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What Are Your Thoughts on the Annual Tiki Bar Opening

Day, Will You Attend?

“No I don’t think so,” 18-year-old Stephen Nor-ris of Lusby said about attending the opening weekend “I’m not of age yet, but in a few years I’m looking forward to it.”

His brother just turned 21 and it look-ing forward to going, said Norris [like Chuck Norris, he said, just not related].

“It’s actually really good for down here. It gives us a little popularity, and all the people coming in,” he said, adding, “It dries up nice down here,” in the off season.

“Oh yeah. I’m definitely going … I go every year. I think it’s a lot of fun,” said Tiffany Mosler, of Lusby. “I already have plans for my kids to be taken care of so I can go for the whole weekend.”

Mosler said she has a relative with a house “right on the island, so I don’t have to wor-ry about parking or anything. And I can crash there.”

“It’s too crowded. Not our age group. Not our thing to do,” said Lisa Creason, of Lusby. “We’ve been to the Tiki Bar opening before … If they have great weather, it will be fun for the people who want to go.”

Although she doesn’t like standing being elbow-to-elbow at a bar [or even at the recent Cherry Blos-som Festival in DC], Crea-son said the event is a great benefit to the community.

“It’s great for that econ-omy. It’s great for Solomons Island, and great for the hotels in the area,” she said. “It brings people from all over. It’s amazing where people are coming in from on their boats and stuff … It puts Solomons Island on the map.”

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4 Local News

7 Delegate

8 Community

10 On the Water

11 Letters

12 Cover Story

14 Locals

15 History

16 Obituaries

18 Business Directory

19 Sports

20 Out & About

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Singer Liz Chambers, 17, of Lusby, after a performance greets one of her fans, Kayleigh Coppins-Dutton, 4, of Lusby. SEE PAGE 14

Steve Waugh, right, candidate for Maryland state senate, was one of the politicians spotted at Solomons’ boardwalk pavilion April 10 during a “Maryland Tax Day Tea Party” organized by Americans for Prosperity a conservative advocacy group. SEE PAGES 4 and 7

Solomons Island’s Kim’s Key Lime Pies new owners Kelly Guilfoyle, left, and Amanda Comer. SEE PAGE 5

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The property owners associa-tion of Chesapeake Ranch Estates in Lusby won their lawsuit last week against the Calvert Marine Museum for its trespassing on their land back in 2008 and taking a whale skeleton that was encased in the cliff side, but the judgment was unsatisfactory, according to the board’s president.

“It was a hollow victory,” said John Eney of the $10,000 they re-ceived for the supposedly 10 mil-lion-year-old whale skeleton and $1 award for the trespass. “The damage award was an absolute insult.”

Circuit Court Judge Warren Krug made his decision after both

sides had presented their case over a two-day trial, Eney said, who said that the skeleton was valued between $8,000 to $20,000.

“The losing side was celebrat-ing,” Eney said, who confirmed they would appeal the judgment.

Joseph Cunningham, a Vir-ginia-based lawyer representing the ranch club, said they would take their case to the Maryland Court of Special Appeals.

“The award of damages was inadequate,” Cunningham told The Southern Calvert Gazette. “There was a significant degra-dation of the cliff side where the whale dig took place.”

Last week’s judgment was

the culmination of two years of le-gal wrangling between the ranch club board and the marine muse-um, with the board claiming that museum scientists and excavators trespassed on ranch club property for five months to extract a whale skeleton found deep inside the cliff face.

The museum staff claimed during the dig that they had per-mission of a single property owner who they believed had claim to a portion of the cliff face where the skeleton was lodged, but later it was determined that the ranch club owned the property.

D a n i e l Karp, attorney

for the marine museum, said that the ruling was fair.

“The ruling was proper in ev-ery respect,” Karp said. “The ma-rine museum acted in good faith.

“It was an innocent mistake.”Karp said that excavators had

signed a release with the ranch club stating that their dig would not harm the puritan tiger beetle, an endangered species which lives in the cliff face.

Eney still claimed that the excavation caused the cliffs to weaken and posed a dangerous liability to the ranch club if an ac-cident occurred.

Residents of the club have been trying to find legal ways to strengthen the cliff face and stop erosion, which threatens to topple homes into the Chesapeake Bay, but have been rebuffed by state and federal officials because the species and its habitat are protect-ed by law.

“They judge did not short-change them in any way, shape or form,” Karp said. “They couldn’t prove any damage flowed from the trespass.” By Guy Leonard (CT)

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LOCALNEWS Kim’s Key Lime Pies Under New Ownership

Steve Waugh, right, candidate for Maryland state senate, was one of the politicians spotted at Solomons’ boardwalk pavilion April 10 during a “Maryland Tax Day Tea Party” organized by Americans for Pros-perity a conservative advocacy group.

Photo by Sean Rice

Tea Anyone?

Kim’s Key Lime Pies, a popular destination on Solo-mon’s Island has opened with new owners: Kelly Guilfoyle and Amanda Comer, a pair who have been friends with for-mer owner Kim Mowrer for years

Mowrer, who opened the shop in 2003, is fighting off a second bout with cancer, after surviving breast can-cer in 2005.

“She’s just resting and focusing on her family,” Comer said. “And it was time for her to pass it on, and we were so happy to take it over … the oppor-tunity came up at the right time.”

Comer has known Mowrer since 2007, when she took over the Blue Heron Bed and Breakfast, located behind Kim’s.

Guilfoyle met Mow-rer nearly 10 years ago when they both worked at the Dry Dock restaurant.

“We’re carrying on the tradition of her des-serts, and you can still find all her recipes here,” Guilfoyle told The Southern Calvert Gazette.

Guilfoyle and Comer, operating as a part-nership named Lotus Kitchen, LLC, officially opened Easter weekend. The name is staying the same, but they are giving up “Riverwalk Gifts” aspect of the business.

“We took out a lot of the retail, except for the coffee and tea, and we’re just focusing more on food right about now,” Guilfoyle said.

“We don’t know so much about retail,” said Comer.

Comer is a chef who trained at the Culinary Institute of America and Le Cordon Bleu in Par-is. She said their food “focuses on simple, fresh sandwiches, soups salads, all that good stuff.”

The pair hopes to receive their liquor li-cense the first week of May.

“We’ll be doing wine, microbrews … and probably close around 8 or 9,” Comer said.

“We don’t want it to be a bar, just a place where people come for light fair,’” Guilfoyle said.

“A glass of wine and a salad on the way home, a little charcuterie and cheese,” Amanda added. “It’s just a nice comfortable space for people to hang out and eat … We’re excited about it.”

With the removal of the gift shop section, Kim’s Key Lime Pies now has additional dining space. The second downstairs room is being used for more dining space and the upstairs rooms that used to house gifts are used for stor-age until a demand arises.

“We’re going to evolve organically … we’re just play-ing it by ear,’ Comer said. “Hopefully we can get busy enough that we have to hire a bunch of staff and move up-stairs too.” By Sean riCe (SCG) [email protected]

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Kim’s Key Lime Pies new owners Kelly Guilfoyle, left, and Amanda Comer.Photo by Sean Rice


LOCAL NEWSWisner: A Life and Death on the Chesapeake

O’Donnell: Budget

Will Force Tax Hikes Next Year

The following interview was con-ducted and published by The Southern Calvert Gazette in early June, 2009. Wis-ner, 79, who dedicated his life to writing and singing about the Chesapeake Bay, died of lung cancer on April 2 while living at the Burnett-Calvert Hospice House

Tom Wisner sat down at his table and held his hand over a cup of black coffee, flanked by shelves lined with books and CD binders, paintings, sketches and pho-tographs, including one impressive shot of a female crab he affectionately called “Priscilla.”

He poised his hands over his keyboard as he talked, as though he were preparing to illustrate his words with songs, as is his habit.

But several months ago, Tom was not smiling or painting or singing. He learned that he was dying of cancer, and since then the folk singer, artist, scientist, educator and activist has been trying to adapt to a slower pace.

“When I learned I was going to die, and they said very soon, I kind of got down into this cave. To think about it, it reminds me of a deep black hole in the earth some-where,” he said. “I looked at death like that and it was very scary … and through a period of time I got to a place where I thought, well, I’m still alive, so I’ve got to live.”

And living, according to Wisner, is a thing best done through creation.

“If I weren’t actively making some-thing every day, then I wouldn’t be alive,” he said. “I paint, I draw, I used to dance a lot, I make songs, and I play drums. I’m always making something.”

Wisner, whose career has spanned more than four decades, was awarded a

citation in 1965 from the Washington D.C. Acade-my of Sciences for teach-ing, and later he earned the 1988 Excellence in Teaching Award. He has written more than 100 songs, and his first album, “Chesapeake Borne”, was cut in 1979. His first three albums are part of the National Smithsonian Folkways collection.

During an inter-view with The Southern Calvert Gazette, Wisner remember a second-grade student that once pondered: “I wonder if people wonder what it’s like to be a crab?”

“Now she became a lawyer, but she was dealing with justice is-sues even then … but who answers the prayers of the fishes?” he said, adding that the crab in particular had become his muse over the years.

“For darn near 40 some-years, I’ve been writing songs about, singing about, and danc-ing and prancing with blue crabs, and therefore I’ve fallen in love with them,” he said. But, “we’re getting to the place where maybe we won’t have as many crabs,” he said. “We throw a lot of junk in that river.”

An effort has been underway by the Calvert Marine Museum to collect Wis-

ner’s archives of songs, art and research, to be preserved for future generations.

“Tom is kind of an icon of the Chesa-peake, certainly through his stories and songs,” said museum director Doug Alves. “He’s helped expose, to the general public, the beauty of the Chesapeake, as well as the need to preserve it and clean it up.” By

AndreA SHiell (CT) [email protected]

House Minority Leader Anthony J. O’Donnell (R-Dist. 29C) believes that the budget that passed the House and Senate last week in Annapolis means that the state’s money problems will continue for the foreseeable future.

It also means that the state and counties will likely have to raise taxes to compensate for lagging tax revenues, he said.

“We did little to nothing to solve the state’s overspending problem and reliance of federal aid dollars,” O’Donnell said of overall efforts in Annapolis this year. “Massive tax increases are being planned by the ma-jority and they’re also planning to shift the burden of teacher pensions to counties which will force them to raise taxes.”

The fiscal 2011 budget pas-sage was predicated on the state getting a projected 3.6 percent increase in revenue, the South-ern Calvert County state del-egate said.

“It’s highly unlikely that will materialize,” he said.

But Del. Sue Kullen (D-Dist. 27B) said that the budget, about $32 billion with $2 billion in deep cuts, was “responsible and forward-looking.”

Kullen said that every bud-get year is different, and that it is difficult to speculate on the state’s fiscal standing in 2011.

She does believe that this year’s budget would necessitate having to raise taxes.

“I don’t see it that way,” Kullen said. “We may need to make deeper cuts next year.”

Kullen said that in voting for the budget, she and other delegates rejected some of the deeper cuts that Republicans wanted to make in education and public safety.

“We held fast to our priori-ties,” Kullen said. “Those areas to me are sacrosanct.”

Kullen said that voting to cut those critical budget areas would have been “short sight-ed.” By Guy leonArd (CT) info@

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Businesses See 400 Percent Increase in Unemployment Insurance Tax

The recession has nearly wiped out the state coffers that were set aside to pro-vide unemployment insurance for those who lost their jobs, and now the state has approved a 400 percent increase in how much businesses must pay into the fund to replenish it.

The new tax rate for most businesses statewide will be set at 2.2 percent, which is up from just 0.6 percent for 2009.

House Minority Leader Anthony O’Donnell (D-Dist.29C) said that the in-surance tax increase could be a job killer, because employers will have to payout more profits that could have been used to hire employees.

“I voted against it,” O’Donnell said.

“It was a bad business vote at a bad time.“It just shows Maryland’s hostility to

business.”According to The Tax Foundation,

a group that supports transparency and educating the public in understanding tax policies and their impacts, listed Maryland recently as among the 10 worst states in the nation for its level of business taxes.

Currently Maryland ranks 45th out of 50 states for its overall tax climate for businesses in The Tax Foundation’s estimation.

Dan Rebarchick, owner of Lenny’s Restaurant in California, said that the hefty increase he and other business own-ers face could have something of a reverse

affect than what law makers intended: the tax increase could cause employers to shed workers, thus increasing the drain on job-less benefits.

“Any tax on labor can be a potential job killer,” Rebarchick said. “Maybe a business has five employees and they’ll do it with four.”

But in the end equation, Rebarchick said, the consumer will have to bear the brunt of the increase, which could force them to reduce their spending.

“What it does is it’s a tax that gets passed on to the consumer,” he said. “You wind up raising prices.” By Guy leonArd

(CT) [email protected]

Tom Wisner PhotoTom Wisner at a 1990 Bernie Fowler “Wade-In”.


Since receiving new owners just last year, Spy-ro’s Bagels in Solomons Island has expanded to a second location in Solo-mons, and to a location across the Patuxent River in California.

Now re-branded as Spyro’s Bakery and Café, the store is expected this week to open a full-scale bakery within Woodburns of Solomons, confirms Jim Bland, general manager.

“That means we’ll be the only grocery store in Southern Maryland that has an honest-to-God, from-scratch bakery in it, where everything you get is made right on the premises. And that’s a big, big difference from something that was made someplace else with a lot of preservatives and frozen for who knows how long and then thawed out,” Bland told The Southern Calvert Gazette.

“Everything that we make is from

scratch,” said Bland, adding that includes all their cakes and pastries to homemade butter cream and their 15 different types

of breads.“I think it will be a very good compli-

ment,” he said. “We’re known for a brand of very, very high quality, which will fit well into the Woodburn’s model, which is also known for very high quality food.”

Bland said this is his first retail busi-ness, and things are going extremely well. Spyro’s opened a branch on Route 235 in California shortly after founding owners Stephanos and Stella Markakis sold and retired.

Due to a brisk lunch crowd and Spyro’s growing reputation as a popular breakfast and lunch caterer to the areas defense contracting industry, the compa-ny is working on opening a larger location in California as well, Bland confirmed.

“We are in negotiations now for a very large location in California, right down the street from where our temporary location is. It will be a full-scale bakery with about 150 seats inside,” Bland said. “There’s a big lunch crowd over there, and people love our gyros our Rueben and our lunch sandwiches.”

You can taste the difference when eat fresh food, Bland said, but baking from scratch isn’t easy.

“We knew that they had a very good reputation for a great bagel, and a great bagel sandwich, and we wanted to lever-age that into a full scale from-scratch bak-ery and café,” he said. “It takes a lot of discipline. We got a crew back there, hon-est-to-God bakers … It’s a process that’s a lot different that having a bunch of frozen stuff that you stick in the oven.” By Sean

Rice (ScG) [email protected]

LOCALNEWS

‘DUI is for Losers’

Spyro’s Expanding To Much More Than Bagels

Over 250,000 Southern Marylanders can’t be wrong!

As the summer travel season nears it is once again time to remember that the number of motorists will increase as many folks take to the roads to go on vacation, visit historic sites, or just en-joy a weekend ride. More motorcycles and bicycles will be joining cars on the roadways of Calvert County. The Cal-vert County Sheriff’s Office reminds all drivers to be courteous towards fellow motorists and remain vigilant when op-erating their vehicles.

In the month of April Calvert Coun-ty will host many events that will attract visitors from all over the United States. The events such as the Tiki Bar Open-ing Weekend in Solomons, Celtic Festi-val in St. Leonard are just the highlights of the busy month in Calvert County.

The Calvert County Sheriff’s Office participates in the Checkpoint Strike-force initiative and will be conducting a DUI checkpoints as well as continued DUI enforcement and patrols between April 15 and April 30. The Sheriff’s Office will distribute information about Maryland laws and penalties for driv-ing while intoxicated or while under the influence of alcohol and drugs. Motor-ists who are driving while impaired by alcohol and/or drugs will be caught, ar-rested and prosecuted, the Sheriff’s Of-fice said in a press release.

Many county residents are mo-torcycle riders and enjoy riding on Calvert’s and Southern Maryland road-ways. The Calvert County Sheriff’s Of-fice continues enforcement efforts to en-sure motorcycle safety. Remember, that operating a motorcycle takes additional coordination and fine motor skills that are impaired by alcohol and/or drugs.

“I would like to remind our resi-dents and visitors that traffic safety remains our top priority”, said Sheriff Mike Evans, “We do not take drunk driving lightly in Calvert County, the enforcement will continue to be aggres-sive and those who choose to drink and drive will face the consequences.”

The Calvert County Sheriff’s Of-fice asks you to report drunk driving by calling 911. If you see a drunk driver on the road, call police as soon as possible and be sure to provide a description of the vehicle including its make, model, tag number, color, location and direc-tion of travel.

Additional information can be found on the Maryland Impaired Driv-ing Coalition’s new website “DUI is for Losers,” which is designed to raise awareness of the negative outcomes from the decision to drive drunk. To learn more about the “DUI is for Los-ers” campaign, visit www.DUIisFor-Losers.com.

Spyro’s General Manager Jim Bland holds a batch of fresh bread, made from scratch at the café.Photo by Sean Rice


April 15 Tax Filing Deadline a Poignant

Reminder

Every year about this time, millions of American’s across the nation race to make sure their federal and state tax filings for the previ-ous year are complete and timely filed. Some U.S. Post Offices even offer extended operating hours on this date to accommodate last min-ute filings. The day often becomes a poignant reminder of how much we pay to sustain the cost of government services at various levels of government.

Let there be no doubt that we enjoy many good things that make our country our state and our community stronger and safer which are paid for, in whole or in part, by our hard earned tax dollars. Public safety initiatives in-cluding police protection and fire and rescue and emergency medical services are easy ex-amples. Good schools and universities, good roads and transportation systems, good public health services and a strong national defense system are some other examples of the many services our collected tax dollars pay for. As long as these dollars are spent wisely and spar-ingly, most people are willing to pay their share or contribution.

The problem many people have with gov-ernment spending and related tax collection is when people feel there is an unchecked raid on their hard-earned tax dollars by various lev-els of government who seem to forget where those dollars come from. Often times spend-ing becomes a social effort to redistribute hard earned monies from one group of earners to other groups who did not earn those monies. This type of unfair taxation and redistribution goes right to the motivation for us creating our own country and breaking from England. The creation of our own system of self-governance, private property protections and free enterprise in the latter parts of the 18th century was largely fueled by a sense of the people that the govern-ment at the time (England) was unfairly taxing and redistributing those taxes back to the gov-ernment without the consent of the governed.

Today I sense a similar rise in the anxiety, and outright anger, of the people that govern-ment at various levels, especially at the state and federal level, are spending money without restraint and redistributing that money in a way that is unfair and harmful in the long run. As people find it increasingly difficult to make ends

meet, with gasoline prices and food prices and electricity prices through the roof, peo-ple do not want government spending to continue increasing in ways that make ad-ditional tax increases a certainty. Job creat-ing small businesses either are not hiring, reducing positions, or worst of all are clos-ing their doors because they cannot afford the tax burden in a down economy. There are indications that Marylanders are actu-ally relocating to other states with a more tax friendly state government.

Just three years ago we were told by Governor O’Malley that the state needed to dramatically increase our state taxes to

pay for government programs and put our fis-cal house in order. This included increases in sales taxes by 20%, increases in income taxes, increases in car excise taxes, and tobacco taxes and many others. Yet today Maryland state government is in a worse situation than it was just three years ago with respect to its budget. When the bailout of the state with federal tax dollars ends, and it must due to federal over spending and redistribution policies, Maryland simply will not be able to pay for its obligations created in large measure by continued over spending.

In 1995 the state operating budget was about $13 billion. Last week, the Governor and General Assembly passed a state operating budget of over $32 billion. This means the state budget is almost 150% larger than it was just 15 years ago. Current spending levels indicate state budget deficits far in to the future. This type of government spending growth is simply not sustainable by the taxpayers. There are al-most certain tax increases planned by the ma-jority in Annapolis next year, conveniently af-ter the elections, to pay for this unchecked and unrestrained level of growth in state spending. The only way to end this cycle of tax and spend is to send a message to our state and federal government that we can’t afford unrestrained government spending.

Although April 15th may present the tax-payers with a poignant reminder of our tax bur-den, we also reserve the right to send govern-ment its own little reminder. In November we can emphatically demonstrate that we feel over taxed, we don’t want our money “redistribut-ed”, and that ultimately the people will make changes in the make-up of the government if it can’t change its spending habits on its own. This was another right of the people included at our country’s founding back in the late 18th century.

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.

Tea Partiers Are Downright AngryThe Maryland Republican Party

hit the streets this week for a series of town hall meetings, hoping to po-sition itself as the party that’s willing to listen to voter frustration and anger going into a contentious 2010 election cycle.

Audrey Scott, the Maryland Republican Party chairwoman, in-vited audiences to tell her what the party is doing right, what it’s doing wrong and what it can do better. Dur-ing two stops Thursday near the end of the nine-stop tour called “Take Back Annapolis and Washington Week,” attendees took her up on her request with honest -- and often loud -- criticism.

Though some are expecting a Re-publican swing this year due to a poor economy and an unpopular health care bill, angry Marylanders made it clear they don’t want to return the same old Republican Party to power.

At a meeting in Waldorf that drew a crowd of about 200, Southern Mary-land conservatives spoke out about their views of a party that lost power by straying from its principles.

“The Republicans blew it!” shouted Ken Carkhuff, a former can-didate for county commissioner in St. Mary’s County. “We got comfortable with power and no longer did what the citizens say matters.”

Mark Cizler, an army veteran from Mechanicsville, said that things had been “jacked-up” in Washington for a long time and that Republicans had become complacent.

“We know that and we’re gonna change it! That’s why I’m here!” Scott responded.

Earlier that morning, Scott took questions and comments from a much older crowd of about 50 at the Lei-sure World retirement community in Montgomery County.

John Erzen, a retired contractor, said the Tea Party movement can help Republicans put forth a clear vision of what the party stands for instead of what it stands against.

“The issue is the Republican Par-ty is not coming up with a roadmap or vision of the future. We’re just talk-ing about how bad these other guys are and it’s better to vote for the Re-publicans,” said Erzen. “We need to take an offensive structure, go for the moral high ground.”

Erzen later stood up and lectured a Democratic Party staffer who was filming from the back of the room, telling him he should go take pictures of the effects of Marxism in Russia.

Scott welcomed the call to align with the Tea Party movement, say-ing that Republicans have the “exact same ideology” of limited govern-

ment, lower taxes and individual responsibility.

The governor’s race and the con-gressional race in the Eastern Shore’s 1st District will likely be the high-lights of the upcoming political sea-son. Both are expected to be competi-tive rematches featuring candidates already familiar to voters and each other.

Former Republican Gov. Rob-ert Ehrlich officially announced last week his bid for a rematch with Gov. Martin O’Malley, and state Sen. Andy Harris is the Republican favorite to win a shot at unseating Rep. Frank Kratovil, D-Stevensville, in the 1st District.

Though Maryland Republicans can sometimes feel powerless in a state where Democrats outnumber them 2-1, Scott said there is reason for optimism this year.

“The glimmer of hope has been almost nonexistent. And so it would have really taken someone who wanted to be a sacrificial lamb to step forward and say ‘I’m running as a Republican,’“ Scott said. “Not any longer. That glimmer of hope has be-come a lightning bolt.”

In an interview after the meeting in Waldorf, Scott said the town hall tour had shown her that voter enthu-siasm and anger are still high.

“People are upset. And people want a government that listens to them.” said Scott.

Kim Jorns, the party’s executive director, said the state GOP had got-ten more requests for town hall meet-ings than it could handle, and that more events will be scheduled in the future.

Dave Schwartz, the Maryland director for the free-market advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, said it’s “en vogue” to host political events that let voters vent, but the best thing Republican candidates can do to win Tea Party votes is to espouse free-market principles.

Scott said she’s a pragmatist who knows that her party probably can’t take back a majority in Annapolis or Washington, but she wants Repub-licans to have a seat at the table and break the “monopoly” of Democratic control.

GOP strategist Don Murphy, who attended one of the town halls, said he saw some anger so strong that a mere seat at the table wouldn’t be able to fix it.

“I think they want to break the table into little pieces and use it for firewood and burn the place down,” Murphy said. By Graham moomaw

(Capital News Service)


WWII Army Air Corps Vet Recalls History

Imagine keeping an entire room full of teenage boys engaged while talking about your day at work. Unless you are an astronaut, a cowboy or a fighter pi-lot, it may be hard to do.

Some local students were lucky enough recently to have just that experience.

The Chopticon High School Air force JROTC had a chance to be present recently when Wes Simp-kins, a volunteer at the Charlotte Hall Veterans Home (and himself a retired Air force aviation mechanic), held an oral history seminar with Nicholas Nonnen-macher, an 89-year-old resident of the Charlotte Hall Veterans Home.

Nonnenmacher flew the big P47 fighter plane as a member of the US Army Air Corps and also the Brazilian Air force during World War II. The kids hung on to every word as Nonnenmacher did a play-by-play of the day he shot down a German Messer-schmitt Bf109.

“The P47 was a fighter plane with no equal,” said Nonnenmacher, who came to the Vet’s Home from Anne Arundel County. “I wouldn’t be alive today if

I was flying another fighter or bomber that day.”

“We looked for troops, flight tow-ers, trains and anything that could hurt us, and we shot them up,” Nonnenmacher said. “I had a ball shooting targets on the ground.”

What Nonnenmacher didn’t reveal to the students that afternoon was that just like in ev-ery job, it has its ups and downs. The very next day, Nonnenmacher was himself shot down and had to parachute out of his plane. Although he lived, he spent the next two years recovering form his injuries.

Simpkins, who shoots video of the oral history seminars, said that there is a sense of urgency involved with getting these stories.

“There aren’t that many World War II vet-erans left now. I want to archive it while I can,” Simpkins said. “I think it is important for our kids to be able to have one-on-one interaction with our veterans. There is lots of living his-tory in this place, it just needs to be recorded and passed on.” By Joany nazdin (SCG) info@

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By Joyce BakiThis month, Earth Day celebrations will

be held throughout the county. Annmarie Garden will host ECO Weekend, Saturday

April 17 through Monday, April 19. There will be a variety of Earth-friendly activities available in honor of Earth Day and Arbor Day. (www.annmariegarden.org)

An Earth Day Celebration and clean-up is sponsored by the American Chestnut

Land Trust (ACLT) on Saturday, April 17. Volunteer crews will work along roadsides and on selected projects. Meet at 8:30 a.m. at the ACLT south side trailhead barn off Scien-tists’ Cliffs Road, Port Republic. Lots of vol-unteers are needed – and all will be rewarded for all their hard work with a picnic at noon. (www.acltweb.org)

Have you ever wondered what archae-ologists do? Join the staff of Jefferson Pat-terson Park and Museum on Saturday, April 17 for the opening of their 2010 season with Discovering Archaeology Day. Learn the where, what and how of archaeology through demonstrations, tours, displays and hands-on activities for all ages. (www.jef-pat.org)

The Calvert Marine Museum features two new additions to its Speakers Series this month. On Saturday, April 17, at 3 p.m., Dr. William Ruddiman speaks on The Impact of Early Agriculture on Global Climate, and will discuss his hypothesis of how, from very early on, farming caused the release of carbon dioxide and methane that has had measurable effects on global climate.

On Friday, April 23, the Calvert Ma-rine Museum and the Leagues of Women Voters of Calvert and St. Mary’s Counties invite you to explore To the Last Drop: Our Looming Fresh Water Crisis. Dr. Robert Summers, Deputy Secretary of the Mary-land Department of the Environment, will deliver the keynote address. A panel discus-sion, posters and displays will also be avail-able. (www.calvertmarinemuseum.com)

The 32nd Annual Celtic Festival of Southern Maryland will be held on Saturday, April 24. It is the oldest Celtic celebration in Maryland, highlighting the heritage of the Scots, Irish, Welsh, Manx, Breton, Cornish and British. More than 50 clans and societ-ies will have information to share. Three performing stages offer continuous music and dance featuring internationally known recording artists and groups. Enjoy craft and country dance demonstrations. Listen to storytellers weave their tales while harp

and Scottish fiddlers play in the background. Competitions will occur throughout the day including pipers, fiddlers, highland dancers, athletes, drummers, pipe bands and Celtic harpers. After closing ceremonies there will be an evening ceili. (www.cssm.org)

On Saturday, April 24, American Chest-nut Land Trust hosts two guided hikes. A leisurely guided walk along Gravatt East will allow you to view wildflowers and early mi-gratory birds. Bring binoculars and meet at 9 a.m. sharp at the south side trailhead barn off Scientists’ Cliffs Road. The hike will be held rain or shine, unless thunderstorms occur. At 10 a.m., bring the kids and enjoy a guided hike along the south side trails. The hike will last approximately two hours. For informa-tion or to register for an event at ACLT visit www.acltweb.org or call 410-414-3400.

Celebrate Southern Maryland traditions at the Calvert Marine Museum’s Annual Maritime Festival on Saturday, May 1. Taste traditional foods, learn how to pick crabs and shuck oysters like the pros. Enjoy local gos-pel and old time music. See world-class water fowl carving and Chesapeake Bay retriever trials in action. Watch model boats skim the waters of the boat basin and talk with tradi-tional crafts people as they demonstrate their skills. Kids will enjoy traditional games, races, toy boat building and more. (www.calvertmarinemuseum.com)

The Lusby Business Association will host a Spring Fling on Saturday, May 1 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. All four shopping com-plexes will provide fun for the entire fam-ily, including a moon bounce, facepainting, scavenger hunt, car show, live music, food samples, wine tasting, sidewalk sales, dem-onstrations and giveaways. For more infor-mation, visit www.shoplusby.com and learn the importance of “shopping local.”

Visit www.ecalvert.com for more great events happening in Calvert County! Joyce Baki is a Tourism Specialist with the Calvert County Department of Economic Development.

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Brian Miller, Aerospace Science Instructor with Chopticon High School Air Force JROTC, pins a set of Army Air Corps wings on World War II Army veteran Nicholas Nonnenmacher, while cadet look on. From left is Cadet/Airman 1st Class Kellen Polk, Cadet/Airman 1st Class Adam Harden, (Seated) Cadet/Technical Sergeant Christopher Young, Cadet/Airman 1st Class Travis Meador and Cadet/Staff Sergeant Joshua Sonntag.

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Are We Running Out of Fresh Water?

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Scientists predict critical water shortages within our lifetime right here in Southern Maryland. To the Last Drop: Our Looming Fresh Water Crisis, a public forum sponsored by the Calvert Marine Museum and the Leagues of Women Vot-ers of Calvert and St. Mary’s Counties, invites you to explore this critical issue with area and regional experts on Friday, April 23 from 1-5 p.m. at the museum.

Southern Maryland appears to have nearly as much water as land according to Google Earth, but we don’t bathe with or drink surface water. Fresh water comes from aquifers collected inside porous rock millions of years ago, and it’s disappear-ing. Get educated and get involved. Water is essential to life, and yet we act as if the supply is endless. Come and learn how we can help preserve this most precious natural resource.

The keynote address will be given by Dr. Robert Summers, deputy secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environment. Dr. Summers has served the citizens of Maryland for nearly 24 years in various capacities within Maryland’s progressive and nationally recognized environmental programs, with emphasis on scientific and technical issues related to water pollution control, drinking water protection and federal, State and local government environmental laws and regulations. Represen-tatives from Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary’s Counties, as well as the Maryland Geological Survey and the former director of Metcom, will participate in a panel discussion focusing on specific concerns and impacts. Posters, displays, and ad-ditional information will be available in the museum lobby. Visit www.calvert-marinemuseum.com for more information or call 410-326-2042 ext. 32.

“Man climbing” rang out as linemen Jer-emy Green and Brian Rawlings maneuvered up and around the top of a utility pole, changing its cross arm. On the ground, Brian Thomas deliv-ered parts and tools to the two linemen using a rope. Will Robertson counseled Thomas to stay one step ahead of the team on the pole, so they always have the equipment they need. Although the official time limit for completing the change-out was 20 minutes, the group challenged itself to finish five minutes sooner, and there were smiles when they wrapped up at just under 15 minutes.

The Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO) linemen were practicing for the annual Gaff ’n’ Go Rodeo, where utility workers from the region’s electric utilities have an opportunity to test their skills against those of their peers. Two teams of journeyman linemen and six apprentices will be competing in the rodeo. Last year SMECO won nine individual awards in the obstacle course, hurt-man rescue, cross-arm relocation, and dead lift competitions, SMECO said in a press release.

Robertson, a journeyman lineman, has rep-resented SMECO at the Gaff ’n’ Go each year since the annual event began in 2003. “I haven’t missed one yet,” he said. He has competed in 15

lineman’s rodeos, including the Mountain States event in West Virginia each year and one appear-ance at the international competition in Kansas.

Robertson, who chairs SMECO’s Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee, said the rodeos have enhanced the Coop-erative’s training for apprentices working toward journeyman rank. “One thing we learn from the rodeos is that we can use dif-ferent ways of doing things on the poles,” he said. “We explain to the apprentices that the skills they learn are the things they would see in the rodeo.”

“This is a fun event and we’ve made many great friends there over the years,” Robertson said.

The Eighth Annual Gaff ’n’ Go was held Saturday, April 10, at the Meadow Event Park, home of the Virginia State Fair, in Do-swell, Virginia near King’s Dominion. For more information, visit www.gaff-n-go.com.

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Visitors will get an in-depth look at the grow-ing green revolution at the second annual Calvert County Green Expo on Sunday, May 2, 2010, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Jefferson Patterson Park and Mu-seum in St. Leonard.

The Green Expo, to be held on the heels of the 40th anniversary celebration of Earth Day, is the place to learn about the latest in healthy and sustainable living. The family event will feature displays of earth-friendly products and a host of exhibits, programming, guest speakers and expe-riences. Visitors will find a wide variety of eco-friendly products and services and discover engag-ing ways to learn about being and going green.

The event is organized by the Calvert County Citizens Green Team, an active and enthusiastic group of county residents working to promote green initiatives. Interest has taken off since the first expo in 2009 and the event has grown into a celebration of the environment, healthy living,

community and social consciousness.More than 65 vendors and exhibitors will be

on hand for the event. Guest speakers will give presentations on a variety of topics related to be-ing green and saving money. Locally sourced food will be available, while the Girl Scouts will host a Kids Zone and Chespax will exhibit public school green projects.

Admission is free and open to all ages. Ex-hibit space for vendors is still available for a reg-istration fee of $50, or $10 for 501(C)(3) non-profit organizations. A table (two feet by six feet) and two chairs will be provided if needed.

The Calvert County Green Expo is sponsored by Dominion Cove Point LNG, Constellation En-ergy and Complete Home Solutions, LLC in part-nership with The Friends of Jefferson Patterson Park. To learn more, visit www.calvertgreenexpo.org or e-mail [email protected].

The Patuxent High School Parent Teacher Student Association is sponsor-ing ‘Real Choices: Empowering Youth to Make Healthy Relationship Choices’ on Tuesday, April 20th from 6-8 p.m.

The presenter will be Dari McGinn-is, Director of the Real Choices Outreach Program funded by CareNet Pregnancy Center.

This non-secular program will edu-cate youth on the risks of early sexual activity, emphasize reasons to wait un-

til marriage, give strategies to cultivate healthy relationships.

Teens will meet with Dari in the au-ditorium and parents will meet in the me-dia center. The parent presentation will focus on how parents can best discuss the program material with their children.

There will be a BRIEF PTSA gen-eral membership meeting prior to the program in the auditorium for both teens and parents for the purpose of nominat-ing 2010- 2011 officers.

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PTSA Clothing DriveSeventh-grader Erik Moon takes a bag of clothes from eighth-grader Abby Fahenstock on April 10 outside of Mill Creek Middle School, during the school’s Parent Teacher Student Association’s second annual cloth-ing drive. Last year the fundraiser raised $529 for the group, after 4,000 pounds of clothing was col-lected and sold for $0.13 a pound. The PTSA will find out later this week how many pound of clothes were collected last weekend.

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Get Ready, Spring Fishing Time is Here!

By Capt. Sonney ForrestWith all those cold windy days and snow

behind us, all are ready to enjoy Spring. With that comes the starting day of Trophy Striped Bass fishing in Maryland. It is always by law the third Saturday of April which is the 17th this year. Starting at 5 a.m. there will be an-glers heading out into the main portion of the

Bay to try their skill at catching a big Striper.First time anglers and those with-

out boats may want to call one of the local charter operators in the County to get first-hand knowledge on catching these big fish. A trip out with a seasoned professional will pay handsomely when you try on your own. They know it all, seriously, they are experts that have honed their skills and make a liv-ing ensuring you a great opportunity to catch fish. They know what works day in and day out. They

know where to fish and when to be there

on the right tide. They network while on the water, working different areas of the Bay they find the fish and stay with them daily. This ensures they satisfy their angler custom-ers and provide them many memories. So call or contact the Calvert County Tourism Office for a flyer on Charter Boat Captains or any local Tackle Shop, they know the best in the area.

Seasoned anglers have been planning opening day months ahead. Getting the rods ready, servicing the reels and adding new line. Putting on the best lures to catch those impressive Stripers. Researching past records of the fish they caught and where at and it what time or tide. These are true sportsman who will be catching those tro-phy Stripers and telling all their friends what they are so excited about when Spring fishing gets here.

They also ensure that the vessel is ready and safe. It is important to be ready for the fishing but need to have a safe platform as well. The waters are only in the lower 50 degrees and a person in the water only has minutes to survive. A recent report from the Boat Owners Association of The Unit-ed States, which combs through the files from Boat U.S. marine insures claims filed. Found import accident trends that identi-fied five major reasons for springtime vessel sinking. Yes, it is a sad fact but these boats sank while safely tied up at the dock!

The top five reason given for boats sinking in the springtime:

1. Missing or damaged hose clamps: The clamps are often removed in the Fall of the year for winterization or draining of systems aboard. They are placed back over the thru hull intakes, but not tighten back in place. Placed in the water hull pressure pops it off and down it goes. Space in engine rooms can make checking or seeing this difficult. Clamps also deteriorate, rust and break loose. Always check thru hull clamps before launching and be sure that the values will close/operate in case of an emergency. Water works best outside the boat, where it can be kept under control.

2. Unsecured Engine hoses can sink the boat quickly. They can be fine when you start the engine but when the power comes on, the hose pops off. Test runs while ob-serving the engine is a good thing while near shore, help and assistance. Hose on engines deteriorate due to the heat from the engine and the hot water so look for condition of all hoses. Have a professional check them if you don’t trust your own judgment.

3. What may look like spring rain wa-ter may have been ice. Ice can freeze hard enough to break steel pipes, plastic scuppers and openings at or below the water line dur-ing winter. Check all opening in the hull to ensure that ice did not break open piping to pumps or tanks that can sink the boat. Hoses inside can break at scuppers near the water line and only leak inside while underway.

4. Check the sea strainer to the main engine, air conditioner and generator to en-sure that over the winter it did not freeze and crack allowing it to drain a trickle until it over comes the bilge pumps limits.

5. Leaking stuffing boxes on inboard

engines with shafts can dry out over win-ter and leak, bad at times. They need spring time service and adjustment. One drop per minute is the right amount, no more.

To help boater commission their vessels and be ready BOAT U.S. has created a free Spring Commissioning Checklist, just visit www.boatus.com/seaworthy/spring_check-list.asp to get a full listing so we see you on the water and not in it.

With all that gear, tackle and vessel ready the Captain can safely put the crew on the fish.

If using Planner Boards, those innova-tive devices that extend the fishing lines out beside the vessel, much like out riggers do on ocean fishing vessels. Please remember that according to U.S. Coast Guard Recreation Boating Safety Office and Maryland Depart-ment Natural Resources, “ a vessel according to the rules of “Right Of Way” has no special status.”

It is the responsibility of the recreational vessel operator employing the planner boards to keep these out of the way of other vessels as they are not afforded any special consider-ation in the navigation rules. With that said, it comes down to courtesy to reduce conflict and best practices to use. Remember that only until recent years did we use them. Mariners traveling our coast lines and inland shore did not know what these things where and how to navigate them safely. The Bay Pilots had to be educated on what they were and how used. That smaller vessels “towing” planner boards may move slower than before.

A few good practices to consider to avoid conflict. Color the boards international orange, which is proven the best day time col-or, it helps all to see and avoid them in time. White gets lost in the choppy Bay seas. Tow lines of the same color helps also. Flags on the boards extends the visibility, bright orange is noticeable. Those small triangular orange

bicycle flags on a short pole work well. Tow line length, consider limiting it to three times the length of the towing vessel. Smaller and lower vessels are hard to see and what-ever they are towing way out to the side even harder. This will help the operator maneuver better as well. Tow line breakaways, attached at the boat for safety should be a breakaway wire tie with a strength of 100 to 150 pounds. Should you hang a crab pot, another planner board or need to dump all the lines on one side in an emergency. All the fishing lines will slip down the tow line and fall behind the boat allowing for retrieval. You can circle around to retrieve the planner board, hook it back up, reset the lines and return to safely fishing. It is a safety issue. These will help to make your day a fun day and less stressful if considered.

Capt. Sonney is a charter member of Solomons Charter Captains Association. He is also owner of Reel Relief Charters, based out of Solomons Island.

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$100,000 Raised for Catholic Education

Wedding Dreams Being Dashed By Zoning Issue

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As a resident of southern Maryland for over twenty-five years, I have marveled at how the tri-county region has grown. Most of our growth has been well managed and we as resi-dents have been able to take advantage of the wonderful amenities, improved roads and life in the Land of Pleasant Living.

My family lives and works in St. Mary’s County; however, we spend a huge amount of time in Calvert County and enjoy the benefits of Solomons Island, the waterways and restau-rants along the Patuxent River. Of note, one of our favorite locations is the Point on Broome’s Island. My wife and I were fortunate enough to have our wedding reception there last May. We planned and coordinated our event six months in advance and brought 120 guests to Calvert County for three days.

Our reception was an absolute delight for us and everyone still contacts us with pictures and fond memories of their weekend in Calvert County. More than a few of our guests have asked us to host a one-year anniversary in the same location and still others are making plans to spend some of their vacation time in Calvert

County this summer!If the present issue with the Point at

Broome’s Island was being debated this time last year; our wedding reception plans would have been ruined. I cannot imagine the unfor-tunate families that presently have reservations for their events at Broome’s Island and what they and their guests are going through at this time. I would ask the Calvert County Com-missioners to find a way to compromise and allow the property in question to remain open while Stoney’s has an opportunity to meet the demands required of the property classification for an “intense development area.”

We all believe in sound development, en-vironmental protection of our waterways and smart growth; however, a fine balance is al-ways critical. Place yourselves in the predica-ment of the families with upcoming plans for their special events at Broomes Island and find a way to satisfy all parties involved!

Scott J. Belanger,California, MD

It’s said that it takes a village to raise a child and, at the seventh an-nual St. Mary’s Ryken Spring Gala, “All Aboard the Orient Express,” I saw our village.

More than 380 parents, alumni, community leaders and friends at-tended our one, major fundraiser for the year, raising almost $100,000 for tuition assistance, which provides talented students the opportunity to receive the Catholic education they desire.

Our supporters truly under-stand the importance of our mission of Catholic education – that we are educating the students of St. Mary’s Ryken – our leaders of tomorrow – not only in academics, but also in the values of compassion, simplicity, humility, trust and zeal.

Thank you to our many sponsors: our Diamond Sponsors - J.F. Taylor; Brandywine Companies; Burch Oil; CMI General Contractors; Commu-nity Bank of Tri-County; Compass Pointe Real Estate Development; DCS Corporation; Old Line Bank; Paragon Properties; Saber Systems; Mrs. Marion Sterling & Family; Whiting-Turner Contracting Com-pany; and to all of those who wish to remain anonymous. Our Platinum Sponsors - Bob Taylor Engineer-ing; the Knights of Columbus – St. Mary’s County Council No. 1470; Shah Associates MD, LLC; and Tay-lor Gas Company. Our Gold Spon-sors were AMELEX; Law Office of Rudolf Carrico, Jr.; Carruth & Son, Inc.; Mrs. Pritzi L. Miedzinski Ely; Great Mills Construction, Inc.; Guy & Guy Masonry, Inc.; Dr. & Mrs. David D. Heavner; Printing Press,

Inc.; Ru-beling & Associ-ates; Technology Security Associ-ates, Inc.; Tennyson Wealth Manage-ment Group; Travel Leaders/Action Travel Tours; F.W. Thompson, Inc.; and W.M. Davis General Contrac-tors, Inc. Our Silver Sponsors – Mr. & Mrs. Gary E. Bell; Bridgett, Mock& Associates, P.A.; C.H. Attick Electric, Inc.; Dirt Works Excavation & Crane, LLC; Franzen Realtors, Inc.; Howard W. Phillips & Com-pany; Kelly Generator & Equipment; Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr.; Mullen, Sondberg, Wimbish & Stone, P.A.; Office Care, Inc.; Redgate Farm Enterprises, Inc.; and Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative. Our Patron Sponsors – Bay Books; Mr. Eric L. Best; Mr. & Mrs. Donald B. Burch; Classy Dé-cor Flooring & Furniture, LLC; Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Grubaugh; Home Builders, Inc.; Jesus the Good Shep-herd Church; Mid-Atlantic Lube Equipment, LLC; Pink Beach; Mr. & Mrs. Albert J. Rudman; Towne Dentistry; and Zekiah Technologies, Inc. Thank you all for your generos-ity and support.

I would like to thank the parent and alumni volunteers – too numer-ous to mention here – who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to make the St. Mary’s Ryken Spring Gala our most successful event, yet.

If you missed this year’s Gala, please mark your calendars for next year – Saturday, March 26, 2011.

Mary Joy Hurlburt, PresidentSt. Mary’s Ryken

Anyone who is paying attention knows that this GREAT Country is headed in the wrong direction.

Out of control government spending and massive debt are pushing this Country toward BANKRUPTCY. Government take over of the Banks, Insurance Companies, Car Companies, and now Healthcare is against the Free Enter-prise System that made this Country great; and, we see policies of redistribution of wealth and a spiral into SOCIALISM.

Cap and Trade will make us less competi-tive in world markets and raise energy prices for all citizens.

Our Politicians have little regard for our

Constitution and engage in unfair backroom deals to pass Healthcare reform that the major-ity of Americans don’t want. The List goes on.

I urge all of my fellow citizens to get in-volved. Come out to the rally sponsored by Americans for Prosperity from noon to 3pm on April 10 (See Page 4) at the Pavilion at Solo-mons to hear what you can do, and to hear con-servative candidates speak.

We need to take back our Country in the next election. Please, get involved.

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On Friday afternoon, April 16, the Tiki Bar in Solomons Island officially opens its doors for a 30th season as one of the island’s top tourist destinations. The club’s owners expect 30,000 people will stop by the bar on

Friday and Saturday.“We got a couple special things that

are going to happen throughout the night, but you got to be here to see what they are, it’s going to be spectacular,” said Terry

Clarke, co-owner of the Tiki Bar.“We’re going to do some things to

celebrate, and thank the people who have been here for 30 years,” added General Manager Joe Kurley. “There’s one small surprise we can give you; the Tiki King is going to ride around the island on a team of Clydesdales.”

As evening approaches on the typical Tiki opening day, the “Tiki King” would float ashore on a pontoon boat to grace the crowd, while the king’s subjects throw down a bed of rose pedals for the king to walk on.

Kurley said: “There’s definitely a buzz this year, after the long cold winter and our 30th anniversary … We want to make sure it’s about the people.”

“It’s the day after taxes are due, so you’re celebrating that you didn’t have to pay that much, or you’re drinking for your sorrows because you had to pay too much,” Clarke said.

The spectacle of the Tiki Bar opening has come a long way in 30 years. The origi-nal owner made “$43 dollars and 50 cents,”

Kurley told The Southern Calvert Gazette.“So that’s our goal, to at least make

that,” Clarke added.“We’re still close with the old owner,

John Taylor. He calls to wish us luck every year, and every once in a while he’ll give us a little tidbit like that to show how far we’ve come,” Kurley said.

Clarke said the annual opening day has even come a long way since 2005, when he and Pat Donovan took ownership.

“I think it’s grown each year … The clientele has definitely changed, for the bet-ter,” he said.

When Taylor bought the property it was only a hotel until he added a small bar to the front of the property.

At the back end of the property, flank-ing the Tiki courtyard, the doors to the for-mer hotel rooms are still there, but Clarke said they have no plans to rent them out for lodging.

“That doesn’t fit with the ambiance of what we want,” Clarke said. “Our goal is to turn them into little gift shops.”

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Annual Tiki Bar Opening Signals Kick Off of Summer Tourism Seasonovan have transformed the rear area into a Tiki paradise, with sand and palm trees and Easter Island statues.

“When you’re sitting back here, you can almost escape Solomons for a while and think that you’re somewhere else,” Clarke said.

Some customers who experienced the Tiki bar in its early days 30 years ago still come to the bar, Clarke said, in addition to tourists from across the country and world.

“We got one couple coming in from Guam this year that sent us an email. We’ve got people who come down from New York … Philly,” Kurley said.

The nearby military installations have also helped spread the popularity of the Tiki Bar and Solomons Island.

“As people move away from here and go to other places, they tell everybody about the Tiki Bar and how big it is,” Kurley said. “Terry was walking down the street one time in San Francisco and saw a Tiki Bar T-shirt.”

On the streets in Solomons Island, there’s no denying that the Tiki Bar open-ing weekend has an effect on nearby busi-nesses, and nearby shop owners surveyed say a great majority of them support the Tiki Bar.

“All the businesses on Solomons help each other, we’re all here as a fam-ily. There’s no competition, there’s no bad blood. Everybody is excited. We just look forward to helping each other,’ said Janel Baki, manager at Solomons Pier, adding that that weekend is also the kickoff for rockfish season.

“We are very supportive of each other. Jeannie Stone (the owner of Stoney’s) and Joe Kurley are working together on several charitable events,” Baki said.

Restaurants and hotels stand to the see the most extra business from the event.

With 326 guest rooms at Holiday Inn Solomons, General Manager Jeff Shepherd said: “We are booked full for Friday night,

but not quite yet for Saturday night.”Shepherd had been at Holiday Inn for

20 years, and said it’s pretty typical that they sell out, and he’s heard the same goes for other hotels in the area.

“If the weather is nice it’s our anticipa-tion that we’ll sell out for Saturday night as well,” he said.

Amanda Comer, owner of Blue Heron Bead and Breakfast, and co-owner of Kim’s Key Lime Pies, said it gets “like summer vacation down here,” on that weekend.

“It’s crazy, it’s a nuthouse. But I really think it’s fascinating, it’s a phenomenon,” she said.

“I think it’s a fantastic thing for the lo-cal economy,” she said. “As they say, it puts Solomons on the map.”

It’s not only tourism and seasonal-based businesses that feel the benefits of the Tiki Bar opening.

“I think it benefits everybody because it does bring so many out of town people here,” said Mary Beth Gates, owner of Pep-per’s Pet Pantry. “I see that it brings a lot of people to this area that would otherwise not be coming here.”

Gates, who is going into her third year owning the shop, said she gets customers who come in that are traveling with their pets and found out from her store’s Web site that Pepper’s carries certain types of pet food.

“I really didn’t know the owners or anybody that worked there,” she said of when she first opened. “But I have a whole different perspective of it now because now I them and I know that they are really professional there too.”

Clarke and Kurley said they strive to keep the event safe and under control, and with the help of local police, they think they “have it nailed down pretty well,” Clarke said.

“It’s amazing, at the end of the night we have 15,000 people here and within 10 minutes they’re all gone.”

“In the last five years we’ve stepped up the game for everybody to not only have fun but to have fun safely,” Kurley said.

The bar will be holding its des-ignated driver promotion again this year, which had 600 participants last year.

“We give a grand prize vacation and well as other door prizes for peo-ple who sign up,” Kurley said. “Plus is a booth out front where you can get information at the end of the night if you need a safe ride home.”

The Tiki Bar also tries to give as much back the community as possible throughout the year, Clarke said.

“In a typical season, we either donate or raise at least $100,000 for charitable organizations. We try to help them out where we can,” Clarke said. “I think we’re definitely more of a benefit than anything negative.” By

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Partiers at last year’s Tiki Bar opened take a second from dancing to pose for the camera.


L Calvert Country Diva Makes GoodSeveral musicians took to the stage

recently to lift their voices at My Brother’s Place, a Christian community center in Wal-dorf, in a concert to benefit the Southern Maryland Food Bank. One of these voices belonged to Liz Chambers, 17, of Lusby, whose performance along with the likes of Scattered Leaves, the Waldorf SDA Singers and Russ Dean, echoed area talent with a spiritual edge.

Taking the stage at such a venue just seems natural for Liz, as she said she’s pretty much been training for a singing career since her earliest days.

“I sang in chorus, I sang in middle school, and I sang solos every now and again, and national anthems. And then it just kind of hit me that this is what I wanted to do with my life,” she said, going on to describe her current career as a mix of national an-them performances (she’s a regular at local stadiums across the region), performances with the band Scattered Leaves, and her own solo stylings, which she said are heavily in-fluenced by country.

“I love Carrie Underwood and Martina McBride. I really love country music and I sing a lot of their stuff,” she said.

As for what made Liz jump into a career in music, she said it had always been a dream of hers, ever since she was 2 years old. When asked why she wanted to focus on Christian music, she said that part of her inspiration

had come from a bout of illness she suffered when she was younger.

“When I was younger I got diagnosed with Addison’s disease – a very mild form of it – and it gave my whole family a scare,” she said, adding that more recently she’d had a staph infection which spread to her spine and kept her out of school for several weeks, during which time she said her mother gave her some good words to live by.

“I couldn’t really do anything, so I would just lay there,” she said, “and my mother said ‘you won’t get better laying there on your own. You’ve got to give it to God.’ Well at the time I didn’t really know what that meant, but after a while I realized you don’t have control over everything that happens to you, so it’s in God’s hands.”

After that she said it had been a natural decision for her to make faith an integral part of her songwriting.

“God has been a huge part of my life, ever since I was 7 years old,” she said. “He’s just always been a part of my life and when something happens in my life I always relate it back to God, and he’s just always there. So why not sing about God?”

Liz, who is a student at Patuxent High School, said she would be taking her musi-cal mission on with her to college, and she’s currently searching for scholarships and a school that will help her flourish.

“I hope to make this a career, because I’ll be starting to apply for colleges in the

fall, and I’ve been looking at Belmont University right out-side of Nashville,” she said, ex-plaining that their musical pro-gram stressed a flexibility with styles other than “just classical,” a fact that made the school all the more attractive. “I’m hop-ing that will provide me some opportunities and I want to pur-sue it into a career, but if that doesn’t happen I have a fallback plan,” she said, explaining that she plans to major in communi-cations in college “just in case.”

In the meantime Chambers said she’s been happy to collect her credentials across the re-gion. She has performed at the Calvert County End Hunger concert for the last two years, and she regularly appears with Scattered Leaves on their tour dates. And even though she’s

been performing for a long time, Liz said she still has some anxious mo-ments just before each show.

“I don’t usually get nervous until a few minutes before I’m about to go on, and then I start getting the butterflies and the clammy hands,” she said, “but when I start singing and getting into it, that’s when the nerves just go away.” By AndreA Shi-

ell (CT) [email protected] Liz Chambers, 17, of Lusby, after a performance greets one of her fans, Kayleigh Coppins-Dutton, 4, of Lusby.

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PagesPast 40th Annual Earth Day Coming Up

By Joyce BakiApril 22 will mark the 40th anniversary

of Earth Day. Founded in 1970 by U.S. Sena-tor Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisconsin), it is a day to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment. Senator Nelson, an en-vironmental activist, conceived the idea after touring the site of a horrific oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, located in Southern California, in 1969. The source of the spill was blow-out on an offshore oil rig owned by Union Oil. Over 80,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into the channel and on to the beaches of Santa Barbara County and more than 10,000 birds were killed in this ecological disaster.

Senator Nelson announced his idea of Earth Day on September 20, 1969. The idea was to use the day as an environmental “teach-in.” The teach-ins would be modeled after the highly effective Vietnam War teach-ins. Dennis Hayes was tapped by Senator Nelson’s staff to organize the first Earth Day. Hayes was a graduate student at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University when he was asked to lead this cause. He had gone to Stanford University, where he received

his undergraduate degree in history. While at Stanford, Hayes was presi-dent of the student body and an activ-

ist against the Vietnam War.The first Earth Day was held April 22,

1970, marking the beginning of the modern environmental movement. It had participants in two thousands colleges and universities, about ten thousand primary and secondary schools and hundreds of communities. Coast-to-coast rallies were planned. Colleges and universities organized protests against the de-terioration of the environment, including pol-luting factories, toxic dumps, the use of pesti-cides and the loss of forests and wildlife.

The date for Earth Day was chosen to maximize participation on college campuses. Senator Nelson felt that this time of the year would not fall in spring breaks and it was well before final exams. It should not conflict with Easter or Passover and would be late enough in the spring that the weather should be good. It should also be noted that April 22 is the birth-day of Julius Sterling Morton, the founder of Arbor Day. Arbor Day, started in 1872, is a national tree-planting holiday. April 21 is the birthday of John Muir who founded the Sierra Club.

Earth Day 1990 gave a huge boost to

recycling efforts worldwide. It also helped to pave the way for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Senator Nel-son and Bruce Anderson, the lead organizer in New Hampshire, formed Earth Day USA which coordinated efforts until 1995 in-cluding the launch of EarthDay.org. After the 25th anniversary in 1995, the coor-dination was taken over by Earth Day Network.

Dennis Hayes agreed to head the 2000 Earth Day campaign. The focus was on global warming and clean en-ergy. Now the group had the Internet which linked more than 5,000 environ-mental groups and hundreds of millions of people in 184 countries. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the Nation-al Mall in Washington, DC.

The largest Earth Day to date was in 2007 with an estimated one billion people partici-pating in places like Kiev, Ukraine; Caracas, Venezuela; Tuvalu; Manila, Philippines; Togo; Madrid; London and New York.

Earth Day is now observed in 175 countries and is coordinated by Earth Day Network, www.earthday.org. Founded by Dennis Hayes and the organizers of the first Earth Day, the organization focuses on envi-

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Puddin’ Gross, 74, Lothian

Leroy Gross, 74, of Lothian, MD departed this life, after a long illness, on March 28, 2010 at his sister’s residence in Annapolis, MD.

Leroy Gross, affectionately known as “PUDDIN”, was born on October 15, 1935 to the late Edward Gross and the late Mary Elizabeth Gross Cleveland.

Leroy was educated in the Anne Arundel County Public School System. Leroy worked for Bob Hall Distribut-ing Company for over 30 years. After retiring, he worked for a car auction yard in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. He later volunteered at the food pantry in Lothian, Maryland. Leroy also enjoyed being around family and friends, tell-ing jokes and entertaining for fun. In his early years, he enjoyed hunting and playing softball. He liked watching the Baltimore Orioles’ baseball team on television. Also, he attended sandlot baseball games. Leroy enjoyed playing checkers as a past time.

Leroy leaves to cherish his memo-ries Ann Franklin, his three children,

Thomas, Nathaniel, and Frederica; ten grandchildren; one aunt, Mary Jones; three brothers, Lemuel (Ruth), Theodore (Clarice), and John Jr.; one sister, Alice Thompson.

He was preceded in death by his brother, Robert and his sister, Mary Frances. He also leaves a host of nieces, nephews, and other relatives and friends. Blessed be those who dwell in the House of the Lord.

Funeral service was held on Satur-day, April 3, 2010 at 11:00 AM at Sewell Funeral Home, Prince Frederick, MD with Elder Daniel Jones officiating. The interment was held at St. Edmonds Church Ernestine Jones Cemetery in Chesapeake Beach, MD.

The pallbearers were Eldrick Brown, Calvin Gross, Charles Gross, Leslie Gross, Lovell Thompson, and Sean Thompson. The honorary pallbear-ers were Calvert Burley, Ernest Hutton, and Charles Sharps.

Funeral arrangements provided by Sewell Funeral Home of Prince Freder-ick, MD.

Tammy Eells, 29, Hyattsville

T a m a r a Jean Eells “Tammy”, 29, of Hyattsville, MD formerly of Lusby, MD passed away on March 16, 2010 at Prince George’s Hos-pital Center, Cheverly, MD.

T a m m y was born on August 28th, 1980 in Patuxent River Naval Hospital, Lexington Park, MD to Vanetta Wright and Harold Pospisil.

Tammy grew up in Calvert County, where she attuned Calvert High School. Tammy worked for Premier Books for the last three years as an Office Clerk.

Tammy was preceded in death by her beloved son Christian Pospisil. Tam-my is survived by her parents Vanetta Wright of Yuma, Az and Harold Pospisil of Hollywood, MD; her children Bradley and Maren Eells of St. Leonard, MD; her sisters Sabrena Aldridge of Lexington Park, MD and Shelly Fowler of Prince

Frederick, MD; her brother Joel Pospi-sil of Hollywood, MD and her husband Michael Ells.

The family received friends at Crossroads Christian Church, St. Leon-ard, MD on Monday, March 22, 2010 with Pastor Shawn Holcomb officiating. Interment followed at St. John Cem-etery, Barstow, MD.

Anthony Elliott, 59, Broomes Island

George “A n t h o ny ” Elliott, 59, of Broomes Island, MD passed away on Feb. 19, 2010 in Lusby, MD. He was born N o v e m b e r 23, 1950 in Prince Fred-erick, MD to the late Edward Elliott and Annie Marie Elliott.

Anthony graduated from Calvert High School and went on to attend Anne Arundel Community College. He made his career as an Automotive Technician until his retirement in 2001.

Anthony is survived by his mother, Annie Marie Elliott of Broomes Island, MD; children, Tracy Sears and husband Billy, Krista Elliott both of Lusby, MD, and Lucas Elliott of Odenton, MD; sib-lings, Edward Elliott, Jr. of Washington State, Brenda Durnbaugh, Dwight El-

liott, Robert “Bobby” Elliott, Richard “Ricky” Elliott, and Steven “Stevie” El-liott all of Broomes Island, MD, and 5 grandchildren.

The family received friends on Feb. 22, 2010 at the Rausch Funeral Home, P.A., Lusby, MD. Funeral Services were held on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 at the funeral home with Rev. William Davis officiating.

The family requests memorial contri-butions to be made to Hospice of Calvert, P.O. Box 838, Prince Frederick, MD 20678 or www.calverthospice.org.

Jim Harrington, Sr., 73, U S Army Vietnam Veteran

J a m e s “Jim” William Har r ington, Sr., SGM U. S. Army Re-tired, 73, of Lusby, MD passed away on March 31, 2010. He was born on Janu-ary 22, 1937 in Ticond-eroga, New York to the late Earl C. Harrington and Harriett Howe Harrington.

Jim graduated from Mount Upton Central High School, Mount Upton, NY in 1955. On June 14th, 1958 Jim married his beloved wife Jean C. Klabel Harrington in Mount Upton, NY. Jim was a Retired Ser-geant Major in the United States Army, af-ter serving his country for thirty two years as an Enlisted Aide. He was stationed in Germany; Paris, France; Ft. Polk, LA; Ft. Myer, VA; Ft. Shafter, HI and Quarry Heights in the Panama Canal Zone. He was a veteran of the Vietnam Campaign and the Granada Campaign having served his country from July 30, 1955 to Sep-tember 30, 1987 when he was honorably discharged. Jim received the following decorations, medals, badges, citations and campaign ribbons during his career; two Legion of Merit awards, Meritorious Service Medal, five Army Commenda-tion Medals, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, Army Ser-vice Ribbon and two Overseas Service Ribbons. He was a member of the Ameri-can Legion Post #274, Lusby, MD and the Veterans of Foreign War Post #2632, Cali-fornia, MD.

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The family received friends on Tues-day, April 6th, 2010, at the American Le-gion Post 274, , Lusby, with Rev. Ludwell Brown officiating and the Calvert County American Legion Chaplain John Mackel offering a fraternal service.

Inurnment will be on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010 at 11 a.m. in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA with full mili-tary honors rendered.

The family requests in lieu of flow-ers memorial contributions to be made to the American Legion Post #274, 11820 H. G. Trueman Rd., Lusby, MD 20657. Ar-rangements were provided by the Rausch Funeral Home, P. A., 20 American Lane, Lusby, MD.

‘Captain Mac’ McGahey, 94, Solomons

Joseph Leo McGahey “Captain Mac”, 94, of Solo-mons, MD passed away peacefully on March 16, 2010 at Asbury~Solomons Health Care Cen-ter, Solomons, MD.

He was born on July 16, 1915 in Washington, D. C.

to the late John McGahey and Catherine Kappel McGahey.

Captain Mac grew up in the DC area going to McKinley High School where he played basketball. He worked for the rail-road and was Train Master at Union Sta-tion in Washington, D. C. He retired early to pursue his life long dream as a Charter Boat Captain on the Chesapeake Bay. His boat, the “Tricia” a 47 ft. classic Chesa-peake deadrise which he built himself was well known for over 40 years on the Ches-apeake Bay and its tributaries.

He is survived by his daughter, Patri-cia Pfautz and her husband David of Ven-ice Florida, two grandsons, John Fetty of Olney, MD and Brooke Pfautz of Parkton, MD. He was the proud great grandfa-ther of five great-grandchildren, Matthew Fetty, Andrew Fetty, Hope Fetty, Mason Anne Pfautz and Riley Emily Pfautz.

The family received friends at the Rausch Funeral Home, P.A., Lusby, MD on Friday, March 19, 2010 with Deacon Robert Connelly officiating. Interment followed at Southern Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Dunkirk, MD.

The family requests memorial con-tributions to be made in his memory to Asbury~Solomons Benevolent Care Fund, 11100 Asbury Circle Solomons. Maryland 20688.

Evelyn Parker, 81, Saint Leonard

E v e l y n Parker, 81, of Saint Leonard, MD passed away on Feb-ruary 25, 2010 at Georgetown University Hos-pital, Washing-ton, D.C.

On Febru-ary 22, 1929,

when the birds were singing sweetly in the trees, the late Hattie Parker and Daniel Watts, of Calvert County, Maryland pro-duced a song by the name of Evelyn M. Parker who her family passionately called “Ammie” and her friends called her Ms. Evelyn.

Ms. Evelyn demanded respect where ever she was present. She was a right wing fighter who believed in the old school prin-ciples, respect for other, respect for self, and honor thy GOD, commitment to fam-ily, commitment to your job, and most of all show love in your actions. Although Ms. Evelyn chose to be a quiet woman, she spoke out when someone spoke inaccurate-ly. She would immediately say “you do not know what you are talking about”, and then she would give them the correct answer or explain the appropriate way something occurred.

Ms. Evelyn worshipped and was spiritually fed at Carroll Western United Methodist Church, in Prince Frederick, Maryland. Before her illness, Ms. Evelyn appeared in church faithfully every Sunday. Members who sat in the back knew to leave Ms. Evelyn’s favorite seat clear.

Ms. Evelyn was educated in the Calvert County, Maryland public schools and she used her knowledge, wisdom, and common sense to educate her family and friends. As stated above, Ms. Evelyn was a right wing fighter, and she showed her unconditional love by encouraging all to use their God given gift, which was to “think”. Ms. Ev-elyn was very proud of her family, and you knew this, because when she spoke of her son’s and daughter’s accomplishments a smile appeared on her face that lit up the whole room. When Ms. Evelyn smiled - everyone smiled because everything was GOOD.

Ms. Evelyn came in this world as a strong and passionate woman and “SHE DID IT HER WAY”, while never losing sight of the importance of teaching her family and friends how to love, respect, and honor God, self and others. She understood the true character of a person by their ac-tions not their words.

Ms. Evelyn was a devoted mother and friend who was loved and respected by all. She was a wonderful homemaker who en-joyed raising her children and mothering her grandchildren. Everyone knew she was someone you could count on in the time of need. Her service to God and steadfast faith

was what she did best.She leaves to cherish memories to nine

children, Clifton Gross, Kathy Johnson, Leo Parker, Tracey Parker, Patty Earland (husband Vincent Earland), Darlene Parker, Sharon Parker; Bridgette Mason (husband Garland Mason), and Lynn Taylor (husband Dwight Taylor), three children who pre-ceded her in death, Faith and Tony Parker and Delores Hawkins (husband Sherman Hawkins). Thirty-one grand-children and nine great-grandchildren. As well as one grandchild who preceded her in death, Toshawna Parker.

Ms. Evelyn was the youngest of three sisters, and four brothers. She is survived by her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Willett (husband John Willett), brother, Bishop Robert Watts (wife Beulah-Betty Watts). Deceased broth-ers and sisters include: George, Charles, and Warren Parker; Bertina Greene, and Catherine Parker. She will be remembered by a host of nephews, nieces, cousins, and friends.

Funeral service was held on Thursday, March 4, 2010 at Carroll Western Methodist Church, Prince Frederick, MD with Pastor Roland Barnes officiating. The interment was held at Carroll Western United Meth-odist Church Cemetery in Prince Frederick, MD.

The pallbearers were Allen Boyd, Benjamin Boyd, Leonard Green, Timothy Jacks, Milton Willet, and Sylvester Willet. Funeral arrangements provided by Sewell Funeral Home of Prince Frederick, MD.

Franklin Delano Sievert, 76, Charlotte Hall

Frank-lin Delano Sievert, 76, of Charlotte Hall, MD, formerly of Beltsvil le, MD, passed away on March 12, 2010.

H e was born on January 30, 1934 in G e r m a n y

to the late Louis Earnest Sievert and the late Mary Christena Gerstner. He married Betty Jo Haut on May 8, 1961 and they di-vorced in 1980.

Franklin joined the Army on August 9, 1956 and was honorably discharged on July 25, 1958. He went on to work for 33 years with Giant Food Inc. as a Truck Driver and retired in 1990. He enjoyed woodworking, swimming, puzzles and models.

Franklin was preceded in death by his parents, ex-wife, daughter Peggy Sievert-Williams, and siblings, John Sievert and

Henrietta Pritchard.He is survived by his son Louis

Sievert of Lusby, MD; sister, Barbara My-ron of Springfield, IL; five grandchildren and one great grandchild.

A Celebration of Life Memorial Ser-vice was held on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 7 p.m. in the Rausch Funeral Home, Lusby, MD with Pastor Steve Fehrman of-ficiating. Interment will be private.

Gloria Torrell, 61, Lusby

Gloria J. Torrell, 61, of Lusby, MD for-mally of Bow-ie, MD passed away on March 30, 2010 at Anne Arundel Medical Cen-ter, Annapolis, MD.

Gloria was born on July 30, 1948 in Am-bridge, PA to Frances Bevacqua Rocco and the late Joseph “Joe” Rocco.

Gloria graduated from Duval High School in Seabrook, MD. Gloria was em-ployed as Secretary for the Letter Carri-ers Union in Washington, D.C. and also as a Secretary for the Prince George’s County Health Department. Gloria loved the outdoors and spending her free time talking to folks and taking long walks in our beautiful natural surroundings. Gloria loved spending her free time with family and friends watching television and was known as the world’s greatest “I Love Lucy” fan. Gloria enjoyed giving her free time to do volunteer work for the Right to Life Movement and she also volunteered at the Southern Community Center in Lusby, MD.

She was preceded in death by her fa-ther Joseph “Joe” Rocco, her uncle George Villella and her aunts Teresa Hill, Marga-ret Petersen and Anita Lewis.

She is survived by her beloved daugh-ter Marie Torrell of Bowie, MD; her devot-ed mother Frances “Fran” Rocco of Lusby, MD; loving sister of Ronald “Ron” and his wife Neca Rocco, of Lusby, MD; aunt of Lindsey and her husband Justin John-son; Courtney Rocco; Ryan Rocco; great aunt of Nora Jane Johnson; niece of Mary Villella of Fair Oaks, PA; Ida Bevacqua of Ambridge, PA; Shirley and her husband Curtice Wink of Buckeystown, MD and Paul “Ben” Lewis of Ambridge, PA.

On Tuesday, April 6th Mass of Chris-tian Burial was celebrated at Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church, Solo-mons, MD at 10 a.m. with Father Richard Gardiner officiating. Interment was pri-vate at St. John Vianney Catholic Church Cemetery, Prince Frederick, MD.

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Patuxent High School Sports Schedule Panthers Drop Close

Game to Leonardtown

LEONARDTOWN – Through six and two-thirds in-nings, Patuxent baseball coach Keith Powell felt the Pan-thers were doing everything they could to win – except keeping their nerves calm.

“We tightened up at the end,” Powell said after a 2-1 lead became a 3-2 loss to host Leonardtown Monday af-ternoon. “We’re a young team and we’re going to get over that, but we played kind of scared at the end.”

Patuxent received a strong pitching effort from senior Donnie Holtzclaw, who pitched the entire game. Holtzclaw had a no-hitter going into the sixth inning until the Raid-ers’ Brady Jameson broke through with a solid single with one out in the frame.

Holtzclaw ended up striking out nine hitters and al-lowing just three hits in taking the hard-luck loss.

“Donnie is one of the hardest working kids I’ve been around, coaching or playing,” Powell said in praise of his senior leader. “He’s been a four-year starter here and he is a winner.”

The Panthers also got help from the bottom third of their batting order, as freshman Brian Portillo, a call-up from junior varsity and batted in the eighth hole, smacked an RBI single in the top of the fourth. That hit scored sixth-place hitter Daniel Castro, who tied the game with an RBI single of his own two innings earlier.

“We really haven’t been hitting,” Powell admitted. “Our pitching and defense has carried us, but the bottom of order did well.”

Powell felt the team missed an opportunity in the top of the seventh with the bases loaded and a chance to put some insurance on the board. Raider pitcher Will Paglia-rulo fought his way out of the jam to keep the score 2-1 going into the bottom half of the seventh.

“We had our hitters up and we just couldn’t get the ball out of the infield,” Powell said.

The Raiders tied the game on a sacrifice bunt and Jonathan Beam hit an RBI single into right center field two batters latter to cap the comeback. Powell hopes it’s forgotten quickly, as the Panthers have several games this

week due to prior rainouts.“It’s tough when you have to play make-up games,”

Powell said. “There’s nothing I can do as a coach. They have to get through it.”

BY CHRIS STEVENS (CT) [email protected]

Thurs., Apr. 15

Girls’ LacrosseCalvert at Patuxent,

6:30 p.m.

Fri., Apr. 16

BaseballPatuxent at Great Mills,

4:30 p.m.

Boys’ LacrossePatuxent at Calvert, 6

p.m.

Girls’ LacrosseHuntingtown at Patux-

ent, 6:30 p.m.

SoftballPatuxent at Great Mills,

4:30 p.m.

TennisPatuxent at Great Mills,

4 p.m.

Sat., Apr. 17

Boys’ LacrossePatuxent at Northern,

6:30 p.m.

Mon., Apr. 19

Girls’ LacrossePatuxent at Chopticon,

6:30 p.m.

Tues., Apr. 20

Boys’ LacrosseChopticon at Patuxent,

6:30 p.m.

Track and FieldPatuxent at Great Mills,

4:30 p.m.

Wed., Apr. 21

BaseballPatuxent at Northern,

4:30 p.m.

Softball Patuxent at Northern,

4:30 p.m.

TennisNorthern at Patuxent,

4 p.m.

Thurs., Apr. 22

Girls’ LacrossePatuxent at Hunting-

town, 6:30 p.m.

Fri., Apr. 23

BaseballThomas Stone at

Patuxent, 4:30 p.m.

Boys’ LacrossePatuxent at Hunting-

town, 6:30 p.m.

SoftballThomas Stone at

Patuxent, 4:30 p.m.

TennisPatuxent at Thomas

Stone, 4 p.m.

Mon., Apr. 26

BaseballCalvert at Patuxent,

4:30 p.m.

Boys’ LacrosseGreat Mills at Patuxent,

6:30 p.m.

SoftballCalvert at Patuxent,

4:30 p.m.

TennisPatuxent at Calvert, 4

p.m.

Tues., Apr. 27

Girls’ LacrossePatuxent at Great Mills,

6:30 p.m.

Track and FieldChopticon at Patuxent,

4:30 p.m.

Wed., Apr. 28

BaseballPatuxent at La Plata,

4:30 p.m.

SoftballPatuxent at La Plata,

4:30 p.m.

TennisLa Plata at Patuxent,

4:30 p.m.

Thurs., Apr. 1

BaseballChesapeake 7,

Patuxent 2

Sat., Apr. 3

Baseball

Patuxent ClassicSt. Mary’s Ryken 9,

Patuxent 0

Tues., Apr. 6

BaseballCalvert 2, Patuxent 0

Boys’ LacrossePatuxent 15, Great Mills 4

Wed., Apr. 7

BaseballHuntingtown 14,

Patuxent 3 (six innings)

SoftballHuntingtown 10,

Patuxent 0 (six innings)

TennisHuntingtown 6,

Patuxent 3

Sat., Apr. 10

Boys’ Lacrosse

Leonardtown Tournament

Leonardtown 12, Patuxent 4

Patuxent 11, Lake Braddock 8

High School Scoreboard

Photo By Chris Stevens

Patuxent’s Jacob Robertson fouls off a pitch during Monday’s baseball game at Leonardtown.


Out About

‘Why Don’t We Just Dance’ all night long with a live performance from Josh Turner at the Calvert Marine Museum at 7:30 p.m. May 30.

Known for hits that include Your Man, Would You Go with Me, and of course, his cur-rent chart topper Why Don’t We Just Dance, this will be an impressive evening of soulful country music, the museum said in a press release.

Tickets for the show are $48 for premium seats and $38 for reserved; additional service fees apply. Members of the museum can purchase tickets beginning Tuesday, April 13. Remaining tickets will be available to the public, Tuesday, April 20 at 10 a.m. Tickets can be purchased online at www.calvertmarinemuseum.com, by phone at 1-800-787-9454, or in person at Prince Frederick Ford/Dodge. To become a museum member and get your tickets in advance, please call 410-326-2042, ext. 16 or visit the museum’s website.

Gates open at 6 p.m., with show time at 7:30 p.m. Food and drinks will be available, chairs and coolers are not al-lowed. For additional information, please visit the CMM web-site at www.calvert-mar inemuseu m.com.

Saturday, April 18• 25th Annual Opening Day Celebration, Discovering Archaeology

Jefferson Patterson Park, St. Leonard, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Join us as we celebrate our 25th season of activities and education at JPPM. Discover the where, what, and how of archae-ology, as we highlight our new exhibit “The FAQ’s of Archaeol-ogy”. Tour the Maryland Archae-ological Conservation Laboratory. Learn about archaeology through educational walks, activities, and demonstrations.

For additional informa-tion call 410-586-8501, or email [email protected]. Free admission.

Saturday, May 1• Maritime Festival

Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Celebrate Southern Mary-land traditions and taste traditional foods, learn how to pick crabs and shuck oysters like the pros, enjoy local gospel and old time music, see world class water fowl carv-ing, see Chesapeake Bay retriever trials in action, watch model boats skim the waters of the boat basin and talk with traditional crafts people as they demonstrate their skills. Kids will enjoy traditional games, races, toy boat building and more. www.calvertmarine-museum.com

• Lusby Business Association Spring Fling

Lusby Town Center from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Enjoy moonbounce, face-painting, scavenger hunt, car show, live music, food samples, wine tasting, sidewalk sales, screenings, demonstrations and giveaways at our town center-wide event. www.shoplusby.com

• Maker’s MarketAnnmarie Garden Sculpture

Park & Arts Center, Solomons, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Annmarie Garden hosts Maker’s Market on the first Sat-urday of the month, featuring ven-dors selling fresh produce, hand-made crafts and products. www.annmariegarden.org

• Herb & Wildflower SaleBattle Creek Cypress

Swamp, Prince Frederick, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Over 30 types of herbs will be available for purchase along with cultivated native wild flowers from Lower Marlboro Nursery. www.calvertparks.org

Saturday - Sunday, May 1-2• Sail Solomons / Solomons Yachting Center Opening Weekend

255 Alexander Avenue, Solo-mons, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Join us at Solomons Yacht-ing Center on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for free seminars, exhibits, demonstrations and door prizes. Free BBQ lunch, happy hour and live music at Solomons Yachting Center pool bar. Set sail on Sunday – introductory and brush-up sailing courses with Sail Solomons ASA instructors – just $50 per person for 3-hour ses-sions. www.sailsi.com

Sunday, May 2• Green Expo

Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum, St. Leonard, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Come enjoy this event dedicated to creating a “greener” Calvert County. Informational displays, demonstrations, and lec-tures ongoing throughout the day. (Sponsored by Calvert County Citizens Green Team) www.cal-vertgreenexpo.org

• Sunday FunDayAnnmarie Garden Sculpture

Park & Arts Center, Solomons, from 1-3 p.m.

Annmarie and the United Way are teaming up to present an afternoon of healthy and cre-ative programs for all ages - take a walk, play with clay in the Ce-ramics Studio, and enjoy other fun family-friendly programs! www.annmariegarden.org

Wednesday, May 5• Point Farm House & Garden Tour

Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum, St. Leonard, from 2-3 p.m.

Join us for a guided tour of Point Farm, estate home and re-treat of the late Mr. & Mrs. Jeffer-son Patterson. Built in 1932, this Colonial Revival brick house by noted female architect Gertrude Sawyer. The gardens are being faithfully restored based on the original plans by landscape archi-tect Rose Greely. Reservations

are required. Fee: $10 per person, $8 seniors (55+). www.jefpat.org

Friday, May 7• First Free Friday

Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons, from 5-8 p.m.

The first Friday of every month will feature our First FREE Friday program. The museum is open free to the public from 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. with special en-tertainment and activities each month. Please visit the website for complete details. www.calvert-marinemuseum.com

Saturday, May 8• Chesapeake Beach Railway Museum Celebration of Na-tional Train Day

1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.Chesapeake Beach Railway

Museum, Chesapeake Beach, from 1-4 p.m.

Come celebrate National Train Day with special activities. www.cbrm.org

• Calvert Wine & Arts FestAll Saints Episcopal Church,

Sunderland, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The juried show features some of the best artisans from Calvert, St. Mary’s and Charles Counties. Included will be Cal-vert County’s five wineries: Cove Point, Solomons Island, Friday’s Creek, Perigeaux and Running Hare. Guests wishing to taste the wines will receive a commemora-tive wine glass for just $12. Mu-sicians, dancers, children’s activi-ties, baked goods and other great food add to the festivities. Tours will be available of this historic 1692 church and its labyrinth. www.allsaints1692.org

• Master Gardener Plant Sale8:00 a.m. - NoonCalvert County Community

Resources Building, Prince Fred-erick, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Buy from Master Gardeners who know and grow these veg-etables, herbs, native plants and houseplants. Get answers to your questions about existing plants and problems, landscaping and soil requirements. Featuring the new “Garden Fair” – learn “Grow It, Eat It,” composting, building rain barrels and salad boxes and much more. http://extension.umd.edu/gardening/mastergardeners/local/calvert/

• Guided Canoe TripAmerican Chestnut Land

Trust, Port republic, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Depart from Warrior’s Rest and enjoy a scenic tour of Parkers Creek from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Reservations are required. Please call 410-414-3400 or email [email protected] for more information. Please note: Canoe trips are physi-cally strenuous, requiring pad-dling for three hours (frequently against wind and tides), and may require participants to help carry a canoe for up to one-quarter mile over sand to access the creek. www.acltweb.org

Sunday, May 9• Mother’s Day Cruises aboard the Wm. B. Tennison

Onboard the “Wm. B. Ten-nison, Calvert Marine Museum, from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. and 5–7 p.m.

Your choice of two special Mother’s Day cruises aboard the Wm. B. Tennison. The brunch cruise is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Mother’s Day evening cruise runs from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. with heavy hors d’oeuvres served. Pre-registration required by Wednes-day, May 5. For fees and regis-tration call 410-326-2042, ext. 41. www.calvertmarinemuseum.com

Thursday - Sunday, May 13-23

• Solomons - Paint the Town Exhibition & Sale

Annmarie Garden Sculpture Park & Arts Center, Solomons, daily from 10 a.m. 5 p.m.

Over the first three days, May 13-15, Plein Air artists will create works “in the open air” draw-ing inspiration from the scenery around the town of Solomons. Join the Calvert Marine Museum, Annmarie Garden and other sites throughout Solomons for special activities on Saturday – Sunday, May 15-16. An exhibition and sale of the art will occur Sunday – Sunday, May 16-23 at Annma-rie Garden. Join Annmarie Gar-den for a special Annmarie After Hours on Friday, May 21 to view the art, enjoy great music, sample foods from Solomons restaurants and enjoy the company of friends! www.annmariegarden.org

Rising Country Star Playing at Calvert Museum

Constructed Place- Juror’s Talk and Docent Led Tour

A n n m a r i e Garden Sculpture Park & Arts Center presents a talk from Constructed Place juror, Megan Rook-Koepsel; followed by a docent-led tour of Annmarie Gar-den Sculpture Park on Sunday, April 25, beginning at 2 p.m. Constructed Place is an exhibit of artistically built places and invent-ed spaces, featuring works by the Washington Sculptors Group.

Performance artist, Meaghan Harrison, will also perform her mixed media perfor-mance, Trust.

Annmarie Garden and the Washington Sculptors Group organized the exhibition to showcase artworks that form environments or works that are in themselves, environments, a press release states.

Constructed Place is on view now at An-nmarie Garden Sculpture Park & Arts Center through May 8.

Admission to Annmarie Garden, a Smith-sonian Affiliate, is $3 for adults; $2 for seniors; $2 for children 12 and under; children under 5 are Free. AMG Members are always FREE. Hours for the Arts Center are Wednesday-Mon-day 10 a.m. 5 p.m. Annmarie Garden Sculpture Park is open daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.


Down River Band Goes From Downtown to Motown

Billy Mendez, singer and guitarist for the Down River Band (named for the nickname given to the south side of De-troit, where he grew up), said the worst thing he could see when he played was indifference.

“The worst experiences I’ve had per-forming was when people seemed indif-ferent to what I was doing,” he said, sip-ping a Corona while taking a break from his gig at Vera’s White Sands on Easter Sunday.

He went on to explain though that his best days and nights onstage were always in the midst of crowds dancing and calling for requests, and since teaming with his long-time drummer Ron Chambers and keyboardist Jim Bertoglio, he said there have been plenty of enthusiastic crowds.

And at this stage, he said he can play pretty much anything from “Frank Sinatra to Kid Rock,” at times even playing both in the same set.

Such is a useful skill for a performer whose gone from playing in Washington D.C., where rock is dominant, to Southern Maryland, where Mendez says country music is king.

“People around here really love their country music,” he said, smiling, “so I try to include that when I play here … but I started playing a long time ago, so I’ve got a lot of background in Motown,” a style to which his voice seems particularly suited.

Drummer Ron Chambers, 61, a cred-it manager from Upper Marlboro, began his career as a drummer – oddly enough – because his mother insisted on it.

“It’s really ironic because when I came home on my eighth birthday, my mom said ‘I have a surprise for you … I went to the music store today and bought you a drum set,’” he said, laugh-ing, explaining that his mother wanted him to learn an instrument, “but I didn’t want to play drums … I wanted to play accordion!”

And that he did, earning some noto-riety for his skill with the instrument, but when he joined band at his middle school, and he found there was no place for his first choice, the drums started sounding better, and he’s been playing them ever since.

Keyboardist Jim Bertoglio was ab-

sent from Sunday’s gig, but Mendez and Chambers filled his space well enough with a computer generated backing track, which may be good or bad, depending on your point of view. There’s always a place for sequencing programs that generate strings and back-up vocals, but it almost seems like overkill for two guys who could probably sound just as good – if not better – with a simple set of drums and one acoustic guitar. Even if they’re missing a member, they can play, so they don’t seem to need all the extras.

But we’ll leave that to them. After all their years of experience onstage, they seem to know what they’re doing.

Down River Band usually plays ev-ery Sunday at Vera’s White Sands Beach Club in Lusby, either starting at noon or 2 p.m. It is suggested you call the venue to confirm their scheduled play dates. The band does not yet have a website, but you can get more information and booking de-tails by emailing [email protected]. BY ANDREA SHIELL (CT) [email protected]

Billy Mendez and Ron Chambers from Down River Band.


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