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Do you support the addition of a third nuclear reactor at Calvert Clif fs Nuclear

Power Plant?

Your Paper... Your Thoughts

“Yea, it’s going to create jobs, which is great for us. But the ‘con’ is, I think we’re on a hit list for the Taliban now, and what’s it go-ing to do for our traffic problem?” asked Tim Lafaive, of Solomons, a Lieutenant at the Solo-mons Island Volunteer Fire Department.

“This county’s al-ready congested as it is, and 5,000 more jobs, I don’t know,” he said. “They say the Bay is al-ready polluted, and all the new nuclear waste, what are they going to do with it?”

“I think it’s a great

idea, because of all those jobs it will make,” said Jordan

Haines, a junior at Patuxent High School, who volunteers at the Solo-mons Island Volunteer Fire Depart-

ment. “Maybe I can get one.”Haines said although there may be con-cerns about the environmental effects of using nuclear power, the positive impact it will have on the econo-

my outweighs that. “It does for me at least.”

“I think it’s an excellent idea, because of all the short-term jobs, bringing money into the local economy. And 400 long-term jobs. That’s more job opportunities for the area in this declining economy,” said Killian McCarthy, of Broomes Island, who volunteers at the Solomons Island Volunteer Fire Department. “It’s not going to do anything to the Bay. The only downfall is what are we going to do with it when it’s filled up, when it’s done.”

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F 13 Low 4:49 AM 0.1 6:45 AM Rise 3:25 AM 16 13 High 11:12 AM 1.7 4:55 PM Set 2:46 PM 13 Low 5:55 PM 0.3 13 High 11:07 PM 1.3

Sa 14 Low 5:28 AM 0.0 6:47 AM Rise 4:32 AM 9 14 High 12:06 PM 1.8 4:54 PM Set 3:17 PM 14 Low 6:56 PM 0.3 14 High 11:54 PM 1.2

Su 15 Low 6:04 AM 0.0 6:48 AM Rise 5:40 AM 4 15 High 12:56 PM 1.8 4:53 PM Set 3:51 PM 15 Low 7:53 PM 0.3

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F 6 High 3:50 AM 1.1 6:38 AM Set 10:48 AM 88 6 Low 9:31 AM 0.1 5:01 PM Rise 8:23 PM 6 High 4:35 PM 1.9

Sa 7 Low 12:01 AM 0.4 6:39 AM Set 11:37 AM 79 7 High 4:46 AM 1.1 5:00 PM Rise 9:36 PM 7 Low 10:32 AM 0.1 7 High 5:31 PM 1.9

Su 8 Low 12:53 AM 0.4 6:40 AM Set 12:18 PM 69 8 High 5:47 AM 1.2 4:59 PM Rise 10:48 PM 8 Low 11:41 AM 0.2 8 High 6:31 PM 1.8

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Also Inside

On The Cover

4 Local News

7 Delegate Column

8 Community

10 Education

11 Letters

12 History

13 Locals

14 Cover Story

17 Obituaries

18 Business Directory

19 Out & About

21 Sports

22 Entertainment

23 On The Water

communityEVENTS

FOR EVENTS HAPPENING IN YOUR AREA, CHECK PAGE 23 IN OUT AND ABOUT

Local news

Bonnie Blackwell holds one of the giant lollypops she has for sale at Sweet Dreams Candy Shoppe, which is in a new location in the St. Leonard town center. SEE PAGE 13

County Commissioner President Wilson Parran talks at Middleham Chapel in Lusby on Nov. 1, celebrating the parish’s 325 anniversary. SEE PAGE 6

World-renowned violinist Jose Cuerto, left, is joined with David Kung, at the COSMIC Symphony Orchestra’s seventh season opener. SEE PAGE 9

Ed Miller, 85, of Drum Point, hold a photograph of himself from when he worked in the Pentagon in Washington D.C. In the background is the On Watch sculpture which looks out over the water near Solomons Island.


LOCALNEWS

Nuclear Merger OK’d – With Concessions

Local residents can now easily see which agencies in Calvert Coun-ty have received a share of the

federal government’s $787 billion in stimu-lus money, thanks to data now available on the updated Recovery.gov Web site.

The interactive Web site was recently revamped by a team headed by Smartronix, a technology company based in St. Mary’s County that is partly owned by Alan Parris, an engineer who lives in Saint Leonard.

In mid-October, the site began posting data from companies and other recipients around the country that received direct con-tracts from the federal government.

On Oct. 31, it posted another 121,000 reports, most of which are about grants to prime and sub-recipients, such as states, non-profits and universities.

Calvert County so far has received more than $15 million in grants, but no contracts or loans, according to the site. Below is a sam-pling of the grants:

• Board of Education – $4.2 million;• Transportation – $1.4 million for park

and ride expansion;• Transit system improvements

– $740,200;• University of Maryland Center for En-

vironmental Science – $403,536; • Housing Authority – $158,555 for

capital projects, $145,398 for prevention of homelessness;

• County – crime victims, public safety

– $86,378;• Boys and Girls Club of Southern Mary-

land – $42,500;• County – congregate nutrition services

– $9,615.Work on the site was done by Smartron-

ix, which employs about 120 people in South-ern Maryland, of which nearly a third live in Calvert County.

Founded by Alan Parris, his brother John Parris, and partner and fellow engineer Ar-shed Javaid in 1995, Smartronix now employs about 540 people in offices around the world and generated sales of $90 million last year.

“At times it was very, very scary – we barely made payroll,” said Alan Parris, about the company’s early years in a basement office in Lexington Park.

Earlier this year, Smartronix won the Re-covery.gov contract, potentially valued at $18 million over the next five years, with a team that also includes KPMG LLP, Synteractive Corp. and TMP Government.

Critics questioned why the relatively small company won the award, noting that Southern Maryland Congressman Steny Hoy-er had received contributions from the owners and had also visited the company in October 2008.

Hoyer’s office said he did not know the company had received the contract and indi-cated it had not been awarded in exchange for contributions. By Virginia Terhune (virginiaterhune@

countytimes.net)

A $4.5 billion joint venture be-tween Constellation Energy Group, owner of Calvert Cliffs

Nuclear Power Plant, and France’s EDF re-ceived approval from the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) on Oct. 30.

The approval marks one of the last reg-ulatory hurdles in a deal to sell nearly half of Constellation’s nuclear assets to EDF, but the approval comes with $360 million in add-on concessions demanded by Gov. Martin O’Malley that must be paid.

On Monday, Nov. 2, Constellation En-ergy released a statement saying the merg-ing companies have agreed with the condi-tions set by Maryland regulators to move forward with the $4.5 billion joint nuclear venture.

“We are pleased that the Maryland Public Service Commission concluded the Constellation Energy-EDF nuclear joint venture is in the public interest and repre-sents an important element in Maryland’s energy future,” Constellation Energy said in the statement. “We have consulted with our Board and received its approval. We are now moving to close the transaction as quickly as possible so that we can begin to deliver the many benefits of this investment to all stakeholders across the state.”

The conditions mandated by the PSC include a one-time, $110.5 million credit for

customers of Baltimore Gas and Electric, a subsidiary of Baltimore-based Constellation. The credit would give each BGE customer $100. The PSC said the company should im-plement the credit before the end of March 2010 to help offset winter heating bills.

The PSC said in its order that it’s not enough for the companies to prove the trans-action is consistent with the public interest. The PSC said Baltimore Gas and Electric Customers “must receive benefits directly ... not just their share of the transactions’ im-pact on the public at large.”

The PSC’s order also noted concerns about the availability of capital to support BGE after Constellation nearly went bank-rupt last year, saying Constellation’s “near-death experience in September 2008 demon-strated all too vividly how vulnerable BGE is if, and when, things go badly for CEG.”

The approval directs Constellation to infuse BGE with $250 million to strengthen the company and protect consumers.

O’Malley issued a statement after the announcement, stating: “Although this has been a contentious proceeding at times, the process and the law worked -- and ratepayers and BGE are better off because of it. I look forward to working with Constellation and EDF … to move forward on the anticipated construction of Calvert Cliffs III.” By Sean

Rice ([email protected])

Stimulus Money Coming to Calvert


LOCAL NEWSArrest for Pain-Killer Possession

At 6 p.m. Oct. 23, Calvert Sheriff’s Deputy Thomas Rickard checked a ve-hicle that was stopped in the roadway of the Fox Run shopping center at Steeple Chase Drive in Prince Frederick. The driver, later identified as Grover M. Ladd, Jr., 39 of Port Republic, was found to be in possession of suspected drugs. He was arrested and charged with pos-session of Meperidine and possession of Meperidine in sufficient quantity to indicate intent to distribute same.

Orange Car StolenUnknown suspects stole a 2002

Pontiac 2 door orange Trans Am while it was parked in the lot of the College of Southern Maryland in Prince Frederick on Oct. 22 between 6 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. Anyone with information is asked to contact Cpl. Gary Shrawder at 410-535-2800.

Paraphernalia ChargeA routine traffic stop revealed sus-

pected drug paraphernalia on Oct. 21 at 12:30 a.m. on Route 4 south at Route 509 in St. Leonard. Reginald Simmons Tyler, 33 of St. Leonard, was charged by Calvert Sheriff’s Deputy Thomas Rick-ard with possession with the intent to use drug paraphernalia, a glass pipe.

House DamagedAt 2 p.m. Oct. 18, Trooper First

Class Lass responded to the 1500 block of Pine Road in St. Leonard for a report-ed burglary and destruction of property. Unknown suspects had broken into the home causing damages to a window and two door frames. Anyone with informa-tion about this crime is asked to contact the Maryland State Police at 410-535-1400.

Handgun ViolationAfter conducting a traffic stop

on a vehicle on Oct. 12 at 8:55 p.m. on Barreda Blvd. near Lake Drive in Lusby, Calvert Sheriff’s DFC Mark Fitzgerald found the driver to be in possession of a handgun and rifle. The Deputy arrested James Aaron Smith, 31 of Lusby, and charged him with transporting a hand-gun in a vehicle on public roads.

St. Leonard House Burgled

Sometime between Oct. 9 and 13, unknown suspects broke into a home on Harvard Street in St. Leonard. Approxi-mately $100 in damage was done and a $50 Ipod and some currency were stolen from within. Anyone with information is asked to contact Lt. Steve Jones at 410-535-2800 ext. 2462.

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prescription from their doctor can appreciate the beauty and benefit of modern medicine. Sometimes it only takes a few doses of a simple and inex-pensive antibiotic to make us whole and put us back on our feet. But at other times an ill-ness or underlying disease is more complicated and requires expensive medicines to restore health. When those medicines are not covered by a prescrip-tion drug plan and must be paid for out of pocket, the expenses can become very burdensome.

The Henry J. Kaiser Fam-ily Foundation (not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente) notes that, while modern pharma-ceuticals are crucial for ensur-ing longer, healthier and more comfortable lives, Americans are spending more than ever on prescription drugs. The Foun-dation reported in September 2008 that an inability to pay for prescription drugs due to lack of insurance coverage can have adverse affects on health-care. In fact, a public opinion survey conducted in April 2008 found that uninsured non-elderly adults between the ages of 18 and 64 “are more than twice as likely as insured non-elderly adults to say that they or a family member did not fill a prescription (45 percent vs. 22 percent) or cut pills or skipped doses of medicine (38 percent vs.18 percent) in the past year because of the cost.”

To help ensure that our res-idents can afford the treatment they need while coping with the high price of prescription drugs, Calvert County intro-duced a discount card program on July 1, 2009. The program, sponsored by the National As-sociation of Counties (NACo), makes free prescription drug discount cards available that of-fer average savings of 22 percent off the retail price of commonly prescribed drugs. These cards

may be used by all Calvert County residents, regardless of age, income or existing health coverage and approximately 17 county pharmacies and 59,000 retail pharmacies nationwide accept the NACo card.

I am happy to report that since the introduction of this free prescription drug dis-count program three months ago, county residents have filled 463 prescriptions with the cards at discounts averag-ing about $13.64 per prescrip-tion, for a total savings of more than $6,300. This is a substan-tial savings for both uninsured and underinsured residents and can be very helpful in en-suring that our citizens receive the medical care they need.

If you have not yet re-ceived your card, don’t wait to take advantage of this pro-gram. You do not have to be a Medicare beneficiary, and even residents with insurance coverage can use the card when their plan does not cover a particular drug. The pro-gram, administered by CVS Caremark, allows Calvert County to provide the drug discount program at no tax-payer expense and requires no enrollment form, no mem-bership fee and no restric-tions or limits on frequency of use. To use the discount card, residents simply present it at a participating pharmacy.

Cards are available at all Calvert County librar-ies, senior centers, the Health Department and the Calvert County Department of Com-munity Resources, located at 30 Duke Street in Prince Fred-erick. County residents can call toll free 1-877-321-2652 or visit www.caremark.com/naco for more information or assistance with the program.

We all know that good health is vitally important to a happy and fulfilling life. But it never hurts to save a little money along the way.

By Gerald “Jerry” Clark, County Commissioner, District 1

Free Prescription Card Keeping Health Care Costs in CheckThe shelter program for

the homeless that spans about 40 churches and

congregations throughout Calvert County is expanding its opera-tions this year as it is gearing up to help the homeless this winter.

Mary Ann Zaversnick, one of the lead coordinators for the Safe Nights project, told The Southern Calvert Gazette that 18 of the 40 church groups will be able to pro-vide shelter for an extra two weeks this winter stretching into the ear-ly spring over the usual 20 weeks of the program.

The 22 remaining churches will support the others during the shelter operations.

Zaversnick said, however, that program administrators are not sure what the level of partici-pation in the program will be this year, although she said that with the economic recession the prob-lem has likely grown.

“I think it’s probably getting worse,” said Zaversnick, a parish member at Saint John Vianney Roman Catholic Church in Prince Frederick. “It’s like the invisible population. A lot of them have been around and we just didn’t notice.”

Last year the program had 65 registrants, Zaversnick said, and

served 40 throughout the winter season.

This season some of the churches may take a group of homeless for two weeks instead of just one, she said, which means that more volunteers would be welcome assistance.

“If we continue to do this year after year” it could burn out volunteers, she said.

The program began operation Nov. 1 and will run until April 4.

The program has churches open their doors for a certain number of registered homeless people for what is usually a one-week period of time.

Once that week is completed the homeless group can then move to another church to continue the cycle of care.

The program also provides transportation from Prince Freder-ick to the shelter location and back to Prince Frederick. Shelters open at 7 p.m. and then close at 7a.m. and some meals are provided.

Despite the challenges, the rewards for helping others were great, Zaversnick said.

“We’ve not had one coor-dinator or church tell us that the rewards weren’t greater than the efforts,” Zaversnick said. By Guy

Leonard (CT) [email protected]

Safe Nights Opens Doors To Help The Homeless

The Maryland Department of Transportation’s State Highway Administration will perform inspections of the Governor Thomas Johnson Bridge, which carries Route 4 traffic over

the Patuxent River between Calvert and St. Mary’s counties.The bridge will be down to one lane during the next three week-

ends during the inspection times. The work is part of SHA’s bridge inspection program.

Crews will close a single lane between 6 a.m. and 1 p.m. on the following weekends: Nov. 7 and 8, Nov. 14 and 15 and Nov. 21 and 22, weather permitting.

Flagpersons will alternate traffic in one lane of the two-lane bridge. Crews will have two large “snooper” vehicles on site for use during the inspection.

Residents with questions about this project or any other State-numbered routes in Southern Maryland may contact SHA’s District 5 Office at 800-331-5603.

Lane Closures on Thomas Johnson Bridge


Middleham and St. Peter’s Episcopal Parish finished up its autumn lecture series titled “Excavating the Past – Exploring the Future,” which celebrated the 325th anniversary of the Middleham Chapel in Lusby, with a final symposia titled “Appreciating the Involve-ment of African Americans in the Evolving Life of Calvert County and Maryland.” County Commissioner President Wilson Parran was one of the featured speakers at the Nov. 1 event. The event also featured Mary Klein, archivist for the Diocese of Maryland and Russell Costly, a retired teacher who was one of the first African American teachers hired in Calvert County after desegregation.

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LOCALNEWS

C e l e b -rity chef Rob-ert Hesse, a recent com-petitor on the prime-time TV show “Hells Kitchen”, will be spending a lot of time in Solomons this

winter, serving as the new execu-

tive chef at Cata-marans restaurant.

“He’s got the flair I want,” said

owner Jim Seymour, who’s been looking

for a chef for about two years.

Hesse, who lives in Long Island, N.Y., was one

of the top-five finalists on “Hell’s Kitchen” last year but

dropped out for medical rea-sons. He was invited back this

year but was eliminated from the reality show in August.

Hesse will be in town to cook for the annual Thanksgiving dinner

at Catamarans, and he will also be there with other “Hell’s Kitchen” contestants on

Dec. 5, for the reopening of the restaurant and bar after a period of remodeling. (Sey-

mour said he has spent about $50,000 on the interior, including new floors and kitchen, and

another $40,000 on the roofs and shingles.)“The idea is to really bring ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ to

Solomons Island,” Hesse told the Southern Calvert Gazette. “My personality might bring people in the

first time, but it’s the food that will bring them back for a second, third and fourth time.”

Seymour said he met Hesse after e-mailing “Hell’s Kitchen” in hopes of hiring one of the competitors. Hesse

subsequently came down for a visit and “fell in love with Solomons.”

“I’m used to the whole lifestyle, the boaters, the fishing, and I love to fish,” said Hesse, who plans to bring something

different to the area by building on the basics with new ideas to pique and keep customer interest – all without losing the relaxed

atmosphere of Catamarans and Solomons that appeals to him.He speculates that if the new menu at Catamarans draws a

crowd, it may inspire other local restaurants to revamp theirs. “You’ve go to keep reinventing, to make things better and

fresher,” he said.Local crab cakes are some of the best he’s ever tasted, but Hesse

says he might also present them with a Southwest remoulade and a coconut lemongrass cream, resulting in a mix of spice,

sweet and coconut flavors.“It’s not overly fine dining – it’s still ca-

sual dining – but it can still be sexy and new,” he said.

Hesse speculated that the restaurants in Solomons could become a critical mass large enough to attract some of the people who line up at chain restaurants along Route 235 across the bridge in St. Mary’s County.

Why wait 45 minutes at an Appleby’s or an Outback, when you can go to a locally

owned restaurant that offers fresh food and unique selections? asks Hesse.

“We just need to give them a rea-son to come back,” he said. By Virgin-

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‘He says he might also present them with a Southwest remoulade and a

coconut lemongrass cream, resulting in a mix of spice, sweet and coconut flavors.

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coconut lemongrass cream, resulting in a mix of spice, sweet and coconut flavors.

“It’s not overly fine dining – it’s still casual dining – but it can still be sexy and new,” he said.




son to come back,” he said.

The Calvert County Commissioners unanimously ap-

proved a request to decrease pet licensing fees for the week of Nov. 30 to Dec. 6 for what they are calling an Animal Amnesty Week, during which required pet licenses will cost $3 for spayed and neutered pets, and $10 for pets that have not been fixed.

Craig Dichter, an animal control officer for the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office, said that the program is an attempt

to get more people to purchase licenses from the county, as Calvert officials noticed a sharp decrease in the number of licenses sold to pet owners in the last year.

Licenses currently cost $7 for spayed and neutered pets and $20 for pets that have not been spayed or neutered, but only 1,400 licenses have been sold this year, as com-pared with 3,200 in 2008.

“We just want people to buy the licenses and with the owners in our database

we’ll have that tag on file … it’s helping keep them out of the shelter,” said Dichter, who added that the licenses would help animal control return stray animals to pet owners, thereby reducing the number sent to be ultimately eutha-nized at the Tri-County animal shelter, which Dichter said has become overcrowded.

Since January 2009, Di-chter said that the county’s animal control center has picked up 483 stray dogs, 348 stray cats, and they have

also trapped 12 dogs and 356 cats. So far only 229 animals were released to owners who claimed them before they were transferred to the animal shelter.

Dichter said that this will be the first year that the coun-ty will offer such a program, but that he would like to see it expanded in future years.

“We might look into, for next year, doing some-thing like this more often, or something close to it …we’re hoping it’ll be a real good

success,” he said. “We’d like to go back to talking to the county commissioners about other similar programs in the future.”

To find out more infor-mation about pet licenses and the county’s Animal Amnesty Week, call 410-535-1600, ext. 2526. By andrea Shiell (CT)

[email protected]

Companion Animals Granted Amnesty Week

Calvert County’s St. Leonard Creek became the eighth creek this year in the Coastal Conservation Associa-

tion Maryland’s oyster restoration project.Under the leadership of father-daughter

Creek Captains John and Laura Kelly, 25 hom-eowners on St. Leonard Creek and five volunteers from CCA MD’s Patuxent River Chapter placed 100,000 oysters in 100 cages that were hung from piers on the creek.

In addition to the homeowners and CCA vol-unteers, eight students from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Graduate School participated in the launch as part of their class work.

“Today’s efforts have raised the number of oysters we have distributed this summer to 750,000,” said Scott McGuire, president, Patux-ent River Chapter. “These oysters will be raised to adult size of approximately three inches by the homeowners and then transferred to a protected area where they will continue to filter water and

reproduce.”The CCA MD project is a joint activity

between recreational anglers, local homeown-ers, businesses and government. Dominion Re-sources, which operates the Cove Point liquefied natural gas facility in Calvert County, supported the CCA project with a $25,000 grant earlier this year, and it is part of Governor O’Malley’s Mary-landers Grown Oysters program. Kelly Genera-tor and Equipment, Inc., of Owings supported the St. Leonard Creek launch providing staff work and resources.

“We all have a responsibility to restore the health of the Bay,” said John Kelly, president, Kelly Generator and Equipment, Inc. “Business-es throughout the state can become involved in efforts such as this to make our natural resources more valuable to all Marylanders.”

Anyone wishing to participate in these oys-ter restoration projects can contact McGuire at [email protected].

St. Leonard Creek Joins Oyster Recovery Project

Photo By Sean Rice

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Each year the Board of County Commissioners for Calvert Coun-ty has a meeting with the local del-

egation to the Maryland General Assembly to present a list of legislative recommendations for the upcoming session. This year the meet-ing was held on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009 at the Calvert Pines Senior Center in Prince Freder-ick. The meeting was open to the public and was attended by all 5 members of the BOCC and Senators Miller and Dyson and Delegates Kullen, Proctor, Vallario, and myself. Below are the five recommendations submitted to the delegation for our consideration.

I would be very interested in hearing from Calvert County residents regarding their opin-ions or questions pertaining to these 5 matters. These items are requests and are not guaranteed to be submitted by the delegation. The last item on the list is actually a notice that the Calvert County Compensation Review Board will be submitting recommendations for salary adjust-ments for local elected officials to the delegation prior to the legislative session.1. Request: Authority to enact a noise control ordinance.

The enabling legislation would permit the BOCC to establish maximum noise levels throughout the county, establish procedures for the measurement of ambient noise, authorize the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office to enforce levels, provide that a violation of the ordinance is a civil offense punishable by a fine not to exceed $10,000, and to enact such other measures as are reasonably necessary to protect the citizens of Calvert County from excessive, unnecessary, and unreasonable noises.2. Request: Amend Title 4 of the Public Local Laws of Calvert County (Special Taxing Dis-tricts) to provide for refunds of any tax revenues remaining at the termination of a special taxing district by adding the following as Section 4-103 (d): Any funds remaining in a special taxing district at the termination of the district may be applied to a future special taxing district created for the same subdivision or may be returned to the property owners of the district. If the County Commissioners elect to return the funds to the property owners, the funds shall be returned proportionally to the owners of record at the termination of the district by way of credit against future property tax bills or by refund, as shall be determined by the County Commissioners. 3. Request: Amend Chapter 661, Laws 2009 by deleting Section 2, which prohibits counties from assessing new fees and taxes on instant bingo machines.

Section 2 of Chapter 661 was added to HB193 by way of amendment in the 2009 legislative session. Originally, HB193 made several modifications to existing law that phased-out the use of certain instant bingo machines. The amendment to HB 193 deprives counties of the right to impose additional fees and taxes on the machines. 4. Request: Bonding authorization for the following projects: Amount Issuance DatesCollege of Southern Maryland* 4,630,000 FY2011-FY2012PF Sewer Line CMH to CMS 1,285,000 FY2011-FY2013PF WWPS Upgrade 720,000 FY2011PF Sewer Relining 772,500 FY2011 Solomon’s WWTP Upgrade 1,181,500 FY2011-FY2012Solomon’s WWPS 1,000,000 FY2011Hunting Hills Water System Upgrade 816,000 FY2011Lakewood Water System Upgrade 870,000 FY2011Total Request $11,275,000*Contingent upon State funding approval.5. Request: Compensation Review Board request will be forwarded in the near future.

As always, feel free to contact my local legislative office at (410) 326-0081 or email at [email protected] with questions, comments or concerns regarding these items or other matters.

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The Calvert Marine Museum is announcing the publication of its newest book on the building and

builders of wooden boats in Southern Mary-land. Boats for Work, Boats for Pleasure: The Last Era of Wooden Boatbuilding in Southern Maryland is co-authored by Rich-ard J. Dodds, curator of maritime history, and Robert J. Hurry, museum registrar.

Building wooden boats in Southern Maryland is a tradition that goes back almost four centuries. Today, the art and skill of

building wooden boats has almost died out in the region. The book serves as an overview of the last generation of wooden boatbuilding, a period of about 70 years from the 1930s until the first years of the twenty-first century.

Boats for Work, Boats for Pleasure: The Last Era of Wooden Boatbuilding in South-ern Maryland is for sale in the museum store for $19.95. For more information about the publication, please contact Richard Dodds at 410-326-2042, ext. 31 or Robert Hurry at 410-326-2042, ext. 35.

Legislative Requests Issued

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Calvert Museum Staff Authors Book


By Joyce Baki

The leaves are beautiful shades of red and gold, the air is crisp. Fall is upon us and winter is not

far behind. Enjoy some great things to do in Calvert County in this beautiful time of the year.

Saturday, Nov. 7, the Calvert Alliance Against Substance Abuse will host its 9th Annual Step-by-Step 5K Fun Run/Walk. Runners and walkers (and strollers!) are welcome. Be at the Calvert Marine Mu-seum for registration and check-in at 8 a.m. Advance registration is $20, but you can register the day of the Run/Walk for $25. Get out in the brisk air for a great cause!

The Calvert County Office on Aging invites veterans to a special ceremony on Nov. 10, “Remembering Courage and Hon-oring Sacrifices.” Wear your old military uniform, bring in photos or just come to be honored. The ceremony begins at 11 a.m. at the Southern Pines Senior Center, 90 Ap-peal Lane, Lusby. All veterans and guests will receive lunch and a gift of thanks. Pre-registration is required, call 410-586-2748.

Remember our servicemen and service women on Veterans Day. A National Veter-ans Day Ceremony is held Wednesday, Nov. 11 at Arlington national Cemetery. A color guard, made up of members from each of the military services will render honors to those lost during war in a traditional ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns. The ceremony takes place inside of the Memorial Amphi-theater at 11 a.m.

Closer to home there, will be a cer-emony on the lawn of the Calvert County Courthouse. Honoring our war dead will be units from American Legion Posts and Veterans of Foreign Wars throughout the county, as well as units from the county

high school R.O.T.C. squads. The ceremo-ny will take place at 11 a.m.

Enjoy Texas-style blues and power rock sounds with The Fabulous Thunder-birds will perform at the Calvert Marine Museum on Friday, Nov. 13. General ad-mission is $45. Doors open at 6 p.m., the show starts at 7:30 p.m. Beer, wine, soda and water will be available. For more in-formation, call 410-326-2042 or visit their website, www.calvertmarinemuseum.com.

Nov. 7-29, Artworks at 7th, an artist’s coop in North Beach, will feature the works of Betty Leppin and Suzanne Nawrot. For more information call 410-286-5278 or visit their website at www.artworksat7th.com.

CalvART Gallery, located in the Prince Frederick Shopping Center, will feature a gallery showing New Works, fea-turing Abbey Griffin and Mimi Little, Nov. 11-22. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, Nov. 14 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. (www.calvartgallery.org)

You’re invited to the Southern Mary-land Style Fair hosted by the Republic Women of Southern at the Holiday Inn Sol-omons on Friday, Nov. 13, from 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. Enjoy a variety of vendors, New York fashions, music, entertainment and hors d’oeuvres. Advance admission is $30, $35 at the door. For more information e-mail Melissa Bless at [email protected].

Get a head start on your holiday shopping at the Alpaca Christmas Bazaar on Nov. 21-22. The Finca Serena Alpaca Ranch will offer an array of Alpaca acces-sories, hand-made items and products for the entire family, all made from the fleece of their Alpacas. Stop by and meet the Al-pacas and the llamas from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Finca Serena Alpaca Ranch is located at 1930 Rosemary Lane, Port Republic. For more information call 443-498-8476.

Md Environmental Service has a vacan-cy for an Environmental Systems Supervi-sor at the Point Lookout facility. Respon-sibilities include supervising and assisting in the operation, monitoring and mainte-nance of one or more water, wastewater or industrial wastewater treatment systems. Wastewater experience required.

For complete job description, required qualifications, visit http://www.menv.com/career_800152.shtml.

Send resumes Attn: 800152 to MES HR, 259 Najoles Rd, Millersville, MD 21108, or fax to 410-729-8235, or email to [email protected]

Now Hiring:Join The Calverton

School Parents Association for a Holiday Basket Bingo on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009 at The Calverton School’s Leitch Memorial Gym-nasium. Doors open at 12 p.m. with early-bird games beginning at 1 p.m. Prizes include over $5,000 of Lon-gaberger baskets and Vera Bradley products filled with gift items.

Admission is $20 per person for 20 regular games and $5 for each additional game packet. Seating is lim-ited and everyone attending the event must have a paid admission ticket.

Tickets can be pur-chased in advance and held at the will call box. Credit cards are accepted. Chil-dren are admitted at the admission cost and must be

accompanied by an adult.Door prizes and raffles

will be available. Raffle prizes include “Dream Seat” tickets to a Washington Redskins game and a Lon-gaberger basket filled with Williams Sonoma gourmet food and cookware, valued at over $1,400. Raffle tick-ets may be purchased for $5 each or 5 for $20 before and during the event. Refresh-ments and snacks will also be available for purchase.

Proceeds benefit The Calverton School, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All donations are tax-de-ductible. For more informa-tion, visit the school website at www.calvertonschool.org or contact Pat

Jenkins at The Calver-ton School, 410-535-0216 or [email protected].

The Calvert Coun-ty Chamber of Commerce

held its Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner on Oct. 28, at the Holiday Inn Solomons.

Awards were presented in the following categories: Small Business of the Year, New Business of the Year, Home-based Business of the Year, Chamber Member of the Year, Ambassador of

the Year and John C. Smith Public Service Award.This year’s award win-ners were:•John C. Smith Public Service Award – Posthu-mously, Sam Young (Tyler Fadely accepted the award)•Ambassador of the Year – Barbara DeHenzel• Chamber Member of the Year - Amber Hernandez• Home-Based Business of the Year – Silpada Designs,

Barbara Huber• Small Business of the Year – Dickinson’s Jewelers• New Business of the Year – Running Hare Vineyard

The event was spon-sored by Constellation Energy Group, Dominion, SMECO, Holiday Inn Solo-mons Conference Center & Marina, PNC Bank and Show Place Arena, College of Southern Maryland and Comcast.

Moms In Touch Inter-national, in celebration of 25 years of praying for chil-dren and schools, is hosting a unique prayer and fast-ing event called Arise! Cry Out!

On this day women around the world will unite with one heart, one voice and in one spirit for a worldwide day of extraordi-nary prayer for children and schools.

Please join us at South-ern Calvert Baptist Church’s Fellowship Hall 12140 H.G. Trueman Road, Lusby, (www.scbcmd.com) on Nov. 14, from 9 am - 1pm.

For more info contact Erika Hugh at 410-326-3398 or visit www.Mom-sInTouch.org to register.

Red, Yellow and Gold

Chamber Holds Annual Awards Dinner

Calverton School Parents Holding Basket Bingo

Arise! Cry Out!


COSMIC Begins 7th SeasonCOSMIC Symphony Orchestra, Southern Maryland’s community

orchestra, opened its 7th season on Nov. 1 at Huntingtown High School with “Heartstrings,” a concert that included Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concert, Op. 35, featuring world-renowned violinist Jose Cuerto, left, who is joined in the photo with David Kung, who has a day job as a mathematics professor at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

COSMIC Symphony, directed by Vladimir Lande, is a community or-chestra, based in Southern Maryland, which presents three full programs per year as well as special, seasonal events. For more information, go to www.cosmicmusic.org.

“Halloween in the Garden” at Annmarie Garden in Solomons was a success, reports the arts center, with more than $3,300 raised for the Holiday Food Basket Program.

“This is our best year to date. I wish that you could witness firsthand the difference that these food baskets mean to them,” said Phyllis Lester, Coordinator for the Holiday Food Basket Pro-gram. “My hope is that some day there will be no need for programs like this one because everyone will have enough food.”

More than 5500 people attended the event on Saturday, Oct. 24, estimating that approximately 3,000 children filled their trick-or-treat bags with wonderful and fantastic delights. The weather was eerily spooky and spectacular.

The award winners for the golden pumpkin for best overall booth display were presented to: Dominion Cove Point LNG, Sherry’s Dance Cen-ter and Solomons Day Care Center. More than 50 community organizations and local business-es decorated their spaces and wore costumes to hand out candy and treats to children of all ages.

The Leomonaders, from Annmarie Garden’s summer camp, made $200 to donate to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. The hard work of the Leomonaders will benefit children from all over.

The event was made possible by sponsors including: Dominion Cove Point LNG, Solomons Town Centre, BAHR Insurance Agency, Broth-ers Johnson, Community Bank of Tri-County, Gateau Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine, Jan Kleponis/ O’Brien Realty, SMECO and World Gym.

The Calvert County Depart-ment of Economic Develop-ment is currently compiling

information for the 2010 Calvert County Visitors Guide and Calendar of Events.

The Visitors Guide section provides free promotion for museums, dining and shopping destinations, hotels, inns and recreational boating organizations with locations in Calvert County.

Forms are available by calling 410.535.4583 or 800.331.9771 or online at www.ecalvert.com/content/visitors-guideforms/index.asp.

Sites that were included in last year’s Visitors Guide are requested to submit a new form only if there are changes. New

sites and those that wish to note changes should use the online form and fax it to the Depart-ment of Economic Develop-ment no later than November 15, at 410.535.4585.

The 2009 Visitors Guide is available online at www.ecalvert.com/content/tourism/visitorsguide.

Information for the 2010 Calvert County Calendar of Events is being gath-ered online at www.ecalvert.com. The online entry system allows organizations to update listings throughout the year with the latest information.

Community groups, civic organiza-tions, churches, visitor sites, cultural and arts societies, or other associations pro-ducing an event in Calvert County are en-couraged to submit 2010 events for inclu-sion in the online calendar free of charge. Instructions for entering events online are available on the Web site.

The Wm. B. T e n n i s o n , Calvert Ma-

rine Museum’s historic tour boat, recently com-pleted 30 years of cruis-ing, since acquired by the county government in 1979. It was 110 years ago that the Tennison was first launched at Crab Island, in Somerset County.

Constructed with nine large pitch-pine logs, the sixty-foot former buy-boat holds 47 passengers and is designated as a National Historic Land-mark and listed on the Na-tional Register of Historic Places.

Built as a two-masted oyster-dredging bugeye for brothers B. P. and R. L. Miles, she was converted to a motor-powered oyster buyboat in 1906-07, and spent most of her early years in Virginia. The Tennison was purchased by the J. C. Lore & Sons oyster packing house in 1945, and served both as a buyboat and dredge boat on their leased oyster beds until the com-pany closed in 1978. Since 1979, the Ten-

nison has carried almost 200,000 passen-gers on her regularly scheduled runs and charter trips during May through Octo-ber. For many visitors to Calvert County, the Wm. B. Tennison provides the only opportunity to get out on the water and

experience the beautiful Patuxent River. The current crew is shown above on

the deck of the Wm. B. Tennison. From left is Capt. Don Prescott, Bill Nichols, a relief captain and mate, Marvin Coon, mate, and Bill Keefe, relief captain.

Spooktacular Success at

Halloween in the Garden

Info Sought for 2010 Visitors Guide and Calendar

Photo By Sean Rice

110-Year-Old Tennison Wraps Up 30 Years of Cruising Submitted Photo

Submitted Photo


Spotlight On

Calvert County Schools is par-ticipating in the “Speak Up” Survey again this year.

This is a voluntary survey that is used for students, teachers, administrators and parents (in both English and Spanish) to share their opinions and perspectives re-garding technology in our schools.

Speak Up is an annual national re-search project facilitated by Project Tomor-row. The purpose of the project is to:

• Collect and report the unfiltered feedback from students, parents and teach-ers on key educational issues.

• Use the data to stimulate local conversations.

• Raise national awareness about the importance of including the viewpoints of students, parents, and teachers in the edu-cation dialogue.

All schools in Calvert County have been registered. The Speak Up 2009 survey will be open from: Oct. 19 – Dec. 18, 2009.

To access the survey during these dates students, parents, teachers and adminis-trators will need to use the URL www.speakup4schools.org/speakup2009

Use the password: ccps

‘Speak Up’ Survey Under Way

Three hundred eighty three (383) Calvert County public high school students received

awards from the College Board in recog-nition of their exceptional achievement on the college-level Advanced Placement Pro-gram Exams.

One hundred sixty one students (161) earned the AP Scholar Award by complet-ing three or more AP Exams with grades of 3, 4 or 5.

Seventy eight (78) students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 on a five-point scale on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams.

One hundred twenty four (124) stu-dents qualified for the AP Scholar with

Distinction Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams.

Twenty (20) students qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by earning an average grade of 4 or higher on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams.

According to the College Board, the AP Program offers students the opportunity to take challenging, college-level courses while still in high school and to receive col-lege credit, advanced placement credit in college, or both for successful performance on the AP Exams.

Students took the AP exams in May 2009 after completing AP courses in their Calvert County public high schools.

Students Receive AP Scholar Awards

Emma File, left, Neil Winston, and Matt Schlogel are members of the Patuxent High School Jazz En-semble, which performed Oct. 28 to kick off the Fall Preview Concert at the high school.

Photo by Sean Rice


Publisher Thomas McKayAssociate Publisher Eric McKayEditor Sean RiceOffice Manager Tobie PulliamGraphic Artist Angie StalcupAdvertising Preston PrattEmail [email protected] 301-373-4125

Staff WritersGuy Leonard Government CorrespondentAndrea Shiell Community CorrespondentChris Stevens Sports Correspondent

Contributing WritersTony O’Donnell Joyce Baki Gerald Clark J. Brown

Southern Calvert Gazette is a bi-weekly newspaper providing news and information for the residents of Southern Calvert County. The Southern Calvert Gazette will be available on newsstands every other Thursday of the month. The paper is published by Southern Maryland Publishing Company, which is responsible for the form, content, and policies of the newspaper. Southern Calvert Gazette does not espouse any political belief or endorse any product or service in its news coverage. Articles and letters submitted for publication must be signed and may be edited for length or content. Southern Calvert Gazette is not responsible for any claims made by its advertisers.

Southern Calvert GazetteP. O. Box 250 . Hollywood, MD 20636

There are only a few weeks until Christ-mas but there is still time to support the 2009 Calvert and St. Mary’s County

Toys for Tots campaign.The mission of the Calvert and St. Mary’s

County Toys for Tots Program is to collect new and unwrapped toys, and accept cash donations for the purpose of purchasing toys during the months of October, November and December. These toys will be distributed as Christmas gifts to needy children in Calvert and St. Mary’s County.

You can support the local campaign by donat-ing a new unwrapped toy to your community’s Toys for Tot campaign, volunteering your time to assist your community’s Toys for Tots campaign, donate service support to your community’s Toys for Tots campaign, allow Toys for Tots to place a toy collec-tion box at your company/business or make a tax deductible donation to Toys for Tots through our local website www.calverttoysfortots.com.

This year, there are more than 20 drop-off sites in Southern Maryland, according to Jerry Kepich with the American Legion Post 206 in Chesapeake Beach, which is sponsoring the local drive.

Please help Toys for Tots deliver a message of hope to needy children in Calvert and St. Mary’s County. For more information, visit www.calvert-toysfortots.com or for Calvert County contact PO1 Jerry Kepich at 301-379-1557 or [email protected] and St. Mary’s County contact GySgt David Trantham at 301-342-7776 for assistance.

If you are a Calvert County resident and would like to request toys for your family, please contact one of the approved local Toys for Tots distributors: Catholic Charities at 410-535-0309 or Children’s

Aid Inc. at 410-414-4998.St. Mary’s County residents should contact

GySgt David Trantham.Here are locations to take toys for the program:

Dunkirk: Town Center BP; North Beach: Palm’s Day Salon; Chesapeake Beach: American Legion Post 206, Calvert County Public Library, Roland’s Market; Owings: Southern Maryland Automo-tive, Calvert County Public Library; Huntingtown: Lord Calvert Bowling Center, Power Sports Inc.; Prince Frederick: Bayside Chevrolet Toyota, Calvert County Public Library, Applebee’s, Educate Cel-ebrate, Radiology Imaging Associates; St. Leonard: Calvert Self Storage; Lus-by: Calvert County Public Library, American Legion Post 274; Solomons: PNC Bank; Waldorf: Babies R Us, Toys R Us, Three Brothers Italian Restau-rant; LaPlata: Three Broth-ers Italian Restaurant.

The deadline for drop-ping off toys is Dec. 18.

Jerry KepichAmerican Legion Post

206, Chesapeake Beach

Toys For Tots in Full Swing, Help Needed

The long awaited “Spiggy Bobble” has arrived just in

time for Christmas! It’s taken 6 months, but this past Friday, three pallets with 1,000 of these little guys arrived here at Hog Heaven, nicely packaged and ready to put under the Christmas Tree.

They are being sold at the “Sports Paradise” store in St. Mary’s Square in Lexington Park and at the “Lighthouse Furnish-ings” store in the Lusby Town Cen-ter next to Food Lion.

They are priced at $25 each and include a Certificate of Au-thenticity signed by me. Each Bobble is serialized. As of now 200+ of them have been promised to various benefactors and friends of the Hogettes. You will see one on the “Mike & Mike” Show on ESPN. Several sportswriters have requested their own “Spiggy” and Coach Zorn displays them on his desk at Redskins Park.

Please note, ALL the money we earn from selling these little dudes goes to Children’s Hospital-we do not make a penny! A great

firm in DC covered the costs for having these guys made and cov-ered the costs for packaging and shipping them to us.

I am the fourth Hogette to be honored with my own bobblehead and I have to tell you, it is a little bit of a “rush” to see this little “mini me” sitting on the dash of my RV! [Did I say he was “cute”???]

Finally, let me leave you with this thought - you don’t have to be a Redskin Fan to buy one of these, but by purchasing one or more, you will be helping very needy families whose children are receiving won-derful life saving care at Children’s Hospital over the Holiday period. Think about it, how many gifts can you buy where all of the money goes to a great charity such as this!

P.S. One of the neat things about these little guys is that they always “nod” yes! All my life I have tried to always say yes and really have tried to avoid the word “no”

Thanks for listening.Your buddy in a dress! Dave “Spiggy” SpiglerLusby

The Spiggy Bobble Head Has Arrived


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Dominion supports health outreach programs that educate communities about wellness.

at Dominion, it’s our job to provide reliable energy that helps our customers stay safe, happy and healthy. But we’re not content to leave it there. as committed members of the communities we serve, we also play an active role in supporting programs that promote

healthy habits, teach disease prevention and lead to better, more productive lives. to learn more about how we’re putting our energy to work keeping our communities fit and healthy, visit www.dom.com, keyword: health.

By Joyce Baki

Near the shoals of the northern approach to the Patuxent River where a number of ships had

grounded, the Drum Point Lighthouse be-gan operation on August 20, 1883. The structure was prefabricated and took thir-ty-three days to build, at a cost of $25,000. The first lighthouse keeper was Benjamin Gray, who had worked at the nearby Cove Point Lighthouse as assistant keeper.

Forty-two cottage-style screwpile lighthouses were built on the Chesapeake Bay. Of these, only four survive today. It is a white hexagonal cottage sheathed in clap-board siding. The Allentown Rolling Mills of Philadelphia provided the wrought iron piles for the foundation, which were ten inches in diameter and bored directly into the sandy river bottom.

On the main level of the one-and-a-half story structure there is a gallery deck, first level sitting room, dining room, kitch-en and a bedroom for the keeper. Extend-ing through the center is a wooden support column with a spiral staircase winding around the pole to the second story, which provides an extra bedroom and space for the fog bell. Another staircase goes up to the lantern room.

The original light was a fourth-order Fresnel lens that displayed a red light which could be seen at a distance of eleven nautical miles. Manufactured by the French firm of Henry LePaute, the light was made to shine over only 270 degrees of a full circle be-cause the remaining light would have been cast over land. The light was later changed to a fixed white light with three red sectors. The octagonal lantern is painted black, and is made of wood sheathed in metal.

Rung in foul weather, the fog bell was produced by the McShane Bell Foundry of Baltimore and weighed 1400 pounds. It had a 30-pound bell hammer which struck a double blow four times a minute. One of the duties of the keeper was to wind the 600-pound weights that powered the fog bells. Done every two hours when the weather obscured visibility, the keeper was allotted two minutes to rewind the striking mechanism once the weight was complete-ly unwound.

The complete logbooks exist (1883-1943) and provide an ex-cellent glimpse in the life of a lighthouse keeper. While generally uneventful, a few incidents stand out. A sloop dragging its anchor would strike the lighthouse in 1885. It was believed that the boat’s crew was drunk. In 1886 an earthquake that hit Charleston, South Carolina was felt at the

lighthouse, shaking the fog bell machinery. During a cold winter in 1895, an ice floe from the river struck the station, knocking over chairs, but doing little damage to the lighthouse.

James Weems was the keeper of Drum Point from 1891 to 1919. He had requested a transfer to a lighthouse on land to be near his family and his sick daughter, Mary. Normally a keeper’s family would not live on a screwpile, but an exception was made because Drum Point stood only a few hun-dred yards from shore. Sadly, Mary would die in1893. A granddaughter, Anna, was born at the lighthouse in 1906.

Change occurred in the 20th century. In 1909 the red chimney was replaced with three red panels, showing red in three sec-tors and white in two, which allowed ships to navigate the river entrance by follow-ing the white lights. In 1919 a phone was installed. A severe storm in 1933 would sweep away the station’s motor boat, some weather equipment and flooding the first floor. The keeper, J.J. Daley, swam to shore to report the damage. Electricity came to the lighthouse in 1944 and became fully automated in 1960. The lighthouse would be discontinued in 1962. The last civilian keeper was John Hansen who would serve from 1943 – 1959.

With the help of the Calvert County Historical Society, grants and the timely assistance of the B.F. Diamond Construc-tion Company (whose barge would help with the move), the lighthouse was moved to the Calvert Marine Museum in 1975, re-stored to its early twentieth century appear-ance, and opened to the public on June 24, 1978. Anne Weems Ewalt, granddaughter of Keeper James Weems, oversaw refur-nishing of the light, and even donated the original china used by the Weems family.

Drum Point Lighthouse

Baltimore and weighed 1400 pounds. It had a 30-pound bell hammer which struck a double blow four times a minute. One of the duties of the keeper was to wind the 600-pound weights that powered the fog bells. Done every two hours when the weather obscured visibility, the keeper was allotted two minutes to rewind the striking mechanism once the weight was complete-

The complete logbooks exist (1883-1943) and provide an ex-cellent glimpse in the life of a lighthouse keeper. While generally uneventful, a few incidents stand out. A sloop dragging its anchor would strike the lighthouse in 1885. It was believed that the boat’s crew was drunk. In 1886 an earthquake that hit Charleston, South Carolina was felt at the

Bonnie Blackwell holds one of the giant lol-lypops she has for sale at Sweet Dreams Candy Shoppe, which is in a new location in the St. Leonard town center.

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After five years in business at two other locations, Bonnie Blackwell has

relocated her Sweet Dreams Candy Shoppe to the St. Leonard town center.

“St. Leonard, it’s almost like coming home to me, because when I was a teenager, my father ran a gro-cery store where the sub shop is now,” Blackwell told The Southern Calvert Gazette.

Sweet Dreams is now located a few doors down from her father’s old store, in a house at 4902 St. Leonard Road. She opened the doors in mid-October.

Blackwell now has more space to work with than either of her pre-vious locations, which she plans to use for special events, meetings, birthday parties, movie nights, game nights and other fun things she is still developing.

“I have board games, free Wi-Fi, so customers can come in, sit down, eat some candy, watch a movie or play a game,” she said.

Blackwell started the business at Calvert County Market in Prince Fred-erick, where the Green Turtle is now located.

“When they closed the market, everybody had to find different places, I found a tiny house in North Beach.”

She said North Beach worked out

well for a while, but with the down-turn in the economy, and another candy store in town, it got to be a little expensive.

“Now I’m closer to home, in a better location. I like being in the mid-dle of the county,” she said. “I’m just trying to get the word out still.”

And the word is that Sweet Dreams stocks just about every type of candy one could think up, from gumballs, giant lollypops and giant Jaw Breakers to hard-to-find Asher’s Chocolates, and even an old-fashioned penny candy section.

“Though it averages out to about 6 cents now,” Blackwell said.

Blackwell hopes her new central-ized location will bring in customers from both ends of the county. The store is open from Tuesday to Satur-day 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and from 1-5 p.m. Sundays.

Nonetheless, running a small business is in her blood, she said. And it’s also in memory of her husband, Michael Blackwell, who was killed by a drunk driver in 2001 while he was jogging.

“I decided to open the store and call it Sweet Dreams, because when-ever we went on vacation, he had to find an old-fashioned candy store and buy Boston Baked Beans,” Blackwell said. BY SEAN RICE (SCG) (info@somdpub-

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Sweet Dreams Relocates to St. Leonard

By Ann Bowman

Of the seven dogs we have cared for in our family through the years, three have died of cancer. The dogs we owned had been

bred by individuals who cared passionately about the breed (Pembroke Welsh Corgis) and wanted to ensure that only the best were reproduced to continue the line. And yet many of these initially healthy dogs suc-cumbed to the devastating affects of cancer. With hind-sight I know the importance of diet in good health. I blame myself for not paying more attention to the diets of my dogs back then, and I blame the commercial dog food I was feeding my dogs. I trusted the manufactur-ers, not realizing that they were more concerned with profit then the good health of my pets.

After World War II, great strides were made in all areas of industrialization in the United States, and this was evident in the food industry. Large companies who manufactured food for people realized that they could use the byproducts left over that were deemed unfit for hu-man consumption and make food for dogs and cats. Grain was used as a binder for the food that could withstand the high temperatures and long cooking required in the manu-facturing process. By adding chemical preservatives, the highly processed pet food would have a long shelf life. By adding chemical food enhancers, flavorings, and color, the manufacturer made the basically worthless food product palatable. Since dogs were often given nothing else to eat and dogs are by nature scavengers, they ate the food

provided. And because the manufacturer added needed vitamins and minerals to the recipes, the lives of the dogs and cats were sustained. However, many dogs and cats are now suffering from diseases rarely seen by veterinarians in the past.

Fortunately, there are manufacturers of dog and cat food who see the link between food, nutrition, and health. Manufacturers of high quality petfood brands use whole food ingredients certified as safe for human consumption. No growth hormones, antibiotics, or artificial flavorings are found in these foods. They are naturally preserved with mixed tocopherols such as vitamin E. Toxins such as BHA, BHT, or ethoxyquin, chemicals that have either been banned or are heavily regulated in food for humans because they have been proven to be carcinogenic, are not used.

We follow guidelines provided by The Whole Dog Journal: Look for foods that contain a lot of high-quality animal proteins; Reject any food containing meat by-prod-ucts or poultry by-products; Reject foods containing fat or protein not identified by species; Look for use of whole grains and vegetables; Eliminate all foods with artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives; and Eliminate all foods with added sweeteners. By following these guidelines in making educated, informed decisions about which type of food is best for our pets, we can avoid compromising their health and focus on providing excellent nutrition as the foundation for good care.

Bowman is owner of Clipper’s Canine Café on Solo-mons Island

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Bonnie Blackwell holds one of the giant lol-lypops she has for sale at Sweet Dreams Candy Shoppe, which is in a new location in the St. Leonard town center.

Photo by Sean Rice


Growing up in the grips of the Great Depression, Ed Miller always wanted to be a newspaperman.

“I wanted to get into the newspaper busi-ness ever since I was a little kid. I wanted to be a big shot reporter. But it just didn’t work out,” said the 85-year-old Miller from an easy chair in the living room of his bay-view home in Drum Point.

After serving in the U.S. Army for three consecutive wars (World War II, Korea and Vietnam), Miller has earned that easy chair. His life wasn’t easy, and he’s not taking it easy now either – staying busy with more responsi-

bilities, civic groups and clubs than most men half his age.

In his teenage years in the 1930s, he had a cousin he was very close to who was in the Army stationed in Panama. That relationship, combined with the news of a surprise 353-war-plane attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec, 7, 1941, ushered in Miller’s second calling in life.

“I was on my mother and father some-thing God-awful, ‘I wanna get in there. I want in there!’” he recalled.

But he was only 17, his mother secretly didn’t want him to go, and the young George-town native had recently started his dreamed-of newspaper career with the Washington bureau of the New York Daily News. (a field which he never returned to)

Two months after he turned 18 in 1942, the Army began accepting 18-year-olds and Miller was down at the recruiting station signing up.

Before being shipped overseas, he had a good year of training – which began in Fort Myer, Va. and took him to South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Death Valley, back to Vir-ginia, then to California. At long last he was on a ship in early 1944 heading thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean to battle Japa-nese troops for the islands and territories they took since attacking Pearl Harbor.

“We landed in Hawaii on April Fools Day, 1944, and I said, ‘Boy this is a joke’,” Miller recalled.

That day began a long career in the Army for Miller, facing harrowing situations but also

providing an avenue for him to tour the world, meet lifelong friends and start a family.

“I wouldn’t like to go through all of it again, but I enjoyed it when I had to … I got into a lot of different things. I don’t regret a bit of it,” Miller said.

“Through it all, I just had a good time. I lived life to the fullest,” he said. “I never knew whether I was going to be alive or dead the next day, and I was going to have fun while I was at it.”

The infantryman saw his first serious combat when his unit, the 77th Infantry Divi-sion, landed on Guam to help the U.S. Marines liberate the former U.S. possession from the Japanese.

Like many veterans who saw the worst of the worst in battle, Miller readily like to talk about the death toll of war.

“They say war is hell, and it is. There’s no getting around it, war is hell.”

The day came when Miller wasn’t sure if it was his last.

After liberating Guam, he wound up on the islands of Okinawa in April 1945, an island chain that was the last stepping-stone before the planned big invasion of Japan (which never occurred due to the atomic bombing of Hiro-shima and Nagasaki and Ja-pan’s surrender).

Miller’s unit was one of the first to land on the islands that make up Oki-nawa, and he was island-hopping with the 77th, easily taking the smaller islands in the chain.

“I must have been on 10 of them suck-ers,” he said.

They faced staunch resistance on the island of Ie Shima.

The day Miller was struck with a mor-tar blast (his only injury in three wars), he had been sleeping behind a small wall on the beach when he woke up to a familiar voice talking to his commanding officers – it was the famous wartime battlefield news-man, and friend of Miller’s, Ernie Pyle. His battlefield articles were syndicated in an estimated 350 newspapers at the time, and Miller knew him when they both worked in the news business in D.C.

“So we were standing there talking about that time when the Japanese opened up on us,” Miller said. And he got hit with a machine gun and killed him, and I got hit with a mortar shell.”

The battle for Okinawa was one of the deadliest battles of WWII, leaving more dead than possibly the two atomic bomb-ings, with more than 250,000 Japanese troops, American soldiers and civilians killed in Okinawa. The Japanese used an estimated 1,500 kamikaze planes on the

1,600 Allied ships that surrounded Okinawa.After recovering, he rejoined his unit

in the Philippines, which was lined up to be among the first divisions to lead the invasion of Japan. After the war ended, Miller’s unit en-tered Japan not far from where he would have landed during the invasion.

“It was estimated that the first 10 waves would have been totally wiped out on the land-ing, and I was in the first wave to go in,” he said.

Months later, Miller was back in the States, to begin the second portion of his military ca-reer. He spent years in two more war zones – Korea and Vietnam – but he didn’t take part in any more combat. He spent his time working as a top-secret financial investigator, answering directly to the Adjutant General of the Army.

“The last 18 years of my time I spent trav-eling around finding people that were playing with money, I guess you could call it,” Miller

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Ed Miller, 85, relaxes at home in Drum Point, reminiscing about his long eventful career in the U.S. ArmyPhoto By Sean Rice


Before being shipped overseas, he had a good year of training – which began in Fort Myer, Va. and took him to South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Death Valley, back to Vir-ginia, then to California. At long last he was on a ship in early 1944 heading thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean to battle Japa-nese troops for the islands and territories they took since attacking Pearl Harbor.

“We landed in Hawaii on April Fools Day, 1944, and I said, ‘Boy this is a joke’,” Miller recalled.

That day began a long career in the Army for Miller, facing harrowing situations but also

providing an avenue for him to tour the world, meet lifelong friends and start a family.

“I wouldn’t like to go through all of it again, but I enjoyed it when I had to … I got into a lot of different things. I don’t regret a bit of it,” Miller said.

“Through it all, I just had a good time. I lived life to the fullest,” he said. “I never knew whether I was going to be alive or dead the next day, and I was going to have fun while I was at it.”

The infantryman saw his first serious combat when his unit, the 77th Infantry Divi-sion, landed on Guam to help the U.S. Marines liberate the former U.S. possession from the Japanese.

Like many veterans who saw the worst of the worst in battle, Miller readily like to talk about the death toll of war.

“They say war is hell, and it is. There’s no getting around it, war is hell.”

The day came when Miller wasn’t sure if it was his last.

After liberating Guam, he wound up on the islands of Okinawa in April 1945, an island chain that was the last stepping-stone before the planned big invasion of Japan (which never occurred due to the atomic bombing of Hiro-shima and Nagasaki and Ja-pan’s surrender).

Miller’s unit was one of the first to land on the islands that make up Oki-nawa, and he was island-hopping with the 77th, easily taking the smaller islands in the chain.

“I must have been on 10 of them suck-ers,” he said.

They faced staunch resistance on the island of Ie Shima.

The day Miller was struck with a mor-tar blast (his only injury in three wars), he had been sleeping behind a small wall on the beach when he woke up to a familiar voice talking to his commanding officers – it was the famous wartime battlefield news-man, and friend of Miller’s, Ernie Pyle. His battlefield articles were syndicated in an estimated 350 newspapers at the time, and Miller knew him when they both worked in the news business in D.C.

“So we were standing there talking about that time when the Japanese opened up on us,” Miller said. And he got hit with a machine gun and killed him, and I got hit with a mortar shell.”

The battle for Okinawa was one of the deadliest battles of WWII, leaving more dead than possibly the two atomic bomb-ings, with more than 250,000 Japanese troops, American soldiers and civilians killed in Okinawa. The Japanese used an estimated 1,500 kamikaze planes on the

1,600 Allied ships that surrounded Okinawa.After recovering, he rejoined his unit

in the Philippines, which was lined up to be among the first divisions to lead the invasion of Japan. After the war ended, Miller’s unit en-tered Japan not far from where he would have landed during the invasion.

“It was estimated that the first 10 waves would have been totally wiped out on the land-ing, and I was in the first wave to go in,” he said.

Months later, Miller was back in the States, to begin the second portion of his military ca-reer. He spent years in two more war zones – Korea and Vietnam – but he didn’t take part in any more combat. He spent his time working as a top-secret financial investigator, answering directly to the Adjutant General of the Army.

“The last 18 years of my time I spent trav-eling around finding people that were playing with money, I guess you could call it,” Miller

said. “We had PX’s, we had Officers’ clubs, NCO clubs and people were playing money games, They were sliding money out.”

There were only 15 people doing the in-vestigations Miller was involved in, and he trained them all. They became good friends and traveled the world. When he went into a new location to investigate suspect theft, the men working next to him were not aware he was an investigator, until of course when ar-rests were made.

“I was very fortunate. I went through three wars and only got hit that one time,” he said. “I got through the rest of them with no problem.”

During his career he earned two Bronze Stars, two army commendation medals and the Purple Heart, among other recognitions.

The end came when his father-in-law died and his wife wanted him home. To continue his Army career, he had three choices – move the family to Germany or Hawaii, or take a job in the Pentagon.

“Every time I came back to the States, I wound up in the Pentagon,” Miller said. “And I didn’t like that five-sided squirrel cage.”

So he retired on Dec. 31, 1970, at Fort Meyer, Va., where his Army career began “28 years, two months and 19 days” before.

If he were 18 years old again today, would Miller be eager to enlist again to fight in Afghanistan?

“No, I don’t think so. Not with the feeling I have right now anyway.”

“I just feel bad about those kids over there getting killed,” Miller said. “I think it’s a waste of bodies. A waste of the youth of this coun-try. It’s politics and money, and the two of them don’t mix.”

“But, I’m well pleased with what has hap-pened with me. I can’t fuss. I had two good wives. I have eight great kids and 20-some-thing grandkids.”

Miller had four children with his first wife in Italy, and four more with his current wife, Carol, with whom he celebrates 40 years of marriage this month.

“Eh, she’s a sweetheart,” he said. “She puts up with me.”

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of the first to land on the islands that make up Okinawa, and he was island-hopping with the 77th, easily taking the smaller islands in the chain.

ers,” he said.

island of Ie Shima.

tar blast (his only injury in three wars), he had been sleeping behind a small wall on the beach when he woke up to a familiar voice talking to his commanding officers – it was the famous wartime battlefield newsman, and friend of Miller’s, Ernie Pyle. His battlefield articles were syndicated in an estimated 350 newspapers at the time, and Miller knew him when they both worked in the news business in D.C.

about that time when the Japanese opened up on us,” Miller said. And he got hit with a machine gun and killed him, and I got hit with a mortar shell.”

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This, the nation’s first amphibious training facility, was active for four years, from 1942-1945, and its effect on the area continues to be felt today. Over 68,000 servicemen trained there, and many of the local population worked there. The men who trained there formed the major components of the amphibious forces that served in both the European and Pa-cific Theaters of War - at places such as North Africa, Gua-dalcanal, Luzon, Sicily, Bou-ganville, Anzio, Iwo Jima, and Normandy. They served their country in some of the fiercest and most famous of America’s campaigns of World War II.

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1 Man, 3 Wars, 1 Fulfilling Life

Ed Miller, 85, relaxes at home in Drum Point, reminiscing about his long eventful career in the U.S. Army

Miller, receiving one of his two Army Commendation medals.

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Virginia Lee Adams, 76

Virginia Lee Ad-ams, 76, of Lusby, MD, passed away peacefully at Calvert Me-morial Hos-pital, Prince F r e d e r i c k , MD on Oc-tober 29,

2009. Mrs. Adams was born on September 23, 1933 in Takoma Park, Maryland to the late Vir-ginia Crawford Payne and John Edward Payne.

Mrs. Adams worked for numerous Doctors offices as a Medical Assistant and also with Veterinarians. Virginia loved being surrounded by her fam-ily and friends and her beloved animals especially her devoted companion Zachary.

She is survived by her son James R. Adams of Lusby, MD; daughter Kari Wotton of Melborne, FL; granddaughter Kelli Clark of Aquasco, MD and her grandson Steven R. Adams of Lusby, MD. Mrs. Ad-ams was preceded in death by her beloved husband Carlton R. Adams.

The family received friends on Monday, November 2, from 6 to 8 PM at the Rausch Funeral Home, P.A., 20 Ameri-can Lane, Lusby, MD. Where funeral services were held on Tuesday, November 3, at 1:00 PM with Pastor William Davis officiating. Interment followed in Solomons United Methodist Church Cemetery, Solomons, MD. Should friends desire con-tributions may be made in her memory to Calvert Hospice, P. O. Box 838, Prince Freder-ick, MD 20678, Donations are

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James Thompson Bris-coe, III, 80

James Thompson Briscoe, III, 80, of St. Leonard, MD, passed away peacefully at his residence on October 29, 2009. Mr. Briscoe was born Decem-ber 21, 1928 in Calvert County, Maryland to the late Jeannie Parran Dawkins Briscoe and H. Clare Briscoe.

Mr. Briscoe was a life long resident of Calvert County, MD, who attended the public schools there. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.S. Degree. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps in Japan and returned home to join his father on the family farm. He served on various local and state com-mittees. He was a member of Christ Episcopal Church where he served as registrar and ves-try member, a member and past president of the Southern Mary-land Society and vice president of the founding Board of Direc-tors of the Calverton School.

He is survived by his wife of 51 years, Cassandra Parran Briscoe, a daughter Shannon Briscoe Campbell and two sons, Crofton Briscoe and Par-ran Briscoe, all of St. Leonard, MD. He is also survived by five grandchildren. Mr. Briscoe was preceded in death by his two brothers Dr. Philip Briscoe and John D. Briscoe.

The family received friends on Monday, November 2, from 4 to 7 PM at “Stonesby” 7210 Parkers Wharf Road, St. Leon-ard, MD. A memorial service was held on Tuesday, November 3, at Christ Episcopal Church, 3100 Broomes Island Road, Port

Republic, MD, with Father John Howanstine officiating. Honor-ary pallbearers were Philip Briscoe, John Briscoe, Thomas Briscoe, James McNatt, Barton Ewalt and Marshall Bacot. In-urnment followed the services in the church cemetery.

Should friends desire con-tributions may be made in his memory to The Calverton School, 300 Calverton School Rd., Huntingtown, MD 20639, www.calvertonschool.org or to the charity of your choice. Arrangements by the Rausch Funeral Home, P.A., Port Re-public, MD.

Ruth Marie Hendricks Denton, 68

Ruth Marie Hendricks Denton, 68, of Broomes Island, MD passed away October 22, 2009 at the Asbury~Solomons Health Care Center.

She was born January 17, 1941 in Martinsburg, WV, daughter of the late Bessie and John W. Hendricks. She was preceded in death by her hus-band Charles W. Denton.

She graduated from Shep-herdstown High School in 1958 and Shepherd College in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music Education. She taught music education in the Balti-more City Schools and Calvert County Maryland Schools. She was a secretary for many years and was Choir Director for 40 years at Trinity United Method-ist Church in Prince Frederick, MD. While at Trinity United Methodist Church she received much inspiration, fun, fellow-ship, and lasting friendships with fellow members, choir voices, and handbell members.

In addition to her love of music she loved to travel and enjoyed many trips with friends, as well as planning and hosting trips.

She is survived by a son Mark Denton of Austin, TX; a daughter Julie Denton of Edge-water, MD; a brother John Hen-dricks of Shepherdstown, WV and a sister Mary Catherine Handzo of Summerville, SC.

The family received friends on Sunday, October 25, 2009 from 2 – 5 PM at the Rausch Funeral Home, Port Republic, MD. Funeral Services were held Monday, October 26, 2009 at 11AM in Trinity United Meth-odist Church, Prince Frederick, MD with Rev. Charles Harrell officiating. Interment followed in the Christ Church Cemetery, Port Republic, MD.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Trinity United Methodist Church Choir Fund, 90 Church Street, Prince Frederick, MD 20678 and / or The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Donor Services, P.O. Box 4072, Pittsfield, MA 01202

Anne Digges Vaughan, 94

Anne Digges Vaughan, 94, of Prince Frederick, MD died of

p u l m o n a r y hypertension on October 19, 2009 at Calvert Me-morial Hos-pital, Prince F r e d e r i c k , MD.

She was born in Bal-

timore, MD on July 2, 1915 to the late Dr. Francis Henry Dig-ges and Nina Chesley Bond. She married E. Stuart Vaughan

in 1949, and they moved to her mother’s family place, known as “The Reserve,” near Prince Frederick, a 500-acre farm which was an English land grant in the 1600’s, and renovated the 17th century house one room at a time. Mrs. Vaughan worked in real estate with her husband for many years. At one time they operated a nursery with stock from the Carolinas. She was an avid horticulturalist, growing camellias and azaleas, and an active member of the Calvert Garden Club for many years. Artistic and skilled in geneal-ogy, she painted coats-of-arms and did pastel portraits. She was a member of the Central Committee of the Maryland House and Garden Pilgrimage, since 1989, arranging tours of Calvert County houses, and an active member of the Calvert County Historical Society. An original member of the Calvert County Architectural Review Committee, which approves de-signs of new commercial build-ings, she served for 20 years and received an outstanding service award when she retired in 2008. She was an active communicant at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church from 1949 until recently when her health failed.

Mrs. Vaughan is survived by her daughter, Anne-Steuart Vaughan Palmer (husband Charles H. Palmer, III) of Ro-land Park, MD and their daugh-ters, Mary, Emily and Julia Palmer, and her son, Henry S. “Hal” Vaughan (wife Jacque-line Vaughan) of Huntingtown, MD and their children, Sarah Vaughan and James B. Whit-ney. Her husband predeceased her in 1994. She is also sur-vived by her first cousins, Sarah W. Geary of Alexandria,, VA, and Dr. Robert B. Welch of An-

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on Friday, October 23, from 2-4 and 6-8 PM at St. Paul’s Episco-pal Church, 25 Church Street, Prince Frederick, MD where funeral services were held on Saturday, October 24th at 11:00 AM. Interment followed in the church cemetery. Memorial Contributions may be made to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church or to the Calvert County His-torical Society, P. O. Box 358, Prince Frederick, MD 20678. Arrangements by the Rausch Funeral Home, P.A., Port Re-public, MD.

Annabelle Horner Glascock, 76

Annabelle Horner Glas-cock, 76, of Solomons Island, MD, died at home on October

18, 2009 af-ter a long and c o u r a ge o u s battle with cancer.

B o r n in Somerset County on March 30, 1933, she was the daughter of Luther

and Ruth Horner of Mt. Ver-non, MD. She married Bedford C. Glascock on December 31, 1992 and moved to Solomons.

After graduating from Washington High School in Princess Anne, she attended college and trained as an X-Ray technologist. Her twenty-plus year career in this field at the Peninsula General Hospital, in Salisbury, MD, was a source of pride and satisfaction through-out her life.

Annabelle was preceded in death by her father, Luther. She is survived by her husband, Bedford: her mother, Ruth, of Manokin Manor: daughter, Lisa Sherman and husband Jon, of Dallas, TX: son, Wayne Layfield and wife Elizabeth of Westover, MD: stepson, Bill Glascock and wife Kathleen, of Solomons: stepdaughter, Beth Wyrough and husband Page, of Lothian, MD, as well as five grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Alton Kersey, Terrence Gibson, Wil-liam Glascock, Page Wyrough and Leroy Gardner. Honorary pallbearers are Donald Smith and Edward Adams.

Visitation was held at the

Rausch Funeral Home, P.A. in Lusby, MD on Thursday , Oc-tober 22, from 5:00 to 7:00 PM. Funeral services were held at 11:00 AM, Friday, October 23 at Middleham Chapel in Lusby, MD, with internment following the service.

Memorial contributions can be made to Calvert Hos-pice, www.calverthospice.org, or P.O. Box 838, Prince Freder-ick, MD 20678.

Hortense Virginia Wil-son, 76

Hortense Virginia Wilson, 76, of Chesapeake Beach, MD departed this life from under the sun on Saturday, October

10, 2009 at Anne Arun-del Medical Center in A n n a p o l i s M a r y l a n d . She was born in Prince F r e d e r i c k , MD on June 24, 1933 to

the late Caleb Sherbert and Mary Geneva Hicks. Hortense fought a long hard battle but never once complained. She had been a resident of the Heritage Harbor Rehabilitation Center in Annapolis, MD.

She attended and gradu-ated from William Sampson Brooks High School in 1950.In 1959, Hortense married Rob-ert Louis Wilson, Sr. From this union, she mothered two step-children, Joan and Randuullah (Sterling).

Hortense worked for the late Louis L. Goldstein, the Calvert County School system as a Teacher’s Aide and retired from the Department of Veter-ans Administration as an Ex-ecutive Assistant.

She was a lifetime member of Mt. Olive United Methodist Church in Prince Frederick, MD and was also a lifetime member of the Eastern Star, Chapter 28. She was well known for being one of the members of the Way-ward Travelers Gospel Singing Group and also as a member of the Christ Calling Crusaders.

Hortense was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Louis Wilson, Sr. and beloved brothers, John “Olandus” and Charles Parran.

She leaves to cherish her memories step-children Joan R. Smith-Sharps (Norman),

Randuullah Islam “Vanessa”, Claudia Wilson (Oscar), Joyce Wilson, Robert Sylvester Wil-son (Earline), and Robert Louis Wilson Jr.; three brothers Wal-ter Parran (Jill), Wilson Par-ran (Roberta), Oliver Parran (Ava), two sisters June Parran and Ruby Neely; two more sisters-in-law Marie Parran and Marydell Jones; close cousins Oliver “Pete”, Rosalie, Vivian, Wilson Jr., Ann, Rosalie, Thel-ma and Carrie . She also leaves nine step-grandchildren and nine step-great grandchildren, a host of nieces, nephews, one godson Ronald Freeland and other relatives to cherish her memory.

Funeral service was held on Friday, October 16, 2009 at 11:00 am at Mt. Olive UM Church, Prince Frederick, MD with Pastor Patricia M. Berry, officiating. The interment was at Mt. Olive UM Church Cem-etery, Prince Frederick, MD.

The pallbearers were Barry Parran, David Parran, Hamilton M. Parran, II, Wilson Parran, Jr., Melvin Sherbert and Oliver Sherbert. Funeral arrangements

provided by Sewell Funeral Home, Prince Frederick, MD.

Susan Helen Barton, 53

Susan Helen Barton, 53, passed away at her home on Fri-day, September 25, 2009 after a brief illness. Susan was born June 18, 1956 in Cheverly, MD.

She was a graduate of the University of Maryland and was a lifelong Maryland resi-dent. Susan had worked for

her beloved Wash ing ton R e d s k i n s , The Calvert Independent, The Wash-ington Post and Carey In-te r nat iona l , Inc.

She is survived by her daughter, Bri-anne Alexandra Barton, who was the center of her life. She is also survived by her brothers, Ric Barton and wife of Cleve-land, OH and Dr. James Barton and wife of Williamsburg, VA; her sister, Sally Barton of Wil-

liamsburg, VA; her stepmother, Dorothy Barton of Hunting-town, MD; and five nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her father, Richard E. Bar-ton, Sr., her mother, Mildred Helen Barton, grandparents George E. and Helen E. Bar-ton of Mt. Pleasant, SC, and Stanley and Anne Rinkunas of Bethlehem, PA.

Services were held to re-member and honor Susan’’s life at 11 a.m., Monday, October 19, 2009 at the Good Samari-tan Presbyterian Church, 13025 Good Samaritan Dr., Waldorf. The family received friends following the service at the church.

In lieu of flowers, dona-tions may be made in memory of Susan to The Eric and Cara Thorn Memorial Scholar-ship Fund http://www.bcf.org/scholarships/scholarshipdetail.aspx?sid=11 or The Interna-tional Wolf Center http://www.wolf.org/wolves/support/give/memorial.asp

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Starting a Community of faith in LuSbyAre you interested in learning about and participating in a new community of faith in Lusby?

If so, you are invited to a six week Bible study that will meet every Saturday evening from October 17 – November 21 at 7:00PM in the Boardroom at the Holiday Inn Solomons, 155 Holiday Drive, Solomons, Maryland.

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Honoring SacrificesCalvert County Office on Aging,

90 Appeal Lane, Lusby, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Wear your old military uniform, bring in photos, or just come to be honored. The ceremony begins at 11 a.m. All veterans and guests will receive lunch and a gift of thanks. Preregistration is required. 410-586-2748

Thursday, Nov. 12• Manga Night at Calvert

LibraryIllustrator McNevin Hayes will

be teaching a manga workshop here at the Calvert Library Prince Freder-ick at 7 p.m. Manga is the popular Japanese-style cartooning so rabidly popular in the United States. If you are an artist, young or otherwise, looking to appeal to the teen audience or just expand your horizons, this is the workshop for you. Registration is required, so sign up soon! Teens and anime fans of all ages are wel-come. For more information please call Calvert Library at 301-855-1862 or 410-535-0291 or visit us online at http://calvert.lib.md.us.

Friday, Nov. 13• Republican Women of South-

ern Calvert Style FairHoliday Inn Solomons Confer-

ence Center & Marina, 155 Holiday Drive, Solomons.

Enjoy a variety of vendors, New York fashions, music, entertainment and hors d’oeuvres. Advance admis-sion $30; $35 at the door. E-mail [email protected]

Saturday, Nov. 14• New Works, featuring Abbey

Griffin and Mimi LittleCalvART Gallery, located in the

Prince Frederick Shopping Center, will feature a gallery showing New Works, featuring Abbey Griffin and Mimi Little from Nov. 11-22. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, Nov. 14 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. www.calvartgallery.org

Saturday, Nov. 21-22• Alpaca Christmas BazaarFinca Serena Alpaca Ranch, 1930

Rosemary Lane, Port Republic.Get a head start on your holiday

shopping at the Alpaca Christmas Ba-zaar. The Finca Serena Alpaca Ranch will offer an array of Alpaca accesso-ries, hand-made items and products for the entire family, all made from the fleece of their Alpacas. Stop by and meet the Alpacas and the llamas from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more infor-mation call 443-498-8476.

Nov. 24, 2009 – January 2, 2010

• Annual Ornament Show & Sale

Annmarie Garden Sculpture Park & Arts Center, 13480 Dowell Road, Solomons, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Find one-of-a-kind orna-

ments created by talented artists from across the region. www.annmariegar-den.org or 410-326-4640

Tuesday, Nov. 24– Feb. 14, 2010

• GLOWAnnmarie Garden Scuplture Park

& Arts Center, 13480 Dowell Road, Solomons, MD

Let there be light! During the darkening months of the year, light artists will set the Arts Building aglow with their work. www.ann-mariegarden.org or 410-326-4640

Wednesday Nov. 25 – Jan. 3, 2010

• Gifts for a LifetimeCalvArt Gallery, Prince Freder-

ick Shopping Center.Gallery showing of all artists.

Opening reception Saturday, Decem-ber 5, 2009, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. www.calvertarts.org or 410-257-7005

Friday, Nov. 27 – 29• Festival of TreesCalvert Hospice, Huntingtown

High School.Over 70 beautifully decorated

trees. Preview gala, vendors, gift shop, entertainment, breakfast and lunch with Santa. www.calver-thospice.org or 410-535-0892

On Tuesday, Nov. 10, Calvert Library Prince Frederick will host Patuxent Pearls from 4:30

– 5 p.m. in the Café where they will enter-tain with a collection of patriotic songs.

This will be followed by a pre-Veter-an’s day program at 7 p.m. This 90-minute program, Hearts Far Apart, will be open-ing with a panel of six military veterans or spouses of different war experiences talk-ing about what it was like to be separated from loved ones during their war years, what they missed, and letters from home that meant the most. This is not about the combat experience, but the human side of war years.

Speakers will include George Owings III, retired Judge Thomas Rymer, Peter Weeks, Rosalie Safreed, Carolyn Graessle and Jim Zegal. The second half of the program will be open to public sharing of similar war era experiences.

Please come to honor our veterans, their families, and their sacrifices in this evening of colorful reminiscence and re-spect. This is an excellent opportunity to show your family part of the real meaning of Veteran’s Day.

‘Hearts Fall Apart’

• The Fabulous ThunderbirdsCalvert Marine Museum, 14150 Solomons Island Road, Solomons, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.Enjoy Texas-style blues and power rock sounds of The Fabulous Thunderbirds. General ad-

mission $45 (additional service fees apply). Doors open at 6 p.m. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Beer, wine, soda and water available. www.calvertmarinemuseum.com or 410-326-2042

November 13

The Southern Maryland Agricul-tural Development Commission (SMADC) will host a free Ad-

vanced Estate Planning Workshop, the sec-ond in an ongoing series of four workshops on Estate Planning specifically designed to benefit the region’s agricultural and farm business community.

The Advanced Estate Planning Work-shop is a follow up to the Estate Planning seminar held earlier this year and will be a more in-depth discussion covering the key elements of advanced estate planning strategies.

The Advanced Workshop will stress the importance of estate planning to protect the family farm and financial assets from excessive taxation. Topics will include sell-ing or keeping the farm business in the fam-ily, transferring assets within the family, preparing the family for the transfer of as-sets, including business structures, protect-ing and growing your money, philanthropy, and selecting your financial team.

Anyone interested in the topic of estate planning is invited to attend. Forthcoming SMADC workshops will feature sessions on Insurance and Long Term Care on De-cember 7 and Retirement Planning and In-vestments on January 11, 2010.

The Advanced Estate Planning Work-shop is free to the public and will take place on Monday, Nov. 9 at 6 p.m. in the SMECO Auditorium located at 15035 Burnt Store Road, Hughesville.

Free Estate Planning Workshop


It was a tough two weeks for the Patuxent High School football team as they took two tough losses to

Westlake and Chopticon ending their 2-A playoff hopes.

On Friday Oct. 23 they headed to Wal-dorf and faced a very tough Westlake team that had already clinched a playoff birth and the Wolverines took the victory 41-14.

After a scoreless first quarter, Frank Taitano started the scoring in the for Patux-ent breaking a 89-yard run for a touchdown to start the second quarter.

It was all Westlake after that as Antoine Reese scored twice in the second, with scor-ing runs of one and four yards. The West-lake attack was very balanced as five players rushed for over 50 yards and the Wolverines totaled 390 yards on the ground.

Julian Blair scored on a 61-yard pass from Chris Istvan to begin the second half.

Istvan finished his day completing 4 of 11 passes for 93 yards.

Taitano scored again for Patuxent on a one-yard run in the fourth quarter and finished the night with 138 yards rushing on 10 carries as well as 40 receiv-ing yards. Reese scored on a one yard run ending his night with 60 yards on 15 carries and three TD’s. Kendall Jefferson led all Westlake runners with 78 yards rushing. Desmond Betts finished the scor-ing with a 68-yard TD run late in the game.

Last Friday, it was Senior Night in Lus-by and the Chopticon Braves spoiled the par-ty with a 7-6 win. The Braves knocked the Panthers out of the playoff picture in a very tough defensive battle. Nick Landavazo, Vir-gil Dickerson and the Braves defensive front

line kept Star Running back Frank Taitano in check holding him to 90 yards rushing and no touchdowns. Chopticon got its only points on a third quarter TD pass from new QB Tyler Hayhurst to Michael Gilmartin for 15 yards. Zach Hagelin had the only score for Patuxent and the extra point was missed. Patuxent had a few second half opportuni-

ties that were lost as the Chopticon defense kept coming up with big plays to stop drives. Patuxent’s defensive unit was led in both games by Marquez Stewart, totaling 21 tack-les and 17 assists.

Patuxent will finish their season tomor-row night with a trip to Baltimore to face Eastern Tech. Game time is 7 p.m.

Patuxent Takes Two Tough Losses

Staff PhotoThe Patuxent High School Panthers line up against the Chopticon High School Braves during their match up on Oct. 30. The Braves squeaked out a 7-6 win.


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There’s something to be said for the classics, whether you’re talking Ludwig Van Beethoven or “Roll Over Beethoven”, each seems in-

fused with its own sense of charm, and whether you lived through the era that produced such sounds, they still make you nostalgic.

Such may have been the fervor that led to guitarist and singer Ronnie Joyner starting up what may be the only rockabilly band in Southern Maryland, the Flea Bops (the name inspired by “The Lord Flea Band” featured in a campy 1957 rock-n-roll B-movie called “Bop Girl Goes Calypso”), harkening back to that blend of rock and “hillbilly” music that made fashionable the likes of Elvis, Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash and later emulators like the

Stray Cats. And as a genre rockabilly is anything but subtle. It

oozes nostalgia.Ronnie wrote in an email interview that the conversa-

tion that led him to his band mates was over a hairstyle, of all things.

At a small rockabilly show in Oxon Hill in 1992, “I was approached by a guy wearing a Sun Records t-shirt. Sun Records is the legendary label that put out the semi-nal recordings by guys like Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash to name a few … that Sun t-shirt grabbed me right away. Looking at my hair (which was styled in a “piled-high slicked-up pompadour”), he asked me if I was a rockabilly fan.”

From there Ronnie said he was invited to come see a band called Go Cat Go, where

he met their drummer, “a stylish Gene

K r u p a -lo o k-

ing guy named Lance LeBeau (drums). His wife, Wendy (stand-up bass and vocals), and his younger brother, Pres-ton (lead guitar).” During a break the trio, who had been stealing glances at Joyner’s 50s-inspired hairdo, asked him if he’d be interested in singing in their new band, and for the last 17 years, that’s exactly what he’s been doing, though he did admit it had been difficult for him to adjust.

“My singing had always been relegated to show-ers or stairwells where the natural acoustics elevated my ‘talent’ -- so I’d never performed in public before,” but after performing their first awkward show at the Laugh-ing Lizard Lounge in Alexandria, Va., and meshing more often at Lance and Wendy’s house as the band practiced, a comfortable dynamic emerged. Since then they’ve played shows all over D.C., Arlington and Baltimore, also making appearances at Rockabilly tribute shows like the Rocka-billy Rave in Las Vegas, where they debuted their third release on Vinylux Records, a 10-inch 33-RPM vinyl-only 6-song EP called “Gotta Bop”.

As for local gigs, Ronnie said that most that occur within the tri-county area are “oddball” gigs, “like the Cobb Island gig we have coming up at The Drift Away Inn … for the most part we do not play too many local gigs. There are not a lot of local venues that cater to our niche.”

Still, it’s a niche this group fits in many more ways than one.

“To us, the “old school mentality” applies to all aspects of our craft. Our original songs are written to the same tried and true themes of the pioneers of the genre -- love, heartbreak and regular down-home life issues,” wrote Joyner. “When we play our songs, we keep it simple and in line with the basic blueprint that was laid down in the 1950s. When we record, we do it the way it was done ‘back in the day’ -- live in studio to one track (tape) with no overdubs.”

Such an approach makes for an interesting blend of “slap-back” echoing sound – defined as a characteristic of the genre, this same sort of re-verberating sound that characterized surf music in the 1960s, and which highlights Ronnie’s singing, a blend of vocal styles echoing Elvis and Buddy Holly, among others. And of course, the nostalgia still oozes freely.

The Flea Bops will be playing next at the Drift Away Inn at Cobb Island on Friday, Nov. 6. For more information on the band and copies of their albums, go to http://vinylux.com/fleabops.htm.

BY ANDREA SHIELL (CT) info@somdpublishing.

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‘Flea Bops’ Share the Rockabilly Bug

in a campy 1957 rock-n-roll B-movie called “Bop Girl Goes Calypso”), harkening back to that blend of rock and “hillbilly” music that made fashionable the likes of Elvis, Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash and later emulators like the

Perkins and Johnny Cash to name a few … that Sun t-shirt grabbed me right away. Looking at my hair (which was styled in a “piled-high slicked-up pompadour”), he asked me if I was a rockabilly fan.”

From there Ronnie said he was invited to come see a band called Go Cat Go, where

he met their drummer, “a stylish Gene

K r u p a -lo o k-

after performing their first awkward show at the Laughing Lizard Lounge in Alexandria, Va., and meshing more often at Lance and Wendy’s house as the band practiced, a comfortable dynamic emerged. Since then they’ve played shows all over D.C., Arlington and Baltimore, also making appearances at Rockabilly tribute shows like the Rockabilly Rave in Las Vegas, where they debuted their third release on Vinylux Records, a 10-inch 33-RPM vinyl-only 6-song EP called “Gotta Bop”.

As for local gigs, Ronnie said that most that occur within the tri-county area are “oddball” gigs, “like the Cobb Island gig we have coming up at The Drift Away Inn … for the most part we do not play too many local gigs. There are not a lot of local venues that cater to our niche.”

Still, it’s a niche this group fits in many more ways than one.

“To us, the “old school mentality” applies to all aspects of our craft. Our original songs are written to the same tried and true themes of the pioneers of the genre -- love, heartbreak and regular down-home life issues,” wrote Joyner. “When we play our songs, we keep it simple and in line with the basic blueprint that was laid down in the 1950s. When we record, we do it the way it was done ‘back in the day’ -- live in studio to one track (tape) with no overdubs.”

Such an approach makes for an interesting blend of “slap-back” echoing sound – defined as a characteristic of the genre, this same sort of reverberating sound that characterized surf music in the 1960s, and which highlights Ronnie’s singing, a blend of vocal styles echoing Elvis and Buddy Holly, among others. And of course, the nostalgia still oozes freely.

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By Sherrod Sturrock

One of t h e buzz

words in muse-ums these days is “affinity groups” as in, getting peo-ple who share a common interest to use the muse-um as a meeting place. Here at the Calvert Marine

Museum this is not a new concept, but one that has grown and evolved quite naturally over the 39 years of the mu-seum’s existence. In essence, our mission is grounded in community and built on the concept of affinity.

So, what does that mean? Well, one of the first museum ‘affinity groups’ dates back to the earliest days of the mu-seum’s history when Pepper Langley started the Carving Club and invited anyone interested in traditional maritime carving to join him in the shop on Saturdays. The Patuxent Small Craft Guild is another affinity group that has grown up with the museum. Working with Boatwright George Surgent, these boat enthusiasts come together twice a week to build, repair, or refinish traditional wooden boats. The Solomons Island Model Boat Club is another affinity group with a thriving membership. The notion of ‘boys and their toys’ comes to mind watching these men “play” with their carefully crafted radio controlled model boats in the basin behind the museum. They take their play very seriously, and have a wonderful time doing it. And then there is the

Canoe and Kayak Club whose members gather through-out the spring, summer, and fall to explore the creeks and back waters of the area in their canoes and kayaks, as well as helping novices learn new skills in the museum’s boat basin.

Not to be outdone by the boat-oriented affinity groups, we have the Fossil Club. These enthusiastic hunters comb the beaches and by-ways searching out rare fossil clues from the distant past, which they hold dearer than precious metals. Working with the museum’s paleontologist, Dr. Stephen Godfrey, they publish “The Ecphora” a quarterly newsletter, hold quarterly lectures on topics of interest, and go on fossil hunting excursions.

And then there are the lighthouse people. Being an institution that boasts two lighthouses, we are a natural spot for these folks to alight. They come twice a year, for the September Lighthouse Challenge, and in January for Chesapeake Lights, a day that highlights lighthouses of the Chesapeake Bay. Not as closely linked to us as the other clubs, they make up for it in the intensity of their dedica-tion. Perhaps our largest, most diverse, and most active af-finity group is our volunteer corps – individuals who have found friends and purpose here while using their skills and talents in a way that gives back to the community.

The museum is in the unique position of being able to bring people together to do things they are passionate about in an atmosphere of support and encouragement. It is reminiscent of childhood, when you shared your collect-ing passion with like-minded friends. So, if you’re looking for an affinity group, check us out. We’re all about making connections.

Sherrod Sturrock is the Deputy Director of the Calvert Marine Museum. She can be reached at [email protected].

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