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With the seasons changing from winter to spring this week, the time for migrating seals of all shapes and sizes on the beaches in and around the resort area is nearing its end. Pictured above, an adult gray seal bounds back into the ocean at Assateague last Saturday. Pictured below, a playful juvenile hammed Photos by Allen Sklar, above, and Jim Halvorsen, below it up for an intrepid photographer on Assateague on the same day.

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OCEAN CITY – Following a somewhat terse debate, resort officials did not approve a motion that would have revoked the approval of nine smallscale cell towers in certain north-end residential neighborhoods.

In what was a slight breach of etiquette, Councilman Tony DeLuca during the council comments section of Monday’s meeting made a motion to revoke the Mayor and Council’s approval last month of nine small-scale cell towers in north-end residential areas. The motion was seconded by Councilman Matt James. It was learned during the same part of the meeting the Town of Ocean City has joined other municipalities around the country facing the same issues in a federal suit against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) which affords wireless communication companies the authority to place the towers were the demand required them with or without local approval.

In December, representatives of the private-sector company Crown Castle announced a proposal to install smallcell towers in certain north-end residential neighborhoods in the interest of improving wireless data service.

Last month, a divided council approved the siting of nine new small cell towers in the north-end residential neighborhoods after it was learned the company was within their purview to do so under current FCC regulations.

After DeLuca made his motion on Monday to reverse those approvals, City Manager Doug Miller explained the town’s opposition was now proceeding on two parallel tracks, including joining the federal lawsuit against the FCC ruling.

“We’ve done two things,” he said.

“We have entered as a party in a lawsuit that’s trying to overturn the FCC regulations that basically usurp all of our local authority on these types of installations. I don’t know where that will go, but it’s being actively pursued in federal court.”

Miller explained the town’s secondary effort revolved around pending legislation in the Maryland General Assembly on the same issues.

“The second thing is, the communications industry wants to further dilute our powers over land ownership, property rights and local zoning in the legislature and we are working with the Maryland Municipal League to try to thwart that,” he said.

Mayor Rick Meehan said he has been following the legislation in the General Assembly and voiced some concerns.

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FROM PAGE 4 cally wherever they want,” he said.

“There is legislation that would solidify the control we have today not to eliminate them, but to control them. Those things are ongoing and if you are looking to wait until we get some results from those efforts, I think it’s probably a good idea.”

In terms of DeLuca’s somewhat abrupt motion on Monday to reverse the council’s approval of the nine cell towers, Councilman Dennis Dare and Council Secretary Mary Knight said they could not support the motion because of protocol issues.

“I really think it’s inappropriate to bring this up in the comments section of the meeting when we don’t have staff here that is intimately familiar with these issues,” he said. “It belongs in a work session if you want to revisit it, but not bringing it up like this.”

For his part, James said he too had some concerns about the apparent breach in protocol, but supported the motion anyway.

“I seconded the motion because I believe we have a policy in place,” he said. “I know we’ve deviated slightly from it, but we hear a lot from our residents and there are concerns. I wasn’t prepared to talk about this tonight and I was a little surprised by the motion, but I do support the motion if for no other reason than to deny them until we here back on some of these other actions going on.”

Councilman John Gehrig said he agreed with holding back on the approvals until the legislative remedies ran their course.

“We’ve discussed this a lot,” he said. “This is not a new topic. There is no harm in waiting here.”

It got a little chippy when James pointed out Councilman Mark Paddack approved small cell towers in Caine Keys II where he lives, but there was no tower in front of his own home.

“Councilman Paddack approved the towers for his neighborhood, but you don’t see on of them in front of his house,” he said.

Paddack responded he had no concerns about the towers and would welcome one in front of his home if Crown Castle believed it was a good location.

“I have transmission boxes and telephone poles up and down my whole street,” he said. “I don’t care if I had a cellphone node in front of my house because I’m not convinced the scientific data says they can cause cancer. So, don’t ever say ‘in front of my house’ again because I would say put one there if you need to.”

After more debate, the council voted 3-2-2 on DeLuca’s motion, with DeLuca, James and Gehrig in favor, Paddack and Council President Lloyd Martin opposed and Dare and Knight abstaining. As such, the motion did not pass.

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OCEAN CITY – Satisfied the concerns of the neighboring community had been addressed, resort officials this week approved a conditional use request for a north-end water taxi service with conditions in place on the hours of operation and noise.

The Mayor and Council had before them on Monday a request for a conditional use to allow for a water taxi service based at a canal adjacent to the Food Lion shopping center near 118th Street. After a spirited public hearing

last month, the Planning Commission forwarded a favorable recommendation to the full Mayor and Council.

The owners operated the business on a temporary basis for six weeks at the height of the summer season last year with the requisite business license. However, because the owners plan to add a floating dock and a handicap-accessible ramp to the operation this year, along with utilizing an existing kiosk as an office and ticketing facility, the business has to be approved as a conditional use.

It’s a rather unique case because riparian rights allow for a water taxi business on the public waterways, but because there are elements attached to the land including the kiosk and ramp, for example, it falls under the town’s zoning code. By way of background, the area proposed for the new water taxi business falls in one of the most permissive zoning designations in the town code and almost any other business including a waterfront restaurant and bar would be permissible.

The plan calls for two 27-foot Carolina skiffs outfitted for public use each capable of carrying up to 19 passengers. Called the Bay Hopper, the service would shuttle passengers along the bayside from one end of the resort to the other with guided tours of the back bays and Assateague, for example. Perhaps more importantly, the water taxi service would shuttle individuals and groups of people to and from the various restaurants, bars and other amenities on the bayside. Each of the Bay Hopper’s principle owners is a licensed captain with years of experience on the water.

Before the council took any action on the request this week, Planning and Community Development Director Bill Neville outlined some of the highlights of the planning commission’s public hearing and presented the weighty testimony.

“I think you’ll see the planning commission’s findings of fact address the residents’ concerns,” he said. “There is a limit on the number of boats, the noise and other conditions that fit the character and scale of the neighborhood.”

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From Page 6 taxi concept, but there were issues to be resolved before it could be approved. Councilman Dennis Dare said the business operated for a portion of last summer with no issues reported.

“I think it’s a great concept,” he said. “Through all of this I don’t recall anybody having a problem with the concept. It’s well-documented how it fits in the comprehensive plan. They operated the last half of last summer and there weren’t any complaints.”

Dare pointed out the proposed water taxi use could be less onerous than other situations at that location.

“This shopping center has 750 linear feet of bulkhead with riparian rights, so they do have some rights in there,” he said. “I’d say they could have 36 transient slips in there and

have boats coming in and out of there all day. Sometimes, you have to be careful what you wish for. This will have two boats with licensed captains when you could have a lot of novice boaters in there.”

That being said, Dare raised questions about the hours of operation, the apparent lack of public restrooms and noise concerns.

“I do think there needs to be some limits on the hours of operation,” he said. “The kiosk is in a commercial area, but both sides of that canal for about a mile is residential.”

There was a large discussion about the hours of operation, particularly the last pick-up time at the 118th Street location and, perhaps more importantly, the last drop-off time. It should be noted once the water taxis are out on

the open water, they are free to move customers from one bayside establishment to the other without limits on the hours of operation.

In the context of the conditional use request at the 118th Street site, however, it was within the Mayor and Council’s purview to place limits on pick-up and drop-off times in the interest of insulating the neighbors from undue hardship. Council Secretary Mary Knight cautioned about being too restrictive with the drop-off time.

“I’d hate to be too restrictive on the end time,” she said. “If I want to go to dinner at nine o’clock in the summer and I want to take the water taxi back to my vehicle, I just think it would be detrimental to make them stop dropping people off at 9 p.m.”

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raised concerns about potentially bringing back rowdy customers late at night.

“I do support this and I think it’s going to be great,” he said. “My one concern is with them bringing customers back at night being loud through those residential areas. I think we can restrict the hour at which they can bring people back, but I’m not sure what that hour is.”

Mayor Rick Meehan said there needed to be some consensus on some of the issues before a vote was called.

“A lot of us agree if the council is going to pass this, we need to address a couple of things,” he said. “Let’s be specific with some of these conditions.

For example, I think the bathroom at the kiosk has to be made available to the public. The hours of operation need to be discussed. I think the last pick-up time at that location should be 9 p.m.”

Again, James voiced his concern with the proposed end-of-night drop-off time.

“The issue shouldn’t be the pick-up time, it should be the drop off time,” he said. “I don’t think we should have them coming back in there at 2 a.m. with 19 bar-hoppers on there. They should be able to stay out all night if they want. I’m just saying they shouldn’t be bringing customers down that canal late at night.”

Knight reiterated her position on the hours of operation and proposed limitations on drop-off times.

“I just think it would hamper their business,” she said. “Midnight is fine, but I don’t think 10 p.m. is fair. These guys have shown they are dedicated to making this work the best it can for the neighbors.”

Councilman John Gehrig pointed out the conditional use could be revoked at any time if there were continued violations of the conditions attached.

“We really need to settle the issue of the hours,” he said. “I think there has to be a later drop-off time. The operators can control their customers and the noise. They have to or they risk losing their business.”

With that said, Meehan laid out the conditions in an effort to pull the discussion back to the point a vote could be taken. For example, the floating dock would be limited to just the approved private commercial business and there could be no amplified noise from the vessels once they were in the residential canal.

The operation would be limited to just the two 27-foot vessels described in the application. The hours of operation would be 8:30 a.m. to midnight with the last pick-up time at the 118th Street location at 10 p.m.

With all of that clarified, the council voted unanimously to approve the conditional use. The conditional use will remain in effect for two years although the motion included a review of how it went after the first year.

The water taxi service is considered a transportation use and not a recreational amenity.

Knox, Taylor Honored With Field Naming

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The Worcester County Board of Education this week announced some of the athletic facilities at Stephen Decatur High School would be named for longtime teacher and football coach Bob Knox and former principal Lou Taylor. Pictured are current Decatur principal Tom Sites, Knox, Taylor and former principal Tom Zimmer.

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BERLIN – Worcester school officials announced on Tuesday that Stephen Decatur High School’s athletic field and stadium will be named for popular football coach Bob Knox and longtime former principal Lou Taylor.

The Worcester County Board of Education on Tuesday approved a motion to officially name the facilities at Stephen Decatur High School (SDHS) the Robert G. Knox Field at Louis H. Taylor Stadium. The new title, which comes as the existing field is being replaced with a new turf field, honors well-known history teacher and football coach Knox as well as Taylor, who before being appointed superintendent spent 17 years as principal of the Berlin school.

“We’re so very proud of what they’ve done and how they’ve represented us,” said Bill Gordy, president of the school board.

The news that the field and stadium were being renamed was delivered Tuesday by current Decatur Principal Tom Sites and past Decatur Principal Tom Zimmer, who now leads Worcester Technical High School. Both men worked with Taylor and Knox during their years at SDHS. Knox, who has taught U.S. history at the high school for 46 years, is known for his leadership on the football field. After starting as an assistant coach he was appointed head coach in 1983 and has established a record of 231-142. Under his leadership the Seahawks have made 10 state playoff appearances and have reached the state semi-finals twice. In 2018, Knox was inducted into the Maryland Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

“We are proud of the tradition Coach Knox has brought to the school,” Sites said. “Coach Knox is a phenomenal football coach, but he’s an even better teacher. We can all attest to that.”

Taylor spent decades with Knox at

Decatur. He started as a student, graduating in 1978, before returning to teach and coach at the school. Taylor spent time as an assistant football coach under Knox and also helped coach the school’s basketball and baseball teams.

He spent 17 years as principal of the school and in 1998 was named Maryland’s Secondary School Principal of the Year. Zimmer pointed out that during his years as principal, Taylor had helped raise funding for a new fieldhouse and homecoming fireworks. He also worked with local emergency responders to establish the annual mock accident presentation.

“He has been the number one cheerleader for Stephen Decatur High School and now he’s the number one cheerleader for Worcester County Public Schools,” Zimmer said.

Taylor thanked officials for the honor and said he was thrilled that his parents were able to witness the recognition.

“It’s probably the greatest honor I’ve ever received,” Taylor said. “This is something I will cherish for a lifetime.”

Knox, who’d been told he was attending the board meeting to talk about the benefits of the new turf field, also expressed appreciation. He thanked the school system as well as his players, fellow coaches and family members. He said people didn’t realize the amount of time that went into leading the football team.

“All people see are the Friday nights,” he said. “That’s all they want to see, that’s all they want to talk about. They don’t see the practices.

They don’t see what goes into it at home.”

He recalled watching game footage after a loss one night, yelling at the television. All of a sudden he noticed his wife and children peeking around the corner.

“My daughter says, ‘Daddy, is it alright to come down now?’ ” Knox recalled. “To do a good job at anything it takes a lot of preparation that people don’t recognize, they don’t see. I don’t know what to say. Thank you.”

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promise of sorts on the shift rotation issue with two 10-hour day shifts followed by two 14-hour night shifts.

OCEAN CITY – The Town of Ocean City and its firefighter-paramedic union last week completed their first successful contract negotiation since the successful referendum for binding interest arbitration last fall.

During the municipal election last November, the Career Firefighter Paramedics Association of Ocean City, or IAFF Local 4269, was successful in its bid for potential third-party binding interest arbitration which could be utilized to resolve issues during contract negotiations.

Last week, the two parties successfully reached a new three-year contract without relying on a thirdparty arbitrator in the first negotiations since the possibility for collective bargaining was approved by the town’s voters.

Following the challenging, but cordial, contract negotiations, both sides were pleased to have reached a deal without resorting to a third-party arbitrator.

Throughout much of last year, as the negotiations over the new contract continued with no accord reached on the proposed shift change, IAFF members began collecting signatures from resort voters seeking to get a referendum question that would provide binding interest arbitration for the union, similar to that currently enjoyed by their FOP brethren.

“Collective bargaining with binding arbitration is a time-consuming, expensive and challenging process,” said Mayor Rick Meehan. “However, I believe we have negotiated a responsible agreement, reached through compromise by both parties that address the principle objectives of both the IAFF and the town.”

Meehan agreed the contract completed last week met the union’s scheduling needs while recognizing the town’s concerns.

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For his part, IAFF President Ryan Whittington agreed the contract negotiations were often challenging but said he was pleased with the outcome.

“The IAFF is pleased to have reached a deal,” he said. “The negotiations took a tremendous amount of work from both sides over more than six weeks. Both sides put in the time and the energy necessary to work through difficult issues, and the parties communicated better and were more motivated to reach a deal than in past negotiations. The process worked, in no small part, because the recent binding interest arbitration charter helped moved the parties towards a resolution of their own.”

In February 2016, contract negotiations between the town and the IAFF broke down largely due to a controversial shift change proposal. Most Ocean City paramedics for years have worked in 24-hour shifts followed by 72 hours off. However, citing a variety of reasons including potential missed calls, delayed responses and national trends, the town remained adamant about phasing out the 24-72 shift rotation in favor of an alternative 12-hour shift or some hybrid of the two.

After months of often contentious negotiation, the town and the IAFF this February reached an 11th-hour agreement on the new contract which, among other things, included a com-

The contract successfully negotiated last week reflects a compromise of sorts on the controversial scheduling issue.

“The new agreement will change the fire department’s schedule to improve service by utilizing, at its core, four 24-hour and six 12-hour shifts each week,” said Whittington. “The result is more stable staffing, particularly for weekends. The change also better accommodates the staffing flexibility necessary for the town. The change reflects a compromise by the IAFF, which hopes for further improvement in the future.”

“This agreement recognizes the importance of the career path of our firefighter-paramedics and funds steps in each of the three years of this agreement. It also addresses the safety issues the council has while at the same time allowing some flexibility in the schedule that the IAFF was looking for.”

Meehan said the controversy surrounding the prior three-year contract and the subsequent referendum for binding interest arbitration did not signal any animosity between the town and its firefighter-paramedics, but rather was a reflection of the challenges of the process.

“We have a great deal of respect for the members of the IAFF, and the bargaining team that represented the union throughout this process, and look forward to continuing this relationship through the term of this agreement and beyond,” he said.

Whittington said members of IAFF 4269, Ocean City Career Firefighter Paramedics Association had already voted to ratify the new collective bargaining agreement with the Town of Ocean City.

The new agreement also provides employees with wage enhancements, improves access to leave, and generally updates the prior agreement.

“The three-year agreement will take effect on July 1, 2019, although certain provisions will go into effect earlier, in advance of the season,” he said. “The vote wraps up negotiations between the IAFF and the town and reflects a successful process.”

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OCEAN CITY – What appeared to be heading toward a routine approval for a memorandum of understanding for future Ocean City air shows was stalled this week over questions about the flexibility of the dates for the promoter.

The Mayor and Council had before them on Monday a seven-item consent agenda that included, among other things, approval for various special events such as the Crab Soup Cook-Off and various others such as Boardwalk 5Ks for charity and a renewed memorandum of understanding (MOU) for future Ocean City air shows in 2020 and 2021, for example.

As it name implies, the consent agenda includes recurring events or other issues that are fairly cut-anddried and not typically controversial.

More often than not, the consent agenda is approved as a matter of course with little or no discussion.

The consent agenda on Monday appeared to be heading that way with a motion to approve and a second before Councilman John Gehrig raised questions about a clause in the air show MOU that left open some of weekend dates for the air show in 2020 and 2021.

“We’re providing $35,000 in direct

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funding and another $100,000 in inkind funding,” he said. “If we’re paying for it, why don’t we determine the dates?”

While no one was suggesting not approving the MOU for the air show, which has become one of the biggest events in the resort over the years, Gehrig was merely pointing out the clause in the MOU allowed the promoter to pick and choose the dates in future years while the town foots the majority of the bill. He said similar contract clauses were not included in the MOUs for other major special events.

“It’s a little inconsistent with how we do things,” he said. “We should be able to set the dates. We’re talking about adding more special events and we should be able to dictate the dates.

We’re paying for it, so it should be on our terms.”

However, Councilman Dennis Dare pointed out the air show is somewhat unique because of the challenges with attracting and securing the headline participants. In recent years, the pattern has been alternating years with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds headlining the shows. Dare said restricting the dates could result in losing the top jet teams because of a lack of flexibility.

“Some things are out of our control,” he said. “The jet teams set their

dates way in advance. It’s kind of a big deal to get them here. It would be like Fourth of July without any fireworks.”

Dare said the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds often set their schedules as far as two years in advance and moving the Ocean City Air Show to one weekend or another helped ensure the resort got at least one of them each year.

“There are a lot of conditions they have to meet,” he said. “We are very privileged to get either one of those jet teams at our show. When we’re looking at three years out, it’s a tight fit. To get one or the other here, it’s really up to them.”

For his part, Gehrig said he knew the complexities of securing the top jet teams such as the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds, but wondered if the restrictive language in that one paragraph in the MOU was necessary.

“I’m not arguing with that,” he said.

“I understand the challenges of the dates. I’m just looking at this contractually. We don’t have this paragraph in any other of our special events MOUs. Any contract shouldn’t have a clause that lets the promoter dictate the terms. I think we should table this and let [Special Events Director] Frank [Miller] come back and explain why we need this clause.”

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data showing the importance of the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds, for example, to the overall success of the popular event.

“Have him bring back attendance numbers for when we have the Blue Angels and we don’t,” she said. “I know when we have the Blue Angels, those beachfront hotels start filling up.”

Gehrig asserted he was not suggesting holding up approval for the air show in out years, but rather just wanted to clarify the importance of the clause that provided the promoter with so much flexibility in the future dates.

“Just so we’re clear, I’m not suggesting we scrap the air show,” he said. “We want the Blue Angels and we want to Thunderbirds. I just don’t think we need that paragraph. It gives them control when we pay them.”

Council President Lloyd Martin said there was no real urgency in approving the air show MOU for two and three years out and suggested there could be more scrutiny on the date language in the contract.

“We do need a little more analysis of the events,” he said. “We need to make sure they’re profitable for us all year-round.”

With that said, the council voted unanimously to pull the air show MOU from the consent agenda to allow for more discussion. The other items on the consent agenda were approved.

Federal Budget Includes Inlet Dredge Funding

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BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

OCEAN CITY – The Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District this week announced it was receiving an additional $68 million in federal funding for critical navigation projects across the region including a boost in funding for the continued maintenance dredging of the Ocean City Inlet.

The funding is being provided to the Army Corps of Engineers-Baltimore District through the Trump Administration’s proposed fiscal year 2020 federal budget. The funding announced last week includes roughly $1.1 million for operation and maintenance of the Inlet and navigation channels in the Sinepuxent Bay and $600,000 for Assateague Island bypass operations, in which the dredged sand is beneficially placed immediately south of the inlet along Assateague Island to mitigate the impacts of sediment transport and erosion caused by the Ocean City Inlet and its jetties. Previously, the Assateague Island Restoration project was funded as a separate project by Congress through construction funding.

The Inlet and other channels in and around the commercial harbor naturally fill in and are in constant need of maintenance dredging, but the problem has become more acute in recent years to the point the Inlet is often impassable and unnavigable for larger vessels on even the highest of tides.

While maintenance dredging will continue thanks in large part to the supplementary funding announced this week, local, state and federal officials have been exploring a long-term solution including dredging the Inlet channel to a greater depth and possibly even a reconfiguration of the jetties or a relocation of the channel.

ACE-Baltimore District spokesman Chris Gardener outlined a breakdown of the proposed funding for the Inlet and surrounding channels in the president’s budget.

“For the Ocean City Inlet, the budget proposes $1.1 million for Ocean City Inlet work, including the same $600,000 amount we see each year toward Assateague Bypass dredging that benefits the Inlet navigation channel and $500,000 for navigation-specific inlet dredging,” he said. “These dredging efforts would be carried out by either the corps’ Dredge Murden or the corps’ Dredge Currituck as is usually the case.”

Gardner explained the corps would utilize the federal funding in the most efficient way possible to keep the Inlet and surrounding channels open to safe navigation.

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County Agrees To Room Tax Hike

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BY CHARLENE SHARPE

STAFF WRITER

SNOW HILL – County officials agreed to move forward with increasing the room tax rate at the request of the Town of Ocean City.

On Tuesday, the Worcester County Commissioners voted unanimously to proceed with plans to increase the room tax from 4.5 percent to 5 percent. The jump comes at the request of Ocean City leaders.

“What we would like to do is raise the room tax to be used for tourism related issues only, for destination marketing, for economic development, for special events, and to offset the costs of operating and having those special events on a year-round basis in Ocean City,” Mayor Rick Meehan told the commissioners Tuesday.

Meehan said the room tax hadn’t been raised in a decade but that it needed to be increased now to provide more money for marketing as well as to go toward the increased costs that came as a result of tourism. According to Meehan, Ocean City has seen more than $700,000 in increased expenses related to tourism. Police, EMS and public works costs have gone up.

“All of those costs are directly associated with tourism,” Meehan said.

“They’re directly associated with what we’re doing to advertise and to promote and for economic benefit.”

Meehan said Ocean City wanted the increase to go into effect Jan. 1, 2020.

“Moving forward it will allow us to cover those costs, to increase our marketing, to increase what we do, special events, and also begin to set aside some funding to be directed toward sports marketing and hopefully a sports complex,” he said. “That’s a conversation for another day but we certainly support that in Worcester County and would like to partner with the county commissioners in such a complex if possible, to benefit all of the businesses in Ocean City, West Ocean City and Worcester County. If you ever want to have discussions we’d be happy to partner with the county. We’ve partnered in many things in the past and we think that’s maybe something we should all look at together.”

Commissioner Joe Mitrecic made a motion to move forward with the room tax increase.

“This is a pass on to the consumer,” he said. “It really doesn’t affect our constituency so much unless they stay in a hotel room.”

Commissioner Josh Nordstrom asked what impact the proposed increase would have on the county’s finances. Chief Administrative Officer Harold Higgins said he had not done the projections.

“It’s nice to know what the numbers are before we vote on something like this,” Nordstrom said.

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Commissioner Chip Bertino asked if Ocean City was still seeking an increase in its tourism funding if the commissioners approved the room tax increase.

“Yes,” Meehan replied. “We believe that’s coming from those that are benefitting in West Ocean City from the advertising and marketing that we do.

It’s the Town of Ocean City that has the onus to do that.”

Bertino also questioned the impact the increase would have on the rest of the county, as a change in room tax would apply to Snow Hill and Pocomoke as well.

“There have been some bed and breakfasts as well as some entities within West Ocean City that have weighed in with me and are concerned that you are going to or would consider raising from 4.5 to 5 percent,” Higgins said.

Assistant Chief Administrative Officer Kelly Shannahan told the commissioners that if they agreed to move forward with the room tax adjustment Tuesday, the next step would be amending county code.

“At that time, there would be a public hearing so all of the municipalities and others that would be affected would be able to comment,” he said.

Meehan stressed that the local room tax rate was significantly lower than rates in similar areas.

“We don’t arbitrability come in and say ‘hey let’s raise the room tax’ unless we have a budgetary concern or a concern about our economy,” he said. “The last time we raised this, 10 years ago, that was when the economy was falling and everybody was tanking. That’s a time when people stopped advertising and cut back on advertising. That’s not what we did.

We raised the room tax and we increased our advertising. Doubled then tripled it. You know what happened?

We held our numbers. Our numbers didn’t fall.”

The commissioners voted unanimously to move forward with adjusting the room tax rate.

Boiled down to its simplest terms, raising the room tax now from 4.5 percent to 5 percent would allow the town to continue to dedicate a portion to advertising and marketing while providing revenue to fund the services to the growing number of visitors those efforts generate. Added to the mix is an apparent desire to rebrand the town somewhat with an increased effort to tap into the rapidly growing youth sports market.

Increasing the room tax by half a percentage point would result in an anticipated increase in the town’s advertising budget by about $5.8 million along with another $1.2 million in the marketing budget. Complicating the issue even further is an expected fiscal year 2020 budget revenue shortfall of around $500,000, which could be offset by revenue generated by the increased room tax.

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BY BETHANY HOOPER

STAFF WRITER

OCEAN CITY – As work concludes on a storm drain cleaning project, a resort committee last week got a better understanding of how funds were used to remove sand and sediment from the pipes and catch basins.

At last week’s meeting of the Ocean City Coastal Resources Legislative Committee, or Green Team, officials with the public works department presented their efforts, and findings, in cleaning out the town’s vast drainage system.

“We are about out of money, we are about done, and we are shutting down for the season,” said Public Works Director Hal Adkins, “but boy, was it eyeopening.”

In September, the Mayor and Council learned the town’s extensive storm drain

system had not been cleaned since September 1985, shortly after Hurricane Gloria passed through Ocean City.

Since that time, the town’s drainage system, which includes roughly 46 miles of pipe, 2,400 catch basins and 330 outfalls into the coastal bays, has clogged with sediment, contributing to the town’s chronic flooding problems.

Late last year, resort officials learned the town could piggyback on a State Highway Administration (SHA) project and that the town’s share of funding could be taken from the critical area mitigation fund. To that end, the Mayor and Council in October voted to transfer $100,000 from the fund to the project for the first year. And in midJanuary, public works crews started on a months-long effort to target the resort’s most flood prone areas.

“We looked at the island, and what

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we thought were critical areas because we knew we only had so much money and we were not sure how far that would take us,” Public Works Deputy Director Woody Vickers said.

Over the course of two months, officials said crews focused on more than 20 streets in the blocks closest to Coastal Highway, The first stage of a vast storm drain-cleaning project and work was divided proved to be an eye-opener for resort officials. Pictured above, one of the outfalls in the system appears to be into three phases.

Submitted Photo “The pipes from clogged with sand and sediment.

Coastal Highway heading west in many locations are so eter of the pipe and cutting it in half or a clogged it was inhibiting the flow,” Ad- third.”

Crews cleaned out more than kins said. “You were taking the full diam13,500 linear feet from 130th Street to 146th Street, more than 4,600 linear feet from 123rd Street to 125th Street, and 2,100 linear feet from 11th Street to 12th Street. Vickers said the town will use up the remainder of the $100,000 in the coming days.

“In these three critical areas, we cleaned over 20,000 linear feet of pipe, 117 catch basins, 27 manholes and we’ve estimated – and I think it could be a little more with three or four days left – over 100 cubic yards of sand and sediment that we’ve pulled out of the storm drains,” he said. “To give you an idea, if you’ve seen our dump trucks running through town, it’s almost seven of them full.”

Vickers said the public works department was also able to assess the conditions of several pipes and catch basins.

“Now we’ve created a work order for the issues we’ve seen,” he said. “It will aid us in the future and the longevity of our infrastructure.”

Officials said crews found more than sand in the pipes and catch basins.

They also found sediment, leaves, chunks of asphalt, sandbags and a vinyl fence post.

“We don’t even understand how some of this stuff even got in the pipes,” Adkins said.

Adkins told the committee the goal is to continue work on cleaning the drainage system in the fall. But that would require more money.

“There were strings attached that this was ongoing, not to do the whole thing but that we could have an ongoing maintenance program,” said Gail Blazer, the town’s environmental engineer. “Maybe it needs to be part of the budget.”

Councilman Tony DeLuca, who chairs the committee, agreed.

“It should be part of the [capital improvement plan] almost yearly,” he said.

Adkins added the Mayor and Council could also discuss the project with SHA at its biannual meeting in April.

“State Highway needs to step up to the plate and also start taking a proactive role in trying to clean some of these,” he said. “Otherwise, what is in the highway will eventually flush west into what we just cleaned.”

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FROM PAGE 13 “We hope to continue to strategically use the funds available to us for both maintenance dredging and Assateague Bypass work to keep the inlet passable to the best of our ability for the commercial and recreational vessels that regularly use it,” he said.

Gardner said the announcement of the increased federal funding last week comes on the heels of the corps’ most recent maintenance dredging of the Inlet.

“While the proposed budget would be for fiscal year 2020, here’s a reminder of the latest regarding inlet dredging,” he said. “The corps just finished up five days of navigation-specific inlet dredging earlier this month that was focused on the shoaling hotspot between buoys 11 and 12. We anticipate the next dredging in the inlet will be the next Assateague Bypass dredging cycle which is tentatively scheduled for May, pending the availability of a dredge.”

The Inlet is the Army Corps’ responsibility and the federal agency has shown a willingness to be part of the solution. However, before any major changes take place in the Inlet, the ACE wants to conduct a feasibility study to chart a course for action. The study is a necessary first step and is essentially a requirement before the federal government invests potentially millions of dollars into a long-term fix.

The Army Corps’ study is expected to cost $1.2 million, of which the federal government would fund half, or $600,000. The remaining $600,000 would be funded by a combination of state and local sources including 50 percent, or $300,000 from the state and 25 percent each, or $150,000 each from Worcester County and the Town of Ocean City. However, the Town of Ocean City and Worcester County remain at odds on how to split the local share, if at all.

“As a reminder, the Corps of Engineers, in partnership with the state of Maryland and Worcester County, has formally began work earlier this year to formulate and recommend options for addressing the shoaling that causes navigation issues for inlet users, to potentially include structural solutions like jetties or channel modifications like deepening the channel in the inlet,” he said. “No options have been solidified at this time.”

In a larger sense, the corps’ inclusion in the federal fiscal year 2020 budget will allow for navigation-related projects all over the region.

“The funding Baltimore District is anticipated to receive is critical to ensuring safe and efficient navigation, which helps drive the economy, not only at the community level but nationally, and provides for necessary operation and maintenance of major flood risk management projects that reduce risk to communities and infrastructure,” said Col. John Litz, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District commander.

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BY BETHANY HOOPER

STAFF WRITER

OCEAN CITY – A resort restaurant owner is looking to host educational meetings with local businesses as Maryland moves closer to becoming the first state to ban polystyrene products.

Last week, Mother’s Cantina owner Ryan James presented the town’s Coastal Resources Legislative Committee, or Green Team, with a plan to help resort restaurants transition away from polystyrene products.

This month, both the state Senate and House of Delegates passed a bill to ban expanded polystyrene products. The legislation would largely affect the food service industry and schools in Maryland, as it would ban polystyrene carryout containers, plates, hot and cold beverage cups, meat and vegetable trays and egg cartons, to name a few examples.

James told the committee last week informational meetings on alternative products and the various price points would benefit resort establishments should Gov. Larry Hogan sign the bill into law.

“I feel that we’re going to need to help the restaurants in town make the transition,” he said. “I would like to offer my services, and my restaurant and my venue, to help anybody.”

If signed by the governor, James noted the ban would go into effect on July 1, 2020, giving local businesses time to explore alternatives. Using his restaurant – which has been foam free for roughly two years – as an example, he said owners, managers and buyers can get a better understanding of their options.

“We could have distributors and suppliers bring in their wares and have restaurant owners come in and look at the different products and see what they can switch to,” he said. “They are going to be upset by this bill, but if we help them understand why it’s important and how to do it without impacting their business economically, they are going to be much more amicable about switching over and less resistant.”

Liz Walk of the Ocean City HotelMotel-Restaurant Association (HMRA) offered her assistance.

“We do restaurant round tables at HMRA and what we can always do is set it up like an actual expo setting, where we bring in Sysco, H&M Wagner, anyone who provides products, and can make a setting or display that is only foam-free,” she said. “I think we could put it out to all of our members and non-member restaurants, to provide that information.”

James said he would have a better timeline for hosting the sessions once, or if, Hogan “puts pen to paper.” But Councilman Tony DeLuca, who chairs the committee, encouraged him to host the meetings regardless, as they complimented a voluntary source-reduction program recently launched by

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the Green Team, the Maryland Coastal Bays Program and the Ocean City Surf Club.

“Signing this as a ban doesn’t really affect this program at all,” he said.

Sandi Smith of the Maryland Coastal Bays Program agreed.

“With this legislation, it could potentially encourage more people to make pledges,” she said.

DeLuca added that informational sessions would address concerns.

“It’s a big deal,” he said. “It could put small businesses out of business.”

James, however, was somewhat reluctant to agree.

“If your margin is 5 cents on a to-go container, and your business hangs on that, then I think you’ve got other problems than your to-go container,” he said. “I think people might blame a 5-cent-more to-go container on the failing of their business. But if your chicken sandwich is better than Chickfil-A’s, people are going to pay 5 cents more for it.”

James said the idea of the informational sessions is to reach out to those concerned business owners.

“The people that come to you with the Chicken Little, sky-is-falling mentality and think they are going to go out of business, those are the people we need to target and help them understand there are ways around this,” he said.

James told the committee he would return for the May meeting with an update on his progress.

“Thank you very much for stepping up,” DeLuca said.

It’s important to note although foam carryout trays and beverage cups are often referred to as Styrofoam, the fiscal report on the approved state legislation points out that terminology is incorrect. Styrofoam is a trademark of the Dow Chemical Company and is generally used in industrial settings for building materials and pipe insulation, for example. Styrofoam is not used in the food service industry for plates, trays, cups, coolers or packaging materials.

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Ocean City Officials Make Annual Budget Pitch To County

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BY CHARLENE SHARPE

STAFF WRITER

SNOW HILL – Ocean City officials presented the Worcester County Commissioners with a request for increased funding this week.

Like the municipalities that presented their budget requests earlier this month, Ocean City has requested additional funding from Worcester County this year as the commissioners begin the annual budget process.

Mayor Rick Meehan said it was critical that the resort increase marketing as more and more hotel rooms were added in West Ocean City.

“The status quo isn’t going to work as we move forward,” he said.

Meehan thanked the commissioners for last year’s increase in funding but said that the resort was requesting a 2.5 percent increase in its unrestricted grant in the coming fiscal year as well as a $200,000 increase in tourism funding. He said it would be used for destination marketing.

“If you look at the number of hotel rooms in West Ocean City, that number has increased dramatically,” Meehan said. “Pretty soon it’s going to be over 700. This will not only increase the amount of room tax received by the county, but it also increases the need for additional marketing to fill these rooms. It’s the town of Ocean City that does the heavy lifting to pro-

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He pointed out that Ocean City’s 21842 zip code also included West Ocean City.

“With an additional 700 rooms that means even more visitors that we have to attract,” he said.

He added that proper marketing would benefit every aspect of the local economy.

“With the increasing number of businesses as well we need to have the people here to sustain that,” he said.

Meehan also asked county officials to reconsider the administrative fees charged to the resort. Currently, the county charges Ocean City 1 percent of the room tax collected and 5 percent of the food tax collected for administering the collections. That results in $232,339 in county revenue.

Meehan said county staff told him it

didn’t cost that much to administer the tax. He suggests the county drop its administrative fee to .5 percent for room tax and 2.5 percent for food tax.

Furthermore, he suggested the county authorize the resort to collect the room and food tax.

“We discovered that the program currently in place to track information and to provide a method to collect past due accounts is outdated and inadequate,” he said. “You can’t run a program today that will tell us cumulatively if somebody hasn’t paid their room tax or food tax. We can’t go back and try to collect it because we don’t know who hasn’t paid it. That’s created I think a loss of revenue for Ocean City.”

“I really believe in the long run if we are the agent of the county to collect that tax, it’ll work better for everybody,” he said.

Page 19 Ocean City Fire Chief Chris Larmore spoke to the commissioners about the growing EMS costs faced by the town as it worked to provide service to both Ocean City and West Ocean City. He said the increased commercial activity in West Ocean City was increasing EMS calls, which was having an impact on Ocean City.

“What’s very unique is that over 40 percent of the time that we have been out of units in Ocean City is a result of call volume in West Ocean City,” he said. “What’s happened is without us being able to increase staff the increased demand in West Ocean City really is becoming a hindrance to the service we provide in Ocean City.”

Larmore asked the commissioners to adjust the county’s fire company funding formula to provide fire companies countywide with more money for EMS services.

Ocean City officials also asked the county to provide $80,000 for the purchase of new pagers for its fire fighters.

Wicomico Executive Vows Full Funding For Board Of Education

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BY BETHANY HOOPER

STAFF WRITER

SALISBURY – Wicomico County Executive Bob Culver announced his plans this week to fully fund the Board of Education’s requests in the proposed fiscal year 2020 operating budget.

In a public hearing Wednesday, Culver presented a $148 million proposed operating budget for fiscal year 2020. The spending plan includes $800,000 above maintenance of effort to fully fund Superintendent Donna Hanlin’s Imagine 2022 initiative, which would establish universal pre-K, improve the graduation rate, and attract and retain a strong workforce.

“Your willingness to listen and recommend the funding for Imagine 2022 speaks volumes about your belief in the importance of investing in our community,” Hanlin said.

The announcement was a welcomed surprise to several educators, parents and business leaders in attendance. Eileen Johnson, representing the advocacy group Wicomico PUSH4Education, thanked officials for listening to the group’s concerns. In recent weeks, PUSH4Education members have met with county leaders and have garnered nearly 1,000 signa-

tures in an online petition to support Hanlin’s Imagine 2022 plan.

“We are so incredibly grateful for you for doing this and listening to us ,” she said. “Right now, we are focusing our message at the county council, to ask them to please keep this money in the budget.”

Mike Dunn, president and CEO of the Greater Salisbury Committee, commended the county executive for his support of Imagine 2022.

“Putting in full funding for Imagine 2022 is unimaginable,” he said. “This is saying to the community that investment in education matters.”

Susan Purnell, chair of the Wicomico County Education Foundation, said her organization would continue to support the county’s efforts to invest in education.

“It’s for the first time tonight I feel Imagine 2022 can become Reality 2022,” she said. “Thank you for putting this forth in the budget.”

Randy Day, CEO of Perdue Farms, applauded the county executive’s decision and recognized the tough choices officials made to fully fund Imagine 2022 initiatives.

“I have a particular issue in my business and that’s recruiting people to this area,” he said. “I’m trying to

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bring executives to this area, and I can get them to take the job, but all too often they want to go to Talbot County or Worcester County. There’s an issue and this will help.”

County Councilman Bill McCain also applauded Culver’s commitment to education.

“I feel you’ve moved the needle in the right direction,” he said.

The spending plan calls for $46.15 million in county appropriations to the board of education. The proposed budget also includes $16.5 million for corrections, $12.8 million for the sheriff’s department, $10.2 million for the roads department and $5.7 million for Wor-Wic Community College.

Wayne Strausburg, the county’s director of administration, said several departments were able to cut requests for the coming year to fund increases for the board of education, community college, emergency services, public health and debt retirement.

“If you look at where the increased spending is, it’s by and large in education, health education and public safety,” he said.

Strausburg noted, however, that this year’s budget comes with several challenges.

“The prospect of a slowing econ-

omy, coupled with pricey state mandates, has made forecasting this year much more difficult than it has been in past years,” he said. “So, our consensus is we need to be a bit cautious until that picture clears.”

He said legislation to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour is expected to cost the county $7 million annually. And plans to implement recommendations from the state’s Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education – or Kirwan Commission – could create long-lasting impacts.

“The Kirwan Commission’s anticipated spending from 2020 to 2030 is $3.8 billion and the state has not identified any revenue source yet …,” he said. “It’s a concern to those of us in the 24 jurisdictions and municipalities as to how that would be affordable, how much of that will the counties and municipalities have to bear.”

While income tax revenue is expected to trend downward, Strausburg said disparity grants will increase by $679,000 in the coming fiscal year, while highway user revenue and real property tax revenue will increase by $120,000 and $1.57 million, respectively.

Culver is expected to submit his budget to the Wicomico County Council in April.

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BY CHARLENE SHARPE

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SNOW HILL – The Worcester County Commissioners voted to delay adoption of a strategic planning report this week.

On Tuesday the commissioners voted 6-0, with Commissioner Jim Bunting abstaining, to delay approving the project report that resulted from a two-day strategic planning work session held in January. They cited concerns with the document and said they wanted time to review it further.

“I think it needs to be amended in some places,” Commissioner Joe Mitrecic said. “We’d be better off not exactly adopting this today as written.”

The report presented to the commissioners Tuesday was developed

by The Novak Consulting Group following a work session attended by the commissioners and county staff in January. The report identifies various goals, including addressing inequities in education funding, protecting agriculture, improving access to internet, funding employee benefits and moving forward with sports complex development. Other goals included offering incentives for students entering trades and increasing STEM partnerships as well as developing an economic development strategy.

Commissioner Chip Bertino was quick to point out that the commissioners had agreed to move forward with a sports complex “with no county funding.” Bunting said he had not attended the strategic planning session but nevertheless agreed with Bertino.

Staff agreed to clarify that goal in the printed report. Mitrecic said there were other errors that needed to be addressed as well.

“I think some of the commissioners have some issue with different parts of it,” he said, adding that the section that transcribed each commissioner’s beliefs was not entirely accurate.

Commissioner Josh Nordstrom agreed and said the report did not accurately identify what he’d communicated during the work session.

“Some of it makes no sense at all,” he said. “Moving forward this company maybe ought to use a recording device. This is an absolute mess. I wouldn’t vote for it in its current form.

It needs some amending, some editing.”

The commissioners agreed to submit any corrections or revisions of the report to county staff, who will address the issues and bring the report back for future adoption.

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OCEAN CITY – Finding ways to reach out to more American college students to fill the ranks of the resort’s summer workforce this week provided an interesting sidebar discussion on how to improve the visitor experience.

During Monday’s Tourism Commission meeting, an ongoing broader discussion about some of the goals in the tourism strategic plan came around to a smaller debate about employee recruitment, a diversified workforce and, ultimately, how best to get back the

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American college student summer worker, which for decades was the staple of the resort’s labor pool.

Hundreds of American college students still come to live and work in Ocean City during the summer, but it’s no secret the seasonal workforce has become increasingly international in recent years for a variety of reasons.

While that is not necessarily a bad thing and often provides a unique experience for foreign student-workers on J-1 visas and, to a large degree, many visitors to the resort, the question came back around to why there have been fewer and fewer American

summer workers in the resort.

Some on the panel suggested a lot of the summer jobs available in Ocean City don’t appeal to American students for a variety of reasons.

“When you look at the types of jobs the J-1 students are doing, the American college kids don’t want to do that,” said commission member and resort hotelier Michael James.

Greater Ocean City Chamber of Commerce CEO and Executive Director Melanie Pursel said the trend has grown in recent years.

“Our job fair numbers have dwindled over the years,” she said. “Maybe we need to go out and do more recruiting, although that might be a private sector thing.”

Mayor Rick Meehan said the town has been successful in going out to American colleges and universities and recruiting seasonal workers for many of its departments. “We’ve done this with some of our recruiting for our various departments,” he said. “The city goes out and recruit employees and it has been successful. I think the private sector might have to do the same thing.”

While recruiting summer workers could, and likely should, fall on the private sector businesses, there may be collaborative opportunities to market Ocean City as a seasonal job destination.

“We have to go out there and sell it,” said Meehan. “We have to sell the

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Ocean City summer experience, just like we do with our tourists.”

Commission member and local business owner Todd Ferrante said diversifying the seasonal workforce with J-1 students has paid dividends.

“The good news is many of the American college students get here early and get trained before the season really starts,” he said. “The problem is, they have to leave early to go back to school.”

Seasonal housing costs have been viewed by many as a deterrent for American student-workers. Most J-1 students work multiple jobs and share housing with several other seasonal workers, a situation that might not be as palatable for U.S. student-workers.

“I don’t think the housing cost is extraordinarily high,” said Ferrante. “I just don’t think they like to share a room. They’re used to a different comfort level and lifestyle.”

Michael James said bringing back American workers might require some out-of-the-box solutions.

“Maybe it’s the Airbnb concept,” he said. “Maybe people who have a spare room or rooms would want to host summer workers. They can make a little money and serve a purpose by helping out with the housing issues.

Some people might like having a student or two living with them for the summer. It would be like having a grandchild living with them.”

Resiliency Meetings Yield Good Results

March 22, 2019

BY CHARLENE SHARPE

STAFF WRITER

BERLIN – Despite low attendance, town officials report that the trio of public meetings hosted regarding resiliency yielded valuable information.

The town of Berlin hosted meetings March 14,16 and 18 to gather public input for a new element for the town’s comprehensive plan designed to target resiliency. The turnout was low at the first two meetings, but improved for the last session.

“Overall, we had some really good discussions,” Town Administrator Laura Allen said. “The conversations and information were what we were looking for.”

In the initial session last Thursday, the majority of attendees were town employees and elected officials, though a handful of residents were present. Facilitator Brandy Espinola of the University of Maryland Environmental Finance Center asked attendees to discuss what resilience meant to them and to consider what they liked about Berlin and how they wanted it to look in 50 years. The workshop also addressed the town’s budget process and asked for input on how to ensure a strong financial future for the town.

Though attendance at the first two sessions was low, Allen said the town made to change that for the final session by streaming the meeting online.

“We received good feedback on using Facebook Live,” Allen said, adding that officials had even been able to field questions from online viewers.

She added that the town is always seeking public input on its various initiatives to meet the demands of the public. A lack of input makes it difficult for officials to know what people want and need.

“It makes it harder for us to understand what folks want us to be focused on if we’re not getting feedback,” she said.

Now that the meetings have been held, Espinola will compile the notes and put together a draft of a resilience element for the town’s comprehensive plan. Allen expects the draft to be posted on the town’s website this summer. Public input will be collected and changes will be made as needed.

“The goal is to have the draft to the planning commission by Aug. 30,” Allen said.

After the commission approves the document it will go to the town council for review, ideally by the end of the year. Though creation of the resilience element was meant to kick off the town’s review of its comprehensive plan, Allen said that review could be delayed based on funding concerns.

“We’re having financial challenges,” Allen said, adding that if the state didn’t require the town to review the comprehensive plan next year the process could be delayed. “We might push it back.”

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Tossed From Bar, Scraps With Cops OCEAN CITY – A Berlin man was arrested on assault and other charges last weekend after getting kicked out of a downtown bar and refusing to leave before scrapping with police and ultimately harming himself.

Around 8:30 p.m. last Saturday, an Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officer was dispatched to a bar on 8th Street for a reported disorderly individual who was refusing to leave the property.

The officer met with bar security who told them a suspect later identified as Joshua Petersen, 23, of Berlin, had been asked to leave the premises because of his level of intoxication but had snuck back in the back door and had to be removed again.

Bar security provided a description of Petersen and he was located a short time later in the area of 7th Street. According to police reports, Petersen had abrasions on his forehead and complained of pain in his ribs but refused medical treatment at that time.

Also according to police reports, Petersen exhibited signs of being intoxicated.

OCPD officers informed Petersen he would not be allowed to return to the bar. However, Petersen told police he left his wallet at the bar. OCPD officers warned Petersen not to return to the bar that night and advised him to call about his wallet in the morning and police officers would meet him there to retrieve it. He was told if he returned to the bar, he would be arrested for trespassing.

About five minutes later, the same OCPD officer saw Petersen allegedly walk right up to the entrance of the bar on 8th Street from whence he had been kicked out. At that point, OCPD officers attempted to arrest Petersen for trespassing, but he reportedly resisted and fought with officers to the point he had to be taken down to the ground. By now, a large crowd had gathered to watch the incident unfold, according to police reports.

About an hour after his arrest at the Public Safety Building, Petersen reportedly began slamming his head against a cell wall and punching himself in the face with a closed fist.

Ocean City EMTs responded and determined he needed to be taken to Peninsula Regional Medical Center.

OCPD officers rode with Petersen in the ambulance to the hospital and during the transport, he allegedly attempted to unbuckle the safety straps to the stretcher.

When EMTs attempted to use bandages to keep Petersen from trying to remove the safety straps, he began to violently shake his head from side to side to hinder their efforts on his behalf.

When an OCPD officer attempted to hold steady Petersen’s head while EMTs worked on him, Petersen allegedly began to spit and tried to bite the officer’s hand. He was ultimately restrained without further incident.

During the transport back to Ocean City from PRMC, Petersen reportedly

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An electrical malfunction has been determined as the cause of a residential house fire in Berlin early last Wednesday morning. No injuries were reported and the displaced family was assisted by the Red Cross.

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made comments about moving to California and said, “Maryland won’t come get me for not coming to court if I’m in California.” He was charged with assault, trespassing, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Berlin Fire Attributed To Electrical Malfunction BERLIN – An electrical malfunction has been determined as the cause of a residential house fire in Berlin early last Wednesday morning.

Around 4:15 a.m. last Wednesday, firefighters from Berlin, Showell, Ocean Pines and Bishopville responded to a reported residential fire on Showell Street in Berlin. According to the Worcester County Fire Marshal’s Office, it took firefighters an hour to bring the blaze under control.

The occupants of the residence awoke to the smell of smoke, according to a fire marshal’s office release.

There was no smoke alarm activation, nor was the residence equipped with a residential fire sprinkler system.

The cause of the fire is accidental and attributed to an electrical malfunction. No injuries were reported and the displaced family was assisted by the Red Cross.

Traffic Stop Yields Gun Bust OCEAN CITY – A Baltimore man

was charged with transporting a loaded handgun after a routine traffic stop in Ocean City last weekend.

Around 12:20 a.m. last Friday, an Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officer on routine patrol clocked a vehicle going 60 miles per hour in a 40-mph zone along Coastal Highway near 75th Street. The officer conducted a traffic stop in the area of 64th Street and detected a strong odor of raw marijuana coming from the passenger compartment, according to police reports.

The rental vehicle was occupied by the driver, later identified as Joseph Harris, 33, of Baltimore, and his female passenger. Harris was identified by numerous documents in the vehicle including the rental agreement. Harris and his passenger were told to get out of the vehicle while OCPD officers searched it.

During the search, OCPD officers found a Glock .357 caliber handgun under the driver’s seat with one round in the chamber and eight other rounds in an attached magazine. Upon discovery of the weapon, the investigating officer told other officers to handcuff Harris and his passenger, but Harris said aloud “It’s mine, it’s not hers,” according to police reports.

The search also revealed a quantity of marijuana and some blue tablets of

March 22, 2019 an unknown substance. A check with the Maryland Gun Center revealed the gun was not registered and Harris did not have a handgun permit. He was arrested and charged with transporting a handgun.

Apparently Really Hates Seinfeld OCEAN CITY – A local woman was arrested last week for allegedly assaulting her sleeping boyfriend because of watching Seinfeld television show reruns.

Around 10 p.m. last Wednesday, Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officers responded to 142nd Street for a reported domestic incident. Ocean City Communications advised the responding officers a female suspect had left the scene, heading east on 142nd Street on a mountain bike. OCPD officers responded to the residence from whence the call had originated and met with a male victim sitting shirtless on the porch.

The victim told police he had been sleeping for around 12 hours when his girlfriend, later identified as Jennifer Pieroni, 48, of Ocean City, woke him up by scratching his face and neck.

The victim told police Pieroni was upset because she had to watch reruns of the television show Seinfeld.

When the neighbors knocked on the door during the fight and told the victim and Pieroni they were calling the police, the suspect fled the area on a bicycle.

OCPD officers located Pieroni a short time later and she was taken into custody. It was learned through the investigation Pieroni was wanted on at least five separate warrants from Wicomico and Cecil County.

Pieroni reportedly told police the victim was the primary aggressor but later recanted her story. According to police reports, the victim had fresh wounds on his face and neck consistent with his version of the events.

Pieroni was arrested and charged locally with assault and was also held on the outstanding warrants from other jurisdictions.

Disorderly Arrest Over Alleged Stolen Watch OCEAN CITY – A local man was arrested on disorderly conduct charges last weekend after allegedly screaming expletives at someone who allegedly stole his watch before turning his racially charged tirade in the direction of resort police.

Around midnight last Saturday, Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officers were dispatched to an apartment building near the base of the Route 50 bridge for a report of a disorderly male banging on doors.

OCPD officers responded and encountered Levin Martin, 34, of Ocean City, who had since moved down to the public sidewalk. According to police reports, OCPD officers knew Martin from numerous prior encounters.

According to police reports, Martin was screaming racial statements that an unnamed individual had stolen his watch. When OCPD officers told MarSEE NEXT PAGE

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Martin could not be dissuaded from his racially charged tirade at police and was ultimately arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and failure to obey a lawful order. Incidentally, during a search of Martin’s person incident to the arrest, his watch was found in his pocket, according to police reports.

Suspended Sentence For Loaded Handgun OCEAN CITY – A Pennsylvania man arrested last August after waving a loaded handgun around on a downtown street while intoxicated pleaded guilty last week and was sentenced to 90 days, all of which was suspended in favor of probation.

Around 12:53 a.m. last Aug. 24, Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officers were dispatched to the area of 9th Street and Dayton Lane in reference to a man with a handgun.

The 911 caller told dispatchers the man was intoxicated and refused to leave their residence and provided a description of the suspect.

Upon arrival, OCPD officers observed the suspect, later identified as George Warden, 41, of Tarentum, Pa., crouched behind a vehicle in a parking lot. According to police reports, Warden appeared to be taking his clothes off. When Warden observed the officers, he began walking toward them, according to police reports.

Warden was detained without further incident and was visibly intoxicated, according to police reports. He reportedly had saliva all over his face and the clothes he still had on were soiled. According to police reports, Warden told the officers, “I got into a fight with a wave in the ocean and lost.”

OCPD officers went over to the area where Warden had been seen shedding his clothes and found a soiled pair of jeans with the grip of a handgun sticking out of the pocket.

The weapon was identified as a .38caliber handgun with a fully loaded magazine. A witness in the area told police Warden had been waving the gun around and had racked the slide.

He was arrested for possession of a handgun and other charges.

Last week, Warden pleaded guilty to possession of a handgun and was sentenced to 90 days, all of which were suspended. He was also placed on supervised probation for 18 months.

Jail Time For Speeder Who Refused To Stop OCEAN CITY – A Selbyville man arrested in November after barreling down the bus lane along Coastal Highway at a high rate of speed before reportedly refusing to cooperate with police attempting to detain him pleaded guilty this week and was sentenced

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Around 4 p.m. on November 28, an Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officer patrolling in the area of Convention Center Drive and Coastal Highway observed a vehicle traveling 50 miles per hour in a 35-mph zone.

The officer turned around and followed the vehicle, which stopped at a red traffic signal at 36th Street.

According to police reports, when the light turned green, the vehicle accelerated rapidly and reached speeds of 55 mph while moving over into the far-right lane, or the lane dedicated to buses, bicycles and right turns. The officer activated his emergency lights and siren and began following the vehicle.

According to police reports, the vehicle did not slow down or brake as it continued down the bus lane for eight blocks at a high rate of speed with the OCPD officer following with emergency lights and siren activated. The vehicle finally came to a stop in the area of 26th Street and Philadelphia Avenue as other OCPD units arrived on the scene to assist.

The driver, later identified as Jason Bernstein, 49, of Selbyville, reportedly put his hands out of the front driver’s side window and yelled he did not have to get out of the vehicle because of his constitutional rights, according to police reports. Bernstein continued to yell he did not want to talk to the OCPD officer because he did not trust him and that he was going to call 911 because he wanted to feel safe, according to police reports.

OCPD officers approached the vehicle and ordered Bernstein to get out of the vehicle, but he continued to scream that he did nothing wrong, according to police reports. The officers attempted to remove Bernstein from the vehicle, but he refused to unlock the doors and remained in his seat belt with the engine running. OCPD officers ultimately had to forcibly enter the vehicle, unlatch Bernstein’s seat belt and remove the keys from the ignition.

Multiple OCPD officers had to forcibly remove Bernstein from the vehicle and he was ultimately pulled out and wrestled to the ground. At that point, he was taken into custody.

While OCPD officers were walking Bernstein to a transport vehicle, he continued to tell police he did nothing wrong and that his best friend was an attorney and that he knew his rights, according to police reports.

Bernstein reportedly told police the reason he did not stop was that he was scared of the police and wanted to call 911 before stopping his vehicle.

Bernstein reportedly told police he was looking for a safe spot to stop the vehicle and also told the officers he did not realize how fast he was going because the speedometer in the vehicle was broken.

He was charged with resisting arrest, obstructing and hindering, fleeing and eluding and a slew of other traffic violations. On Wednesday, Bernstein pleaded guilty to attempting to flee by eluding police and was sentenced to two days in jail.

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BERLIN – A Berlin woman was arrested on Friday and charged with child abuse and assault stemming from an alleged incident at a day care facility in town.

On Jan. 18, Worcester County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO) investigators received a complaint of physical child abuse that had allegedly occurred at the Eastern Shore Early Learning Academy in Berlin.

A WCSO investigator responded to Atlantic General Hospital and observed the 3-year-old victim with an injury on his forehead.

The WCSO investigator interviewed the suspect, identified as Sandra Buckwalter, 52, of Berlin, at the day care facility along with all of the children present during the alleged incident.

Also interviewed was the bus driver who had picked up the children and transported them to the school.

Multiple witnesses indicated Buckwalter allegedly had lifted the 3-yearold victim, who has special needs, and purposely dropped him to the floor, causing the victim to hit his head. The bus driver observed the child to be distraught and crying and also noted the bump on the child’s head.

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Investigators also obtained surveillance video from the bus that allegedly showed a second incident involving Buckwalter and the 3-year-old victim.

Based on the interviews and the surveillance video, WCSO investigators on Friday obtained an arrest warrant for Buckwalter, charging her with second-degree child abuse and two counts of seconddegree assault.

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A preliminary hearing has been set for April 12.

Citizen Tips Nab Fla. Man

BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

OCEAN CITY – Tips from citizens last week helped local law enforcement locate and arrest a man wanted in Florida on animal cruelty charges for allegedly stomping on a pelican.

Responding to tips from citizens, Maryland State Police troopers last Friday arrested William Hunter Hardesty, 31, of Riva, Md., at an Ocean City hotel.

Hardesty was arrested on a warrant from the Florida Fish and Wildlife ConservaWILLIAM tion Commission charHUNTER ging him with animal HARDESTY cruelty to migratory birds and the intentional feeding of pelicans.

Maryland State Police (MSP) troopers arrested Hardesty around 9 a.m. on Friday at a hotel at 12th Street in Ocean City. Hardesty was identified as the suspect after a video posted on social media showed him in Florida allegedly luring and then jumping on top of a pelican in the water.

Florida officials then investigated and obtained an arrest warrant for Hardesty.

MSP troopers from the Berlin barrack were contacted on Friday morning by concerned citizens who told police they believed Hardesty was staying at the Ocean City hotel.

MSP troopers were told the individual was bragging to them about being wanted for feeding and tackling a pelican in the Florida Keys. Troopers then confirmed the extraditable warrant and arrested Hardesty at the hotel without incident.

No Resolution On Gym Lease

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OCEAN CITY – Efforts to keep a midtown gym open at least temporarily are ongoing, but as of late this week no lease and been consummated.

Late last year, the Mayor and Council approved an ordinance authorizing the purchase of the World Gym property at 67th Street for a little over $1.2 million. The 18,000 square-foot property is one piece of a larger puzzle of properties needed for a future water treatment plant.

The purchase is complex to be sure, but in simplest terms, the property went into foreclosure last year when it became apparent the former owner had fallen into arrears on state and local taxes. As a result, the property was offered at public auction and ultimately purchased by Wells Fargo.

However, because the town was not eligible to participate in the public auction during a trustee sale, Ocean City officials took the pre-emptive step to begin the condemnation process for the property.

Once Wells Fargo bought the parcel at auction, the Town of Ocean City was free to negotiate a fair market price for the property, which has led to the proposed purchase for $1.2 million. However, left in limbo through the process has been the gym business itself and its roughly 400 members.

After impassioned pleas to negotiate a lease with owner Todd Clark to keep the gym open until such times as the town needs it for the water treatment plant, efforts are underway but appear no closure to becoming formalized. Mayor Rick Meehan said this week those efforts are ongoing.

“I think the Mayor and Council is trying to make a good faith effort to resolve this and hopefully that will move forward,” he said. “From my point of view, it’s the victims were thinking about and in this case, the victims are the members. We’re making a good faith effort to resolve it.”

Councilman Mark Paddack asked City Manager Doug Miller for an update on the process and suggested the public should be privy to the ongoing negotiation efforts.

“We’ve had all of these discussions about the 67th Street gym in closed sessions,” he said. “I really think some of these things have to come out in public.”

Miller explained the ball was essentially in the gym owner’s court once again. “Last Friday, we had communication with Mr. Clark, but the lease is not back in our hands within the time-frame prescribed by the council,” he said.

Miller said what has been offered is a lease for $5,500 per month for the building and another $1,500 per month once a gravel parking lot is created next to the gym.

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Committee Explores Lights On Bikes Expansion, Fat Tire Beach Events

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BY BETHANY HOOPER

STAFF WRITER

OCEAN CITY – As the summer season draws near, officials in Ocean City last week began reexamining the resort’s Lights on Bikes program.

In 2017, the Ocean City Green Team, chaired by Councilman Tony DeLuca, began spearheading an initiative that targets those riding their bikes at night.

Essentially, the idea of the Lights on Bikes program is that visible lighting attached to bikes would make traveling along the resort’s major corridors safer for bicyclists, including the many J-1 students who bike to and from work during the summer months.

Last March, the Ocean City Police Department began distributing bicycle lights free of charge. And by April, the

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town expanded the program to include five distribution centers. As a result, Ocean City residents and visitors could bring their bicycles to any of the distribution centers to have the free lights installed.

While officials have labeled the program a success, DeLuca said last week he was looking to improve the bike light initiative. He told the Ocean City Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) – which now handles all bicycle-related matters – that he was looking for better ways to target night riders.

“One of the mistakes we made, and I’ve said this before, is we gave lights to everybody,” he said. “Everybody in town wanted a free light for their bike, but they’d never ride their bike at night.”

DeLuca said the best outreach tool

was the police department.

“My feeling on this is the most targeted approach we have is the police,” he said. “When they are out there at night and someone is on a bike without a light, that’s who we want. There is no better way to do that.”

DeLuca added he was also seeking the business community’s support to reach J-1 students this year.

“My other approach to this is to get at the business people who hire the J1 students,” he said. “To me that is the second-best thing. I want to target the big employers that hire a lot of J-1 students at night and give them lights.

We didn’t do that last year.”

Like last year, DeLuca said the town is seeking grants and donations to fund the bike light program in 2019.

He noted a $2,500 grant from Walmart would pay for 400 lights, but he was

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looking to purchase hundreds more.

“I’m going to write a letter, like I did last year, to all the businesses to give me donations,” he said. “A lot of the large businesses gave me $500, $1,000. Even some residents wrote checks last year. It was amazing.”

To make these efforts a reality, DeLuca said he was looking for someone to spearhead this year’s program.

“We’ll continue to talk about it,” he said. “Now is the time to plan, for the grants, the number of lights, who is going to do it, this time of year.”

In his pitch to the Green Team later that day, DeLuca – who also chairs the committee – told members he was looking for support and ideas ahead of the summer season.

“What I’m trying to do today is ratchet it up a notch,” he said.

Ryan James, owner of Mother’s Cantina, said he supported DeLuca’s idea to involve the business community in distributing the bike lights.

“We have a vested interest in their safety,” he said.

Meanwhile during the same meeting, DeLuca presented the committee with the idea to draft an ordinance for bikes on the beach. He said the issue was not covered in the town code and that Special Events Director Frank Miller already had a request to hold a beach event for fat tire bikes.

“He’s starting to see special events where they want to do stuff on the beach,” he said. “They want to ride the beach. They want to ride the surf.”

DeLuca questioned what a proposed ordinance would include.

“I’m throwing this out there,” he said. “Perhaps we should mirror the Boardwalk. All winter long, people can ride their bikes, but not from Memorial Day to whenever. It’s certain times.

Maybe you can do the same thing on the beach.”

However, Planning and Community Development Director Bill Neville said the proposed ordinance would first need the support of certain agencies.

“The problem is you can’t touch that without Beach Patrol, the state, and everybody else that’s involved in what happens on the beach,” he said. “I don’t think we should just dive into a proposed code amendment without running the gamut of agencies that are concerned about what happens out there.”

Yet, Neville agreed an ordinance would be needed to allow bikes on the beach.

“We’ve got a lot of constraints that you can only do what’s permitted out there,” he said. “You’re right, if we wanted to allow it we have to adopt something.”

Neville said the next step would be to reach out to the Ocean City Beach Patrol.

“From a safety standpoint, I don’t think we should go to the next step without knowing they’d be okay with it,” he said.

Public Works Director Hal Adkins agreed.

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Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! The Twining family would like to thank Ocean 98.1 and all the people who created and took part in last week’s #deedsfordaws movement.

Dawson Twining would have celebrated his 31st birthday last week. It’s been four years now since he’s been gone, but he will never be forgotten by his friends and family. It was a wonderful way for this community to remember his kind and caring soul by doing something nice in his honor.

We can’t thank enough all those who participated and spread a little love in his name. It means more to us than you will ever know.

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Regional Digest Arbor Day Tree Giveaway Underway BERLIN – Delmarva Power is giving away 1,000 free trees to residential customers through the Arbor Day Foundation’s EnergySaving Trees program.

This initiative helps customers conserve energy and reduce household energy use through strategic tree planting. For the eighth year, Delmarva Power is stepping up to support this important environmental and energy saving program. Starting this week, customers can reserve one free tree per household by visiting arborday.org/delmarva.

“It’s always exciting to partner with the Arbor Day Foundation and provide our customers additional tools and resources to help them save,” said Gary Stockbridge, Delmarva Power region president. "Planting a tree is a tried-and-true method for saving money and energy at home and over the years these plantings have both enhanced the visual appeal of our neighborhoods and helped our communities become cleaner and more sustainable.”

Customers will have the ability to choose from a selection of trees, including bald cypress, river birch, white dogwood and white oak, most available in varying sizes. One-gallon trees will be delivered to customers’ homes between April and May. All three- and five-gallon trees will be available for pickup only during company planned events in May and April.

More information on these events can be found online during the reservation process.

Keep Maryland Beautiful Grants Awarded SNOW HILL – The Maryland Environmental Trust, a unit of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has awarded 71 grants totaling $215,505 toward environmental education, community cleanup and beautification projects through the Keep Maryland Beautiful program including a handful on the Lower Shore.

These annual grants are funded by the Maryland Environmental Trust, the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) and the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT).

“The Keep Maryland Beautiful grants program is an ideal tool to support local solutions for improving our communities and environment across the state,” said DNR Secretary Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio. “This long-standing partnership reflects the pride and sense of stewardship we all share for Maryland’s outdoors.”

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Resort’s St. Patrick’s Parade Now State’s Largest

Near-perfect weather and good timing with the date led to one of the best St. Patrick’s Day Parades in recent memory with thousands cramming into the resort. Pictured above, a pipe and drum band leads the procession down Coastal Highway.

Photos by Shawn Soper

BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

OCEAN CITY – With one of the biggest and best ever in recent memory last weekend, the Delmarva IrishAmerican Club’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade is now being billed as “the largest in the state of Maryland.”

With the combination of near-perfect weather and the actual St. Patrick’s Day just a day later, several thousand visitors crammed into Ocean City on Saturday for the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Thousands upon thousands lined the parade route and countless others filled into their favorite watering holes along with the other associated events.

To be sure, traffic was snarled at times and reports of waiting an hour just to go a few blocks circulated, but by and large it was a fun, safe weekend for most. For years, Ocean City’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade has been billed the second largest in Maryland, playing second fiddle so to speak to the annual big parade in Baltimore.

However, Mayor Rick Meehan announced at the close of Monday’s council meeting the distinction had been swiped from Charm City.

“Thanks to the Town of Ocean City for supporting the Delmarva IrishAmerican Club and thanks to all of the businesses for their support for what has now become the largest St. Patrick’s Day parade in the state of Mary-

Pictured above, the grand marshals for the 2019 parade were Fran and Michael Patrick Kelly.

land,” he said. “It will continue to be that. Talk about economic benefit. It is the largest weekend of the year not between Memorial Day and Labor Day and it might surpass Memorial Day for an awful lot of the businesses, which is what I hear from them.”

When asked later how the distinction of being the largest St. Patrick’s Day Parade in the state was quantified, Meehan said Baltimore’s parade featured around 100 participants from three states, while the Delmarva IrishAmerican Club’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Ocean City last Saturday included over 125 entrants from as far away as New York and New Jersey along with Maryland and Delaware.

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Mayor Rick Meehan with grandson Brantley on board greeted parade revelers.

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Regional Digest FROM PAGE 30 Recipients in Worcester County included the Maryland Coastal Bays Program, Pocomoke Middle School and the Lower Shore Land Trust, which also serves Wicomico and Somerset Counties.

Statewide St. Patrick’s DUI Results Announced

… O.C. Parade Award Winners Announced City officials including Councilman Matt James (center) doled out candy and greeted parade enthusiasts.

FROM PAGE 30 While Meehan used the number of entrants to quantify the distinction of being the largest St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Maryland, the proof might have been in the pudding with the huge throngs along the parade route and throughout the resort.

“We had a great weekend and the St. Patrick’s Day Parade brought over 100,000 people to town,” he said.

“We’ll have a better idea when we get some of the metrics back. It was a huge success and there were huge crowds all weekend, starting Thursday with people walking along the streets and wearing their green.”

Meehan said the bulging crowds carried over to some of the associated events, creating optimism for what has become the jumpstart to the season after a long winter.

“They also had 1,500 runners in the Shenanigan’s 5K, which was the largest ever,” he said. “It was a great weekend for Ocean City and a good kick-off for the season. Let’s hope it continues throughout the year.”

For the record, many of the parade entrants were honored with awards following last Saturday’s event. The Best Overall Award went to the Float of Hope, while the Judge’s Choice Award went to the Believe in Tomorrow National Children’s Foundation.

The Special Committee Award went to the Ocean City Surf Club.

The Best Commercial Float Award went to Ocean 98-Seacrets-Seacrets Distilling Company, with the Honorable Mention going to Barn 34. The Best Non-Commercial Float Award went to the Greater Ocean City Chamber of Commerce, with the

This sleepy little girl crashed before the parade even got started.

State Sen. Mary Beth Carozza walked the parade route and reached out to big crowds.

Honorable Mention going to Kelly’s Dream.

The award for the best marching unit went to the Camden County Emerald Society Pipes and Drums, while the Royal Elite Diamondz Majorette Hip-Hop Dance Team earned the honorable mention. The award for the best motorized unit went to the Perry County Old Iron 1929 Model A Truck, while the Tall Cedars of LebanonEvergreen Forest 49 earned the honorable mention.

The award for the best adult group went to the Downtown Association of Ocean City with the honorable mention going to the Old Frat Boys. The award for the best youth group went to the Indian River School District Combined Marching Band, while the honorable mention went to the Eastern Shore Ballet Theatre.

Parade swag was all the rage for enthusiasts including this little one reaching out for beads.

BERLIN – Maryland State Police arrested close to 100 people for driving while impaired and issued close to 1,000 speeding citations over the St. Patrick’s Day holiday.

From March 16 to 18, troopers arrested 89 people for driving under the influence, issued 999 speeding citations, 3,039 additional citations and 3,933 warnings and conducted 5,843 traffic stops.

State police also investigated 141 crashes, including three that were fatal, and answered 5,189 calls for service over that span.

This effort was due in part to saturation patrols and sobriety checkpoints conducted throughout the state police’s 23 barracks. The additional enforcement over the weekend was bolstered by impaired driving saturation patrol funds from the Maryland Department of Transportation’s Highway Safety Office.

Escape The Vape Event Planned SALISBURY – Tri-County Public Health and Education agencies are partnering for Escape the Vape, a Teen Tobacco Leadership Summit, from 8:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. on March 28 at The Moose Lodge 654, in Salisbury.

The summit will seek to raise awareness about the dangers of tobacco, nicotine, and Electronic Smoking Devices (ESD)/vaping.

This event will serve as a kick-off for Maryland Kick Butts Day on March 20. Kick Butts Day is an opportunity for youth in Maryland to unite to take a stand for a smoke free future as they join thousands of young people nationwide. More than 1,000 events are planned across the United States for this annual day of youth activism, sponsored by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.

“Vaping and the utilization of ESDs continues to rise among our youth and has been deemed a health epidemic at this time,” said Carol Fenner, Prevention Supervisor at the Wicomico County Health Department. “We want to make sure that both youth and parents are aware and know the dangers of these devices and the health consequences that could be the result of using nicotine or tobacco related products at such a young age. Our hope is the students will take back the information gained from this summit to educate their peers.”

Decision To Convert Former Correctional Facility To Recovery Center Delayed

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BY BETHANY HOOPER

STAFF WRITER

SALISBURY – Citing the need for additional information and public input, officials in Wicomico County last week opted to table a vote on accepting a $972,000 state grant to convert a shuttered correctional facility into a drug treatment and recovery center.

Last Tuesday, the Wicomico County Council agreed to table a resolution to accept grant funding in the amount of $972,684, which would be used to repurpose the Poplar Hill Pre-Release Unit in Quantico into a substance use treatment and recovery center.

Since last July, Wicomico County has spearheaded efforts to convert the shuttered, state-owned correctional facility into a treatment and recovery center. The idea is to provide a 23-hour facility for detox services, residential treatment and recovery housing.

“There isn’t currently a 24-7 ability to provide treatment and services to those who need it,” said Weston Young, the county’s assistant director of administration.

To date, the county has received

nearly $1 million in state funding to renovate the facility, but council members this week said they were hesitant to accept the grant until their questions, and the public’s concerns, were addressed.

“It’s almost like we are doing this backwards,” Councilman Marc Kilmer said. “We are accepting this money to start work without a final plan. The rush of this has given me some heartburn.”

Young said state officials from the Opioid Operational Command Center (OOCC) were requesting the council accept the grant before the March 31 deadline.

“This money that is available now is good until the end of June 2019,” he said. “So, the Opioid Command Center needs to know if we plan to use this money this year or if can they repurpose it to one of their other projects they have throughout the state.”

Steve Schuh, executive director of OOCC, told the council his office supported the proposed treatment and recovery center, but needed to know the county’s decision.

“I know it sounds a little bit like we are making our problem your problem, but it would be a shame to lose $1 mil-

lion to defray the cost of a really good project,” he said. “We look at this as a partnership with you.”

Schuh noted that approximately 140 of the more than 2,000 opioid-related fatalities in 2017 occurred on the Eastern Shore.

“Six of the nine shore counties are far above the Maryland average in terms of per capita rates of fatalities,” he said.

“The need for this type of facility is certainly here in this part of Maryland.”

Barbara Bazron, deputy secretary for the Maryland Department of Health, agreed.

“We really have to curb the number of deaths that are occurring due to the opioid epidemic,” she said. “You’ve got to get people into care, and you also have to keep them in recovery. And the spectrum of services that will be offered here will meet that objective.”

Young said the grant, if approved, would aid in the county’s efforts to convert the facility into a functional treatment and recovery center. Approximately $500,000 would be used for HVAC improvements, $272,000 would be used for mechanical and plumbing upgrades and the remainder

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would be used to renovate the existing dormitories.

“We will be taking what were large dorms … and creating private rooms,” he said.

While Young noted the funding opportunities available to renovate the facility, members of the council shared their concerns regarding the overall plan for the treatment and recovery center.

“It’s like putting the cart before the horse,” Councilman Larry Dodd said.

Councilman Joe Holloway said he was concerned the county would have no ability to limit the facility to Eastern Shore residents if it accepted state funding.

“Will we be moving people from out of the area to this facility?” he said.

While the facility would have to remain accessible to all state residents, Schuh said it would not be a problem.

“I don’t think you’ll have any problem filling those beds with your friends and neighbors here on the shore,” he said. “How the facility operates is how you and your vendor choose to market it. Your marketing will focus on residents of the Eastern Shore.”

Wayne Strausburg, the county’s director of administration, warned the council it needed to move quickly with its decision. He explained proposed legislation in the Maryland General Assembly that would require the commissioner of state corrections to operate pre-release units for women could jeopardize plans.

“We have a pre-release facility sitting there vacant,” he said, “and if you want a pre-release facility in Wicomico County, so be it.”

Council President John Cannon, however, said plans for the facility needed to be vetted properly.

“We’ve had one work session as a county council and we haven’t had any public hearings at all in reference to this topic, which is a concern,” he said. “It’s not us versus them. It’s making sure the proper process will be followed with this.”

Kilmer said he and his constituents wanted more information on the proposed treatment center.

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SALISBURY – Wicomico County officials this week approved a concession agreement with a company to provide unmanned aircraft flight operations at the Salisbury airport.

On Tuesday, the Wicomico County Council voted unanimously to accept a concession agreement between the county and Sentinel Robotic Solutions (SRS) LLC. “This is a concession agreement instead of a lease because SRS is providing a service, not renting a facility,” Airport Manager Dawn Veatch said.

“The facility is being built by the county.

There will be office space and other things rented in that facility that will not be for this portion of this agreement.”

Veatch told the council SRS was experienced in operating unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), commonly referred to as drones.

“They have the expertise to operate this,” she said. “They’ve done this seamlessly with tremendous success.

We are fortunate to have a leader in the industry here as our partner, and I look forward to being able to develop all the new, future things that are coming down the road with drones and the aviation community.”

The agreement comes as officials with the Salisbury airport prepare for expanded drone programs and facilities. According to the concession agreement, SRS will operate from the airport’s UAS facility.

Councilman Joe Holloway, however, voiced his concerns regarding proposed drone operations.

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said. “That was the understanding I was getting from this, and I’ve had concerns from some citizens. There are people out there that are concerned about the vertical lifts.”

Veatch told the council flight operations at the facility would include several types of drones.

“There are no drones being excluded,” she said. “We have runwaytype drone equipment that will use the runway and we have vertical lift [drones].”

However, Veatch stressed safety measures that would facilitate drone operations.

“We have prescribed departures for ingress, egress that protect the operations on the active runways,” she said.

“Those are all being published in a chart for all pilots to review and be able to see. There will be NOTAMS, or notice to airmen, generated for every pilot that flies. They are supposed to get them before they take off, as well as a local NOTAM where the tower will advise if drone activity is currently in operation.”

Veatch added that everyone would be aware of drone operations at the airport.

“Typically, the vertical lift is below 400 feet and aircraft are not supposed to be below 400 feet inside the fivemile radius of the airport. It’s restricted,” she said. “We feel we have a very safe operation.”

Veatch told council members she would also come before them in a meeting next month for permission to utilize drone detection technology at the airport.

“It’s on the agenda to go ahead and get that technology installed so we can track and monitor all drone equipment operating in our airspace and coordinate with air traffic control,” she said.

Wicomico cip approval Tabled again

BY BETHANY HOOPER

STAFF WRITER

SALISBURY – Officials in Wicomico County agreed this week to extend the date for adopting the fiscal years 2020-2024 Capital Improvement Program for a second time.

On Tuesday, the Wicomico County Council approved a resolution to extend the date for adopting the fiscal years 2020-2024 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) from March 19 to June 4. The decision comes one month after the county council voted to extend the date of adoption from February 19 to March 19.

“The resolution before council today is to extend the adoption of the Capital Improvement Program for a second time to June 4, 2019,” said Council Administrator Laura Hurley.

“The reason is that state legislation has been introduced that may have a fiscal impact on the county, and administration has requested to take a look at the projects in the CIP.” In a work session earlier this

month, Director of Administration Wayne Strausburg said county staff would re-examine capital projects proposed in the CIP in light of new developments in the state legislature.

He noted legislation to raise the minimum wage and plans to implement recommendations from the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education – or Kirwan Commission – could impact the county’s capital planning document.

“Back when I was doing the CIP, I was looking at finances quite a bit differently than I’m looking at them right now as we prepare the budget,” he said earlier this month. “So, we are going to revisit that.”

Strausburg requested the county council delay the adoption of the CIP. “I think I would have a much better idea of what the real spending and affordability is going to be by the end of March,” he said.

Back on the legislative agenda this week, the council voted unanimously to extend the date for adopting the CIP for fiscal years 2020-2024 to June 4.

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FROM PAGE 32 haven’t been answered about what this would be,” he said.

But Councilman Bill McCain disagreed and noted constituents who were in favor of the proposed facility.

“We’ve got a choice,” he said, “it being used for something that is going to help us here on the Lower Shore, or it’s going to end up being another prerelease facility again … I don’t want to see us get in the way of progress here.”

Despite their support for tackling the opioid epidemic, members of the council said they wanted more infor-

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mation presented to the public.

“I would certainly like to see this vetted with the public so we know where we stand,” Cannon said. “They are going to be impacted by this.”

After further discussion, Schuh agreed to push the deadline for accepting the grant to the council’s second meeting in April. The council also voted 7-0 to table the vote to April 16 in an effort to reach out to the community.

“We can’t jump at everything because it’s presented as an opportunity,” Kilmer said.

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The anticipation built all morning for the St. Patrick’s Day parade last Saturday as illustrated by the face on this little one. Photo by Shawn Soper

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Starry Night:

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A late-winter sunrise off the coast of Assateague Island last weekend created quite a spectacle in the eastern sky with several heavenly Photo by Jim Halvorsen bodies showing up. In the sky on the bottom right is Saturn, while Jupiter appears above and to the right.

Boardwalk ‘Butt Huts’ Ready

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BY BETHANY HOOPER

STAFF WRITER

OCEAN CITY – Efforts to install cigarette disposal containers to the west of the Boardwalk will move forward as the town installs barriers and bollards as part of an access control project.

Last week, Public Works Director Hal Adkins told the Ocean City Coastal Resources Legislative Committee, or Green Team, that plans are underway to install cigarette disposal containers – or butt huts – on the west side of the Boardwalk.

“All of the butt huts on the west side of the Boardwalk that are designed identical to the ones on the beach are built, done and ready for installation,” he said. “In addition to that, the signage identical to that on the beach is being prepared, but we’ve got to make some terminology edits.”

In November, the town received a $2,000 grant from the health department to fund an initiative that designates specific smoking and disposal areas and reduces cigarette litter near the street ends to the west of the Boardwalk. Adkins said the containers would be mounted near barriers and bollards that are being installed as part of a Boardwalk hardening project.

“As they transition their way up the Boardwalk building these we are going to fall in behind them, mount the signage and mount the butt huts,” he said.

Adkins told the committee the containers would be placed to the east of the bollards and to the west of the Boardwalk.

“They are protected from the traffic circulation and they’re not on the sidewalks near a business owner, or restaurants, windows or hostess stations,” he said.

Councilman and committee chair Tony DeLuca questioned if the town would have an issue placing disposal containers at certain businesses near the Boardwalk. But Adkins disagreed.

“I don’t think we will have problems,” he said.

Officials said the containers will also be part of an effort to collect and recycle disposed cigarette butts.

“We are going to be collecting all of the cigarette butts and store them,” said Gail Blazer, the town’s environmental engineer. “We will use volunteers and they will be boxing them up and sending them to TerraCycle, which pays for the shipping.”

Adkins said installation will begin in the coming months.

“We are getting ready to roll,” he said. “When they get done with the hardening project this summer, we will be done.”

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MANAGING EDITOR

OCEAN CITY – A bill introduced in the General Assembly which would have transferred ownership of the temporary islands created in the coastal bays behind Ocean City to the state for conservation purposes died this week when it failed to make it out of a House committee.

House Bill 54, introduced at the request of the chair of the House Environment and Transportation Committee, would have transferred authority of any lands formed in coastal bays in Worcester County by depositing material dredged from the Ocean City Inlet or other navigational channels in and around the resort area from the state’s Department of the Environment (MDE) to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

When the federal Army Corps of Engineers dredged the navigation channels around the resort a few years back, roughly 400,000 cubic yards of sand and dredged material was dedicated to restoring some of the islands in the coastal bays that hadn’t been

seen on charts since the 1930s, including a roughly four-acre spit now known as Tern Island.

Restoring the islands accomplished the dual goals of finding a home for the tons of material dredged from the Inlet and the navigation channels, for example, while creating crucial habitat for endangered colonial nesting birds in the coastal bays. However, the relatively new islands became no man’s lands of sorts with access and use often called into question.

A conflict of interest quickly arose at Tern Island, for example, when hundreds of recreational boaters flocked to the newly created sandy spit, dropped anchor and waded ashore. At one point, Tern Island’s legacy as a retreat for legions of weekend recreational boaters was solidified when an American flag was installed on it.

House Bill 54 would have codified the authority of the DNR to own and maintain the sensitive islands, essentially cutting them off from use by the boating public. However, the legislation died this week when it failed to make it out of the very House commit-

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tee in which it had been introduced.

“Any island created or formed within he confines of Sinepuxent, Isle of Wight or Chincoteague Bay by the dumping or depositing of excavated material from dredging or any other artificial means employed by the state or the United States or both during the construction or maintenance of the Ocean City Inlet and the channel in the bays are natural resources of the state and title to them is retained for the use of the department,” the bill read.

However, a clause in the bill would have left the sandy islands in the coastal bays available to some segments of the public on a limited basis.

“The department may use the land for conservation purposes in the manner and under the regulations the department deems in the best interest of the state,” the bill read. “However, any person who may lawfully hunt or fish in Worcester County may hunt of fish on these lands during the open season for hunting or fishing.”

According to the bill’s fiscal and policy note, in the 1930s, 29 islands were created by the deposit of dredge spoils collected during the excavation of the navigation channels in and around the newly created Inlet, but by 1964, only 10 of those islands remained. At one point, the General Assembly designat-

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A bill that would have provided ownership of the temporary islands in the coastal bays to the state for conservation died in a House committee last week. Pictured above, boaters install a flag on one of the islands back in 2016.

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Obituaries Taylor Yost Thornton

OCEAN CITY – Taylor Yost Thornton, 31, of Ocean City, Md., and Dallastown, Pa., passed away Tuesday, March 12, 2019, at his residence in Maryland.

Born Oct. 13, 1987, in York, the son of Thomas Yost Thornton of Dallastown and the late Gretchen (Denniston) Thornton, he was a graduate of Dallastown High School who wrestled and qualified at a state level. Thereafter, he attended Millersville University and West Chester University, studying health and nutrition. His true passions were surfing, deep sea fishing and to become a boat captain.

Earning his captain’s license through the U.S. Coast Guard, he currently worked as the first mate on the deep sea charter boat “Morning Star” in Ocean City, Md. In addition to his father, Taylor is survived by a sister, Bree Adams, and her husband, Dan, of York; two nieces, Isla and Sydney Adams; paternal grandparents, Shirley and Henry Thornton, of York; maternal grandparents, Deanna and James Denniston, of Dallastown.

The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch Funeral services were held at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, 2019, at Bethlehem United Methodist Church, 109 E. Main St., Dallastown, Pa.. Kuhner Associates Funeral Directors Inc., 863 South George St., York, is in charge of arrangements.

Taylor will be remem- TAYLOR YOST bered as a dedicated son, THORNTON brother, uncle and friend. Sometimes life gives you such bright lights that are extinguished far before their time. Surf on, T! In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Not One More, York Chapter, P.O. Box 95, Dover, Pa. 17315.

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He was born on Sept. 22, 1944, in Dundalk, Md. After 35 years with AT&T, he retired as a manger in engineering. He enjoyed traveling and spending time on the beach with his family. He was also an avid Baltimore Orioles and Washington Capitals fan.

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SALISBURY – Wicomico officials are hoping to incorporate the history of a county-owned property into the development of a regional park.

Earlier this month, local genealogist and historian Mike Hitch presented the community with his findings on the history of a county-owned property known as Pirate’s Wharf.

“It turned out this site is very unique and has a rich history,” he said. “You couldn’t have picked a better site to weave in a history story.”

Earlier this year, Wicomico County received a mini-grant from the Lower Eastern Shore Heritage Council to hire a consultant that would research the history of Pirate’s Wharf, 340 acres of county-owned property located along the Wicomico River.

Steve Miller, the director of recreation, parks and tourism, said plans are to use the historian’s findings to develop a story for Pirate’s Wharf, which will be converted to a regional park.

“Our goal is to take some of his recommendations and try to weave that into our overall planning process for the park,” he said.

Hitch told the audience this week the property was first surveyed in 1666 for a wealthy landowner named Richard Whitty. And by 1699, the land was sold to a James McMurray.

“From 1699 to 1860, the McMurray family owned all of the land that is now Pirate’s Wharf,” he said.

It was during this time that the property served as a plantation. Hitch said historical records show the property fea-

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tured tobacco plants, apple orchards, animals, tannery and blacksmithing capabilities, a distillery and slave activity.

“Over the course of time, from 1699 to the Civil War, there were probably well over 100 slaves on the property,” he said. “There’s quite a bit of rich African-American influence there.”

In the years to follow, Hitch said the property changed hands several times.

And by the 1880s, Pirate’s Wharf served as a location for a steamboat landing, which lasted until 1896.

After several more changes in ownership, the county acquired the property in late 1990s. But Hitch said the property still contains evidence of past activities.

“This is what I found walking through the fields one day, not even digging around,” he said, “earthenware, colonial pottery from the very early 1700s, delftware from the early 1700s, German stoneware and an Indian trading bean.”

Hitch added that the property also features an old cemetery and the remnants of a brick wall, which he and other historians believe to be the site of an old house.

“We think the wall may be the foundation of the very first house that was on the site,” he said, “extending all the way back to about 1699.”

Aleta Davis, president of the Preservation Trust of Wicomico and a Heritage County board member, encouraged officials to work with the Maryland Historical Trust to conduct an archeological study of the cemetery site and nearby brick wall.

“We would really like to see more work done on the cemetery and have it preserved in some way,” she added.

New Location for Berlin farmer’s market

By Charlene Sharpe

STAFF WRITER

BERLIN – The Berlin Farmers Market will have a new location when it launches its second season this May. The market, which operated on Artisans Green last year, will be located on Pitts Street this year. The market will be set up on the street, a portion of which will be closed on Sundays, as well as in the parking lot around J & M Meat Market.

“This location is more accessible and more visible,” said Ivy Wells, the town’s economic and community development director.

Wells said the new location would save the town money, as there was no rental fee like there was on Artisans Green, and that it would be more ADA accessible. Taylor Bank is now a sponsor of the market, as it has donated use of the parking area.

To provide even more space, the market will also occupy the section of Pitts Street between William Street and Toy Town.

“We weren’t going to close Pitts Street at first, but then after several

discussions we realized that there’s a lot of kids that come to the farmers market,” Wells said. “If they run out in Pitts and we have that road open, it’s probably not going to be good.”

With the road closure, live music will be set up in the street in front of the Burley Inn Tavern. Wells said the street closure would also allow space for a few more vendors, though the market is nearly already full.

“I think I have maybe two spots left,” she said.

She pointed out that there had been numerous requests for meat at last year’s market. Those requests can now be accommodated by J & M Meat Market, which will be open during market hours.

“Instead of bringing the butcher to the market I brought the market to the butcher,” Wells said.

She said the connections of Burley Inn Tavern were also thrilled to see the market outside their door.

“They’re very excited about the new location,” she said.

The market begins May 5 and will run until the end of September. It’s open from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. each Sunday.

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We Need More Leaders Like Late Harry Hughes WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING

During his two terms as Maryland’s 57th governor, from 1979 to 1987, Harry Hughes enhanced civility, integrity and prudence in state government leadership. Elevating Maryland’s political culture and public discourse at a difficult period in our state’s history, Governor Hughes reinforced the value and credibility of public service.

He was a much-understated politician and became successful, in part, because he frequently didn’t act like one. He had an ability to bring together in a civil atmosphere opposing parties on difficult issues acting as a calming voice of moderation in sometimes trouble waters.

Always measured in his discussions with others, Governor Hughes, a Democrat, was sometimes self-effacing about his own political assets.

Early in his September 1978 campaign, he couldn’t understand why I, as his campaign manager, was so interested in locating early photographs of him in his World War II Naval Air Corps uniform, playing the trumpet at the University of Maryland or in his baseball uniform after signing with the Eastern Shore farm team of the New York Yankees. The fact that he had the “central casting” looks of a presidential candidate didn’t hurt either.

One of his first campaign events, a full year before the 1978 primary, was going to the Carroll County Fair. No sooner were we there than Harry sequestered himself in the back of the Democratic Central Committee tent where he talked for over an hour with two elderly ladies while his most flamboyant opponent was in the middle of the fairway at the height of the crowd surrounded by enthusiastic campaign workers with bull horns, literature, buttons and balloons and posing for photographs. We had a long way to go!

For more punishment he went

back a month later as a guest of the Carroll County Republican Club with its rural constituency. Largely a senior group, he agreed to defend the controversial Baltimore subway system proposal. Polite, but hostile, fire opened up from all sides of the room.

Harry listened, kept his poker-face eye contact, heard out everyone.

Then, he quietly and methodically addressed each objection without giving offense, but keeping his remarks rational and impartial. It may not have won everyone over, but they all respected his position and many said so to him after the “interrogation.”

Governor Hughes was perhaps a more brilliant listener than public speaker, recognizing that more is to be learned by hearing the perspectives of others. He had a genuine confidence in ordinary citizens to participate productively in the government process and was never one to interrupt regardless of the sentiments expressed. His view of major decisions was circumspect, a strategy of assessing long-term consequences rather than short-term political benefits.

His public and private composure was always dignified; he was not one to squabble in political babble as he felt that issues could be resolved when openly discussed in an atmosphere of logic, facts and honesty. His words were of value. Being dispassionate when strategizing public policy, he may have been seen by some as hesitant, but his energy and focus were on the goal at hand and not compulsively reacting to emotions or political pressure.

Governor Hughes never lost his temper or more than mildly elevated his voice even under the most stressed moments. Certainly not to curse.

He mentioned his mother’s observation that unsavory language was a re-

flection of an inadequate vocabulary.

By doing his budget and policy homework as a delegate, senator and secretary of transportation, he led from knowledge and experience. By being intimately familiar with the state fiscal process, he occasionally, but politely, corrected top level bureaucrats. Legislation he sponsored and supported was meaningful and served as broad a spectrum of our citizenry as possible.

What did disappoint him was the impulse of some to take advantage of and profit unfairly, as with those involved in the saving and loan scandals that occupied his last tumultuous year in office. Perhaps his confidence was in some instances misplaced, but he worked tirelessly, hands-on, 18 hours a day for months to solve the crisis.

Governor Hughes had simple needs and did not relish or flaunt the perks of the governor’s office. In the late afternoon of his swearing in, a huge, new shiny black limo, loaded with all the communications and security gear possible, appeared at the back door of the State House. It had been the custom of a local car dealership to supply such a vehicle to each new governor. As curious as anyone, he went down to look at it, and after he took a short ride around State Circle looking uncomfortable the entire time, the car soon found itself back at the dealership.

Governor Hughes was not a complicated man but simply a brilliant gentleman with an unassuming intellect and high standards of integrity.

He reflected a civility and gentility that is largely missing today but would be welcomed back by the body politic.

Joseph M. Coale served as campaign manager for Harry Hughes in 1978 and 1982. Editorial courtesy of The Baltimore Sun.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Opposed To Cancellation Of Library Presentation Editor: “Law-abiding Trump supporters who did absolutely nothing wrong were made to appear to be the equivalent of a pitchfork- and torch-carrying mob” is the valid opinion that I heard from a real great American patriot with regard to the March 6 cancelled library presentation.

The presentation was about the Constitution and how it sets forth the procedures for impeachment. Some conservatives, like myself, were concerned that there would be violence as illustrated all over the U.S. perpetrated by Democrats attacking Trump

supporters. I asked if the library will consider having a sheriff present. The Berlin head librarian said, “I think it would be a good idea.”

What is going on in America today is normal behavior in Third World, dictatorial governments. We Americans used to pride ourselves about how we can have an election and no violence would follow no matter who got elected. We used to have a media that actually reported facts without regard to who it might offend.

Now we have a media, with the exception of Fox News and OAN, (One America News Network), that just lies, not only fake news, but bold-face lies.

They exaggerate, leave out details and examples of their accusations. It

has been proven that the alphabet networks, with the exception of OAN, report negatively about Trump 91-percent of the time. The media, late night comedies, and our educational system have fostered and greatly influenced the violence that is taking place today against conservatives.

Consider what happens when a conservative goes to a college to speak. Did you ever, ever imagine that wearing a hat or shirt that promotes making the country you live in a better place would provoke a violent act against you? Conservatives are branded “extremists” by the liberalprogressive-socialists. Extreme in what way please? We were not the SEE NEXT PAGE

March 22, 2019 FROM PAGE 42 party of slavery in the past, nor are we the party of baby murder as proven today.

Take a good look at all the violent activity taking place in America today, like the riots that torch neighborhoods and stores. Take a look at Steve Scalise being shot down, with many other Republicans to follow if it were not for good men with guns stopping it. Editor, may I have one or two full pages to list the extremists, their activities and what party they belong to?

I found consolation in the idea that Worcester County was above all this biased, non-substantiated reporting as it applies to our daily lives. The distorted report of who it was to blame for the library presentation blew that notion out of the water. The left-wing Trump-hating disease is here. For those of you suffering from “The Hate Trump Derangement Syndrome,” try printing out all his America first accomplishments for only his past two years, 14 pages, the most accomplished president for this time span in U.S. history.

Dennis W Evans Berlin

More Library Presentation Oppostion Editor: On March 6 at the Berlin library, a scheduled informative lecture on impeachment and the 25th Amendment was cancelled.

The notification read “the program’s purpose had been misrepresented” and a number of people have taken to the internet and social media to express their opposition of the presentation. Some threatened to disrupt the presentation and to use the event to hold a rally. Those postings raise a concern for the safety of those who planned to attend and the patrons of the library including children using the library at the time of the presentation.

I took the liberty and called the Berlin director Jennifer Ranck, a wonderful asset to the county, due to the threatened nature she made the call to cancel. What about my rights as a resident and citizen to receive informative information? Is this going to happen if I take a class at Wor-Wic Community College?

Enough of these minority people disrupting our lives. Ocean City belongs to not only the residents but the many visitors.

Maria Lawrence Ocean City

Thanks For Remarkable Film Festival Editor: On behalf of the Art League of Ocean City, we would like to thank everyone who supported and made this year’s Ocean City Film Festival a huge success. We welcomed nearly 1,500 Film Festival attendees, a record-breaking crowd.

The 100 films we screened came from 80 filmmakers, 12 different countries, and 20 different states, with 40

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR films produced in Maryland. The festival showcased industry professionals as well as university students, young filmmakers, and local talent, and gave them an opportunity to network with others who share their passion. While the event is only in its third year, the overwhelming response will ensure its growth in future years.

Our gratitude goes out to the venues who screened the films: Clarion Resort, Princess Royale Hotel, Fox Gold Coast Theater, Carousel Hotel, Francis Scott Key Resort, and the Ocean City Performing Arts Center.

The weekend began with a reception at the Princess Royale and culminated with an award ceremony and reception at Seacrets. We are grateful to both venues for their wonderful hospitality.

The highlight of the festival for many was the Delmarva premiere of “The Biggest Little Farm,” a film that chronicled the lives of John and Molly Chester and their odyssey to bring harmony to both their lives and their land. Thank you to director John Chester and executive producer Erica Cramer Messer, both Stephen Decatur High School alumni, for sharing this beautiful film and for coming home to join us for the premiere.

Thank you to our judges: John Sisson, Allen Cramer, Don Lehman, Gwen Lehman, Julian Sidur, Marlon Wallace, Dave Messick, Simona Calin and Jonathan Pippin. Thank you to our committee members who worked many months to coordinate the event: Ruth Waters, Katie Brown, Elaine Bean, Debbi Dean-Colley, and Ryan

Wilde. Our appreciation also goes out to the volunteers who staffed the screenings and helped at the filmmaker reception.

Special thanks to our lead sponsor, the Town of Ocean City. We are grateful to all of our sponsors and advertisers: Ward Museum, Maryland Film Office, Seacrets, Carousel Hotel, Harrison Group Hotels, Hotel-Motel-Restaurant Association, Ocean City Chamber of Commerce, Residence Inn Marriott, Seacrets, Shore Craft Beer, Worcester County Tourism, The Original Greene Turtle, Jolly Roger Amusement Parks, Dunes Manor, Shenanigan’s, Sun & Surf Cinema, Fager’s Island, and D3 Corp.

The festival would not have been a success without our valued media partners who helped us get the word out: Ocean City Today, Maryland Coast Dispatch, Delmarva Public Radio, Ocean 98 and WBOC/WRDE. Thank you to the festival’s workshop instructors: Rob Waters, Rob Bell and Jack Gerbes and the team from the Maryland Film Office who explored topics like screen writing, shooting in Maryland, and networking opportunities.

Finally, to our audiences, who laughed, shed a tear, asked insightful questions, and enthusiastically applauded, we appreciate you choosing to spend your time with us.

Mark your calendars for the 4th Annual Ocean City Film Festival in March 2020. In the meantime, experience independent film screenings year-round by joining us for our $5 Film Nights on the third Saturday of

Quotable Quotes

“Sometimes, you have to be careful what you wish for. This will have two boats with licensed captains when you could have a lot of novice boaters in there.”

COUNCILMAN DENNIS DARE ON THE PROPOSED WATER TAXI BUSINESS UPTOWN

“Councilman Paddack approved the towers for his neighborhood, but you don’t see one of them in front of his house.”

COUNCILMAN MATT JAMES ON THE PROLIFERATION OF SMALL-SCALE CELL TOWERS IN NORTH-END NEIGHBORHOODS

“I’m not convinced the scientific data says they can cause cancer. So, don’t ever say ‘in front of my house’ again because I would say put one there if you need to.”

PADDACK’S RESPONSE TO THE ISSUE OF NORTH-END SMALL CELL TOWERS

“It is the largest weekend of the year not between Memorial Day and Labor Day and it might surpass Memorial Day for an awful lot of the businesses, which is what I hear from them.”

MAYOR RICK MEEHAN ON OCEAN CITY’S ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE BECOMING THE STATE’S LARGEST

“It’s probably the greatest honor I’ve ever received. This is something I will cherish for a lifetime.”

SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT AND FORMER PRINCIPAL LOU TAYLOR ON HAVING THE DECATUR STADIUM NAMED FOR HIM

“To do a good job at anything it takes a lot of preparation that people don’t recognize, they don’t see. I don’t know what to say. Thank you.”

LONGTIME COACH BOB KNOX ON HAVING THE NEW TURF FIELD NAMED FOR HIM

“The issue shouldn’t be the pick-up time, it should be the drop off time. I don’t think we should have them coming back in there at 2 a.m. with 19 bar-hoppers on there.”

COUNCILMAN MATT JAMES ON WATER TAXI HOURS OF OPERATION

Editor’s Note:

The weekly Between The Lines column will not appear today as Editor Steve Green is on vacation.

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Rina Thaler B.L. Strang Kristin Helf (Thaler is the executive director of the Art League of Ocean City, and StrangMoya and Helf served as director and codirector of the festival.)

Praise For Salisbury Leadership Editor: Over the past few years, there have been many positive changes on the Lower Shore.

Salisbury is now Maryland’s fastest-growing city and America’s seventh fastest growing job market thanks to the leadership of Mayor Jacob Day. Much of this can be credited to the bold, progressive ideas that Mayor Day has implemented to grow and prepare the city for the future.

Under his leadership, Salisbury has enacted a Housing First program to address homelessness, revitalized downtown, added youth programs like summer youth employment, Salisbury Rhinos football, and the opening of Truitt Street Community Center.

Finally, approving beautification projects such as the construction of the new Riverwalk Amphitheater, the addition of a fountain in the Wicomico River, the Riverwalk completion, downtown parking garage graphics, and the Main Street streetscape gives Salisbury a modern feel. This bold leadership has led to growth and new opportunity in Salisbury.

Bold leadership doesn’t stop at the mayor's office. We can also see it with newly-elected Councilman Josh Hastings of Wicomico District 4 who brings fresh ideas to the council. Though he has only been on the council a few short months, Councilman Hastings was instrumental in the creation of a new park at Pirate’s Wharf. He also has a platform on funding schools and working with the municipalities across the county to address issues and create more jobs.

With the progress made by these two great leaders, it is clear we should strive to elect more progressive leaders to lead us moving forward.

Jared Schablein Pittsville

Thanks For Patrick Henry Editor: The officers and members of The Germantown School Community Heritage Center (GSCHC) are sincerely grateful to Patrick Henry and his staff for the African-American exhibit displayed during the month of February.

We cannot adequately express our appreciation to Patrick and his amazing talent and time spent explaining the exhibit to the many visitors.

We extend a deep sense of gratitude to the public for donations supporting our effort to install a picture-hanging system in the center.

The turnout to view the exhibit was overwhelming.

Barbara Purnell President GSCHC

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Members of the Worcester Preparatory School competition team at the Destination Imagination Tournament included Izzy Huber, Savannah Palmisano, Vanesska Hall, Dylan Simons, Travis Netting, Team Manager Keith Geiger and Sydney Tingle. Not pictured is Lydia Schwartz.

Ocean City Elementary School volunteer Skip Carey presented a check to the kindergarten students, enabling each of them to receive a $5 coupon to spend at the school's 2019 Scholastic Book Fair. Carey loves to volunteer in the kindergarten classrooms at OCES. Pictured with Carey from left, are Brooks Huyett, Frederick Singer, Landon Bounds, Joshua Rodriguez, Lilly McAllister and Lila Ball.

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Mrs. Engh’s kindergarten class at Ocean City Elementary School celebrated Read Across America Day on March 1 by inviting parents into the classroom to read aloud their favorite Dr. Seuss books. Pictured, from left, are Charlotte Balmforth, Luca Buta and Hektor Buta.

Worcester Prep students Jack Lynch and Briar Parsons drill into the flying device they created during Destination Imagination while librarian Sandy Taylor holds it steady.

Kindergarten students at Ocean City Elementary School invited their parents to school to read aloud from their favorite Dr. Seuss books. Pictured, from left, are Skyler Chester, Luke Bergey and Kristin Bergey.

Students in Mrs. Vit’s fifth-grade social studies class at Berlin Intermediate School learned about important battles during the American Revolution. They created timelines of six important battles, identifying their significance, important people who took part in the battle, the outcome of each battle, as well as a visual to accompany each battle. Pictured, from left, are Mya-Johnson-Guerrero, Cullen Wilkins, and Makenzie Hitch.

Berlin Zoning Board approves variance

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BERLIN – The town’s board of zoning appeals approved a variance request that will allow for a new garage at a Main Street home.

The board voted 3-0 last Wednesday to approve a variance that will enable a Main Street couple to build a garage within two feet of their property line. The request was supported by two members of the Berlin Historic District Commission (HDC).

“We feel it would be a good thing for the historic district and that property,” said Carol Rose, chair of HDC. Homeowners Daniel and Naquelle Jacobs initially approached the board of appeals last month seeking a reduction in the required side yard setback from six feet to two feet. The variance, they explained, would allow them to replace their dilapidated garage with a larger one. The board tabled the request so that town staff would have a chance to consult with the fire marshal regarding the fact that the new building would be within a few feet of the Jacobs’ neighbor’s garage.

Planning Director Dave Engelhart told the board Wednesday that the fire marshal would have no involvement in the garage unless there was a dwelling unit involved.

Prior to board deliberations, Naquelle Jacobs explained that the garage was being proposed for this particular location so that a 161-year-old tree in the backyard wouldn’t be disturbed.

She added that a new garage would be more aesthetically pleasing than the existing structure.

Rose told the board that the HDC had already approved the garage and considered it an attractive addition to the neighborhood.

“Our board unanimously approved the structure they want to construct,” she said.

Bryan Brushmiller, who lives next door to the Jacobs and shares a driveway with them, told the board he too supported the plan for a new garage.

“I think it’s aesthetically pleasing,” he said, adding that its location fit in with the shared driveway.

The board voted 3-0 to approve the variance request. Chairman Joe Moore cited the importance of the historic tree.

“One of the things that I believe does make their circumstances a bit unique is the tree…,” he said. “My home is also in the historic district, it’s down the street. My house was built in 1920 and I have two sycamore trees in the front yard. They’re going to soon be a hundred years old and I believe that they do have a significance, particularly in the historic district.”

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BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

BERLIN – Worcester Prep’s girls’ varsity lacrosse team will be seeking its seventh straight Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference (ESIAC) championship when it kicks off the season next week and appears to have the talent to pull off the remarkable feat.

The Mallards went 13-3 last year and captured the ESIAC title for the sixth straight year with a win over rival Saints Peter and Paul in the title game. As the Worcester girls prepare for the 2016 campaign, it appears the Mallards have plenty of talent up and down the field to repeat again.

Of the 33 players on the roster, seven are seniors and 13 are juniors, all of whom were part of last year’s team. The roster also includes three sophomores and nine freshmen ready to make their mark on the program.

Top returning players include Delaney Abercrombie, Grace Gardner, Julia Godwin, Alannah Curtis and Hailey Merritt. In goal, the Mallards will rely on senior Claire DeMallie and sophomore C.C. Lizas.

Worcester faces a tough schedule right from the start with a visit from Stephen Decatur in the opener next Wednesday, followed by road games against Cape Henlopen and Bennett the following week.

BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

BERLIN – With a solid core of returning veterans and a handful of new faces filling out the ranks, expectations are as high as usual for the Stephen Decatur girls’ varsity lacrosse team this year.

Returning from last year’s highly successful team are seniors Logan Townsend and Kennedy Duke, along with juniors Abby Yesko, Sarah Engle, Isy Kristick and Alyssa Romano. Newcomers this year expected to make an immediate impact for the Seahawks include junior Katie Mitchell, sophomore Taylor Barrett and freshmen Meredith Eitel, Emma Meyer and Darby Moore.

“We have a lot of talent on the team,” said Coach Sara Braniecki.

“They’re excited about playing, they work hard and they are incredibly coachable.”

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Braniecki said with veteran leadership and talented new players, the goals have not changed for the Seahawks this year. Last year’s team finished with a 7-7 record after a slow start and was the third seed in the state 3A-East region. The Seahawks beat rival Bennett in the opening round of regionals before bowing out in the sectional final.

“We have players all over the field with experience and we have newcomers that will see playing time all over the field,” she said. “We hope to dominate the Bayside South this year and make an appearance in the Bayside championship.”

The Seahawks will find out what they’re all about early. Decatur opens with Delaware power Cape Henlopen at home on Monday, followed by a visit to crosstown rival Worcester Prep next Wednesday.

Decatur’s Brown To Compete For Riding Title

Champs Crowned In St. Pat’s Tourney

BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

OCEAN CITY – The Ocean City Recreation and Parks Department’s St. Patrick’s Tournament concluded last weekend with champions crowned in the men’s and women’s adult divisions.

For three decades, the Ocean City Recreation and Parks Department hosted the St. Patrick’s Indoor Soccer Tournament over four weekends from mid-February to mid-March. The tournament featured around 150 teams competing in various gender and age groups from youth to adult.

This year, however, the format chan-

ged, essentially splitting the old St. Patrick’s Tournament into two separate tournaments. As a result, the Ocean City Indoor Cup was created and featured the younger divisions in February.

The old St. Patrick’s Tournament got underway during the first weekend in March and this year for the first time will feature adult teams only. Last weekend, the tournament concluded with the men’s and women’s adult divisions. For the record, the Salisbury Soccer Club beat the Turtlettes, 5-3, in the women’s adult division championship. Das Bierhalle won the men’s adult division title, beating La Dolce Vita, 5-5, in a game decided 3-2 on penalty kicks.

Das Bierhalle won the championship in the men’s adult division of the St. Patrick’s Tournament on the last day of the event last weekend, beating La Dolce Vita in overtime.

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Decatur sophomore Olivia Brown will compete next month in the Interscholastic Equestrian Association open championships. Pictured above is Brown on her mount, Lapis.

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BY CHARLENE SHARPE

STAFF WRITER

BERLIN – A Stephen Decatur High School sophomore will compete in Pennsylvania next month after being named a high point rider by the Interscholastic Equestrian Association.

Whaleyville resident Olivia Brown, a sophomore at Stephen Decatur High, will compete in the Interscholastic Equestrian Association (IEA) Varsity Open Championship April 27 in Harrisburg, Pa. She was selected to represent Zone 3, which encompasses Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland and Delaware, after earning more points than any other rider in the region.

“To receive high point rider in this zone is an amazing accomplishment, particularly for such a young rider,” said Brown’s coach, Hilary GibbonsNeff.

High point riders from each of IEA’s 11 zones will face off in the April 27 event. The championship will mark the culmination of the fall and winter show season, during which Brown competed in five IEA shows, the maximum riders are allowed to enter.

Worcester County Tourism Director and Brown’s mother Lisa Challenger, said what makes the high point rider title so exciting is that fact that Brown earned the most points in one of the most populated IEA regions.

“When you consider the number of riders, in the mid-Atlantic area there’s a tremendous number of riders,” Challenger said. “This is huge. She left very few points on the table. She went in there and won almost all the time.”

Brown, who has been riding horses since she was 5, has been competing in IEA events since middle school.

She currently rides for the Little Clovelly Farm IEA team out of Easton.

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Ocean Pines Swim Team members enjoyed a great meet last weekend at UMBC with several personal bests. Pictured above are Coach Kristina Watts, Laney McDaniel, Ashleigh Noonan, Emma Coyman, Haris Gjikuria, Meghan Bean, Coach Rob Leszcynski, Addy McDaniel and Hannah Allam in front. Submitted Photos

Pines Swimmers Continue Recent Success

BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

OCEAN PINES – Fourteen swimmers represented Ocean Pines Swim Team (OPST) Hammerheads at the 2019 Maryland B Championship Meet held last weekend at UMBC. Swimmers Hannah Allam, Meghan Bean, Ian Betterson, Emma Coyman, Zarek Coyman, Haris Gjikuria, Jake Harner, Addy McDaniel, Laney McDaniel, Amanda Nicastro, Ashleigh Noonan, Kaolin Riser, Matt St. Pierre, and Sonny St. Pierre all competed in multiple events.

OPST swimmers are encouraged to participate in meets throughout the season in order to measure personal progress. One of the highlights for a coach is when an athlete achieves a personal best time. The Hammerheads saw significant amount of personal best swims from all swimmers at this meet.

“This meet has the greatest amount of time dropped so for far this season,” said Coach Kristina Watts. “These swimmers have really been taking our coaching tips and putting them into action to make these dramatic improve-

ments happen.”

The Hammerheads saw several Top-16 finishes in addition to best times. Gjikuria finished second in the 13-14 girls 50-yard freestyle with a time of 30.81, 14th in the 100-yard backstroke and 16th in the 100-yard freestyle. Emma Coyman finshed fifth in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 31.32. Emma Coyman also had a third-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:24.85 and placed 11th in the 200 backstroke.

Noonan placed sixth in the 11-12 girls 50-yard freestyle with a time of 32.00. Bean placed 12th in the 13-14 girls 50-yard freestyle and 5th in the 100-yard backstroke. Riser had a 13thplace finish in the 11-12 girls 50-yard backstroke. The 11-12 girls 200 freestyle relay team of Noonan, Laney McDaniel, Allam and Addy McDaniel placed 6th.

Harner had two 9th-place finishes in the 9-10 boys 100-yard breaststroke and 100-yard individual medley, placed 15th in the 50-yard freestyle and 16th in the 100-yard backstroke. Betterson had a 15th-place finish in the 13-14 boys 50-yard freestyle.

Competing for the Ocean Pines Swim Club last weekend in a different session were Ian Betterson, Zarek Coyman, Amanda Nicastro, Sonny St. Pierre, Matt St. Pierre and Jake Harner.

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By STEVE GREEN

(Editor’s Note: I’m on vacation this week, so we are reprinting a column from four years ago this week.)

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he family is packed up and headed to Disney World.

This has been planned for months, but we didn’t let the kids know about it until a couple weeks ago for a few reasons.

One, we didn’t want them to get overly excited too early and lose focus on school.

Secondly, we were cooking up a cool way to surprise them with the plans.

Finally, we kept waiting for them to be good long enough to deserve the trip surprise.

With the latter not happening anytime soon and the trip already paid for in advance, Pam set out to focus on the surprise element.

I, on the other hand, was vacillating between regret because of recent misbehaviors and eager anticipation for showing them a magical place that will blow them away. In other words, I was just my typical basket case of mixed emotions.

When it came to surprising the kids with the trip, Pam was shooting for the proverbial stars. I was just hoping to be able to add to the surprise with some sort of comment about, “We are taking you here because you have been behaving so well and being respectful and listening.”

With that sort of statement off the table, which I blame partially on the cold winter weather inducing cabin fever insanity, Pam was on her own with the surprise, as I would have nothing to add.

Frankly, I think she prefers to handle these sorts of things without my input anyway.

Early on, I suggested we just show them a video of Disney World, get them excited by what they see and then pop it on them that we were heading there this month.

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Something much more elaborate than my typical male imagination could come up with to pull off.

She created a scavenger hunt complete with handmade puzzle pieces inside the house (because of course there was either snow on the ground or it was raining). Complete with the puzzle pieces were the kids’ luggage, featuring custom Disney name tags that came in the mail from Mickey Mouse. Inside the luggage were balloons that streamed out along with their Magi Bands that get you access to everything Disney while on the vacation. I’m sure I have left out some other incredible details that she mixed in with the surprise.

The boys were obviously through the roof, and we have been counting down the days since on our calendar. Each morning they announce how many days remain and it’s been fun over the last couple weeks to plan our big getaway with them.

Additionally, the trip has been a decent carrot to dangle for them. It has been a helpful behavior modifier as well.

At one point recently during a bad spell, I told them Pam and I were going to go to Disney without them if they didn’t start getting along better with each other. It surprisingly worked well, as Carson immediately released Beckett’s hair from a death grip. On another occasion, that threat worked in convincing Beckett not to retaliate against his brother after he stole his pillow from his bed.

Before he agreed to not pile drive Carson, Beckett offered up some sort of compromise.

“I have another idea I wanted you to consider. How about you just keep us apart the whole time? While I am riding rides with mommy, you and Carson can stay in the pool. Then when we are done at night, you guys can go. That way everyone is happy and he’s not bothering me and won’t make bad decisions.”

Everything is a negotiation with this kid, and I’m sure we will see a lot of these skills at play at Disney. He’s not

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lthough they are 5 and 6 years old, there are still times when my boys want to be treated as little ones.

A lot of times there’s a fine line between wanting a helping hand from the parents and just being lazy.

For example, at the end of most nights, Beckett, 6, wants to be carried upstairs because he says he is so exhausted. However, once upstairs and he spies a ball, he suddenly gets a boost of energy and the requests for me to stand with my legs apart so he can kick the ball between them start. The same goes for making a basket with my arms to form a basketball hoop. When I say enough is enough and it’s time for bed, the arms get extended up and “pick me up and carry me” requests return.

Carson can manipulate us just as well as his big brother at times. While getting out of the car the other night during a downpour, Carson feigned exhaustion to get me to carry his chubbiness from the driveway to the house. He threw his arms up in that same “carry me” fashion. He even threw in the sign of “night time” to let me know he was feeling tired.

Once inside, I started to wonder if maybe he was getting sick or something. I put him down on the couch and left the room for a few seconds to hang up my jacket.

When I returned, I realized I had been played, as he was standing on a nearby ottoman trying to juggle his shoes. Before I knew it, he jumped down and ran upstairs for toys.

When I questioned him about being tired, he simply hunched his shoulders in his non-verbal fashion with palms up and then laughed.

(The writer is the publisher and editor of The Dispatch. He and his wife, Pamela, are proud parents of two boys. This weekly column examines their transition into parenthood and all that goes along with it. E-mail any thoughts to editor@mdcoastdispatch.com.)

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Star Charities recently raised $841 for the Girl Scouts. Star Charities founder Anna Foultz, left, presented the check to Director for Unit 7 Beverly Meadows, right. On Tuesday March 12, 2019, the Girl Scouts celebrated 107 years.

On Friday, March 15, the Town of Berlin hosted its annual employee recognition ceremony. Among those honored were, from left, Planning Director Dave Engelhart, senior accountant Rondell Wise, Town Administrator Laura Allen, spray site supervisor Megan Pfaller, water distribution technician Ryan Showell, assistant wastewater superintendent Keith Dukes and Mayor Gee Williams.

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On Thursday, March 14, the Rotary Club of Salisbury distributed more than $39,000 to 12 local nonprofits from funds raised during the 2018 Governor’s Challenge basketball tournament. The Rotary Club of Salisbury is a partner with Wicomico County for the annual Governor’s Challenge basketball tournament, which was sponsored by The Bank of Delmarva.

Ocean City Lions Club member Ben Dawson received a $10,000 contribution from Pam and Macky Stansell to the Ocean City Lions Charities which supports wounded military heroes. The Stansells have supported this program for many years and the OC Lions Charities contribution for wounded warriors rehabilitation now exceeds $401,000.

The Wicomico County Visual and Performing Arts students, under the direction of Stephen Harvey, entertained the Wicomico Retired Educational Personnel at their February luncheon. Pictured, left to right, are Alexa Nastasi, Sarah Runge, Amari Jackson, Laila Libertin, Mitchell Adams, Spencer Cormier, Harvey and retired musical director Dottie Wright.

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OCEAN CITY – Reservations are now being accepted for the annual Taste of Finer Things featuring 16 local chefs on Wednesday, April 3, at 6:30 p.m. at Harrison’s Harbor Watch.

Participating restaurants include Atlantic Hotel, Barn 34, Captain’s Table, Crabs to Go, Desserts by Rita, Embers-Blu-Mad Fish, Harrison’s Harbor Watch, Hooked, Macky’s Bayside Bar and Grill, OC Wasabi, Red Red Wine, Seacrets, Sunset Grille, Sweet Disposition, Touch of Italy and Wockenfuss.

“This wonderful evening is a chance for lovers of fine food and fine wine to sample some of the best the Ocean City area has to offer,” said event chairperson Stephanie Meehan. “The setting overlooking the Ocean City Inlet at sunset couldn’t be more perfect and it’s for a very good cause.”

The event raises funds for the capital campaign to build the Macky and Pam Stansell House, a hospice residence and outreach center that will serve the Lower Shore. This home is for hospice patients who can no longer manage safely at home and will open to patients later this year.

Reservations are $100 per person and can be made at CoastalHospice.org/taste or by calling 410-7428732.

The event is typically a sellout, so early reservations are encouraged.

Lauren Glick will provide entertainment.

The Taste of Finer Things committee members are Meehan, Macky Stansell, Pam Buckley, Karen Cramer, Madalaine How, Marsha Howarth, Donna Leiner and Gayle Widdowson.

SALISBURY – Peninsula Regional Health System and the Wicomico County Board of Education will hold HealthFest: An event for all ages, on Saturday, March 30, from 7:30 a.m.12:30 p.m.

This year’s event, a showcase of healthy exhibits and free health screenings, will be held at James M. Bennett High School on College Avenue in Salisbury.

Over 35 free health screenings, including skin cancer screenings aboard the PRMC Wagner Wellness Van, will be available the day of the event and without pre-registration. The health screenings, performed by Peninsula Regional Medical Center (PRMC) healthcare specialists and other area healthcare providers, will be available to anyone looking to find out how healthy they are and to learn what they can do to lead an even healthier and more productive

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lifestyle. Some of the more popular screenings offered at no cost are DermaScan skin exams, bone density, blood pressure, vision, hearing, height, weight, stroke and spine awareness, foot screenings, aorta and lower leg circulation screenings.

At this year’s HealthFest, PRMC will offer attendees an opportunity to participate in a paper diabetes screening conducted by the Peninsula Regional Diabetes and Endocrinology Center team. Additionally, following a paper screening, the PRMC Lab team will also be collecting blood samples for the National Kidney Foundation for Creatinine and Random Glucose.

Fasting is not required for either test.

New to HealthFest in 2019 is the United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore Opioid Coalition. The coalition will be inside the Bennett gymnasium with numerous vendors featuring educational and resource information.

At various times throughout the morning, participants may enjoy a senior exercise demonstration, cheerleading and majorette performances and dance demonstrations including Indian Classical Dance. Dr. Chris Snyder will answer general medical questions at the “Ask the Doctor” booth, and PRMC pharmacists will be available for medication and medicine reconciliation questions.

HealthFest will also offer a health corner for kids, therapy dog demonstrations, a free photo booth, bounce house rock climbing wall and much more.

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Optimistically putting away the snow shovel My son’s red hair and blue eyes

Reading biographies of historic figures Visiting a new place

Watching my kids play together When something happens that you know you will never forget

Reading about Autism and CBD Oil Steamed crabs anytime, anywhere Charcoal grilling

Getting a server I know

A bottle of wine and a movie with my wife

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Saturday Matinee Fundraiser March 23 THE CLAYTON THEATRE • $10 Featuring The Steve Martin/John Candy Comedy

Doors Open At 1 p.m.

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Proceeds To Benefit The American Cancer Society

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Saturday, March 23: DJ Greg, 5 p.m., DJ Groove, 9 p.m., Deadeye Stare, 9:30 p.m.

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ON THE EDGE Clarion/Ocean Club: Friday & Saturday, March 22 & 23

FULL CIRCLE Harpoon Hanna’s: Friday, March 22 Seacrets: Saturday, March 23 & Thursday, March 28

HARPOON HANNA’S 302-539-3095 Rt. 54 & The Bay, Fenwick Island, DE Friday, March 22: Dave Hawkins, 5 p.m., Full Circle, 9 p.m.

Saturday, March 23: Dave Sherman, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, March 26: DJ Rupe Thursday, March 28: Kevin Poole HOOTERS 410-213-1841 12513 Ocean Gateway, Rte. 50, West OC Friday, March 22: DJ Wax Saturday, March 23: Classic Vibe, 4 p.m.

OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS Harborside: Sundays & Thursdays

SIDE PROJECT Fager’s Island: Friday, March 22

JOHNNY’S PIZZA & PUB 410-723-5600 56th St. & Coastal Hwy., Bayside Every Wednesday: Randy Lee Ashcraft & The Saltwater Cowboys PICKLES PUB 410-289-4891 8th St. & Philadelphia Ave. Friday, March 22: Beats By Jeremy, 10 p.m.

Saturday, March 23: Rogue Citizens Mondays: Karaoke With Jeremy Thursdays: Beats By Wax

ROGUE CITIZENS Pickles Pub: Saturday, March 23

HIGH FIVE SWAN DIVE Seacrets: Friday, March 22

STEAL THE SKY Seacrets: Saturday, March 23

DEADEYE STARE Fager’s Island: Saturday, March 23

SMITTY MCGEE’S 302-436-4716 37234 Lighthouse Rd., West Fenwick Ireland, DE Thursdays & Fridays: Randy Lee Ashcraft & The Saltwater Cowboys SEACRETS 410-524-4900 49th St.& Coastal Hwy. Friday, March 22: High Five Swan Dive, DJ Tuff, 9 p.m.

Saturday, March 23: Full Circle, 5 p.m., JJ Rupp Band, 9 p.m., Steal The Sky, 10 p.m., 2 DJs Thursday, March 28: Full Circle Duo, 5 p.m.

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Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday: AARP Tax-Aide Free Tax Preparation

Mondays 9 a.m.-3 p.m.: Ocean Pines branch library, 11107 Cathell Rd., Ocean Pines. Appointment: 443373-2667. Tuesdays 9 a.m.-3 p.m.: Mac Center, 909 Progress Circle, Suite 100, Salisbury. Appointment: 410-957-0878. Fridays: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Pocomoke branch library, 301 Market St., Pocomoke City. Appointment: 410-957-0878. Saturdays 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Ocean City Senior Center, 104 41st St., Ocean City. Appointment: 443-373-2667.

Every Monday: TOPS Meeting

5:30-6:30 p.m. Atlantic General Hospital, Berlin.

Take Off Pounds Sensibly is a support group promoting weight loss and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.410-641-0157.

Every Monday: Delmarva Chorus Meeting

7 p.m. Ocean Pines Community Center. Women of all ages invited to sing with the group. 410-6416876.

Second Monday Of Month: Ocean Pines Camera Club 7 p.m. Ocean Pines branch library. Monthly get-together to share photos, tips, programs. Group goes on a photo shoot the Saturday following meeting and hosts a hands-on workshop the last Thursday of each month. Professional and amateur photographers and new members welcome. Meets second Monday of each month.

Every Tuesday: TOPS Meeting

5:30-7 p.m. Worcester County Health Center, 9730 Healthway Dr., Berlin. Take Off Pounds Sensibly is a support and educational group promoting weight loss and healthy lifestyle. jeanduck47@gmail.com.

Third Tuesday: Alzheimer’s Support Group

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 9715 Healthway Dr., Berlin. Free caregivers group. 410-629-6123.

Every Wednesday Through April 17 Lenten Bible Study

6 p.m. Eastern Orthodox Community of Saint Andrew Church, 33384 MacKenzie Way (off Plantation Road), Lewes, Del. “The Gospel of Mark: The Way of the Cross and the Challenge of the Empty Tomb.”

Everyone welcome. 302-645-5791 or www.orthodoxdelmar.org.

Every Wednesday: Delmarva Hand Dance Club Dance To Sounds of ’50s And ’60s Music

5:30-9 p.m. Ocean City Elks Lodge, 13708 Sinepuxent Ave. $5 donation per person to benefit veterans and local charities in the Delmarva region. Dance lessons with Certified Hand Dance instructor Diane Engstrom on first and third Wednesdays of every month, 5-5:45 p.m. Dancing afterward until 9 p.m,.

All are welcome. dance@delmarvahanddancing.com or http://-delmarvahanddancing.com. 410-2081151.

Second Wednesday: Polish American Club Of Delmarva Meeting

2-4 p.m. Columbus Hall. Anyone of Polish or Slavic descent is welcome. No meetings June, July, August. 410-723-2639 or 410-250-2548.

Second Thursday: Ocean Pines Garden Club

10 a.m. Ocean Pines Community Center. Visitors and new members welcome.

Every Friday: Knights Of Columbus #9053 Bingo

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Doors open at 5 p.m., bingo at 6:30 p.m. 9901 Coastal Hwy., Ocean City. Possible to win the $1,000 big jackpot each week. 410-524-7994.

Every Friday: FORGE Contemporary Youth And Family Ministry

6:30-8:30 p.m. FORGE Center, 7804 Gumboro Rd., Pittsville. Designed for kids ages 5-65, the program provides a meal, music, games, activities and a life lesson that can be of use to anyone. Christianbased program but does not require the practice of faith to attend. 443-366-2813.

First Saturday Of Month: Writers Group

10 a.m.-noon. Berlin branch, Worcester County Library. Anyone interested in writing is invited to join the group and share a story, poem or essay or just come and enjoy listening to others. This is a free activity. New members are always welcome. The group is comprised of amateur as well as professional, published writers willing to share their knowledge and offer tips on being creative with words.

March 22: Laser Tag And Mini Golf

5:30-8 p.m. Laser Tag/Game World, 146th Street, Ocean City. Benefit of Boy Scout Troop 2173, Bishopville. Open to the public. Admission: $20, unlimited rounds of laser tag and mini golf. Funds will be used to buy needed camping/hiking gear and pay for camping trips. Group is looking for sponsors or donation items to be raffled off during event. 443880-7180.

March 23: Keith Twilley Benefit Bingo

Doors open at 5 p.m.; bingo starts at 7 p.m. Hosted

by Willards Volunteer Fire Company at Willards Lions Club, Main Street, Willards. Only 200 tickets will be sold. Tickets: $35. Pay $125 per game, $1,000 jackpot, 50/50 drawing, special games sold separately. All proceeds will go to the Twilley family to help them in their time of need. 410-430-1135.

March 23: Girdletree Spring Fling

9 a.m. Girdletree Methodist Church Hall, 2805 Snow Hill Rd., Girdletree. Benefits The Girdletree Historical Society. Craft items, yard sale items, baked goods, lunch. 410-632-1641.

March 23: Soup And Oyster Luncheon

10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Powellville UM Church, 35606 Mt. Hermon Rd., Powellville. Eat in or carry out.

Homemade soups, oyster fritter sandwiches, chicken salad, barbecue pork and desserts on sale. 443880-8804.

March 23: Abate Of Delaware 11th Chili Cook-Off

Noon-4 p.m. Doors open at 10 a.m. for set-up. Sussex Moose Lodge, 35933 Zion Church Rd., Roxana, Del. If you think your chili is the best, bring it on. Admission: $8 gets you a cup and spoon for tasting;

$5 if you enter your own chili. Voting at 3 p.m. by People’s Choice: first-, second- and third-place awards. Door prizes every hour. 302-732-3429 or 410-251-8699.

March 26: Wine Tasting And Auction

4:30-7:30 p.m. Ocean Pines Community Center. Kiwanis Club of Ocean Pines-Ocean City. Enjoy wine, food, silent auction, live music by Still Rockin’. Must be 21 or older. Tickets: $15/person (see any Kiwanis Club member or call 443-896-4914). Proceeds to Kiwanis Club of OP-OC Scholarship Fund supporting local students.

March 28: Worcester County Democratic Club

6:30 p.m. Assateague Room, Ocean Pines Community Center. Presentation by James Fisher, communication director for the Delmarva Poultry Industry Association who will addresss the importance and impacts of the poultry industry on the local economy.

Open to the public. 443-523-4491 or tcwieland3@gmail.com.

March 29: Greyhound Bookstore Author Signing

Noon-3 p.m. 9 S. Main St., Berlin. Retired Johns Hopkins University Vice President Ross Jones will be signing copies of his groundbreaking biography, “Elisabeth Gilman: Crusader For Justice.” Come meet the author and have your book signed at this catered event. www.greyhoundindiebookstore.com, 410-641-0291.

March 30: All-You-Can-Eat Breakfast

7-10 a.m. Whaleyville United Methodist Church, 11716 Sheppards Crossing Rd., Whaleyville. $8/adult; $4/child. Buffet includes pancakes, bacon, sausage, scrapple, scrambled eggs, chipped beef, has brown potatoes, toast, fruit, assorted beverages. 410-726-0603.

March 30: FORGE Youth And Family Quarter Auction

Doors open at 5:30 p.m., auction begins at 6:30 p.m. 7804 Gumboro Rd., Pittsville. Paddles are $10 for first, $5 for each additional. Refreshments will be available. To contribute items for the auction: 443513-1048 or info@forgeyouth.org.

March 30: Luncheon And Bake Table

10 a.m.-2 p.m. Powellville Volunteer Fire Company.

Soups and sandwiches, oyster sandwiches, bake table. Benefits Friendship UMC. All are welcome.

443-235-1381.

March 30: St. Joseph Festival

11 a.m.-6 p.m. St. Andrew’s Hall, 144th and Sinepuxent streets, Hosted by OC Sons and Daughters of Italy. Lodge members invited to honor St. Joseph, patron saint of workers, and raise funds for local charities, student scholarships. Free admission. Italian specialties, ravioli with meatballs or sausage,

March 22, 2019 meatball and sausage subs, salad, minestrone soup, zeppoli, cannoli, gelato, fried dough, salami and cheese trays available for purchase. Music by Mario Monaldi Band. Basket and silent auctions, expanded seating area.

April 11: Annual Arbor Day Memorial Tree Planting Ceremony, Luncheon

10:30 a.m. Pintail Park, Ocean Pines. Hosted by Ocean Pines Garden Club. A tree will be planted in memory of loved ones who passed away during 2018. Open to all. Luncheon at the Ocean Pines Yacht Club follows ceremony at 11:30 a.m. Cost of luncheon: $22 per person. Menu choices are grilled salmon Greek salad; chicken quesadilla and cup of tortilla soup; or brisket French dip. Includes dessert of cookies and brownies, iced tea, water, coffee, tax and gratuity. Mail check to OPGC, c/o Ann Shockley, 273 Windjammer Rd., Ocean Pines, MD 21811. Indicate menu choice. 410-641-5295 or rexerann@gmail.com.

April 11: Free Breast Health Event

5-8 p.m. Atlantic General Hospital, in partnership with Susan G. Komen Maryland, offering a free breast health discussion and dinner for area women. Residence by Marriott, 61st Street and the bay, Ocean City. Three-hour “Hope In Bloom” event will address early detection, treatment and survivorship.

Presentations will be given by Roopa Gupta, M.D., medical oncologist and hematologist, and Manoj Jain, M.D., radiation oncologist. Keynote address by cancer survivor Darlene Jackson-Bowen, Ph.D., PA. A panel of survivors will also be held for discussion and Q&A. Advance registration required: www.agh.care/hope or 410-629-6820.

April 11: Friends Of The Berlin Library Meeting

4-6 p.m. Berlin branch’s Dr. Mary E. Humphreys Community Room. Includes business and library information. Guest speaker: Branch Manager Alice Paterra discussing history of libraries in America and the new library. Snacks will be served. Everyone welcome.

April 11: AARP Meeting

10 a.m. Ocean City Senior Center, 41st Street and Coastal Highway (behind the Dough Roller). Please arrive early at 9:30 a.m. for a social half-hour and refreshments. Guest speaker will discuss good kidney health. Optional luncheon will follow the meeting at a local restaurant. New members welcome.

410-250-0980.

April 13: Breakfast Sandwich Sale

7-10 a.m. or until sold out. Berlin Fire Company, 214 N. Main St., Berin. Breakfast sandwiches only: Choose from bacon, egg and cheese or sausage, egg and cheese. Milk, orange juice, coffee. Cost: $5 for one breakfast sandwich and one drink item. The public is invited to support the Berlin Fire Company.

Berlin Little League Opening Day Parade starts at 9 a.m. Any Berlin Little League member in uniform will receive a free breakfast sandwich and a free drink. 410-641-1977.

April 13: All-You-Can-Eat Chicken And Dumplings

5-7 p.m. Bishopville Fire Department Auxiliary Main Station. Adult: $12; children under 11: $6. Chicken, hand-rolled dumplings, cole slaw, green beans and sweet potatoes, water, tea, coffee. Soda, bottled water and desserts sold separately. Eat-in or carry-

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April 13: Bridge Bash And Games Galore out. 443-880-6966.

9:15 a.m. Doors open for registration and breakfast (homemade cinnamon rolls, pastries, juice, coffee; playing begins at 9:45 a.m.; lunch, short program and door prizes at noon. Asbury United Methodist Church, Salisbury. P.E.O. Chapter V, a philanthropic organization where women celebrate advancement of women, educate women through scholarships, grants, awards, loans and stewardship of Cottey College and motivate women to achieve their highest aspirations. $30 per person, space is limited.

Four two-hour classes will be offered in March for 4100, location to be determined. 410-873-2126 or cowall@comcast.net.

April 15: Burley Oak Charity Night For Assateague Island Alliance

6-9 p.m. Burley Oak Brewing Company, Berlin. Win prizes, enjoy iive music courtesy of Michelle and Kathy from Full Circle, and enjoy a fresh brew or root beer. All funds raised benefit Assateague Island National Seashore.

April 26-28: Assateague Nature Photography Workshop

Friday: 7 p.m.; Sunday: 2 p.m. Join world-class instructor Irene Sacilotto to focus on strategies and techniques required to produce high-quality wildlife images while capturing moments in nature. Limited spaces available. This workshop will utilize Assateague for field work. Fee. Registration: AssateagueIslandAlliance.org.

April 28: Italian Dinner

4-6 p.m. Church of the Holy Spirit, 100th Street and Coastal Highway, Ocean City. Catered by Carrabba’s. Includes chicken Bryan, penne pomodoro, Caesar salad, garlic breadsticks, iced tea, lemonade. Desserts will be available for $1. Tickets: $15, available at the church and at the door on the day.

410-723-1973 or 443-235-8942.

April 30: Registration For Sussex C.A.R.E.S. Conference

“Creating Awareness Of Resources For Every Senior In Sussex County” conference set for May 9, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Crossroad Community Church, Georgetown, Del. Keynote speaker: Patricia W. Griffin, Master, Delaware Court of Chancery. Includes lunch and door prizes, vendors. All are invited to learn how to ensure that final wishes are carried out. Register: 302-396-9518 or http://bit.ly/2019caresconference.

May 9: AARP Meeting

10 a.m. Ocean City Senior Center, 41st Street and Coastal Highway (behind the Dough Roller). Please arrive early at 9:30 a.m. for a social half-hour and refreshments. Guest speaker will discuss the Living Legacy Foundation. Optional luncheon will follow the meeting at a local restaurant. New members welcome. 410-250-0980.

May 11: Horseshoe Crab Ecology And Tagging Demo 11 a.m. Join Assateague Island Alliance volunteer and citizen scientist Dick Arnold for an informative, hands-on program encounter with horseshoe crabs.

Discover how valuable this living fossil is to the global ecosystem and humankind plus how horseshoe crabs are tagged and why. Refreshments at 10:30 a.m. Meet at the Assateague Environmental Education Center, 7206 National Seashore Lane, Berlin.

June 13: Gardens Of Ocean Pines Tour

9 a.m.-noon. Those interested in showcasing their beautiful gardens, large or small, should contact 410-973-1423 or plookner@gmail.com to discuss placing your garden/yard on the tour.

June-Sept. 8 Saturdays: Yoga On The Beach

9 a.m. Enjoy low-impact exercise to increase balance, flexibility and reduce stress to the sound of ambient waves. All levels welcome. Free but park entrance fees are in effect. Donations benefit Assateague Island National Seashore. Bring your own beach towel. Meet at the Shade Pavilion in North Beach parking lot, 6633 Bayberry Dr., Berlin.

Things To Do activities are printed free of charge. To ensure that an event is listed in a timely manner, please submit information as early as possible, since all items will be listed in advance as space permits. Be sure to include the date, name of event, time, location, address and a contact number. Email to editor@mdcoastdispatch.com; fax to 410-641-0966; or mail to The Dispatch, P.O. Box 467, Berlin, Md. 21811.

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Irish eyes were smiling all over the resort area last weekend with the arrival of St. Patrick's Day and the annual parade. Some of my stops were the 45th Street Taphouse, Shenanigan's, Greene Turtle West, the 1st Annual St. Patty's Harbar Crawl hosted by Mad Fish Bar & Grill, Harborside, Micky Fins and Crab Alley and Full Moon Saloon's fourth anniversary and St. Patrick's Day party. More photos in next week’s paper.

Mad Fish: Jamie Taylor, Caroline Philllips, Lynette Catha, Lauren Jeffery, Chloe Ament, Taylor Tilghman, Carina Costy, Deven Scott, Will Cramer and Dana Fraola

By Terri French

Faces

SPOTLIGHT ON THE REGIONAL RESTAURANT AND BAR SCENE

Greene Turtle West: Managers Chad and Kelly Rogers with Long & Foster’s Tim Meadowcroft and Surf’s Edge’s Brian Lesniewski

Micky Fins: Bartenders Angela Giampetroni and Courtney Gallagher

45th Street Taphouse: IT guy Jeff Hinkle and mother and daughter Pam and Taylor Harman

In Places

Full Moon Saloon: Servers Cherish Nielson, Mary Armstrong, Amber Ray and Mary Hardester – Happy Anniversary!

Harborside: Staffers Tracey and Beverley Thompson, Lara Helou, Kate Rebman and Ian Todd

Full Moon Saloon: Jack Burbage, Virginia Pappas and Todd Burbage

Shenanigan’s: Bartenders Austin Gerachis, Chance Ebel and Addie Rippin

Greene Turtle West: Steve and Gina Sullivan – Happy Birthday, Gina!

45th Street Taphouse: Bartenders Frank Zydzik II, Manager Brian Mayhew and Rob Kanotz

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And Real Estate News Two From SU Named To Top 100 List

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SALISBURY – Two from Salisbury University (SU), Dr. Chrys Egan and Jamie Holmes-Kriger, have been named among Maryland’s Top 100 Women for 2019 by The Daily Record, a Baltimore-based business newspaper.

The honor recognizes the outstanding achievements of professional women who reside or work in Maryland.

Egan, professor of communication arts, holds several leadership positions at the university, including president of the Faculty Senate and co-director of the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity. She also leads the Youth Innovation Academy through SU’s Center for Extended and Lifelong Learning.

Recently, she served DR. CHRYS EGAN as co-principal investigator of a $150,000 National Science Foundation grant to form the PROMISE Academy at SU, which will recruit scientists from traditionally underrepresented groups who have recently completed their doctorates into faculty positions in the sciences.

In addition to her work at SU, Egan worked with an international cohort to develop the Capacious Model of Leadership Identities Construction, illustrating the fluidity of leadership identities over time, and has served on the board of directors of the Popular Culture Association of the South. She also has published extensively on communication and diverse leadership development.

Holmes-Kriger is SU’s associate registrar and an adjunct professor of information systems and decision sciences.

Through the Registrar’s Office, she received an Aurora Foundation grant to fund SU’s Green Zone initiative, which provides faculty and staff training to provide support services for military-connected students. In addition, she co-sponsors the annual Justin McJilton Memorial Scholarship for SU JAMIE students who have been HOLMESKRIGER touched by cancer.

Beyond the university, she is the immediate past president of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers’ Chesapeake and Potomac chapter and has earned its Emerging Leader Award. She also serves on the Minds in Motion Children’s Museum board of directors and has been a member of Salisbury’s Ben Layton Memorial 5K committee for the past decade.

In addition to Egan and HolmesKriger, Kathy Kiernan, a member of SU’s Franklin P. Perdue School of Business Advisory Board and the founder of Open to the Possible Coaching and Consulting, also was named among Maryland’s Top 100 Women this year.

Peninsula Home Care Promotion SALISBURY – Peninsula Home Care, a locally owned and operated home health care agency providing award-winning skilled care to patients on the Lower Shore since 1985, is pleased to announce Dawn Gears, LPN, transitioning to the role of account manager/community liaison for Worcester County.

“With Dawn’s background in nursing and her familiarity with the patients, she is well positioned to initiate education at bedside in the hospital or rehabilitation facility before they are discharged and transitioned to home care,” said Barbara Murray, Peninsula Home Care Maryland branch director. “We know ultimately this will help prevent readmissions to the hospital because patients will be better prepared to be a DAWN GEARS part of their plan of care to manage their conditions and speed the recovery process.”

Gears’ responsibilities as account manager/community liaison include regular visits to physician offices, nursing homes and rehab facilities to transition patients to home care, working closely with PHC clinical managers who handle the start of care for new patients and building partnerships with community organizations and local businesses.

“I am excited about my new role and look forward to helping patients understand the why behind their plan of care,” said Gears. “If they don’t fully comprehend why they need to follow their care plan, there is a greater chance for non-compliance and re-admissions. I am fully committed to being a part of the full circle of care for patients and making connections for them because I know it works.”

Gears graduated from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, with an Associate’s Degree in Applied Business Management. She also earned a Bachelor of Science in Business from Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pa. She graduated from Delaware Technical Community College in Georgetown, Del., with her LPN certificate. She lives in Berlin with her husband, Nathan Gears. When not on the job, she enjoys traveling, gardening and trying new wines.

Worcester CARES Event Next Week

March 22, 2019

BERLIN – Berlin is hosting the second annual Worcester Community Access to Resources Expo (Worcester CARES) event on Saturday, March 30, from 9 a.m.-noon at Berlin Intermediate School (BIS).

“This is a great family friendly event featuring nonprofit organizations throughout the county,” said Mayor Gee Williams. “All partners are essentially creating a one-stop shop for individuals and families looking for support or assistance. Worcester residents will have the opportunity to learn all about services they need the most. Really, who doesn’t need a little help these days.”

The town is partnering with Delmarva Power, Choptank Electric Cooperative, Telamon, Worcester County Department of Social Services, Shore Up, the Salvation Army, Worcester Youth and Family and Berlin Intermediate School to organize the event.

Ocean City’s transportation service will be offering to transport residents free of charge from the Multi-Purpose Building at 130 Flower St. to BIS and back. It will begin at the Multi-Purpose Building at 9 a.m. Atlantic General Hospital will be offering 13 different health screenings free of charge during the event.

The Evergreen Lodge-153 of Berlin will be hosting a blood drive from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. in the BIS parking lot on the day of the event. They have also recently received training to provide the Maryland Child Identification Program (MD CHIP). This service is provided free of charge by the Freemasons of Maryland.

When a child participates in the program, all vital statistics are recorded. The child is photographed, digital fingerprints are taken, and a video recording of the child speaking is made. All information is then recorded onto a CD. A cheek swab of the child’s DNA is collected painlessly.

Everything is then sealed in an envelope and given to the parent for safekeeping. A military sweep is done of the computer after each child, they retain none of the information.

The event will offer shredding services in the BIS parking lot from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. The shredding truck will be asking for donations of $5 per box.

Donations will go to Worcester Technical High School for new coveralls.

Worcester CARES will provide a food voucher for the Stevenson United Methodist Church Spirit Kitchen lunch located at 123 N. Main St. The lunch will take place on Wednesday, April 3 from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. The Spirit Kitchen will also provide bagged groceries to take home after lunch.

The event has room for more vendors, sponsors and volunteers. For more information, contact Town Clerk Kelsey Jensen at, 410-973-2289 or Debbie Smullen with Worcester Youth and Family at 410-641-4598.

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REAL ESTATE AUCTION SATURDAY, APRIL 6, AT 10:00 AM 11812 GUM POINT ROAD, BERLIN, MD

WATERFRONT PROPERTY FOR AUCTION

THIS 26,353 SQ FT WATERFRONT LOT WITH AN EXCEPTIONAL VIEW WILL BE AUCTIONED ON SATURDAY, APRIL 6, AT 10:00 AM.

PROPERTY OPEN FOR INSPECTION: THURSDAYS, MARCH 28 & APRIL 4 - 3:00 PM TO 5:00 PM For private showing call 410 546 2425

**Due to the extreme renovations needed for the home located on the property, the Estate is crediting $18,000 to the new owner for demolition, if desired.**

WWW.PRAUCTIONS.COM 5% BUYER’S PREMIUM, $25,000 DOWN

This property features beautiful views of Turville Creek & Glen Riddle Golf Course. With a large waterfront yard, this property is only a short distance from Ocean City Inlet and is surrounded by several golf courses. Ocean Downs Casino & Race Track is only one mile away!! There is piling for a dock, a private boat ramp and a very rare boat house in Worcester County complete with a large room on the back. This unique property is located in a great Blue Ribbon School District. Worcester County Tax Map 21, Parcel 20.

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Showcasing Ruark Golf’s restaurants for wedding venues at their recent bridal show were Shellie Tambourine and Lauren Thorp (Lighthouse Sound) along with Kelly Dillon (Ruth’s Chris).

The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch

People

By Jeanette Deskiewicz

FEaTuRING THoSE HELPING CauSES IN THE RESoRT aREa

Welcoming diners into St. Paul’s By-The-Sea Church for an authentic Italian dinner were Suzanne Zantzinger and Linda Ballenger.

In Society

March 22, 2019

Helping brides with flower choices at the Lighthouse Sound Bridal Show were Veronika Balch and Stephanie Smerechenski from Flower Box by Little Nika.

at the Lighthouse Sound Bridal Show, Commander Hotel’s Danielle Costello and Carissa Scaniffe assisted brides with their hotel room needs.

Having fun in the photo booth at the bridal show held at Lighthouse Sound, were Barbara Patton and Penny King of Photo Booth Extravaganza.

Making sure all the food came out perfect for the St. Paul’s By-The-Sea Church Italian dinner was Vi Candeloro, with the help of Jean Charles.

Representing Sandals Bridal at the Lighthouse Sound Bridal Show were Sean Carroll and Taran Radford with gowns and formal wear.

The youth of Stevenson united Methodist Church, Jack Phillips, Ruby Manos, amanda Jones and Cameron Gray, served a pancake and sausage dinner on Shrove Tuesday.

The wine guy and dessert lady, Larry Lorton and Nancy Knotts, provided the perfect accompaniments for the Italian dinner held at St. Paul’s ByThe-Sea Church.

Flipping pancakes in the Stevenson united Methodist Church were Rob Jones and Vicky Nock for the Shrove Tuesday dinner benefitting the youth group.

Horoscopes

March 22, 2019

ARIES (March 21 to April 19): You'll want to discourage well-meaning but potentially ill-advised interference in what you intend to accomplish. Your work has a better chance to succeed if it reflects you.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20): The Bovine's well-deserved reputation for loyalty could be tested if you learn that it might be misplaced. But don't rely on rumors. Check the stories out before you decided to act.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20): You've been going on adrenaline for a long time, and this unexpected lull in a recent spate of excitement could be just what you need to restore your energy levels. Enjoy it.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22): Friends can be counted on to help you deal with a perplexing personal situation. But remember to keep your circle of advisers limited only to those you're sure you can trust.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22): Securityloving Lions do not appreciate uncertainty in any form. But sometimes changing situations can reveal hidden stresses in time to repair a relationship before it's too late.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22): This is a good time for single Virgos to make a love connection. Be careful not to be too judgmental about your new "prospect" – at least until you know more about her or him.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22): Your sense of justice helps you resolve a problem that might have been unfairly attributed to the wrong person. Spend the weekend doing some long-neglected chores.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21): You might feel justified in your anger toward someone you suspect betrayed your trust. But it could help if you take the time to check if your suspicions have substance.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21): Ignore distractions if you hope to accomplish your goal by the deadline you agreed to. Keep the finish line in sight, and you should be able to cross it with time to spare.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19): Your creative self continues to dominate through much of the week. Also, despite a few problems that have cropped up, that recent romantic connection seems to be thriving.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18): As curious as you might be, it's best to avoid trying to learn a colleague's secret. That sort of knowledge could drag you into a difficult workplace situation at some point down the line.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20): Instead of spending too much time floundering around wondering if you can meet your deadline, you need to spend more time actually working toward reaching it.

BORN THIS WEEK: You have a natural gift for attracting new friends, who are drawn to your unabashed love of what life should be all about. Š 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Welcome cheerleaders

March 22, 2019

The Dispatch Crossword Puzzle

General’s Kitchen

Since 1965 ... The Original House Of Chipped Beef

Best Creamed Chipped Beef On The Beach!

House Specialty

The Original House Of Creamed Chipped Beef On Toast Or Biscuit With Hash Brown Potatoes Or Grits

WE MAKE THIS FROM SCRATCH! OUR OWN RECIPE!

open 6:30 a.m. 4 days a Week Closed Tuesday, Wednesday And Thursday

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Voted Best Breakfast In The Washington Post 2005 “Best Of Ocean City” GOLFERS WELCOME • RIDE THE BUS TO US!

Your Hosts, Bob Noll And Law Adkins

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March 22, 2019

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$15/Week For Minimum Of Five Lines • $2 Thereafter Per Line Display Classified Ads: $20/Week Per Column Inch (Contract Discounts Available)

HELP WANTED

FULL MOON SALOON: Hiring Food Expeditor. Great Salary.

Apply in person. 12702 Old Bridge Road. West Ocean City. ___________________________ HOUSEKEEPERS: Sun Hospitality is now hiring Year round Housekeepers. Apply in person starting March 5th. Coconut Malorie, 200 59th St. Bayside, OC ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– LANDSCAPE/HARDSCAPE: Now hiring Landscape/Hardscape employees in Bishopville, MD. 2-4 spots open. Must be able to pass a bckgrnd ck. & have valid DL. Please call Erin at 410-251-7351 for any information or inquiries.

––––––––––––––––––––––––––– DENTAL OFFICE: Busy Dental Office looking for Dental Assistant with Radiology Cert, good clinical & keyboard skills. Also, Front Desk position. Dental knowledge and good keyboard skills required. M-F, FT w/ many benefits. Fax 410-213-2955 or Email: contact@atlanticdental.com –––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Busy Berlin Internal Medicine Practice Now Hiring PT MEDICAL ASST

Patient Friendly & EHR Knowledgeable.

Fax resume to: 410-629-0544

Assawoman Ale Shoppe Hiring for all positions.

Apply within store.

52nd Street, Bayside, OC.

RESTAURANT MANAGER YR/PM

Entry Level Position Banquet exp. a plus

Inquire Within 32 Palm at Hilton Suites 3200 Baltimore Ave. Ocean City, MD

higgins Crab house now taking applications:

•Exp. liquor storE attENdaNt please apply in person Fri-sun, 10am-7pm 128th st., ocean City

Now hiriNg!

NOW HIRING SUMMER 2019

• Make lifelong Friends • housing assistance & paid internships available • live & work at the Beach

Come see us at the ocean City Job Fair on March 31 From 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

WORK ON THE BEACH IN OCEAN CITY, MD. • Rent Umbrellas & Chairs To Beachgoers • Now Hiring Students For Over 80 Positions • Make Friends & Memories • Earn Valuable Sales & Customer Service Skills • Energetic Individuals Wanted • Hourly + Commission + Tips

all positioNs

applY iN pErsoN The Spinnaker 18th St & Baltimore Ave 11am-2pm

Selbyville Goose Creek Fenwick Goose Creek Hiring for all positions.

For Both Locations Apply Online www.mygcjob.com

Seeking YR, EXPERIENCED

LINE COOKS SERVERS BARTENDERS Apply within Wednesday - Sunday 11 AM - 10 PM

CONSTRUCTION WAREHOUSE MANAGER Responsibilities include, but not limited to… organizing, purchasing, receiving, facilitating deliveries, scheduling vehicle & equipment maintenance.

Please apply in person at 11935 Hammer Road, Bishopville, MD

Email your resume to Apply online at -

AllStates@AllStatesConst.com http://allstatesconst.com/ delmarva-renovations-careers

PUT YOUR LOGO IN COLOR FOR JUST $10

CONTACT INFORMATION Phone: 410-641-4563 • Fax: 410-641-0966 Email: classifieds@mdcoastdispatch.com Mail: P.O. Box 467, Berlin, Md. 21811

Deadline For Insertions, Cancellations And Payment Is 3 p.m. Tuesday.

Pre-Payment Is Required. We Accept Visa & MasterCard.

SOUTHSIDE GRILL WOC: Hiring Line Cooks, Kitchen Help, Dishwashers. YR, FT or PT. Ambitious, willing to work individuals only. Pay neg. based on performance. 9923 Stephen Decatur Hy, 410-2131572.

––––––––––––––––––––––––––– OFFICE MANAGER: FT/YR. Seeking bright, energetic individual for our small office. Exp w/Word, Excel and QBooks. Excellent organizational, communication and customer service skills. Rental experience a plus. Send resume to Fred@paradiseoc.com.

––––––––––––––––––––––––––– YARD WORK - Full time, year round position. Berlin-West Ocean City area private residence. Responsibilities include mowing, trimming, weeding, pruning, errands and light handyman chores. Valid driver's license and reliable transportation required. Must be experienced, dependable, trustworthy, and have excellent references.

Call for interview Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm 410-289-4444 Ext. 117.

––––––––––––––––––––––––––– TEQUILA MOCKINGBIRD NORTH: Hiring Year Round Full Time Server. Must have experience and be flexible with hours and shifts. Apply North Ocean City Location, 130th Street, Wed-Sun. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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Come Join Our WinningTeam!

Now accepting applications for the following positions: FRONT DESK RECREATION ROOM INSPECTOR ROOM ATTENDANT MAINTENANCE SERVER BARISTA HOSTESS LINE COOK We are looking for experienced personnel with customer service skills. Must be flexible with hours. Email resume to jobs@carouselhotel.com or stop by and complete an application at the Front Desk.

We require satisfactory pre-employment drug testing and background check.

Carousel Resort Hotel & Condominiums 11700 Coastal Highway Ocean City, MD 21842 EOE

applY Now MyTelescopePictures.com/Employment

FULL-TIME PERSONAL BANKER

Farmers Bank of Willards has a full-time Personal Banker position available at our Talbot Street location. Looking for professional and motivated individuals with extraordinary customer service skills. Cash handling experience & excellent computer skills a must.

Please send resume to Jennie Rice at 12641 Ocean Gateway, OC, MD 21842 or email: jennie.rice@fbwbank.com Application cut off is 4-5-2019 “Equal Employment Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer”

Work With the Best Ocean City has to Offer ...

We Invite You to be a Part of our Family!

Year round - Full/part time ~POOL MANAGER ~SERVER ~BARTENDER ~HOSTESS/HOST ~BUSSER ~ROOM ATTENDANT ~HOUSEKEEPING HOUSESTAFF ~MAINTENANCE ~PAINTER FREE EMPLOYEE MEALS AND EXCELLENT BENEFITS!

FAX RESUME & SALARY REQ. to: 410-723-9109 Online at www.clarionoc.com APPLY IN PERSON Mon-Sat 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

CLARION RESORT FONTAINEBLEAU HOTEL 10100 COASTAL HWY. OCEAN CITY, MD. 21842 EOE M/F/D/V

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$15/Week For Minimum Of Five Lines • $2 Thereafter Per Line Display Classified Ads: $20/Week Per Column Inch (Contract Discounts Available)

The Moore Companies of Berlin, MD are in need of Landscape Laborers & persons with Irrigation knowledge.

Our serving areas include Selbyville & Millsboro, De and Ocean City, WOC, OP & Berlin, MD. Valid driv.’s lic. required.

Call 410-641-2177 or email office@themoorecompanies.com to schedule an interview

NOW HIRING DELIVERY DRIVERS Make $12-$16 per hour.

Flexible Hours, Great Working Atmosphere.

Apply within, Downtown location 710 Philadelphia Ave, OC, 410-289-1200

DENTAL ASSISTANT (FULL TIME)

Experienced Dental Assistant for busy dental office in Dagsboro, DE. Self-motivated, responsible, and good communicator. Hours M-T 8-5 Friday 8-1. Benefits available.

Call 302-732-3852 or email resume to brafmanfamilydentistry@mchsi.com

PROFESSIONAL SERVERS HOSTESSES

ALL POSITIONS!

Apply In Person Nantuckets Fenwick Island

Apply In Person Lobster Shanty Fenwick Island

autoMotiVE

grEat opportuNitiEs! in business for 35 years - we have auto/Marine parts stores, service Centers and a used Car dealership and still growing! due to some recent retirements along with expansion, we are hiring for additional: - Experienced technicians - up to $27.00 hr.

- oil lube - tire techs - Maryland state inspector - Experienced tow truck drivers-Very competitive pay!!

- auto parts and service Counter associates locations in the Bethany Beach, rehoboth Beach and ocean City Maryland areas.

Company matched retirement plan and much more!!

Call: 443-373-1324 or 443-497-0465 Come grow with us ...Plenty of room for advancement!!

PUT YOUR LOGO IN COLOR FOR JUST $10

CONTACT INFORMATION Phone: 410-641-4563 • Fax: 410-641-0966 Email: classifieds@mdcoastdispatch.com Mail: P.O. Box 467, Berlin, Md. 21811

Deadline For Insertions, Cancellations And Payment Is 3 p.m. Tuesday.

Pre-Payment Is Required. We Accept Visa & MasterCard.

The Moore Companies Now Hiring

March 22, 2019

Come Join Our WinningTeam!

SALES MANAGER

The Carousel Group is looking for an energetic individual to become part of our sales team. The candidate’s area of responsibility includes conducting outside sales calls, obtaining new business accounts, conducting site tours, networking within the local business community and driving sales. The ideal candidate must be organized, professional, a team player and able to multi task. Excellent communication and presentation skills are imperative. Qualified applicants should possess a willingness to learn hotel sales and rooms software with a solid working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs including Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook. Prior hotel experience is a plus. This position requires a flexible work schedule.

Email resume to jobs@carouselhotel.com or stop by and complete an application at the front desk. We require satisfactory pre-employment drug testing and background check.

Carousel Resort Hotel & Condominiums 11700 Coastal Highway Ocean City, MD 21842 EOE BOOKKEEPER

Local real estate company is looking for an experienced Bookkeeper to assist in managing our day-to-day accounting and numerous rental accounts. Confidentiality, excellent organizational skills and accuracy are important qualifications.

Good customer relations and the ability to communicate clearly is a must. Proficiency in QuickBooks, Word and Excel is required. Real Estate office experience a plus! The position is Mon-Fri, 9AM-5PM (some flexibility in hours).

Please email resumes to: bookkeeper19930@gmail.com

FRONT DESK RECEPTIONIST (FULL TIME)

A caring. dependable person with excellent communication skills in person and on the phone. Dental experience in insurance and dental procedure knowledge is required.

Fax resume to 302-732-3855 or email to brafmanfamilydentistry@mchsi.com Immediate opening with benefits.

holiday inn oceanfront 6600 Coastal highway ocean City, Md 21842

Now hiring for the following full-time, year round positions for our resort hotel, to join our busy and professional team:

• •

Front desk Maintenance

please stop by the Front desk to complete an application.

watEr daMagE rEstoratioN tEChNiCiaNs & MaNagErs iiCrC certifications a plus

dECK CoatiNg appliCators iNtErior rEModEliNg proFEssioNals lEad CarpENtEr/FraMErs Please apply in person 12905 Coastal Hwy, Ocean City MD or online at https://oceantowerconstruction.com/careers/ call 443-366-5556 during regular business hours

salEs sECrEtarY

Busy hotel is seeking a year round full time Sales Secretary. Must have hotel sales experience. Applicant must be detail oriented and computer literate, proficient in Excel, Word & Publisher. Sales CRM experience a plus. Exceptional people skills, professional phone & email etiquette a must. Excellent benefits, working conditions and salary (commensurate with experience). Qualified applicants only, forward resume with salary requirements to: SALES SECRETARY P.O. BOX 467 BERLIN, MD 21811 EOE M/F/D/V Full Time Customer Service Associate (Bank Teller and Desk Duties)

Now Hiring

If you are looking for an amazing opportunity in the banking industry at a company with a great reputation, then consider this position. Taylor Bank is seeking individuals that thrive in a team-focused, variable-paced, and supportive work environment.

Our employees want to make a positive impact in their community and strive to put extraordinary into everything they do. Branch staff refer products and services, if these meet the needs of our customers, which supports our relationship banking philosophy.

Apply in Person or Online www.smittymcgees.com 302-436-4716

Come join our team! To apply for available positions and learn more about our amazing benefits and culture, please go online to taylorbank.com, click on about us and visit our career page.

Immediate openings:

OVERNIGHT PREP MGR. KITCHEN STAFF

This is a year-round, variable hourly (30-40 hours) position. Branch locations include our Worcester County and Chincoteague, Virginia markets.

Banking experience not required.

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March 22, 2019

The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch PUT YOUR LOGO IN COLOR FOR JUST $10

$15/Week For Minimum Of Five Lines • $2 Thereafter Per Line Display Classified Ads: $20/Week Per Column Inch (Contract Discounts Available)

Deadline For Insertions, Cancellations And Payment Is 3 p.m. Tuesday.

Pre-Payment Is Required. We Accept Visa & MasterCard.

PART-TIME DEPOSIT ACCOUNT RESOLUTION/ RESEARCH SPECIALIST

Farmers Bank of Willards has a part-time Deposit Account Resolution/Research Specialist position available. Looking for professional and detail oriented individuals with extraordinary communication and organizational skills. Banking experience preferred.

Please send resume to Terry Sparrow at P.O. Box 10, Willards, MD 21874 or email: terry.sparrow@fbwbank.com “Equal Employment Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer”

Application cut off is 4-5-2019

FULL-TIME PERSONAL BANKER

Farmers Bank of Willards has a full-time Personal Banker position available at our North Ocean City location. Looking for professional and motivated individuals with extraordinary customer service skills. Cash handling experience & excellent computer skills a must.

Please send resume to Kelly Drexel at 12831 Coastal Highway, OC, MD 21842 or email: kelly.drexel@fbwbank.com Application cut off is 4-5-2019 “Equal Employment Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer”

CONTACT INFORMATION Phone: 410-641-4563 • Fax: 410-641-0966 Email: classifieds@mdcoastdispatch.com Mail: P.O. Box 467, Berlin, Md. 21811

CoMMErCial

WAREHOUSE (LARGE) FOR RENT: 11212 Gum Point Road, Berlin, MD. $1,200 per month.

Call 410-430-9797.

––––––––––––––––––––––––––– WEST O.C. OFFICE/RETAIL SPACES AVAILABLE: 3 Offices/Retail and 2 Warehouses.

Plenty of Parking. 443-497-4200.

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hopiNg to BuY Looking to Buy

E.D.U.’s West Ocean City Call David 443-880-0089

rooMMatEs

FEMALE ROOMMATES WANTED: Female roommates wanted for summer rental. Tricia 443-610-4665.

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rENtals waNtEd

we want Your rentals!

We manage nice and updated long term rentals in Mid-North Ocean City area.

Our business will take care of all the details in renting your property. please contact us: “JNBINVESTMENTS-HILDA” on 302-222-6310 We have references available

Boats

SEEKING BOAT SLIP: Seeking Seasonal Boat Slip in OC for a 22’ Pontoon Boat. Call Dan 717-7994456.

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sErViCEs

HANDYMAN SPECIALIST: All new & existing decks. Builiding, powerwashing and staining. General Maintenance & Property Management. Drywall Repair & Painting. Call for any other odd jobs! Joe 443-610-4644.

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Ceja’s Landscaping

lost & FouNd

LOST: 14K gold wedding ring set (pear shaped engagment ring and diamond enhancer) and Sterling Silver ring with purple stone. Lost 3/9 in OP Community Center Parking Lot near handicap spots. Call 703-590-3589.

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Yard salEs

DOWNSIZING! INSIDE & OUT TAG SALE: Fri. 3/22 & Sat. 3/23.

9am-6pm. Furn., antiques, glassware, old farm tools, “yard sale” items. 9921 Main St, Berlin, MD. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––

& More!

•YARD MAINTENANCE •PAINTING •POWER WASHING 410-251-3425 410-202-2545

For salE

SADDLE FOR SALE: Circuit Elite, English. Brown. Used but in great condition. Call for details.

410-713-9139.

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Legal Notices

LEGAL RATES Legal advertising rate is $7 per column inch. Deadline for all legal advertising is Tuesday at noon. For more information, call 410-641-4563 or fax 410-641-0966.

THIRD INSERTION

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE ESTATE NO. 17748

Notice is given that the CIRCUIT COURT of LOUDON COUNTY, VA, appointed MARJORIE M. JACKSON, 110 QUEEN ST., NE, LEESBURG, VA 20176 as the EXECUTOR of the Estate of NANCY JO BELL LONDON, who died on DECEMBER 22, 2018, domiciled in VIRGINIA, USA. The Maryland resident agent for service of process is MYRIE E. WARD, whose address is 69 NEWPORT DRIVE, BERLIN, MD 21811. At the time of death, the decedent owned real or leasehold property in the following MARYLAND counties: WORCESTER. All persons having claims against the decedent must file their claims with the Register of Wills for Worcester County with a copy to the foreign personal representative on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent's death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent's death; or (2) Two months after the foreign personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice.

Claims filed after that date or after a date extended by law will be barred.

Name of Newspaper: Maryland Coast Dispatch Date of Publication MARCH 08, 2019 MARJORIE M. JACKSON Personal Representative

True Test Copy TERRI WESTOCTT Register of Wills for Worcester County Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 3x 3-08, 3-15, 3-22

SECOND INSERTION LAW OFFICES OF COATES, COATES & COATES, PA

6200 COASTAL HWY SUITE 300 OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND 21842 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY MARYLAND CASE NO. C-23-CV-19-000065

JOHN WOOD PLAINTIFF V THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM F. DUCKETT (Deceased) DEFENDANT and JOHN H. DUCKETT Personal representative of the Estate of WILLIAM F. DUCKETT (Deceased) DEFENDANT and WILLIAM C. DUCKETT Personal representative of the Estate of WILLIAM F. DUCKETT (Deceased) and WORCESTER COUNTY Defendant and Unknown owner of property described as 1 ACRE N SIDE ST MARTINS NECK ROAD, BISHOPVILLE, Parcel No. 05-004489, the unknown owner's heirs, devisees, and personal representatives and their or any of their heirs, devisees, executors, administrators, grantees, assigns, or successors in right, title, and interest Defendants and All persons that have or claim to have an interest inproperty described as l AC N SIDE ST MARTINS NECK RD, BISHOPVILLE, Parcel No. 05-004489, Deed Ref. 233/118, Assessed to William F. Duckett Defendants

ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this proceeding is to secure the foreclosure of all rights of redemption in the following parcel, sold by Phil Thompson, Collector of Taxes for the State of Maryland and Treasurer of Worcester County, to the Plaintiff, and described as follows: 1AC N. SIDE ST. MARTINS NECK ROAD, BISHOPVILLE; Parcel No. 05-004489; assessed to WILLIAM F. DUCKETT. The Complaint states, among other things, that the amount necessary to redeem the property has not been paid.

It is thereupon, this 7th of MARCH, 2019, by the Circuit

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LEGAL RATES: Legal advertising rate is $7 per column

inch. Deadline for all legal advertising is Tuesday at noon. For more information, call 410-641-4563 or fax 410-641-0966.

Court for Worcester County, Maryland, ORDERED, that notice be given by the insertion of a copy of this order in The Dispatch for Worcester County, once a week for three successive weeks, warning all persons interested in the property to appear in this Court and answer the Complaint or redeem the property by MAY 12, 2019; and that the failure to answer the Complaint or redeem the property within the time limit set forth above may result in a final judgment foreclosing all rights of redemption in the property and vesting in the Plaintiff a fee simple title free and clear of all liens and encumbrances.

Name of Newspaper: Maryland Coast Dispatch Date of Publication MARCH 15, 2019

BRIAN D. SHOCKLEY JUDGE FOR THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY 3x 3-15, 3-22, 3-29

SECOND INSERTION

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS ESTATE NO. 17751

To all persons interested in the estate of AUDREY H. SNYDER, AKA: AUDREY JOHNSON SNYDER, ESTATE NO. 17751. Notice is given that KATHY A. EITNER, 808 OAK DRIVE, MOREHEAD, NC 28557 was on MARCH 05, 2019 appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of AUDREY H. SNYDER, who died on FEBRUARY 28TH, 2019 with a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 5TH day of SEPTEMBER, 2019.

Any persons having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned persona representative or file their objections with the Register of Wills with a copy to the

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undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent's death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent's death; or (2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claims will be barred unless the creditor presents the claim within thirty days from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. Any claim not served or filed within that time, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter.

Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Name of Newspaper: Maryland Coast Dispatch Date of Publication MARCH 15, 2019 KATHY A. EITNER Personal Representative

True Test Copy TERRI WESCOTT Register of Wills for Worcester County Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 3X 3-15, 3-22, 3-29

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS ESTATE NO. 17749

To all persons interested in the estate of LORRAINE SWENA SCHOOLFIELD, ESTATE NO. 17749. Notice is given that ED L. MARSHALL, 402 CEDAR STREET, POCOMOKE CITY, MD 21851 and TOMMY R. MARSHALL, 908 LAUREL STREET, POCOMOKE CITY, MD 21851 and DEBORAH MARSHALL REVELS, 908 LAUREL STREET, POCOMOKE CITY, MD 21851 was on MARCH 07, 2019 appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of LORRAINE SWENA SCHOOLFIELD, who died on FEBRUARY 12TH, 2019 with a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal repre-

sentative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 7TH day of SEPTEMBER, 2019.

Any persons having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned persona representative or file their objections with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent's death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent's death; or

(2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claims will be barred unless the creditor presents the claim within thirty days from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. Any claim not served or filed within that time, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter.

Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

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ED L. MARSHALL TOMMY R. MARSHALL DEBORAH MARSHALL REVELS Personal Representatives True Test Copy TERRI WESCOTT Register of Wills for Worcester County Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 3X 3-15, 3-22, 3-29

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BEFORE THE REGISTER OF WILLS FOR WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND IN THE ESTATE OF PETER ROMANO ESTATE NO. 17761

NOTICE OF JUDICIAL PROBATE

To all persons interested in the above estate:

You are hereby notified that a petition has been filed by PETER S. BUAS, ESQ., 3509 COASTAL HIGHWAY, OCEAN CITY, MD 21842. A hearing will be held at WORCESTER COUNTY COURTHOUSE COURT ROOM 4, ONE W. MARKET ST. SNOW HILL, MD. 21863 on 4/02/2019 AT 10:15AM.

This hearing may be transferred or postponed to a subsequent time. Further information may be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills.

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GREGORY P. JIMENO, ESQ. JIMENO & GRAY, PA 7310 RITCHIE HIGHWAY SUITE 900 GLEN BURNIE, MD 21061 NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS ESTATE NO. 17740

To all persons interested in the estate of DONNA FRAGER, AKA: DONNA L. FRAGER, ESTATE NO. 17740. Notice is given that MICHAEL T. DAMERON, 1184 GREEN HOLLY DRIVE, ANNAPOLIS, MD 21409, was on MARCH 11, 2019 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of DONNA FRAGER, who died on JANUARY 12, 2019 with a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 11TH day of SEPTEMBER, 2019.

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Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent's death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent's death; or (2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before tha date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

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THE LAW OFFICE OF ARLETTE K. BRIGHT, PC ARLETTE K. BRIGHT, ESQ. 213 WEST MAIN STREET, SUITE 206 SALISBURY, MD 21801 NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE ESTATE NO. 17759

Notice is given that the REGISTER OF WILLS COURT of NEW CASTLECOUNTY, DE, appointed ERIC R. KRAWCHUK, 38 WAGNER LANE, COATESVILLE, PA 19320, as the PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE of the Estate of ALEX KRAWCHUCK, JR, AKA: ALEXANDER KRAWCHUK, JR., who died on NOVEMBER 15, 2018, domiciled in DELAWARE, USA.

The Maryland resident agent for service of process is ARLETTE K. BRIGHT, ESQ., whose address is 213 WEST MAIN STREET, SUITE 206, SALISBURY, MD, 21801.

At the time of death, the decedent owned real or leasehold property in the following MARYLAND counties: WORCESTER.

All persons having claims against the decedent must file their claims with the Register of Wills for Worcester County with a copy to the foreign personal representative on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent's death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent's death; or

(2) Two months after the foreign personal representative mails or delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claim within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. Claims filed after that date or after a date extended by law will be barred.

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DAVID B. DOUSE, ESQ. WEBB CORNBROOKS WILBER VORHIS DOUSE & LESLIE LLP 115 BROAD STREET P.O. BOX 610 SALISBURY, MD 21803 NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS ESTATE NO. 17774

To all persons interested in the estate of ANITA REEVES, ESTATE NO.

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17774. Notice is given that RICHARD C. HONOUR, 19211 64TH PLACE NE, KENMORE, WA, 98028, was on MARCH 19, 2019 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of ANITA REEVES, who died on MARCH 9, 2019 with a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 19TH day of SEPTEMBER, 2019.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent's death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent's death; or

(2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before tha date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

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LAW OFFICES OF COATES, COATES & COATES, PA 6200 COASTAL HWY SUITE 300 OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND 21842 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY MARYLAND CASE NO. C-23-CV-19-000062

JOHN WOOD PLAINTIFF V THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM F. DUCKETT (Deceased) DEFENDANT and JOHN H. DUCKETT Personal representative of the Estate of WILLIAM F. DUCKETT (Deceased) DEFENDANT and WILLIAM C. DUCKETT Personal representative of the Estate of WILLIAM F. DUCKETT (Deceased) DEFENDANT and WORCESTER COUNTY Defendant and Unknown owner of property described as .5 ACRES N SIDE ST MARTINS NECK ROAD, BISHOPVILLE, Parcel No. 05-004497, the unknown owner's heirs, devisees, and personal representatives and their or any of their heirs, devisees, executors, administrators, grantees, assigns, or successors in right, title, and interest Defendants

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The object of this proceeding is to secure the foreclosure of all rights of redemption in the following parcel, sold by Phil Thompson, Collector of Taxes for the State of Maryland and Treasurer of Worcester County, to the Plaintiff, John Wood, and described as follows: .5 AC N. SIDE ST. MARTINS NECK ROAD, BISHOPVILLE; Parcel No. 05-004497; assessed to WILLIAM F. DUCKETT. The Complaint states, among other things, that the amount necessary to redeem the property has not been paid.

It is thereupon, this 14th of MARCH, 2019, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, ORDERED, that notice be given by the insertion of a copy of this order in The Dispatch for Worcester County, once a week for three successive weeks, warning all persons interested in the property to appear in this Court and answer the Complaint or redeem the property by 13th of MAY, 2019; and that the failure to answer the Complaint or redeem the property within the time limit set forth above may result in a final judgment foreclosing all rights of redemption in the property and vesting in the Plaintiff a fee simple title free and clear of all liens and encumbrances.

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LAW OFFICES OF COATES, COATES & COATES, PA 6200 COASTAL HWY SUITE 300 OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND 21842 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY MARYLAND CASE NO. C-23-CV-19-000086

JOHN WOOD 216 N. 32nd Street, Apt. B Richmond, VA 23223 PLAINTIFF V HARRY SCHEMINANT 1802 Woodrail Drive Millersville, MD 21108 DEFENDANT and TODD SCHEMINANT 1802 Woodrail Drive Millersville, MD 21108 DEFENDANT and WORCESTER COUNTY Serve on: Maureen Howarth, Esq. One West Market Street Room 1103 Snow Hill, MD 21863 Defendant and Unknown owner of property described as Lot 255 WHITE PINE LANE PL WHITE HORSE PARK PH 2, Parcel No. 03-122344, the unknown owner's heirs, devisees, and personal representatives and their or any of their heirs, devisees, executors, administrators, grantees, assigns, or successors in right, title, and interest Defendants and All persons that have or claim to have an interest inproperty located in Worces-

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ter County, MD described as LOT 255 WHITE PINE LANE PL WHITE HORSE PARK PH 2, Parcel No. 03-122344, Assessed to Harry Scheminant and Todd Scheminant Defendants

ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this proceeding is to secure the foreclosure of all rights of redemption in the following parcel, sold by Phil Thompson, Collector of Taxes for the State of Maryland and Treasurer of Worcester County, to the Plaintiff, and described as follows: LOT 255 2000 SQ FT WHIE PINE LANE PL WHITE HORSE PARK PH 2; Parcel No. 03122344; assessed to Harry Scheminant and Todd Scheminant.

The Complaint states, among other things, that the amount necessary to redeem the property has not been paid.

It is thereupon, this 14th of MARCH, 2019, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, ORDERED, that notice be given by the insertion of a

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copy of this order in The Dispatch for Worcester County, once a week for three successive weeks, warning all persons interested in the property to appear in this Court and answer the Complaint or redeem the property by MAY 13, 2019; and that the failure to answer the Complaint or redeem the property within the time limit set forth above may result in a final judgment foreclosing all rights of redemption in the property and vesting in the Plaintiff a fee simple title free and clear of all liens and encumbrances.

Name of Newspaper: Maryland Coast Dispatch Date of Publication MARCH 22, 2019 BEAU H. OGLESBY JUDGE FOR THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY

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NOTICE NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO ESTABLISH A BRANCH OF A STATE MEMBER BANK Shore United Bank, 18 E. Dover Street, Easton, Maryland intends to apply to the Federal Reserve Board for permission to establish a branch at 12905 Ocean Gateway, Ocean City, Maryland 21842.

The Federal Reserve considers a number of factors in deciding whether to approve the application including the record of performance of applicant banks in helping to meet local credit needs.

You are invited to submit comments in writing on this application to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, P.O. Box 27622, Richmond, VA 23261. Comments can also be sent electronically to comments.applications@rich.frb.org. The comment period will not end before April 8, 2019. The Board’s procedures for processing applications may be found at 12 C.F.R. Part 262. Procedures for processing protested applications may be found at 12 C.F.R. 262.25. To obtain a copy of the Federal Reserve Board’s procedures, or if you need more information about how to submit your comments on the application, contact Adam M. Drimer, Assistant Vice President, at (804) 697-8980. The Federal Reserve will consider your comments and any request for a public meeting or formal hearing on the application if they are received in writing by the Reserve Bank on or before the last day of the comment period.

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Page 68 FRUITLAND-SALISBURY RESTAURANT 213 213 N. Fruitland Blvd., Fruitland 410-677-4880 • www.restaurant213.com Recently named one of the 100 Best Restaurants for Foodies in America for 2015 by OpenTable (1 of the only 2 restaurants named in the State of Maryland), the food at Restaurant 213 is far from your conventional Chesapeake Bay fare. A former apprentice of Roger Vergé in southern France, chef Jim Hughes prepares unpretentious, globally influenced cuisine inspired by the area’s plentiful ingredients. Chef Hughes has catered many events for Ronald Reagan, while he was President of the United States. He also served as Chef for the King of Saudi Arabia at the Saudi Arabian Royal National Guard military academy. Chef Hughes has been honored by the James Beard Foundation and DiRoNA (Distinguished Restaurants of North America). For 2015 Restaurant 213 was voted Best Chef, Best Special Occasion Dining, and Best Fine Dining Restaurant by Coastal Style Magazine, and Best Special Occasion Restaurant by Metropolitan Magazine. Frommer's Travel Guide has Awarded Restaurant 213 its highest Rating of 3 Stars, making it one of only 3 restaurants on the Eastern Shore. Additionally, "Special Finds" awarded this distinction from 2010-2015 in their Maryland & Delaware Travel Guide Edition. Open TuesdaySunday at 5 p.m. Special 5-course prix-fixe dinners offered on Sundays and Thursdays.

WEST OCEAN CITY-BERLIN OCEAN PINES ASSATEAGUE DINER Rte. 611 & Sunset Avenue, West Ocean City • 443-664-8158 www.assateaguedinerandbar.com Inspired by a classic diner culture, this new hotspot offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. The menu here features classic comfort foods prepared and executed with a modern coastal trust.

Be sure to check out the exceptional coffee program and the Westside Bar within features delicious craft cocktails throughout the day.

BLACKSMITH RESTAURANT AND BAR 104 Pitts Street, Berlin • 410-973-2102 Located in the heart of America’s Coolest Small Town, Berlin, Md., Blacksmith has established itself as one the area’s most loved dining and drinking destinations for foodies and wine, spirt and craft beer enthusiasts. Chef owned and locally sourced, Blacksmith keeps the main focus on Eastern Shore tradition. Everything here is homemade and handmade. Cakes and baked goods are delivered daily from down the street.

Cozy and modern, traditional and on trend; Blacksmith has risen to the ranks of the area’s finest casual eating and drinking establishments.

Visit and see why folks from Baltimore, D.C., Chincoteague and locals alike think Blacksmith is worth the trip. Open daily at 11:30 a.m. for lunch, dinner and bar snacks. Closed Sunday.

BREAKFAST CAFE OF OCEAN CITY 12736 Ocean Gateway, West Ocean City 410-213-1804 Open 7 days a week between Sunsations & Starbucks, across from Outback, come join us at the “Breakfast Cafe” (formerly Rambler Coffee Shop) we are a family-friendly restaurant that’s been family owned for 30 years passed from mother to son in 2001. We believe that fair pricing, putting out quality food as fresh as we can make it and a nice atmosphere makes a meal. I like to think we have many “House Specialties” which include our Crab Omelet, real crab meat, cheddar cheese and mushrooms, our Sunfest Omelet, Swiss cheese, ham and mushrooms; Cafe or French Sampler, pancakes or French toast, with eggs, bacon and sausage.

Homemade creamed chipped beef on toast and sausage gravy on biscuits with browned potato home fries, with onion, excellent cheesesteak subs and fries and more! We use Rapa Scrapple fried on the grill the way you like it for all our breakfasts, sandwiches and sides. Summer hours, 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Come enjoy!

DUMSER’S DAIRYLAND West Ocean City, Boardwalk locations, 501 S. Philadelphia Ave., 49th St. & 123rd St. www.dumsersdairyland.com This classic ice cream shop is a tradition for many families. Voted O.C.'s “Best Ice Cream” for

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the past 20 years, Dumser's is celebrating 80 years of serving the shore, and the ‘40s-style décor takes you back in time. With locations throughout Ocean City, treating your tastebuds to this signature homemade ice cream is easy.

The 49th and 124th streets locations offer vast lunch and dinner menus (breakfast too at 124th) in addition to a wide variety of ice cream treats.

You’ll find an impressive array of kid-favorites, along with fried chicken and seafood options, wraps, subs, sandwiches, salads and sides like sweet potato fries and mac-and-cheese wedges.

FOX’S PIZZA DEN 11328 Samuel Bowen Blvd., West Ocean City 410-600-1020 • www.foxpizzamd.com Enjoy a brand new, spacious dining room.

Happy hour every day from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. with $5 food specials. Full menu includes appetizers, salads, stromboli, hoagies and wedgies, pizza, spaghetti and more. Open every day from 11 a.m. to midnight.

FULL MOON SALOON 12702 Old Bridge Road, West Ocean City 443-664-5317 Locally owned and operated, this moderately priced casual restaurant/bar has freshly caught seafood, BBQ, and pork entrees, giant sandwiches as well as a variety of homemade soups.

Locally we are known for our jumbo lump crab cakes, pork and beef BBQ, cream of crab soup, and 100% angus burgers as well as a variety of other sandwiches and entrees that are cooked with a local flair. Open daily at 11 a.m. for lunch and open until midnight. Sundays breakfast offered 8 a.m.-noon. Fifteen televisions and a big screen available for all sports events.

GREENE TURTLE-WEST Rte. 611, West Ocean City • 410-213-1500 Visit Maryland’s No. 1 Sports Pub and Rest-aurant, the World-Famous Greene Turtle. Proudly serving West Ocean City since January 1999, The Greene Turtle features a beautiful 80-seat dining room, large bar area with 54 TVs with stereo sound and game room with pool tables.

With an exciting menu, The Greene Turtle is sure to please with delicious sizzling steaks, jumbo lump crab cakes, raw bar, homemade salads and more. Live entertainment, Keno, Turtle apparel, kids menu, carry-out. Something for everyone!

Voted best sports bar, wings and burgers in West OC. Great happy hour and plenty of parking.

dine overlooking the bay and the beautiful Ocean City skyline. Savor entrees such as local rockfish, tempura-battered soft shell crabs, char-grilled filet mignon and jumbo lump crabcakes. Open to the public, we serve Sunday brunch, lunch and dinner. One mile west of Ocean City, Md., just off Route 90 on St. Martin’s Neck Road. Reservations recommended.

MAD FISH BAR & GRILL 12817 Harbor Road, West Ocean City West Ocean City has welcomed a new concept created by the team of The Embers and Blu Crabhouse. Located conveniently on the harbor with tremendous views of the Inlet and sunsets, the menu offers something for everyone. Fresh fish and classic seafood dishes will tempt most, but the Filet Mignon from the land side never disappoints.

Lighter options, like Certified Angus Beef burgers and fish and shrimp tacos, are also offered along with a diverse kids menu. Check out the outdoor decks for drink specials and live music.

RUTH’S CHRIS Within the GlenRiddle Community 410-213-9444 • www.ruthschris.com Ruth’s Chris specializes in the finest customaged Midwestern beef. We broil it exactly the way you like it at 1,800 degrees to lock in the corn-fed flavor. Then we serve your steak sizzling on a heated plate so that it stays hot throughout your meal. Many of our recipes were developed by Ruth, favorites such as shrimp Remoulade, Crabtini and Ruth’s chop salad. Located five miles west of Ocean City in the GlenRiddle Golf clubhouse. Extensive wine list.

Reservations recommended.

THE SHARK ON THE HARBOR 12924 Sunset Ave., West Ocean City 410-213-0924 • ocshark.com We make real food from scratch. We believe that great food and healthful ingredients are not mutually exclusive of each other. Featuring local organic produce and seafood. All natural products – clear of preservatives and antibiotics. Whole grains and whole foods are used in the preparation of our menu – which our chefs write twice daily, based on what's fresh, available and delicious. Fresh. Local. Organic. Taste the difference.

Open Daily Year Round, Monday through Saturday for Lunch & Dinner and Sundays for Brunch, Lunch & Dinner. Reservations suggested.

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HARBORSIDE BAR & GRILL South Harbor Road • 410-213-1846 They take their mantra, “Where You Always Get Your Money’s Worth,” seriously here with daily food and drink specials during happy hour as you watch the boats come in from a day offshore. Delicious daily chef specials are always worth a try or stay with any of the house favorites, such as the calamari and ahi bruschetta for appetizers or any of the homemade tacos and fresh off the dock seafood selections as sandwiches or entrees. It’s the home of the original fresh-squeezed orange crush, of course.

28TH STREET PIT & PUB 28th Street & Coastal Highway 410-289-2020 • www.pitandpub.com Ocean City’s home of Pulled Pork and the finest barbecue, the legendary 28th Street Pit & Pub is known for serving up delicious smokehouse specialties. Grab a brew and enjoy the live sports action on one of the big screen TVs. Happy Hour daily, 3-6 p.m. Family friendly atmosphere. Weekend entertainment.

HOOTERS RESTAURANT Rt. 50 & Keyser Point Rd., West Ocean City 410-213-1841 www.hootersofoc.com New mouthwatering smoked wings with half the calories. Traditional wings and boneless wings with 12 sauce selections. Burgers, quesadillas, tacos, and healthy salads. Extensive seafood selections with raw bar and Alaskan crab legs.

Children's menu and game room. Apparel and souvenir shop. Sports packages on a ton of TVs and live entertainment. Wing-fest every Tuesday from 6 to 8 with 50 cent wings. And of course, the world famous Hooters Girls. Large parties welcome. Call for private party planning.

32 PALM 32nd Street Oceanside In The Hilton 410-289-2525 Executive Chef Rick Goodwin has introduced an exciting new menu. A favorite among many is the Bermuda Triangle, featuring cinnamon seared scallops finished with an ancho mango coulis along with house broiled crabcake with a sweet chili remoulade and finally, applewood smoked bacon wrapped around jumbo shrimp, grilled to perfection with jalapeno barbecue sauce. Other wonderfully delicious dishes cover the land and sea as well and each have a special touch that makes this restaurant unique among its peers. Children’s menu available.

Open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

LIGHTHOUSE SOUND St. Martin’s Neck Road • 410-352-5250 Enjoy the best views of Ocean City at the newly renovated, Lighthouse Sound. Come relax and

45TH STREET TAPHOUSE 45th Street and the bay • 443-664-2201 At the newly remodeled 45th Street Taphouse, the best views of bayside Ocean City, MD are the

March 22, 2019 backdrop where craft beer meets Maryland cuisine. This is vacation done right, all year long.

Wash down a Crabby Pretzel or homemade crabcakes with one of our 35+ craft beers on tap, all made right here in the USA. Not feeling crabby?

Pair your craft brew with our award-winning wings or even our brand new breakfast menu.

Anyway it’s served, come get tapped with us.

BONFIRE 71st Street & Coastal Highway 410-524-7171 • www.thebonfirerestaurant.com 150 ft. Seafood & Prime Rib Buffet A famous Ocean City Restaurant for 37 years.

It’s all here. The service, the atmosphere and the finest, freshest food available. Fresh seafood, snow crab legs, prime rib, BBQ ribs, raw oysters, raw clams, steamed shrimp, fish, homemade soups & salads. Decadent dessert selection – homemade donuts & bread pudding, soft serve ice cream with hot fudge topping and lots more! Large selection of children’s favorites – chicken tenders, hot dogs, burgers, macaroni & cheese and pizza. A la carte menu available featuring fresh cut steaks and seafood. Open Monday-Friday at 4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, at 3 p.m. Plenty of free parking.

BUXY’S SALTY DOG 28th Street • 410-289-0973 www.buxys.com Destiny has a new home in Ocean City. From the ‘burgh to the beach, Buxy’s is your home away from Pittsburgh. Come see what all the locals already know and have known – Buxy’s is the place to come to meet friends, relax and be social with no attitudes. House specialties include “The” Cheesesteak Sub, Primanti-styled sandwiches, pierogis,egg-rolls and homemade crab dip. Don’t miss our daily specials.

CAPTAIN’S TABLE 15th Street & Baltimore Avenue 410-289-7192 One of Ocean City’s premier restaurants is back with a new and improved atmosphere and a brand new home. However, the mission to provide the same fresh, quality food and attentive service has not changed. Excellent chefs, who inspect each dish for culinary perfection, prepare the meals here. The finest seafood is guaranteed and nothing but the best in black angus beef is served. Be sure to inquire about the daily specials and check out the new bar and lounge area.

They have the kids covered as well with a quality kids menu. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

COINS PUB & RESTAURANT 28th Street Plaza • 410-289-3100 Great mid-town location offering a complete dinner menu, lunch and lite fare. Coins features the freshest seafood, shrimp, scallops, clams, fresh catch and lobster plus the best crab cake in Maryland, hand cut steaks cooked to your liking, succulent veal and chicken dishes. Also authentic pasta selections. Enjoy live entertainment and dancing in the lounge nightly. Happy hour daily 3-6 p.m. Casual dining in a relaxed atmosphere. Special kids menu. Lots of free parking.

DRY 85 OC 12 48th Street • 443-664-8989 • dry85.com Steps from the beach. Gourmet "stick to your ribs" Lowcountry cuisine. A made-from-scratch kitchen with every sauce and every dressing hand crafted. It's that attention to detail that takes the concept of burgers, fries, ribs and wings and turns them completely on their head. Charcuterie boards. Late night bar. 120+ Whiskies. Craft beer. Artisanal craft cocktails. Seasonal outdoor seating. Named one of the Top 40 Whiskey Bars in America by Whiskey Advocate.

DRY DOCK 28 28th Street and Coastal Highway • 410-289-0973 The new kid on the dining scene in Ocean City features eclectic pizzas, delicious sandwiches, soups, salads and hot steamers in a modern, nautical themed atmosphere. A beautiful boat bar is featured inside and features craft cocktails and brews. Outdoor seating is available. Carry out available and beer and wine to go. Live music is also offered in this kid-friendly establishment.

FAGER’S ISLAND RESTAURANT & BAR 201 60th Street On The Bay 410-524-5500 • www.fagers.com Fager’s Island is an award-winning popular bayfront restaurant where lunch is a forgivable habit, dinner an event and sunsets unforgettable. Lite fare lunch served from 11 a.m.-9 p.m., SEE NEXT PAGE

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FROM PAGE 68 dinner from 5 p.m., famous raw bar, festive Sunday Jazz Brunch, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and children’s menu. Complete house wine list and award-winning proprietor’s list available upon request.

Outdoor decks and bar. Nightly entertainment in-season, Friday-Saturday, off-season. Open every day, year-round. A Fun Place!

GENERAL’S KITCHEN 66th Street & Coastal Highway 410-723-0477 Join us at our new bigger and better location.

Everybody likes breakfast, but for too many it comes too early in the morning. Not so at this sunshine-happy delight. Breakfast is what it’s all about, from 6:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. The menu is a breakfast lover’s dream. From juice, cereal and eggs, to corned beef hash, waffles, hot cakes, bacon, sausage, to the best creamed chipped beef on the coast (try it on french fries). This is definitely the place. House specialties: creamed chipped beef, O.C. No. 1 breakfast, own recipes.

HIGGINS CRAB HOUSE 31st Street & Coastal Highway 128th Street & Coastal Highway 410-289-2581 There is no doubt about it. Higgins offers traditional Eastern Shore favorites for the entire family to enjoy. Of course, the house specialties include all-you-can-eat crabs, crab legs, fried chicken, steamed shrimp and baby back ribs. In addition, there is a full menu offering a variety of delicious soups, appetizers and entrees. Open Friday at 2:30 p.m., Saturday & Sunday at noon.

JOHNNY'S PIZZA & SPORTS PUB 56th Street & Coastal Highway 410-723-5600 • www.johnnyspizzapub.com The Official Pizza of OC, Johnny's Pizza & Sports Pub serves families throughout Ocean City and its surrounding communities 365 days a year. Eat in, carry out or have it delivered right to your doorstep. Our comfortable dining room features ample seating for small groups or large parties and our speedy delivery service will deliver your hot, delicious pizza right to your home, hotel or condo for your added convenience. From steaming homemade pizzas to lightly tossed salads and fiery hot wings, we have something for everyone.

Live entertainment every weekend all winter and live entertainment four nights in the summer.

MARLIN MOON RESTAURANT 33rd Street in the DoubleTree Ocean City Oceanfront • 410-289-1201 www.marlinmoonocmd.com Eat where the locals eat. Marlin Moon is back in town with the talented Executive Chef, Gary Beach, creating his legendary food magic. Marlin Moon combines an eclectic atmosphere of ocean views and a fresh vibe with creative seafood and steak dishes you won’t forget. Winner of the Maryland People’s Choice Award, Marlin Moon delivers the culinary combinations you’re craving and uses only locally sourced seafood, meats and vegetables. Some of the original classics, such as Mom’s Shrimp and Fred-dy’s Seafood Pasta, are back as well as a raw bar, small plate appetizers, fresh salads and entrees sure to satisfy any food mood. Open daily serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner from 7 a.m.-11 p.m.

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443-664-6801 • redredwinebar.com Steps from the beach. Fresh coastal cuisine with a focus on locally sourced seafood and hand tossed pizzas. Artisanal cheeseboards. 35+ Wines By the Glass. Full bar. Craft beer. Late night bar. Luxurious colors and custom built couches. Casual atmosphere. Seasonal outdoor seating. Named Best Wine and Beverage Program in Maryland by the Restaurant Association.

PICKLES PUB 8th Street, Ocean City • 410-289-4891 It’s pub food with a twist and a special emphasis put on quality and large portions. The big juicy burgers and oven baked wedge sandwiches are locals’ favorites as are the pub wings (in a variety of styles) and tacos (choose from thai pulled pork, grilled chicken and blacked ahi avocado).

There are numerous unique craft pizza options to choose from as well with the house favorite here being the blackened shrimp and arugula.

SEACRETS On The Bay At 49th Street 410-524-4900 • www.seacrets.com We are Jamaica USA! Serving our world famous jerk chicken, along with a full menu of appetizers, soups, sandwiches, salads, entrees, desserts and a children's menu. Enjoy happy hour drink prices everyday until 7 p.m.and live entertainment in a tropical atmosphere. Please check our website www.seacrets.com for a complete list of live bands and daily food and drink specials or call 410-524-4900. Find us and get lost!

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BILLY’S SUB SHOP • 410-723-2500 140th Street, Oceanside • 410-250-1778 Rte. 54, Fenwick Shoals • 302-436-5661 Now the best just got better because they deliver fresh-dough pizza, subs and shakes to your door and have three locations to serve you better.

Washington Magazine wasn’t lying when it said Billy’s had the best milkshakes and fresh ground beef hamburgers at the beach and they don’t stop there. Fresh-dough pizza, cones, shakes, sundaes and more. More cheese steaks sold than anyone else in Maryland. Billy’s accepts MC/Visa.

CAROUSEL OCEANFRONT HOTEL AND CONDOS 118th and the Beach • 410-524-1000 Reef 118 Oceanfront Restaurant located in the Carousel Hotel offers beautiful oceanfront dining in a casual atmosphere. Enjoy a hearty breakfast buffet or try one of our specialty omelets including lump crab and asparagus. Our menu offers a wide variety of Succulent Seafood along with steaks, pastas & ribs. $5.95 kids’ menu available. Stop by the Bamboo Lounge serving

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BEER • WINE • SODA Open 7 Days A Week Mon.-Thurs., 7 a.m.-9 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 7 a.m.-10 p.m. & Sun., 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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happy hour daily 4-6 p.m. with super drink prices and $4.95 food specials. Visit the Carousel and get served by the friendliest staff in OC! THE CRAB BAG 130th Street, Bayside 410-250-3337 Now serving lunch and dinner, trust us when we say you can’t go wrong with anything you order here. The crabs are fat and never disappoint and are available eat-in or carryout. The BBQ ribs are also worth a try as well as any of the char-grilled specialties. Remember “Super Happy Hour” offered seven days a week, all day.

Plenty of bargains available on drinks and food.

THE CRABCAKE FACTORY USA 120th Street/Beachside (Serene Hotel) 410-250-4900 Voted “Best Crabcakes in Maryland, DC and Virginia” by The Washington Post. Full-service family restaurant, carry-out and sports bar. Outside seating available. Menu selections include prime rib, chicken Chesapeake, steamed shrimp, beer battered fish, real Philly cheesesteaks, burgers, and a kids menu. Casual attire, full liquor bar, no reservations. Open Year Round. The Crabcake Factory started out as a breakfast house in 1996 and still serves one of the best and most creative breakfast menus in Ocean City. Try Eastern Shore favorites prepared daily by Chef-Owner John Brooks including a chipped beef, skillets, omelettes and their famous lump crab creations. World-Famous Crabcakes are served all day starting at 8 a.m. and can be packed on ice for you while you are eating breakfast. Try Sue’s Spicy Bloody Marys to start the day with a kick. Full breakfast menu available for carry-out. Online at: www.CrabcakeFactory-USA.com. See other listing (Crabcake Factory USA). Open year-round.

CRABCAKE FACTORY BAYSIDE Rt. 54, Selbyville, DE • 302-988-5000 Under new ownership but SAME award-winning crab cakes and bloody marys! Enjoy WATERFRONT dining. Full-service family restaurant, carry-out & sports bar. Outside seating available.

Open daily at 9 a.m. YEAR ROUND. Menu selections include crab cakes, prime rib, Philly-style cheese steaks, various seafood, kids menu plus full breakfast menu. visit us online at crabcakefactoryonline.com or on our Facebook page. Casual dress, full liquor bar, no reservations.

GREENE TURTLE-NORTH 116th Street & Coastal Highway • 410-723-2120 www.facebook.com/OriginalGreeneTurtle This is the Original Greene Turtle, an Ocean City Tradition, since 1976! A fun and friendly Sports Bar & Grille, where every seat is a great spot to watch sports with 50+ High Def. TVs up & downstairs! Menu favorites include homemade crab

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cakes, kids’ menu, salads, burgers, wings and more! Join them for weekday lunch specials 11 a.m.-4 p.m. and happy hour 3-7 p.m. Popular features are game room, gift shop, carry-out, party trays, nightly drink specials, MD Lottery-Keno, Powerball and DJs with dance floor. Something for everyone! Open 11 a.m-2 a.m., year-round.

HARPOON HANNA’S RESTAURANT & BAR Rte. 54 and the bay, Fenwick Island, DE www.harpoonhannasrestaurant.com 302-539-3095 No reservations required. Harpoon Hanna’s features a children’s menu & full bar. We are a casual waterfront restaurant serving lunch & dinner including fesh fish, seafood, steaks, sandwiches and all-you-can-eat Alaskan crab legs. Open year-round.

HORIZONS OCEANFRONT RESTAURANT Located inside the Clarion Resort 101st Street, Ocean City • 410-524-3535 Horizons Oceanfront Restaurant is proud to have Chef Rob Sosnovich creating beach-inspired dishes in both our oceanfront restaurants, Horizons and Breaker’s Pub. Our new all day menu, available 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m., features many of your favorites and some exciting new creations with a local flare – from Lite Bites to Big Bites and everything in between. Our deluxe Sunday breakfast buffet is open year-round and our “famous” all-you-can-eat prime rib, crab legs and seafood buffet is available most weekends throughout the year and daily in season. The Ocean Club Nightclub features top-40 dance music every weekend and nightly this summer. We’ve added some popular local bands to our lineup, so come join us “where the big kids play!” Lenny’s Beach Bar & Grill: enjoy surf, sun and live entertainment 7 days a week on the deck, from Memorial day through Labor Day during our afternoon beach parties.

Enjoy something to eat or drink from our extensive menu. Try our “Bucket of Fun”, or a fresh “Orange Crush”–two of our favorites!

NANTUCKETS Rte. 1, Fenwick Island • 302-539-2607 Serving the beach great food and spirits for over 20 years. David and Janet Twining will wow you with the finest foods and drinks in the area.

You’ll be pleasantly surprised by what one of the coast’s finest dining establishments has in store for guests. Everything here is a house specialty.

There’s the memorable steaks, fresh seafood, famous quahog chowder and the chef’s daily specials, just to name a few.

SMITTY MCGEE’S Rte. 54-West Fenwick Ireland 302-436-4716 • www.smittymcgees.com Smitty McGee’s is the place to be for fun. Best wings on the beach for 28 years and counting.

Enjoy great food and drink specials in a casual atmosphere. Happy hour daily. Come enjoy the live entertainment Thursday and Friday. Full menu served unil 1 a.m. Banquet facilities available. Open seven days a week. We never close!

TWINING’S LOBSTER SHANTY Rte. 54, Fenwick Island 302-436-2305 • www.twiningshanty.com “A funky little place at the edge of town.” Classic New England Fare, Lobsters, Steaks & Burgers, Children’s menu. Bird watching, magical sunsets await. Open for lunch and dinner. Reservations are suggested.

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Come Join Us On Sunday

EVERY SUNDAY 8:30 a.m.: Fellowship In The He Brews Cafe

Stevenson United Methodist Church

123 North Main St., Berlin, Md. 410-641-1137 • www.stevensonchurch.org

9 a.m.: Blended Sunday Worship Service

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9:30 a.m.: Children And Youth Sunday School

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The original Morbid Manor was the ultimate “haunted house” with live actors portraying ghosts, goblins and ghouls of all shapes and sizes. It even featured a plane crash on the third floor of the spooky building located on the Fishing Pier at Wicomico Street and the beach.

The screams of frightened visitors could be heard on the Boardwalk and across the Inlet Parking Lot in the summer as crowds made their way through the dimly lit structure. Morbid Manor was destroyed in a wind-driven fire on Nov. 7, 1995, but many still recall it as being the “scariest haunted house” they had ever seen.

To purchase one of Bunk Mann's books, click over to www.vanishingoc.com.

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In Memory Of My Beautiful Mother,

Ruth Bryan

Nov. 9, 1936-March 27, 2009

It has been ten years.

Our lives go on without you, but nothing is the same.

We have to hide our heartache when someone speaks your name.

Sad are the hearts that love you, silent are the tears that fall.

Living without you is the hardest part of all.

You did so many things for us, your heart was so kind and true, and when we needed someone we could always count on you.

The special years will not return when we are all together, but with the love in our hearts you walk with us forever.

LOVE AND MISS YOU SO MUCH. YOUR DAUGHTER TERRI AND FAMILY

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