at Great Mills, 7 p.m.

Girls’ BasketballGreat Mills at Calvert, 6:30 p.m.

Tues., Jan. 12

Boys’ BasketballSt. Mary’s Ryken at DeMatha,

7:30 p.m.

Girls’ BasketballElizabeth Seton at St. Mary’s

Ryken, 7:30 p.m.

Ice HockeySt. Mary’s Ryken vs. Bowie at Tucker Road Ice Rink, 5 p.m.

Wrestling Thomas Stone at Chopticon,

7 p.m.Great Mills at Northern, 7

p.m.Lackey at Leonardtown, 7

p.m.

Wed., Jan. 13

Boys’ BasketballChopticon at Lackey, 7 p.m.Great Mills at La Plata, 7 p.m.Leonardtown at North Point,

7 p.m.

Girls’ BasketballLackey at Chopticon, 6:30 p.m.

La Plata at Great Mills, 6:30p.m.

North Point at Leonardtown,6:30 p.m.

SwimmingCalvert at Great Mills, 5 p.m.

Wed., Dec. 30, 2009

Boys’ Basketball

Snowball ClassicSt. Mary’s Ryken 62, South-

ern Garrett 40

Southern MarylandHoliday Tournament

Consolation GameChopticon 58, Walter John-

son 45

Championship GameLeonardtown 57,

Great Mills 52

Girls’ Basketball

Southern MarylandHoliday Tournament

Consolation GameChopticon 44, La Plata 40

Championship GameGreat Mills 38,

Leonardtown 29

Sat., Jan. 2

Boys’ BasketballSt. Mary’s Ryken 63,

St. Albans 52

By DAVID GINSBURGAP Sports Writer

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) – The Baltimore Ravens didn’thave the luxury of coasting into the postseason, a circumstancethey hope will work to their advantage Sunday against the NewEngland Patriots.

On a day in which several playoff-bound teams rested their starters during meaningless games, the Ravens were locked ina win-or-else mode Sunday against the Oakland Raiders. And,

because Baltimore (9-7) was not assured a victory until the clos-ing minutes, coach John Harbaugh never did get a chance to pullhis regulars.

That might be a good thing.A year ago, the Ravens won their nal regular-season game

to gain entry as a wild-card team. They then hammered Miamion the road and upset top-seeded Tennessee before losing toPittsburgh in the AFC title game.

Can the same formula work to Baltimore’s benet a secondtime?

“I think that will kind of all shake out,” Harbaugh said

Monday. “There’s something to be said for coasting in, becauseobviously you’ve earned the right to do that. There’s an advan-tage to that, and there’s an advantage to ghting your way in. If you look at the history of who’s won the championship, it’s comefrom both places, right?”

Historically, the Ravens have fared better when forced toextend themselves to the very end of the regular season. Theywon their only Super Bowl after nishing the 2000 season asa wild-card team. They also won a game as a wild-card teamin 2001. But, after winning the AFC North in 2003 and 2006,

Baltimore failed to win even once in the postseasonSo, in a way, the Ravens are exactly where they

“We’re in the same position as last year, wherwin the last couple of games,” running back Willisaid. “Once we get in there, we know we can do danow we’re in there.”

McGahee scored three touchdowns, and the Ratheir own version of the playoffs with a 21-13 win o

prisingly spirited Raiders.“It was a tough situation,” Harbaugh said. “

playoffs is tough. Going across country in a game ously so much is at stake for one team and not for tha little different stakes. I thought our guys handled really well and got the job done.”

Baltimore reached the postseason because of i beat teams with losing records. The Ravens wentclubs that nished below .500, and they also defeawhich closed at 8-8.

There will be no more of those patsies on the scBaltimore went 1-6 against teams that made it to the

New England, in contrast, was 2-3 in those games

27-21 win over Baltimore on Oct. 4).Advantage, Patriots?“That gives them an edge going into this gam

Harbaugh said. “But every week stands on its own beauty of it.”

Although this game is a rematch of Week 4guessed the earlier meeting will probably have nothis one.

“It was a long time ago,” he said. “We’ve changchanged. There are different players out there for bo

Redskins Meet With Shanahan After Firing Zorn

Ravens Already in Playoff Mode as Postseason Opens

By JOSEPH WHITEAP Sports Writer

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) – The Washington Redskinsmoved quickly in their pursuit of Mike Shanahan on Mon-day, ying in the former Denver Broncos coach on the sameday the team red Jim Zorn.

Shanahan and wife Peggy landed at Dulles InternationalAirport near Redskins Park in mid-afternoon and were driv-en away in a limousine to meet with owner Dan Snyder andgeneral manager Bruce Allen. Snyder planned for Shanahanto stay overnight at the owner’s house in Maryland, and a for-mal hiring announcement could come as early as Tuesday.

Shanahan’s arrival was the highlight of a long, eventfulday as the Redskins sought a new direction after a 4-12 sea -son. The rst move came in the pre-dawn hours, when Zornwas dismissed during a meeting in his ofce with Allen after the team’s cross-country ight following a 23-20 loss to theSan Diego Chargers on Sunday.

“It’s real clear that we’re going to be aggressive,” Allensaid. “What we’re looking for in a head coach is somebodywho can lead these men that we had in our locker room thisyear to levels they’ve haven’t played through before.”

Shanahan won two Super Bowls in 14 seasons with theBroncos. He was red a year ago after Denver missed the

playoffs for the third straight season.Shanahan would be expected to bring his son, Hous-

ton Texans offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan, with himto Washington. While the Redskins weren’t making anyannouncements about a hiring, Texans coach Gary Kubiak spoke as if a Shanahan tandem in D.C. was virtually a fore-gone conclusion.

“Obviously it looks like Mike’s coming right back in the business here real quick, and I know it’s something he’s al-

ways wanted, to work with his son,” Kubiak said. “Isame way.”

Zorn went 12-20 over two seasons and lost 18 o24 games after a 6-2 start in 2008. The Redskins searly this season despite a weak schedule and nishtheir worst record since 1994.

“The status quo has to end,” Allen said. “We change the way we’ve been doing some business.

place two years in a row is not Redskins football.”Zorn’s replacement will be Washington’s

coach since Snyder bought the team in 1999. The Rare 82-99 on h is watch, missing the playoffs in eigseasons.

Zorn’s dismissal had been expected for montfront ofce stripped him of his play-calling duties intober, and Snyder interviewed assistant coach Jerry Gthe job weeks ago, according to the Fritz Pollard Awhich monitors minority hiring in the NFL.

Neither Snyder nor Zorn was made avareporters.It didn’t help that the front ofce didn’t give Zor

roster. The offense line was aging and lacked qualitJason Campbell was undermined by attempts to acquer quarterbacks. Former rst-round picks Carlos RoLaRon Landry have been disappointments. RunniClinton Portis looked worn down by years of wear aInjuries to several key players compounded the prand 12 players nished the season on injured reserve

The new coach, Snyder and Allen therefore haveumental rebuilding task ahead of them. The Redskhave the No. 4 overall pick in the draft, but the Redskmore than one college stud to right the ship.

“Maybe some of our greatest improvements,” Al“is our players who are already on ou r roster playing

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Second-year head coach Chris Hasbrouck announced the team

captains for the 2010 campaign Monday afternoon as well as this sea-son’s St. Mary’s College of Maryland men’s lacrosse schedule. Thisyear’s captains will be returning All-America selection, senior RyanAlexander (Laurel, Md./Pallotti); senior Ryder Henry (Washington,D.C./St. John’s College); and junior Bobby Cooke (Ellicott City, Md./Mt. Hebron).

Hasbrouck said, “These are three outstanding young men whoepitomize what the St.Mary’s lacrosse pro-gram is about - com-mitment, effort, andintensity. All threehave a great work ethic and have devel-oped into excellentleaders.”

A 6-0, 205-lbmidelder, Alexander returns for his nal

season as a three-timerst team All-CapitalAthletic Conferenceselection and 2009 All-America honorablemention. He has beenan offensive threat for the Seahawks all threeyears, gaining 2007CAC Co-Rookie of

the Year honors after lead-

ing the team with 37 goalsand 10 assists. Last season,Alexander nished third inscoring with 32 points (21g,11a) and could become the

program’s rst-ever four-time All-CAC selection ashe was named a preseasonsecond team All-America

pick in Inside LacrosseFace-Off Yearbook 2010.

Henry, a 6-3, 200-lblong-stick midelder, iscoming off a dominatingseason in which he gar-nered rst team All-CAChonors after leading theSeahawks with 18 causedturnovers and nishing

third with 39 groundballs.Cooke, a 5-11, 195-lb midelder, is a workhorse in the middle of

the eld and brings a wealth of talent and experience as a two-year starter. He was fth in scoring with eight goals and 12 points a year ago while scooping up23 loose balls.

“I have no doubtthey will do a great jobof leading us throughan extremely demand-

ing schedule as we look to continue to buildon the successes of last season in our pur-suit of an NCAA tournament berth,” addedHasbrouck.

In Hasbrouck’s rst season, the Se-ahawks nished with an 8-7 overall recordand second in the CAC standings, earningHasbrouck 2009 CAC Coach of the Year hon-ors. “I feel that our schedule will go a longway to helping us achieve our goal of com-

peting for the CAC championship and secur-

ing an NCAA bid,” commented Hasbrouck.“Our conference has become extremelycompetitive and demanding so it was im-

portant to play as difcult a non-confer -ence schedule as possible. These are allgreat opponents and we are looking forwardto the beginning of the season,” explainedHasbrouck.

The path to the conference champion-ship looks bright as the Seahawks returneight of last year’s top 10 scorers as well aseight of 10 starters. This group of returnershelped the program registered its rst winover Salisbury University in 32 years lastseason, earning them the second seed in theCAC playoffs and a rst-round bye.

St. Mary’s College junior gFranz (Catonsville, Md./Cardselected by both the Capital Athference and PrestoSports/Prideland as the player of the week foending January 3 after FranzMVP honors at The Car CoMiller Holiday Hoops and helpSt. Mary’s College of Maryla

basketball to a four-game win s

Franz shares CAC Player ohonors with York (Pa.) College sforward Paul Kouvaris who eahonors at the Hampton Inn CCancer Classic hosted by York.

The Seahawks (10-2) notcof wins at the Puerto Rico DClassic in San Juan, defeatinhanna University (72-66) anddad Metropolitana (71-51), befing The Car Coop/Weenie MillHoops with victories over Aversity (69-64) and host HampdCollege (70-69).

In Puerto Rico, Franz cont points, eight rebounds, seven afve steals against Susquehannfollowed up that performance nine points versus Metropolitan

Franz averaged 18.5 poin bounds, 7.0 assists and 6.0 stSeahawks captured team honCar Coop/Weenie Miller Holid

hosted by Hampden-Sydney. FrMVP laurels as he registered double with season-highs of 21 10 rebounds and added seven seven steals before draining winning three-point feld goal 12 seconds in the one-point wihosts in the title contest.

Franz started tournament a16 points and game-highs of seand fve steals while pulling dow

best six caroms in the team’s c behind win over Averett.

Franz is currently ranked vision III in assists per game witerage while ranking 15th with 3

per game.

SeahawkFranz Win

Two Top

Player Hon

Captains, Schedule Announced for Seahawks Men’s Lacrosse

Ryan Alexander

Ryder Henry

Bobby Cooke

Alex Franz

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By Chris StevensStaff Writer

MORGANZA – In helping keep the Chopti-con wrestling team unbeaten this season, senior Stephen Cannon achieved an individual mile-stone Tuesday night.

With his pin of Great Mills’ Will Andersonin the 160-pound match, Cannon registered his100th career win as the host Braves swept a tri-meet with Huntingtown (41-31) and Great Mills(78-6).

“It feels awesome, I’ve been waiting a longtime, and a lot of good wrestlers reach that mile-stone,” he said. “I’m just thankful for God’s helpall these years.”

“He hasn’t lost a match this year, you cancount on him and his brothers for 18 points everymatch,” Braves head coach Dane Kramer.

The Braves jumped out to an early 32-7 leadover Huntingtown, but the Hurricanes registeredthree straight pins to pull within seven points.In the 142 pound match, junior Taylor Koncen

stopped the bleeding with a decision to givethe Braves three much-needed points and thevictory.

“Coach told me that was a big match, thatgave us an advantage,” Koncen said. “[Hun-tingtown] had a pin right before that match andthe guys were a little down. We had to get themhyped up.” Koncen’s decision paved the way for the 41-31 win, and the Braves collected eight pinsin their second match of the evening against theHornets, who are building slowly but surely un-der frst year head coach Ben Gill.

“The guys are still scrapping, like I told them,Chopticon is a different animal with the depth andexperience they possess,” Gill said.

“If we can keep guys healthy and together alongwith some new kids, in a couple of years, we’ll be

back in business.”Business was good for Great Mills junior Kevin

Norris, who registered

pins in both of his 147- pound matches on theevening, using an un-usual move to help himearn victory.

“I used the headlever and the hammer lock, which is part of the same series,” Norrisexplains. “We’ve got towin. It’s embarrassingto lose by that much, soyou’ve got to come outand wrestle hard.”

For Norris, one of the younger guys, he

believes that the Hornetswill see the results of their hard work in time.“We just have to im-

prove for the most part,”he says. “We have a lotof new guys and we’ll be

better next year.”For Chopticon, their

goal is clear: The Class3A dual meet champion-ships, and with a strong

brotherhood amongstthe wrestlers, Taylor Koncen believes they can reach that goal.

“We’re more united this year,” he says. “I con-sider everyone on this team as brothers. It’s not just ateam, it’s family.”

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Robert Newton of Chopticon split his 287-pound matches as the Braves remained unbeaten by sweeping Huntingtown and Great Mills in a tri-meet Tuesday night.

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Chopticon’s Cody Reiter was victorious in boof his 105-pound bouts on the evening.


Will Anderson of Great Mills keepsa hold of a Huntingtown wrestler.

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The Year in Sports

JulySoftball highlighted the month of America’s indepen-

dence, as varying age levels strived for success, reaching tour-nament championships. The St. Mary’s All-Stars 12 and Un-der team won the Maryland State Championship and earned

the right to play in the Eastern Region Tournament inAlbany, NY.

On the highschool level,St. Mary’s All-American, madeup of some of theCounty’s top play-ers, gave Waldorf all they couldhandle before los-ing a 5-4 decisionin extra inningsin the regionalchampionshipgame on July 14in Brandywine.

Another major story was theongoing saga of Youth Footballwith the central

players being Pigskin, the Pax River Raiders anly-formed Southern Maryland Youth FootbaWith several leagues and very little direction, ern Maryland Coaches Association was formthat high school coaches from the area wou

stability and instruction for these programs.

With the rst half of the year out of the way, the summer brought us plenty of softball, stock car racing and Southern Maryland Blue Crabs success. Once summer was over, fall sports took center

stage at the high schools, highlighted by a very improved football team, a state champion runner, and one high school rallying around one very special young man.

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SeptemberThe high school

sports season got back into full swingand it kicked off with a surprisingvictory. It may nothave been the pretti-est of wins, but after 20 straight losses,the Great Millsfootball team couldcelebrate a win. TheHornets’ 6-0 victoryover Thomas Stoneon September 4 wasthe Hornets’ rst

win in two full sea-sons, an emotionalexperience that onlyserved to motivatethe team further.

Also in football, the St. Ryken football team found arary home while waiting for itnew stadium to nish constThe Knights rolled to a 40-0over Mt. Zion Baptist AcadSeptember 11 at Lancaster Paring up their rst win of the sea

their rst as a home team.The Leonardtown eld hockey team

got of a quick start in Southern MarylandAthletic Conference play, blanking GreatMills 3-0 to move to 4-0 in SMAC playto start the season.

Closing out the month, St. Mary’sCounty Public Schools director of Physi-cal Education and Athletics AndrewRoper announced a study would be tak-ing place to research the need and cost of turf elds at the three public high schoolsin the county.

AugustThe month kicked off the annual

Lawnmower Races at Bowles’ Farms inClements, with local racer Jason Brownwinning two races dur ing the weekend.The weekend also saw 9-time USLMRA

National Champion Bobby Cleveland,also known the Engine Answer Man,visit the track to answer questions anddisplay his famous Monster Mower, themean machine that help him set the landspeed record (81.725 MPH) in 2006.

The high school kids re-turned to the practice eldsduring the month, with St.

Mary’s Ryken starting a week ahead of the county’s publicschools, who started pre-sea-son practice August 15. Opti-mism was at an all-time highfor several teams in differentsports who believed they couldcompete for state and WCACchampionships.

Also, Budds Creek hostedthe Lucas Oil Pro AMA Moto-cross Championship Series atthe end of the month, with DaviMilsaps, Christophe Pourcel,Chad Reed and Brett Metcalfeclaiming victories in the 250and 450-cc moto events. Localriders, including Eric McKay,

Kenny Day, Robert Kraft, Stephen Stella and Randall Everett also made appearancesat the track, attempting to qualify for the motos over the course of the weekend.

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The State Champion St. Mary’s All-StarsSt. Mary’s All-American pitcher Tiffany Kennedy

SMYFL player Jordan McGee

National Lawnmower Racing Champ Bobby Cleveland

Chopticon strength coach Joe Ballenger

Eric McKay

Leonardtown’s Hayley Ross

St. Mary’s Ryken quarterback Chris Rixey

Great Mills quarterback Brian Jenner

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Sp rtJuly to December

For the January through June 2009 Year in Review, Check Out Last Week’s Issue!

OctoberThe Southern Maryland Blue Crabs concluded

their second season by making their rst appearancein the Atlantic League Championship series, fallingto the Somerset Patriots three games to one. One year after missing the playoffs by one game, the Blue Crabswon both halves of the Liberty Division, nishing witha 79-61 record overall.

The Chopticon eld hockey team also hada successful start to the 2009 season, winningtheir rst six games on their way to an 8-4 recordand the top seed in the 3A South Region play-offs. However, the season ended in heartbreak as

Northern, the eventual region champion, edgedthe Braves 4-3 in double overtime of the quar -ternal match. Leonardtown, top-seed in the 4AEast region, also was upset in the quarternalsand Annapo-lis defeatedthem 4-0.

The Leonardtown girls’ soccer team won their second con-secutive SMAC title, clinching the championship with a 5-1 vic -tory at North Point on October 20.

W i c o m i c oShores hosted theSouthern Mary-land AthleticConference golf tournament, withall three countyschools nish-ing in the topve. North Pointwas the runawaywinner of thetournament.

In women’ssoftball, there was a new champion crowned as South-ern Insulation defeated defending champion Just Usthree games to one to claim the County title.

Finally, Leonar -dtown’s Jessica Gasswon the SMAC girls’individual cross coun-try race, while theRaider boys and girlsearned the team t itles.

NovemberThe Leonardtown

boys’ soccer team con-cluded a fall season ded-icated to Leonardtownstudent Jordan Pagan-elli by advancing to the4A East Regional nals,

losing to Broadneck 1-0.All of the Raider teams

banded behind Pagan-elli, who lost his battlewith cancer on Novem-

ber 9, wearing “TeamJP” t-shirts into battleand dedicating their ef -forts to them, makingthe entire community

p r o u dof thes c h o o land itsstudents.

Chopticon also hada reason to be proud as se-nior Tyler Ostrowski wonthe Class 3A cross countrychampionship on November 14.

DecemberCapping the year was the

80-pound Mechanicsville WhiteBraves of the rst-year SMYFL go-

ing to Baltimore to take the MarylandState Youth Football Division Four championship, capping a perfect 14-0season in which they outscored their opponents 385-7.

Also, the County Times handedout its rst male and female athleteof the year awards, going to Chopti-con’s Tyler Ostrowski and Leonard-town graduate Brittany Culpepper for their achievements on the state leveland Cross Country and Swimmingrespectively.




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Chopticon’s Sarah Jenkins

Leonardtown forward Teresa Paz

Chopticon’s Tyler Hall

St. Mary’s County Women’sSoftball Champ Southern Insulation

Leonardtown’s Jessica Gass

Leonardtown’sShawn Medinski

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3A Cross Country ChampionTyler Ostrowski of Chopticon

Mechanicsville White Braves, state champions

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THURSDAY January 7, 2010

County Has No Plans toRaise Property Taxes

Youth ShelterPlan Fizzles

A Celebration of TWisner ‘s Endeav

Pinning Down Another Win

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