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By Sarah MillerStaff Writer

The Calvert County Garden Club has been quietly supporting thecommunity for more than 70 years, according to club vice presidentAlice Galligan. In an effort to broaden the scope of their efforts, theclub is offering a mini grant program for the rst time this year.

The mini-grant program is designed to focus on natural resourcepreser vation and conservat ion.

Grants can be awarded for amounts between $100 and $1,500,Galligan said. Funds for the grants and other garden club activities arepaid for through fundraisers, including the annual cookbook sale andthe yearly plant sale at Linden in Prince Frederick at the end of April.

Mini grant applicants must be local to Calvert County Maryland,be a non-prot organization and the project focus must be on conserva-tion of natural resources and the environment.

To apply for a mini grant, go to the Garden Clubs web site www.calvertgardenclub.com and complete the Mini Grant Application. Theapplication may be downloaded at the CGC Mini Grants tab. Com-pleted applicat ions a re due by Feb. 1, 2014. Grant awards will be an-nounced in March, 2014.

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The Calvert Board of County Com-missioners considered ordinance chang-es that would allow the county to morestrictly enforce property maintenance

regulations during their Dec. 10 boardmeeting.Chapter 92, as it is written today,

only allows enforcement of propertymaintenance in Residentially Zoned ar-eas, and the property owner is given 30days to abate the nuisance. If the nui-sance is not abated within the 30 days theCounty may abate such nuisance, saidZoning Enforcement Ofce Chief Chris-topher Breedlove during a presentationto the county commissioners.

The proposed changes are to expandthe areas of enforcement to propertieszoned Rural Community District (RCD),Rural Commercial (RC), Farm and For-

est District (FFD), and any Town Center(TC), in addition to amending the noticeto abate section. The proposed changeswill mirror the County Zoning Ordi-nance for enforcement.

Current r egulations state it shallbe unlawful for the owner of any lot,

tract or parcel located in a zoned Resi-dential District to permit, within 100 feetof any house, mobile home or other resi-dence whether occupied or unoccupied,any accumulation of debris, decayedvegetable matter, lth, dangerous trees,rubbish or trash, abandoned vehicles,refrigerators or other household articles,or any excessive growth of weeds or un-derbrush, or growth of noxious plants.Excessive growth is dened as growthof more than 12 inches in height.

For more information, visit www.co.cal.md.us.

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and Sewer RatesBy Sarah MillerStaff Writer

The residents of Chesapeake Beach have had theirsay and the Town Council will have to agree on an alter-native water and sewer rate structure dur ing their Dec. 19meeting.

Voters in Chesapeake Beach held a petition against anew rate structure, charging residents a at sewer use rateof $11.28 per thousand gallons and water use rate of $4.28per thousand gallons. With enough registered signatureson the petition, the matter went to a special vote on Dec. 7.

I didnt know what to expect, so nothing wouldhave surprised me, said Chesapeake Beach Mayor BruceWahl.

The majority of residents voted to reject the at us-age rates, meaning the Town Council will have to considerthe matter again during their Dec. 19 town hall meeting.Before the meeting, Wahl said he will meet with councilmembers individually to discuss alternative plans, someof which were tentatively approved at the town hall meet-ing in August and involve loans from the towns generalfund. He hopes to have a proposition for water and sewerusage fees that the town council can agree upon at the nextmeeting.

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With the holiday season come a lot of parties. In aneffort to make sure everyone gets home from their par-ties safely, the Calvert Alliance Against Substance Abuse(CAASA) and other local government agencies have part-nered to promote Designated Dr iver Month.

As a part of the awareness campaign, Sheriff Mike

Evans and Maryland State Police Barrack U Acting Com-mander First Sgt. Shane Bolger have partnered with CAA-SA to distribute more than 5,400 designated driver winebags to local liquor establishments, according to CAASACoordinator Candice DAgostino. The bags will be used

to remind customers of the importance of designating adriver when celebrating this holiday season, she said.

December has been Designated Driver Month sincDAgostino joined CAASA in 1999, and most likely beforthen, she said.

In addition to the wine bags, CAASA is distributingbrochures with alcohol free recipes and tips for stayingsafe on the road during the holiday season.

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nated Driver Month, visit www.co.cal.md.us or cal410-535-3733.

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Photo courtesy of CAASA Coordinator Candice DAgostin

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Prepare for Weather-Related OutagesSouthern Maryland faces potential

severe weather on Sunday. Area resi-dents may want to take steps to preparefor possible weather-related power out-ages. Southern Maryland Electric Coop-erative (SMECO) is monitoring weatherforecasts, and co-op crews are preparedto restore power if outages occur.

SMECOs outage restoration pol-icy is to make repairs that will restoreservice to the most people in the leastamount of time. Transmission lines andsubstations are repaired rst, followed

by distribution lines tha t feed neighbor-hoods. Tap lines and individual servicelines are then repaired to restore powerto customers who may still be withoutelectricity.

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If someone in your household de-pends on electr icity to operate l ife sup-port systems, make plans for alternatesources of power or alternate lodging.Call SMECOs special needs informa-tion number: 1-866-524-9402. In ad-dition, check with your local re de-

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Keep ashlights and fresh batter-ies on hand.

Stock nonperishable foods andkeep a manual can opener handy. Theideal choices are foods that require nocooking, such as fruit, canned tuna, pea-nut butter, crackers, cereals, cereal bars,canned soup, and bread.

Do not stock your refrigerator orfreezer with foods that may perish dur-

ing a power outage.

If you plan to use a charcoal or gasgrill for cooking, keep the gril l outdoors. If your water at home is supplied

by a well, store extra water in clean jugs,bathtubs, or laundry tubs.

Keep a battery-powered radiowith fresh batteries and stay tuned to lo-cal news bulletins and weather reports.

Keep fresh batteries in yoursmoke detectors.

Make sure that you have a stan-dard phone available. Cordless phonesdo not work without electricity. If youuse a cell phone, an auto adapter may beneeded to recharge your phone.

If you plan to use a portable gen-erator, use extension cords to connectwhat you want to power directly to the

generator. Place your generator outside,not in a crawl space or in a basement.Make sure your generator is connectedsafely; a generator that is not connect-ed safely can cause serious injury ordeath. When your power comes back on,turn off and disconnect your generatorimmediately.

Keep your automobile gas tankabove half full.

As in preparing for any other

emergency, maintain a supply of cash

Credit cards and ATM machines maynot work if the power is out.

If your power goes out:

Call SMECOs Outage Hotline a1-877-74-SMECO or 1-877-747-6326.

Turn off all the major appliancein your home, especially the heat pumpThis will prevent damage to the appliances once the power is restored. Thentry not to turn everything back on aonce; turn on appliances gradually so thelectric demand does not jump suddenly

Make sure the oven and stove aroff to prevent res if the power come

back on while youre away. Open the freezer and refrigerato

as little as possible. This will help foodstay fresh longer.

Never touch downed power lineor attempt to remove trees from powelines. Contact with live power linemay result in serious injury or deathLet qualied SMECO crews handle theclearing and repair work. Please repordowned power lines to SMECO immediately by calling 1-888-440-3311.

As the region heads into winter and the promise of rough weather, be pre-pared by sign ing up for Calvert County ALERT, a notication system that canalert citizens and businesses about emergency and non-emergency situations.

Calvert County ALERT allows county agencies to communicate with thou-sands of residents, businesses and visitors within minutes of an emergency. Thesystem can send notications about severe weather, evacuations, law enforce-

ment actions, missing persons and water and sewer messages. Alerts can be sentusing a variety of contact methods, including cell phone, home phone, work

phone with an extension, email, text messag ing, fax, pager and TDD/TTY. Morethan one of each type of device can be registered two or more cell phones, twoemail addresses, etc. ensuring users receive life-saving emergency informa-tion and important public service messages in minutes.

Once registered, you can customize your prole to choose only the types ofalerts you wish to receive. For weather alerts you can choose the times you wishto receive them, though tornado warnings will be sent at any time if you selectthem in your prole. You can add multiple locations to receive alert in formationfor home, work, a childs daycare, elderly relative or other specic county ad -dresses. You can change your prole or opt out of the system at any time.

The system allows the county to target specic geographic areas for aler tsor send alerts countywide. It can also gather information on citizens with spe -cial needs who may need additional help in an emergency.

Sign up by visiting the county website at www.co.cal.md.us and clickingon the Emergency Alerts li nk. Those without Inter net access can call 410-535-1600, ext. 2638, to sign up.

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Earlier this month, Calvert Memorial Hospital be-gan a new palliative care program aimed at providingextra support for patients and their families dealing withongoing illness. The focus of palliative care is to ease the

pain, suffering and stress caused by advanced or chronicillness while maximizing their quality of life.

Our palliative care team understands that when apatient is coping with a serious illness that it can alsohave a big impact on their family, said Dr. FranciscaBruney, medical director of the palliative care programat CMH. This program was created to help not only

patients but their loved ones deal with these challenges.

The CMH Palliative Care team includes palliativecare doctors, nurse practitioner, nurses and social work-ers as well as the hospital chaplain, pharmacist, nutri-tionist and case managers who meet weekly to collabo-rate on patient care.

Bruney said that palliative care services are avail-able to all inpatients at Calvert Memorial Hospital. Ifa patient, family member or caregiver thinks this is aservice they need or could benet from any of them mayask for a visit from the palliative care team.

Once a consult is requested, she said, the palliative

care navigator will meet with the patient and their fam-ily to determine their needs and then will forward thisinformation to the palliative are team. Together, theyaddress emotional, spiritual and cultural needs whileworking closely with the patients own doctor regardingtreatment options.

Bruney stressed that palliative is different thanhospice care, which is specically meant for those ap-

proaching the last stages of li fe, while pall iative care isappropriate for any stage of a serious illness.

The most important thing is not to wait, said pal-liative care navigator David Free, NP. Early palliativecare has been shown to improve outcomes and quality oflife for patients and their families. Free is a nationallycertied Hospice Palliative Care nurse practitioner and

has spent more than half of his 15-year nursing career inareas related to hospice and palliative care.

He explained that a chronic illness can present afamily and their family with many choices and decisions. Our palliative care team can help them throughthis process, said Free, by exploring their goals andwishes and by clarifying treatment options.

Additionally, he said the palliative care team canhelp with discussing pain and symptom managemenwhile promoting communication between all of thcaregivers. We can also assist with establishing ad

vance directives and providing information about homecare, skilled nursing and other services, said Free.

According to Dr. Bruney, there are many patientwho could benet from palliative care, especially ithey are experiencing physical or emotional pain that inot under control or they need help understanding or coordinating their care.

She went on to add that most insurance plans coverall or part of palliative care treatment that is provided inthe hospital, just as they would other services. Medicareand Medicaid also typically cover palliative care. If a

patient or family member has concerns about the cost opalliative care t reatment, a social worker from the palliative care team is available to answer questions and

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Rescheduled for Dec. 12Due to inclement weather, the temporary closure

of a portion of Armory Road in Prince Frederick hasbeen rescheduled for Thursday, Dec. 12 beginning at 9p.m. The road will be closed to trafc during the eve-ning and overnight for the installation of a sewer line.

The work is part of the Armory Road/ChesapeakeBoulevard improvement project. Temporary detoursignage and barricades will be set up at the intersec-tions of Armory and Dares Beach roads and Armory

and Fairground roads. Motorists will detour along Fair-ground Road to travel between Dares Beach Road andMain Street. Armory Road will re-open before 5 a.m.Friday, Dec. 13.

The four-phase project will result in Armory Roadimprovements including wider shoulders, sidewalks,pedestrian lighting and more. The roads name willchange to Chesapeake Boulevard and a trafc circlewill be installed at its intersection with Dares BeachRoad. The project is part of the larger Prince Frederickloop road.

Details of the project can be found at www.co.cal.md.us/roadproject. The website includes regular up-dates as the project progresses and features maps andinformation on its four phases.

The CMH Palliative Care team meets weekly to collaborate on patient care. Pictured (l-r) are social worker David Sacks, Dr. FranciscaBruney, medical director; palliative care navigator David Free, NP; social worker Cindy Bruce, committee chair; Mathew Wheaton, directoCMH Transitional Care Unit; Dr. Mike Brooks, VP medical affairs; TCU nurse Deborah Cole, pharmacist Neal Vasist, Rev. Alice Thompson,CMH chaplain and case manager Jean Davis.


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Legislation to Fix UnfairTreatment of Pit BullsBy Sarah MillerStaff Writer

Animal welfare activists from all over Southern Mary-land came out on Dec. 3 to discuss breed specic legislation inthe aftermath of the Solesky v. Tracey court ruling.

The St. Marys Animal Welfare League (SMAWL) host-ed the event in Leonardtown.

Maryland Senior State Director for the Humane Societyof the United States (HSUS-Maryland) Tami Santelli led thediscussion.

Attendance was good, with more than 30 attendees, in-

cluding Senator Roy Dyson, Former Calvert County DelegateSue Kullen and representatives from the tri-county animalshelter and the Golden Retriever Rescue of Southern Mary-land, according to SMAWL Board of Directors President Ka-tie Warner.

Community concerns included needed renovations andupgrades to the tri county animal shelter and an increase in theintake of pit bulls following the Solesky v. Tracey court rul-ing, which singles pit bulls out as being inherently dangerousand making owners liable for all incidents involving the breed,Warner said. In all other cases involving dog bites or attacks,where owners are only held liable if they had prior knowledgeof their dogs nature and possible violent tendencies, she said.

Following the ruling, shelters saw an increase in the num-ber of pit bulls and pit bull mixes as landlords began forcingthe eviction of the breed, Warner said.

The group is hopeful legislation will be passed in the up -coming session to address the issues, said attendee DuwaneRager.

The forum was the last in a series of eight, Santelli said.In follow-up information sent out to attendees, Santelli urgedindividuals to call their legislators and set up meetings withthem before they go back to Annapolis on Jan. 8, 2014.

Many of them have district ofces and meet with con-stituents in their community during the interim, so this is a

great time to reach out, Santelli said.For more information, or to nd ways to get involved, likeB-More Dog on Facebook at www.facebook.com/bmoredog,HSUS-Maryland at www.facebook.com/HSUSMaryland orSMAWL at www.facebook.com/smawl.

So much great information is available through socialmedia and its the best way to get up-to-the minute details,Santelli said.

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Attempted Burglary: On Dec. 5 at 3:42 p.m.,Trooper First Class Logsdon responded to the500 block of Meadow Lane in Prince Frederick

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Burglary: On Dec. 7 at 1:10 a.m., Trooper Roweresponded to the 4400 block of Cassell Blvd inPrince Frederick for a reported burglary. The reardoor to the home was damaged and the home wasentered while the victim was not home. Nothingwas found to be stolen. Investigation continues.

Possession of Oxycodone: On Dec. 7 at 2:2p.m., Trooper Barlow stopped a vehicle on Rt. 4 aSteeple Chase in Prince Frederick for trafc violations. A search was conducted and Oxycodonwas located. The driver, Linwood R. Thomas Jr26 of Prince Frederick, was arrested and incarcerated at the Calvert County Detention Center.

Possession of Oxycodone: On Dec. 7 at 3:0p.m., Trooper First Class Logsdon responded tRt. 4 and Old Field Lane in Prince Frederick foa reported disabled vehicle. Eric J. Gallodoro, 2of Dowell, was in the passenger seat attempting touse a cell phone. While speaking with Gallodorohe appeared to be under the inuence of narcotics. A search revealed that he was in possessio

of Oxycodone. He was arrested and incarcerateat the Calvert County Detention Center.

DUI & Possession of Marijuana: On Dec. at 11:58 p.m., Trooper First Class Wiesemannstopped a vehicle for trafc violations on CovPoint Rd in Lusby. Rachel M. Pitcher, 24 oBroomes Island, was arrested for DUI. A searcrevealed that she was in possession of marijuanaShe was incarcerated at the Calvert County Detention Center.

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Rosalea Knight, clinic director, has aprimary goal in patient care: to make peo-ple feel better. Knight and her team believecommunication and patient education arekeys to successful treatment. I considermyself to be an assertive therapist and Ill

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For more information about the CalvertCounty Department of Economic Develop-ment, our visitor sites and attractions andthe services available to assist county busi-nesses, call 410-535-4583 or 301-855-1880;send an email to [email protected]; or visit

online at www.ecalvert.com

By Sarah Miller

Staff Writer

Vintage Treasures in Solomons will

help distribute toys to children and fam-

ily in need on Dec. 15.

The event at Vintage Treasures fol-

lows a successful Rock-N-Roll Christ-

mas Toy Drive at Anthonys Bar and

Grill on Dec. 7, according to Vintage

Treasures owner Cindy Ireland. Calvert

Cares at Christmas collected the pro-

ceeds from the Rock-N-Roll Christmas

Drive and will bring leftovers, after pre-planned distr ibutions, to Vintage Trea-

sures during a visit from Santa Claus on

Dec. 15. Santa ar rives at 1 p.m. and will

stay until 3 p.m.

Anybody wanting to donate toys

can bring them to Vintage Treasures,

located at 13858 Hg Trueman Road in

Solomons.

Vintage Treasures opened in St

Leonard in 2010, then relocated to the

Solomons location in Aug 2012, Ireland

said. Since moving to Solomons, the

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newborns. Ireland has two daughters

and eight grandchildren. The childrens

fathers havent all been the most reliable

and Ireland and her husband help their

daughters as much as possible. Not all

young mothers have that kind of supportsystem, Ireland said. This inspired her to

donate items for newborns to mothers in

need.

For more informaiton, visit the

Facebook pages for Vintage Treasures

and Calvert Cares at Christmas.

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Thursday, December 12, 2013 10The Calvert GazetteSpotlight On

Making Sure No Child Goes Hungry


For the second year, 2003 Patuxent High Schoolalum Shanae Gray is bring the FUEL Empowerment fo-rum to Patuxent High School.

This year, the event will include the Change Cluband their anti-bullying skit, the JustMusic.Group andfeatured artists and a variety of ministries and organiza-tions aimed at empowering students to be a positive in-fuence in their communities. Speakers will include rep-resentatives from the Washington D.C. National Guardand the Calvert Alliance Against Substance Abuse, Graysaid.

Entry is free for students, Gray said.Other FUEL Empowerment events during the year

include a mini-series in March, she said. FUEL Empow-erments goal is to provide a positive outlook on life andgive students the tools they need to resists peer pressureand bullying.

The forum will be at Patuxent High School, locatedat 12485 Southern Connector Boulevard in Lusby, onDec. 14 from 9:40 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information,e-mail [email protected].

[email protected]


John Bunyon said - you have not livedtoday until you have done something forsomeone who can never repay you.

The Bible says although they cannotrepay you, you will be repaid at the resur-rection of the righteous (Luke 14:14) andwhen you help the poor you are lending tothe Lordand he pays wonderful intereston your loan (Proverbs 19:17).

The men and women with HeartFELTMinistry have taken those words to heart.Three Calvert Churches, Trinity UnitedMethodist Church, St. Pauls Episcopal andSolomons United Trinity Church, have ad-opted local schools in an effort to get sendfood home with students in need.

One year ago, Trinity UMC in PrinceFrederick began their partnership with Bar-stow Elementary School to give students in

need backpacks lled with food to ensurethey have food during the weekend.

HeartFELT (Feeding Empty LittleTummies) has grown in the last year. Solo-mons United Methodist Church began pro-viding backpacks with food for two break-fasts and lunches and three dinners to 14children from six families in September. St.Pauls Episcopal in Prince Frederick workswith students attending Calvert ElementarySchool.

The backpacks and much of the foodare donated to the churches, said SolomonsUMC Reverend Meredith Wilkins-Arnold.Since starting HeartFELT, the communityhas embraced the cause, she said. One ofher neighbors, who doesnt even go to Solo-mons UMC, gave her a $100 gift card fromFood Lion to help buy food. Local restau-rants have held fundraisers and donated non-

perishables to the cause. End Hunger hashelped obtain food through the Maryland

Food Bank.The owners of The Striped Rock in Sol-

omons are planning a Christmas party forthe families sponsored by Solomons UMC.

Teachers and administrators in theirschool in need identify children, Wilkins-Arnold said. Backpacks are labeled withan age and gender but no personal informa-tion. Every Friday, the children receiving aidtake their backpack full of food and returnit on Monday to be relled. All aid is keptcondential.

Who would have thought spaghetti

and sauce would be such a big gift, Wilkins-Arnold said.

Jack Woodford introduced Heart-FELT to Trinity UMC in January 2013 afterlearning of a similar project at a church hisdaughter works at in Tampa, Fla. He spoketo the principal from Barstow ElementarySchool and a teacher from Calvert Elemen-tary School and found there is a need in Cal-vert for a similar ministry.

The cause is one that hits home forWoodford. After his father had a strokewhen Woodford was a child, his family losttheir farm and home in New York State.

They lived with relatives, but resourcewere scarce. Woodford is nearly seven feetall and, as a child, his brothers hand-medown clothing didnt t well and he nevehad enough to eat. He made it his mission t

prevent children from going to bed hungryAfter receiving food, he said school

have seen improvements in the childreHeartFELT Ministry serves.

The have improved attendance, improved attitudes, and improved grades,Woodford said.

Currently, Trinity UMC has distribute

4,380 pounds of food and more than 5,00meals to children at Barstow ElementaryWoodford said.

HeartFELT Ministrys goal is to get sponsor for every school to ensure that nochild goes hungry, Woodford said.

For more information about HeartFELT, including opportunities to get involved, email Woodford at [email protected] or call Trinity UMC a410-535-1782.

[email protected]

Empowering Calverts YouthFUEL Empowerment Forum This Weekend

Flier courtesy of Shanae Gray

Photos by Sarah Mille

Bill Johnston, left, Dianne Koerper, Lynda Adams and Ellen Curran help feed hungry children every week


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The annual Teacher Recruitmentand Placement Report and allergic reac-tion response plans were

Calvert County Public Schools(CCPS) Human Resources Department

presented its annual repor t on TeacherRecruitment and Placement, Thursday,Dec. 5 to the local school board.

According to a report from Depart-

ment of Human Resources Acting Direc-tor Victoria Karol, 54 of the 73 newlyhired teachers within the Calvert systemhave earned a masters degree. One hasearned a doctorate.

Of the newly hired teachers, 44 per-cent were recruited from other Marylandcounties, First year teachers make up 41

percent of the 2013-2014 new hires, withthe rest having an average of 4.5 yearsof experience when they were hired intoCalvert County Public Schools.

Twenty-one special education teach-ers were hired for the current schoolyear, with 12 of them teaching at the el-ementary level.

The majority of teachers in thecounty are between the ages of 40 and

49, Karol said. That demographic makes

up 39 percent of the teacher population.The majority of teachers, 82 percent, arefemale, Karol said. The county is mak-ing strides in diversifying the teachingforce, she said, adding there are moremale and minority teachers in schoolsthan last year.

Thirty percent of the new hires at-tended high school in Calvert County.

In other news during the meet-ing, Board of Education members con-sidered minor changes to the county

schools EpiPen policies and allergy autoinject training. Every school carr ies twoauto-injectable epinephrine (EpiPen) de-vices for cases of severe allergic reactionand anaphylaxis. Calvert County schoolscarried the devices long before the stateregulations began requiring schools car-ry them, according to Calvert Director ofStudent Services Kim Roof.

Students with known allergies thatcould result in anaphylaxis often carrytheir own medication, which must be re-ported to the school nurse with a doctorsnote, Roof said.

For more information, includingdocuments presented at the board meet-ing, visit www.calvertnet.k12.md.us.

[email protected]

Photo by Sarah Miller

Teacher Employment,

Epipens DiscussedAt Board Of

Education Meeting

Comverge representative Tripp Powers gives the Calvert County Board of Education a check for $98,956.88for Calvert County Public Schools participation with SMECO and Comverge to curtail energy demandduring the summer months and prevent brownouts and blackouts. CCPS received the check and energycredits, according to CCPS Supervisor of Energy Management Archer Brown.


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Calvert County Library DirectorMakes Plans for 2014

STORY


With a new library director, plans for a new librarycatalogue and improvements to programs and services of-fered at library branches, Calvert County Public Librariesare ready for and exciting year in 2014.

Meet the New Director

Calvert Library Director Carrie Plymire started workon July 8, coming to Calvert County Libraries with 12 yearsof experience in library services. Before working for Calvertlibraries, she was in Hagerstown, Md., where she worked forthe Washington County Free Library and was the Techni-cal Services Supervisor for the Western Maryland RegionalLibrary.

Plymire earned her undergraduate degree from St.Johns College, then moved in with her parents and took two

part-time jobs one at a library and the other at a bookstore.She got marries and moved with her husband to New Mex-ico, when she found another job with a library. She workedfor libraries for several years before she ralized thats whatshe wanted to do for a career, Plymire said.

She earned her Masters in Library and InformationSciences from Drexel University in 2006. When she got hermasters degree, Plymire said some of her friends told her shecould nd a job in archiving or at the Library of Congress.

I dont think I could, she said, explaining that she en-joys interacting with the public and helping them discoverall that the library can do for them too much to do anythingelse.

Plymire is a graduate of the Maryland Library Leader-ship Institute and Leadership Washington County where shealso served as Board Secretary. She wasnt sure whether shewanted to apply for the position of library director when her

predecessor, Pat Hofmann, announced her intention to re-tire. It wasnt until she began researching the library systemin Calvert and found the libraries goals dovetailed with herown, to educate and engage the community and provide ahigh level of public service.

The philosophy of the library system and my philoso-phy are simpatico, she said.

With that in mind, she decided to apply for the position.

Whats New in 2014

Goals and Challanges

Plymires New Year Resolution for the library is to beas creative and innovative as we can given budget restraints.

Plymire works closely with the Calvert Library Boardof Trustees in determining the path for Calvert County Pub-lic Libraries. The trustees set policies and she manages day-to-day operations. They work together to create a budget,

she said, noting that the libraries are working with level orless funding every year. Making up for the gap in fundingare the Calvert Library Foundation and the Friends of Cal-vert Libraries, two fundraising organizations devoted to thecounty library system.

Some programs are paid for through grants, such as thePushing the Limits series planned for this summer, spon-sored by Califa.

We will have scientists host discussions of popularbooks with science themes like Clive Cussler's Arctic Drift,TC Boyle's When the Killing's Done, Jean Auel's Clan ofthe Cave Bear or maybe Land of the Painted Caves, andEric Larson's Thunderstruck. The idea is that participantswill nd science accessible and interesting and the scientistswill help them "think like a scientist" when discussing thethemes in the books. There will also be two short lm clipsshown for each discussion...one of the author and one humaninterest story tied to the theme, said Calvert Library Public

Relations Coordinator Robyn Truslow in an e-mail.Science is a large part of youth programming. STEM

programs really turn into STREAM events (Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art, Math), Plymire said.

The 2014 summer reading program, Fizz, BoomREAD!, is science based, said Youth Services CoordinatoBeverly Allyn Izzi.

Its very common core without being common core,Plymire said, explaining students are encouraged to puzzlout problems and nd answers through experimentation.

Plans for the county library system will not just be athe physical branches, Plymire said. She has polled staf

from the libraries and they are working on a new URL fothe library website. The current one, calvert.lib.md.us, hatoo many breaks and can be difcult to remember, she said

In addition to a new URL, the library system will implement a new online library catalogue system Polaris.

Plymire has experience with Polaris, having helpeintegrate the same system at the Washington County FreLibrary. The change will allow online users to create individual favorite lists, Plymire said. The new system is morintuitive. For example, if an individual puts It in the searc

box, the novel by Stephen King and the movie adaptation othe novel will be among the top hits, not buried on the sixt

page, Plymire said.The library system is in negotiations for partnership

with local museums and water parks for summer programsPlymire said. Several other library systems throughouMaryland have begun lending non-traditional items, such acake pans, and Plymire intends for Calvert libraries to followthe trend, through shes non sure how that will look yet. Typ

ically, librarians will come up with big ideas, then talk themthrough with colleagues until they are manageable workablfor the library system.

Funding challenges mean the library has difcultkeeping up with technological advance, from computers t3D printers.

Plymire would like to do additional outreach in the newyear. Ideally, if the funding was there, she would want to hiran additional outreach librarian to deliver books and provid

programs to shut-ins, day cares and other community baselocations. She would like an imagination station with toys

puzzles and games for children and, similar to the one at thnew Calvert Library Southern Branch in Solomons. Mor

publishers are allowing books to be lent out on e-readers, buwithout the funding it will be difcult to fulll the demanthis will cause, Plymire said.

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Every year, librarians and supervisors come up

with goals for Calvert Public Libraries, according to

Calvert Library Director Carrie Plymire.

Librarians come up with three goals and supervisors

come up with ve. Below are some staff

resolutions for Calvert County Libraries in 2014

Paulita Gross,

Library Ofce Assistant

Gross wants to see more parents bringin their children in for programs and to

embrace reading.

Tiffany Sutherland, Librarian andTACOS (Teen Advisory Council of

Students) Advisor

Sutherlands goal is teen oriented. Shewants to give teens what

they really want.

Molly Crumbley,

Public Services Librarian

Crumbley would like to see more youngadults in their 20s come in for programs.She said once students leave high school,

the library doesnt see them as often.

Lisa Wieland, Public Services Librarian

Wieland wishes more people would come inand realize libraries are gathering places for

the community. She said she hopes to increasepublic awareness on programs and commu-

nity events at the library in the new year.

Ellen Ruoff, Public Services Librarian

Ruoff hopes to increase awareness of thelibrarys online public resources, suchas the online catalogue, and electronic

resources, such as e-readers.

Robbie McGaughran,

Adult Resources Coordinator

McGaughran wants to help customerslearn to navigate Zinio, a digital maga-

zine reader Calvert County librariesbegan utilizing in August.

Beverly Allyn Izzi,

Youth Services Coordinator

Izzi intends to have at least500 children enrolled in the500 by 5 program in 2014.

Marcia Hammett, Calvert Library

Prince Frederick Branch Manager

Hammett intends to continue to cater tothe communitys needs and help people

nd the information they need.

Photos by Sarah MillerCalvert Library Director Carrie Plymire


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Calvert Hospice Thanks

Everyone for Their Help withThis Years Festival of Trees

Kullen Dent

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Editor

In a letter published in the Calvert Gazette and two others, MsAmy Dent presumes to speak for all of Calvert County by declaringSue Kullen too liberal for Calvert. Dent cant imagine a worse out-come than to have Kullen back in ofce to pursue her liberal agenda.Such extreme statements may energize those who think like Dent butturn off many others, including those who cant imagine a BETTERoutcome than to have Kullen back in ofce. The Dent letter, similarin negative tone to mailings by the Fisher campaign four years ago,

only polarizes voters. The 2010 Fisher mail blitz was the most egre-gious case of smear campaigning I can recall from my 45 years inCalvert County. To her credit, Kullen eschews negative campaign-ingthe fact that that probably cost her re-election does not speakwell for our practice of democracy.

Dent focused her letter on one bill introduced by Kullen morethan six years ago. This bill seemed to be at rst thought a creativeattempt to nance MD storm water management (thus saving taxpay-ers money) by imposing nes for building in wetlands or dumpingfertilizer, thus also deterring some from exacerbating the long-knownchronic over-fertilization of Chesapeake Bay. I have been followingChesapeake-related legislation for yearshaving personally observedthe Bays and Patuxents decline since I moved here in 1969. However,I had never heard of this bill until reading Dents letter. So I read thebill online, picked up the phone and called Sue Kullen herself. Yes,she is in the phone book, and very approachableone of many rea-sons she served Calvert well for more than six years. Ms. Dent couldhave done what I did. Had she contacted Sue, Ms. Dent would havelearned as I did that Sue herself had voluntarily withdrawn the bill,for several reasons. Yes, the nes and penalties WERE too draconian,

and the bills intended focus on the most vulnerable wetlands couldnot be properly dened. In the end, the funding problem for the stormwater program was solved in another way. The problems of fertilizerdumping and wetland destruction remainso what do we do about it?

Unfortunately there will always be some who spoil things forall of us and are only deterred by nes or even prison terms. Penal -ties for abusing our common US waters go back to the Refuse Act of1899, which prohibits throwing, discharging or depositing any refusematter of any kind into the water of the United States. Back thennavigation hazards were the main concern. Today its a federal law,with up to $5000 ne, for discharging oil or oily water. State lawsimpose nes up to $2000 for discharge of untreated sewage fromboats. Because even treated sewage is badits fertilizer!! thereare nes up to $1000 for emptying holding tanks in No DischargeZones. Meanwhile on land, in Maryland anyone who dumps evennon-commercial amounts of trash along our highways can be nedup to $1500, perhaps sent to the klink, and required to clean up thelitter and perform public service. Would Ms Dent suggest we abolishany of these laws or lighten the penalties as being the work of lib-

erals? Isnt disposal of fertilizer into the Chesapeake watershed oreliminating wetlands in fact stealing from the Bays productivity (nand shellsh), and thus a theft from our economy, from our numerousbusinesses that depend on the Bay? If so, which political party is beingsofter on crime? Sure, Delegate Sues 2007 bill imposed nes whichwere too severeone of the reasons she withdrew the bill. How doesMs. Dent suggest we solve the problem?

With 2014 an election year, how about a New Years resolutionto campaign in a civil mannerno more propaganda blitzes, please!Lets all, no matter your political persuasion, work to restore the Ches-apeake to the best it can be, given 17 million of us now share the wa-tershed. Ideological shouting matches and negative campaigning willnever restore the Bay: How about dialogues, not diatribes! I invite Ms.Amy Dent to suggest how best to deter and motivate those who wouldotherwise do preventable damage to the Bay. Its many seeminglysmall impacts that cause the big problem. Contact Sue KullenasI did upon reading Dents letterand share your constructive ideaswhile listening to hers. Sue is truly committed to restoring the Bay- aseach of us should be- but shes also pragmatic and listens to voters.

Thats why this former Republican (me) intends to help send her backto Annapolis to represent our great little county.Peter Vogt

Port Republic, Md.

Everyone at Calvert Hospice sends ourwarmest holiday greetings to all those who

helped make our 25th Anniversary of Festival of

Trees held at St. John Vianney Family Life Center

a huge success. We are happy to report more than

$116,000 in revenues; making the bottom line themost protable ever.

The 2013 Festival of Trees featured a record

number of 73 beautifully decorated trees; Memo-rial Service; VIP Reception, 64 vendors, model

train displays, Hospice Boutique, photos withSanta, Santas Workshop, community musical,

choral, and dance groups, and multi-hundreds of

volunteers.

The beautifully decorated trees created by

volunteers sparkled and inspired everyone who

saw them.

We are grateful for the hours and hours of

time spent to make the magic of Festival of Trees

come to life!

Festival of Trees was sponsored by Marrick

Homes, Crow Entertainment, M&T Bank, KellyMcConkeys Tree Service and Landscaping,

Sneades Ace Home Center, Bais2, College ofSouthern Maryland, Lee Funeral Home-Calvert,

P.A., ProCare Rx, S.J. Johnson, Inc., Tax Depot,

LLC, Beretta USA, SMECO, Jo-Ann Fabric and

Craft Store, Pamela Meador in Memory of Frank

Meador, Chesapeakes Bounty, Rene Cunning-

ham & Gerry Van de Velde, Patty and Ed Me -hosky, and John & Laray Schaffner. Many otherlocal businesses and individuals sponsored trees,

placed ads in the program, or donated items for

sale at the Hospice Boutique where 100% of theproceeds beneted Calver t Hospice.

Festival of Trees supports the Burnett Cal-vert Hospice House, bereavement programs forall Calvert County residents, our We Honor Vet -erans program, and programs for children and

teens: Bridges and Camp Phoenix.

We rely on the community to ensure that

we can keep the doors to our hospice house open

and ready to serve our community in their time

of greatest need. In this season of giving, we are

grateful for all we have received.

Brenda Laughhunn

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By Susan ShawCalvert County Commissioner, Dis-trict 2

All the Commis-

sioners are getting a lotof panicked calls, emailsand Facebook messages(not a good way to com-municate with a Com-missioner if you wanta quick response) fromconstituents who live inthe neighborhood of the

proposed Dominion Cove Point LNG Lique-faction Project. Most of the concern is relatedto blatant misinformation being widely dis-seminated by the Chesapeake Climate Ac-tion Network or C-CAN. Two of their staffmembers even lied about being from thesame organization at a recent public hearing.The public seems unaware of the C-CANagenda: to ONLY promote wind, solar, and

bio-mass energy sources. I would have NO

problem with that agenda, except their meth-ods are reprehensible, which is to lie, distort,misinform, and spread half-truths, panic andfear to promote their agenda. So, here is aPARTIAL list of FACTS about the proposed

project to answer C-CAN allegations:

The U. S. Department of Energy saidthe export of natural gas resources is havinga transformative impact on the U. S. ability toimprove our energy security while spurringeconomic development in this country.

President Obama encourages the de-velopment alternative fuels such as LNG in

his Climate Action Plan as a way to pro-mote the move to cleaner fuels.

The U. S. Department of Energy hasfound that this project and others like it ben-et American consumers and businesses.

The job benets of this project areenormous and real, especially in CalvertCounty and beyond. The proposed projectwill create more than 3000 construction jobsduring a three-year period. Most of these jobsare expected to be lled by local workers. Thenew permanent jobs will go to permanent andnew residents of the Calvert County area whowill shop in local stores and buy local homes.According to the U. S. Dept. of Commerce,another 14,000 permanent jobs are expectedto result from the project nationally.

Dominion has worked diligently tominimize the environmental impacts andthey are outweighed by the environmental

benets. The numbers being promoted byC-CAN inate the expected emissions byassuming Cove Point will, at every moment,

both import and export LNG at full capac-ity. While technically possible, it makes no

economic sense to go through the substantialexpense of liquefying natural gas and loadingit onto a ship, while simultaneously unloadinga ship to re-gasify natural gas.

Greenhouse gas emissions from natu-ral gas-red electric generation are about halfof those of coal. Using natural gas to supplantcoal in other countries decreases greenhousegas emissions globally.

This facility will have to meet thesame thorough and stringent clean air andclean water standards as other facilities inMaryland.

Ship trafc will be virtually no differ-ent than when Cove Point is only importingnatural gas. The same number and kinds ofships for exportsabout one every four daysor 85 per yearas when the facility was at its

peak imports. This is a very small percentageof the commercial shipping trafc on the Bay. The ships headed to Cove Point will

have to obey the same U.S. Coast Guard regu-lations with regard ballast water and other is-sues as ships currently landing at Cove Point,and to all ships headed through the Bay toBaltimore and elsewhere.

LNG tankers have one of the best safe-ty records in the maritime industry.

Cove Point will be the same goodneighbor that it has been for 40 years.

No new pipelines will be needed inCalvert County.

The Myersville, MD, compressor sta-tion that C-CAN mentions is needed to servecustomers of Washington Gas and BaltimoreGas and Electric, not Cove Points exportcustomers.

The new liquefaction equipment willbe installed inside the fence line at the cur-rent Cove Point plant, and the existing pier,storage tanks, and other infrastructure will

be used. The 800 acres of protected area will

remain preserved. There will be no new ship trafc be-

yond currently permitted levels. Every effort is being made to mini-

mize local road trafcfrom bussing work-ers to the construction site to installing newtrafc signals and turn lanes.

Every effort is being made to dampen

noise from the site. Tall and long sound walls willbe hidden by the current over 60 tall tree line.

Any off-site area that needs to be tem-porarily disturbed will be restored.

Any trees removed from the Cove

Point site will be replanted elsewhere.If Cove Point were not to be built, thenatural gas, jobs and economic benets willgo elsewhere. There are more than 20 othernatural gas export facilities proposed in the U.S., along with others in Canada. They maynot all be built, but certainly some of themwill. They are ready to take Cove Points

place in the queue if Cove Point were to falter.In that case, the people of Calvert County andthe rest of Maryland would lose out.

The Federal Energy Commission(FERC) docket contains well over 12,000

pages of documentation of the facts I justshared above. Any one can read that docu-mentation by going to the FERC website.

Approximately 50 regulatory per-mits and approvals are still required. Theapproval process is thorough, arduous, andcomprehensive.

A complete Environmental ImpactStatement (EIS) was required for Cove Point

prior to the relatively recent construction ofthe new pipeline and other improvements atCove Point. An Environmental Statement orES is a thorough and extensive update to the

previous EIS and will answer any remainingenvironmental questions. Calls for a new EISare merely attempts to delay the project to al-low the project to occur elsewhere. They arenot constructive.

I could go on and on, but you get thepicture.

The Anti-Dote to C-CAN Lies and Misinformation

COMMISSIONERS CORNER

Lusby Business Association

Talks ArticleAlimony Payers

LET

TERStothe

Editor

Actor/singer/director/political activist Barbra Streisand can soon add an-other title to her growing list: alimony payer.

Welcome back from Pluto if you havent hear that Streisand and husbandJames Brolin are divorcing. Life without Barbra will, no doubt, be a difcultperiod of adjustment for Brolin, who will have to re-aquaint himself withhow to dress, where to stand, what to do with his hands, what and how tothink. Once he regains his independent thinking skills, he might even dis-cover those people in the y over states between New York and Los Angelesare decent folk.

Under ordinary circumstances, Id say that a woman paying alimony the scourge and frequent lament of the Odd Couples Oscar Madison and themotive for countless murders - to an able-bodied man is nothing less than anobscenity. But in the case of Streisand v. Streisand, Id also have to say thatBrolin has more than earned his $390 million settlement.

Only in recent years have women been compelled to pay support to lazy,good-for-nothing ex-husbands, and, to say theyre not happy about it would bean understatement of epic proportions. Log onto a support group for womenalimony-payers, and youll be greeted with hyperbole like worse than slav-ery! and bond without end.

So great has been the outcry that several states have revised their lawsto end permanent alimony entirely. The fairer sex has gotten a taste of howmillions of men in our society began a new month and gagged. But, whenonly men paid through-the-nose, nobody complained.

As a lifelong bachelor, I have no pony in the alimony race. Being unfet -tered means sleeps single in a double bed, but it also means your meagerincome is your own to keep.

My friend, Stan has been charged with failure to pay his alimony and re-leased so many times, hes known locally as Walkin Stan. Last year aroundthis time, Stans ex-wife gave him the Christmas gift of a lifetime. With onefelled swoop of an ink pen, she relinquished any claim to future alimony,freeing Stan from nearly thi rty years of involuntary servitude. Walkin Stancan nally move out of his sisters house and buy a car he can be proud of.

If only Stans ex-wife owned real estate.

Edward C. Davenport,Drum Point

About the article in the Nov. 27 publication,I'd like to ask who told you the Dominion CovePoint plant would be an expansion? It doesn'texpand their ability to do what they used to do.It will be 3 complete new plants: a power plant ,a purication plant, and a liquefaction and com-pression plant.

The 130 megawatt power plant will burnnatural gas, which is 1/2 as dirty as coal. It willproduce 3.3 million tons of carbon pollution intothe air per year, equal to 5 million cars commut-ing to DC from Lusby. It will "cool" 15,000tons per day of natural gas, down to -270F. Thinkof this as having a freezer in your house. Ev-

ery day you add 15,000 tons of warm food, andfreeze it to -270F. No wonder the burning of gasneeded for this, makes it the 4th biggest powerplant in Maryland, out of at least 7, without pro-ducing any electricity for the people of Maryland.

Cove Point export plant will provide a strongeconomic incentive for companies to expandfracking across our region. Fracking still causesdrinking water contamination, air pollution, ill-nesses ranging from asthma to COPD to cancer.The Chesapeake Bay supports more than a trilliondollars in economic activity through seafood andtourism. Exporting gas from Cove Point wouldincrease trafc of massive, 1,000-foot long tank-ers carrying volatile, potentially explosive liq-uid fuel. Harmful emissions from those tankerswould worsen local air quality. They would alsodump billions of gallons of dirty ballast wastewa-ter near and into the Bay each year. Each empty

ship will have more ballast water than any other

kind of ship, and it will be radioactive water fromJapan, since the nuclear meltdown there. Construction of the gas liquefaction facility wouldrequire the clearing of forests in Lusby and barging in of heavy construction materials along thePatuxent River, further threatening the networkof rivers, wetlands and forests that attract tourists and support rare species of plants, animaland migratory birds. The chemicals Dominionwill remove from all the gas that comes in, thpropane, methane, ethane, sulfur, benzene wilbe stored on site, and trucked out of Lusby, up odown rt.2/4, over our 1 lane bridge. Do we wanthese chemical trucks on our roads?

Maryland is known to have the highest overall rate of cancer in the nation, partly becauseour prevailing winds from the west, bring thepollution from industry and power plants fromthe midsection of the country. Calvert Co. haa high cancer rate. What good is getting taxefrom Dominion, if our children and residentget ill? The money will be used up on medicabills, and time lost from jobs and schools. Whave alternative ways to create jobs: manufacture parts of windmills for the offshore electriproject approved by Maryland and Virginia, anmanufacture computer parts for solar panels fobusinesses, like the solar farm built by Smeco inHughesville. We can even bottle our preciouaquifer water, and sell it, rather than waste it inthe LNG process.

Lila Wes

Lusby, Md


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Christine Clark Boesz, 69

Christine Tina ClarkBoesz, 69, of Port Republicpassed away on Nov. 24, at

her home in Washington, D.C.Born May 26, 1944 to Stanleyand Cecilia Clark in Bridge-ton, N.J. Tina excelled in justabout everything she laid herhead and hand to in life. She began her excel-lent career by graduating valedictorian from herhigh school class of more than 600 graduates.Because her high school guidance counselortold her that only men have successful careers inmathematics, Tina majored in math at DouglassCollege, the all female college at Rutgers Uni-versity. She was later the rst female admitted tothe Rutgers University School of Applied Statis-tics graduating with honors. In 1968, Tina washired as an Associate Professor of Mathematicsat Valdosta State College. She later worked forthe Bexar County Area Planning Council in SanAntonio, Texas as a statistician. Tina quicklymoved on to become the rst female director of a

Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) in theUS working for Bexar County Medical Associa-tion. Simultaneously, Tina applied her skills tothe Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)where she travelled extensively across the USevaluating VISTA programs. In 1978, she wassought by the US Department of Health and Hu-man Services (USDHHS) to develop policiesand procedures for evaluating and approvingHMO programs. She later headed the ofce thatevaluated and approved HMO programs acrossthe US signing contracts in excess of $10 Billion.In 1995, Tina was hired away from the federalgovernment by New York Life later Aetna. Sheserved as Vice President for Health Programs.In 1990, she was accepted as a Pew FoundationFellow and entered a Doctor of Public Health(DrPH) program at the University of Michigan.In 1997, she was awarded her DrPH. In 2000,Tina was again sought by the US government

this time as the Inspector General of the Na-tional Science Foundation (NSF.)This was Tinasdream job combining her management skills,evaluation skills, and accounting skills with herlove for world travel. She was blessed to have astaff of 125 highly motivated auditors, and scien-tists who were dedicated to the integrity of scien-tic research funded by taxpayer dollars. Wish-ing to build ever stronger monitoring of research,Tina established the rst joint venture betweenthe US NSF and that of the European Union.She later made this same effort by co-chairingthe rst meeting between the US NSF and thatof China in an effort to assure research integrity.She didnt stop there; she then co-chaired a com-mittee of the Ofce of Economic Coordinationand Development (OECD) on the subject of re-

search integrity. In retirement, Tina continuedto indulge her other passion: interacting with theworlds people by traveling to every US state, toevery continent, over every ocean. She visitedthe polar ice cap and the South Pole. Even withher all consuming responsibilities, Tina madehuge contributions to her communities as well.She was an active member of ZONTA mentor-ing young women on their way to success. Sheserved as the President of her Community As-sociation at Scientists Cliffs. She was active inthe American Chestnut Land Trust, Ann MarieGardens, and several honor societies. And, sheserved on the board of the University of Michi-gans School of Public Health. She is survivedby her husband of more than 48 years, ColonelDaniel Boesz and numerous cousins across thefour corners of the world. Her many friends willsorely miss her lavish gourmet dinners, andlively tales of her beloved world travels and thecountless people she met along the way.

Interment will be at Arlington NationalCemetery in a private family ceremony. Dona-tion may be made to the National Cancer Societyor to the American Chestnut Land Trust. ACLT,

P.O. Box 2363, Prince Frederick, MD 20678.

Stewart Edwin Gray, 74

Stewart Edwin Gray, 74,of Owings, Md., passed away onNov. 24, at Anne Arundel Med-ical Center, Annapolis, Md.Stewart Edwin Gray, Sr. son ofthe late Russell and RebeccaGray was born September 6,1939 in Calvert County, Md.Stewart received his education in CalvertCounty, Maryland public schools. He workedas a bricklayer for over 20 years before re-tiring in 2011. Stewart later started work-ing at Wal-Mart part-time until he took ill.He was joined in marriage to the late MalindaHarris on April 10, 1976. From this union

three children were born; Glendora, StewartJr. and Dawn. He has one daughter, Lanya,from a previous marriage to Corina Green.He attended Christ Is The Answer DeliveranceCenter, where he accepted Christ as his per-sonal Lord and Savior and was baptized. He wasa member of the usher board and loved makinga joyful noise unto the Lord singing in the choir.Stewart loved spending time in his yard,working around friends at Wal-Mart andhelping others. He loved the Lord, his fam-ily, his grandchildren, and his great-grandson.Stewart leaves to cherish his memories; threedaughters; Lanya Holland, Glendora Harris, andDawn Gray; one son; Stewart Gray, Jr.; four-grandchildren; Jasmine Downs, Sherandan,Dawnmarie, and Stewart Gray, Ill; two step-

grandsons Grant and Kyndle Harris; one greatgrandson; Jayden Dennis; one daughter-in-law;Sherrion Gray; two sons-in-law; Tony Hollandand Clarence Harris, two sisters; Gertrude Platerand Barbara Beverly; six sisters-in-law; EdnaHicks, Lena Stephenson, Ruthann Hicks, Doro-thymae White, Joyce King, and Evelyn Harris;three brothers-in-law; Malcolm Beverly, TravisKing and Allen Stephenson; several nieces,nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, cous-ins, and a host of other relatives and friends.He was preceded in death by his father; Rus-sell Gray, mother; Rebecca Gray, wife; MalindaGray, ve brothers; Joseph, Calvert, Thom-as, Donald, and Reynold Gray, three sisters;Russeline Alston, Helen and Rosalind Gray.Funeral service was held on Monday, Dec. 2, at11a.m., at Sewell Funeral Home, Prince Fred-erick, Md., with Rev. Jesse W. Plater, eulogist.The interment was at Hol-land Cemetery, Huntingtown, Md.The pallbearers were Howard Booth,Rydell Gray, Tony Jones, Byron Gray,Wardell Gray and Galand Wallace.The honorary pallbearer was Calvert Gray, Jr.

Funeral arrangements provided by Sewell Fu-neral Home, Prince Frederick, Md.

Willie Ray Abercrumbie, 71

Willie Ray Abercrumbie,aged 71, passed away quietlyDec. 8 surrounded by friendsat the Mandarin House, Har-wood, Md. A longtime resi-dent of Chesapeake Beach,Willie, also known as Bill, wasa retired US Park Policemanhaving served in Washington, D.C. and SandyHook, N.J. After retirement Willie was activefor 36 years in the Bill Wilson community serv-ing as a beloved sponsor to many; he tutoredfour stepchildren with their college studies;and, he served as caretaker for his neighbors

and friends. Born in Rector, AR on February 21,1942 to the late John and Gertie Ballard Aber-crumbie, he graduated from Kennett, MO HighSchool where he played 4 years of basketballand proudly served with the 29 thSignal Battal-ion, US Army, in France from 1960 to 1963 asa Communications Specialist attaining the rankof Sergeant E-5. Willie is survived by sisters,Genece (Jack) Lance of Kennett, Mo. and JoyceNeely of Seneath, Mo; nephew, Greg (Debbie)Lance of Eden Prairie, Minn., and nieces, Susan(Ronnie) Abmeyer and Patti (Paul) Jones, bothof Seneath Mo. Visitation will be at the RauschFuneral Home, Owings, Md., on Thursday, Dec.12, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.,with a Celebration ofhis life at 7 p.m., at North Beach Union Church.Burial will be in Kennett Mo. at Dunklin Memo-rial Gardens, Dec. 21. In lieu of owers familyrequests donations to Hospice of the Chesapeake/Mandarin House, 90 Ritchie Highway, PasadenaMD 21122 or www.hospicechesapeake.org.

Jessie Lee Staughton, 91

Jessie Lee Staughton, 91, passed away onDec. 2, at her home in Lusby, Md. She was bornon May 23, 1922 in Dillwyn, Va., to the late Jo-siah Peyton Moss and Martha Ann PendletonMoss, the seventh of their eleven children.

She was preceded in death by her parentsand nine of her siblings. Jessie Lee is survivedby her devoted husband of sixty nine years,Harry Staughton, of Lusby, Md; loving children,Harry Lee and his wife Bonnie, Jo Lynne, Pa-tricia, Kim, Dennis and Martin Staughton; threegrandchildren, Juliette Aponte, Benjamin andNicholas Dunn; and her sister Grace Trimmer ofRichmond, Va.

Graveside services will be held at a latterdate in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington,

Va. Arrangements were handled by the RauschFuneral Home, P. A., Lusby, Md. For more information or to leave condolences please visit wwwrauschfuneralhomes.com.

Garland Lee Dillon, 86

Garland Lee Dillon, 86,of Chesapeake Beach passedaway Dec. 3, at Charlotte HallVeterans Home. He was bornMarch 25, 1927 in Greensboro,N.C. to Leroy Columbus andCallie Belle (Harris) Dillon.Garland was raised in Lanham,Md., and attended public schools. He served inthe United States Navy from April 8, 1946 until February 6, 1948, when he was honorablydischarged as a Seaman Second Class. He wasmarried to Naomi Dillon and Marjorie Dillonboth of whom preceded him in death. Garlandwas employed as a train operator with the MetroTransit Authority in Washington, D.C., retiringin the mid 1980s after forty years of service. In

1999, he moved to Chesapeake Beach with hisdevoted friend and companion of twenty twoyears, Shirley M. Anderson. Mr. Dillon has beena resident of Charlotte Hall Veterans home forthe past two years. He enjoyed watching westerns and listening to country music.

He is survived by his devoted friend andcompanion, Shirley M. Anderson of ChesapeakeBeach, children Michael Lee Dillon and wifeShelia of Lusby, Shirley Jean Dillon of Crof-ton, Elaine, Stephen, Betty Jean, Leroy, Billyand Ronnie Dillon, a sister Patricia Prickette oNew Smyrna, Fla., and step children Sharon andCharles, whom he raised.

Family and friends were received SundayDec. 8, from 2 to 4 and 6to 8 p.m., at RauschFuneral Home, P.A., 8325 Mt. Harmony LaneOwings, where a funeral service and celebrationof Mr. Dillons life was held Monday, 11 a.m. Interment in Maryland Veterans Cemetery, Chel-

tenham was held 1 p.m., on Wednesday, Dec. 11Memorial donations in his name may be made toCharlotte Hall Veterans Home. To leave condolences visit www.rauschfuneralhomes.com.

Michelle Ann Lee, 52

Michelle Ann ShellLee, 52 of Lusby, Md., formerlyof Indian Head, Md., passedaway on Nov. 27, at George-town University Hospital. Shewas born on May 26, 1961 inWashington, D.C. to the lateGloria Dohanick and MichaelDohanick. She married Randy E. Lee on Apri1, 1991 in the city of Alexandria, Va.

Shell graduated from Lackey High Schoo

and went on to attend the Washington Schooof Secretarys. She was an Administrative Assistant for The Federal Aviation AdministrationShe will be remembered by her family as thebest mom in the world and was the co-founder oR.J.S. Small Engine Repair.

Shell is survived by her father Michael Do-hanick; husband of 22 years, Randy Lee of Lus-by, Md.; children, Robert Lee, Jennifer Lee, andScott Lee all of Lusby, Md.; siblings, Kathy Hal-ter of Lusby, Md., and Tina Pickeral of MarburyMd. and a grandchild. She was preceded in deathby her mother and a brother, Roy Wedding.

The family will receive friends on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013 from 10 to 11 a.m., in theRausch Funeral Home, 20 American Lane, Lusby, MD where a Life Celebration Service will beheld at 11a.m., with Pastor Brian Sandifer ofciating. Interment will be private.

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CommunityChristmas by the River Boat Parade

Winners

By Kimberly AlstonContributing Writer

From Dec. 5 to the 7, the Solomons Business As-sociation invited the community to its 29th AnnualChristmas Walk.

With thousands of candles lighting the path fromRoy Rogers to the end of the pier, hundreds of peoplewalked the streets, fnding new business, vendors andforms of entertainment throughout Solomons Island.

Several venues offered refreshments and specialgames and events throughout the weekend. There werealso Santa sightings and Christmas music galore.

On Saturday, Dec. 7, the Lighte

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