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By Guy Leonard Staff Writer

Commissioners Hold Off On Emergency Operations Center Revamp

By Guy Leonard Staff Writer

The St. Mary’s Board of County Commissioners voted to approve the signing of contracts for 11 county employees Tuesday by a margin of 4-to-1 with Commissioner Lawrence D. Jarboe (R-Golden Beach) voting against all of the contract signings.

Jarboe said that his no vote was not because of any poor performance held against any of the employees, rather the holding of the contracts would cost the county more money if they found it necessary to reduce the size of government.

“This will make it more difficult to consolidate department heads in the future,” Jarboe said “And that will eventually increase tax rates.”

But Commissioner Thomas A. Mattingly (D-Leonardtown) said that with the economic downturn the need for competent employees was even more pressing.

“It makes it even more imperative to have a strong management team,” Mattingly said. “They could easily go elsewhere and make more money.”

Under the current system any contract employees would stay on six months after county commissioners were elected.

A majority of the St. Mary’s Board of County Commissioners decided to delay plans to shore up the structural integrity of the emergency operations center in the Department of Public Safety building in Leonardtown even though the building is not rated to withstand a category 2 hurricane as originally thought.

The commissioners made the decision to push $50,000 in planning money to fiscal year 2010 and $450,000 for construction to 2011 as part of a budget work session Monday.

The county has a backup facility next to the Circuit Court building that can be used in the event of serious weather or a similar disaster.

Commissioner Thomas A. Mattingly (D-Leonardtown) said the revamp project was needed to help protect sensitive information technology the county needs to function in a time of emergency. “[The structural rating of the building] was reduced [during construction] because of budgetary concerns by someone who no longer works for the county,” Mattingly said. “We just found out in the last year that it was only rated for category 1 storms.”

Commissioner Lawrence D. Jarboe (R-Golden Beach) said the backup center would likely suffice in the event of an emergency since water in the tidal areas of the county, rather than destructive wind, has been the main problem whenever a severe storm or hurricane rolls through.

Commissioner Daniel H. Raley (D-Great Mills) supported pushing the funding in the capital project schedule out another year, but expressed that had he known of the defects in the building’s design sooner, he would

have voted to spend money on the revamp earlier.

“If I’d known about this last year, I wouldn’t have supported $1 million for construction of a new building for Haz-Mat [hazardous materials vehicles,]” Raley said.

The Commissioners did agree to move ahead with a project to build two more towers in the county’s more rural areas to extend the range of communications available for firefighters and rescue personnel.

The $5 million project will be offset by several million in federal aid, Mattingly said, but will not help solve interoperability problems between the three Southern Maryland counties.

The project also includes two existing towers with space allotted for more signal reception equipment, Mattingly added.

“It fills the dead spots in coverage of the existing system,” Mattingly said.

“We’re fortunate to get a couple million dollars to help with the project.”

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Commissioners Say No To St. Mary’s Crossing

By Guy Leonard Staff Writer The St. Mary’s Board of County Commissioners voted to deny approval to a planned unit development in the Lexington Park Development District Tuesday that would have brought in 868 housing units as well as a site possibly large enough for two schools.

Four out of the five commissioners felt that there were still too many concerns over traffic safety, land preservation and mitigation fees offered by the developer to merit its approval of the St. Mary’s Crossing project that would have been located off St. Andrews Church Road.

“Because of these issues of TDRs (transfer of development rights), land preservation and traffic… I don’t think it meets that standard,” said Commissioner Daniel H. Raley (D-Great Mills).

The project had been mulled by the planning commission several times last year in attempts to iron out differences in the plan’s execution as well as with the DRARA, or developers rights and responsibilities agreement, but the planning commission eventually voted against approving both the plan and the agreement.

“That vote carries significant weight,” Raley said Tuesday. “The project has been on our table for some time.

“Unfortunately I don’t think the pro-

cess up to the planning commission has worked very well.”

Citizens who lived near the planned development site also complained of their concerns that the dense development would create too much traffic for nearby roads.

The developer also stipulated in the DRARA that they would not be responsible for any improvements to Old St. Andrews Church Road. County planning staff disagreed with their position and this was one of the points that seemed to have cost them approval.

The sole vote in support of the project’s approval came from Commissioner Thomas A. Mattingly (D-Leonardtown) who said that the development would bring several tangible benefits to the county.

“This is an opportunity to ensure that there is a component of workforce housing that is involved in the project,” Mattingly said of the developer’s offer to built units that were more affordably priced.

“And a site that could accommodate two schools would bring a lot of benefit to the county.”

Mattingly offered a motion to the commissioner board that would have put the St. Mary’s Crossing project back before the planning commission for more review to iron out differences between the county and developer but it failed by a 4to-1 vote.

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On the diminished capacity of the emergency operation center to stand up to severe hurricanes.

Until a year ago we thought it was a category 2 structure.

Commissioner Thomas A. Mattingly (D-Leonardtown)

This is an emergency services center. Who designed it to only withstand 60 mile-per-hour winds?

Commissioner Lawrence D. Jarboe (R-Golden Beach)

Cold Weather Hampers Homeless Count

By Guy Leonard Staff Writer Last week’s planned homeless count ran into extremely cold weather that made finding many of those living on the streets or in the woods virtually impossible, said a top administrator at the county’s Three Oaks homeless center in Lexington Park.

The count, which also included such agencies as the Department of Social Services, the county Housing Authority, Angel’s Watch in Hughesville and Leah’s House in Valley Lee, is set to go on for several more days to make an accurate determination.

The count is necessary for receiving funding for homeless assistance from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

“It was painfully difficult to find the homeless,” said Sarah Crowder at Three Oaks of the Jan. 28 one-day count. “Even the soup kitchen [in Great Mills] was closed.”

Crowder and others at the shelter got in their

cars that day and traveled to various sites around the county from Lexington Park to Leonardtown, she said, and could not find the homeless they expected.

The cold forced many of the homeless off the streets and into any establishment they could find for warmth, she said, making positive identification of the homeless difficult.

That night at Three Oaks, however, Crowder said that they had 15 men come in to avoid the frigid cold, which was below freezing level.

The numbers of men seeking shelter in times of extreme cold is usually about 10, she said.

“That night was our largest night” for extreme cold, Crowder said, adding that the weather for the next week might still make finding the homeless difficult. She added that she expected the homeless population to have increased since last year’s count.

“I truly do expect it because of the symptoms or our society,” Crowder told The County Times.

Many of the people seeking help are dealing

with foreclosures and need assistance for food and utilities, Crowder said, all symptoms of the tough economic recession hitting the country.

The agencies that make up the newly formed Department of Human Services reported last week that the tough times were putting more and more stress on families.

Calls for social assistance, mental health support and help in looking for jobs after being laid off were all up, the report stated.

Bennett Connelly, head of the human services department, said for the count to be completed could take two weeks, but if the trend follows the recent report of his office, the results were predictable.

Last year’s homeless tally was at about 1,270 people.

“We expect that numbers will be higher,” Connelly said. “Things have really changed in the

past six-to-nine months.”

One of the keys to lessening the stress on both the county’s social assistance system and on individuals was to get involved with those facing possible homelessness earlier, Connelly said, to prevent it in the first place.

For a start, that meant getting people facing trouble in contact with counselors, service organizations, churches or anyone else who could help support them and keep them from getting evicted or facing foreclosure.

“It’s better to prevent someone from being homeless then waiting for them to get that far,” Connelly said. “There’s more hardship incurred and the cost and human impact is significant.

“You have to help and teach others how to use resources, to network; we have to open those doors.”

Fire Chief Among Those Arrested For Poaching Rockfish

By Guy Leonard Staff Writer The chief of the Second District Volunteer Fire Department and several others operating as commercial fishermen in St. Mary’s County have been changed by federal authorities for allegedly poaching hundreds of thousands of pounds of rockfish from the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River during a four year scheme that lasted from 2003 to 2007.

Thomas L. Crowder, Jr., of Leonardtown, John W. Dean of Scotland, Charles Quade of Chuchtown, Keith Collins of Deale and Thomas L. Hallock of Catharpin, Va. were all named in federal charges as having illegally harvested and sold the stripped bass to a wholesaler in Washington, D.C. That wholesaler, Cannon Seafood, Inc., is named in the case as are Robert Moore, Sr. and Robert Moore, Jr., of Falls Church and Ashburn, Va. respectively, in connection with the company’s operations.

Thomas Spalding, a member of the fire department’s board of directors, said that Crowder was still chief at the fire house.

“His duties are continuing as normal,” Spalding said. “You’re innocent until proven guilty.

“He’s done an incredible job for the people of the Second District; he’s been an incredible chief.”

The charges, handed down from U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein’s office in Greenbelt, alleges that all the parties involved were in violation of the Lacey Act, which prohibits falsifying records of harvesting fish and wildlife and illegally transporting and selling the same.

“State and federal authorities are working together to preserve our precious natural resources,” Rosenstein said in a prepared statement. “If commercial fishermen obey the rules, we can all enjoy rockfish forever.

“If we allow over-fishing, and fail to enforce

those rules, the rockfish population will be wiped out very quickly.”

In criminal informations filed against the defendants, it is alleged the fisherman had knowingly falsely recorded the number of stripped bass they caught as well as their weight on their permits.

They also failed to accurately record when they caught the fish, federal authorities alleged.

Two other local fishermen, Joseph Peter Nelson and Joseph Peter Nelson, Jr., were charged with seven counts in federal court in October of last year for similar allegations.

Violations of the Lacey Act carry a sentence of up to five years in prison and fines up to $250,000.

Any vehicles and vessels used in the violations can also be seized.

According to federal authorities the investigation into the defendants started in 2003 and included undercover purchases of stripped bass and covert surveillance.

The investigation was conducted by the Maryland Natural Resources Police, Virginia Marine Police, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Andy Hughes, chairman of the Coastal Conservation Association of Maryland (CCA), was saddened at the alleged crime because of the extensive damage done to one of the most precious resources in the region.

The CCA works to preserve fish and wildlife resources for future generations of outdoor enthusiasts.

“The amount of crime that the federal joint investigative task force has uncovered is both alarming in its scope and tremendously disappointing in that it was not dealt with many years earlier,” Hughes said in a statement. “This abuse to the Chesapeake’s stripped bass resource is a crime against all Maryland citizens and those throughout our region that enjoy the Chesapeake Bay.”

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Library Sites, Renovations Or New Building

By Guy Leonard Staff Writer

County residents will have a chance to look into options for either a library renovation for Leonardtown or entirely new site built close by, according to the county director of public works and transportation.

The informational meeting on the possibility of building a new library will be held Feb. 10 at 6:30p.m. at the commissioners’ meeting room in Leonardtown.

George Erichsen, director of the Department of Public Works and Transportation, said that commissioners will have to decide whether to renovate and expand the current location at the Leonardtown Armory or to build at one of about four other sites.

Those sites include the newly acquired Hayden Farm property on the outskirts of the town that cost the county more than $5 million, a plot of land either behind or next to the building that houses the Department of Land Use and Growth Management or in front of the drill hall near the county governmental center.

The cost of a new library would be about $15 million for 40,000 square feet, Erichsen said, while the renovation and expansion project would cost a little less at $12.9 million.

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North End Gallery Starts Maryland’s 375th Birthday Celebration

By Guy Leonard Staff Writer The celebration of Maryland’s 375th birthday starts in March in St. Mary’s, but at the North End Gallery in Leonardtown, they are starting festivities a little bit early.

The exhibit “Maryland, My Maryland” opened Tuesday and showcased the artwork of local artists that sought to capture the essence of life in Maryland.

Artwork depicted scenes such as tractors towing locally grown produce to duck hunting decoys resting in front of a Maryland flag in mediums like oil paint, water colors, pottery, sculpture and photography.

Barbara Lewis, a 16-year member of North End Gallery, said that members hope the exhibit will drum up interest not only in Maryland’s birthday celebration but in local artists as well.

“Every February we have a theme and it’s usually historically based,” Lewis said. “Those exhibits usually generate a lot of interest.”

North End Gallery has been working with the county in ramping up for the festivities that are set to last the whole year, Lewis said, to include a celebration Web site that Photo by Guy Leonard Barbara Lewis, a member at North End Gallery, looks at some of the local artwork of the includes the gallery. th Maryland, My Maryland exhibit that kicks off the state’s 375 birthday.

“They consider us as partners in promoting St. Mary’s County,” terested in things they recognize.”

The celebration of Maryland’s 375 birthday is also designed to boost Lewis said, adding that the artists tourism and spending, all the more important in lagging economic times. are all from the tri-county area.

Carolyn Laray, tourism manager with the county government, said that “They’re all professional artists, they all sell their own work,” the North End Gallery’s efforts should help out the overall.

“It’s the first one out of the gate,” Laray said of the exhibit. “They were Lewis said.

She hoped that the subject of separate ideas [from the county’s celebration plans] that dovetailed nicely the exhibit would also encourage and we’ve moved in tandem since.

“It’s a great partnership.” visitors to view art that might not Lewis had hopes that the exhibit would help drum up support for local ordinarily show up at a gallery.

“All of these people making artists and the gallery in a time when purchasing art was often not at the top these works of art are their neigh- of consumers’ lists.

“They only way places like this survive is if [customers] patronize bors,” Lewis said. “People are inthem,” Lewis said.

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CSM: Wellness Center On Track Despite Some Setbacks

By Guy Leonard Staff Writer

The dean of the Leonardtown campus of the College of Southern Maryland says that the construction of the county’s new wellness center is moving ahead on scheduled despite some initial building setbacks that had to be solved.

“There’s always things in a project this big that are going to come up,” said F.J. Talley. “Some things are a little ahead, some things are a little behind.”

Talley told The County Times that a probe of the soil and ground penetrating radar had failed to detect some steel and concrete underground at the construction site that had to be removed.

The County Times began asking about the status of the project after hearing reports that there had been problems laying the foundation of the planned 32,000-square foot facility.

“They’ve adjusted the foundation,” Talley told The County Times. “They took some of the footers out and put new ones in; it took about a week.”

Talley said that there was no extra cost to the county and state funds for the project.

He added that contractors on the site have attempted to foresee problems before they became too expensive.

“I’ve been impressed with how they’ve been looking ahead,” Talley said.

David Prevette, an architect with Virginia-based

firm Grimm and Parker that oversees the design of the project, said only that “we encountered some delays with the soil, which is not uncommon.

“Things are going very well.”

The college broke ground on the project back in September of 2008, with the expected bill coming to some $16.7 million.

The state has already provided $11.7 million in funding for the project with the rest being put up by county government.

The new center is set to have two swimming pools, classroom space for aerobics and yoga and specialized fitness rooms.

The wellness center has been billed as being a benefit for the entire community as well as to the college students in attendance.

Another change that has happened since the groundbreaking months ago has been to redesign how the new building will use energy, Talley told The County Times, specifically with an eye towards savings.

“This was designed several years ago when energy was a big issue but not as big as it is now,” Talley said.

“The questions we have to address now are how can we modify things so that they can cost less [in terms of energy.]”

Talley said that recent cold and wet weather has slowed construction at times but that construction crews have worked extra shifts to keep up with the building schedule

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Governor Wants Extension Of Benefits To Gays ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) _ Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley wants to extend health care benefits to same-sex partners of state workers.

Under the proposal, state workers and retirees could add domestic partners and their dependents to health, dental and prescription drug plans.

O’Malley extended benefits to same-sex partners of city employees when he was mayor of Baltimore, and he said he would do so statewide after he was elected governor.

Public Works OK’s $57 Million Land Deal ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) _ A Maryland board has approved buying about 4,400 acres of land for $57 million in Cecil, Charles and St. Mary’s counties.

The Board of Public Works, which includes Gov. Martin O’Malley, Treasurer Nancy Kopp and Comptroller Peter Franchot, voted unanimously for the land considered to be ecologically and historically valuable.

While supporters acknowledge the purchase is being made during tough fiscal times, they say the opportunity to buy the land is too good to pass up.

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New Law Aimed at Protecting Kids Hurts Thrift Stores, Libraries

By Sean Rice Staff Writer A new law approved by Congress last year aimed at protecting children from toys and products tainted with harmful levels of lead could have sweeping effects for manufacturers, retailers, thrift stores and even libraries.

After a tidal wave of complaints from advocacy groups, including toymakers, libraries and thrift stores, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced last Friday that the law’s enactment date of Feb. 10, 2009 will be delayed for one year.

The stay was given to allow retailers, manufactures, libraries and the list of other entities affected by the law’s sweeping provisions time to decide how to come into compliance.

Officials in St. Mary’s County have joined the effort across the nation to fight for exceptions to the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act to ease the drastic effects on the horizon for public libraries and second-hand stores.

Two popular thrift stores in Lexington Park and Leonardtown have already reacted to the law and removed children’s items from shelves and posted notices telling customers that donations of children’s items will no longer be accepted.

Signs are posted at both Vintage Values locations alerting customers to the changes.

The thrift stores are owned and operated by The Center for Life Enrichment, and serve solely as training centers for people with disabilities.

“As a precautionary measure, we have stopped accepting the donation of toys in general, because we don’t have the capacity to determine what has lead in it and what does not,” said Jack Hormell, Executive Director of the Center for Life Enrichment.

“That does have an impact on our thrift stores because we

“There were a lot of places that were drawing this further and saying ‘well even children’s clothing, et cetera, et cetera,” Hormell said. “We have not done that.”

Hormell said he is hopeful the law can be changed to exempt thrift stores, because “it was never meant to be a punitive measure toward thrift stores.”

Public library associations are also fired up about the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, which states that all products not tested by the enactment date need to be thrown away.

Library administrators have been mulling the effects of the act, which would have to include either banning children or disposing of the children’s section.

Kathleen Reif, director of St. Mary’s County Public Library system, said she has remained optimistic that such a sweeping law would not take effect.

“The good news is they’ve stalled it, but we still need to have a conversation with them to have them revise the regulations so that it’s not so draconian,” Reif told The County Times.

Reif said the Maryland Association Photo by Sean Rice of Public Library Administrators and the get quite a bit of donaAmerican Library Association are working tions of children’s toys,” Hormell told The Coun- with federal legislators to get an exemption for ty Times. “If it impacts the customers coming in, libraries. then it impacts the training people get, so it has a “As written, we would have to close up our trickle down effect right down the line.” children’s section … and you don’t want to do Hormell said the National Association of that any time, because then children aren’t getThrift Stores is advocating for a change in the ting books,” Reif said. “Being the optimist that I law, which has caused quite a stir. am, I figured there’s no way they can do that.”

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To The Editor:

Do You Know a Special Lady?

Dear Editor: March is Women’s History Month, a time to recognize the role women have played in history and continue to play in our lives today. It is a time to remind young women everywhere that they can be whatever they want to be; that gender is not a restriction on their goals.

Each year St. Mary’s County Commission for Women holds a Women’s History Banquet, honoring women from the county who have made significant contributions to their communities through volunteering and going that extra mile.

One woman will be named Woman of the Year for general contributions to her local community. In keeping with the national theme for Women’s History Month which is Women Taking the Lead to Save our Planet, another woman will be honored for working to improve the environment of St. Mary’s County. This year’s banquet will

be held at the Dr. James A. Forrest Career and Technology Center on March 18.

Last year’s honorees were Maureen Pomerville for volunteer work in her church and community and Yvonne Patton for her creative approach to teaching art to young children.

We encourage everyone to nominate that special woman in your neighborhood or organization who is always giving of her time and energy so others may benefit. For nomination forms and further information, please contact Cynthia Brown at the St. Mary’s County Government offices at 301-475-4200, ext. 1846. Deadlines for nominations are February 18.

Sincerely, Kathleen Werner Chair St. Mary’s County Commission for Women

Taxpayers Dollars For An Unnecessary Bridge Anyone attending the Capital Design Advisory (CDA) meeting last week at St. Mary’s City could hear that there is little evidence of a major safety hazard at the current Route 5 crossing. There is no record of injury or fatality at this college student crossing and there are greater hazards at other areas on the campus. No one (students, faculty, or community) supported the bridge for various reasons and many suggested new and more cost effective alternatives. The CDA (president O’Brian’s hand picked committee) said little except (1) “put all the classrooms on one side of the road”.

The CDA and the Board of Trustees next month will likely approve the pedestrian bridge anyway. At $1.5 million, (it will likely cost more like $3 million) this will be another of Steny Hoyer’s (St. Mary’s College trustee member) “pork” project. The pedestrian bridge will rise and another eyesore will further desecrate the beauty of Historic St. Mary’s City. Another ugly monument to President O’ Brien’s (the bridge is her baby) tenure. A gross misuse of taxpayer’s dollars will result at a time of serious financial issues in national, state and personal area spending. These taxpayers’ dollars could be better used for other safety projects, scholarships, or really necessary cost effective projects on campus like increase learning programs for students.

None of the proposals presented by St. Mary’s College makes sense other than a controllable and programmable traffic light (cost $100,000). The most cost effective idea proposed by a student was a stop sign, as he said many bikers won’t bother to hit the button to trigger the light. Another good idea was to station a college safety vehicle with flashing lights at the crosswalk during peak hours.

If the bridge is built, it will likely increase traffic speed thru the college on Route 5 and increase the danger in the legal/illegal crossing, at the crosswalk near the post office to get to the yacht club and the boathouse, on the narrow road shoulders, and biking and walking on Mattapany road near Route 5. (There has been

a fatality there), and the students using the less than 2 foot pedestrian space on the north bridge as they go to the north athletic fields off Rt5.

Rae Thompson, a 45 year resident of St Mary’s City, said she had never heard or read of a student being hit in the present Rt5 crosswalk. Minnie Russell pointed out that speeding bikers coming down the hill to the current crosswalk are playing “Russian Roulette.” Has anyone proposed making bikers “walk their bikes” in the crosswalk? My suggestion is to use public safety officials or hire crossing guards (fluorescent suits and colored paddles) at the current crosswalk like the public schools.

The schools have been using “moms” to control traffic for years. This is much more cost effective at a time of financial difficulty.

St. Mary’s College pointed out a disadvantage of the pedestrian bridge, as it may become a possible graffiti location. As a nearby resident I’m exposed to the summer weekend drunken parties and noise at Church Point. I can assure you that if the bridge is built it won’t be long before a beer can, bottle or rock will be thrown or dropped from the bridge and hit a passing car. A brick or rock dropped off the bridge can be fatal to a motorist if it goes through a windshield. It is also possible that a drunken show-off student might end up taking a high gainer off the bridge and being a needless fatality or serious injury on Rt5.

If either scenario happens blood will be on the CDA/Board of Trustees/Chip Jackson and Maggie O’Brien. They had better have a good lawyer for the multi-million dollar lawsuit that will follow.

So drop this idiotic, unnecessary, and costly bridge idea. Put in a light/crossing guard and put the remaining taxpayer dollars to other needed scholastic or safety projects like a small pedestrian bridge over the creek outside the exiting bridge leaving St Mary’s College to the north. It is time we citizens look at our taxpayer dollars being spent on unnecessary projects.

Donald Beck St. Mary’s City, Md

Editorial: Stimulating Big Government

Few people argue that our nations economy needs a boost. Even Maryland’s economy, shielded somewhat by its proximity to the nations capital and the large amount of government jobs, has slowed considerably.

Economic indicators point to drastic downturns in some sectors, but only moderate decreases in others. Overall, folks need to be concerned. What folks should be most concerned about however, is how your government is reacting to the problem.

Our nation is on the verge of two major shifts that, if they happen will change free market principles that have carried our nation for more than 400 years, and shift the role of government, a shift in our democracy.

Forget the Navy, the Army, the Air Force, the Marines, the federal government has a new Calvary, and the Rescue Brigade is armed with trillions of dollars to rescue social organizations, state governments, local governments, institutions, and businesses. Those who will be rescued first are those who have mismanaged themselves the most.

The Rescue Brigade is armed with twice as many taxpayer dollars as all the traditional branches of the military receive combined. Their mission is to take control of private sector businesses that are in financial trouble, and provide mismanaged state and local governments the money they need to expand services beyond their means.

Government intervention and ownership of private sector businesses will change the principles of our free market economy forever. Businesses that are today competing successfully suddenly have a new competitor, the federal government.

Taxing one business so the government can use the money to invest in a competitor. The price for successfully competing: you pay tax dollars; your competitor gets tax dollars.

Make no mistake about it; the result will be more economic problems, more businesses in need of government cash, more hands being held out, and government controlling the free market.

The Rescue Calvary creates even larger problems for taxpayers when it comes to rescuing state governments like Maryland, Virginia and California who don’t have a revenue problem. They have a spending problem. Maryland’s Governor O’Malley will use $4 billion in federal stimulus to balance Maryland’s budgets over the next three years. What happens in year four?

While some of the money will be used to build infrastructure projects that may return dividends to Maryland’s economy in the future such as better transportation, most of the money will be used to expand government services that in many cases are at best questionable. For example, a portion might be used to expand local law enforcement. St. Mary’s County, like all other counties in Maryland has seen large increases in taxpayer revenues over the past five years and have used large amounts of money to expand local law enforcement.

If federal stimulus money is used to expand law enforcement even further, local government will be left with covering this increase long after the stimulus money is gone.

Using federal deficits to allow states to avoid dealing with their own fiscal problems today means that taxpayers will not only have to cover that federal deficit in the future. (probably with higher taxes), but will also be left to solve their own states fiscal problems, probably with higher taxes.

Maryland cannot spend its way out of this problem, ultimately it will either have to cut spending or raise taxes again. Using federal deficits to put the problem off for three years and further expanding state and local governments in the meantime will forever change the size of government.

Growing Maryland’s Economy With The Stimulus Dole-out With Republican Party input, President Obama’s “Stimulus Package” will ultimately be passed. Dependent upon Gov. Martin O’Malley’s receipt of the Maryland’s portion, we submit two areas in which this funding could be utilized almost immediately in creating substantive employment for our people.

The first is entirely within our governor’s purview – replacement of the Thomas Johnson Bridge. And the second would be replacement of the Harry W. Nice Bridge in concert with Virginia’s Democrat Governor, Tim Kaine.

Replacement of the antiquated Nice and defiantly design Johnson Bridges will create myriad job opportunities for Marylanders, most notably those of the Southern region, i.e., Charles, St. Mary’s and Calvert Counties along with neighboring Prince Georges et al. Consider, if you will, fueling MD’s engineering and construction trades. Then, factor – in local banks and materiel suppliers, area motels, nearby restaurants and car dealerships, the Tri County housing market and diverse retailers infini-

tude. This stimulus package is the answer, as it will provide (or at a minimum supplement) funding to undertake two, specific, long overdue projects and make a most positive difference in MD’s economy virtually overnight.

Politicos in the spirit of bipartisanship all, end the ad nauseam meetings and staff studies. Listen to your constituents; finalize plans, initial prints and fast track legislation now to replace these inefficient and treacherous structures. You know these bridges replacement have long been in order and the business opportunities in doing such will benefit everybody. And just watch the boon to our state and local economies (and MD’s tax base) as a result of your timely actions. Then note the bipartisan jubilee of all our citizens.

Thanks for this opportunity.

Chester M. Seaborn, Jr. Mechanicsville, Md

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Legal Notice

Leonardtown Rotary Club Accepting Grant Applications

Notice of Request for Bidders

For the construction of the Port of Leonardtown Winery The Town of Leonardtown will be accepting proposal’s for various construction aspects of renovating and constructing the Port of Leonardtown winery at 23190 New Towne Neck Road in Leonardtown. Trade contractors who are interested in bidding on this project will be added to the bidders list and contacted with a copy of the specifications as they are available. The following trades will be needed to complete this project; demolition, plumbing, electrical, carpentry, HVAC, drywall, insulation and painting.

Interested companies should send their company name, contact person, phone, fax and mailing address to Commissioners of Leonardtown, Attention Laschelle Miller, POB 1 Leonardtown, MD 20650 or fax to 301-4755350. Submissions should be received by close of business February 13, 2009.

The Commissioners of Leonardtown reserve the right to reject any and all bids and proposals, and to accept any proposal deemed to be in the best interest of the Town.

TRUSTEE’S SALE

sale and payment of the purchase price by the noteholder shall be made by crediting the purchase price against the foreclosure costs and expenses and the indebtedness secured by said Deed Of Trust. In the event that settlement is delayed for any reason, including, but not limited to, exceptions to the sale, bankruptcy filings by interested parties, court administration of the foreclosure sale or unknown title defects, there shall be no abatement of interest.

Adjustment of all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments, annual front foot benefit charges and deferred connection fees, if any, shall be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowner’s association fees, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Title examination, conveyancing, transfer taxes, recordation tax and all other costs of conveyance and settlement shall be paid by the purchaser. Purchaser agrees to pay $295.00 at settlement to Seller’s attorney for review of the settlement documents.

The property is sold subject to the right of any persons in possession of all or any part of the property under recorded or unrecorded leases or rights of occupancy, if any.

Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining possession of the property.

Compliance with the terms of sale shall be made and the balance of the purchase price shall be paid within ten (10) days after final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Frederick County, Maryland, unless said time is extended by the undersigned Trustees in their sole and absolute discretion for good cause shown, time being of the essence; otherwise the deposit shall be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser. In the event of resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to any benefit, surplus proceeds or profits resulting from such resale.

The Trustees are not liable, individually or otherwise, for any reason. If title to the property is not or cannot be transferred consistent with the terms hereof for any reason, the Trustee’s liability is limited, at its sole discretion, to return any deposit, without interest, thereby rescinding the sale, and there is no other right or remedy against the Trustee at law or in equity.

Case No. CA-08-1550

Of Valuable Improved Real Estate located in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, improved by premises located at 24271 McGlue Road Chaptico, Maryland 20621 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in a Deed Of Trust from Mark R. Pittman and Karin Mitchell Pittman to Stanley L. Merson and S. Lynne Pulford, Trustees, dated the 28th day of March, 2006, and duly recorded among the Land Records of St. Mary’s County, Maryland, in Liber 2744, at Folio 021, docketed for foreclosure in Civil No. CA-08-1550, the holder of the indebtedness secured by the Deed Of Trust having appointed Martin L. Goozman and Jeffrey W. Bernstein as Substitute Trustees by instrument duly executed, acknowledged and recorded among the Land Records of the said County, default having occurred under the terms thereof and at the request of the holder of the Note secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at the front entrance of the Circuit Court for St. Mary’s County, Maryland, Courthouse, 41605 Courthouse Drive, Leonardtown, Maryland 20650, on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 12:00 p.m. all that property described in the said Deed Of Trust as follows: Lot Numbered Seven (7), In Block S In The Subdivision Known And Called “Mill Point Shores” As Per Plat Of Said Subdivision Recorded In CBG No 1, Folio 35 One Of The Plat Records Of St. Mary’s County, Maryland.

Said property is improved by a single family residence.

The property will be sold in “AS-IS” condition, subject to all conditions, restrictions, easements, covenants, rights-of-way and agreements of record affecting the property, and subject to whatever an accurate survey or inspection of the property would disclose, without any express or implied warranty of any kind.

A deposit of $25,000.00 cash, certified or cashier’s check, payable to the undersigned Trustees, shall be required at the time and place of sale. The balance of the purchase price shall bear interest at the rate of 6.375% per annum from the date of sale to the date of delivery of payment to the Substitute Trustees.

No deposit shall be required of the noteholder where the noteholder bids on the property at

02-05-2009

Martin L. Goozman and Jeffrey W. Bernstein Substitute Trustees

The Leonardtown Rotary Club is once again accepting grant applications from St. Mary’s non profit programs and public services agencies. The deadline for this award period is March 7, 2009 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009. Awards will be announced in April or May. A key element of “service above self” as practiced by the Leonardtown Rotary Club is providing grant funds to local agencies and programs that provide humanitarian services to the citizens of St. Mary’s County. Application for and awards made are competitive. Grants will range from $250 to $1,000 depending on the need expressed in the application.

To be eligible for the 2009 award, applications must

be received by March 7, 2009. Applications have been sent to organizations which have requested or been awarded grants in the past, are available on the Rotary website - http://www.leonardtownrotary.org or a group can request an application by writing to: Leonardtown Rotary Club, Attn: Jon R. Grimm, Community Service Director, P.O. Box 738, Leonardtown MD 20650.

Leonardtown Rotary Club is a participating club in Rotary International. As defined, “Rotary is an organization of business and professional persons united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world.”

St. Valentine’s Day Contra Dance The next monthly contra dance sponsored by Southern Maryland Traditional Music and Dance (SMTMD) will be held on Saturday February 14th, from 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., at the St. Andrew’s Church Parish Hall on St. Andrew’s Church Road (MD Route 4) in California, Maryland, with live music provided by the Southern Maryland Open Band.

Casual instruction starts at 7:00 p.m., and the

evening will conclude with an ice cream social.

Please wear soft sole non-scuff shoes. Admission for the dance and ice cream social is $6 for SMTMD members and $8 for non-members (FREE if this is your first SMTMD Contra).

Both couples and singles are welcome. For more information and/or directions visit www. smtmd.org or call (301) 475-2754.

Kate Johnson, CRNP Certified Family Practice Nurse Practitioner Dr. James Boyd, Christine Rawlings, CRNP, and Dr. Dhimitri Gross are pleased to announce that Kate Johnson has joined St. Mary’s Medical Associates. Kate received her Bachelor of Nursing degree from the University of Alabama and continued her education receiving her Master of Science in Nursing and certification as a family Nurse Practitioner at the University of Alabama Birmingham in 2008. She is licensed to provide primary health care services including well child, physicals, women’s wellness, preventative care and disease management.

New Location:

St. Mary’s Medical Associations, LLC 41680 Miss Bessie Drive Leonardtown, MD 20650 (next to St. Mary’s Hospital)

For Appointments Call: 301-997-0055 or 301-997-0114 Fax 301-997-0066

“Caring for patient’s of all ages” 02-05-2009

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Affordable Housing at Crossroads

By Sean Rice Staff Writer

school teachers … young professionals can’t live in St. Mary’s County.”

Tom Benefield said a recent study by the Rick and Tom Benefield, owners of Cross- county’s economic development department reroads Construction, are doing their part to solve ported that the average monthly rent for a onewhat may be St. Mary’s County’s most pressing bedroom apartment in the Lexington Park Deissue: the lack of affordable housing. velopment District was $943.

Subcontractors and crews for Crossroads “We intend on coming in at hundreds below worked feverishly through the winter to take that,” he said of the rent at Crossroads. the new Crossroads Apartments on Great Mills “We certainly had to gear back on our projRoad from an empty wooded acre to the near- ect, again, to keep it affordable housing,” Rick complete state they’re in now.

Benefield said. “We don’t have a swimming pool Despite setbacks, increasing costs and gov- or tennis courts or things like that, each unit has ernment requirements that the Benefields char- the essentials and necessities … and energy efacterized as a bureaucratic circus, the 21-unit ficiency was first and foremost.” apartment complex is set to open in April and The plan is to keep tenant utility bills low, promises to be a highly affordable, quality place done by energy-efficient insulation, windows, to live. and heating and cooling system. Each unit also During an interview at The County Times includes a dish washer, washer and dryer. this week, Rick and Tom Benefield said their Crossroad Construction received help and goal from the onset in 2006 was to produce true direction from the county economic developworkforce housing. ment office, under Director Bob Schaller, but “As we moved along, affordability was real- government assistance for workforce housing ly just creeping out of reach,” Benefield said. “We didn’t materialize. finally just stepped back and made the commit“It was just a cumbersome bureaucracy for ment to apartments, because of affordability.” us, for a small company, so we really didn’t get Tom Benefield said things have changed too tangled up in that,” Rick Benefield said. since he and his brother had careers as electrical The company was denied access to the imengineers at Patuxent Naval Air Station 15 years pact fee deferral program for workforce housing, ago. Now, people making “reasonable incomes because they were not a non-profit agency. of $50,000 to $60,000 … they can’t afford to sup“There’s a real need for workforce housport a family in this county.” ing, and honestly, it’s my opinion that the county “Our employees don’t really haveD ao place housing authority is not doing a very good job to live around here,” added Rick Benefield. Y “IouofF promoting or providing that,” Tom Benefield e know several acquaintances of our family, single said. el Crab

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The former Raley’s Market in Ridge has reopened as the Ridge Market under new owners; Robert Chan and family.

The Chans have been working diligently since officially taking over in October to whip the store into shape, getting stock in order and making changes inside.

Before Thanksgiving owner Robert Chan had part of the deli section torn out to make way for a full-blown Chinese cuisine kitchen alongside the deli.

The market still has a full selection of hometown deli favorites that customers expect, from fried chicken to Raley’s famous stuffed ham.

Word is spreading fast about the fine food options now available at the Ridge Market, and the crowds are living proof.

“We really have a great crowd at lunchtime,” Chan tells The County Times.

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Defense & Military

Sailors Returning From Combat Zones Honored

By Sean Rice Staff Writer Hundreds of cheering supporters gave a standing ovation as 26 sailors and their families entered the Admiral Moffett Building on Patuxent River Naval Air Station the evening of Jan. 29.

The crowd gathered in the Moffett Building atrium for a homecoming celebration for Pax River’s returning “Individual Augmentees” (IAs), who are service members that were called to support other joint force commands.

The sailors (and one Air Force reservist) walked down a long red carpet lined with cheering supporters who were waiving small American Flags.

“You can feel the excitement in this beautiful atrium, you can tell that everybody is joyful,” said Pax River NAS Commanding Officer Capt. Andrew T. Macyko, kicking off the event. “I see many familiar faces out there and thank you for joining us and really making it a community celebration.”

Capt. Macyko stressed that the families of returning sailors deserve the same level of recognition and thanks from the community.

“You and your family members are our guests of honor.

Simply put, it’s all about you tonight …

Your steadfast performance, your devotion to duty, it is simply exemplary,” Macyko said.

“We can be very proud, and we want all of our IAs tonight to be very proud of your family members, because they persevered,” Macyko continued. “It took a positive attitude to make the best of a very challenging and demanding situation. It’s really, really both about our IAs and our IA families.

“The Pax River community and the Southern Maryland Community thanks you for your service, and welcomes you home,” Macyko said.

Prior to each service member being called up to receive individual commendation, keynote speaker Admiral Paul Grosklags, Commander of the Fleet Readiness Centers, issued his thanks.

“You all went out, sometimes in units of one, to serve with the Army, the Air Force and Coalition

Commands … and you did it with style and you did it with great success,” Grosklags said. “You all proved, once again, that our Navy sailors will take on any challenge. You’ll overcome that challenge, and you’ll do it with the honor, courage and commitment that we and our nation expects of you.”

The returning troops served with units in Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa, performing duties that included detainee operations, civil affairs, medical operations, and counterterrorism efforts.

Local students in attendance on this Thursday night put forth Patuxent River Naval Air Station commanding officer Capt.

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A group of Mechanicsville Elementary School students hoisted a large banner, and led in the Pledge of Allegiance. The Father Andrew White school chorus sang America the Beautiful, and Calvert High School NJROTC cadets handled the colors.

“We can tell you we’re proud of your service, we’re proud of your dedication and sacrifices,” said RADM Grosklags. “We can also tell you obviously we’re happy to have every single one of you back, but most importantly we have to thank you.”

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Photos by Sean Rice Petty Officer Second Class Korey Dismus walks the red carpet with his wife, Kayleigh and son Korey. Dismus served with Navy Provisional Detainee Battalion-4 as a section leader who trained Iraqi correctional officers, among other duties.

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Mattingly Announces Run for State’s Attorney

John A. Mattingly, Jr. of Leonardtown has announced that he will run for State’s Attorney for St. Mary’s County.

Mattingly has practiced law for thirteen years and maintains his office in Leonardtown. His practice has consisted of numerous high profile and complex cases. Mr. Mattingly and his cases have been featured by Channel 13 WJZ’s Get Gelfman, the Daily Record, the Enterprise, the St. Mary’s Today, the Maryland Independent, the National Law Journal and numerous professional journals. He has litigated cases throughout the State of Maryland, federal courts, the Court of Special Appeals, the Court of Appeals and most recently, the United States Supreme Court. His cases have received nine reported opinions (the most of any practicing lawyer in Southern Maryland). He has fought and defeated some of America’s largest corporations earning the nickname “GIANT KILLER” by the press. Mattingly’s practice also has included considerable criminal trial experience.

Speaking of his decision to run, Mattingly said: “It is time for change. St. Mary’s County needs and deserves a prosecutor who will work tirelessly for its citizens. The people of St. Mary’s must have a State’s Attorney and a justice system they can trust and respect. Can we truly say that we have faith in our justice system? Are we confident that St. Mary’s is free of back-room deals, cronyism and scandal? Are our criminal cases being prosecuted at the level we deserve for our tax dollars? Unfortunately, for the hard-working taxpayers of St. Mary’s, the answer is ‘no.’”

“What I hope to accomplish is a culture change. Prosecutors in my office will work as hard as the citizens paying their salaries. Criminals will not buy and sell their charges by donating to a prosecutor’s pet project. There will be transparency. The office prosecuting the law must be subject to that same law. Half-hearted efforts and “good-enoughfor-government-work” attitudes will no longer be accepted.

My office will be one of committed trial attorneys dedicated to the people they serve.”

Mattingly is a life-long resident of St. Mary’s County. He and his wife, Heather, have three children: Lauren, Cole and Julia. For further information or offers of assistance, please email: John@johnmattingly.com or call (301) 475-7000.

Paid for by the Committee for John Mattingly for State’s Attorney, Patty Robrecht, Treasurer.

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SMCM Wins Environmental LEED and EPA Awards

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) have cited St. Mary’s College of Maryland for innovative, sustainable environmental practices and leadership in building design, awarding the school the EPA Green Power Leadership Club award.

SMCM has also become the first fouryear residential college in the state to be Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified.

Awards from both organizations were presented to President Jane Margaret “Maggie” O’Brien at a State House alumni reception in Annapolis last week.

The college’s student-funded purchase of 100 percent green power earned it membership in the select Green Power Leadership Club for its initiative of “exemplary green power procurement.”

The Green Power Leadership Club’s energy purchase requirements are ten times the purchase requirements for the EPA’s Green Power Partnership program, which the college has won for several years.

“SMCM has joined an elite group of Green Power Partners who are demonstrating exemplary environmental leadership,” said Matthew Fafoutis, SMCM Student Government Vice President, adding that the school has offset “100 percent of our electricity with renewable energy credits.”

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CSM to Increase Tuition

Statewide Cuts Expected for Community Colleges Andrea Shiell Staff Writer College of Southern Maryland President Bradley Gottfried sighed and said he might need a box of tissues as he began to discuss impending tuition hikes at the state’s community colleges.

These increases are expected in the face of $310 million in state budget cuts to local aid, part of which will affect community colleges.

Gottfried said the state’s allotment for community colleges this year has already dwindled by $1.15 million, after revenue figures from this fall and winter brought down this year’s education allotment from $11,224,135 to $10,225,300, wiping out every penny of proposed increases for community colleges in the state.

According to the fiscal year 2010 budget proposal released in January, Gov. Martin O’Malley will not increase funding for community colleges and will cut aid to counties to close a $1.9 billion shortfall.

Gottfried told the County Times this means CSM students will have to absorb a tuition increase of between 10 and 12 percent over the next three years, while fouryear institutions in the University of Maryland system will see more money from the state, allowing them to freeze tuition rates for the fourth year in a row.

“They’re not being cut to any degree,” he said.

House Speaker Michael Busch (D-Anne Arundel) agreed that a tuition increase may unfairly affect less affluent students.

“We have 120,000 Marylanders attending community colleges,” he said. “Many of them can’t afford fouryear colleges…I think it’s important for us to try to do everything we can to limit the increase in tuition at the community college level.”

Shaun Adamec, an O’Malley spokesman, said

that between fiscal years 2006 and 2010 capital funding has almost doubled for community colleges, and funding for community colleges will still be the “highest ever” in Maryland.

This has done little to quell the fears of local students and administrators, however, as community colleges across the state prepare once again to tighten their belts.

“The official word is that we are losing our entire allocation, but that may change with the stimulus package,” Gottfried said, adding that the most painful aspect of this funding freeze would be the steady increases in enrollment that CSM and other community colleges will face in the next few years.

Gottfried said CSM’s enrollment has already spiked by 11 percent in the last year, and he expects another increase of 20 to 25 percent in the next two years. This is in addition to a student population that has grown to about 8,400 students.

“What makes it difficult for us is during hard economic times we’re having students flooding through the doors…and there’s no question in my mind that we’ll be turning students away…you just can’t take a class that has 28 seats in it and put 50 bodies in there,” he said.

“I admit I’m a little biased,” Gottfried said, “but this is a great challenge for us…for every dollar that we raise tuition, we’re denying higher education for those who need it.”

There’s no question in my mind that we’ll be turning students away

Sixth Grade Surprise

Mathew Reider Honored for Winning Poster Andrea Shiell Staff Writer The bleachers in the gym at Leonardtown Middle School were packed with eager sixth graders Jan. 30, assembled for a storytelling session with a surprise ending, as one of their own, Matthew Reider, was honored as the winner of the Bowie BaySox “Read and Hit a Homerun” poster contest.

Reider’s design will be featured on the team’s posters for the BaySox spring reading incentive.

BaySox representatives and the team’s mascot Pinch were there to share the news and congratulate Reider on his winning entry, though Reider himself admitted he knew nothing of his achievement until it was suddenly announced to his class.

“I’m lightheaded!” he exclaimed after the assembly, fanning himself and laughing.

Leonardtown Middle School Principal Lisa Bachner said Reider’s design was selected from more than 200 entries from across the state of Maryland. Students submitted poster designs for the “Read and Hit a Home Run” Reading Program, which is now in its 13th year and offers complimentary tickets to BaySox games for students who read four books outside of their classroom curriculum.

Reider said he has already surpassed this particular requirement.

“I’ve read at least 20 books this week…well, almost,” he said, smiling as he clutched his own stack of complimentary tickets after the assembly. “I don’t really have any favorite authors, but I do like the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz.”

Maryland schools were contacted in the fall regarding submissions for the poster contest and participation in the reading incentive campaign, which officially begins in late January/ early February and culminates in late March. Co-sponsoring the event for its fifth year is the Educational Systems Federal Credit Union.

Reider’s parents, Julie and Tom Reider, were there to congratulate their son as well, and both said reading was one of his passions. They smiled proudly as they looked at Reider’s poster, which features a baseball diamond lightly peppered with books.

“Adults can be pretty sneaky when they want to be,” Tom Reider said, laughing.

College of Southern Maryland President Bradley Gottfried

Sixth grader Matthew Reider was the winner of this year’s statewide Bowie BaySox “Read and Hit a Homerun” poster contest.

Photo by Andrea Shiell

Education

Renovations Contract Approved for Leonardtown Middle School

The Board of Education voted to award a contract proposal for the Leonardtown Middle School Limited Renovation Project, for which Wheeler Goodman Masek (WGM) was selected.

WGM was the number one ranked firm based on their proposed team and project experience, which has included renovation projects for several schools in the county.

“They have a great track record of bringing projects in within the budget…and we really need that right now,” said Larry Hartwick, Supervisor of Design and Construction for SMCPS. Hartwick said the systemic renovations would cost approximately $13.2 million, and will include updates to heating and cooling, lighting, fire protection, and security systems, as well as enhancements to the school’s media center.

The project has been partially budgeted in the 2010 Capital Improvements Program, and 75 percent of the construction dollars will come from the state, with 25 percent coming from the county, though the actual project funding will be split half and half between the two.

“It’s going to take us about a year or two to complete the actual design,” Hartwick said. “So we’ll be ready to start building in the summer of 2010.”

Nine Teachers Honored for National Board Certification Nine St. Mary’s County teachers were recognized at the Board of Education’s Jan. 29 meeting for achieving certification through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), after undergoing an extensive, yearlong series of performance-based assessments, which include teacher portfolios, student work samples, videotapes, and thorough analyses of the candidates’ classroom teaching and student learning.

The Board recognized Ms. Jessie Cotugno and Ms. Jessica Tomcsik at Piney Point Elementary School; Ms. Eva Donahue and Ms. Deborah Lewis at Great Mills High School; Ms. Lisa Lloyd at Esperanza Middle School; Ms. Diana Kraft and Ms. Susan Taylor at the Dr. James A. Forrest Career & Technology Center; Ms. Sandra Tolson at Chopticon High School, and Ms. Janet Varner at Greenview Knolls Elementary School for their achievement. They will be joining more than 300 other teachers from across the state who have earned their certification.

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Statement Can Be Used Against Man Accused Of Murder

By Guy Leonard Staff Writer

The assailant, allegedly Brown-Santos, then left him in his own car and Gurley drove back to the parking lot at Dabb’s Dental where he called for police assistance.

Prosecutors may now use a statement as evidence He complained of extreme discomfort and was taken against a man accused of robbing another man last year to St. Mary’s Hospital where he later died. in Leonardtown who soon after died of a heart ailment.

Detectives received information shortly after the In county Circuit Court Monday, Judge C. Clarke crime that Brown-Santos had confided in his girlfriend Raley ruled that Stephen Brown-Santos, who has been that he had committed the robbery. charged with murder in the death Brown-Santos, 21, apparof Billy Gene Gurley, clearly underently realized that Gurley had stood his Miranda rights when delater died by reading a local tectives arrested and questioned him newspaper article.

June 30, 2008 about his role alleged During the execution of in Gurley’s robbery. search warrant on his home, Detective Cpl. Robert Merritt, detectives found the gun they the investigator with the county’s believed was used in the armed Bureau of Criminal Investigations robbery; court papers state that who questioned Brown-Santos, said the defendant’s girlfriend rethe defendant indicated he underturned Gurley’s ring. stood his rights to remain silent if Gurley was 75 years old. questioned and to have an attorney On the witness stand, present.

Brown-Santos said that though Still, Merritt testified, Brownhe originally said he understood Santos agreed to talk to the detechis Miranda rights, he in fact tives without a lawyer present. did not.

State’s Attorney Richard Fritz He also testified that Spanplayed a recording of Brown-Sanish was his primary language tos’ statement taken during his in— he said he was born in Puerto terrogation that seemed to affirm Rico — and that his knowledge the defendant admitted to robbing of English was limited.

Gurley using a small handgun in the Judge Raley said during parking lot of Dabb’s Dental Group the entire proceeding BrownStephen Brown Santos on Point Lookout Road.

Santos appeared to understand “I didn’t actually point it at everything that was going on him,” Brown-Santos told detectives. “I just told him to around him clearly. get back into the car.”

“It’d be very difficult to buy the defendant’s proposiBrown-Santos went on to say in the recording that tion that he didn’t understand,” Judge Raley said. “I think Gurley told him that he had a pacemaker and, Brown- it’s a little disingenuous at this stage to say he doesn’t Santos said of Gurley: “he was shaking a little bit.” understand.

According to police reports about the June 20 rob“He does understand.” bery, Gurley drove to another nearby parking lot with his Brown-Santos is set to go on trial in late March and assailant and handed over money and a ring. is currently held in the county detention center.

Detectives Make Multiple Narcotics Arrests

By Guy Leonard Staff Writer Detectives with the St. Mary’s County Bureau of Criminal Investigations Vice/Narcotics unit have made 10 arrests in the past week in narcotics operations including several apprehensions for illegal prescription drug sales.

Capt. Daniel Alioto, commander of the vice/ narcotics unit, said that the illegal sale and use of prescription medication is a growing problem here in St. Mary’s.

“One of the trends we see over and over again is the addiction and abuse of prescription drugs,” Alioto told The County Times.

Narcotics like methodone, hydrocodone, demoral vicoden, oxycotin and oxycodone are all included in that mix, Alioto said.

Alioto said that the most significant arrest so far in the fight against illegal prescriptions was of Sherri Ann Hutson, 38, of Hollywood.

According to vice/narcotics press releases, detectives had been making undercover buys from Hutson multiple times.

“It’s been [an investigation] ongoing for several months,” Alioto said. “She was identified by us as a significant distributor of prescription medication.

“She’s well known in that arena and she’s well known by us.”

Detectives also arrested Joseph “Bubby” Darnell Ransom in Mechanicsville, according to vice/ narcotics press releases. Detectives had been investigating Ransom for two months and believed that prescription drugs were being sold out of the home. Ransom, 19, was arrested and charged with illegal possession of methadone and possession of marijuana.

Narcotics detectives also arrested a man they believed was responsible for selling cocaine and marijuana in both St. Mary’s and Calvert counties.

Detectives from both counties mounted an investigation and when they arrested George Wayne Armiger, 21, of Lexington Park they seized more than $1,000 in cocaine, $900 in marijuana and more than $3,100 in cash.

Armiger is currently being held without bond in the county detention center.

Other drug arrests include Adam Thomas Herbert, 20, of California for possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute as well as Lee Kidwell Clark, 22, of Lexington Park for possession of marijuana.

Detectives also arrested Steve Lovell Thomas, 38, of Lexington Park after he was indicted on several felony drug distribution warrants.

Detectives also arrested Maurice Terrell Kent, 25, of Great Mills as an alleged drug distributor.

When arrested, detectives reportedly found marijuana and almost $1,200 in cash was seized.

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Briefs Juvenile Injured In Accidental Shooting On Saturday, January 31, 2009 at approximately 2:43 p.m., officers from the Maryland State Police, Leonardtown Barrack and St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded to Sotterley Road in Hollywood for a reported accidental shooting. TFC J. Stern contacted a 13-year-old juvenile male, of Hollywood, who had been struck in the upper chest by a .22 caliber long rif le round. He was being treated by emergency medical personnel from the Hollywood Volunteer Rescue Squad. Further investigation revealed the juvenile was accidentally shot by a 12-year-old male juvenile, of Hollywood while target shooting in the backyard of the residence. The victim was transported by Trooper 7 to Children’s Hospital in Washington, D.C. for his injuries and is listed in stable condition. Child Protective Services was notified of the incident. The St. Mary’s County Bureau of Criminal Investigation responded to the scene and will be handling the investigation.

Detectives Search For Armed Robbery Suspects On February 1, 2009 at approximately 11:57 p.m. deputies responded to the area of Midway Drive and Card Road in Lexington Park for a report of an armed robbery. Investigation revealed two black males were picked up by Chesapeake Cab Company in the area of Rogers Drive in Lexington Park. The operator of the cab and a friend, who was riding along with the cab driver, were asked by the suspects to drive them to the Patuxent Homes area in Lexington Park,. Once in the area the suspects asked the cab driver to drive down Card Road. The cab driver complied. Once down Card Road the suspect seated behind the cab driver pulled the driver backwards and placed a knife against the driver’s neck.

The other suspect held a knife to the driver’s friend. The suspects demanded money, which the cab driver relinquished. The suspects f led from the cab with an undisclosed amount of money on foot into the woods. The suspects are described as follows: Suspect 1 – black male, age is late 20’s to early 30’s; very dark complexion; 6 feet; 160 to 180 pounds; wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and a black knit cap. Suspect 1 had a moustache and some facial hair (possibly a goatee).

Suspect 2 – black male, age is late 20’s to early 30’s; light complexion (almost tan looking or maybe of mix race); 6 feet; approximately 140 pounds; thin build; wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt; cream colored khaki pants and a light colored stocking cap.

St. Mary’s County Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) is investigating this crime and asks that anyone with information call detectives at 301-475-4200, ext. 1996 or Crime Solvers at (301) 475-3333.

Woman Charged With FirstDegree Assault On January 30, 2009 at 9:15 a.m. , deputies responded to a report of a person being threatened with a knife on Croaker Court in Lexington Park. Investigation revealed the victim was involved in an altercation with Shanae Latasha White, 23, of Lexington Park.

During the argument White allegedly struck the victim in the eye with a closed fist before the parties separated to different parts of the residence. White then retrieved a steak knife from the kitchen, came back upstairs, and forced her way into the victim’s bedroom.

White allegedly approached the victim in a threatening manner with the knife. Family members in the residence restrained White and retrieved the knife. The parties were then separated. In addition to the assault, the victim’s bedroom door and the hallway wall were damaged by White. White was arrested and charged with first-andsecond-degree assault and destruction of property.

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Margaret Hoshall Burch, 81 Margaret Hoshall Burch, 81 of Leonardtown passed away Jan. 28 in St. Mary’s Nursing Center in Leonardtown.

Born Feb. 23, 1917 in Freeland, Baltimore County, she was the daughter of the late Bayard Benton and Rosa Kidd Hoshall.

In addition to her parents, Mrs. Burch was preceded in death by her husband Ernest Foxwell Burch Aug. 10, 1987, and two sisters; Virginia Huff and Mary Garrett.

She is survived by her children; Chole Frantz, Margaret (Peggy) Colliflower, Ernest Benton Burch and George Howard Burch, 13 grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, siblings; Esther Garrett and Howard Hoshall.

In 1937, Mrs. Burch graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree and began her teaching career as one of the seven faculty members at Great Mills High School. She continued her career as supervisor of St. Mary’s County’s first National School Lunch program. After graduate work at the University of Maryland, she became a school counselor and served at Leonardtown School grades 1-12 then 1-8 and finally 6-8.

She retired in 1979 and remembered with pride and joy the students who touched her life.

Mrs. Burch served as secretary, treasurer and president of the St. Mary’s County Education Association and secretary of the Retired Teacher’s Association. For over sixty years she was an active member of St. Paul’s Methodist Church. With Bill and Lola Brubacher she organized the first Sunday school program. She also served as president, secretary and treasurer of the United Methodist Women. For many years she was active in the altar guild.

Mrs. Burch, under the leadership of Dr. Martin, co-managed St. Mary’s Hospital’s first gift shop. She took pride in her faith, family and friends.

The family will receive friends Feb. 6 from 5 – 8 p.m. in the Brinsfield Funeral Home, P.A., Leonardtown, where prayers will be recited at 7 p.m. Funeral Services will be conducted Feb. 7 at noon in St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Leonardtown, with Pastor Keith Schukraft officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Luther Wolfe, Wayne Pettit, George McWilliams, II, DuWayne Potter, Keith Hammett, Frank Taylor, John Hilley, Kyle Olsen, Joe Clarkson and James Hall, Jr. Memorial contributions may be made to the charity of one’s choice.

Condolences to the family made be at www.brinsfieldfuneral.com Arrangements by the Brinsfield Funeral Home, P.A., Leonardtown.

Ila Jean Jacobs, 84 Ila Jean Jacobs, 84 of Leonard-

town passed away Jan. 31 in St. Mary’s Nursing Center, Leonardtown.

Born Oct. 13, 1924 in Portland, Ore., she was the daughter of the late Stephen and Nora Hines McDougall.

Ms. Jacobs was clerk for a Dry Cleaning business.

Ms. Jacobs is survived by her children, Mary Jean Brown of Leonardtown and Kathleen Nora Carpenter of Rockville; grandchildren, Stephen Peacock of Fort Campbell, Ky., Michelle Hendrickson of Bethlehem, Pa. and Susan Mize of Overland Park, Kan. She is also survived by seven great-grandchildren.

In addition to her parents, Ms. Jacobs was preceded in death by one daughter, Stephanie Mildred Barger and one sister Mildred Judd.

Funeral Services will be private.

Condolences to the family may be made at www.brinsfieldfuneral. com Arrangements by the Brinsfield Funeral Home, P.A., Leonardtown.

John Vernon Baggett, 83 John Vernon Baggett, 83 of Leonardtown, passed away Jan. 30 in his home.

Born Oct. 1, 1925 in Baltimore, he was the son of the late John Henry and Bertha Griffith Baggett.

Mr. Baggett served in the United States Navy during WWII on the battle ship New Jersey in the Pacific; he was honorably discharged in 1946. John graduated from the University of Baltimore with a B.S. He was employed by International Harvester, Black & Decker and Baltimore County Recreations and Parks, and in 1969 he accepted the position as the first Director of Recreations and Parks in St. Mary’s County retiring in 1991. He then became active in community services, stating that St. Mary’s County had been good to him and he wanted to give back to the community by volunteering. Mr. Baggett served on various committees and boards; Ethics Committee, Board of Directors for St. Clements Island Museum and the Animal Welfare League, he became interested in teaching others to read and served as a member of the Library Council, he was always active in his church, serving as Elder and an Usher for years.

Mr. Baggett is survived by his wife Marilyn S. Baggett of Leonardtown, a special cousin, Bob Tracy, numerous nieces and nephews, brothers and sisters-in-law, friends and his faithful dog Buddy.

In addition to his parents, John was preceded in death by his brother, Donald Baggett.

John’s Life Celebration was held Feb. 2 in the Brinsfield Funeral Home, P.A., Leonardtown. A Funeral Service was conducted Feb. 3 in Trinity Lutheran Church, Lexington Park, with Pastor Stephen Updegrave officiating. Interment followed in Charles Memorial Gardens.

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of St. Mary’s, Inc., Trinity Lutheran Church and/or the American Cancer Society.

Condolences to the family may be made at www.brinsfieldfuneral. com Arrangements by the Brinsfield Funeral Home, P.A., Leonardtown.

Mary Loretta Lawrence, 72 Mary Loretta Lawrence, 72, of Colton’s Point died Feb. 1 in St. Mary’s Hospital.

Born March 1, 1936 in Leonardtown she was the daughter of the late Zachary Joseph and Mary Edith Hill.

She was the loving wife of the late James Francis “Jimmy” Lawrence, whom she married in Chaptico, and who preceded her in death April 1, 2005.

She is survived by her children Joseph Francis Lawrence and his wife Darlene of Glen Allen, Va., James Dale Lawrence of Chaptico and Christopher Scott Lawrence and his wife Mary of Clements, as well as her siblings Catherine Cecelia Hill, James Leroy Hill, Edith Mae Bell, Ethel Marie Knott and Zachary J. Hill, Jr., all of Chaptico, Robert Aloysius Hill of Avenue, and Elizabeth Ann Guy of Leonardtown. She was the proud grandmother of four.

A lifelong resident of St. Mary’s County, Mary graduated from St. Mary’s Academy’s Class of 1954 and from St. Agnes School of Nursing’s Class of 1957, where she earned her degree as a registered nurse. She worked for St. Mary’s Hospital as the Superintendant of Nursing and as a County Health Nurse for the St. Mary’s County Health Department for 41 years, retiring in July 1997.

She was a past president of American Legion Ladies Auxiliary Post 221, Avenue, and was a member of ACTS. She enjoyed boating, traveling, music, reading and crocheting.

The family will receive friends Feb. 6 from 5 – 8 p.m. in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, Leonardtown, where prayers will be said at 7 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Feb. 7 at 10 a.m. in Holy Angels Catholic Church with Fr. William Gurnee officiating. Interment will follow in Charles Memorial Gardens, Leonardtown.

Pallbearers will be Ben Lawrence, Eric Lawrence, John Morgan, Justin Ellie, John Davis and Zach Hill, Jr. Honorary pallbearers will be Amanda Lawrence, Vicki Lawrence and Tiffany McKinney.

Contributions may be made to Seventh District Volunteer Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 7, Avenue, MD 20609 and/or Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Research, www.Komen.org. / or P.O. Box 650309, Dallas, TX 75265-0309.

Arrangements provided by the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, P.A.

Josephine “Josie” Amanda Quade, 73 Josephine “Josie” Amanda Quade, 73, of Avenue, and formerly of Medley’s Neck, died Feb. 1 in her

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residence.

Born March 27, 1935 in St. Mary’s Hospital, she was the daughter of the late George William and Mary Lillian Owens. She was the loving wife of James Bernard Quade, whom she married at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church.

She is also survived by her children James Michael Quade, Cindy Darlene St. Clair and Robert Gordon Quade, all of Chaptico, and Allen Steven Quade of Avenue; her siblings Mary Lillian Goddard of Leonardtown, Alberta Ridgell of Great Mills, Catherine (Queen) Pilkerton of Leonardtown, Janice Ivancik of Lexington Park, Joseph F. Owens of Mechanicsville, Bernard Owens of Ridge, Robert Owens of Town Creek and Harold Owens of Oakville as well as seven grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her siblings George W. Owens, Ralph Owens, Jimmy Owens, Rip Owens and Ethel Bowles.

Josie graduated from Great Mills High School and was a nurse’s aide at St. Mary’s Nursing Center.

The family will receive friends Feb. 5 from 5 – 8 p.m. in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, where Prayers will be said at 7 p.m.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Feb. 6 at 10 a.m. in Holy Angels Catholic Church, Avenue, with Fr. William Gurnee officiating.

Interment will follow in Charles Memorial Gardens, Leonardtown. Pallbearers will be Brian S. Quade, Keith Quade, John Ivancik, Justin Quade, Ronnie Quade and Mike Owens.

Contributions may be made to Seventh District Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 7, Avenue, MD, 20609.

Arrangements provided by the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, P.A.

James Andrew Redman, Sr. 49 James Andrew Redman Sr., 49, of Hollywood died Jan. 29 in Georgetown University Hospital due to lung cancer.

Born Sept. 13, 1959 in Leonardtown to John Charles Redman and Cora Frances Norris Redman, he was the eldest of five children. Jimmie grew up in Lexington Park and attended Great Mills High School. He first worked for the local cable company then continued to use his communications knowledge and skills working many years as a contractor supporting the Patuxent River Naval Air Station.

His skills landed him a top secret satellite communications position in Winchester, Va. His surveillance expertise required that he travel to many places such as San Diego, Calif., Canada and Afghanistan. He traveled extensively for work, but his heart never left St. Mary’s County, for that was where his family and friends lived.

Recently he accepted a position with RedBlack Communications in Hollywood and was able to settle down and spend more precious time

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Through the years Jimmie played ball with the Strugglers, rode his Harley with the local Hogs, was a tough Pitch competitor, an avid Redskins fan, enjoyed boating and crabbing, hunting, and was the family’s gourmet chef. He was famous for his backyard barbecue and horseshoe parties, as well as his Southern Maryland stuffed ham. He was a fun loving, free spirited man who will be remembered as the life of the party and for his generosity. He was the kind of man who would give you the shirt off his back if you needed it.

Jimmie married Marsha Ann Russell Nov. 10, 1994 in Leonardtown and settled in Hollywood.

Jimmie had two children; son James Andrew Redman Jr. and daughter Rebecca Lynn Redman of Hollywood. Jimmie is also survived by his siblings, Jeanette Witkowski and husband CJ of Lusby, Jeffrey Redman of Hollywood, Juanita Redman of California, and Joanne Wescott and fiancé Michael Cook of Hollywood.

He is also survived by his nieces and nephews, Jonathan Wheeler, Kyle Redman, Justin Redman, Dale Redman, Kaitlyn Redman, Megan Redman, and Samuel Wescott.

Jimmie was predeceased by his parents and nephew Charles Wheeler Jr. of Lexington Park. Viewing/Visitation was held Feb. 4 from 5 – 8 p.m. in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home in Leonardtown where Prayers were said at 7 p.m. A celebration of Christian Burial will be Feb. 5 at 10 a.m. in Hollywood United Methodist Church with Rev. Sheldon Reese officiating. Interment will follow in the Church Cemetery on Joy Chapel Road. Pallbearers will be Ross Corson, Bobby Bean, Guy Mundie, Marvin Raley, Vagas Corson, and Timmy Unkle. Honorary pallbearers are John Hardin, Carlo Croce, George Smith, and Vince Roche.

Contributions may be made to the Rebecca Redman Education Fund c/o Jeanette Witkowski 935 Chart Court, Lusby, MD 20657. The bank account information and envelopes will be available during Wednesday and Thursday’s services, or you can contact the fund administrator at 301904-8269 or Netty72@comcast.net.

Arrangements provided by the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, P.A.

Mary Ellen Rodine, 85 Mary Ellen Rodine, 85, of Mechanicsville died Jan. 30 in St. Mary’s Nursing Center.

Born Feb. 14, 1923 in Des Moines, Iowa, she was the daughter of the late John Tilton and Margaret Harney.

Mary Ellen was an active member of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church. She was a member of the following church groups; The Hungry Team, The Prayer Shawl Group, the Red Cross Group, the Moonlight Dream Club and the MEGS Group.

She was also a member of two quilt groups; the Honey Bees and the Terra Maria. She also belonged to

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the American Legion, Leonardtown Post.

Mary Ellen is survived by her children; Sandra Krush of Mechanicsville, Stephen Rodine of Mechanicsville, and Peggy Mertes of La Plata, eight grandchildren, and fourteen great-grandchildren.

Mary Ellen was preceded in death by her husband Paul Edward Rodine, five brothers and one sister.

Family received friends Feb.1 from 2 – 4 p.m. in the Brinsfield Funeral Home, Leonardtown. A funeral service was held Feb. 2 at 11 a.m. in Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, Mechanicsville, with Reverend Ann Strickler officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery.

Serving as pallbearers were Paul Krush, Kevin Krush, Steve Williams, Daniel Mertes, Ben Mertes, Bob Myers and Ty Rodine.

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

Arrangements by the Brinsfield Funeral Home, P.A., Leonardtown.

because “Mr. Simmons taught me how to drive.” Yes, Benjamin taught drivers’ education – in the classroom, on the range, and on the road. At one point he was the only driver education teacher in the County.

Benjamin had always been active in the community. His days were filled with volunteering, helping, and assisting whomever, whenever and wherever he could. Organization memberships include: Maryland Retired School Personnel Asso-

County Board of County Commissioners (2008); Citizen of the Year presented by Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. (2007); Outstanding Performance presented by the Jolly Gents Sportsmen Club (1995).

Benjamin was a big Redskins football fan, a faithful fan of North Carolina A&T State University (Aggie Pride) and the Washington Mystics.

Benjamin is survived by his wife, Sandra (Nita) Thompson Simmons; his children, Joan

Thompson of Lexington Park, Rita M. Bond (Marvin) of Mechanicsville, Phyllis A. Sanxter (Thomas) of Mcclenny, Fla.; a host of nieces, nephews and other extended family.

Family received friends for Benjamin’s Life Celebration Feb. 1 from 4 – 8 p.m. in First Missionary Baptist Church, Lexington Park. A Funeral Service was conducted by Reverend Roderick McClanahan Feb. 2 at 11 a.m. Interment followed

Benjamin Warren Simmons, Sr., 72 Benjamin Warren Simmons, Sr., 72 of Leonardtown departed this life Jan. 27.

Born March 18, 1936 in Pitt County, N.C., he was the son of the late Claudius Simmons and Rosa Mae House Perkins.

Benjamin attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, N.C., where he received a B.S. in Mathematics in 1958. In 1959, he was drafted for a two-year stint with the United States Army. After his military obligation was completed in 1961, he accepted a teaching position at George Washington Carver Senior High School in St. Mary’s County.

Benjamin united with the First Missionary Baptist Church of Lexington Park under the late Reverend Alfred Chambers. He was a faithful member who did whatever he was asked to do.

Benjamin served on the Christian Education Ministry, the Trustee Ministry, the Developmental Committee and various other assignments.

Benjamin had more than 35 years of experience in education before his retirement from the St. Mary’s County Public School System as the Assistant Supervisor of Transportation in 1993. During his tenure with the St. Mary’s County Board of Education, Benjamin was a math teacher, committee chair, and team leader, but the reason his students remember him best is

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ciation, the National Education Association, the Education Association of St. Mary’s County and the NAACP. In addition, Benjamin was a lifetime member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated, Jolly Gents Sportsmen Club, Public Action Committee of St. Mary’s County, Lions Club International, Lexington Park Chapter.

As a result of his tireless efforts in the community, Benjamin received numerous awards; honors, and citations. Among them were: Man of the Year for Public Action Committee (2008); Certificate of Appreciation presented by the St Mary’s County Retired Teachers Association (2008); Proclamation presented by the St. Mary’s

Rosalyn Atkinson, (Zebbie, IV) of Gambrills, Md.; Benjamin Warren Simmons, Jr. of La Plata, and Damian Andre Thompson of Glendale, Ariz.; grandchildren Zebbie V and Joanna Atkinson, Bryce Simmons and Keira Neal; motherin-law Catherine S. Thompson of Hollywood, Md.; two brothers-in-law, William R. Thompson, Jr., of Shelbyville, Ky. and John S. Thompson (Patricia) of Burke, Va.; nine sisters-inlaw, Frances C. Thompson of Jacksonville, Fla., Rose Foster (James) of Chester, Va., Delores E. Thompson and Angela H Thompson of Hollywood, Md., Joyce A. Harley (Lawrence) of Laurel, Sarah A. Swales of Jacksonville, N.C., Nellie R.

in the church cemetery.

Serving as pallbearers were John S. Thompson, James Foster, Thomas Sanxter, Lawrence Harley, James Swales, and Julius Bond.

Memorial contributions may be made to the First Missionary Baptist Church Building Fund, P.O. Box 1663, Lexington Park MD, 20653.

Arrangements by the Brinsfield Funeral Home, P.A., Leonardtown.

Edward P. Vanarsdall, Jr., 44 Edward P. Vanarsdall, Jr., 44, of Medford, N.J., was called home suddenly Jan. 22.

He is survived by his wife of 12 years Margaret “Maggie” A. Wilkinson and their sons Chris and Sean and their daughter Jordan.

Ed touched many lives and was an avid fan of Philadelphia sports teams. Ed held Flyers season tickets in section 105 for many years. Eagles and Penn State were a close second in his heart. Ed’s personality was bigger than life and when he walked into the room he would light it up with a joke or a smile.

He was the son of Carol and Edward, Sr. who preceded him in death.

Brother of Linda (John) Bigwood, Donna (Anthony) Scomolla. Son-in-law of Joseph and Annie Wilkinson of Maryland. Brother-in-law of Joe (Lisa), Thomas (Christine), Patrick (Tracey), Paul (Mary) and is survived by Aunts, Uncles, Nieces, Nephews and many great friends.

In addition to family, he will be greatly missed by Howard Wallach, his best friend, who is the brother Ed never had. Ed will surely be missed by all whose lives he touched.

Visitation was held at the Page Funeral Home, 302 E. Union Street, Burlington, N.J. In honor of Ed’s memory all were encouraged to wear their favorite Philadelphia sports team apparel.

In lieu of f lowers, in Ed’s memory, a college education fund for Ed’s children has been set up. Contributions can be made directly to Margaret Vanarsdall c/o Page Funeral Home.

Carolyn Louise Williams, 66 Carolyn Louise Williams, 66, of Lexington Park died Feb. 1 in St. Mary’s Hospital.

Born Sept. 30, 1941 in Denver, Colo., she was the daughter of the late Albert Brant and Velma Prather Brant.

She worked for the Seafarers Union International for sixteen years retiring in 2006.

Carolyn is survived by her children, Kellie Brook of North Carolina; Steven Kuss of North Carolina and Tom Kuss of Lusby; seven grandchildren and brother Ronnie E. Brant of Liberal, Kan. Family will receive friends for Carolyn’s Life Celebration Feb. 5 from 6 – 8 p.m. in the Brinsfield Funeral Home, Leonardtown. A prayer service will be conducted at 7 p.m. Interment will be private.

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

Arrangements by the Brinsfield Funeral Home, P.A., Leonardtown.

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Yin and Yang

Down to Earth

By Ashton Carkhuff The average American throws away about sixty-eight pounds of clothing textiles per year. It is a sad thought that much of that clothing could have been donated to non-profit organizations or given to families in need rather that sitting in a landfill. We have been living in a society where it is always “out with the old and in with the new,” but under our current economic conditions many families cannot afford that lifestyle anymore and are looking for alternative ways to clothe their families.

In turn their frugal efforts are beneficial to their budget and our environment.

I would suggest that if you have forgotten that you own a particular clothing item or have not worn it for a year to donate it. Rather than collecting dust in your closet, clothing items that you do not use can do some good for community members in need. After sorting through and deciding what unwanted clothing items you would like to donate bag the items that are still in desirable condition to give to charitable organizations. Most local charities have a drop off location for the items being donated. Call your local center to get more details. A few ideas of local organizations are: winter coat drives, missionary groups, the CareNet Pregnancy Center (maternity and baby clothes), and women’s shelters. Donating unwanted clothing items is a great benefit for the local economy, but when it comes to ideas it only hits the tip of the iceberg.

Selling your used clothes is a great option if they are no longer serving purpose in your household. Many people have luck at local garage sales and afterwards donate all unsold clothing items to charitable organizations. Also, look into consignment retailers who will buy vintage clothing or used clothing in good condition; styles desired depends on the retailer. Other advanced ways to sell items to a larger market are online through companies like EBay. For variety in your wardrobe there is an age-old trick, girls have been using it since high school; swap clothes with your friends. Pile all the clothing items on a table and let the bartering and bargaining begin. Everything feels new to you and it does not cost you a thing. Or for cleaning purposes use old t-shirts and socks; pick a flannel or cotton fibers, because they are soft, absorbent, and usually lint free. Aside from a basic rag, old t-shirts or other fibers can be braided to create rags and rag rugs that are quite beautiful. For crafts and or future repairs save the old zippers and buttons from clothing that is no longer serviceable to anyone due to stains or tears. Old fabrics can make great new quilts and purses it just takes a little creativity.

There is no justifiable reason to throwaway usable textiles. Clothing that might seem out dated or not “in style” to you might be desired by someone else. For more information on textile wastes check out www.epa.gov/ epawaste/conserve/materials/textiles

T-Bone and Heather Talk About Life, Love, and the Trials of Talk Radio Andrea Shiell Staff Writer The world outside was still dark early on Tuesday morning, when countless students

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as they do what they’ve always done.

“This is not an act,” said T-Bone. “We don’t rehearse. We don’t do any show prep…we really just try to share our lives with our listeners,” said T-Bone, “so if something big has happened in our life, we’ll talk about it…but otherwise we’ll just start throwing darts to figure out what’ll get the phones ringing.”

And the darts indeed fly when these two talk about politics, people, and each other on the air. “We have all of our fights right here,” said T-Bone, laughing, “and when they’re done they’re done.” (Incidentally, Heather may still dispute that statement.)

Of course, the life of a radio couple is not all fun and games. “People think we just sit in here and chat…but there’s a reason we do certain things at certain times,” said T-Bone.

Between arriving at the station each morning around 5:30, joined in short order by his better half, and signing off the air around 9 o’clock to begin the “nuts and bolts” work of the day (when they program schedules and record commercials), these two spend more or less every waking moment together as both spouses and DJs. “The best part for me though is I don’t have to come home to my wife and try to explain to her that I had a horrible day,” said T-Bone. “She knows. She had the same day I had.”

And even when these two disagree (and this happens…a lot), they do so with the kind of dual-personality banter that has earned them thousands of fans in Southern Maryland and elsewhere, their own dynamic epitomizing their approach to both their audience and each other.

“I don’t care whether you agree or disagree with what we’re saying,” said T-Bone, recalling some of the strange, angry phone calls he and Heather had received over the years, “but at least open yourself up to having a conversation.”

“Heather is my best friend,“ he said.

“And sometimes you want to punch your

were probably leaning closer to their alarm clock radios to hear about school closings as rain and snow fell outside.

And as Terry Straight, known to Star 98.3 listeners as T-Bone, eased into his small studio in Mechanicsville with his wife Heather, weather reports and local news took a backseat to Super Bowl porn debacles, octuplet births, and loud celebrity meltdowns, all of which combined to form that morning’s block of water-cooler banter, all brought to the air by two of Mechanicsville’s radio mainstays, T-Bone and Heather.

The inner offices of the local airwaves were chilly, but according to T-Bone, it had nothing to do with the need for temperature control for the equipment. “No,” he insisted, “it’s a conspiracy. They keep it cold in here to drive me crazy.”

Heather, who described herself as “sunshine and flowers and bunnies in the field,” grinned across the table at her husband.

“I’m the pessimist,” admitted TBone, smirking. “I can just take any situation or thing and make it awful…and we don’t have a lot to complain about, but I’ll find something.”

T-Bone and Heather never went to school for broadcasting, though Heather started radio broadcasting during her senior year in high school with a weekend radio show, making her a little more prepared for the job than T-Bone was when he found himself thrown onto the airwaves by a sports broadcaster who had invited him to the studio.

“They led me down a hallway and there was a closet, a single mic, and a red Heather light,” he said, smiling as though reliving the best friend in the mouth,” she said. memory, “they told me I was there to fill in for Such is the world of this “nation of two” him…so as time would go by every time John as they discuss the news features of the day and wanted a day off I’d come by and do sports…it take calls for their regular morning show, which wasn’t a career choice, just a little light came on airs from 6 to 9 a.m. Monday through Friday and I started talking.” on 98.3 FM. These two seem to have made a success “Somebody told me once that our show of their accidental inductions into the world of reminded him of Seinfeld, a show about nothradio, however, and after living and working ing…and he’s right,” said T-Bone, laughing. “It together for 15 years, these parents of a proud is a show about nothing, but there is something four year-old (whom they affectionately call at the end.” “the boy” when on the air) couldn’t be happier

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Improve Fuel Economy Without Changing Your Lifestyle

Few topics of discussion have evoked as emotional a response as gas prices over the last couple of years. Depending on who you watch on television or which newspaper you read, the rising costs of fuel either dictated our lifestyle or barely changed it at all.

As 2008 drew to a close, however, fuel costs took a backseat to more pressing issues, such as the failing economy and rising unemployment rates. In addition, for the first time in a long while, the cost of fuel finally began to dip, falling from more than $3 per gallon to less than $2 per gallon, and understandably making the cost of fuel a much less pressing concern.

However, while the cost of fuel at the onset of 2009 was once again back to normal, financial prognosticators do not expect that to last. In fact, many predict fuel costs will rise again by the fall, and continue to do so well into 2010. That said, AMSOIL INC., the industry leader in motor oil, notes that motorists would be wise to consider ways to improve their vehicle’s fuel economy.

One way to do so without making drastic changes to your lifestyle is to use synthetic motor oils instead of traditional petroleum motor oils. The benefits of synthetic motor oils are many. Superior wear protection, increased horsepower, cooler running engines, reduced deposits, reduced oil consumption, resistance to oxidation and breakdown, easier winter starts -- they all add up to a better running, longer lasting vehicle.

But with higher gas prices on the horizon once again, the fuel economy synthetic oils offer is what’s most appealing to motorists. By reducing friction, synthetic motor oils greatly improve a vehicle’s fuel efficiency, enabling the engine to run more smoothly and not forcing it to work as hard as engines running on traditional petroleum motor oils.

Choosing Appliances For Your Lifestyle Enter a department store or even a big-box electronics retailer and you’ll be met with aisles of glistening appliances -- everything to meet your every whim or desire. But do you really need all of those bells and whistles? Are you simply drawn in by the novelty of these gadgets?

Many people purchase appliances on a whim, without really giving thought to how they will actually use them. An avid chef might need a six-burner range, but what about a bachelor who simply heats up leftover takeout? Probably not.

There are microwaves that can heat up food automatically after scanning the product’s UPC code on the box. But doesn’t it take the same amount of time to simply punch a few digits into the keypad? Don’t spend for frills you’ll never use.

Before visiting the store, think about how you will use the appliances you are purchasing -- large and small. Consider the convenience items you will need and the features you can do without. This will help you get the most machine for the money. Remember, sometimes an appliance is not worth the expense because the set up and clean up are time consuming, or you find you’re not using the self-cleaning or de-wrinkling feature on it, or whatever the gizmo may be.

One thing to consider when getting new appliances is that newer models are much more energy efficient than models even 10 years old. Energy star models can save you money on energy bills and may even garner you tax benefits.

Another thing to consider are rebates on any models of appliances you’re considering. Rebates may be manufacturers’ ways of making one model appear more affordable than another. But in reality, if you fail to mail in the rebate you won’t realize the savings. It is estimated that 50+ percent of people fail to redeem rebates. For those who do, failing to follow the rebate directions exactly results in rejection of the rebate.

Before simply falling for the features or the appearance of an appliance, consider reading customer reviews about it.

Consumer Reports and other watchdog agencies may have published reviews about the appliance’s performance. This may help you narrow down your choices even further, and eliminate one appliance that at first seemed to be the perfect choice, but until deeper scrutiny.

You can also save some money by foregoing extended warranties on your appliance purchases. Research indicates that the cost of the extended warranty fails to be worth the purchase, as the warranty is seldom needed. Even if an appliance breaks down after the manufacturer’s warranty has expired, repair costs may be less than the cost of the extended warranty anyway.

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Space Available at Wildewood and the New WildeRidge

By Sean Rice Staff Writer What was formerly known as the Laurel Glen apartments has been taken under the wing of The Apartments of Wildewood, and rededicated as WildeRidge Apartments.

Prospective tenants at the new Wilde-

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Ridge Apartments can expect the same level of quality and customer service for which Wildewood has come to be known, says Bella Bailey, marketing and leasing manager.

Apartment homes are available now at both WildeRidge and Wildewood, with prices starting at $969 a month.

The WildeRidge community has 72 existing apartments, and 12 more will be added this spring, Bailey said. Each apartment is receiving a â&#x20AC;&#x153;faceliftâ&#x20AC;? inside as they come available, which includes new carpeting, paint, lighting and Saflok brand electronic locks.

Come spring, the exterior and outside areas of WildeRidge will also receive a makeover, including landscaping, new railings, paint and an updated playground area.

The 12 new apartments will be added to the existing buildings and be at ground level. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really nice, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of sunlight that comes in by the way theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re situated so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really light and bright,â&#x20AC;? Bailey said.

There are three options for apartment layouts at WildeRidge. At $969 monthly there are two-bedroom, one-bath units available. And for $1,029

monthly there are two-bedroom, two-bath and three-bedroom, one-bath units available. Rent prices at WildeRidge include all utilities except electricity.

WildeRidge and Wildewood are both centrally located and within walking distance to shopping and entertainment, Bailey points out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We try exceptionally hard to accommodate our residents,â&#x20AC;? Bailey said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a very proactive maintenance staff at both locations â&#x20AC;Ś We have an excellent management crew â&#x20AC;Ś itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really a community.â&#x20AC;?

For those looking for a more luxurious home experience, apartment homes are now available among the 365 units at Wildewood.

Apartments at Wildewood start at $995 a month, and include a gamut of amenities and luxury living services.

Features at the Apartments of Wildewood include two swimming pools, a fitness center, pool house, clubhouse, a car care center, bike rentals and even a concierge service for whatever else is needed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re always looking for ways to better serve our residents,â&#x20AC;? Bailey said.

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By Patrick Dugan Contributing Writer During the last part of the year and the first month of this year I have been telling you all the reasons to buy a home soon. Interest rates are near all time lows. Housing prices are down from their peak of 3-4 years ago, and the inventory is high. Now that you have decided to buy a new home we should talk about the advantages of a new construction home versus a resale home. Next week we will talk about the advantages that getting a resale home has over building.

I was speaking with Paul Bennett, of Bennett Homes in Leonardtown and he let me know a few things that made me realize this a

great time to be buying new construction.

For one, new home construction prices are down. This is not just for the houses that are already built, what builders call “Spec houses”.

These good prices are also reflected in a new “to be built” house you may want to purchase.

“Buyers are in a very good spot right now” said Bennett, “They know that builders have inventory on hand and the buyers are trying to get that inventory for as low a price as possible. Buyers also know that most builders are not putting up new houses at this point in time because there are many spec houses on hand.

When a buyer decides to build, they know that they have the builder’s full attention, and they are going to be getting some great upgrades, or a wonderful price, or help with the closing cost

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or all three.”

Most builders have realized that they are in a softer market than they were just three years ago. However builders still have to stay in business. Their workers, the plumbers and carpenters, the electricians and the laborers still need work. The carpet manufacturers, the lumber companies and appliance companies still need sales. So what is a builder to do?

It seems the first thing they did was to start offering great incentive packages. Helping with the buyers closing costs, giving them a furnished basement, or a home theatre system, or any of a dozen alternatives. That worked for awhile, but now buyers expect many of those things, so the builders are responding by lowering prices in communities.

In some communities where you would have been paying $500,000 for a house just three years ago, you can now get a home for much less than what your neighbors paid. This has left the builders and current homeowners in a tight spot in some cases. The current home owners don’t want to see houses in their community going down in price, but buyers are not willing to pay what others were paying a little while ago. In order to stay in business builders are lowering their prices to attract buyers, and thereby making it tougher on the average home owner to sell a home in the same neighborhood.

Now you have decided that building is the way you want to go, here are some tips when looking for a community and a builder.

What are the “standard Features” in the home? Some builders have granite kitchen counter top, others have Formica. Some have

marble surrounds around the fireplace, some don’t have fireplaces. Some have plumbing roughed in for a bathroom in the basement, others don’t have basements. This is all very important to research. Do not be fooled by a low “Sticker Price”, make sure you know all the costs that will be associated with building.

What about the community? What are the community amenities? Is there an H.O.A.?

And if so who controls it? Is it still in the hands of the builder or do the homeowners have it?

Who sits on the board of the HOA? Know that the real estate agent working for the builder is, working for the builder. If you are going to drive around the area looking at new home communities, take a stack of your Realtors business cards with you. When you meet the sales manager at a neighborhood, just give him or her business card and they will know that you have somebody looking out for your best interest. Do not sign anything without speaking with your agent first.

Actually, just a few years ago, builders were selling so many homes that they would not honor the agent’s representation if the agent were not with you for your first visits.

But in another example of builders looking for buyers just about all of them are courting Realtors and their buyers once again. So make sure you have your own representation when you shop for homes.

As always, if you have questions, comments or just want to suggest a topic for one of my columns, please contact me at Patrick. dugan@obrienrealty.com

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By Shelby Oppermann Contributing Writer Note to female readers who wake in the middle of the night as I do – things NOT to do in the middle of the night. DO NOT under any circumstances pluck your eyebrows. You

don’t realize it, you think you are fully awake, but you are really in a partially awake state, because your mind is hopeful up until 4 a.m. or so that you might still be able to get some sleep. You can get carried away, just one more of those blond hairs, oh they are white, not blond your truthful conscience is telling you.

Book Review

“The Survivors Club” by Ben Sherwood

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What would you’ve done if you’d been on the plane that landed in the Hudson River?

Would you have panicked and hoped someone took charge? Or would you have sat frozen, positive you were going to die?

Or perhaps you’d be one of those people – the slim minority – who sees crisis, assesses options, and acts quickly.

In the new book “The Survivor’s Club”

by Ben Sherwood, find out how humans cope with tragedy, how to plan ahead to live longer, what your personal survivability factor is, and how you can learn to land on your feet.

Is there anyone on earth who hasn’t faced adversity?

Sherwood says no.

We’ve all had our share of trauma; we just differ in the way we deal with it.

But how do we know who will be calm in the face of adversity and who will fold? Experts call it the Theory of 10-80-10. Ten percent of us handle crisis in a calm manner. Those are, by the way, the people that airline attendants are trained to identify when they greet us as we’re boarding a plane.

The middle 80 percent – most of us – will freeze and become confused. We’ll hyperventilate. We’ll feel sick. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, as long as we can shake the fear and react before the crisis becomes fatal.

The latter 10 percent, says Sherwood, are the ones “you definitely want to avoid in an emergency”. They do everything wrong, and they can’t seem to get a grip. Those are the people likely to die when things go horribly wrong.

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So, back to the Hudson River. How can you make sure you survive a plane crash, or any critical situation? First, stop worrying about minutiae and take reasonable precautions to thwart disaster in an emergency.

Don’t be overly optimistic, but do keep the faith and learn to assess situations with common sense.

Face your fears, develop acceptance and mental flexibility, and stay physically fit. Remember that you’re stronger than you realize.

From a New Mexican church where mud is holy, to the hometown of an Oklahoma acid attack victim, and a laboratory where Holocaust survivors are compared to PTSD-suffering veterans, “The Survivors Club” will teach you the Rule of Three, introduce you to Dr. Popsicle, test your survivability, and show you why the best place to have a heart attack is in Las Vegas.

Not a book to be reading on an airplane?

Oh, I don’t know… I did, and I loved it.

In a un-put-downable gee-whiz fashion, author Ben Sherwood introduces his readers to researchers, survivors (some, of horrifying events), psychologists, and scientists who look at why some survive a crisis when others don’t. This is one of those useful, lively, fun books that tells you something new and totally fascinating on every page, and I simply couldn’t stop reading it.

Want to live to a ripe old (happy) age?

Pick up a copy of “The Survivors Club” and enjoy. Which you will, because this is a book you won’t be dying to read.

Be quiet, the fibbing, soothing ego is saying. Just one more on this side, now I have to even up the other side. I better step back and take a look.

What happened to the arch of my brow!

I am not a food forager, and don’t crave chocolate or sweets. Mainly I get up and drink water or sit on the couch for a while in the dark.

I pet Tidbit while she snores peacefully. Sometimes I read, or figure my checkbook (which is almost as bad an idea as plucking your eyebrows).

There is always the yard to look at under the light of the moon. The trees and grass under the blueblack light is entrancing. There must be other night wanderers such as myself.

Very rarely do I turn on the TV during the middle of the night, though if my husband is awake he will go out in the living room and watch it for a while. I’ll go out to see how he is and then get in engrossed in what he is watching. There are some strange shows on in the wee hours. We have watched one British show, which must have been an early 1960’s forerunner of MTV twice already. When I was in the hospital over the summer from a surgery and had my happy little morphine drip through the night, I watched infomercials all night long. And I didn’t know that the College of Southern Maryland had it’s own channel with a soap opera.

I wonder what types of jobs the people have that are driving around between two and four in the morning. I always see two or three cars heading out at those hours. I know we have lots of D.C. commuters. Of course there are probably many shift workers too. A husband could be sent out on a food-craving mission by his expectant wife.

One of these times I think I will see the newspaper delivery person. The newspaper magically appears, and I am amazed I have never seen it arrive. It’s like a game for me now. Maybe

you have seen the movie Funny Farm with Chevy Chase. Chevy Chase and his wife have left the city to move out to what they believe is the idyllic country life. Throughout the movie Chevy Chase is trying to get his mail from a crazed mailman who barrels down the country road at high speed and throws the mail out the window instead of in the box. It becomes an obsession for Chevy to get the mailman to hand him his mail. I won’t ever get to that point, though lack of sleep can do strange things to you.

It doesn’t seem to matter what time I get to sleep, I tend to sleep about four maybe, five hours.

If I go to bed at ten, I wake at two. If we have a long night out and I don’t get to sleep until two, no it’s not six – it’s daybreak. I can never sleep past the first hint of daylight, which reaches my eyes.

And long are the nights when there is a full moon.

My mind is telling me all night that it is morning and it is time to be awake.

There are times when it is a wonderful thing to be awake in the middle of the night. Everyone reading this has most likely been awake for some reason or another and felt that unique feeling of being the only one to see the beauty of the night.

It can inspire you and urge you to create. I have painted some of my paintings then, or written poetry. Many times I write my articles at about 2 or 2:30 in the morning. That explains a lot doesn’t it.

Obviously, I have never needed an alarm clock. Now having said this I’m sure I will fall back to sleep one middle of the night and oversleep. In fact, I think I am going to go and rest my eyes for a few moments right now…

To each new midnight adventure, Shelby.

Please send comments or ideas to: shelbys. wanderings@yahoo.com

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Learn A New Language With Your Library Card

St. Mary’s County Library has added four new foreign language online courses, plus three English as a Second Language courses (ESL) to those currently offered through the library’s Website. The new language-learning program, Mango Language, is provided by the Southern Maryland Regional Library Association and will replace the “Tell Me More” language program.

Mango Language provides easy-to-use courses in Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. The three ESL courses are for Spanish, Polish and Brazilian Portuguese speakers. The courses are interactive and engage both audio and visual cues to assist in language retention.

“The St. Mary’s County Library is pleased to provide this improved education resource through the internet, which can be used in one of your three libraries or from your home and office,” said Kathleen Reif, director, St. Mary’s County Library.

“This is a significant increase in service from past language products we’ve made available to our partner libraries,” said David Paul, Information Services Manager for the Southern Maryland Regional Library.

Mango Languages is just one of many free online products offered by the Southern Maryland Regional Library in partnership with the Calvert, Charles and St. Mary’s county public library systems. To access Mango Languages with your library card, go to the “COSMOS” link on your library’s Website (listed below) and then to “online databases.”

For more information about Mango Languages, visit your local library or contact: St. Mary’s County Library (www.stmalib.org), 301-475-2846.

Community

Leonardtown Wins 2009 Winter County Cheerleading Championship CONGRATULATIONS to the Leonardtown High School Varsity and Junior Varsity cheerleaders for placing FIRST at the 2009 Winter County Cheerleading Championship.

The 2009 Winter County Championship Competition was held Saturday, January 24th at Chopticon High School, Chaptico, Maryland.

All three county schools participated in this event; Leonardtown, Great Mills and Chopticon. This is Leonardtown Varsity’s FIFTH consecutive time winning the county title.

There are 20 Varsity girls and 20 Junior Varsity girls.

The Varsity team will advance to the MD Regional Championship on Thursday, February 12th at Arundel High School in Gambrills, Maryland. The TOP FOUR placing teams at the Regional competition will then advance on to the Maryland State Cheerleading Championship that will be held at North Point High School on Saturday, February 14th.

Both teams have been busy competing this winter season at Invitational Competitions held at Howard County, Frederick County, and Baltimore County. The Varsity

team placed FIRST at the Frederick County Invitational, and they placed SECOND at the Howard and Baltimore Invitational. The Junior Varsity team placed FIRST at all three

of these competitions.

The varsity team is coached by Donna Quade and the Junior Varsity team is coached by Linda Hammett

LIBRARY ANNOUNCEMENTS Public Information Meeting scheduled to discuss new library space

The public is invited to attend a public information meeting to discuss new library space for Leonardtown Library on Feb. 10 at the Board of County Commissioners Meeting Room in the Chesapeake Building in Leonardtown beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Library Director Kathleen Reif will present the library’s needs based on national standards and local usage. Department of Public Works Director George Erichsen will describe possible options for expansion. The public is encouraged to attend and provide comments and ask questions.

The Play, Ben Carson, M.D. , coming

Ben Carson, M.D., the inspiring play about the life of Dr. Ben Carson, will be performed Feb. 23 at Great Mills High School

by The Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts, Inc. Dr. Carson was raised in inner city Detroit by a single mom with only a third grade education. He overcame hurdles to become a world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

The play is free and will begin at 7 p.m.

The public is also invited to come early for the Lights On After School Celebration.

From 6 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. students will present performances and demonstrations of the wide variety of activities offered in the after school programs.

Along with the Library, St. Mary’s County Public Schools’ 21st Century After School Program and The Boys and Girls Club of Southern Maryland are co-sponsoring this event.

Teens invited to TAG (Teen Advisory Group) meetings

Teens are invited to join the library’s TAGs. TAG members meet monthly to play Wii, discuss books and plan teen library programs. Charlotte Hall’s TAG will meet Feb. 9 at 5 p.m. and Leonardtown’s will meet Feb. 12 at 5:30 p.m. A teen movie night is being planned at Lexington Park on Feb. 25 at 2:30 p.m.

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Creative

Cuisine

On The Menu

Today in St. Mary’s County we have many wonderful options for dining out. Each week we will feature a local restaurant and give our readers an overview of what they can enjoy on the menu at each location.

Bon Appétit!

The Tea Room Maryland Antiques Center, Leonardtown, MD 301-475-1980, www.marylandantiquescenter.com Looking for a cozy atmosphere for lunch, dinner or Afternoon Tea? Stop by and see the delightful new menu at The Tea Room. Located on Rt. 5 inside the Maryland Antiques Center, this charming restaurant offers something for everyone. With appetizers from $7.95- $10.95, tasty salads and soups, a large assortment of wraps, sandwiches and entrees as well as new vegetarian selections all reasonably priced from $6.75-$10.95. Top it all off with luscious desserts such as chocolate explosion, homemade bread pudding, crème brulee and warm Almond Joy. Open daily 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m, with dinner served Friday and Saturday from 5:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Private events can be scheduled for parties of 10-45 people.

A Magical Candlelight Valentine’s Dinner With private seating throughout The Antiques Center

Sponsored by THE TEA ROOM & THE MARYLAND ANTIQUES CENTER DEALERS

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14th BEGINNING AT 6:00 P.M. You will be greeted by your host and shown to your private table located in one of the rooms throughout the Antiques Mall and Art Galleries while partaking of Valentine’s Punch and enjoying our silver tray service of both hot and cold hors d’oeuvres.

BEGINNING AT 7:00 P.M. With lighting dimmed and candles lit, you will be served a glass of wine with a delicious three- course dinner, specially prepared by The Maryland Antiques Center Tea Room, and you will be serenaded with romantic violin strings.

SEATING IS LIMITED. FOR MORE INFORMATION AND FOR RESERVATIONS, CALL THE TEA ROOM @ 301-475-1980 OR THE MARYLAND ANTIQUES CENTER @ 301-475-1960. $60 PER PERSON (plus $15 Tax and Gratuity, a Total of $75 per person all inclusive).

26005 Point Lookout Road (Route 5), Leonardtown, MD, 301-475-1960

THE MARYLAND ANTIQUES CENTER “A Unique Dining and Shopping Experience”

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Healthy Bites

Work up a Sweat for a Healthier You Vigorous work-outs help your heart pump better, give you more energy and help you look and feel your best. Start with a warm-up that stretches your muscles. Include 20 minutes of aerobic activity, such as running, jogging or dancing. Follow-up with activities that help make you stronger such as push-ups or lifting weights. Then cooldown with more stretching and deep breathing. Make sure to check with your physician before beginning any exercise program.

On The Vine

Ravenswood California Wines

A full bar is available with a large variety of wines.

Monthly wine tastings are also held at the Tea Room.

Reserve your Magical Candlelight Valentine’s Dinner, Saturday, February 14th beginning at 6:00 p.m. You and your sweetheart will be seated at a private table located throughout the Antiques Mall and Art Galleries where you will enjoy local wines and hors d’ oeuvres followed by a three course, candlelight dinner while you are serenaded with romantic violin strings. This enchanting evening can be reserved for $75 per person all inclusive! Visit The Tea Room today for an elegant experience unlike any other in Southern Maryland.

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One of the most fascinating aspects of wine is the geographical influence of the place where it is grown. No matter what part of the world the wine comes from, its wine country will be divided into regions whose varying soils and climate provide the various grape characteristics, a phenomenon known as terrior. California is well known for its diverse winegrowing environments. Ravenswood, headquartered in Sonoma, has the reputation as the people’s premium winery illustrated by its motto, “The world needs good, affordable wine.” Committed to full flavored wine since its first vintage in 1976, Ravenswood continues to produce a notably complex, balanced selection of wines, especially its trademark Zinfandel. This rich, full, somewhat soft red wine is characterized by the traditional raspberry and spice with enough oak to give it structure.

Available at under $10.00 a bottle the Ravenswood Zinfandel goes with all kinds of food. Ravenswood also offers other varietals such as Merlot, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz; all who hold up to Ravenswood’s battlecry of “No Wimpy Wines!”

Recipe

INDIVIDUAL HOT FUDGE PUDDING CAKES

Start to finish: 1 hour (25 minutes active) Servings: 4 6 tablespoons Dutch-processed cocoa powder 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 3 pieces 1 ounce bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped 1/3 cup all-purpose flour 1 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 cup granulated sugar 3 tablespoons packed light brown sugar 3 tablespoons whole milk 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 1 large egg yolk, room temperature Pinch salt 3/4 cup weak coffee Adjust an oven rack to the middle position and heat the oven to 400 F. Coat four 6-ounce ramekins with cooking spray, then arrange them on a rimmed baking sheet.

In a medium bowl, combine 3 tablespoons of the cocoa, the butter and chocolate. Microwave, stopping often to stir, until smooth, about 1 to 3 minutes. Set the mixture aside to cool slightly.

In a small bowl, whisk together the flour and baking powder.

In another small bowl, combine 3 tablespoons of the granulated sugar, the remaining 3 tablespoons of cocoa and the brown sugar, breaking up any large clumps with

your fingers.

In a large bowl, whisk together the remaining granulated sugar, the milk, vanilla, egg yolk and salt. Whisk in the cooled melted chocolate mixture, followed by the flour mixture, until just combined.

Divide the batter evenly among the ramekins (about 1/4 cup per ramekin) and smooth the tops. Sprinkle about 2 tablespoons of the cocoa mixture over the batter in each ramekin. Pour 3 tablespoons of the coffee over the cocoa in each ramekin.

Bake the cakes until puffed and bubbling, about 20 minutes. Let the cakes cool for 15 minutes before serving in the ramekins (the cakes will fall slightly).

This recipe calls for 1 1/2 cups of weak coffee. Use either 1 cup of regular coffee diluted with 1/2 cup water or 1 1/2 cups of water mixed with 2 teaspoons instant espresso or instant coffee. Serve with vanilla or coffee ice cream.

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Business Directory

Deadlines for Classifieds are Tuesday at 12 pm.

To Place a Classified Ad, please email your ad to: classifieds@countytimes.net or Call: 301-373-4125 or Fax: 301-373-4128 for a price quote. Office hours are: Monday thru Friday 8am - 4pm. The County Times is published each Thursday.

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Vehicles

Prime Rib • Seafood • Sunday Brunch Banquet & Meeting Facilities 23418 Three Notch Road • California, MD 20619 www.lennys.net

CORVETTES WANTED! Any year, any condition. Cash buyer. 1-800-369-6148.

1993 Ford Aerostar. Asking $1,500.00 obo Needs some work. Kelley Blue book Value $2,120.00 Seating for 7 with quad bucket seats & rear bench folding to a bed. Lower lumbard control in Front seats. Tow package. If interested, please contact 410-610-2466 for more information.

General Merchandise

Authentic Mexican Cuisine (301) 997-0442 Fax (301) 997-0554

Oak Creek by Riverside Roll Top Desk. 46” Tall, 41 1/2” length and 30” width. Desk is in great condition! Please email for Pics. Call with any questions. 301-751-7985, daisyandlou@yahoo.com.

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Vintage Aerial Photos.

Making history for your family -Vintage Aerial has over 25 million aerial photos of farms, homes and businesses dating back to 1965. We are working at connecting families and memories through unique photographic heirlooms. Interested parties may contact us at: www.vintageareial.com/sdb1 or at 301-932-8072.

Important The County Times will not be held responsible for any ads omitted for any reason. The County Times reserves the right to edit or reject any classified ad not meeting the standards of The County Times. It is your responsiblity to check the ad on its first publication and call us if a mistake is found. We will correct your ad only if notified after the first day of the first publication ran.

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Singing Along with Cloud Nine

By Andrea Shiell Staff Writer

Joe said one of the highlights of his performing career was playing a show with Elvis impersonators in There seems to be a lot of love Clayton, New York. in Cloud Nine, the variety rock “We did a gospel show with the group who’ve been packing clubs big ELVIS letters behind us, outfits and lodges across the county. In etc.,” wrote Joe, who added that fact, the story of the band’s lead it may have been the most perfect singer and guitarist is downright show he’d ever played. romantic.

With a swelling song list and “I was playing at a club in close to five years of performing exWaldorf, Allana (my wife) walked perience together, the quintet blends in,” said Joe Huffman, who plays a mix of classic rock, blues, jazz, and lead guitar. “I fell in love instantly other styles, culminating in what Al…I had no idea that she could sing lana called a “big collaboration of until she got up with us. While she styles and preferences,” including was singing I was thinking about tunes from everyone from Don Henwedding plans!” ley to Badfinger.

Allana told the County Times And as they pad their play lists, Photo Courtesy of cloudninesite.com she was no stranger to the stage Cloud Nine have been performing at clubs and parties in Southern Maryland for 5 years.

Allana said, “we’re not trying to beeither, having grown up performcome famous…we just want to play ing abroad before meeting her husthe songs we’ve always enjoyed over band. “I was born and grew up in the years, and entertain people and fight would end another would start up…boy, that made for Scotland and at the tender age of seven was thrust into the a long day,” he said. strike a chord,” she said. limelight as part of a performing group with my two older For more information on Cloud Nine and upcoming “One bizarre gig was when I was about 10,” wrote Alsisters,” wrote Allana in an email. lana. “We were asked to play at a club called the ‘Ace of show dates, visit the band online at www.cloudninesite.com.

But what may sound like a chance encounter has since Hearts’ which was a football (soccer) supporters club…we blossomed into the 5-piece’s current lineup, which includes were double-billed with a stripper named Gabriel…just Jeff Bowles singing lead vocals and playing rhythm guitar, picture it, I’m 10…and we’re singing songs like Nobody’s Eddie Finch on drums, and Doug Barthalow on bass and Child, Ten Guitars…and probably something from the acoustic guitar.

Sound of Music (no kidding!), and then out comes this more Between the five of them, there are stories to go than slightly inebriated, 25 year-old, voluptuous ‘dancer’ around. When asked what his strangest onstage experience who starts stripping off her clingy sequenced thingy…my had been, Eddie Finch said, “the weirdest time was doing mother was beside herself, trying to shield me from this a wedding reception of approximately 350 guests, and the atrocity, but I remember her trying hard not to laugh at the wedding party was involved in a big brawl. As soon as one whole situation.”

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Thursday, February 5 Wing Night at VFW 2632

VFW in California, MD – 5 p.m.

Wings sold and served from 5-8 p.m., eat in or carry out.

CiCi’s Pizza and Avon Walk for Breast Cancer

CiCi’s Pizza at San Souci Plaza – 11 a.m. CiCi’s is helping St. Mary’s County Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, and will donate 20% of their proceeds to the cause.

Friday, February 6 Fair Warning Irish Pub Band

Donovan’s Irish Pub – 5 p.m.

First Friday in Leonardtown

Spaghetti Dinner

5 - 8 p.m. at Immaculate Conception Hall on Old Village Road in Mechanicsville.

Cost is $10 over the age of 12, $5 for ages 6-12 and free for children 5 and under.

Tickets available at the door.

Country Store (41566 Medley’s Neck Road, Leonardtown) – 8 p.m.

Call 301-475-6820 for more information.

Bent Nickel

Dragon Inn (Charlotte Hall) – 9:30 p.m.

Call 410-799-5881 for more information.

Saturday, February 7 Special Olympics No Limit Hold’Em Tournament

Bennett Building (24930 Old Three Notch Road) – 3 p.m.

Sign up from 2:15 – 2:45 p.m. Doors open at 2 p.m. Side games available. Call 240577-0983 for more information.

Evening of Elegance & Jazz

The Unified Committee for Afro-American Contributions (UCAC) Presents a “Evening of Elegance & Jazz” Crystal Room, Callaway MD Music by: SHANG, featuring: Brain Lenair 8 a.m.– 11 p.m. Admission: $35.00 Dress: After 5 attire Proceeds to benefit the 2009 Juneteeth Festival For Tickets contact: 301-862-4868 or 240-434-1095

Sweetheart Ball

Holy Angels Hall (Avenue) – 6 p.m.

Fundraiser to Benefit Holy Angels Sacred Heart School. Cocktails at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m., silent auction at 8 p.m., dance from 9 p.m. – 1 a.m. Tickets $75 per couple or $40 single in advance, $100 per couple and $50 single at the door.

Tickets may be purchased in advance at school events or by calling Diane Fenwick at 301-769-2856 or Kim Oliver at 301-769-2834.

No Limit “Leaderboard Challenge” Texas Hold’Em

St. Mary’s County Elk’s Lodge – 3 p.m.

Main event! Registration available at the door. Call 240-925-5697 for more information.

Maryland, My Maryland Exhibit

North End Gallery, Leonardtown – 12 noon Showcasing artwork that reflects heritage of Southern Maryland by local artists. Call 301-475-3130 for more information.

All You Can Eat Breakfast

The Hollywood Volunteer Rescue Squad is sponsoring All You Can Eat Breakfast from 7:30 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. at the Rescue Squad building on Rt. 235 in Hollywood. The menu will be: Sausage Gravy and Biscuits, Sausage Links, Bacon, Scrambled Eggs, Fried Potatoes, Pancakes, French Toast Sticks, Escalloped Apples, assorted juices, coffee, tea and hot chocolate. The cost will be adults $8; children ages 5-12 $4 and children under the age of 5 are free.

Monday, February 9 Theater Film and Media Studies Film Series

Cole Cinema, SMCM – 8 p.m.

Featuring Daniel Reeves’ “Obsessive Becoming” and “End-to-End.” Free and open to the public.

Call 240-895-4231 for more information.

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Donovan’s Irish Pub – 7:30 p.m.

Call 443-975-1591 for questions or to reserve a spot.

Cryer’s Back Road Inn, Leonardtown – 9 p.m. Admission $5, 21 and over. Call 301-475-9446 for more information.

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Men’s Softball in St. Mary’s County on Thursday evenings at St. Clement’s Shores Park.

Call (301) 475-8421 or write to P. O. Box 362 Leonardtown, Md.

Singing Valentine’s Shy romantics who want to send a Valentine message to someone can enlist the help of barbershop harmony quartet on the big day, February 14.

Because Valentine’s Day falls on a Saturday, the singing messages also will be available on Friday, the 13th Matt Menard, Vice President of the Tri County Chapter, Barbershop Harmony Society, said.

“Recipients of singing valentines have peen mostly women during the past dozen years,” Mr. Menard said. “But, we also have sung romantic ballads to some men, including a hard-nosed Marine Corps gunnery sergeant, two construction workers and a top level corporate business executive.”

The musical messages have been delivered by costumed quartet singers in schools, restaurants, a hospitals and at private homes, Mr. Menard said.

The service includes two romantic ballads sung in four-part harmony for a fee of $40. Singing Valentines are also delivered by telephone anywhere outside the Southern Maryland area for a $20 fee. Funds raised by the notfor-profit organization are used to purchase music and costumes.

To order a visit by a quartet, call John Lachkovic at 301-862-1160.

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Don’t let the groundhog’s grim prediction keep you indoors this Friday evening from 5-8 p.m. Join us in Leonardtown for First Friday! Start on Fenwick Street at North End Gallery for their “Maryland, My Maryland” art exhibit to celebrate Maryland’s 375th birthday!

Also on Fenwick Street is Quality Street Kitchen and Catering offering free knife sharpening; Brewing Grounds with live music from Fortune’s Turn; Colleen’s Dream, a vintage clothing store, offering 25% off jewelry; Fenwick Street Used Books with live music by Catfish Joe, music by Scott Harsha, and finishing with Ward Carroll! Also visit Café des Artistes for dinner and wine specials and Randy Richie on the keyboard. If you are in the mood for appetizers, visit Corbels for ½ price appetizers and reduced drink specials. Good Earth will have free samples of organic lager, ale, and cider, and Heron’s Way Gallery offers “Three Hip Chicks Jewelry Show” with a jewelry making demonstration!

Further north on Route 5, visit the Maryland Antiques Center and all that they have to offer with the Leonardtown Galleria, the Tea Room, Creekside Gallery, and Shelby’s Creative Framing all offering their own unique First Friday specials. Come and rediscover the many treasures of Old/New Leonardtown!

Visit www.leonardtownfirstfridays.com for continually updated information and specials.

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Crabs (as available) 1 dozen steamed hard crabs

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mashed potatoes, baked potato, fries, onion rings, green beans, corn, applesauce, coleslaw, steamed vegetables

Turn on South or North Sangates Rd. We Are Located on the Beautiful Patuxent River

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The Merchants of Great Mills Rd

Wish to thank their loyal customers for their continued support!

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Newsmakers

Question Interview Caring for St. Mary’s

Interviewing: Jodi Suleiman

Jodi is a retired owner of an information services company who has also worked with NASA as an information researcher. Since retiring she has also published several volumes of poetry.

CT: Describe one of the highlights of your work with NASA. JS: I was involved in the information service work, and we did some work that prevented them from sending up shuttles that didn’t work.

CT: What do you see happening with NASA in the next few years?

JS: People are getting tired of “space cowboys” because they don’t see how exploration benefits them…but what they don’t understand is how many things they use today came out of the space program (Tang, GPS, the internet)… everybody thinks it’s just cowboys in space, and they’re going to explore other worlds, but it’s very high tech science…as for the future, I don’t know, because there’s a lot of scientific interest in Mars, but I just can’t see us investing in that right now…and medicine is having the same problem. We’re not funding medicine and research the way we should.

CT: You’re also a poet, so what is your favorite poetry form?

JS: I actually like rhyming poetry a lot, but nobody wants to do it anymore. It’s all free verse and blank verse now. All the music is gone.

Soup Kitchen Director Says Traffic is on the Rise Andrea Shiell Staff Writer On Monday morning, Feb. 2, a team of volunteers arrived at the St. Mary’s Caring Soup Kitchen on Langley Road in Lexington Park while St. Mary’s Caring Director Dana McGarity eased into her office seat for some quiet time before the lunch rush began.

As she sat, she looked over at a large mural of photographs compiled by a group of her former Sunday school students.

“It was by a group of girls I taught Sunday school for from their freshman year in high school until they graduated,” she said, looking behind her and smiling.

McGarity had just come from picking up foodstuffs at Food Lion.

“We collect food from St. Mary’s Square and the one in California,” she said, adding that they were regular suppliers of day-old bread and desserts for the kitchen, which has been feeding St. Mary’s County under McGarity’s direction for more than twelve years.

McGarity said the current location of the soup kitchen presented the organization with a difficult transition period three years ago; when they moved from their old storefront location across from the Lexington Park Post Office. She said the most challenging aspect of the move had been spreading the word.

“We work with a population that doesn’t

adapt particularly well or readily to change…. at the time we made the move, the old location was more accessible than this one,” she said, adding that transportation issues and STS bus schedules all needed to be sorted before the kitchen would see its current influx of people to feed, which now numbers anywhere from 35 to 70 people a day.

Now that the kitchen is on the map though, McGarity says the numbers of people coming in for grocery assistance at the church next door, as well as the number of people coming in for breakfast and lunch, has risen dramatically in the last year as the economy has slowed down.

“Our numbers from 2008 are up 31 percent from the previous year,” she said, adding that the homeless population has also risen in that timeframe.

With this raise in clientele, McGarity said her biggest challenge as director is finding money for the soup kitchen.

“It’s a constant challenge to make sure that funding is available,” she said, explaining that contributions from United Way, local churches, and state and county funding would likely see cuts in the next year as the organization competes for money in this year’s budget process. “We’re in the midst of the budget process with the county now, but it’ll be several months before we know how much we’re getting…it won’t surprise me at all though if we see cuts.”

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Katherine Ziombra and Doris Glasper at St. Mary’s Caring.

In the meantime, McGarity has been planning the organization’s next fundraiser, which will be a Celebrity Chef’s Auction April 19, featuring items and gift certificates from local restaurateurs.

Oven fans whirred in the back and McGarity reflected on her work with the kitchen, saying the most rewarding part of it had been “the people, both the volunteers and the people we serve. They’re a great bunch.”

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Columnist Linda Reno is a historian and genealogist specializing in Southern Maryland history. Mrs. Reno is a member of the St. Mary’s County Historical Society, St. Mary’s County Genealogical Society, Charles County Genealogical Society, Maryland Historical Society, and the Maryland Genealogical Society. She has authored many books and articles on local history. We hope you will enjoy these articles and welcome your comments and suggestions for future subjects.

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many responses he received, but we know of at least one.

Sarah Joanna Wise was born in St. Mary’s County on April 12, 1879 and was the daughter of Robert M. Wise and his wife, Lydia Ann Rebecca “Nannie” Biscoe who lived around St. Inigoes. This couple had 10 children, all of whom survived to adulthood with the exception of their eldest child, Mary Custis Wise who died in 1884 at the age of 8.

By 1910, the family had begun to disperse. Times were hard and there were few employment opportunities available in St. Mary’s County, so Sarah and her brothers, William Oliver Wise and Grover Cleveland Wise had moved to Baltimore. The boys were living together in a boarding house and working as shirt pressers in a laundry.

It would be unheard of for a girl from a good family to live on her own, so Sarah was living with her aunt, Jennie (Biscoe) Wrightson and had gotten a job as a machine operator in an underwear factory. By 1910, Sarah was 27 and still not married. Although we think that people during that time married very early, they normally didn’t, but nevertheless, Sarah was getting to be a bit “long in the tooth” as the old saying goes.

By 1918, Sarah was had most likely tired of the drudgery

By Linda Reno of the factory job and living in someone else’s home, but there Contributing Writer was no going back. Her father had died in 1915 and now her Ladies, are you looking for a husband? Tired of the old mother was struggling to run the farm. We have no way of dating games? You may want to consider moving to Alaska. knowing what her reactions were when she saw the advertiseAccording to the latest statistics, there are 114 men for every ment, but we do know that Sarah must have had a great sense 100 women. But this is actually good news for the men too as of adventure!

Undoubtedly Sarah and Vincent exchanged letters and this represents a huge improvement over the past. For instance, at the time of the 1910 census, in all of Alaska there were 45,357 probably photographs before a deal was struck. Vincent sent the money necessary for Sarah to travel to Alaska where they males and only 18,499 females.

What to do? Place an ad for a mail order bride. This is were married December 20, 1918. The bride was 39 and the what Vincent Soboleff did in 1918, advertising in newspapers groom was 36. They lived in Killisnoo, Alaska then described as far away as Baltimore. We have no way of knowing how as being located about 165 miles (by water) south of Juneau.

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This wouldn’t change after his marriage and together with Sarah they traveled all over Alaska capturing the picturesque beauty of its landscape and the people who lived there.

They had no children and it must have been hard for Sarah to be away from her close and loving family. Vita promised Sarah that he would take her to visit her family and so every other year they made the long trip of over 3,800 miles from their home to St. Mary’s County to visit Sarah’s mother and family. This would end with Vita’s death in Seattle, Washington in 1950.

Shortly after Vita died, Sarah returned to her family in St. Mary’s County and she died here on April 18, 1969. She is buried beside her parents at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church.

Obviously neither Vita nor Sarah was aware of the value of Vita’s photographic collection as a few years after his death, the glass plates were discovered in the attic of the store he ran in Killisnoo. In 1968, his sister donated the collection to the Alaska Historical Society. They are now in the possession of the Alaska State Library.

He is primarily remembered for his photographs of Tlingit Indian culture and the Alaskan fishing industry.

The picture that accompanies this article was taken in the early 1920’s and includes Sarah, Vita and Vita’s three nieces. I would like to thank Gail Hooper, a member of the Biscoe family, who provided not only the picture but the idea for this article.

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John V. Baggett, first director of the county’s Parks and Recreation department, died on Jan. 30 in his home in Leonardtown after a short battle with cancer.

Arthur Shepherd, recreation division manager for St. Mary’s County Parks and Recreation, said Baggett, a Baltimore native, was a trailblazer in the field of recreation and parks at a time when public parks in this rural county was not a top priority.

His career with the department from 1969 to 1991 set the stage for the county’s current system of parks, as he used Maryland Program Open Space funding to add parks to public areas across the county, including the county park in Laurel Grove, which was opened in 1975 and named after him in October 2002, and Chancellors Run Regional Park in Great Mills, for which he oversaw developments until his successor, Phil Rollins, took the helm in 1991.

Baggett stayed on after retirement to advise the department while also serving as a major contributor to local organizations such as the Rotary Club, literacy council, Summerseat, and other endeavors.

His life and accomplishments were celebrated at a memorial service on Feb 2, followed by a funeral service on Feb 3 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lexington Park.

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By Sean Rice Staff Writer The St. Mary’s County Department of Recreation and Parks will present the first-ever Will Smith Leadership Awards on Friday Feb. 6 at Great Mills High School.

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The award recognizes eighth-grade Youth Basketball participants that demonstrate excellent character and are leaders among their peers.

Potential recipients were nominated by their team coaches and letters of support were provided from two of their school teachers.

Parks and Recreation staff made the final selections and looks forward to awarding 11 recipients this year, reports Arthur Shepherd, recreation division manager.

The award is named after William Smith Jr. who suddenly lost his life on Sept. 21, 2008. This tragedy occurred while he was attending Becker College in Worcester Massachusetts.

Smith was fatally stabbed in the chest when a fight broke out at an off-campus party.

Will graduated from Great Mills High in 2007 and was a standout athlete there and he participated in the Recreation and Parks youth basketball program for five years, Shepherd said. Smith demonstrated strong leadership throughout his life.

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Bonnel’s Hat Trick Helps Raiders Win Season Series Over Ryken

By Chris Stevens Staff Writer FORT WASHINGTON – While the Leonardtown High School ice hockey team may not have a playoff run in the coming weeks, they feel their play as of late is sufficient momentum for a run at the MSHL Southern Division title next season.

“We’re a young team, so we’re going to go into next year with a positive attitude,” said sophomore forward Gordy Bonnel, whose three-goal, one-assist performance helped the Raiders defeat St. Mary’s Ryken 8-4 Tuesday night, earning a two games to one season series victory over their crosstown rivals.

“Next year, we’re going to be up there with the top teams in the league and we’re going to have fun and win some games.”

The Raiders (4-6-1 on the season) trailed 3-1 early in the second period when Bonnel started a seven-goal blitz with a most unusual goal.

With the Raiders shorthanded just three minutes Photo By Chris Stevens into the period, Bonnel Leonardtown’s Sidney Morgan handles the puck during the Raiders’ 8-4 win over St. gained possesMary’s Ryken Tuesday night. sion of a loose

puck in the Raider zone, skated to center ice and flipped it up in the air and somehow, it got past freshman goalkeeper Greg Myers for a goal.

“He really gives up a lot of rebounds in front of the net and we were on a PK, so I said ‘why not,’” Bonnel said. “And it worked.”

That bit of trickery started the Raider avalanche in which Bonnel and Evan Wright scored twice and Mason Patrey and Charlie Yates added goals in a blistering four-minute span of the third period that broke the game open.

“We have this problem where we seem to only play two periods,” said head coach Rob Barthelmes of the Raiders’ early struggles. “The last two periods, we got back to basics and played hockey.”

Playing hockey was a little tougher for the Knights (2-8-1 this season), who were hampered by penalties that visibly frustrated the players and forced head coach Jan DeRegt to coach a different way.

“It’s very difficult when the officials make a difference in the game like they did tonight,” DeRegt said of three major penalties called against her players.

“It was really a distraction, so I appealed to their self-respect as a team. I told them to play with their heads up and as hard as they can.”

Matt Scott, Daniel Batong, Kyle Wirt and Brock Bailey all scored goals for Ryken, who despite the loss, have been playing bet-

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Charlie Yates of Leonardtown and the Knights’ Peter Martin race for control of the puck.

ter in recent weeks according to DeRegt.

“It has been happening late in the season, but they are really starting to come together as a team and not playing as individuals,” DeRegt said. “They’ve been using their teammates and doing the things that we’ve worked on in practice.”

For Rob Barthelmes, a recent breakthrough in practice told him all he needed to know about the progress Leonardtown has made this season. “Three days ago, everybody in practice was able to skate forwards, backwards, do crossovers and for kids who are skating for the first time, that’s huge,” he said. “I’m just happy we’ve been able to work on the fundamentals and hopefully get them to play hockey the rest of their lives.”

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Rebounding Advantage Hornets Drop Tough Lifts Thomas Stone Battle to North Point Over Braves

By Chris Stevens Staff Writer

By Chris Stevens Staff Writer WALDORF – Out goes one 6 foot, 6 inch center, in comes another one.

That’s the beauty of having the distinct height advantage that Thomas Stone High School employed in a 66-47 win over Chopticon Monday night, a win that put a serious cramp in the Braves’ Southern Maryland Athletic Conference title plans.

“Our system isn’t complicated, anybody can step in and play,” Photo By Chris Stevens said Cougars head coach Dale Lamberth. Chopticon’s Joel Pease is covered tightly by Thomas Stone’s Kendall Smith.

“It’s good for us when we can plug players in.”

It paid off with junior forward Stephon Battle tossing a game high 33 points and doing most of his damage with center Dytania Johnson hampered by four first-half fouls. By the time Johnson picked up his fifth with two minutes remaining in the game, Stone (14-2 overall 8-1 SMAC) was comfortably ahead by a 58-40 margin.

“We thought we were going to get some help in the rebounding department,” with Johnson on the bench, said Braves coach Terry Mumau. “We weren’t able to do that tonight.”

Rebounding was key as Thomas Stone earned many second and third chances on the offensive end due to their size advantage.

“They take out Johnson and put in another 6 foot, 6 inch guy, that’s the way it goes,” Mumau added with a chuckle.

“One of the things I felt we did well tonight that we didn’t do there was rebound,” Lamberth said. “I think our guys did a great job of rebounding the ball.”

With Johnson saddled with foul trouble, the Cougars put in junior Myles Harris, and he gave his team a defensive edge while Battle took over down low on the offensive end with dunks ands strong finishes that triggered a 37-22 second half Photo By Chris Stevens scoring advantage for Stone.

The Braves did have a lead at the Derrell end of the first quarter, getting two threeArmstrong, pointers from forward Joel Pease and five points Chopticon’s leading from senior guard Derrell Armstrong, who eventuscorer on the night with 18 points drives ally would lead Chopticon (13-3 overall, 7-3 in SMAC play) past a fallen Laron Knight during with 18 points and earned considerable praise Monday night’s game. from the opposing coach.

“Armstrong is one of the hardest-working athletes in this conference and that’s a credit to him,” Lamberth said. “Last year he was good, but this year he’s gotten even more talented, so we wanted to make him and the people that complement work a little harder for everything tonight.”

Pease and Devon Yates added 13 and 10 points respectively for the Braves, who struggled offensively in their second meeting with Stone this season.

“We shot the ball better in that first game,” Mumau said of the difference of losing the first game by one point and dropping this one by 19. “We talked about getting our guards to move and cut and we just weren’t able to do that tonight.”

WALDORF – Brian Weisner does not buy into changing of the guards or any sort of symbolic torch passing in girls’ basketball.

He just knows that his Great Mills girls’ basketball team came within a hair’s breadth of a comeback in a heart-stopping 46-42 loss to Southern Maryland Athletic Conference leader North Point High School Friday night.

Photo By Chris Stevens

North Point’s Tiara Butler finds herself surrounded by Great Mills’ Shamara Adams and Corleda Naylor.

“[North Point] did what they needed to do to win and they took us out of what we wanted to do,” Weisner said. “They executed and got some good looks at the basket when it got down to it.”

North Point Junior Center Robyn Parks led all scorers with 17 points, but the 6-foot Eagles star’s impact was hardest felt on the defensive end, where her long arms, along with the general height advantage North Point enjoyed, became the smaller Hornets’ undoing.

“They have size and they can jump,” Weisner said of the frontcourt of Parks, 5-foot, 11-inch Tiara Butler and 5-foot, 8-inch Brittany Baker that constantly got a hand in the face – or on the ball – of Great Mills’ shots. “Does it hurt when you play a team with girls who can reach for the bottom of the net? Sure, but we had a ton of great looks and we missed a ton also.”

The Eagles (14-1 overall, 8-0 in SMAC play) jumped out to a 7-1 lead early in the first quarter, but Great Mills (10-4 overall, 7-1 SMAC) clawed back, using a 14-6 run, capped by a RyShawn Butler lay-up, to give them their first lead of the game one minute into the second. Butler and point guard Shamara Adams led the Hornets in scoring with eight points each.

North Point was able to take the lead and hold onto it with their tough defense and by using an opportunistic running offense that took advantage of the defensive hustle of Great Mills.

“There were times when they built their lead,” Weisner explained, “that our girls would dive on the floor after a loose ball, and then North Point would pick it up and score a basket. It’s just the way the ball bounces.”

Parks’ three-point play in the final minute of the third quarter began a 104 stretch that saw North Point’s lead balloon to nine points; but the Hornets fought back to shrink it to four points (the final margin when junior forward Tori Bradburn sped in for a lay-up at the buzzer), but could get no closer.

Weisner expected his girls to get this game out of their system in preparation for the final half of the conference schedule and the 3A South Regional playoffs.

“We’re going to put it behind us.

[Saturday] morning, we’ll be back in Photo By Chris Stevens the gym practicing,” he said. “Our Tyneshia Baker looks to drive past the Eagles’ season’s not over and their season’s Gabby Brice. not over.”

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SPORTS DESK Another Super Ending Sees Pittsburgh as Champions

By Chris Stevens Staff Writer Well as you can see, we’ve switched up our newspaper, and with a new paper comes a new day, and why should The Sports Desk be any different?

With not as much space as before, it saves time and energy (and more importantly, your eyes) to shorten the subjects of my choosing down to a few hundred words instead of a thousand or more.

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Instead of going off on a tangent and covering a few topics, it’s better to talk about the recently completed Super Bowl, which gave us a final five minutes that rivaled, if not surpassed, the Giants-Patriots duel of a year ago.

The Pittsburgh Steelers can rightfully lay claim to the title as the National Football League’s most successful team of the modern post-merger era, thanks to Santonio Holmes’ happy feet. The former Ohio

State star toed the line in the right corner of the end zone and held on to a six-yard pass from Ben Roethlisberger with 35 seconds remaining to give the Steelers a 27-23 win and their sixth Super Bowl championship, pushing them past the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers for the most in league history.

It wasn’t easy or pretty by any stretch of the imagination, but two teams that were not expected to be in Tampa

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The Steelers were an afterthought in the loaded American Football Conference, but managed to outscore the highpowered San Diego Chargers and edged the pesky Baltimore Ravens in the AFC playoffs to get to their seventh Super Bowl in team history. The Steelers defense was a given, but people were unsure if Ben Roethlisberger could even be kept upright in this playoff run, seeing as he suffered a spinal concussion in the regular season finale against the Cleveland Browns.

Meanwhile, if the Steelers were an afterthought this season, the Arizona Cardinals have NEVER been a thought.

Regarded as one of the worst franchises in all of pro sports for half a century, the Cardinals barely won the terrible NFC West division this season and many, including this sports writer, picked them to lose their home game to the upstart Atlanta Falcons in the wild card round.

Instead, the Cardinals edged the Falcons, stunned the Carolina Panthers and outlasted the Philadelphia Eagles to make it to their first Super Bowl in team history.

The Steelers looked poised to take over when linebacker James Harrison picked off a Kurt Warner pass and huffed and puffed 100 yards to the end zone for the longest touchdown play in the history of the game, but the Cardinals rallied, capping their amazing comeback on a 64-yard catch and run touchdown by Larry Fitzgerald, who did nothing but cement his reputation as the best wide receiver in football, hands down.

The long play gave the Cardinals a 23-20 lead and left the Steelers with just over two minutes to save a championship. Holmes, the oft-troubled but wildly talented receiver told Roethlisberger he wanted the ball, and he delivered with four catches on the final drive, including the game winner which came under review. Holmes clearly had both feet inbounds and the review confirmed that.

A Warner fumble with five seconds left was recovered by the Steelers and Pittsburgh had its sixth world championship.

An incredible ending to an incredible season, and now the countdown to training camp and exhibition season begins.

Relax folks; it’s only five and a half months away.

Any comments about this week’s From The Sports Desk? Contact Chris Stevens at chrisstevens@countytimes. net and share your thoughts about this week’s column.

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High School Sports Schedule 02/05/09-02/11/09 Thursday Feb. 5 Wrestling Chopticon at Lackey, 7 p.m.

Great Mills at Westlake, 7 p.m.

Friday Feb. 6 Boys’ Basketball North Point at Chopticon, 7:30 p.m.

Leonardtown at Great Mills, 7:30 p.m.

St. Mary’s Ryken at Gonzaga, 7:30 p.m.

Girls’ Basketball Chopticon at North Point, 6:30 p.m.

Great Mills at Leonardtown, 6:30 p.m.

Holy Cross at St. Mary’s Ryken, 7 p.m.

Ice Hockey St. Mary’s Ryken vs. La Plata at Capital Clubhouse (Waldorf), 5 p.m.

Saturday Feb. 7 Swimming Chopticon/Great Mills/Leonardtown at SMAC Swim Meet, PG County Sports Complex, (Landover), 8 a.m.

Wrestling Patuxent at Chopticon, 11 a.m.

Sunday Feb. 8 Boys’ Basketball Bishop McNamara at St. Mary’s Ryken, 5:45 p.m.

Girls’ Basketball St. Mary’s Ryken at Bishop McNamara, 3 p.m.

Monday Feb. 9 Wrestling Lackey at Great Mills, 7 p.m.

Tuesday Feb. 10 Boys’ Basketball Bishop Ireton at St. Mary’s Ryken, 7:30 p.m.

Girls’ Basketball St. Mary’s Ryken at Bishop Ireton, 7 p.m.

Wednesday Feb. 11 Boys’ Basketball Great Mills at Northern, 7:30 p.m.

Leonardtown at McDonough, 7:30 p.m.

Girls’ Basketball Northern at Great Mills, 6:30 p.m.

McDonough at Leonardtown, 6:30 p.m.

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St. Mary’s College

Flu-Ridden SMC Women Get Defensive in Victory

By Chris Stevens Staff Writer

“I think we did a good job of making them uncomfortable with their shots,” Bausch said of SMC limiting the Mustangs (4-14 overall, 2-7 in CAC play) to just 14for-54 (25.9 percent) shooting from the field, with the 37 points allowed a conference low for the Hawks this season. They also forced Stevenson into 23 turnovers.

“We kept [Stevenson] in it, but in the end, we got

the key rebounds that we needed to get to keep them from scoring off those rebounds.”

With the Hawks winning three of their ST. MARY’S CITY – Head coach Barb Bausch last four, they are working their way into the knew that with a flu bug attacking the St. Mary’s Colconversation for the fourth seed, but Bausch lege women’s basketball team, the run-and-gun offense realizes with a short bench, getting a home was not an option against Stevenson University Thursplayoff game is a longshot. day night.

“That would be a stretch,” “We knew we were going to have to she said of a home game keep this team to as few points as we could this season, one year and get some key stops,” Bausch said after the after the Hawks’ Seahawks pulled out a 44-37 win in the Athhosted their first letics and Recreation Center Arena. “It was CAC tournament huge the way they came out and competed as game since 2005. a team.”

“We could be With starters Tiara Hurte, Jamie Roberts, anywhere from who led all scorers with 13 points, and Megan fourth to sixth Seeman climbing out of their sick beds to suit place, but it is goup, Bausch started her two freshmen, Bethaing to be tough. ny Townsend and Octavia Davis in the back“We’re still court, along with junior center Alex Wenger building our and senior Tori Whitlow sharing the defense homecourt adand rebounding responsibilities for the Hawks vantage and we (6-11 overall, 4-5 in Capital Athletic Conferplay well away, ence action) most of the evening. so I don’t see a The gamble worked in the second half, problem with as Whitlow hauled in a season-high eight that,” she added rebounds (she also contributed seven points) with a grin. and Roberts and Hurte came off the bench to Breonna combine for 18 of the Seahawk’s 29 secondBrewer and Tara half points, which helped put the game away.

Photo By Chris Stevens Galvin led the However, it was on the defensive end of the Must angs floor where Bausch felt the Seahawks were at The Seahawks’ Kiely Murphy defends a drive from Stevenson’s Breonna Brewer dur- with seven ing last Wednesday night’s women’s basketball game. their strongest. points each.

Jamie Roberts’ 13 points lifted St. Mary’s College to a 44-37 win over Stevenson University, their third straight win at home.

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The Seahawks’ last loss on their floor came to Marymount University Jan. 30, 2008.

While the Seahawks got the usual 23 points and seven assists from Camontae Griffin and 18 points and 10 rebounds from Mike Fitzpatrick, the evening turned out to be a showcase for bench players such as Cosgove, sophomores Joe Smith and Sam Burum along with senior Ben Biber, who may not get a lot of playing time, but are just as important to SMC’s success as the starters.

“Those guys are really in a tough position,” said senior forward Calvin Wise, who scored 10 points on five-of-five shooting from the field. “They work so hard in practice and I know they may not feel like they’re a part of the team, but they are. To see them take care of business tonight was great.”

Before the reserves could get their shine, the Seahawks (14-4 overall, 7-2 in Capital Athletic Conference play) had their starters take the Mustangs out early. St. Mary’s College cruised to a 24-11 advantage in the first eight minutes of the game, and it snowballed from there. A Fitzpatrick jumper from straight away at the 3:33 mark of the first half opened up a 30-point lead, and not long into the second half, the starters were able to rest.

“Those guys on the bench have been real patient and working their tails off,” Head Coach Chris Harney said of the 36-point effort by the bench, spearheaded by 11 points from sophomore forward Mike Bowden and eight from Burum. “They are what makes up a great team, and I couldn’t be prouder of those guys than I am tonight.”

As for the homecourt advantage, the Hawks credit their fellow students as well as people from the local community for the encouraging and riotous atmosphere that the ARC Arena provides.

“I would hate to be a visitor coming in here to play a game,” sophomore guard Alex Franz (13 points and five assists on the evening) said. “They give us so much support, it pumps us up and you want to win and play even harder for them.”

Greg Woody led Stevenson (4’s Softb 14 overall, 3-6 n CAC) and all e 50 and over scorers with 30 Men’s Softball in points, while St. Mary’s County on Matt Leddy, Thursday evenings at a Great Mills St. Clement’s Shores Park. native and Call (301) 475-8421 or Great Mills write to P. O. Box High graduate, 362 Leonardtown, added 11 points.

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