CBM BAY WEEKLY No. 01, January 6 - January 13, 2022 HEALTH & WELLNESS

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Health & Wellness in 2022

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t’s such a cliché: The only thing we have is our health.

But it makes so much sense, doesn’t it? When everything else is going well, poor health can stop us in our tracks.

When you are sick, nothing else matters but feeling better.

(Even worse, being sick as a mom— who takes care of you, then?)

I can remember worrying about a feverish baby, a vomiting toddler, and then the petri dish parade of illnesses my two sons brought home with them once they started school. Thankfully those run-of-the-mill illnesses are mostly in the past. Until 2020 arrived.

The pandemic turned a way-toobright spotlight on our physical health.

We witnessed healthy people get very, very sick. I have a friend in Texas who was so wiped out by long-COVID that she had to quit her teaching job because she was too exhausted and breathless.

Sadly, a friend of ours in Mississippi died after contracting COVID. Just this week, I read of a fourth grader in Anne Arundel County who died after

contracting the coronavirus. Our health matters.

Taking control of our health is something anyone can do. And it can be as simple as making a doctor’s appointment, getting a vaccine, taking a walk most days of the week and putting more vegetables on your plate each day. We are talking about some of these steps in this week’s Health and Wellness issue.

Diets usually come into the picture this time of year. I no longer make weight loss resolutions—after decades of doing exactly that and getting back to the same place. But I do vow to eat more fruits and veggies, find a way to get some enjoyable movement in my day, and go to sleep at a decent hour.

It was a joy to write about the anti-diet movement in this week’s feature story.

I agree that it’s time to move beyond “clean” foods, and moralizing food choices. Choosing to eat a calorie-dense item does not make you “bad” and you don’t have to “earn” food with workouts.

Vegetarian and vegan diets always seemed like extreme choices to me when

I was younger. Yet, I can now appreciate and respect the varied reasons someone chooses to eat only plant-based foods.

Vegans are passionate spokespeople and also create some of the most beautiful food photography I have ever seen on social media. And I respect that it doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing situation. Meatless Mondays could be something I see my family embracing in 2022. I know that it is certainly better for the environment and probably for my grocery bill. And there are so many tasty options in Chesapeake Country now.

While we are talking about health, let’s not overlook how important our mental health and well-being is. Writer Susan Nolan brings us some quality tips from area counselors on how to fight the pandemic depression that has settled in.

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Ernie Sigmon never returned from his fishing outing Wednesday, Dec. 29.

Photo courtesy of the Sigmon family.

THOUSANDS SEARCH FOR MISSING CALVERT COUNTY BOATER BY AIR, LAND, SEA

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week after avid angler and family man Ernie Sigmon III, 44, disappeared from his center-console on the Bay, a volunteer-led search of southern Maryland continues to grow.

Private citizens with boats, drones, and even planes—many of whom never met Sigmon—have been braving extreme temperatures to try and bring him home. The search effort has swelled into a coordinated Facebook effort with 8,000 members.

Bay Bulletin joined Sigmon’s family on the water Tuesday. Bella Sigmon, 20, yells out for her dad each time they search. “If he is on land and he hears me, I’m thinking that will give him a little bit more fight,” she says.

Sigmon went out fishing on Wednesday, Dec. 29. His 25-foot Sportsman was found running in circles on the Bay off Plum Point. Sigmon has been missing ever since. The water was in the 40s that afternoon, but his family See BOATER on page 4

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isn’t giving up hope or leaving a stone unturned.

“I just can’t imagine my dad struggling to do anything, so I think there’s a possibility he made it,” says his son, 22-year-old Ernie Sigmon IV. “We’re looking everywhere we can under the assumption that he is somewhere, maybe just really cold or confused.”

Bay Bulletin joined Sigmon’s mom, dad and stepmom along with the missing man’s two children when they gathered at Flag Ponds Nature Park in Lusby.

Icy trails and the thought of wading through water didn’t stop them. “We’re just working our way south,” his son explains when asked how they’re choosing where to search. “The Coast Guard provided us with a general line of drift that they would expect to occur when someone is trying to swim to shore.”

Before searching the beach they looked through the windows of a building, in port-a-potties, around the ponds, and with binoculars in the woods. For the Sigmon family, this mission is therapeutic. “Being out here helps us to cope with what’s actually going on,” his father Ernie “Spanky” Sigmon II says.

The family has hundreds of people helping in the search. They are on foot covering shorelines from Deale to the mouth of the Potomac River. They are on boats, on land, and at the controls

The family has hundreds of people helping in the search.

They are on foot, on land, and at the controls of drones.

of drones. Some have even volunteered their planes to search from above. Much of it is coordinated on the newly-created Facebook page SOMD Search Parties, which gained more than 8,000 members in less than a week of its existence.

People have prayed and people have posted fliers. “If anyone ever knew him, he has a heart as big as a mountain,” the missing man’s father says.

The Sigmon family feels government agencies should be doing more. But Lauren Moses, spokesperson for Maryland Natural Resources Police, says “Police have been searching every single day since becoming aware of this incident. They have used every available resource to assist them with this

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search, such as sonar equipment, boat crews, and allied agencies.”

Sigmon’s son showed us a picture of a planer that was found several miles south of where his dad’s boat was found still running. The board is used to organize fishing lines, and protrudes from the stern of the boat. Sigmon IV believes its discovery may be one clue to what happened to his father.

“He was working on the planer boards trying to get them out. He stands on the sides of the boat when he does it—you have to. And then he either lost his balance or a rogue wave came out of nowhere in the middle of the Bay,” he speculates.

Sigmon was alone, and his son says he likely was not wearing a life jacket. But he was a skilled fisherman and on his new Sportsman several times a week.

His family says one good thing born out of their constant worry is community. “I hope that down the road we can help families, other families. Just hopefully we can do whatever we could as much as they’ve done for us,” says Sigmon II. “We’re not going to stop looking until we find him,” says Bella Sigmon. “He would do that for us.”

Editor’s note: At press time, the search continued for Ernie Sigmon III. We’ll update this story with any new information at chesapeakebaymagazine.com/ bay-bulletin.

FIRST DAY HIKES EXTENDS ALL WEEKEND, POPULARITY CONTINUES

BY MEG WALBURN VIVIANO

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he national campaign to get people out hiking on New Year’s Day has grown legs in the past few years, and 2022 has been no different.

Despite wet weather on Jan. 1, Marylanders still showed up to public lands and parks to enjoy a healthy start to the new year. With New Year’s Day falling on a Saturday, the Maryland Park Service and Maryland Department of Natural Resources held the annual First Day Hike as a weekend-long event.

Ranger-led and self-guided hikes were organized from Dec. 31, 2021 through Jan. 2, 2022.

New for 2022, Maryland’s First Day Hikes included a Lower Shore Tour that challenged hikers to visit Pocomoke River State Park, Assateague State Park, and Janes Island State Park, all in one day. Hikers who participated in all three First Day Hikes were encouraged to post pictures from each to receive Park Swag prizes.

Hiking has seen a recent surge in popularity since the pandemic limited our activities and emphasized outdoor recreation. On New Year’s Weekend 2021, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources estimates 16,237 visitors took part in First Day Hikes in Mary-

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“We see great interest in the self-guided hikes that are offered by each park.

With the pandemic surge this year, the parks saw visits throughout the day and not just in the morning like years past.”

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land State Parks during the three-day period from January 1-3, 2021. Both years, hikers who took off on self-guided hikes have self-reported their attendance and mileage hiked using DNR’s online reporting form, a new tool created at the height of the pandemic in 2020.

Virginia has seen similar interest in First Day Hikes. Virginia State Parks welcomed thousands of hikers this year.

“We see great interest in the self-guided hikes that are offered by each park.

With the pandemic surge this year, the parks saw visits throughout the day and not just in the morning like years past,” says spokesman Dave Neudeck.

At Virginia’s 41 state parks, people didn’t just show up on Jan. 1, many were ahead of the curve with New Year’s Eve hikes.

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The mottled duck could be mistaken for the familiar mallard, but it’s much rarer in the mid-Atlantic. Photo courtesy of Kyle Klotz via iNaturalist.

began in 2012.

According to Maryland Biodiversity Project, mottled ducks resemble American black ducks and mallard hybrids. The mottled duck has an overall warmer brown color than an American black duck, a buffier face and buffy edges on feathers, a paler crown, and a prominent black spot at the base of the bill. It is different from a mallard or mallard hybrid because there appears to be no green on the head or reddish color on the breast, along with a few other subtle differences.

Mallard-mottled duck hybrids are common because the two species mated frequently when the ducks first arrived in Florida. But the Biodiversity Project says hybridization with mallards is “a real threat to the species’ future.”

Bird experts believe the duck in Montgomery County is a true mottled duck.

NOT A MALLARD: LOOKALIKE DUCK SPECIES SPOTTED IN MD FOR 1ST TIME

Maryland Biodiversity Project has launched a species page dedicated to the mottled duck: https://www.marylandbiodiversity.com/ species/viewSpecies.php?species= 22115&showAll=1

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hanks to a sharp-eyed bird-watcher at the C&O Canal, Maryland has a new duck species. It could easily be mistaken for our omnipresent mallard duck, and it’s so similar it may even have been overlooked before.

But the mottled duck is not a mallard.

It’s more like a mallard cousin. The mottled duck is usually found in the southeastern U.S., especially Florida and the Gulf Coast.

Maryland Biodiversity Project announced Clive Harris was the first to spot and report the duck at Carderock along the C&O Canal (close to parking lot C, for those who’d like to go looking for it) in Montgomery County on Dec. 26.

Pending official acceptance by the Maryland/District of Columbia Records Committee, this will be the first state recorded mottled duck.

Sightings continued until at least Jan. 3. More than a dozen photos have been posted to the Maryland Biodiversity Project, a nonprofit focused on cataloguing the living things of Maryland. More than 10,000 naturalists and photographers have already catalogued nearly 20,000 species (including 12,000 with photographs) since the project

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Major Facelift, New Name Coming to Waterfront Park

BY STEVE ADAMS

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n a region where the call for more high-quality public water access is a constant, residents have a few more acres of it to look forward to—eventually. A $483,500 facelift is coming to what’s currently called College Creek Park, located at the intersection of Clay Street and Glenwood Street in downtown Annapolis.

Supported by a $200,000 Community Legacy grant from the State of Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (MDHD), the City of Annapolis’s large-scale revitalization of the now-dilapidated waterfront park will include site preparation and grading, making egress to the water from the street level easier; hardscape and plantings to stabilize the shoreline; site furnishing, lighting, and signage—all

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“Public water access is a priority for my administration,” Mayor Gavin Buckley said in a press release announcing the city’s receipt of the grant.

“Last year, we saw an opportunity to upgrade an existing location where water access is all but impossible because of the state of the existing structures at the site. I’m grateful to Theresa Wellman for finding this funding and to the Department of Planning and Zoning for working with the community to come up with a design.”

Once complete, the park will help achieve the grant program’s goal of “strengthening communities” by providing an attractive physical space in a neighborhood that has been designated a Sustainable Community.

“Mayor Buckley hopes the park will be a resource to the Clay Street community,” City of Annapolis Public Information Officer Mitchelle Stephenson told CBM Bay Weekly. “Water access can improve quality of life for residents of any neighborhood through recreational opportunities, the aesthetics of greenspace, opportunities for fishing and crabbing, and continued fostering appreciation of the ecology, the environment and the Chesapeake Bay.” The revitalized park will be renamed

and dedicated in honor of a pillar of the Clay Street and surrounding community: Robert Eades. A lifelong Annapolis resident who most recently lived on Pleasant Street, just a stone’s throw from the park, Eades served for decades as an activist for the city’s public housing communities, becoming a regular at City Council meetings, before he died from COVID-19 in August 2020.

Beyond its name, Robert Eades Park will represent the larger community by reflecting the substantial role that many local residents played in its design. According to Stephenson, a survey of the neighborhood revealed that respondents wanted a plaque to honor Eades, an accessible path to the water, and an observation deck as desired amenities. Residents of the Morris Blum senior housing complex provided input at meetings and the community reviewed the draft design completed by Annapolis Landscape Architects, LLC. “The community provided input as to how the park would be used and what they wanted it to look like,” said Alderwoman Karma O’Neill (Ward 2) in a press release. “I am grateful for their ideas and participation. With the location directly across from Morris Blum Senior Housing and next to the Mary Moss Academy, I know this park will be used and enjoyed by people of all ages.” p

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RETHINK YOUR HEALTH IN 2022

BY KATHY KNOTTS

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hrow out those old calendars; a new year is upon us. The beginning of January has long signaled to Americans a time to re-evaluate the state of our lives, or at least to think about what our lives will look like in the fresh unwritten pages of our day planners.

We tend to think about all the ways we want to change our lives and start etching out resolutions to make change happen. Or just recover from an over-indulgent holiday season.

Typically, our health becomes front and center at the start of a new year. The new year is a chance to replace some unhealthy habits with better activities or philosophies.

Is this the year that you change how you think about your health? Perhaps this is the year you dip a toe into veganism or maybe this is the year you learn how to stop dieting forever and embrace your health with a different measurement? Maybe you want to add fitness to your schedule and are looking at how to make that happen—and make it last the whole year through?

We turned to a few experts for some guidance on all these topics and asked them how we can rethink health in 2022.

Opt Out of Dieting

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ne of the most common resolutions for Americans will be to lose weight.

And the marketing departments of weight loss companies know this is their time. New Year’s is like Black Friday for any company involved in diet culture.

You need only spend five minutes scrolling on any social media platform and you will see ads for programs like Noom, Weight Watchers, Beachbody, and more—all with a message that our bodies need to change.

“This is a $72 billion industry that profits off people’s insecurities,” says Elizabeth Harris, a registered dietitian in Severna Park. “All the messages we see in our world that tell us our bodies aren’t good enough, that we need to change them and lose weight—that’s diet culture.”

Harris teaches a different philosophy about food and nutrition as a certified Intuitive Eating counselor. She says

that making peace with our bodies and the foods we choose is much more important than a number on the scale.

“Research is clear that diets don’t work,” she says. Instead of restricting foods, Harris and a multitude of other authors and dietitians focus on helping people heal from a belief that thinness and appearance are the most important aspects of life.

The anti-diet movement first got a lot of attention when authors and dietitians Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch published —ELIZABETH HARRIS, their book Intuitive Eating REGISTERED DIETITIAN in 1995. The authors called the approach a “self-care eating framework, which integrates instinct, emotion, and rational thought.”

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“Diet culture is loud.

The anti-diet, food and body positivity movement is gaining ground.”

proponents focus on health-promoting behaviors and feeling better in one’s body.

“I help people learn how to heal their relationship with food and their bodies…shift their focus from self-control to selfcare,” says Harris. “We want to think about our behaviors, other measures of health and recognize that healthy bodies can come in all shapes and sizes and honoring that.”

Harris says that she often works with people who have spent a great deal of time, energy, and money dieting. “They’ve tried it all. And they’ve experienced a lot of yo-yo gains and losses. They —ALISSA KIRCHER, CO-FOUNDER OF THE SOUTHERN MARYLAND VEGAN are ready to end the batRESTAURANT WEEK tle and find a different

“I didn’t realize the health benefits at first. I was always sick before, I had all these aches and pains and I was in and out of doctors’ offices all the time.”

way of nurturing their whole body health.”

There are many voices in the anti-diet crowd, although they can be harder to find. “Diet culture is loud,” says Harris.

“The anti-diet, food and body positivity movement is gaining ground though.”

She recommends starting with Intuitive Eating by Tribole and Resch and Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison.

Then, start opting out of diet culture and its messages. “This could be unfollowing influencers or unsubscribing from sites that promote dieting. Start paying attention to what diet culture looks like and how it makes your feel.

Then you will know how to minimize it in your life.”

Diet culture likes to moralize food and bodies, she says. “Negative messages about food—this is ‘bad’ or this is ‘good’ or ‘clean’—that’s diet culture.

Your ‘good’ or ‘bad’ food choices almost become an extension of yourself in this mindset…. Give yourself permission to eat and enjoy all foods. Learn your hunger and fullness cues.”

While nothing is “off-limits” in intuitive eating, Harris notes that the approach is not a license to binge or shrug off physical health altogether.

“It is absolutely not anti-health...we look at physical, emotional, and mental well-being…being stressed about your food choices isn’t healthy.”

Health-promoting behaviors to embrace instead of dieting are things like finding enjoyable (Harris calls it “joyful”) movement that you like to do consistently. Don’t exercise in a punishing way—“earning” your calories or burning a certain number.

Add more fruits, vegetables and fiber to your meals. Manage your stress. Get plenty of sleep. See your doctor regularly. All are ways to embrace health without focusing on the scale.

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aniel Bastion of Annapolis recently wrote to CBM Bay Weekly to remind us that a new year is the perfect time to embrace a new way of eating.

“With Christmas and Hanukkah behind us, we look forward to the new year and New Year’s resolutions: to step away from social media, lose some weight, and, perhaps, to go vegan. Yes, that.”

The basic tenet of veganism is swapping plant-based foods for animal ingredients such as meat, fish, eggs, and dairy. But what does it mean exactly to be vegan? It used to be the eating style most associated with animal rights activists and extreme environmentalists. Not anymore. Veganism has hit its stride.

“I think it’s statistically undeniable that veganism is becoming more common. It’s also becoming more socially/ culturally acceptable and even trendy (used non-pejoratively here!),” says James of AnnapolisVegan (last name withheld by request). “That said, the negative, visceral reactions I’ve received from people who find out about my lifestyle have been extremely surprising. People are much more attached to their diets and food traditions than I realized. They see it as an intrinsic part of their being, which I guess I never did. Also, there’s a lot of the stereotypical meat-eating male machismo, but it doesn’t bother me. Women in general seem more receptive and ask a lot of questions about it.”

In his letter, Bastion states that “A third of consumers report reducing consumption of animal foods. Hundreds of college campuses, schools, hospitals and corporate cafeterias have embraced Meatless Monday. Even fast-food chains like Chipotle, Burger King, Subway, and Taco Bell have rolled out plant-based options. Now McDonalds is hinting at a plant-based burger in 2022.”

So if major food companies are jumping on the meat-free bandwagon it only makes sense that going vegan is all over social media. Perhap you have seen the hashtag #veganuary. (It’s pronounced vee-GAN-you-air-ee, in case you’re curious). What started as a UK-based nonprofit encouraging people to try a vegan or plant-based diet for the month of January is now spreading into the newsfeeds of Americans. Veganuary.com claims that half a million people tried going vegan in their 2021 campaign, with participants from over 200 countries and territories. (It’s important to note that there are also a lot of ways to go vegan, including whole-food vegans, raw-food vegans, junk-food vegans, ethical vegans and dietary vegans.)

Alissa Kircher has been a vegan since 2013. While she initially ditched animal products because of her love for animals, she says the health benefits were almost immediate. “I didn’t really realize the health benefits at first,” she says.

“But I was always sick before, I had all these aches and pains and I was in and out of doctors’ offices all the time. Once I eliminated animal products those aches and pains went away.”

Kircher dove straight into her new lifestyle, researching online and reaching out to vegan communities through social media. When she moved from D.C. to Leonardtown in 2014 though, she knew she needed to build the community she wanted. So Kircher cofounded the Southern Maryland Vegan Restaurant Week with fellow vegan Rebecca Burnett.

“Living here, I realized there was more and more interest from people wanting to eat more plant-based and plant-forward foods. I knew the interest was here, so we decided to reach out to area restaurants and show them the benefits of offering vegan dishes. There’s this whole group of untapped customers you are missing out on,” says Kircher.

Launched in 2019, the program started with 18 restaurants participating in the weeklong focus on vegan foods. “Everyone was really excited and now we see people coming in and asking for plant-based dishes, wanting more things on the menu. It really brought out a much larger community than we were ever aware of.”

Kircher now posts vegan recipes and tips to the Visit Leonardtown website and says area restaurants are adding more options to their menus.

How does our health benefit from ditching animal products and filling a plate with fruit, grains and vegetables?

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Vegan offerings around Annapolis: 1. Vegan “Chicken Cheesesteak” (Bread And Butter Kitchen), 2. Park Place Powerhouse Sandwich with Black-Eyed Pea Succotash (Miss Shirley’s Cafe), 3. Botanas Fajardos’ burrito, 4. Southwest Burger (Neo), 5. Cauliflower Tacos (Forward Brewing). Photos: AnnapolisVegan.

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with less fat and more fiber, which may reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke. “There are a lot of myths and misconceptions about vegan diets,” says Kircher. “One is this concern about where we get our protein. The more im-

portant question is where are you getting your fiber? Fiber only comes from plant-based foods and it affects our gut health, which affects our immune system. Something like 95 percent of the U.S. population is deficient in fiber.”

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Switching to a vegan diet doesn’t have to be challenging. James from AnnapolisVegan says it was easy for him. “In fact, it was a bit of a relief. When you feel that you’re doing deep harm with an action, I don’t think it’s difficult to cease that action. It felt good to be honest with myself. Also, I buy a lot of cookbooks and love to cook at home, so having new boundaries pushed me to look in different directions for recipes.

I actually found that to be a lot of fun.”

Kircher, on the other hand, recommends taking baby steps. “Try not to take an all-or-nothing approach. It can be overwhelming if you dive in all at once. Make a list of your favorite foods and then look at ways to replace them with plant-based foods. Just try it out.

Do a little today, then do a little more tomorrow. But don’t beat yourself up if you can’t jump in 100 percent.”

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Finding tasty dishes in area restaurants is easier than ever. Kircher suggests the vegetable muffuletta at Botanic Café in Leonardtown or the Kung Pao Brussels Sprouts at Ruddy Duck in Solomons.

James says options in the Annapolis area are getting better. “I love Annapolis, but it’s still not great for vegans. It’s exciting to go to other cities because the food scenes are simply better and more diverse. This was the main motivation in starting the AnnapolisVegan Instagram account and annapolisvegan.com.”

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aybe you have your nutrition all dialed in and it’s finding more time and motivation for a fitness routine that is on the top of your health to-do list this year.

Enter wearable tech.

The American College of Sports Medicine has forecasted that “wearable tech” is the top fitness trend for 2022.

“Tech advances have made it easy for users to collect important health metrics and work with fitness professionals and health care providers to develop healthy lifestyles and increase quality of life,” said ACSM Past President Walter R. Thompson, lead author of the survey.

Some of the other notable trends in the survey were home exercise gyms, outdoor activities like walking, group rides and organized hiking, strength

training with free weights, and exercise for weight loss.

When the pandemic shuttered gyms, exercise became something we streamed at home or did outdoors when possible.

While most gyms and fitness centers have re-opened locally, they have also expanded their menu of at-home stream-

ing workouts, virtual training sessions and outdoor classes. Expect to see these “hybrid gyms” become more common.

The pandemic shined a light on our health and many of us realized that being glued to the couch just wasn’t sustainable or desirable. We bought lots of home equipment (who doesn’t

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MENTAL WELLNESS IN THE AGE OF COVID

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even if you aren’t going anywhere,” McDonald-Fingland advises. “We know this, but sometimes, we need to be reminded.”

Take breaks from news stories.

This includes social media. While it’s good to stay informed, exposure to a 24hour newsfeed can heighten our anxiety.

Deale-based therapist and clinical counselor Amanda Fincher recommends no more than 30 minutes of news per day.

“The news you are hearing may be accurate, but even so, it’s repetitive.”

How can we safeguard our mental wellness as we navigate life as the pandemic continues into its third year?

Simply saying you want or need down-

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our doctor said to get a vaccination. Your cousin said it was Connect with others. time may not be enough. Fincher sug“Human beings need social interac- gests setting aside time specifically for all a matter of building herd immunity. Your neighbor flies tion,” McDonald-Fingland states. She fun. “Scheduling a family game night to Florida every other week. Your best friend hasn’t left her advises us to be open with one another. or planning a future activity could be a house in 22 months. You never leave home without a mask. “COVID is something we all have in way to relax,” she says.

Your dad can’t seem to remember his. And who knows what common. Expressing how difficult all this has been might be a way to connect Talk with a professional. germs are being spread on your child’s school bus?

No matter who you are and how vigilant you have been, surely, you thought, the worst of the pandemic would be behind us by now. Instead, we have entered 2022 with hospitals at capacity, long lines at testing centers, mask mandates and the possibility of more closures on the horizon. The disappointment is depressing—literally, depressing.

According to a study conducted by Boston University and published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, the depression rate among adults living in the United States tripled between March 31 and April 15, 2020, when most of America experienced the first lockdown. Tripled. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Psychological Association report that

depression and anxiety disorders were 25 percent higher between April 2020 and August 2021 than in 2019.

Local mental health providers agree the numbers have remained high. Andrea McDonald-Fingland is director of the Local Behavioral Health Authority in Calvert County, an agency that manages mental health resources. “Depression, anxiety and PTSD have increased dramatically,” she says.

So, what can be done about it? How can we safeguard our mental wellness as we navigate life as the pandemic continues into its third year?

Take care of your body.

“When I say ‘self-care,’ I’m including the basics. Get out of bed, shower, dress, eat

with other people.”

Fincher, whose practice specializes in treating adolescents, agrees. “Contact with friends is especially important for teens, but we all need to nurture our social relationships.” She suggests we make social interaction a goal. “Call a friend just to catch up.”

Unwind and relax.

Words like “unwinding,” “relaxing” and even “self-care” mean different things depending on whom you ask. “A parent who is home all day with kids is going to have different needs from someone who is quarantined and alone,” McDonald-Fingland warns.

Therefore, getting the right amount of social interaction and leisure time varies. Engage in hobbies that interest you and work with your lifestyle.

“If a person thinks they have depression, anxiety or PTSD, they should make an appointment with a therapist, a social worker, a psychologist or even their priest or clergy,” McDonald-Fingland urges. “Some problems won’t go away on their own. You may need therapy or even medication.”

The Calvert County Health Department has a 24-hour Mobile Crisis Team for county residents in need of immediate mental health assistance and mental health clinics located in Prince Frederick, Chesapeake Beach, Barstow and Lusby.

Reach them by calling 877-467-5628.

In Anne Arundel County, the Crisis Response System known as the Community Warmline provides support, referrals, and information and access to emergency services as needed. Their 24hour phone number is 410-768-5522. p

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AACC Info Session Adult learners meet with an admissions officer to learn about the school in online session. 6-7pm, RSVP: aacpl.net.

land Community Network, a nonprofit mental health agency. Choose from in-person or virtual race. In-person race: 9am-3pm, Hallowing Point Park, Prince Frederick, $30, RSVP: https://bit.ly/32uezWT.

Introduce little ones to the outdoors; dress for weather and mud. 9:3011am, South River Farm Park, Edgewater, RSVP: 410-222-1978.

Calvert Bookmobile Visit the library on wheels. 10-11am, Bayside Forest, Prince Frederick; noon-1pm, Long Beach Community Center, St. Leonard; 2-3pm, Mill Creek Community, Solomons: calvertlibrary.info.

Free State Fly Fishers

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Floating Beauty Exhibition Watch a lecture by art educator Lucinda Edinberg on the Mitchell Gallery exhibit Floating Beauty: Women in the Art of Ukiyo-E, available online thru Feb. 25: sjc.edu/Annapolis/Mitchell-gallery.

Blood Drive 10am-3pm, Busch Annapolis Library/ Crofton Library/Mountain Rd. Library, RSVP: aacpl.net.

Club member Rich Batiuk shows how to tie smallmouth bass fly patterns developed by fly-shop owner and author Harry Murray.

10am-noon, Davidsonville Family Rec Center, RSVP: rybeer@gmail.com.

Blood Drive 10am-4pm, Odenton Library, RSVP: aacpl.net.

B.A.R.K. Ranger Training Does your dog enjoy walking the trails at Patuxent? Bring your dog to ranger training and upon completion your dog can monitor the trails as a certified B.A.R.K. Ranger. 2-3pm, Patuxent Research Refuge, Laurel, RSVP: 301-497-5887.

Create Pet Toys Use recycled materials to create puzzles and toys for friends at the SPCA (ages 11+). 2-4pm, Discoveries: the Library at the Mall, Annapolis: 410-222-0133.

Jan. 7: Colin Quinn

Colin Quinn: The Last Best Hope Tour 8pm, Rams Head on Stage, Annapolis, $42, RSVP: ramsheadonstage.com.

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Bluegrass Comeback Series Larry Stephenson Band. Doors open at noon, music at 2pm, Calvert Elks #2620, Prince Frederick, $20: bluegrasscomeback.webador.com.

Owl & Kestrel Meet two of North America’s smallest birds of prey: the American kestrel and the eastern screech owl. 1:30-2:30pm, National Wildlife Visitor Center, Laurel, RSVP: 301-497-5887.

Cabaret Series Experience the best of the 1950s in a costumed and choreographed production featuring resident singers and guest performers, accompanied by Unified Jazz Ensemble.

7:30pm, Classic Theatre of Maryland, Annapolis, $57 w/discounts, RSVP: classictheatremaryland.org.

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KIDS Sunflower Yoga Children join an energetic practice of movement and mindfulness with yoga stories, games and songs; bring a mat.

6-7pm, Discoveries: the Library at the Mall, Annapolis: aacpl.net.

Digital Photo Club Chris Spielmann talks about architectural photography in this Zoom meeting of photography enthusiasts. 7pm, RSVP for link: president@digitalphotoclub.net.

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KIDS STEAMakers Learn about potential and kinetic energy by creating a hypnotizer machine; in-person and virtual options.

6:15pm, Calvert Library, Prince Frederick, RSVP: calvertlibrary.info.

Knights of Columbus Bingo Doors open 5:30pm, game starts 7pm, The Knights of Columbus Council 2577, 6111 Columbian Way, Bowie: kofc2577.com.

Antique Talk & Appraisals Mike Earnst of Blue Crab Antiques talks about appraising antiques; guests may bring two small items for appraisals. 6:30-8:30pm, Edgewater Library, RSVP: aacpl.net.

Bullet Journaling 101 Learn the basics and applications for your mindfulness practice and productivity; bring a blank notebook or journal. 7-8pm, Severna Park Library: 410-222-6290.

Jocelyn & Chris 8pm, Rams Head on Stage, Annapolis, $15, RSVP: ramsheadonstage.com.

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 12

Coffee with a Ranger Join a ranger at the Cedar Pavilion for a free cup of coffee, tea, or hot cocoa, and ask questions about the park, local

flora and fauna, or get to know the rangers better. 9-10am, Fort Smallwood Park, Pasadena, $6 entrance fee: aacounty.org.

Calvert Bookmobile Visit the library on wheels. 11am-noon, Smile Inc., Lusby; 5-6pm, CRE Clubhouse, Lusby: calvertlibrary.info.

KIDS Frosty Winter Chemistry Create fake snow, experiment with ice, and play with an oobleck snowman; wear old clothes. 4-5pm, Busch Annapolis Library, RSVP: aacpl.net.

KIDS Young Authors Writing Club Write stories together and individually. 4:30-5:30pm, Deale Library: 410222-1925.

Satisfaction: The International Rolling Stones Show 8pm, Rams Head on Stage, Annapolis, $29.50, RSVP: ramsheadonstage.com.

THURSDAY JANUARY 13

KIDS Sea Squirts Toddlers join in story time and a carryout craft on the theme of lighthouses.

10:15am & 11:15am, Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons, free w/admission: calvertmarinemuseum.com.

America’s Boating Club Interested in boating? America’s Boating Club of So. MD meets monthly for fun, friendship, safe boating, education and boating-related activities.

6:30pm, The Pier, Solomons, RSVP: ABCsmd2021@yahoo.com.

Wild & Scenic Film Festival Stream films that highlight conservation, adventure, indigenous perspectives, activism and celebrate the planet, in a virtual festival hosted by the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay. Tickets provide five days of on-demand access.

7pm, $25, RSVP: allianceforthebay.org.

Calvert Peace Project Learn more about this group for civically engaged teens and tweens. 7-8pm, Calvert Library, Prince Frederick, RSVP: calvertlibrary.info.

Virtual Winter Lecture Hear author and managing editor for Navy Times, John Grady discuss how John Yates Beall and his men became the Maritime Mosby Rangers during the American Civil War. Hosted by Annapolis Maritime Museum. 7-8:30pm, $10 w/discounts, RSVP for Zoom link: amaritime.org.

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GARDENING FOR HEALTH

STORY AND PHOTO BY MARIA PRICE

Caring for Houseplants in Winter

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s cold weather arrives and sends us indoors, indoor gardening with houseplants can bring great enjoyment. Most houseplants are very easy to care for; you can find plants that will be happy under the many conditions that your home might offer. Light is usually the most limiting factor. Check for different light conditions from windows around your home: full-sun, partial sun, and shade.

Spring is usually the best time to repot a houseplant. Only repot if the roots have grown out of the growing space. Rootbound plants have a mass of tangled white roots that may even protrude through the pot’s drainage holes. Dead roots are brown or black and should be cut before repotting. If you repot, move to a pot about 2 inches larger than what it was in.

Use a soilless potting mix for containers, which allows for good drainage and moisture retention. Do not use potting soil as it can stratify and then become compacted.

Be mindful of what type of plant you have.

Cacti and succulents need coarse soil that drains very well. Ferns need soil with more peat moss to hold more water. Orchids are epiphytes that grow on other plants and get their nutrition from the surrounding air.

They need to grow in coarse fir bark.

Prune your houseplants to get a nicely shaped plant. Most plants will grow a single stem if left alone. Pinch the growing tip back to encourage branching.

Low humidity is one of the biggest problems encountered by indoor gardeners. To raise the humidity, set pots on a pebble tray filled with an inch of pebbles and half an inch of water. Make sure to refill the tray as water evaporates.

Some houseplants that like high humidity are: begonias, gardenias, mandevilla, African violets, gloxinias, and ferns.

I love gardenias as they can grow into shrub-like plants after many years and fill your home with an incredible fragrance when they bloom. Winter blooming jasmine (J. polyanthum) will also perfume your home.

A fun plant that kids will like is the goldfish plant (see photo). It’s an easy-tocare-for plant with glossy green leaves and bright orange goldfish flowers that bloom from cascading branches. Rabbit’s foot fern is another fun fern with soft furry (hairy) roots that tumble out of the side of their pot. You might want to pet them.

Take good care of your houseplants in winter and they will bring a smile to your face all year long. p

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CREATURE FEATURE

STORY AND PHOTO BY BRADLEY STEVENS

Ghosts among the Dunes Editor’s Note: Filling in for Wayne Bierbaum’s Creature Feature this week is Bradley Stevens, author and retired professor of marine science from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

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alking along a beach last summer in the remote Virginia barrier islands, I came across a jumble of disturbed sand pockmarked with holes and little scratch marks. My first thought was that a dog had been digging in the sand, but there were no dogs on that beach— nor any other people for that matter. I then realized I was looking at a ghost town—literally, a village of ghost crab burrows and footprints.

I sat down nearby and waited quietly.

Scritch scritch scritch. Pffft.

The sound drew my attention. I turned my head to the left, then right.

Nothing.

Scritch scritch. Pfft. There’s movement in my peripheral vision. I turn towards the sound.

Pfft, a small cloud of sand erupts from the beach. Remaining as still as possible, I watch a small pile of sand a few feet away from me.

Pfft, another small eruption from a hole behind the sand pile. There, a pair of dark eyes on stalks is looking back at

me. We stare at each other for almost a minute. The eyes, attached to a ghost crab, disappear back down the hole. I wait for it to reappear, but it doesn’t.

Aware of my existence now, the crab has decided to remain out of sight.

Ghost crabs are small, 2- to 3-inch wide occupants of many coastal beaches around the world. Their burrows are a round hole next to a small mound of sand, usually surrounded by tracks made during foraging trips. The species common on DelMarVa beaches is known to scientists as Ocypode quadrata (o-SIP-a-dee kwa-drata), meaning “swift-footed square-shell”, and is abundant from Rhode Island to Brazil. The common name ghost crab refers to their pale white or sandy color and habit of running across the beach at night.

As I watch, crabs come out of their burrows and sweep a handful (claw-full?) of sand up onto the growing pile of discarded diggings, then scurry back into their hideaways. Occasionally one carries its detrital bolus football style, tucked up against its shell, for several feet before flinging it away and running back to safety. They are cleaning house, preparing their burrows for double occupancy, while waiting for a suitable mate to arrive.

Ghost crab burrows can be 3 to 4-feet

deep and may be straight, or shaped like a V, L, or W. The crabs tend to stay in their burrows during the day, during which they may close the entrance to trap moisture. After dark, they come out to feed, then dig a new burrow at sunrise, rarely returning to the same burrow. Although they can stay out of water for extended periods of time, they occasionally need to refresh the water in their gills by taking a dip in the surf (but not too long, or they’ll drown).

They can also extract some moisture from the sand in their burrows.

Ghost crabs have one claw larger than the other and can be either leftor right-handed, unlike hermit crabs that are almost always right-handed (to conform with the snail shells they live in). The proportion of each can vary among beaches. Ghost crabs defend their burrows by ritualized “fighting” with their claws, but tend to primarily fight like-handed crabs, whereas oppo-

site-handed crabs are at a disadvantage and tend to evade fights altogether, usually by being active at different times of dawn and dusk.

Crabs don’t hear well, but they can communicate. In a process called stridulation, the crab scrapes its claw across the base of the leg, causing it to vibrate.

Motion sensors on the fourth leg detect these and other low frequency vibrations.

During mating season, crabs wander the beach and enter burrows looking for mates. The crabs in the burrows may defend them by stridulating or repeatedly beating the burrow walls with their claws.

Ghost crabs are the largest invertebrates on most beaches, and thus an apex predator, feeding on mole crabs and small bivalves. They occasionally dine on sea turtle eggs, but their impact is minor, so efforts to eliminate them from turtle nesting areas are misguided. Their major predators are birds, especially gulls, but they are also prey for raccoons and burrowing owls.

Many people enjoy “hunting” for ghost crabs on the beaches at night with flashlights. If spotted, the crab will freeze briefly like a deer in headlights. But be respectful and try not to damage the crabs or their burrows.

While not dangerous, they can give you a nasty pinch if cornered. The best time to see them is during breeding season, from April to July, whereas ghost crabs tend to hibernate in their burrows from October to April.

On Assateague and Chincoteague beaches, tourists, beachgoers, and fishermen often overlook ghost crabs. But they are still important ecological components of the beaches and need to be conserved. Reducing off-road vehicle traffic on beaches, especially at night, would help maintain crab populations and the diversity of the beach ecosystem. Healthy beaches provide more support for fish and bird populations and are more enjoyable for human recreation as well. And isn’t that why we go there?

As for myself, I look forward to spending future sunny days watching the antics of my crusty little friends, and hoping their beaches remain crab-friendly for many years to come. p

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SPORTING LIFE

Harrison Doyle with a black grouper for New Years.

STORY AND PHOTO BY DENNIS DOYLE

A Very Tasty New Year R ick Thomas had just streamed out our rigged ballyhoo baits and set the first two medium weight outfits in their holders and was preparing the third line when the first two rods pitched over in hard arcs. My two sons raced for the rigs, though no one was quite prepared for the instant action.

Harrison leaned back against his rod, the reel spewing out line to a running fish, though we had no idea of its identity. The Atlantic Gulf Stream off of Miami is home to countless varieties this time of year, many of them quite sizable and everyone’s imagination was on fire with the possibilities.

Our sights, however, were not set on the more glamorous species. A cold front had recently moved through the Miami area sending the temps plunging down into the low 70s last week and putting a big question mark on just what fish would be responding in the area.

Captain Jimbo Thomas had suggested we troll the nearby reefs for grouper and snapper on that day as the colder temperatures had made the larger fish, such as marlin, wahoo and sailfish, quite scarce. Since our family was gathered together in Miami for the holidays, it sounded like an ideal solution as those two species were among the top dining choices to be had and we all do love seafood.

We soon lost one of the hookups but the first fish, within minutes, turned out to be a handsome, 12 pound black grouper which would shortly be followed by its near twin. The Miami area is one of the most fortunate locations for saltwater anglers in the whole of the U.S. The Gulf Stream, the warm ocean current that wanders from the Gulf of Mexico up our East Coast to North Carolina then out into the Atlantic, brings with it conditions

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that favor a large number of fish. And that current comes within spitting distance of the Miami shoreline.

Shortly after landing the two groupers we then lucked into a reef area rich with mutton snappers, a particularly desirable fish, renown for their table quality. Rick, our bait rigger and Jim’s brother, was extra busy that morning rigging one ballyhoo after another as the snappers cruising the reef snacked on them one after another until we had about a dozen resting in our ice chest.

Back at our apartment overlooking the Atlantic that evening, I spent a few moments cutting up some grouper fillets. Dicing the thick white meats into bite-sized pieces I began to prepare a gourmet treat for the family, New Year Ceviche. Putting about a pound of the grouper pieces into a ceramic bowl, I added in a teaspoon of sea salt, two tablespoons of olive oil, three minced garlic cloves and a generous cup and a half of thinly sliced sweet onion,

plus a quarter cup of chopped, fresh cilantro. Massaging the mixture so that all the grouper got involved in the spices, I then squeezed the juice from four fat lemons and a like number of limes. After pouring those juices over the grouper and spice mixture I gently folded the affair until all the ingredients were well mixed. Covering the ceramic bowl with plastic wrap I set it aside in the refrigerator overnight to marinate. The citric acid in the juices would render the fish in a few hours, giving the pieces a great flavor with the texture of tender cooked shrimp.

Served on a bed or lettuce with some crackers on the side the grouper was an extra delicious way to bring in the New Year. The fact that a luncheon would soon follow involving crispy fried fillets of mutton snapper coated with a crunchy Panko coating would just make things that more flavorful, and a fantastic way to bring in 2022. p

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BY DIANA BEECHENER

Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in The Tragedy of Macbeth.

The Tragedy of Macbeth

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fter a successful battle, Thane of Glamis Macbeth (Denzel Washington: The Little Things) is content to go home to his wife. But an encounter with three weird sisters (all played by Kathryn Hunter) sparks ambition in him. The women tell Macbeth that he’s destined to be king of Scotland, not just a thane.

Skeptical at first, Macbeth is convinced there may be some magical truth to the women when they turn into ravens.

Thus inspired, Macbeth tells his wife, Lady Macbeth (Francis McDormand: The French Dispatch) of the prophecy and they hatch a plan. Waiting for the prophecy to be fulfilled naturally might take years. If they

dispatch the king, Macbeth can begin his rule without waiting on fate. It seems simple, but as the word tragedy in the title might have hinted—things don’t always go to plan.

If you’ve made it through high school, chances are you’ve encountered Macbeth at some point in your academic career. The challenge, then, for director Joel Coen (in his first feature film without brother Ethan by his side) is to adapt the play in a new and interesting way. He does so brilliantly, the result being one of the most singularly stunning films of the year.

One of the choices Coen makes that enhances the production is agingup the stars. Both Washington and McDormand are older than the leading duo in the original play, but their age lends a sense of urgency to their motivation. Instead of being blinded by ambition, this Macbeth is more seasoned. Washington imbues his performance with a feeling that he’s owed greatness after his years of service.

Another brilliant choice is the cin-

ematography that borrows from both the German Expressionist and Surrealist cinematic movements. Nothing quite looks real in this black and white scape, and that dreamlike quality becomes unsettling as the plot progresses. Cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel (The Woman in The Window) keeps the contrast high and finds new and interesting ways to transition scenes. The whole film feels like a foreboding fever dream, and it’s absolutely stunning to behold.

The last inspired choice made by Coen was to cast a powerful ensemble of actors (including his wife, McDormand).

Washington and McDormand find fresh twists on well-known speeches. They have an excellent chemistry and seem to relish playing off each other. Washington, in particular, is delightful in a scene involving the chasing of ravens.

The supporting cast, including Hunter’s film-stealing turn as the weird sisters, offers up some fantastic work as well.

While Coen has certainly made an excellent film, he has strayed from the

formula that viewers might expect from a Coen-helmed movie. The dark humor and playfulness that marks his usual work is stripped away, leaving a stark, cold, and beautiful film. Attention students thinking this movie is the shortcut to a good grade: The Tragedy of Macbeth isn’t the adaptation that should serve as the foundation of your book report.

Coen streamlines Shakespeare’s work, adding characters to scenes and cutting lines. It’s also not forgiving of those unfamiliar with the language or the story—the audience is merely thrown in and expected to understand.

In the end, whether or not The Tragedy of Macbeth is a triumph or a bore is dependent upon the viewer. If you find Shakespeare a snooze, then this will not be the film to win you over. If you’re a fan of the Bard’s work, this is a gorgeous embodiment of the play, with some of the most gripping visuals ever put to film. This reviewer falls into the later camp, and I’ll be picking apart the scenes and symbolism for years to come.

Great Drama * R * 105 mins.

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD

BY THE EDITORS AT ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION Who Knew?

The Saudis take their beauty contests seriously, it appears: Judges at a competition northeast of Riyadh are cracking down on artificially enhanced contestants. The contest is part of the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival.

Yes, the contestants are camels, the Associated Press reported, and 43 of them have already been disqualified.

Camel breeders enter their most beautiful animals with the hope of winning $66 million in prize money, but Botox injections, face lifts and other cosmetic changes will not be tolerated this year.

How, you ask, are those procedures implemented? Breeders might stretch the lips and noses of their camels, inject their heads or lips with Botox, inflate body parts with rubber bands and use fillers to relax their faces. “The club is keen to halt all acts of tampering and deception in the beautification of camels,” the Saudi Press Agency said.

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An unnamed mountain climber is a little richer this season after a cache of precious gems valued at $84,350 was awarded to him by the Chamonix-Mont-Blanc council on Dec. 3. The climber found the emeralds and sapphires in 2013 as he scaled the tallest peak in western Europe; they apparently were debris from an airplane crash there in 1966, CNN reported. The original owner of the stones couldn’t be located. The council split the booty with the climber and will display their half at the Chamonix Crystal Museum.

Nice Try

A 50-year-old Italian dentist tried on Dec. 2 to dodge getting the COVID-19 vaccine but still gain a health pass by offering the health worker a silicone prosthetic arm for the jab, The Guardian reported. Italy recently cracked down on unvaccinated people at social, cultural and sporting events, so the man allegedly purchased a fake arm that may have cost him hundreds of euros. The medic, Filippa Bua, said she “felt offended as a professional. The color of the arm made me suspicious and so I asked the man to uncover the rest of his left arm. It was

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The unidentified man will face fraud charges, according to Luigi Icardi, the regional health councilor.

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Graham George Spencer of Singapore was walking with a friend in the Singapore Botanic Gardens on Nov. 30 when a runner dashed right into the path of a group of about 20 otters, causing them to change from “being quiet to going crazy like dogs,” Spencer told todayonline.com. The otters, apparently confused about who was who, attacked Spencer, pushing him to the ground and biting him around his feet and buttocks. “I was bitten 26 times in 10 seconds,” he said. “If it wasn’t for my friend, I don’t think I’d still be here.

I’d be dead.” At a hospital across the street, Spencer was given tetanus shots and antibiotics.

GOAT

No, not that kind of goat. Former (unsuccessful) mayoral candidate for Berkeley, California, Wayne Hsiung, an animal rights activist, is going to spend some time on supervised probation after a February 2018 stunt in which he stole a newborn goat, Berkeleyside reported on Dec. 8. The theft, a felony, took place in Transylvania County, North Carolina, at Sospiro Ranch.

Hsiung said he stole the kid because he thought it was suffering and might face a cruel death, but the court was not entertaining his “right-to-rescue” defense. In fact, Judge Peter Knight sustained so many objections by the prosecution during Hsiung’s opening statement that he wasn’t able to finish it. Curtis Burnside, owner of Sospiro Ranch, said NipNap, the baby goat’s mother, “cried for days and was beside herself looking for her lost baby.”

Bright Idea

In the “this could never happen in America” category: New Zealand is putting in place laws that will eventually ban smoking altogether by 2025, The Guardian reported. Each year, the legal smoking age will increase, said associate health minister Dr. Ayesha Verrall.

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Legislation will also make smoking unaffordable, reduce the level of nicotine in tobacco products, limit retail outlets, and increase funding for addiction services. “We want to make sure young people never start smoking ...

People aged 14 when the law comes into effect will never be able to legally purchase tobacco,” Verrall said.

Signs of the Times

• A middle school in Milton, Massachusetts, went into lockdown on Dec. 8 when a student reported that an adult “may have had a weapon,” The Patriot Ledger reported. After about 30 minutes of investigation by school officials and Milton police, however, it was determined that the “weapon” was a phone charger that a staff member was carrying. “I am pleased to report that nobody was physically harmed,” Superintendent James Jette said in a statement.

• On Dec. 3, a second-grader at Pamoja Preparatory Academy in St. Louis, Missouri, brought a loaded pistol to school to “show it to classmates,” the Daily Beast reported. The child said they took the gun from a lockbox under the parents’ bed. Two days earlier, at Woerner Elementary School in St. Louis, a kindergartner brought a gun to school when they picked up the wrong backpack. Sgt. Charles Wall of the St. Louis Police Department said no charges will be filed in either case: “It was determined no criminal incident occurred,” he said.

Unclear on the Concept

Nicole Gregory, 28, was arrested on Nov. 22 in St. Petersburg, Florida, after a sheriff ’s deputy observed her dropping baggies containing fentanyl.

According to The Smoking Gun, Gregory admitted to selling the opioid, saying she gets $10 per “bump.” But she had a good(?) reason: She was selling the drugs “to make money to pay for an attorney for a pending drug charge.”

Actually, two charges: one in August and one in October. Along with the fentanyl, Gregory was most recently found to have meth, morphine and Oxycodone.

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The Way the World Works You may be grousing about your mail taking FOREVER to get to your mailbox, but that’s nothing compared to a couple in Chicago, CBS Chicago reported. Last year, a postal worker tossed a package onto Vera and Donald Rideaux’s front porch—then pulled away in his vehicle, hitting the Rideauxs’ van, “and he kept backing the truck up, back and forth, back and forth, pulling my car at the same time,” Donald said. The worker got out of his truck, looked at the car, and “got back in it and he drove off,” Vera added. The couple called the USPS but as of Dec. 7, there had been no resolution of the $1,467 in damages caused to their van. A spokesman said drivers are supposed to notify immediate supervisors when they’re involved in an accident but wouldn’t confirm that such a report had been made in this instance.

New World Order Those seeking euthanasia in Switzerland now have the option to use a 3D-printed “death capsule” called the Sarco, Oddee reported on Dec. 7. Philip Nitschke, founder of Exit International, an Australian company, explains how the pod works: A patient enters the coffinlike capsule, closes the lid (which includes a large window), answers a few questions, and then activates a series of events with a single button.

At that point, the chamber is flooded with nitrogen, but the occupant will not feel like they’re suffocating or choking, he says. “There is no panic. The person will feel a little disoriented and may feel slightly euphoric before they lose consciousness. Death takes place through ... oxygen and carbon dioxide deprivation.” After five to 10 minutes, the patient is deceased. “The machine can be towed anywhere for the death,” Nitschke said. “It can be in an idyllic outdoor setting or in the premises of an assisted suicide organization.” p Send your weird news items with subject line WEIRD NEWS to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com.

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How many 2 or more letter words can you make in 2 minutes from the letters in: Slogan (20 words) Interestingly, the earliest version of this word, slogorne, came about in the early 1500’s and meant ‘battle cry.’ It comes from Gaelic sluagh-ghairm and was used by Scottish Highland and Irish Clans to describe what they were yelling as they went into battle. It wasn’t until the early 1700’s that slogan was used to describe a distinctive word or phrase used by a political group, and later in the nineteenth century for advertising. Somehow, running down a hill in a kilt waving a shillelagh, while screaming at the top of your lungs seems a lot different than holding a sign on the corner that says, “You could save hundreds on car insurance.” But a good marketing plan is a good marketing plan.

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