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THINGS ARE LOOKING DOWN In a prelude to the Ocean City Air Show this weekend, stunt pilot Lt. Col. John Klatt takes OC Today reporter Kara Hallissey on a stomach-churning Wednesday morning spin, or roll, over the beach at 200 mph. This photo was taken with a GoPro Hero camera affixed to the wing, hence the reality is that while the picture is right-side up, the plane is upside down. See story on page 8.
Uber has it over them, resort cabbies contend Regulations and cost makes it unfair for locals, owner says
By Zack Hoopes Staff Writer (June 12, 2015) As anticipated, the arrival of Uber cab service in the resort is not going over uber-well with Ocean City’s traditional taxi companies. At least one of the resort’s large-scale medallion holders is making an effort to have local government pull back on some of the regulatory burdens it has historically put on cabbies, warning that continu-
ing the current un-level playing field will likely cause the industry to implode, sooner rather than later. “I’d take it either way,” said Ralph DeAngelus, co-owner of Taxi Taxi. “Either they find some way to come down a little harder on Uber, or lighten up on some of the things they put us through.” Earlier this year, legislation was passed in Annapolis to create a new class of “common carrier” transit provider in the state. The so-called Transportation Network Service classification covers services that provide a digital network See MEDALLIONS on Page 3
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Youtube is just the ticket Video posted on Internet leads to reckless driving charges
By Zack Hoopes Staff Writer (June 12, 2015) In the age of viral video, it still seems like some people are trying too hard to be seen doing things that will get them in hot water. The Ocean City Police Department announced this week that it has charged the alleged driver of a Corvette, seen doing gratuitous burnouts in a May 16 video, with several after-the-fact traffic violations. The driver, Harry M. Huntsman, 25, of Millersville, Md., was pulled over on May 30 for a different traffic stop. At that time, police were able to identify him as the driver of the Corvette from the online
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video, and charged him with a multitude of violations for his previous actions. “It’s not something you usually see,” said OCPD Public Information Officer Lindsay Richard. “We don’t typically do this, but this isn’t your typical traffic violaSee POLICE on Page 5
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Medallions facing devaluation due to burden Continued from Page 1 to connect passengers with contract drivers. This definition is tailored to services such as Uber and Lyft, which do not operate taxi themselves, except for a limited number of premier services. Rather, such services provide a smartphone app that independent drivers can contract to use. The app links drivers with prospective customers, guiding them via their phone’s GPS to the pickup and drop-off locations. The drivers also subscribe to Uber’s uniform pricing system and share the profits with the company. All financial transactions between drivers and customers are done via credit or debit on Uber’s app. Subsequent to the legislative decision, the Maryland Public Service Commission promulgated a detailed set of step-by-step regulations governing so-called TNS providers. The issue, as expected, is that these state regulations are far looser than the regulations that cities and counties have previously placed on traditional taxi services, thus creating what would appear to be an unequal competitive circumstance. Further, the state language expressly prohibits local jurisdictions from placing additional restrictions on TNS services. One of the biggest discrepancies, DeAngelus said, is that the state commission allows Uber drivers to use their personal vehicles without any additional inspection. In Maryland, this means that once a car is purchased and inspected, the owner need not have it re-inspected as long as he or she owns it. However, the city requires that medallion-holding taxi cabs get an annual state inspection, which must be submitted to the Ocean City Police Department, which then inspects the cab again and verifies the fare meter’s accuracy. “We have to have our cars inspected on an annual basis, and after we’re inspected by the state, we have to take our certificate to the OCPD,” DeAngelus said. “I have 28 medallions. It takes me a full month of work to drive each car up
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to Baltimore, pay $70 to have it in- itself, which is another $500.” spected, drive it back, and pay the In Ocean City, and many other jurisOCPD another $150 to check the dictions, the traditional taxi system meter. Uber drivers don’t have to do works like this: the city issues a certain any of that.” number of taxi Additionally, the medallions, which PSC requires TNS cab owners initially ‘My city-controlled meter drivers to obtain a purchase from the rang $8. The Uber ride was state license but this city and, following $22. They were allowed, license is subject to that, buy and sell much less stringent on Memorial Day Sunday, to amongst each other. renewal criteria. These medallions raise their rate 2.9 times Conversely, Ocean give cabs the right to due to high volume.’ City requires medalconduct business on Ralph DeAngelus, lion drivers to recity streets, soliciting submit everything, customers on sideco-owner of Taxi Taxi every year. walks outside bars “Every year, I and nightclubs being have to get my guys a new FBI back- a particularly common summertime ground check, and a new drug screen- activity. The medallions also come with ing, which is $120,” DeAngelus said. a multitude of fees and restrictions, as “Plus a city business license, which is mentioned. $300, and a renewal of the medallion But the fact that Uber drivers are
able to circumvent the entire medallion system flies in the face of why medallion were introduced in the first place, DeAngelus said. “The city doesn’t do a single pushup for that $500 I pay them per medallion every year. They just get it” DeAngelus said. “That money is supposed to be used by the city to regulate taxis and make sure our investment in this industry is safe. The taxis are the pocket that pays the city $500 per car to make sure these kind of shenanigans don’t happen.” The other rationale for the medallion system is to protect customers from price gouging, as the city sets maximum rates for medallion fares. But, again, Uber has completely avoided this at the state level. The PSC has no restriction on Uber’s “surgepricing” system, which raises rates See LOOSE Page 5
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Loose state Uber regs clash Police able to pin suspect with tight city taxi policies as driver in unusual case
Continued from Page 3 when demand is high and the number of available drivers is low. “I followed a friend, who hailed an Uber, in one of our taxis the day before Memorial Day,” DeAngelus said. “My city-controlled meter rang $8. The Uber ride was $22. They were allowed, on Memorial Day Sunday, to raise their rate 2.9 times due to high volume. And the PSC basically says they can do that whenever they want.” Currently, 170 city medallions are on the street and are frequently traded between drivers, some of whom are fleet holders, such as DeAngelus, and some of which are single-owner cab operators. The latter are rapidly figuring out they can sell their medallions, use Uber, and avoid all the city fees. “Earlier this year, I tried to buy three medallions off three guys, and I offered them $10,000 each,” DeAngelus said. “They said ‘No, we’re good.’ Then we see in the paper about the Uber laws, and a week later I bought two of them for $6,000.”
This devaluation not only hits the medallion holders, but also the taxpayer. The city collects a 25 percent surcharge on the price of any medallion sale, again with the justification that the money is needed to help offset the cost of administering the taxi regulations. “The prices are dropping. That means the city didn’t protect my investment, and they didn’t protect their own either,” DeAngelus said. As it stands now, there’s no reason larger fleet owners couldn’t ditch their city medallions and jump ship to the TNS system as well. All it would take would be to set up a digital system, where customers hailed and paid for taxis online. The only loss would be the inability to do street hails. “That’s the only way it would affect me. My cabs could no longer wait in taxi lines at Seacrets or Fager’s,” DeAngelus said. “I could just set up a website and say I’m a PSC-defined dispatch software company. I wouldn’t have to pay the city anything and I could change my meter whenever I want.”
No charges in possible self defense Boardwalk stabbing
By Zack Hoopes Staff Writer (June 12, 2015) Although charges have not been filed, police confirmed that a stabbing did occur on the Boardwalk Sunday evening. The incident took place on the boards at 12th Street on the evening of June 7. However, the injury was apparently not serious. “The victim was treated on the scene by EMS, but refused transportation to the hospital,” said Ocean
City Police Department Public Information Officer Lindsay Richard. “Detective Whitmer is still investigating the case, but both the victim and suspect have been very cooperative, and they’re working with the state’s attorney’s office to see if they can charge the individual,” Richard said. According to sources, the holdup in the process is a result of credible indications that the stabbing was done in self-defense.
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Continued from Page 1 tion, as anyone who’s seen the video knows.” In the video, shared extensively on social media, including Youtube, a blue late-model Corvette is seen pulling out onto Coastal Highway and turning sharply, spinning its wheels to do several donuts in the middle of the street before pulling away in a cloud of smoke. The video was taken May 16, the Saturday of Cruisin’ OC, which has seen a growing amount of reckless behavior. Most of this seems to not come from participants in the vintage car show it-
self, but rather young people in late-model cars who flock to the resort to run with the pack, so to speak. With Huntsman having, allegedly, become the online poster child for the problems that have plagued Crusin’ OC, the OCPD conducted an investigation in which they were “they were able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it was him in the car,” Richard said. Huntsman’s face was not visible in the video, but police were able to obtain “other evidence” that placed him in the car at the time the video was taken, Richard said.
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School support staff feeling pay squeeze, too Personnel facing same freeze as teachers, with less leverage over county
By Brian Gilliland Staff Writer (June 12, 2015) Dealing with less vocal support than teachers enjoy, yet doing the work needed for the maintenance and operations of the county’s schools, the Worcester County Education Support Personnel Association is feeling the same squeeze as educators in terms of property tax and health care costs, but also without a raise to show for it. Worcester teachers engaged in a H
“work to rule” protest, starting their day exactly when contractually obligated and leaving precisely as described, to draw attention to a 2016 county budget that excluded funding for step increases. The county commissioners allocate funds for the board of education in 13 discrete areas, one of which is salaries. Teachers and support staff negotiate with the school board based on those figures to determine annual salaries. “We’re the first ones there and the last to leave,” Ivory Smith, president of the support staff union said, “Teachers can work to rule, but we’re hourly. We come in on time, and if we stay later we’re compensated. I
can’t ask our members to give that up. Yes, it might be sending a statement but it could be seen as not wanting to do our jobs.” One problem is numbers, Smith said. “The Worcester County Teachers Association has 500-600 members. We’ve got 144 out of 500 support staff,” he said. Of those, Smith said, almost 90 make less than $20,000 annually. “The education assistants — I love them — some have associate’s and bachelor’s degrees and want to be teachers here. Some have been here 20 years. They make $16,000 per year,” he said. Those employees are going to be
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Schools said to offer compromise on pay concerns Continued from Page 1 “The board has been very supportive of our position and felt we were worth the decisions being made. It will come with sacrifices of people and programs, but that’s what we are, people and programs,” she said. The proposal was developed late last week but at this juncture remained to be ratified by all the parties involved. “We met Friday and made an agreement, but we have to get the logistics of it,” Ivory Smith, president of the Worcester County Education Support Personnel Association, said. A source close to the negotiations said both sides requested some clarifications on certain points of the deal and the school board needed more time to contact its members. The proposal is not expected to be presented to the county commissioners, which it would have to be if funds were reallocated from one area to another. “The teachers are not being made whole. The board has offered a very generous compromise,” ShockleyLynch said. Funding for step increases to teachers and county employees, yearly increases in base salary based on performance and experience, was trimmed from the county’s budget on in favor of reducing an increase in property tax rates and replenishing the budget stabilization fund. Steps were previously skipped in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Neighboring Wicomico and Somerset counties had also skipped steps in previous years, but have since made up the difference. Worcester, dependent on a different funding model than those counties, has not. “The real concern was the investment in teachers. If we’ve invested five years in training a teacher and they leave, that training is benefitting someone else,” Shockley-Lynch said. A number of teachers had indicated they were looking for work outside of Worcester as a means to restore lost steps.
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Patrol cars converted for public safety aide duties Non-sworn staff using cars for various tasks due to drop in seasonal officers
By Zack Hoopes Staff Writer (June 12, 2015) Similar to what Seinfeld’s Newman taught us about certified versus registered mail, all police work is a matter of public safety, but not all public safety matters require police. Residents and visitors may have noticed over the past week that a number of Ocean City Police Department cars now feature magnetic stickers that block out the word “police” and replace it to read “public safety.” These vehicles are being used not by sworn police officers, but rather by the increased number of public safety aides the department has hired this year to compensate for a decline in qualified seasonal officers. “Since we had a lower number of seasonal officers this year, we hired more PSAs, more than we traditionally have,” said OCPD Public Information Officer Lindsay Richard. Public safety aides may be seen driving around to perform any number of OCPD duties that do not require the attention of a sworn officer. For instance, Richard said, taking after-the-fact reports for malicious destruction of property can be done by personnel trained to take such reports, but who are not necessarily badge- and gun-carrying officers. “There are a number of things that a sworn police officer doesn’t necessarily need to respond to,” Richard said. The number of summer officers employed by the department this year is approximately 70, as opposed to the 100 or more in years past. The reduction is because of the difficulty in finding officers who will pass the full gamut of testing required to become an officer in the
State of Maryland, since the OCPD has gradually reformed its hiring standards for summer officers to bring them in line with the full requirements of the Maryland Police Service Training Commission. Ocean City is unique in having a carve-out in the state’s police legislation, which creates requirements for summer officers that are outside of MPSTC control, and which are thus immune to any state-mandated updates in training and qualification standards. The caveat to this is that Ocean City must hire at least 100 officers each year in order for the exemption to take effect. This creates a tipping point, where if the OCPD wishes to update its standards for seasonal officers to the point where less than 100 officers qualify, it then must meet the full requirement of the MPSTC and cease to have a seasonal force, at least by the state’s definition, which thus tightens the requirements even further. Earlier this year, the OCPD proposed that the city work with a consultant to look into throttling back the seasonal officer program. That study has not yet come up for discussion by the City Council, at least publicly.
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High-speed jaunt over Ocean City with Lt. Col. John Klatt Air Nat’l Guard pilot gave reporter quite a show, will give it to public this wknd.
By Kara Hallissey Staff Writer (June 12, 2015) Lt. Col. John Klatt will be doing barrel rolls, stalls, loops and assorted other aerodynamically challenging actions over the beach this weekend in this year’s edition of the Ocean City Air Show. The difference between what he will do then and what he did in a short run Wednesday morning, however, is that I won’t be riding with him. Not that I wouldn’t, given the opportunity, despite being deathly afraid of roller coasters and just about any other mechanically driven method of flirting with the laws of gravity. Still, flying upside down at more than 200 miles an hour and wondering why you and your stomach seem to have parted company is one of those lifetime experiences. Aboard his Air National Guard Extra 300L, we did multiple barrel rolls in a row with incredible upside down views of the Ocean City beach and Boardwalk. It only lasted about 20 minutes be-
fore we headed back to the Ocean City Municipal Airport, where Klatt said his performance this weekend will be 100 times more intense. That I could only attempt to imagine I as I sat there profusely sweating and shaking after landing. “I have been flying my whole adult life and these air shows are an extension of all my life experiences,” Klatt said. His father was an aviation mechanic and Klatt knew at 10 years old that flying was his passion. By 17, he was taking flying lessons and he earned his pilot license before graduating college. After joining the Air National Guard, he was deployed to Iraq three times as a fighter pilot. In addition, he flew an F-16 ‘Fighting Falcon’ on numerous air support missions over Washington D.C. and New York City in the days following 9/11. “The National Guard has been a great opportunity and helped me learn to fly,” Klatt said. “The air shows are a culmination of all my life experiences.” To date, Klatt has logged more than 15,000 hours of flight time including humanitarian missions, during combat and as a professional air show performer for the past 15 years. During the Air Show this weekend,
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Klatt will fly the Air National Guard MX-S, which is a carbon fiber aircraft that can do 250 miles per hour with its 360 horsepower engine. “Audiences will see hardcore, unlimited aerobatics at the show this weekend and it’s going to be special,” Klatt said. “This year is going to be huge with some of the best names in the business and I am excited to be a part of it.” Klatt has flown in a couple of the Ocean City Air Shows in the past. “We really like coming out here. They put on a great show and it’s in a perfect location,” he added. This year, the Air National Guard
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JUNE 12, 2015
Second boozy balcony fall of season in resort
By Zack Hoopes Staff Writer (June, 12, 2015) Another June, another drunken tip off your hotel or condo balcony. Ocean City police and EMS responded to a building on 70th Street and Coastal Highway around 9:45 p.m. on Tuesday, June 9 for young man who fell from the second floor. There was “no criminality involved,” but “alcohol was definitely a factor,” said Ocean City Police Department Public Information Officer Lindsay Richard. The man was 20 years old, from Myersville, Md. “He was conscious and alert when EMS arrived,” Richard said. This is the second serious injury from a drunken balcony fall so far this season. A 23-year-old West Virginia man had to be flown out via helicopter after falling 21 feet from a balcony on 25th Street and Baltimore Avenue on the evening of May 14. The resort has also seen one deadly fall this year, although that incident is believed to have been a suicide and not alcohol-induced. The body of a 51-yearold man, an Ocean City resident, was found at the base of a condo on 132nd Street on May 15.
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(June 12, 2015) The Ocean City Fire Department responded to a fire in a beach-front high-rise condominium unit on Sunday evening. Just before 11 p.m., Ocean City Communications dispatched crews to the Century 1 Condominium building, 9900 Coastal Highway. When firefighters arrived, there was smoke reported from a unit on the 25th floor. The fire department response was upgraded to a structure fire in a high-rise structure. The fire, which originated in the kitchen, was suppressed by one fire sprinkler upon arrival of the fire department. Firefighters on scene worked immediately to remove smoke throughout the 25th floor. “Fire sprinklers respond quickly and effectively to fire, often extinguishing the fire before the fire department arrives,” said Ocean City Fire Marshal David Hartley. “This is a perfect example of how an automatic sprinkler reacted quickly, reduced the heat and flames and prevented injuries to those inside the building.” The unit was unoccupied at the time of the fire and no injuries were reported. The fire damage was limited to the unit the fire originated. The cause of the fire is under investigated by the Ocean City Fire Marshal’s Office. To learn more about fire prevention and the importance of sprinklers, visit http://www.nfpa.org.
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By Brian Gilliland Staff Writer (June 12, 2015) Signed into law and taking effect June 1, the HungerFree Schools Act of 2015 eliminates the need for an application to receive a free or reduced meal at local schools by instead providing breakfast and lunch to the entire student body at no charge. To qualify, schools must have at least 40 percent of its student body classified as low income. Proponents of the bill said it removes the stigma of the application process and will increase participation in the program. In Worcester County, officials are still evaluating the impact the program could have because participation within the county is a function of where students live. Countywide, the board of education has found that 43.6 percent of Worcester students are eligible for a meal program. “We know that our school system does not qualify as a whole,” Scott Blackburn, food service coordinator for the schools. “Therefore, we are looking at school clusters — such as Pocomoke area schools — and individual schools to determine if a recommendation should be made to the board of education in terms of participation.” Upwards of 70 percent of Pocomoke Elementary School students are on the free and reduced meal (FARM) program, exactly 65 percent of Pocomoke Middle students are eligible and almost 60 per-
cent of Pocomoke High students qualify, according to the school board. The greatest number, by percentage, of students eligible for the FARM program in Worcester County are those who attend Cedar Chapel Special School — almost 72 percent. The lowest percentage in the Worcester public schools is Stephen Decatur High, with 29.2 percent eligibility. The Snow Hill schools and Buckingham Elementary would also qualify based on 2014-2015 numbers. “Worcester County Public Schools is currently studying the Community Eligibility provision included in the Hunger-Free Schools Act, by evaluating its benefit to our students, calculating its impact on federal reimbursements for free and reduced meals, and anticipating its effect on our food service operation,” said Barbara Witherow, school system spokesperson. Instead of depending on applications, the Community Eligibility provision uses a formula based on numbers of prequalified children based on factors like homelessness, involvement with foster care or their families’ SNAP benefit eligibility, among other factors to determine acceptance into the program. “The purpose of Community Eligibility,” Blackburn said, “is to increase the meals provided to students in schools with high levels of poverty while decreasing the burden of intensive paperwork required in the FARMS application process.”
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telling them. Prior to Chesapeake $95,000, meaning the remaining Utilities’ purchase of Eastern Shore $412,000 must be compensated by Gas, the transaction which created the entity requesting the improveSandpiper Energy, this is exactly ment. what would happen. “If you choose to move forward, “Back when it was ESG, they made there will be a contribution necessary the investment into the infrastructure on behalf of all the current gas cusand increased, their tomers within the rates, and now that corporate limits of it’s regulated by the ‘Basically we’re just trying to Ocean City to fund work out who will bore first the project,� Adkins PSC, they’re still going to make that said. and who will bore second.’ investment but it’s This may sound Public Works Director going to be shown like a lot, but if Hal Adkins separately in the amortized over the rate charge. It depreciation life of seems to be as fair a system as there the project – the new lines are exis,� Dare said. pected to last 45 years before replaceTotal cost for the Little Salisbury ment – it comes out to 2.2 cents per improvement, which will include 126 CCF (100 cubic feet of gas). This new “stub� hookups for future build- would be $3 per year for the average ings, will cost $507,000. The gas Ocean City customer. company will only recoup about This rate is re-calculated every
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By Zack Hoopes Staff Writer (June 12, 2015) Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice ... well, better safe than sorry. For the second year in a row, Ocean City police and allied agencies organized a significant increase in patrols this past weekend in anticipation of a possible “College Beach Week� event, a rather amorphous happening believed to be driven mostly by social media. And, for the second year in a row, that event seems not to have happened, at least on any appreciable scale. “I’m not sure if anything came to fruition, but that’s why we had an increased presence, in case it did,� said Ocean City Police Department Public Information Officer Lindsay Richard. Which isn’t to say the heightened presence – unmistakable on the Boardwalk, with officers nearly every block – wasn’t needed. As many local businesses observed, this past weekend, and likely the next two, are the peak season of “senior week,� when high school
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Weekend busy already without ‘takeover’ talk Continued from Page 16 into public safety nightmares. But the only concrete link between those events and the potential Party Headz DC Ocean City event is the use of the same Twitter hashtag. The other connection is that all the events, regardless of the location or promoter, are clearly intended to attract college-age African-Americans from urban areas. But racial makeup and Twitter use do not necessarily guarantee the same outcomes. Nonetheless, police have actively followed up with Party Headz DC, and monitored social media channels to see if anything was actually brewing. “Town officials have been in contact with the same people who attempted to do the event last year,” Richard said. “Our intelligence unit monitored social media throughout the weekend, but there was really
nothing of value that came across.” span last year – June 5-8, 2014 – in Rather, nothing more is needed to which “College Beach Week” was make mid-June a rowdy time, other suspected to occur, the OCPD than the usual crop of high school counted 1,816 and 688 officer and graduates. citizen calls, respectively. “For the past 30 years, this past More drastic was a decrease in arweekend and the rests, from 184 last next have been our year to only 90 this ‘Our intelligence unit busiest for the enyear. Out of these, tire year,” Richard drug arrests also monitored social media said. “Anyone throughout the weekend, but dropped, from 66 who’s out on the over four days last there was really nothing of Boardwalk can see year to 17 this year. value that came across.’ that. It is an incredThe only highibly young crowd.” Ocean City Police Department profile incident apStatistical data Public Information Officer pears to have been from the departa stabbing on 12th Lindsay Richard ment would sugStreet and the gest that crime over Boardwalk on the this past weekend was actually down evening of Sunday, June 12 but this as compared to the same weekend in did not result in the victim going to 2014. Total service calls over June 4- the hospital, and charges have yet to 7 came to 1,740 officer-initiated ac- be filed after speaking to both the tions and 521 citizen calls. For the same Thursday-Sunday
victim and suspect, according to police. For most businesses, the story is the same: June’s performance is typically mediocre, especially through the week. With most families avoiding the month, and pre-booking for July and August, people in town over the age of 18 are typically spontaneous trip-takers whose visits are weather-dependent. “I think a lot of it depends on people looking at the forecast and deciding if they’re going to come,” Shockley said. “Mid-week, last week, we were running about 30 percent at the hotel, probably about the same at the restaurant. “This week, we’re looking at 70 percent, and I’d attribute that to the forecast for this weekend being good, where last week everyone knew it was going to rain.”
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Festive beach ball design possible on new water tower Crabs, waves and White Marlin Open logo pitched, but ultimately abandoned
By Zack Hoopes Staff Writer (June 12, 2015) Visitors coming across the Route 50 bridge next summer may be greeting with something that would seem ominous, were it not so cheerful: an enormous beach ball, hovering like a spacecraft over the resort. The City Council voted this week to amend the existing bid specification for the new city water tower at First Street and St. Louis Avenue, to include an additional price item for painting the tower like a giant beach ball. Following the city’s finalization of its five-year water and wastewater financial plans, which included capital improvements such as building a new tower, several suggestions were put forth as to what could be painted on the tower. Crabs, waves, or the logo for the White Marlin Open, arguably the city’s most recognizable event, were pitched. As no decision was imminent, the city’s Public Works Department went ahead and issued bid specifications for the construction of the tower, to include the same “Welcome to Ocean City” and “Thank You for Visiting” logos used on other towers around the resort. “If you choose to take a different path in terms of what goes on the tower, you still have time to do so, I just need to get an addendum out to the bidders before the bid deadline on June 23,” Public Works Director Hal Adkins told the council. “I would rather do it that way and get competitive bids rather than awarding the
contract and facing a negotiated change order after the fact, with no guarantee that we’re getting the best price.” The legislative consensus was that a beach ball design would be the most visually striking, and would still leave other options open, as logos could be printed in the white stripes of the ball. “I think it could become iconic,” said Councilman Dennis Dare. “If you wanted to put the marlin or some logo on the white fill, you could still do it.” Construction of the water tower is scheduled to begin this fall. The new tower will hold one million gallons, more than the combined capacity of the two existing towers it will replace. These towers, presently located behind the fire station on 15th Street and in the Worcester Street parking lot, will be torn down once the new tower is operational. Building a tower is not an easy task, nor is painting it, Adkins said. The tower is not brought in as a single piece, but in sections that are welded together on-site. This means that painting must be done after the tower is erected, by workers rappelling down the sides of the tower. The idea to paint city water towers as beach balls was pitched nearly 20 years ago by former Councilman Buck Mann, Adkins said, and was not cheap. “When we got quotes at Mr. Mann’s request, we were looking at $50,000 to $60,000 to paint a tower,” Adkins said. If the prices came back high again on June 23, the city would not be obligated to go through with it, as the base contract for the tower construction could be awarded without the painting line item.
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Practical work on offshore wind farm begins with survey Shearwater to spend weeks mapping ocean floor under proposed site for turbines
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The Shearwater, a 110-foot former Coast Guard vessel, will be conducting survey missions about 12 miles off the coast for the placement of wind turbines. The survey will determine if any items of “archeological or biological importance” are present at the turbine site.
By Brian Gilliland Staff Writer (June 12, 2015) Before the turbines can begin turning on the 80,000 acres slated for offshore wind farms in Maryland, U.S. Wind, the U.S. subsidiary of Italian renewable energy company Renexia, will need to survey the ocean floor to determine the best places to install them. Renexia won the August 2014 auction for the two Maryland sites, located about 15 miles offshore, with a bid of $8.7 million. The company expects to invest $2.5 billion overall on the project, according to the press release an-
nouncing the results of the auction. The zone is estimated to be able to produce between 850 to 1,450 megawatts of power, but the company plans to start with 500, according to the same release. The turbines are expected to power 300,000 homes. The Shearwater, a 110-foot former Coast Guard vessel, has been outfitted by U.S. Wind to serve as a geophysical acoustic survey vessel, Bill Wall, technical operations director of U.S. Wind, said. Early last week the Shearwater had been delayed in arriving to Ocean City to purchase supplies because of fears the vessel would run aground at the inlet. Commercial fishermen have reported shoaling issues at the inlet have been damaging their boats and forcing them to consider moving their operations elsewhere. After a delay of about 12 hours, the Shearwater arrived at the Coast Guard Station downtown and took on an estimated $80,000 in food, drinks and other supplies for the dozen or so crew embarking on the survey mission. The Shearwater is expected to remain at sea for three weeks at a time ahead of a second, larger “geotechnical” ship, Wall said. Once out to the site, Wall explained, See SHEARWATER Page 24
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By Zack Hoopes Staff Writer (June 12, 2015) The petition to force a tax reduction in the Town of Ocean City has been found valid, at least on one count, but it will be at least another two weeks before anything more is heard about the potential judicial impasse the effort has presented. On Tuesday, the city’s Board of Elections Supervisors informed the city council that the petition - which would create a ballot initiative to institute a city charter amendment preventing property taxes above the 2009 rate - had garnered enough signatures. Board Chair Mary Adeline Bradford found that the petition, submitted by the activist group Ocean City Taxpayers for Social Justice, had garnered 1,787 signatures, of which 1,477 were valid Ocean City voters. State law requires that 20 percent of registered voters in a jurisdiction sign a petition in order to have a charter amendment put to referendum. With the city’s current voter roll of 6,141 citizens, this makes the threshold 1,228 signatures, Bradford said. But while the requisite volume of signatures has been met, the legal validity of the petition is still up in the air. City Solicitor Guy Ayres has previously advised the council that the measure may violate state law, based on constitution findings from previous cases regarding voter-initiated tax rollbacks. “I would ask that we schedule a closed-door session before your next work session in two weeks to discuss the possible legal ramifications of the petition,” Ayres told the council this week. If voted in by a majority of voters, either at a special poll or during the next regular city election, the measure would amend the city’s charter to state that the council can not pass a tax rate greater than 38 cents per $100 of assessed property value. This was the tax levy in the 20082009 fiscal year, the last budget struck prior to the 2008 financial collapse. According to OCTSJ frontman Tony Christ, the intent of the measure is to stall what Christ describes as a “phantom increase” in taxes. Since 2009, the city’s tax rate has gone up, and will be 47.8 cents for the coming fiscal year. However, because overall property values have declined even more drastically, the city is collecting slightly less in total tax revenue than it was in 2009. But Christ notes that, prior to the recession, most property valuations, for tax purposes, were lower than See ISSUE Page 26
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Issue of whether petitioners can make prescriptive policy Continued from Page 25 their actual market value due to rapid growth in real estate outpacing the tax assessment cycle. Since the recession, however, those assessments are now 100 percent, or even greater, than the actual sale price of properties, creating a relatively higher tax burden for owners. Cutting taxes back to pre-recession levels - which would force the city to cut its budget by about $8 million - would eventually result in an economic stimulus, Christ has said. Regardless of whether the theory is correct, OCTSJ’s petition faces a difficult judicial issue. This stems from a 1992 brief from the Maryland Court of Appeals, regarding a similar case between Anne Arundel County and anti-tax advocate Rayburn Smallwood, as well as another parallel case between an activist group and Baltimore County. In both cases, the court found that ballot provisions which would defacto set the tax rate were in violation of section 6-302 of the Maryland Code, which dictates that the county council was to set the tax rate. Having the tax rate dictated by charter amendment thus violates this basic organization. The legal stipulation, Ayres has
argued, is the same for municipalities, as the same language used in 6302 is used in section 6-303, which assigns municipal tax powers. The court’s reasoning goes back to the basic idea of representative democracy. Representative bodies are elected to look out for the interests of all constituents, and are thus endowed with legislative powers, as opposed to simply governing by popular majority. Thus, the court found that “the exercise of the legislative initiative power [by petitioners]... completely circumvents the legislative body, thereby totally undermining its status as the primary legislative organ.” However, certain elements of the Anne Arundel and Baltimore petitions were found to be correct in that they did not set a hard level of taxation, but rather provided guidelines for the legislative body, such as requirements that tax increases be pegged to the Consumer Price Index. The ballot measures in both cases were ultimately split - the court threw out the hard levels, but allowed percentage limits to be put to the voters. The later were found to be “appropriate charter material,” as they set popular limits on government, but did not use the charter to create prescriptive legislation.
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Man shot in butt said to be hindering own investigation (June 12, 2015) The Ocean City Police Department is currently investigating an overnight shooting that occurred in the area of Eighth Street and Washington Lane on June 10. At approximately 12:09 a.m. Ocean City police responded to the area of Eighth Street and Baltimore Avenue for a reported shooting that had just occurred nearby. Upon arrival, witnesses were providing first-aid to the 21-year-old male victim of Glen Burnie, Md., who suffered a single gunshot wound to his buttocks. The victim was treated by Ocean City EMS and transported to Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury where he was released shortly after. During the investigation, detectives determined that the victim made contact with the suspects in the area of Eighth Street and Washington Lane where a confrontation ensued. The sus-
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By Josh Davis Staff Writer (June 12, 2015) Residents gathered at the South Gate pond on Monday morning as “Martha,” a beloved snow goose, was laid to rest in Ocean Pines. Believed to be more than 10 years old, the goose was struck by a car near Food Lion on Friday. Residents remember her as the friendly white waterfowl with the broken wing. “She’s an icon,” Tammy Fultz said. “People have so many photos of her and she’s been on the cover of local newspapers. I didn’t know her name was Martha – we just called her ‘bad wing. I think everybody had little nicknames for her. She’s been here since I could remember.” Fultz, who moved to Ocean Pines in 2006, heard about the incident online on Friday just after 3 p.m. Worried that children might see her, she drove her pickup truck to the scene and recovered Martha, storing her in a spare freezer until a proper burial could be arranged. A few hours later she received a phone call from General Manager Bob Thompson, giving her permission to bury Martha in an area just off the hiking path near the South Gate. More than a dozen people attended the brief service on Monday. Kristen Wood, who moved to the area in October with her husband, Rob, and their 21-month-old son Silas, said she was heartbroken when she heard the news. “We’ve been here since Halloween night and we love walking around here,” she said. “We live just down in South Gate and we come down here all the time to watch the geese. Silas loved her.” “Martha was special,” resident Donna Dillon said. “She was loved by many. She will not be forgotten, and now that she has a special place here it will be assured that she will be remembered. Rest in peace sweet Martha.” Fultz said she hoped the incident would help change the perception of the local goose population. “The more I thought about it the more I thought about what’s going on right now with the goose population in Ocean Pines, where Ocean Pines is trying to curb the population of the geese,” she said. “They’re oiling the eggs and they’re doing things that they’re allowed to do for the migratory birds – I don’t think they’re worried so much about our resident birds. But I thought this would shed a good light on Ocean Pines. “She was an iconic bird,” Fultz continued. “Everyone knew her. The local residents appreciated her. We watched her for years. She had bad days where she would drag that broken wing, and then there were other days where she was better.” After saying a few words Fultz placed flowers and a white ceramic goose over Martha’s final resting place. A permanent plaque commemorating the bird is expected to go up at the site next week.
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Brazil declares war after ships sank, 600 die
By Peter Ayers Wimbrow III Contributing Writer (June 12, 2015) This week, 70 years ago, the Força Expedicionária Brasileira (FEB) commanded by Gen. João Baptista Mascarenhas de Moraes was awaiting transport home. Less than two months earlier it had been slugging it out with the Wehrmacht on the Gothic Line in Northern Italy. There was a significant German and Italian population in Brazil that supported their respective mother countries, and urged Brazil to support them as well. However, Brazilian dictator Getúlio Dornelles Vargas said he had no intention of being one of Hitler’s “puppets” and began to crack down on the Nazi-type party in Brazil
known as the Açáo Intergralista Brasileria (AIB), which was banned in April 1938. The following month, it attacked the Presidential Palace while Vargas was sleeping. When war came to Europe, the República dos Estados Unidos do Brasil pledged its neutrality. However, in 1941, Brazil’s Foreign Minister, Osvaldo Euclides de Sousa Arnaha, proposed that the American nations support any American country, in the event of an attack by a country from the Eastern Hemisphere. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the countries of North and South America occurred in Río de Janeiro, on Jan. 15 - 28. All of the countries, except Argentina, agreed to declare war on
the Axis powers, or, at the very least, break relations with them. Cooperation between the United States of America and the República dos Estados Unidos do Brasil increased with Americans establishing Naval and Air bases in Brazil and the United States sending military equipment to Brazil. Still, Brazil resisted active participation in the war. The Germans did not believe that it would. Hitler went so far as to say that, “A snake will sit up and smoke a pipe before Brazil enters the war.” But then, in August 1942, U-507, commanded by Korvettenkapitän Harro Schacht, torpedoed and sank, in less than 10 days, seven Brazilian ships, including four passenger ships, resulting in more than
600 Brazilian deaths, prompting demonstrations all over the country advocating war. On Aug. 22, 1942, “the snake sat up and smoked a pipe,” as Brazil declared war. On his return from the Casablanca Conference, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt visited the American air base in Natal, Brazil, on Jan. 20, 1943. There he met with President Vargas, who told him that Brazil wished to send a corps and fighter squadron to fight with the Allies in Europe, but it would have to be equipped and trained by the Americans. On July 31, 1943, the Brazilian Minister of War, Gen. Eurico Gaspar Dutra, announced to the Brazilian public that Brazil would be sending
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troops to fight with the Allies. Many of the other South American countries, especially Argentina, were opposed to this, since they knew that these soldiers would return wellequipped, highly trained and battlehardened after fighting with, and against, the best soldiers in the world. It would be the most powerful force on the South American continent. Brazil had nothing in the way of military equipment, so the United States had to provide every single item. Brazil’s promise of a three-division corps proved overly optimistic, as it was only able to send one division, plus the fighter squadron, and supporting troops. The total strength of the Força Expedicionária Brasileira was 25,334. The Divisão de Infantaria Expedicionária (DIE) contained three regiments: Sampaio from Río de Janeiro; Ipiranga from São Paulo; and Tiradentes from Minas Gerais. On July 30, 1944, the Sampaio Infantry Regiment departed Rio de Janeiro, on the American transport vessel, U.S.S. General W.A. Mann, captained by Paul Maguire, bound for the Italian Theater. The Brazilians would be a part of the U.S. 5th Army, under the command of Gen. Mark Clark. The Fighter Squadron, known as the Senta á Pua Squadron, would be a part of the U.S. 12th Air Force, commanded by John K. Cannon. Fifth Army strength had been reduced from 249,000 soldiers to
153,000 soldiers by the needs of the Normandy Invasion. Strength was rebuilt by the African-American 92nd Infantry Division, the 10th Mountain Division, the 6th South African Armored Division, the British 6th Armored Division, British 6th Infantry Division, the 8th Indian Division, the 442nd Japanese-American Regiment and the Brazilians. The British Eighth Army was also a polyglot force, with a Polish Corps, Indian and Canadian Divisions. Facing the 5th Army on the Gothic Line was the 14th Army, commanded by Traugott Herr, until Dec. 16, 1944, when he was replaced by Kurt von Tippleskirch, who served until Feb. 17, 1945, when he was replaced by Joachim Lemelsen. The Brazilians
would be a part of the IV Army Corps, commanded by Gen. Willis Crittenberger. After arriving in Naples on July 16, 1944, the first contingent of Brazilian soldiers, under the command of Gen. Zenóbio da Costa, was deployed on the Arno River and from Sept. 15 to Oct. 30, advanced 30 miles in the Serchio Valley, capturing Massarosa, Camaiore, Monte Prano and Barga. On Oct. 6, the remaining two regiments, commanded by Generals Osvaldo Corderio de Farias and Falconiere da Kunha, arrived in Naples. Eleven days later, the troops received a visit from Gen. Dutra, who ordered the issuance of the “smoking snake” shoulder patch. On Oct. 30, 1944, the Ipiranga reg-
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WORLD WAR II: BRAZIL Continued from Page 33 berger, on Feb.19, 1945, ordered the Encore Plan initiated. The responsibility of the Brazilians, together with the green U.S. 10th Mountain Division, in that plan was to conquer Monte Castello, which was defended by a battalion from the Wehrmacht’s 232nd Division. On Feb. 21, 1945, they did just that. Three days later the division captured La Serra. On March 5, the Brazilians captured Castelnuovo. The Allies launched their spring offensive on April 14. The objective for the Brazilians was the capture of the town of Montesse in the province of Modina, which today has a population of 3,500. Today there is a neighborhood in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza, named Montesse, in honor of the soldiers who died in taking Montesse. On April 22, 1945, the Brazilians occupied Vignola, which today has a population of 25,000. Four days later, the towns of Collecchio and Fornovo, were captured, which resulted in the surrender to the Brazilians on April 30, 1945 of the 148th Infantry Division, commanded by Otto FretterPico. The Brazilians met the French in Turin on May 2 and learned that the Germans in Italy had surrendered. Now it was time to go home. The first Brazilian soldiers left Italy on July 12, 1945, with the last leaving on Oct. 13, 1945. Having lost 451 killed in action (who are buried at the WWII Memorial in Río de Janeiro), 58 miss-
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ing in action, Força Expedicionária Brasileira also suffered 1,577 wounded. On July 18, 1945, the first returning Brazilian troops paraded in Río de Janeiro. Shortly after addressing the troops, President Vargas ordered them disbanded because he was concerned they were a threat to his power. Gen. Mascarenhas de Morais became a Marshal in 1946. NEXT WEEK: MOSCOW VICTORY PARADE Mr. Wimbrow writes from Ocean City, Md., where he practices law representing those persons accused of criminal and traffic offenses, and those persons who have suffered a personal injury through no fault of their own. Mr. Wimbrow can be contacted at wimbrowlaw@gmail.com.
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POLICE/COURTS
Pregnant affray
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Amanda Scott, 23, of Ocean City was arrested on June 10 for affray. According to a police report a male witness flagged down an Ocean City Police officer, stating two female suspects were on the verge of a physical altercation. Upon arriving on the scene the officer approached three suspects, two female and one male, who were yelling loudly and fighting, the report stated. According to the report, Scott told the officer she started to fight the male suspect because he was insulting her. Scott was visibly pregnant and evaluated by emergency medical staff at the scene, the report said.
Tony Holden, 20, of Pocomoke City, Md. was arrested on June 5 for towing a stolen utility trailer. A Worcester County Sheriff’s Office Motor Unit Deputy witnessed Holden towing a utility trailer with a broken left taillight and no registration plate, according to a police report. Police said a check of the VIN on the trailer revealed it had been reported stolen in Delaware. Holden was placed under arrest for theft and taken before a district court commissioner where he was released pending trial.
Underage party Worcester County Sheriff’s Office Deputies, Maryland State Police and the Natural Resources Police responded to a call on June 2 in reference to disorderly subjects in West Ocean City. Upon arrival approximately 12 individuals were making noise, drinking alcohol, and jumping on cars in a parking lot, according to a police report. Numerous individuals ran from the parking lot into a nearby dwelling. According to the report, officers knocked on the door of the unit and were met by Ryan Gammon, 21, of Chestertown, Md., who appeared to be highly intoxicated. Police could see multiple young adults and juveniles inside with a number of open containers of alcoholic beverages scattered throughout the home. Everyone inside the residence was underage except for Gammon, the report stated. While inside the unit officers determined Gammon was wanted in Queen Anne’s County for violating his probation. According to the report, when Gammon was placed under arrest, he pulled away from officers and kicked a deputy twice. Courtney Gammon, 20, of Chestertown, Md. and William Parker, 19, of Stevensville, Md. were charged with underage possession of alcohol. Four juveniles were charged with underage possession of alcohol and were given citations and later released. Ryan Gammon was charged with the outstanding warrant, second degree assault against a deputy, disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct, failure to obey a lawful order, obstructing and hindering and resisting arrest.
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Dine and dash David Bunner, 26, of Wilmington, Del. and Donald Phillippi, 26, of Newark, Del. were arrested on June 7 for failing to pay their $71.45 tab at a restaurant on the Boardwalk. According to a police report, a security guard flagged down an Ocean City Police officer after witnessing three disorderly males run out of the front door of the establishment. Bunner and Phillippi were charged with theft.
DUI and drugs Ocean City police officers arrested Timothy Carper, 39, of Dover, Del. for driving under the influence of alcohol on June 4. A police report stated Carper was pulled over for using his cellphone while driving. Following the stop police initiated a sobriety test after observing the driver’s bloodshot eyes and detecting alcohol on his breath, according to the report. Carper allegedly failed three field sobriety tests and refused to take a Breathalyzer test. During a search of the vehicle police found Suboxone and approximately five wax papers containing heroin residue, the report said. Carper was charged with two counts of controlled dangerous substance possession, driving under the influence of alcohol and reading or sending a message while operating a vehicle.
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OBITUARIES PHILLIP ANTHONY HENDERSON Ocean Pines Phillip Anthony Henderson, age 72, passed away peacefully at home on June 3, 2015. Born in Alexandria, Va., he was the son of the late Thomas Henderson and Doris Hayden. He is survived by his wife, Judy Henderson of Ocean Pines; two daughters, Lori Hawks and her husband, David of
Glen Allen, Va. and Kristin Henderson and her husband, Greg Holder of Garner, N.C.; one step-daughter, Debbie Brennan and her husband, Doug of Douglasville, Ga.; four step-sons, James Scroggs and his wife, Kathy of Panama City, Fla., David Scroggs and his wife, Glenda of Kingwood, WVa., Mike McCarthy of Mansfield, Mass. and Dan McCarthy and his wife, Julie of Chester, N.J., and 20 grandchildren.
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A memorial service will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to: Coastal Hospice at P.O. Box 1733 Salisbury, Md. 21804. JEFFREY E. GODFREY SR. Bishopville Jeffrey E. Godfrey Sr., age 64, of Bishopville, died Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at Coastal Hospice at The Lake in Salisbury with his family by his side. He was born in Salisbury and was the son of Dorothy B. Taylor Godfrey and the late Everett B. Godfrey Jr. Jeff was a life-long farmer and also worked for George Phillips for 30 years and the Hastings Funeral Home for many years. He was a 40-year member of the Bishopville Volunteer Fire Department where he held several positions over the years. He was an avid hunter and Nascar fan. He is survived by his mother, Dorothy B. Godfrey of Bishopville; a son, Jeffrey E. Godfrey Jr. of Bishopville; a daughter, Rita S. Godfrey of Bishopville; a sister, Lisa A. Nugent and her husband, Todd of Bishopville; three grandchildren, Austin Godfrey, Emily Godfrey and Ruby Windsor; a niece, Chelsea West; his uncle and aunts, Donald and Patricia Godfrey, Alberta Godfrey and Lois Perdue. In addition to his father, he was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, George and Erma Taylor and paternal grandparents, Everett and Clara Godfrey. A Celebration of Life will be held from 3-6 p.m. on Saturday, June 13, 2015 at Bishopville Vol. Fire Dept., Station 2 on St. Martin’s Neck Road in Bishopville. The family would like everyone to dress casual and wear something camouflage. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his memory to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, 100 Painters Mill Road, Suite 800, Owings Mills, Md. 21117. Condolences may be sent by visiting www.hastingsfuneralhome.net.
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POLICE/COURTS Continued from Page 35 legedly found walking down the road with the sign. A spring-assisted knife was found in Mummert’s pocket and he was subsequently arrested, the report said. Mummert was charged with possession of a spring-assisted knife, theft under $100, malicious destruction of property under $1,000 and willfully altering or interfering with the operation of a traffic control device.
Driving sans license Markus Harris, 27, of Easton, Md. was arrested on June 4 for driving without a license. An Ocean City Police officer witnessed Harris make an illegal left-hand turn and performed a traffic stop, according to a police report. The officer determined the driver’s license had expired in April. During a search of the suspect the officer asked Harris to remove his shoes, which he kicked off, striking a second, assisting officer, the report stated. Harris was charged with second-degree assault, driving on a suspended license and other traffic offenses.
Theft and weapons Ocean City police officers arrested Zaaron Seals-Dickerson, 19, of Barclay, Md. for allegedly stealing $300 from his roommate. According to a police report, officers met with a female victim on June 2 who stated three $100 bills were stolen from inside a shoe located in her duffle bag. Another $60 in the shoe was allegedly spared, the victim said, and the items in her bag were rearranged. The victim stated she suspected Seals-Dickerson of taking the money because he saw her remove cash earlier that day. Seals-Dickerson denied taking the money and allowed police to search his luggage. When officers asked if they could search his car, Seals-Dickerson told them he had a Taser inside, according to the report. During the search police allegedly located two Tasers, a baton and three $100 bills in the center console. He was placed under arrest for theft and three weapons charges.
Gun replica On June 2, Dallas Bromwell, 19, of Nottingham, Md. was arrested for being disorderly in public. Upon arriving on the scene Ocean City Police officers reported hearing Bromwell screaming and placed him in handcuffs. According to a police report, a search uncovered a pill bottle with Valium and a driver’s license that did not belong to him. While on the scene police were made aware that Bromwell matched the description of a suspect from a prior theft, occurring about an hour previously, in which Bromwell allegedly displayed a gun to a witness. During a search of Bromwell’s vehicle, a handgun replica was allegedly found. Bromwell was charged with disorderly conduct, possession of a controlled dangerous substance, paraphernalia and possession of a gun replica.
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Raising money and awareness of the need for prosthetic limbs, Caitlin Adams continues her “Run Across Maryland” in Hereford, Md. last week. She’s raised nearly $17,000, and is expected to finish her run in Ocean City on June 27.
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By Brian Gilliland Staff Writer (June 12, 2015) With the ocean as her destination, Caitlin Adams is still all about the journey. “I’m going to run across the Route 50 bridge at 9 a.m., cross Division Street and keep on going until I hit the water,” the 18-year-old Towson freshman said. With that plunge, the track star will have completed a 390-mile journey she began on May 23 in Cumberland to run across the entire state while raising money for Limbs for Life, a nonprofit organization that provides prosthetic limbs for people who may not be able to afford them. She is expected to arrive in Ocean City on June 27. When contacted on Tuesday evening, she was in Dublin, Md. and was beginning the 15-mile run to Rising Sun. When five miles of that journey was completed, she officially hit
the halfway point of her trek. “Every uphill has a downhill, I have to keep telling myself that. I’m moving forward and my body’s holding up. I have some aches, pains and blisters but I’m getting through it,” she said. Distance running can be a lonely sport, and it has left Adams with a lot of time to think. “Sometimes I don’t think of anything,” she laughed, “but I do wonder what I want to do next. Maybe I’ll run across Maryland again, because I know what I’m doing now, or across the United States. I might write a book because I have a few words I’d like to get out there.” If she does decide to run across the state again, nothing much would change, she said. She would still be raising money for Limbs for Life, and she’s been happy with the route she laid out, including the choice to skip the bay bridge in favor of turning north and running up and around the Chesapeake Bay. The other options would bring additional plans into the mix, she said. “With prosthetics, I see something
that should be fixed. If you’re born missing a limb or have lost one serving our country you should be able to have it replaced,” she said. “So many other things can be fixed if we take a step back and maybe make more changes.” Adams said running makes here feel good. “All you have to do is believe in your idea. Anyone can do anything. I remember what I want to do with my life and what I want to do next,” she said. That’s the big picture, but the small-scale stuff matters just as much. “I think a lot about water, and how thirsty and hot I can get out there,” she said. Last week’s heavy rainfall didn’t help either. “While I was out running it was great, but as soon as I stopped it got cold and I was shivering,” she said. Adams said she has learned a thing or two about shoes as well. “I started with four pairs, and they’re all holding up, but the really light ones I liked when I started have See ADAMS Page 40
By Lisa Capitelli Managing Editor (June 12, 2015) One hundred sixtyeight “diehard” anglers and captains headed offshore on 37 boats last weekend during the 19th annual Mako Mania Shark Tournament. “It went fantastic. Without them it wouldn’t be a success,” event co-director Earl Conley said. Many of the participants have competed in the tournament before. “They love the tournament and we love having them as participants,” he said. “We want to thank all of the diehard fishermen and strong supporting cast of anglers and captains.” The extended forecast prior to the tournament was unfavorable, which deterred some captains with smaller boats from participating in the tournament, Conley said. Conditions were a little rough offshore last Friday, the first day of Mako Mania, but Saturday and Sunday the ocean was calmer, much better for fishing than expected. Teams could fish two of three tournament days, June 5-7. Thirty-three went out fishing on Friday. Thirty-four headed offshore Saturday and seven boats left the docks on Sunday. Joe Stein caught a 281.6-pound mako last Friday aboard Marli, which earned him and his teammates first place in the division. The crew won $27,590. Adam Sutton reeled in a 183.5-pound mako last Friday while fishing on Talkin’ Trash. The group was awarded $9,534. Mike Mongiello’s 173.9-pound mako, hooked last Saturday aboard No Limits, finished in third place, netting $6,356. It took Jeff Green two hours and 40 minutes to boat a 500-pound thresher shark last Saturday. Green and his Hook N’ Tail teammates took home $2,760. This was the first year first-, secondand third-place prizes were awarded in the thresher division. In past years it was heaviest thresher winner takes all. Brice Bogar battled a 465.7-pound thresher for two hours last Saturday while fishing on Reel Vibrations. Because of participation in added-entry level calcuttas, Bogar and his teammates were awarded $10,899. Port-A-Bella angler Jeff Guest, Jr. boated a 212.1-pound thresher last Saturday, good for third place. The crew was presented with $3,411. Mike Cromwell took first place in the bluefish division with a 10 pounder brought to the Bahia Marina scale, between 21st and 22nd streets, bayside, last Saturday. Cromwell and his Lisa teammates won $4,776. See TOTAL Page 40
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Total of $68,090 awarded in Mania Continued from Page 39 Sonny Snodgrass caught a 1.3-pound bluefish aboard M Keli Jeane Sunday and was awarded $1,764. The Reel Vibrations crew released seven makos to win the $1,000 W.W. Harman award for most sharks released. A total of $68,090 was paid out to tournament winners. The next Bahia Marina Tournaments event is the 22nd annual Capt. Steve Harman’s Poor Girls Open, Aug. 13-15. Proceeds from the ladies-only fishing tournament will go to the American Cancer Society. While some of the money will be used for research on a national level, the remainder stays in the area to assist in local breast cancer awareness and patient programs and services. For more information, call Bahia Marina at 410-289-7438.
Continued from Page 39 become my least favorite pair,” she said. “The expensive ones I found really stiff, but now they’re my favorite pair.” Adams has raised almost $17,000 for Limbs for Life through her crowdsourcing site: www.crowdrise.com/caitlinsmdrun-prosthetics. Each prosthetic costs about $2,500 according to Adams, so she’s about $500 short of being able to provide another prosthetic limb to the 200-plus people on the charity’s list of potential recipients. Caitlin Adams’ “Run Across Maryland” reaches the halfway point this week as she runs across a bridge near Rocks State Park, north of Bel Air. PHOTO COURTESY CAITLIN ADAMS
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By Kara Hallissey Staff Writer (June 12, 2015) Live harness racing is now underway for the summer at the Ocean Downs Racetrack on Route 589 near Ocean Pines. To celebrate the kickoff to 66 years of racing at Ocean Oval, ‘There they go,’ T-shirts were given away last night during opening races. Attendees can catch T-shirts thrown into the stands during every Friday night race in June, July, August and September. Races will take place on Sunday,
Monday, Thursday and Friday through Sept. 4 — except June 15. Additionally, numerous special events are scheduled throughout the summer, including a presentation from the Ocean City Air Show tomorrow, Saturday. The Lucas Oil Sky Divers will land on the track during a “Salute to our Armed Forces Celebration.” The event begins at 7 p.m., with an American Legion Bike Riders Armed Forces flag display, face painting and balloons with Lollipop the Clown, a meet and greet with the jumpers and a fireworks display at dusk.
Racing continues on Sunday with an autograph session prior to the races with drivers. They will pose for photographs and answer questions. These meet and greets will take place a few times each month. Look forward to the popular carriage rides about three times a month, which gives visitors a tour of the facility during the early evening races. The 2015 season also includes pony rides, fireworks displays, a children’s camp in conjunction with the Harness Horse Youth Foundation, fashion shows, a Racing Under Saddle exhibi-
tion, demonstrations from a trick rider and a Back-to-the-Track celebration with giveaways and prizes. Starting at the end of June and continuing throughout July and August, some of the state’s best young racehorses will be showcased in Maryland Sire Stakes and Maryland Standardbred Race Fund events. On Friday, July 24, the third annual mascot race will begin at 7 p.m. with appearances from the Orioles Bird, Baltimore Ravens’ Poe, Phil the Crab from Phillips Restaurant, The See OCEAN Page 42
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During June, July and August, race attendees will have the opportunity to catch a T-shirt, which will be thrown into the crowd every Friday night. There will also be carriage rides and opportunities to meet the drivers. – Saturday, June 13: Beginning at 7 p.m., the Casino at Ocean Downs will host an Air Show Performer Party where the Lucas Oil Sky Divers will land on the Ocean Downs track during a “Salute to our Armed Forces Celebration.” There will be an American flag giveaway, face painting and balloons with Lollipop the Clown, a meet and greet with the jumpers, Post 166 American Legion Color Guard presentation, American Legion Bike Riders Armed Forces flag display and a special appearance by “Lucky U,” the Ocean Downs Race Track mascot. There will be food, cold beverages and a fireworks display at dusk. – Friday, June 26: A children’s camp will take place from 10 a.m. to mid-afternoon in conjunction with the Harness Horse Youth Foundation. – Friday, July 3: Fireworks, military fundraiser, T-shirt blow out, and a Farm & Fashion Country Magazine fashion show. – Friday, July 10: A Back-tothe-Track celebration with giveaways and prizes, a Racing Under Saddle exhibition, a Farm & Fashion Country Magazine fashion show, Lollipop the
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Ocean Oval kicks off 66 years of racing this week Continued from Page 41 Greene Turtles, Sweet Frog, the Frontier Town cowboy, Elmo and SpongeBob to name a few. National Football League night at the track will take place on Aug. 23, Aug. 30 and Sept. 4. Each night attendees are encouraged to wear their team jersey and be one of the first 100 fans for a chance to win tickets to a Ravens or Redskins game. Race qualifiers for pacers and trotters take place each Thursday through Aug. 27 at 10 a.m. Post time is 7:20 p.m. and with 10 races each night the action lasts until about 10:20 p.m. Ocean Downs Racing General Manager Peter Szymanski said the
By Lisa Capitelli Managing Editor (June 12, 2015) The Maryland Saltwater Sportfishing Association will present its 26th annual Tunament Tournament next weekend. Teams will fish two of three days –
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(June 12, 2015) Located just south of Bethany Beach, Del., Sea Colony – known locally as “the premier family beach tennis resort community” – remains among the world’s elite tennis camps, according to Tennis Resorts Online’s 2015 rankings released on May 1. TennisResortsOnline.com (TRO), published by former Tennis Magazine editor Roger Cox, ranked the seaside resort the world’s No. 9 tennis camp, as well as No. 5 for best junior programs. The southern Delaware beach and tennis community is also among TRO’s top 50 tennis resorts. The website’s annual rankings are determined by tennis players, who were asked to evaluate resorts and camps in 20 categories, from the quality of the
tennis programs to lodging and restaurants to value. This latest global recognition adds to the decades of local, regional and national honors earned by the resort community and its tennis staff. With 34 tennis courts, including six indoor and 14 Har-Tru clay, and talented team of teaching professionals, Sea Colony Tennis, under Tennis Director Thomas Johnston, the current USTA Delaware Pro of the year, offers a full-service pro shop, camps, clinics and private instruction to tennis players of all ages and skill levels. Supported by the Sea Colony homeowners, the resort’s tennis program has produced state and national champions, elite juniors and top collegiate ten-
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Weigh-ins for 26th annual Tuna-ment extended one hour Continued from Page 42 “We extended the weigh station hours for several reasons. Economically speaking, it will allow boats to travel at a more economical speed and still make it in, while also allowing for the most fishing time possible [with] lines out at 3:30 p.m.,” Smith said. “Also, with less stress about getting back in time, that should translate into a more enjoyable experience.” For more information, visit www.mssa.net or call 410-255-5535. Fifty-six boats registered for the 2014 tournament. Forty-three of them were out of Ocean City. Cash and prizes awarded to 2014 winners totaled $40,000.
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Captain Schoepf Relay set for June 13 in Ocean City
MAKO MANIA It took Jeff Green two hours and 40 minutes to boat this 500-pound thresher shark last Saturday. Green and his Hook N’ Tail teammates finished in first place in the 19th annual Mako Mania thresher division and took home $2,760. They are pictured with the fish at Bahia Marina, 22nd Street, bayside. LISA CAPITELLI/OCEAN CITY TODAY
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Brice Bogar battled this 465.7-pound thresher shark for two hours last Saturday while fishing on Reel Vibrations during the 19th annual Mako Mania. Bogar and his teammates, pictured at Bahia Marina, 22nd Street, bayside, were awarded $10,899.
(June 12, 2015) The Ocean City Beach Patrol’s annual Captain Schoepf Relay will be held at 10 a.m. on Sunday, June 13, beginning in the location of his old stand on Seventh Street. Capt. Schoepf served on the beach patrol from 1950 to 1996, at which time he retired after more than 40 years of service to the Town of Ocean City. To honor his many years of with the OCBP, this annual relay is held in early June. The relay begins at Seventh Street and continues with the passing of a classic steel rescue buoy by alumni and current lifeguards to the end of Ocean City. Following the run, a swim of the entire length of Ocean City is completed and the buoy is returned to the beach. Each year the starting leg of the relay is completed by a member of Capt. Schoepf’s family or OCBP alumni. “This annual relay not only reminds everyone involved of the past contributions of George Schoepf, but also of the contribution and sacrifices of all past and present beach patrol lifeguards,� said Beach Patrol Capt. Butch Arbin. “It also keeps the current Surf Rescue Technicians (lifeguards) in touch with the beginning of this world-class organization as they run and swim with an antique piece of lifesaving equipment (the metal buoy) that was once carried by all Ocean City lifeguards.� Capt. Schoepf began his career with the Ocean City Beach Patrol in 1950 and worked his way through the ranks, promoting to sergeant, then to lieutenant. With the approval of the Mayor and City Council, Schoepf became assistant to the captain in the late 1960’s and was appointed to captain in 1987. For more information about the Ocean City Beach Patrol’s annual Captain Schoepf Relay, call 410-2897556.
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PUBLIC NOTICES Alba Law Group, P.A. 11350 McCormick Road Executive Plaza III, Suite 200 Hunt Valley, MD 21031 (443) 541-8600
SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY KNOWN AS NO. 312 BUTTERCUP COURT FKA 113 BUTTERCUP COURT BERLIN, MD 21811 CASE NUMBER 23-C-14-000990 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from Carrie Shepard, Christopher Shepard, recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 4430, folio 138, and Declaration of Substitution of Trustees recorded among the aforementioned Land Records substituting Mark S. Devan, Thomas P. Dore, Christine Drexel, Brian McNair, and Melissa L. Cassell as Substituted Trustees, the Substituted Trustees will offer for sale at public auction, at the Courthouse Door, 1 West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland, 21863 on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 11:00 AM: All that lot of ground and the improvements thereon situate in Worcester County, State of Maryland, as described in the Deed of Trust recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County, in Liber 4430, folio 138, also being further described in a Deed recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 4430, folio 134. The improvements thereon consist of a dwelling. The property will be sold in “AS IS” condition, subject to any existing building violations, restrictions and agreements of record. The purchaser assumes all risks of loss for the property as of the date of sale. Neither the Substituted Trustees nor their respective agents, successors or assigns make any representations or warranties, either expressed or implied with respect to the property. The Substituted Trustees shall convey insurable title. TERMS OF THE SALE: A deposit in a form acceptable to the Substituted Trustee in the amount of $36,000.00 will be required of the purchaser, other than the Holder of the Note or its assigns, at the time and place of sale. Any amount tendered at sale in excess of the required deposit will be refunded and not applied to the purchase price. Unless the purchaser is the Holder of the Note or its assigns, the balance of the purchase price shall be paid immediately with available funds within ten (10) days of the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Worcester County. Time is of the essence. The purchaser, other than the Holder of the Note or its assigns, shall pay interest at the rate of 6.500% per annum on the unpaid portion of the purchase price from the date of sale to date of settlement. Real property taxes and assessments shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Ground rent, water and/or sewer charges public or
private, if any, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Cost of all documentary stamps and transfer taxes shall be paid by the purchaser. Purchaser shall have the responsibility of obtaining possession of the property. In the event settlement is delayed for any reason , there shall be no abatement of interest. If the purchaser defaults, the entire deposit is forfeited. The Substituted Trustees shall resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser shall be liable for the payment of any deficiency in the purchase price, all costs and expenses of both sales, attorney fees, all other charges due, and incidental and consequential damages. Defaulting purchaser also agrees to pay the Substituted Trustees’ attorney a fee of $250.00 in connection with the filing of a motion to resell. In the event the Substituted Trustees do not convey title for any reason, purchaser’s sole remedy is return of the deposit. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. The Substituted Trustees shall have the right to terminate this contract in the event the Holder or its Servicer has entered into any agreement with, or accepted funds from, the mortgagor. Upon termination of the contract, Purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of the deposit. Mark S. Devan, Thomas P. Dore, Christine Drexel, Brian McNair, and Melissa L. Cassell, Substituted Trustees Tidewater Auctions, LLC (410) 825-2900 www.tidewaterauctions.com OCD-6/11/3t _________________________________ Rosenberg & Associates, LLC 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 750 Bethesda, Maryland 20814 (301) 907-8000 www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 10901 ADKINS RD. BERLIN, MD 21811 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Valerie Kelm, dated June 29, 2007 and recorded in Liber 4964, folio 509 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, One W. Market St., Snow Hill, MD 21863, on JUNE 26, 2015 AT 1:35 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and improvements thereon situated in Worcester Co., MD and described as Tax ID #03-008142 and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an “as
is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind. Terms of Sale: A deposit of $21,000 by cash or certified check. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Worcester Co. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent, to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to be announced at the time of sale. If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement, the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale. Trustees’ file number 53585. Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees ALEX COOPER AUCTS., INC. 908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204 410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com
OCD-6/11/3t _________________________________ McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC 312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800 Laurel, Maryland 20707 www.mwc-law.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 12801 OLD STAGE RD. BISHOPVILLE, MD 21813 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from David A. Ehatt and Cheryl Ehatt, dated May 17, 2006 and recorded in Liber 4727, folio 523 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof and at the request of the parties secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, One W. Market St., Snow Hill, MD 21863, on JUNE 29, 2015 AT 2:10 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON situated in Worcester Co., Maryland and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property is improved by a dwelling. The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions, easements, encumbrances and agreements of record affecting the subject property, if any, and with no warranty of any kind. Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier’s or certified check, or in such other form as the Substitute Trustees may determine, at their sole discretion, for $20,000 at the time of sale. If the noteholder and/or servicer is the successful bidder, the deposit requirement is waived. Balance of the purchase price is to be paid within fifteen (15) days of the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase price at the rate of 5% per annum from date of sale to the date the funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased by an entity other than the noteholder and/or servicer. If payment of the balance does not occur within fifteen days of ratification, the deposit will be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event settlement is delayed for any reason. Taxes, ground rent, water rent, and all other public charges and assessments payable on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges to be adjusted for the current year to the date of sale, and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground rent es-
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PUBLIC NOTICES crow, if required. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes, and all settlement charges shall be borne by the purchaser. If the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of the deposit to the purchaser. Upon refund of the deposit, the sale shall be void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the Substitute Trustees. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. The purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for the property immediately after the sale. (Matter #2013-42850) Laura H. G. O’Sullivan, et al., Substitute Trustees ALEX COOPER AUCTS., INC. 908 YORK ROAD, TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 410-828-4838 OCD-6/11/3t _________________________________ McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC 312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800 Laurel, Maryland 20707 www.mwc-law.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 9903 QUAIL RUN LA. OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Angela Mary Gould and Roger Joseph O’Boyle, dated November 4, 2004 and recorded in Liber 4302, folio 159 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof and at the request of the parties secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, One W. Market St., Snow Hill, MD 21863, on JUNE 15, 2015 AT 2:15 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON situated in Worcester Co., Maryland and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property is improved by a dwelling. The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions, easements, encumbrances and agreements of record affecting the subject property, if any, and with no warranty of any kind. Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier’s or certified check, or in such other form as the Substitute Trustees may determine, at their sole discretion, for $26,000 at the time of sale. If the noteholder and/or servicer is the successful bidder, the deposit requirement is waived. Balance of the purchase price is to be paid within fifteen (15) days of the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase price at the
rate of 5.5% per annum from date of sale to the date the funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased by an entity other than the noteholder and/or servicer. If payment of the balance does not occur within fifteen days of ratification, the deposit will be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event settlement is delayed for any reason. Taxes, ground rent, water rent, and all other public charges and assessments payable on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges to be adjusted for the current year to the date of sale, and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground rent escrow, if required. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes, and all settlement charges shall be borne by the purchaser. If the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of the deposit to the purchaser. Upon refund of the deposit, the sale shall be void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the Substitute Trustees. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. The purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for the property immediately after the sale. (Matter #2009-03723) Laura H. G. O’Sullivan, et al., Substitute Trustees ALEX COOPER AUCTS., INC. 908 YORK ROAD, TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 410-828-4838 OCD-5/28/3t _________________________________ BWW Law Group, LLC 6003 Executive Boulevard, Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 4 140TH ST., UNIT #202 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated May 22, 2006 and recorded in Liber 4723, Folio 492 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, with an original principal balance of $264,000.00 and an original interest rate of 4.625% default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, One W. Market St., Snow Hill, MD 21863, on JUNE 30, 2015 AT 3:30 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any build-
ings or improvements thereon situated in Worcester Co., MD and described as Unit Number 202 in the “Ocean Lookout Condominium” and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind. Terms of Sale: A deposit of $25,000 in the form of certified check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of current year’s real property taxes are adjusted as of the date of sale, and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. Taxes due for prior years including costs of any tax sale are payable by the purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All other public and/or private charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale to be paid by the purchaser. All costs of deed recordation including but not limited to all transfer, recordation, agricultural or other taxes or charges assessed by any governmental entity as a condition to recordation, are payable by purchaser, whether or not purchaser is a Maryland First Time Home Buyer. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further liability. The defaulted purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. If Sub. Trustees are unable to convey either insurable or marketable title, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of the deposit without interest. PLEASE CONSULT WWW.ALEXCOOPER.COM FOR STATUS OF UPCOMING SALES Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et al., Substitute Trustees ALEX COOPER AUCTS., INC. 908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204 410-828-4838 OCD-6/11/3t _________________________________
JOSEPH E. MOORE CHRISTOPHER T. WOODLEY ASSIGNEES WILLIAMS, MOORE, SHOCKLEY & HARRISON, L.L.P. 3509 Coastal Highway Ocean City, Maryland 21842
ASSIGNEES’ SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED PROPERTY KNOWN AS 108 EAST MARTIN STREET, SNOW HILL, MD 21863 Under and by virtue of the Power of Sale contained in a certain First Mortgage from Thelma I. Hudson (deceased), dated October 16, 2006, and recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County, Maryland, in Liber S.V.H. No. 4801, folio 618, et seq., the Assignees having been appointed by instrument duly recorded among the Land Records, for purposes of foreclosure, default having occurred under the terms thereof and at the request of the party secured thereby, the undersigned Assignees will sell the following described property at public auction, to be held at: THE FRONT DOOR OF THE COURTHOUSE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY 1 WEST MARKET STREET SNOW HILL, MARYLAND 21863 ON FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 AT 10:00 A.M. ALL that lot or parcel of land lying and being situate in the Second Tax District of Worcester County, State of Maryland, on the easterly side of East Martin Street, in the Town of Snow Hill, which is designated as No. 108 East Martin Street, a more particular description of which may be found in a deed from William Mills and Elizabeth T. Mills, his wife, to Littleton R. Purnell and Richard T. Waters, dated September 5, 1864, and recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County, Maryland in Liber G.H.R. No. 1, folio 351; and being the same lot or parcel of land as described in a deed from Littleton R. Purnell, Richard T. Waters and Hester A. Waters, his wife, to one Samuel Williams or Sturgis, dated June 26, 1865, and recorded among the said Land Records in
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PUBLIC NOTICES Liber G.H.R. No. 1, folio 628, and BEING ALL AND THE SAME property which was conveyed unto Alonzo Parker and Thelma Hudson, as joint tenants by deed from Alonzo Parker, dated May 4, 1995, and recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County, Maryland, in Liber R.H.O. No. 2159, folio 102, et seq., both the said Alonzo Parker and Thelma I. Hudson having previously departed this life. THE Property is located at 108 East Martin Street, Snow Hill, Maryland 21863, contains approximately 20,475 square feet of land, and is improved by a residence containing approximately 1,232 square feet. Reference to the site is made for a more complete description. TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) will be required of the purchaser in the form of cash, certified or cashier’s check at the time and place of sale, or other form of security, at the sole discretion of the Assignees; the balance to be secured to the satisfaction of the Assignees and represented by a Promissory Note, conditioned upon the conveyance of good and marketable title. The balance in cash will be due at settlement which shall be within ten (10) days after final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court of Worcester County unless said period is extended by the Assignees, their successors or assigns for good cause shown, time being of the essence. Interest at the rate of seven percent (7%) per annum shall be paid on unpaid purchase money from date of sale to date of settlement. There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. Time is of the essence for the Purchaser. The property will be sold subject to all conditions, liens, restrictions, and agreements of record affecting same, if any. Taxes, water charges, sanitary commission charges, assessments and liens or encumbrances for sewer, water, drainage, or other public improvements completed or commenced on or prior to the date of sale or subsequent thereto, if any, are to be adjusted and apportioned as of the date of sale and are to be assumed and paid thereafter by purchaser, whether assessments have been levied or not as of date of settlement. If applicable, the property is sold subject to the imposition of the Agricultural Transfer Tax set forth in the Maryland Code and which shall be Purchaser’s sole responsibility. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes, document preparation and title insurance shall be borne by the purchaser. If Purchaser fails to pay the balance of the purchase price following ratification of the sale, the deposit shall be forfeited and the property resold at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. If the Assignees are unable to convey good and marketable title to the property, the purchaser’s sole remedy at law or in equity shall be limited to the refund of the deposit to the purchaser. Upon refund of the deposit, this sale shall be void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the Assignees. The improvements are
being sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no warranties expressed or implied, with Purchaser responsible for any and all housing or zoning code violations. The risk of loss passes at date of sale. The Assignees reserve the right to reject any and all bids in their sole discretion. For information, please contact the undersigned at (410) 289-3553. Joseph E. Moore Christopher T. Woodley Assignees 3509 Coastal Highway Ocean City, Maryland 21842 OCD-6/4/3t _________________________________ BWW Law Group, LLC 6003 Executive Boulevard, Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 508 LARK LA., UNIT #306 I/R/T/A 506 LARK LA. OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated May 14, 2004 and recorded in Liber 4130, Folio 443 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, with an original principal balance of $199,200.00 and an original interest rate of 5.375% default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, One W. Market St., Snow Hill, MD 21863, on JUNE 30, 2015 AT 3:33 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon situated in Worcester Co., MD and described as Unit No. 306 in Breezy Point Condominium and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind. Terms of Sale: A deposit of $21,000 in the form of certified check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of current year’s real property taxes are adjusted as of the date of sale, and thereafter assumed by the pur-
chaser. Taxes due for prior years including costs of any tax sale are payable by the purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All other public and/or private charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale to be paid by the purchaser. All costs of deed recordation including but not limited to all transfer, recordation, agricultural or other taxes or charges assessed by any governmental entity as a condition to recordation, are payable by purchaser, whether or not purchaser is a Maryland First Time Home Buyer. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further liability. The defaulted purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. If Sub. Trustees are unable to convey either insurable or marketable title, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of the deposit without interest. PLEASE CONSULT WWW.ALEXCOOPER.COM FOR STATUS OF UPCOMING SALES Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et al., Substitute Trustees ALEX COOPER AUCTS., INC. 908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204 410-828-4838 OCD-6/11/3t _________________________________ Alba Law Group, P.A. 11350 McCormick Road Executive Plaza III, Suite 200 Hunt Valley, MD 21031 (443) 541-8600
SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY KNOWN AS NO. 322 SUNSET DRIVE UNIT 2 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 CASE NUMBER 23-C-15-000237 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from Michael P. Nader, recorded
among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 5262, folio 326, and Declaration of Substitution of Trustees recorded among the aforementioned Land Records substituting Mark S. Devan, Thomas P. Dore, Christine Drexel, Brian McNair, and Angela Nasuta as Substituted Trustees, the Substituted Trustees will offer for sale at public auction, at the Courthouse Door, 1 West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland, 21863 on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 11:00 AM: All that lot of ground and the improvements thereon situate in Worcester County, State of Maryland, as described in the Deed of Trust recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County, in Liber 5262, folio 326, also being further described in a Deed recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 3623, folio 106. The improvements thereon consist of a dwelling. The property will be sold in “AS IS” condition, subject to any existing building violations, restrictions and agreements of record. The purchaser assumes all risks of loss for the property as of the date of sale. Neither the Substituted Trustees nor their respective agents, successors or assigns make any representations or warranties, either expressed or implied with respect to the property. The Substituted Trustees shall convey insurable title. TERMS OF THE SALE: A deposit in a form acceptable to the Substituted Trustee in the amount of $13,000.00 will be required of the purchaser, other than the Holder of the Note or its assigns, at the time and place of sale. Any amount tendered at sale in excess of the required deposit will be refunded and not applied to the purchase price. Unless the purchaser is the Holder of the Note or its assigns, the balance of the purchase price shall be paid immediately with available funds within ten (10) days of the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Worcester County. Time is of the essence. The purchaser, other than the Holder of the Note or its assigns, shall pay interest at the rate of 4.62500% per annum on the unpaid portion of the purchase price from the date of sale to date of settlement. Real property taxes and assessments shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Ground rent, water and/or sewer charges public or private, if any, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Cost of all documentary stamps and transfer taxes shall be paid by the purchaser. Purchaser shall have the responsibility of obtaining possession of the property. In the event settlement is delayed for any reason , there shall be no abatement of interest. If the purchaser defaults, the entire deposit is forfeited. The Substituted Trustees shall resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser shall be liable for the payment of any deficiency in the purchase price, all costs and expenses of both sales, attorney fees, all other charges due,
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PUBLIC NOTICES and incidental and consequential damages. Defaulting purchaser also agrees to pay the Substituted Trustees’ attorney a fee of $250.00 in connection with the filing of a motion to resell. In the event the Substituted Trustees do not convey title for any reason, purchaser’s sole remedy is return of the deposit. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. The Substituted Trustees shall have the right to terminate this contract in the event the Holder or its Servicer has entered into any agreement with, or accepted funds from, the mortgagor. Upon termination of the contract, Purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of the deposit. Mark S. Devan, Thomas P. Dore, Christine Drexel, Brian McNair, and Angela Nasuta, Substituted Trustees Tidewater Auctions, LLC (410) 825-2900 www.tidewaterauctions.com OCD-6/4/3t _________________________________ BWW Law Group, LLC 6003 Executive Boulevard, Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 800 LAUREL ST. POCOMOKE A/R/T/A POCOMOKE CITY, MD 21851 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated March 30, 2007 and recorded in Liber 4907, Folio 171 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, with an original principal balance of $87,800.00 and an original interest rate of 4.12% default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, One W. Market St., Snow Hill, MD 21863, on JUNE 16, 2015 AT 3:30 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon situated in Worcester Co., MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind. Terms of Sale: A deposit of $10,000 in the form of certified check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final rati-
fication of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of current year’s real property taxes are adjusted as of the date of sale, and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. Taxes due for prior years including costs of any tax sale are payable by the purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All other public and/or private charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale to be paid by the purchaser. All costs of deed recordation including but not limited to all transfer, recordation, agricultural or other taxes or charges assessed by any governmental entity as a condition to recordation, are payable by purchaser, whether or not purchaser is a Maryland First Time Home Buyer. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further liability. The defaulted purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. If Sub. Trustees are unable to convey either insurable or marketable title, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of the deposit without interest. PLEASE CONSULT WWW.ALEXCOOPER.COM FOR STATUS OF UPCOMING SALES Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et al., Substitute Trustees ALEX COOPER AUCTS., INC. 908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204 410-828-4838 OCD-5/28/3t _________________________________ Alba Law Group, P.A. 11350 McCormick Road Executive Plaza III, Suite 200 Hunt Valley, MD 21031 (443) 541-8600
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KNOWN AS NO. 42 OCEAN PARKWAY BERLIN, MD 21811 CASE NUMBER 23-C-14-001324 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from Arthur E. Ford, II, recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 4734, folio 620, and Declaration of Substitution of Trustees recorded among the aforementioned Land Records substituting Mark S. Devan, Thomas P. Dore, Christine Drexel, Brian McNair, and Angela Nasuta as Substituted Trustees, the Substituted Trustees will offer for sale at public auction, at the Courthouse Door, 1 West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland, 21863 on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 11:00 AM: All that lot of ground and the improvements thereon situate in Worcester County, State of Maryland, as described in the Deed of Trust recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County, in Liber 4734, folio 620, also being further described in a Deed recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 4275, folio 353. The improvements thereon consist of a dwelling. The property will be sold in “AS IS” condition, subject to any existing building violations, restrictions and agreements of record. The purchaser assumes all risks of loss for the property as of the date of sale. Neither the Substituted Trustees nor their respective agents, successors or assigns make any representations or warranties, either expressed or implied with respect to the property. The Substituted Trustees shall convey insurable title. TERMS OF THE SALE: A deposit in a form acceptable to the Substituted Trustee in the amount of $25,000.00 will be required of the purchaser, other than the Holder of the Note or its assigns, at the time and place of sale. Any amount tendered at sale in excess of the required deposit will be refunded and not applied to the purchase price. Unless the purchaser is the Holder of the Note or its assigns, the balance of the purchase price shall be paid immediately with available funds within ten (10) days of the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Worcester County. Time is of the essence. The purchaser, other than the Holder of the Note or its assigns, shall pay interest at the rate of 7.87500% per annum on the unpaid portion of the purchase price from the date of sale to date of settlement. Real property taxes and assessments shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Ground rent, water and/or sewer charges public or private, if any, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Cost of all documentary stamps and transfer taxes shall be paid by the purchaser. Purchaser shall have the responsibility of obtaining possession of the property. In the event settlement is delayed for any reason , there shall be no abatement of interest. If the purchaser defaults, the entire deposit is
forfeited. The Substituted Trustees shall resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser shall be liable for the payment of any deficiency in the purchase price, all costs and expenses of both sales, attorney fees, all other charges due, and incidental and consequential damages. Defaulting purchaser also agrees to pay the Substituted Trustees’ attorney a fee of $250.00 in connection with the filing of a motion to resell. In the event the Substituted Trustees do not convey title for any reason, purchaser’s sole remedy is return of the deposit. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. The Substituted Trustees shall have the right to terminate this contract in the event the Holder or its Servicer has entered into any agreement with, or accepted funds from, the mortgagor. Upon termination of the contract, Purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of the deposit. Mark S. Devan, Thomas P. Dore, Christine Drexel, Brian McNair, and Angela Nasuta, Substituted Trustees Tidewater Auctions, LLC (410) 825-2900 www.tidewaterauctions.com OCD-5/28/3t _________________________________ Rosenberg & Associates, LLC 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 750 Bethesda, Maryland 20814 (301) 907-8000 Diane S. Rosenberg Mark D. Meyer John A. Ansell, III Kenneth Savitz 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 750 Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Substitute Trustees Plaintiff(s) v. William Gmeinwieser, Sr. Debra K. Gmeinwieser 4 Ash Court Ocean Pines, MD 21811 Defendant(s) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND Case No. 23C14001298
NOTICE Notice is hereby given this 19th day of May, 2015, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, that the sale of 4 Ash Court, Ocean Pines, MD 21811, made and reported, will be ratified and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 22nd day of June, 2015, provided a copy of this notice be inserted in a weekly newspaper printed in said County, once in each of three successive weeks before the 15th day of June, 2015. The Report of Sale states the amount of the foreclosure sale price to be $69,657.00. Susan R. Braniecki Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, MD True Copy Test: Susan R. Braniecki Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County MD OCD-5/28/3t _________________________________
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PUBLIC NOTICES BWW Law Group, LLC 6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 961-6555 Carrie M. Ward, et al. 6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 Substitute Trustees Plaintiffs vs. MARGARET A. WIKSTROM GARY K. WIKSTROM 12702 Coastal Highway, Unit #103 Ocean City, MD 21842 Defendant(s) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND Case No. 23-C-15-000240
NOTICE Notice is hereby given this 19th day of May, 2015, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, that the sale of the property mentioned in these proceedings and described as 12702 Coastal Highway, Unit #103, Ocean City, MD 21842, made and reported by the Substitute Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 22nd day of June, 2015, provided a copy of this NOTICE be inserted in some weekly newspaper printed in said County, once in each of three successive weeks before the 15th day of June, 2015. The report states the purchase price at the Foreclosure sale to be $114,000.00. Susan R. Braniecki Clerk, Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland True Copy Test: Susan R. Braniecki Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County MD OCD-5/28/3t _________________________________ AYRES, JENKINS, GORDY & ALMAND, P.A. HAROLD & GORDY JR., ESQ. 11047 RACETRACK ROAD BERLIN, MD 21811
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE ESTATE NO. 16075 Notice is given that the Orphans court of Lancaster County, PA appointed Diane M. Freedman, 19 Westwind Drive, Lemoyne, PA 17043 as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Marian E. Carter who died on October 28, 2014 domiciled in Pennsylvania, USA. The Maryland resident agent for service of process is Harold B. Gordy, Jr., whose address is 11047 Racetrack Road, Berlin, MD 21811. At the time of death, the decedent owned real or leasehold property in the following Maryland counties: Worcester County. 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. Diane M. Freedman Foreign Personal Representative Charlotte K. Cathell Register of Wills One W. Market Street Room 102 - Court House Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of newspaper designated by personal representative: Ocean City Digest Date of first publication: May 28, 2015 OCD-5/28/3t _________________________________
NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF BILL 15-2 WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Take Notice that Bill 15-2 (Building Regulations - Electrical Standards) was passed by the County Commissioners on May 19, 2015. A fair summary of the bill is as follows: § BR 2-202. (Repeals and reenacts the definitions of the following terms as used in Subtitle II - Electrical Standards of Title 2 - Construction Regulations of the Building Regulations Article of the Code of Public Local Laws of Worcester County, Maryland: “Electrical Work” - to clarify that such work includes low voltage wiring systems; “Electrician General” - to provide that such licensees may perform electrical work on single phase electrical services and circuits of 240 volts or less in nonhazardous locations; and “Minor Electrical Installation” - to add a provision that such installations include certain decorative outdoor lighting, except low voltage lighting systems, and also excluding low voltage systems for controls, communications, burglar alarms, audio, video and information technology systems installed in one and two-family dwellings.) § BR 2-202. (Adds a definitions of the term “Nonhazardous Location” to the Electrical Standards Subtitle to refer to any location that is not determined to be a hazardous (classified) location pursuant to Article 500 of the National Electrical Code.) § BR 2-208(b). (Repeals and reenacts this subsection regarding the general requirements for licensing of an Electrician General to provide minimum eligibility requirements of four consecutive years in the field under the supervision of a licensed master electrician or electrician general; also provides that one year of training in a technical school or college may be substituted for not more than one year of field experience.) § BR 2-208(f). (Adds this new subsection to the general requirements for licensing to require continuing education as a pre-requisite for
all license renewals beginning January 1, 2016; establishes minimum biannual continuing education requirements of at least one continuing education credit unit (CEU) of nationally certified training, or ten hours of State approved training, or a combination of the two, provided at least half of the training is obtained in a classroom setting.) § BR 2-214(a). (Repeals and reenacts this subsection regarding expiration of electrician’s licenses to provide for expiration every two years on the 31st day of the second December following their issuance.) This bill becomes effective fortyfive (45) days from the date of its passage. This is only a fair summary of the bill. A full copy of the bill is posted on the Legislative Bulletin Board in the main hall of the Worcester County Government Center outside Room 1103, is available for public inspection in Room 1103 of the Worcester County Government Center and is available on the County Website at http://www.co.worcester.md.us/commissioners/legsltn.asp x. THE WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OCD-5/28/3t _________________________________
NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF BILL 15-6 WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Take Notice that Bill 15-6 (Zoning - Structures and Storage Yards for Marine Activities in the E-1 Estate District) was passed by the County Commissioners on May 19, 2015. A fair summary of the bill is as follows: § ZS 1-203(c)(18). (Renumbers the existing subsection 18 to subsection 19 and adds this new subsection to permit by special exception in the E-1 Estate District structures and storage yards for marine activities, including dry storage of seaworthy boats in operable condition and light maintenance facilities for engine, hull, deck and interior repairs and painting, provided all light engine maintenance shall be conducted within an enclosed building; establishes minimum lot requirements for lot area, lot width, and front, side and rear yard setbacks; requires screening of all structures and storage yards and provides for possible reduction of the minimum setbacks if vegetated screening of at least 35feet in width is provided.) This bill becomes effective fortyfive (45) days from the date of its passage. This is only a fair summary of the bill. A full copy of the bill is posted on the Legislative Bulletin Board in the main hall of the Worcester County Government Center outside Room 1103, is available for public inspection in Room 1103 of the Worcester County Government Center and is available on the County Website at http://www.co.worcester.md.us/commissioners/legsltn.asp x. THE WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OCD-5/28/3t _________________________________
NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF BILL 15-7 WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Take Notice that Bill 15-7 (Zoning - Marine Yards, Storage Yards and Buildings in the C-1 Neighborhood Commercial District) was passed by the County Commissioners on May 19, 2015. A fair summary of the bill is as follows: § ZS 1-209(c)(15). (Renumbers the existing subsection 15 to subsection 16 and adds this new subsection to permit by special exception in the C-1 Neighborhood Commercial District marine yards, storage yards and buildings for the repair of watercraft and recreational vehicles, general maintenance activities and incidental retail sales of parts and accessories; establishes minimum lot requirements for lot area, lot width, and front, side and rear yard setbacks; provides that the total square footage of the buildings shall not exceed 7,500 square feet and outdoor areas for storage, light repair, display and similar uses shall not exceed 4 acres in area; requires that outdoor uses shall be screened and display areas shall be buffered; and requires compliance with additional provisions that apply to all uses and structures in the C-1 District.) This bill becomes effective fortyfive (45) days from the date of its passage. This is only a fair summary of the bill. A full copy of the bill is posted on the Legislative Bulletin Board in the main hall of the Worcester County Government Center outside Room 1103, is available for public inspection in Room 1103 of the Worcester County Government Center and is available on the County Website at http://www.co.worcester.md.us/commissioners/legsltn.asp x. THE WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OCD-5/28/3t _________________________________ DEBORAH M. ENGRAM, ESQ. BRENNAN AND BRENNAN ATTORNEYS AT LAW, P.A. 825 EASTERN BOULEVARD BALTIMORE, MD 21221
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Estate No. 16068 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF MARLYN E. PIETRUSZKA Notice is given that Daniel Pietruszka, 44 Ewing Drive, Reisterstown, MD 21136, was on May 18, 2015 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Marlyn E. Pietruszka who died on May 1, 2015, without 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 18th day of Novem-
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PUBLIC NOTICES ber, 2015. 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 that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills. Daniel Pietruszka Personal Representative True Test Copy Charlotte K. Cathell Register of Wills Worcester County One W. Market Street Room 102 - Court House Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of newspaper designated by personal representative: Ocean City Digest Date of publication: May 28, 2015 OCD-5/28/3t _________________________________ MICHAEL W. DAVIS, ESQ. 10211 WINCOPIN CIRCLE, SUITE 600 COLUMBIA, MD 21044
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Estate No. 16074 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF GEORGE A. URIAN AKA: GEORGE ALVA URIAN Notice is given that Richard P. Urian, 12270 Carroll Mill Road, Ellicott City, MD 21042, was on May 20, 2015 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of George A. Urian who died on April 26, 2015, 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 20th day of November, 2015. 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 that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills. Richard P. Urian Personal Representative True Test Copy Charlotte K. Cathell Register of Wills Worcester County One W. Market Street Room 102 - Court House Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of newspaper designated by personal representative: Ocean City Digest Date of publication: May 28, 2015 OCD-5/28/3t _________________________________
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE Application for a Class: "B" BEER-WINE-LIQUOR License: 7 Day By: Jean Evelyn Sabia, 114 White Horse Drive, Berlin, Maryland 21811; Franco A. Rossetti, 43 Cont. Drive, West Nyack, NY 10994. For: Smart 15, Inc. For the premises known as and located at: T/A: The Tavern 1513 Atlantic Avenue Ocean City, Maryland 21842 There will be a public hearing on the application in the Board Room, Room 1102 in the Government Center, Snow Hill, Maryland, on: June 17, 2015 1:00 P.M. The Board welcomes written or oral comment at said public hearing from any interested party. OCD-6/4/2t _________________________________
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE Request to expand the license premises to include grassy area attached to front patio - area to be enclosed with fencing, Request for two sets of corn hole games, Request to add a tiki bar and Special Request to expand the licensed premises for a Boat Docking event on August 29, 2015 from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. Class: "B" BEER-WINE-LIQUOR License: 7 Day By: Mark Reeves, 2 Riverside Drive, Pocomoke City, Maryland 21851; Corey Reeves, 2 Riverside Drive, Pocomoke City, Maryland 21851; Leslie Reeves, 2 Riverside Drive, Pocomoke City, Maryland 21851. For: S.M.M.R., Inc. For the premises known as and located at: T/A: Riverside Grill 2 Riverside Drive Pocomoke City, Maryland 21851 There will be a public hearing on the application in the Board Room, Room 1102 in the Government Cen-
ter, Snow Hill, Maryland, on: June 17, 2015 3:40 P.M. The Board welcomes written or oral comment at said public hearing from any interested party. OCD-6/4/2t _________________________________
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE Application for a Class: "B" BEER-WINE License: 7 Day By: Angela C. Mione, 108 Ann Court, Berlin, Maryland 21811. For: C.J. Miones, LLC For the premises known as and located at: T/A: Mione's Restaurant 6701 Coastal Highway, Unit 11 Ocean City, Maryland 21842 There will be a public hearing on the application in the Board Room, Room 1102 in the Government Center, Snow Hill, Maryland, on: June 17, 2015 1:15 P.M. The Board welcomes written or oral comment at said public hearing from any interested party. OCD-6/4/2t _________________________________
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE Application for a Class: "B" BEER-WINE-LIQUOR License: 7 Day By: Amanda Christine Nussle, 1548 Teal Drive, Ocean City, Maryland 21842; Mitchel Jennings Cook, 23 Decatur Street, Berlin, Maryland 21811. For: Parched Pelican, LLC For the premises known as and located at: T/A: Parched Pelican 12207 Coastal Highway, Unit 2 Ocean City, Maryland 21842 There will be a public hearing on the application in the Board Room, Room 1102 in the Government Center, Snow Hill, Maryland, on: June 17, 2015 1:25 P.M. The Board welcomes written or oral comment at said public hearing from any interested party. OCD-6/4/2t _________________________________
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE Application for an Upgrade of a Class "C" B/W/L 6 Day and Upgrade From a 6 Day to a 7 Day Class: "C" BEER-WINE-LIQUOR License: 7 Day By: James L. Flaig, 6 135th Street, Ocean City, Maryland 21842; Christopher Graf, 4603 Coastal Highway, #20, Ocean City, Maryland 21842; Lowell K. Rockwell, 156-C Jamestown Road, Ocean City, Maryland 21842. For: Ocean City Elks Lodge #2645 For the premises known as and located at: T/A: Ocean City Elks Lodge #2645 13708 Synepuxent Avenue Ocean City, Maryland 21842 There will be a public hearing on the application in the Board Room,
Room 1102 in the Government Center, Snow Hill, Maryland, on: June 17, 2015 1:40 P.M. The Board welcomes written or oral comment at said public hearing from any interested party. OCD-6/4/2t _________________________________
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE Application for a Class: "B" BEER-WINE License: 7 Day By: John Donald Moore, 12229 Meadow Drive, Berlin, Maryland 21811; Jamie Lyn Hamer, 8702 Habitat Court, Berlin, Maryland 21811. For: Fat Fish, Inc. For the premises known as and located at: T/A: Fat Fish 12703 Sunset Avenue, Unit 7 Ocean City, Maryland 21842 There will be a public hearing on the application in the Board Room, Room 1102 in the Government Center, Snow Hill, Maryland, on: June 17, 2015 1:50 P.M. The Board welcomes written or oral comment at said public hearing from any interested party. OCD-6/4/2t _________________________________
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE Application for a Class: "A" BEER-WINE License: 7 Day By: Brian Gregory Tinkler, 8639 Saddle Creek Drive, Berlin, Maryland 21811. For: Atlantic Tackle of Ocean City, LLC For the premises known as and located at: T/A: Atlantic Tackle 12930 Sunset Avenue Ocean City, Maryland 21842 There will be a public hearing on the application in the Board Room, Room 1102 in the Government Center, Snow Hill, Maryland, on: June 17, 2015 2:05 P.M. The Board welcomes written or oral comment at said public hearing from any interested party. OCD-6/4/2t _________________________________
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE Application for an Upgrade of a Class "C" B/W/L 6 Day License to an Upgrade From a 6 Day to a 7 Day Class: "C" BEER-WINE-LIQUOR License: 7 Day By: William Lawrence Garlitz, 21 East Wind Drive, Berlin, Maryland 21811; Joseph Alfred Salafia, 406 Ocean Parkway, Ocean Pines, Maryland 21811; John George Granite, 10050 Golf Course Road, Unit B, Ocean City, Maryland 21842. For: Synepuxent Post #166 The American Legion, lnc. For the premises known as and located at: T/A: American Legion Synepuxent
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PUBLIC NOTICES Post #166 2308 Philadelphia Avenue Ocean City, Maryland 21842 There will be a public hearing on the application in the Board Room, Room 1102 in the Government Center, Snow Hill, Maryland, on: June 17, 2015 2:25 P.M. The Board welcomes written or oral comment at said public hearing from any interested party. OCD-6/4/2t _________________________________
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE Application for a Class: "B" BEER-WINE License: 7 Day By: Donald Morgan Fox, 166 Duane Street, #2A, New York, NY 10013; Todd Jeremy Shenk, 3B BlueBill Court, Ocean Pines, Maryland 21811. For: 14301 Coastal, LLC For the premises known as and located at: T/A: Fox Theatres 14301 Coastal Highway Ocean City, Maryland 21842 There will be a public hearing on the application in the Board Room, Room 1102 in the Government Center, Snow Hill, Maryland, on: June 17, 2015 2:35 P.M. The Board welcomes written or oral comment at said public hearing from any interested party. OCD-6/4/2t _________________________________
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE Application for a Class: "D" BEER-WINE-LIQUOR License: 7 Day By: Yogendrakumar I. Patel, 249 S. Washington Street, Snow Hill, Maryland 21863. For: DUTT, Inc. For the premises known as and located at: T/A: Marlin Market 9636 Stephen Decatur Highway, Unit #3 Ocean City, Maryland 21842 There will be a public hearing on the application in the Board Room, Room 1102 in the Government Center, Snow Hill, Maryland, on: June 17, 2015 3:20 P.M. The Board welcomes written or oral comment at said public hearing from any interested party. OCD-6/4/2t _________________________________
NOTICE OF SALE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND $12,015,000 CONSOLIDATED PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT BONDS, 2015 SERIES A Electronic bids via PARITY will be received for the above-captioned issue of general obligation bonds (the “Bonds”) of the County Commissioners of Worcester County, Maryland
(the “County”) by the Finance Officer of Worcester County at the offices of the Finance Officer, Worcester County Government Building, Room 1103, One West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland, 21863, until 10:30 a.m. (E.D.T.) on Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Dated Date and Interest Payment Dates. The Bonds will be dated as of the date of delivery of the Bonds. Interest on the Bonds will be payable on February 1, 2016 and semiannually thereafter on August 1 and February 1 until maturity or earlier redemption. Principal Amounts and Principal Payment Dates. The Bonds will be issued in serial form, as described below. The Bonds will be issued in the aggregate principal amount of $12,015,000 and will mature on August 1 in the following years and in the following amounts: Year of Principal Maturity Amount 2017 $650,000 2018 670,000 2019 690,000 2020 710,000 2021 745,000 2022 785,000 2023 830,000 2024 870,000 2025 915,000 2026 960,000 2027 1,000,000 2028 1,030,000 2029 1,065,000 2030 1,095,000 General Obligations. The Bonds will be the unconditional general obligation of the County and will be issued upon its full faith and credit, which will be irrevocably pledged to the prompt payment of the principal of and interest on all of the Bonds as the same become due. Book Entry Form; Payment. The Bonds will be issued in book-entry form by issuing a single bond for each maturity registered in the name of Cede & Co. as nominee for The Depository Trust Company or its successor (“DTC”) and immobilized in its custody under DTC’s “FAST” system (provided that if DTC so requests or if DTC is replaced as the depository for the Bonds, replacement bonds will be issued in the denominations of $5,000 or any integral multiples thereof). Principal of the Bonds will be payable at maturity to DTC or its nominee as registered owner of the Bonds. Transfer of principal and interest payments to participants of DTC will be the responsibility of DTC, and transfer of principal and interest payments to beneficial owners of the Bonds by participants of DTC will be the responsibility of such participants and other nominees of beneficial owners. The County will not be responsible or liable for such transfers of payments or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing the records maintained by DTC, its participants or persons acting through such participants. The principal of the Bonds will be payable at the designated corporate trust office of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company (the “Bond
Registrar”), initially in Buffalo, New York, upon presentation and surrender of the Bonds. Payment of interest on the Bonds, at the rates specified by the successful bidder in its bid via PARITY, shall be made by the Bond Registrar on each interest payment date to the person appearing on the registration books of the County maintained by the Bond Registrar as the registered owner thereof, by check of draft mailed to each such registered owner at his, her or its address as it appears on such registration books on the record date for the Bonds, which shall be the fifteenth day of the month next preceding each interest payment date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, while the Bonds are registered under DTC’s book-entry only system, payment of the principal of and interest on the Bonds shall be made by the Bond Registrar to DTC or its nominee in accordance with the procedures of DTC. Authorization and Use of Proceeds. The Bonds are being issued pursuant to the authority of Sections 11-401 and 19-501 to 19-510, inclusive, of the Local Government Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland, Sections 9-601 to 9-699, inclusive, of the Environment Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland, PW-5-204 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Worcester County, Maryland (the “Code of Public Local Laws”) and Appendices KK (Bill No. 15-3), LL (Bill No. 15-4) and MM (Bill No. 15-5) of the Code of Public Local Laws, and pursuant to a resolution adopted by the Board of County Commissioners of Worcester County, Maryland (the “Board”) on June 2, 2015 (the “Resolution”). The proceeds of the sale of the Bonds are being used to finance (A) 800 MHZ Emergency Services Radio System Upgrades, (B) the Berlin Rubblefill Cap and Closure Project, (C) the Central Landfill Site Cell #5 Construction Project and (D) the Mystic Harbour Water System Interconnections Project, and to pay capitalized interest on and costs of issuance and other related costs of the Bonds. Optional Redemption. The Bonds maturing on or after August 1, 2025 shall each be subject to redemption prior to their respective maturities, at the option of the County, on or after August 1, 2024, as a whole or in part at any time, but only upon payment of a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Bonds to be redeemed, together with accrued interest thereon to the date fixed for redemption at the rate or rates stated in the Bonds to be redeemed. Notice of and Procedure for Redemption. The procedures for redemption of the Bonds, including the requirements for giving notice of such redemption, are described in the Preliminary Official Statement (hereinafter defined) and are incorporated herein by reference. Changes to this Notice of Sale. The County may revise this Notice of Sale by written notice available to prospective bidders at the place of sale at the time for submission of bids or by publishing notice of any revisions on TM3 News Service at or before the time for submission of the
bids to change the terms of sale of the Bonds, including, without limitation, the date or time of sale of the Bonds. Any such revisions shall be incorporated into and made a part of this Notice of Sale, and any bid submitted for the Bonds shall be in accordance with, and incorporate by reference, this Notice of Sale, including any revisions made pursuant to this section. TERMS OF SALE Electronic Bids. Electronic bids will be received via PARITY pursuant to this Notice of Sale until 10:30 a.m. (E.D.T.), but no bid will be received after the time for receiving bids specified above. To the extent any instructions or directions set forth in PARITY conflict with this Notice of Sale, the terms of this Notice of Sale shall control. For further information about PARITY, potential bidders may contact PARITY (212) 849-5021. Bidders may only submit bids electronically via PARITY. Each prospective bidder shall be solely responsible to submit its bids via PARITY as described above. Each prospective bidder shall be solely responsible to make necessary arrangements to access PARITY for the purpose of submitting its bid in a timely manner and in compliance with the requirements of this Notice of Sale. Neither the County nor PARITY shall have any duty or obligation to provide or assure access to PARITY to any prospective bidder, and neither the County nor PARITY shall be responsible for proper operation of, or have any liability for delays or interruptions of, or any damages caused by, PARITY. The County is using PARITY as a communication mechanism, and not as the County’s agent, to conduct the electronic bidding for the Bonds. The County is not bound by any advice and determination of PARITY to the effect that any particular bid complies with the terms of this Notice of Sale and in particular the bid parameters set forth herein. All costs and expenses incurred by prospective bidders in connection with their submissions of bids via PARITY are the sole responsibility of the bidders; and the County is not responsible, directly or indirectly, for any of such costs or expenses. If a prospective bidder encounters any difficulty in submitting, modifying or withdrawing a bid of the Bonds, it should telephone PARITY (212) 849-5021 and notify the County’s Financial Advisor, Davenport & Company LLC by facsimile at (410) 296-8517 and by telephone at (410) 296-9426. Electronic bids must be submitted for the purchase of the Bonds (all or none) via PARITY. Bids will be communicated electronically to the County at 10:30 a.m. (E.D.T.), on June 16, 2015. Prior to that time, a prospective bidder may (1) submit the proposed terms of its bid via PARITY, (2) modify the proposed terms of its bid, in which event the proposed terms as last modified will (unless the bid is withdrawn as described herein) constitute its bid for the Bonds, or (3) withdraw its proposed bid. Once the bids are commu-
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PUBLIC NOTICES nicated electronically via PARITY to the County, each bid will constitute an irrevocable offer to purchase the Bonds on the terms therein provided. For purposes of the electronic bidding process, the time as maintained on PARITY shall constitute the official time. Bidding Constraints. Each bidder shall submit one bid via PARITY at a price of not less than par, based on the aggregate principal amount of the Bonds, on an “all-or-none” basis. Each bid must specify the rate or rates of interest to be paid on the Bonds, in multiples of one-eighth or one-twentieth of one percent (1/8 or 1/20 of 1%). Bidders may specify more than one rate of interest to be borne by the Bonds; but all Bonds maturing on the same date must bear interest at the same rate. The difference between the minimum and maximum interest rates may not exceed 4.00%. Bidders are requested to specify the true interest cost (computed in accordance with the terms of this Notice of Sale) in their bid for the Bonds. A bid for the purchase of the Bonds at a price of less than 100% of par or more than 115% of par, or a bid for the Bonds that specifies split or supplemental interest rates, will not be considered. The County will also not consider and will reject any bid for the purchase of less than all of the Bonds. All bids must be unconditional. By submitting a bid for the Bonds, the bidder agrees, if it is the successful bidder for the Bonds, to (1) provide full and complete pricing information with respect to the Bonds to the County in a timely manner so that the County may fulfill its obligation relating to the delivery of the Official Statement to the purchaser of the Bonds within seven business days following the award, including, without limitation, the offering price(s), interest rate(s), selling compensation, delivery dates and other similar information; (2) comply with the requirements of SEC Rule 15c2-12 (the “Rule”), applicable federal and state securities laws and the applicable rules of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (the “MSRB”) in connection with the offer and sale of the Bonds; (3) furnish to the County before the delivery of the Bonds such information as shall be necessary to enable the County to determine the “issue price” of the Bonds in accordance with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended; and (4) within three business days after the final Official Statement becomes available, cause copies thereof to be filed with the MSRB. Good Faith Deposit. A good faith deposit (the “Deposit”) is required in connection with the sale and bid for the Bonds. The Deposit may be provided in the form of (i) a federal funds wire transfer in the amount of $120,150 to be submitted to the County by the successful bidder not later than 4:00 p.m. (E.D.T.) (the “Deposit Deadline”) on the date of sale or (ii) a financial surety bond (a “Surety Bond”) from an insurance company acceptable to the County and licensed to issue such a bond in the State of Maryland in the amount of $120,150, each option as described in more detail below. The Deposit of
the successful bidder will be retained by the County to be applied in partial payment for the Bonds and no interest will be allowed or paid upon the amount thereof, but in the event the successful bidder shall fail to comply with the terms of its bid, the proceeds thereof will be retained as and for full liquidated damages. If a federal funds wire transfer is used, the County shall distribute wiring instructions for the Deposit to the successful bidder upon verification of the bids submitted by the bidders and prior to the Deposit Deadline. If the Deposit is not received by the Deposit Deadline, the award of the sale of the Bonds to the successful bidder may be cancelled by the County in its discretion without any financial liability of the County to the successful bidder or any limitations whatsoever on the County’s right to sell the Bonds to a different purchaser upon such terms and conditions as the County shall deem appropriate. If a Surety Bond is used, it must be submitted to the County prior to 5:00 p.m. local time on the day prior to the date for receipt of bids, and must be in form and substance acceptable to the County, including (without limitation) identifying the bidder whose Deposit is guaranteed by such Surety Bond. If the Bonds are awarded to a bidder utilizing a Surety Bond, then such successful bidder is required to submit its Deposit to the County not later than 12:00 p.m. local time on the next business day following the award in accordance with wire instructions delivered by the County to such bidder. If such Deposit is not received by that time, the Surety Bond may be drawn by the County to satisfy the Deposit requirement. Award of Bonds. The County will not consider and will reject any bid for the purchase of less than all of the Bonds. THE RIGHT IS RESERVED TO REJECT ANY AND ALL BIDS AND TO WAIVE ANY IRREGULARITY OR NON-CONFORMITY IN ANY BID. Bids will be opened promptly after 10:30 a.m. (E.D.T.) (as determined in accordance with the time as maintained on PARITY) on June 16, 2015. The award, if made, will be made as promptly as possible after the bids are opened to the bidder offering the lowest interest rate to the County. The lowest interest rate shall be determined in accordance with the true interest cost (“TIC”) method by doubling the semiannual interest rate (compounded semiannually) necessary to discount the debt service payments from the payment dates to the date of the Bonds and to the price bid, excluding interest accrued to the date of delivery. If two or more bidders have made bids, each of which represents the lowest true interest cost to the County, then the Bonds shall be awarded to the bidder offering the highest premium and, if the highest premium is offered by two or more such bidders or if no premium is bid by any such bidders, then the Bonds may be awarded, with their consent, in a ratable portion among such bidders, or the County, in its discretion, may award all of the Bonds to one bidder.
The judgment of the County shall be final and binding upon all bidders with respect to the form and adequacy of any bid received and as to its conformity to the terms of this Notice of Sale. THE SUCCESSFUL BIDDER SHALL MAKE A BONA FIDE PUBLIC OFFERING OF THE BONDS AT THE INITIAL REOFFERING PRICES AND SHALL PROVIDE THE RELATED CERTIFICATION DESCRIBED UNDER “DELIVERY OF BONDS” BELOW. Change of Date or Time of Sale; Change in Bidding Constraints. The County reserves the right to change, from time to time, the date or time established for the receipt of the bids. Any such change will be announced by TM3 News Service by notice given at or before the time for submission of the bids. If any date fixed for the receipt of bids and the sale of the Bonds is postponed, any alternative sale date will be announced via TM3 News Service at least 48 hours prior to such alternative sale date. In addition, the County reserves the right, on the date established for the receipt of bids, to reject all bids and establish a subsequent alternative sale date. On any such alternative sale date, any bidder may submit a sealed bid or electronic bid via PARITY for the purchase of the Bonds in conformity in all respects with the provisions of this Notice of Sale except for the date of sale and except for the changes announced by TM3 News Service at the time the sale date and time are announced. CUSIP Numbers. It is anticipated that CUSIP identification numbers will be printed on the Bonds, but neither the failure to print such number on any Bond nor any error with respect thereto shall constitute cause for a failure or refusal by the successful bidder to accept delivery of and pay for the Bonds in accordance with the terms of this Notice of Sale. Legal Opinion. The issuance of the Bonds will be subject to delivery of the approving opinion of Miles & Stockbridge P.C., Baltimore, Maryland, and copies of their opinion shall be substantially in the form set forth as an exhibit to the Preliminary Official Statement referred to below. The opinion will be delivered upon request, without charge, to the successful bidder for the Bonds. Delivery of Bonds. The Bonds will be delivered on June 30, 2015, or as soon as practicable thereafter, at the expense of the County, for the account of the successful bidder, through the facilities of DTC in New York, New York, upon payment of the amount of the successful bid (including any premium), less the deposit theretofore made. Payment for the Bonds shall be made in federal funds. The Bonds will be issued by means of book-entry system with no physical distribution of bond certificates made to the public. The successful bidder for the Bonds, as a condition to delivery of the Bonds, shall be required to deposit the bond certificates with DTC, registered in the name of Cede & Co., its partnership nominee. As a condition to the award of the Bonds, the successful bidder shall be
required to communicate to the County the initial offering prices at which a bona fide offering of the Bonds has been made to the public, which prices are to be shown on the cover of the Official Statement (the “Initial Offering Prices”). Furthermore, as a condition to the delivery of the Bonds, the successful bidder shall be required to furnish to the County a written certificate acceptable to the County’s bond counsel to the effect that the successful bidder has made a bona fide public offering of the Bonds at the Initial Offering Prices and that a substantial portion of each maturity of the bonds has been sold to the public (excluding bond houses, brokers and other intermediaries) at the respective Initial Offering Prices. Such certifications shall be made based on actual facts known to the successful bidder as of the sale date. For purposes of the successful bidder’s certificate, a substantial portion of the Bonds is as least 10% in par amount of each maturity of the Bonds. If the successful bidder cannot deliver the certificate as described above, the County’s bond counsel will be required to evaluate the facts and circumstances of the offering and sale of the Bonds to confirm compliance with statutory requirements of avoiding the establishment of an artificial price for the Bonds. Closing Documents. The Bonds will be accompanied by the customary closing documents, including a no-litigation certificate, effective as of the date of delivery, stating that there is no litigation pending against the County affecting the validity of the Bonds, and a Tax Certificate and Compliance Agreement signed by the Finance Officer of the County. It shall be a condition to the obligation of the successful bidder to accept delivery of and pay for the Bonds that, simultaneously with or before delivery and payment for the Bonds, such successful bidder shall be furnished a certificate or certificates of the President of the Board and the Chief Administrative Officer of the County to the effect that, to the best of their knowledge and belief, the Official Statement (hereinafter defined) (and any amendment or supplement thereto) (except for the any information furnished by the successful bidder, as to which no view will be expressed) as of the date of sale and as of the date of delivery of the Bonds does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact and does not omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading and that between the date of sale and the date of delivery of the Bonds there has been no material adverse change in the financial position or revenues of the County, except as reflected or contemplated in the Official Statement (and any amendment or supplement thereto). Preliminary Official Statement. The Preliminary Official Statement of the County concerning the Bonds (the “Preliminary Official Statement”) is in a form “deemed final” by the County for purposes of SEC Rule 15c2-12(b)(1) (the “Rule”) but is sub-
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PUBLIC NOTICES ject to revision, amendment and completion in the final Official Statement. Official Statement. As soon as practicable after the award of the Bonds to the successful bidder therefor on the day of sale, the County will authorize the final Official Statement for the Bonds (the “Official Statement”). By submitting its bid for the Bonds, the successful bidder agrees to provide the County with pricing information and such other information as the County may require in order that the County may provide the successful bidder with a final Official Statement in compliance with the Rule. Whether or not any such information is included in the Official Statement (and any amendment of supplement thereto), such successful bidder shall be responsible to the County and its officials in all respects for the accuracy, fairness and completeness of such information, and for all decisions made with respect to the use or omission of such information in any re-offering of the Bonds, including the presentation or exclusion of any such information in any documents, including the Official Statement. Within seven (7) business days after the award of the Bonds to the successful bidder, the County will deliver to the successful bidder an Official Statement, which is expected to be substantially in the form of the Preliminary Official Statement. The successful bidder will also be furnished, without cost, with up to 100 copies of the Official Statement and any amendments or supplements thereto. The successful bidder may obtain additional copies at such successful bidder’s own expense. The County will undertake to provide the successful bidder with further additional information to be included in the Official Statement, when in the opinion of the County or of Bond Counsel, such additional information constitutes a material change to the Official Statement. The County will take such steps as are necessary to arrange for amending and supplementing the Official Statement in connection with the disclosure of such additional information; provided, however, that the County shall have no obligation to provide such additional information after the date which is 25 days after the “end of the underwriting period”, as such term is defined in the Rule. Continuing Disclosure Agreement. In order to assist bidders in complying with the SEC Rule 15c212(b)(5), the County will execute and deliver a continuing disclosure agreement on or before the date of issuance of the Bonds pursuant to which the County will undertake to provide certain information annually and notices of certain events. A description of this agreement is set forth in the Preliminary Official Statement and will also be set forth in the Official Statement. Additional Information. The Preliminary Official Statement of County Commissioners of Worcester County, Maryland, concerning the Bonds, and copies of this Notice of Sale may be obtained from Mr. Phillip G. Thompson, Finance Offi-
cer, Worcester County Government Building, Room 1103, Snow Hill, Maryland, 21863, or from the County’s Financial Advisor, Davenport & Company LLC, 8600 LaSalle Road, Suite 324, Towson, Baltimore, Maryland, 21286 (410-296-9426). COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND By: Madison J. Bunting, Jr. President of the Board of County Commissioners OCD-6/4/2t _________________________________
NOTICE OF SALE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND $27,000,000* CONSOLIDATED PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT REFUNDING BONDS 2015 SERIES B Electronic bids via PARITY will be received for the above-captioned issue of general obligation bonds (the “Bonds”) of the County Commissioners of Worcester County, Maryland (the “County”) by the Finance Officer of Worcester County at the offices of the Finance Officer, Worcester County Government Building, Room 1103, One West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland, 21863, until 10:00 a.m. (E.D.T.) on Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Dated Date and Interest Payment Dates. The Bonds will be dated as of the date of delivery of the Bonds. Interest on the Bonds will be payable on February 1, 2016 and semiannually thereafter on August 1 and February 1 until maturity. Principal Amounts and Principal Payment Dates. The Bonds will be issued in serial form, as described below. The Bonds will be issued in the aggregate principal amount of $27,000,000* and will mature on August 1 in the following years and in the following amounts, subject to adjustment as herein provided: Year of Maturity* 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
Principal Amount* $145,000 155,000 2,105,000 4,820,000 5,130,000 5,345,000 5,575,000 3,255,000 205,000 215,000 50,000
General Obligations. The Bonds will be the unconditional general obligation of the County and will be issued upon its full faith and credit, which will be irrevocably pledged to the prompt payment of the principal of and interest on all of the Bonds as the same become due. Book Entry Form; Payment. The Bonds will be issued in book-entry form by issuing a single bond for each maturity registered in the name of Cede & Co. as nominee for The Depository Trust Company or
its successor (“DTC”) and immobilized in its custody under DTC’s “FAST” system (provided that if DTC so requests or if DTC is replaced as the depository for the Bonds, replacement bonds will be issued in the denominations of $5,000 or any integral multiples thereof). Principal of the Bonds will be payable at maturity to DTC or its nominee as registered owner of the Bonds. Transfer of principal and interest payments to participants of DTC will be the responsibility of DTC, and transfer of principal and interest payments to beneficial owners of the Bonds by participants of DTC will be the responsibility of such participants and other nominees of beneficial owners. The County will not be responsible or liable for such transfers of payments or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing the records maintained by DTC, its participants or persons acting through such participants. The principal of the Bonds will be payable at the designated corporate trust office of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company (the “Bond Registrar”), initially in Buffalo, New York, upon presentation and surrender of the Bonds. Payment of interest on the Bonds, at the rates specified by the successful bidder in its bid via PARITY, shall be made by the Bond Registrar on each interest payment date to the person appearing on the registration books of the County maintained by the Bond Registrar as the registered owner thereof, by check of draft mailed to each such registered owner at his, her or its address as it appears on such registration books on the record date for the Bonds, which shall be the fifteenth day of the month next preceding each interest payment date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, while the Bonds are registered under DTC’s book-entry only system, payment of the principal of and interest on the Bonds shall be made by the Bond Registrar to DTC or its nominee in accordance with the procedures of DTC. Authorization and Use of Proceeds. The Bonds are being issued pursuant to the authority of Sections 11-401, 19-207 and 19-501 to 19-510, inclusive, of the Local Government Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland, Sections 9-601 to 9-699, inclusive, of the Environment Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland, and Section PW5-201 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Worcester County, Maryland and pursuant to a resolution adopted by the Board of County Commissioners of Worcester County, Maryland (the “Board”) on June 2, 2015 (the “Resolution”). The proceeds of the sale of the Bonds are being used (1) to refund all or a portion of the County’s Consolidated Public Improvement Project and Refunding Bonds, 2007 Series, the County’s Consolidated Public Improvement Bonds, 2008 Series, and a Promissory Note dated March 11, 2010 from the County to Taylor Bank, and (2) to pay costs of issuance of the Bonds. No Optional Redemption. The Bonds are not subject to redemption prior to their stated maturities. Adjustments. The aggregate prin-
cipal amount of the Bonds and the principal amount of each maturity are subject to adjustment by the County, both before and after the receipt of bids for their purchase. Changes to be made prior to the sale will be through TM3 News Service not later than 9:30 a.m. (E.D.T.) on the date of sale (or as soon thereafter as is reasonably practical) and will be used to compare bids and select a winning bidder. Changes to be made after the sale and the maturity amounts for the Bonds will be communicated to the successful bidder by 5:00 p.m. (E.D.T.) on the date of the sale, will be made only as necessary to effect the refunding, and will not reduce or increase the aggregate principal amount of the Bonds by more than 15% from the amount bid upon. In addition, the final maturity schedule for the Bonds will be communicated to the successful bidder by 5:00 p.m. (E.D.T.) on the date of the sale. The dollar amount bid for principal and any amount bid for premium by the successful bidder will be adjusted proportionately to reflect any reduction or increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Bonds, but the interest rates specified by the successful bidder for all maturities will not change. The successful bidder may not withdraw its bid as a result of any changes made within these limits. TERMS OF SALE Electronic Bids. Electronic bids will be received via PARITY pursuant to this Notice of Sale until 10:00 a.m. (E.D.T.), but no bid will be received after the time for receiving bids specified above. To the extent any instructions or directions set forth in PARITY conflict with this Notice of Sale, the terms of this Notice of Sale shall control. For further information about PARITY, potential bidders may contact PARITY (212) 849-5021. Bidders may only submit bids electronically via PARITY. Each prospective bidder shall be solely responsible to submit its bids via PARITY as described above. Each prospective bidder shall be solely responsible to make necessary arrangements to access PARITY for the purpose of submitting its bid in a timely manner and in compliance with the requirements of this Notice of Sale. Neither the County nor PARITY shall have any duty or obligation to provide or assure access to PARITY to any prospective bidder, and neither the County nor PARITY shall be responsible for proper operation of, or have any liability for delays or interruptions of, or any damages caused by, PARITY. The County is using PARITY as a communication mechanism, and not as the County’s agent, to conduct the electronic bidding for the Bonds. The County is not bound by any advice and determination of PARITY to the effect that any particular bid complies with the terms of this Notice of Sale and in particular the bid parameters set forth herein. All costs and expenses incurred by prospective bidders in connection with their submissions of bids via PARITY are the sole responsibility of the bidders;
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PUBLIC NOTICES and the County is not responsible, directly or indirectly, for any of such costs or expenses. If a prospective bidder encounters any difficulty in submitting, modifying or withdrawing a bid of the Bonds, it should telephone PARITY (212) 849-5021 and notify the County’s Financial Advisor, Davenport & Company LLC by facsimile at (410) 296-8517 and by telephone at (410) 296-9426. Electronic bids must be submitted for the purchase of the Bonds (all or none) via PARITY. Bids will be communicated electronically to the County at 10:00 a.m. (E.D.T.), on June 16, 2015. Prior to that time, a prospective bidder may (1) submit the proposed terms of its bid via PARITY, (2) modify the proposed terms of its bid, in which event the proposed terms as last modified will (unless the bid is withdrawn as described herein) constitute its bid for the Bonds, or (3) withdraw its proposed bid. Once the bids are communicated electronically via PARITY to the County, each bid will constitute an irrevocable offer to purchase the Bonds on the terms therein provided. For purposes of the electronic bidding process, the time as maintained on PARITY shall constitute the official time. Bidding Constraints. Each bidder shall submit one bid via PARITY at a price of not less than par, based on the aggregate principal amount of the Bonds, on an “all-or-none” basis. Each bid must specify the rate or rates of interest to be paid on the Bonds, in multiples of one-eighth or one-twentieth of one percent (1/8 or 1/20 of 1%). Bidders may specify more than one rate of interest to be borne by the Bonds; but all Bonds maturing on the same date must bear interest at the same rate. The maximum interest rate specified may not exceed 4.00% and the difference between the minimum and maximum interest rates may not exceed 3.00%. Bidders are requested to specify the true interest cost (computed in accordance with the terms of this Notice of Sale) in their bid for the Bonds. A bid for the purchase of the Bonds at a price of less than 100% of par or more than 115% of par, or a bid for the Bonds that specifies split or supplemental interest rates, will not be considered. The County will also not consider and will reject any bid for the purchase of less than all of the Bonds. All bids must be unconditional. By submitting a bid for the Bonds, the bidder agrees, if it is the successful bidder for the Bonds, to (1) provide full and complete pricing information with respect to the Bonds to the County in a timely manner so that the County may fulfill its obligation relating to the delivery of the Official Statement to the purchaser of the Bonds within seven business days following the award, including, without limitation, the offering price(s), interest rate(s), selling compensation, delivery dates and other similar information; (2) comply with the requirements of SEC Rule 15c2-12 (the “Rule”), applicable federal and state securities laws and the applicable rules of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (the “MSRB”) in connection with the offer and sale of
the Bonds; (3) furnish to the County before the delivery of the Bonds such information as shall be necessary to enable the County to determine the “issue price” of the Bonds in accordance with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended; and (4) within three business days after the final Official Statement becomes available, cause copies thereof to be filed with the MSRB. Good Faith Deposit. A good faith deposit (the “Deposit”) is required in connection with the sale and bid for the Bonds. The Deposit may be provided in the form of (i) a federal funds wire transfer in the amount of $270,000 to be submitted to the County by the successful bidder not later than 4:00 p.m. (E.D.T.) (the “Deposit Deadline”) on the date of sale or (ii) a financial surety bond (a “Surety Bond”) from an insurance company acceptable to the County and licensed to issue such a bond in the State of Maryland in the amount of $270,000, each option as described in more detail below. The Deposit of the successful bidder will be retained by the County to be applied in partial payment for the bonds and no interest will be allowed or paid upon the amount thereof, but in the event the successful bidder shall fail to comply with the terms of its bid, the proceeds thereof will be retained as and for full liquidated damages. If a federal funds wire transfer is used, the County shall distribute wiring instructions for the Deposit to the successful bidder upon verification of the bids submitted by the bidders and prior to the Deposit Deadline. If the Deposit is not received by the Deposit Deadline, the award of the sale of the Bonds to the successful bidder may be cancelled by the County in its discretion without any financial liability of the County to the successful bidder or any limitations whatsoever on the County’s right to sell the Bonds to a different purchaser upon such terms and conditions as the County shall deem appropriate. If a Surety Bond is used, it must be submitted to the County prior to 5:00 p.m. local time on the day prior to the date for receipt of bids, and must be in form and substance acceptable to the County, including (without limitation) identifying the bidder whose Deposit is guaranteed by such Surety Bond. If the Bonds are awarded to a bidder utilizing a Surety Bond, then such successful bidder is required to submit its Deposit to the County not later than 12:00 p.m. local time on the next business day following the award in accordance with wire instructions delivered by the County to such bidder. If such Deposit is not received by that time, the Surety Bond may be drawn by the County to satisfy the Deposit requirement. Award of Bonds. The County will not consider and will reject any bid for the purchase of less than all of the Bonds. THE RIGHT IS RESERVED TO REJECT ANY AND ALL BIDS AND TO WAIVE ANY IRREGULARITY OR NON-CONFORMITY IN ANY BID. Bids will be opened promptly after 10:00 a.m. (E.D.T.) (as determined in accordance with the time as maintained
on PARITY) on June 16, 2015. The award, if made, will be made as promptly as possible after the bids are opened to the bidder offering the lowest interest rate to the County. The lowest interest rate shall be determined in accordance with the true interest cost (“TIC”) method by doubling the semiannual interest rate (compounded semiannually) necessary to discount the debt service payments from the payment dates to the date of the Bonds and to the price bid, excluding interest accrued to the date of delivery. If two or more bidders have made bids, each of which represents the lowest true interest cost to the County, then the Bonds shall be awarded to the bidder offering the highest premium and, if the highest premium is offered by two or more such bidders or if no premium is bid by any such bidders, then the Bonds may be awarded, with their consent, in a ratable portion among such bidders, or the County, in its discretion, may award all of the Bonds to one bidder. The judgment of the County shall be final and binding upon all bidders with respect to the form and adequacy of any bid received and as to its conformity to the terms of this Notice of Sale. THE SUCCESSFUL BIDDER SHALL MAKE A BONA FIDE PUBLIC OFFERING OF THE BONDS AT THE INITIAL REOFFERING PRICES AND SHALL PROVIDE THE RELATED CERTIFICATION DESCRIBED UNDER “DELIVERY OF BONDS” BELOW. Postponement of Sale; Change in Bidding Constraints. The County reserves the right to postpone, from time to time, the date established for the receipt of the bids. Any such postponement will be announced by TM3 News Service by notice given not later than 4:00 p.m. (E.D.T.) on the last business day prior to any announced date for receipt of bids. If any date fixed for the receipt of bids and the sale of the Bonds is postponed, any alternative sale date will be announced via TM3 News Service at least 48 hours prior to such alternative sale date. In addition, the County reserves the right, on the date established for the receipt of bids, to reject all bids and establish a subsequent alternative sale date. On any such alternative sale date, any bidder may submit a sealed bid or electronic bid via PARITY for the purchase of the Bonds in conformity in all respects with the provisions of this Notice of Sale except for the date of sale and except for the changes announced by TM3 News Service at the time the sale date and time are announced. CUSIP Numbers. It is anticipated that the CUSIP identification numbers will be printed on the Bonds, but neither the failure to print such number on any Bond nor any error with respect thereto shall constitute cause for a failure or refusal by the successful bidder to accept delivery of and pay for the Bonds in accordance with the terms of this Notice of Sale. Legal Opinion. The issuance of the Bonds will be subject to delivery of the approving opinion of Miles & Stockbridge P.C., Baltimore, Maryland, and copies of their opinion
shall be substantially in the form set forth as an exhibit to the Preliminary Official Statement referred to below. The opinion will be delivered upon request, without charge, to the successful bidder for the Bonds. Delivery of Bonds. The Bonds will be delivered on June 30, 2015, or as soon as practicable thereafter, at the expense of the County, for the account of the successful bidder, through the facilities of DTC in New York, New York, upon payment of the amount of the successful bid (including any premium), less the deposit theretofore made. Payment for the Bonds shall be made in federal funds. The Bonds will be issued by means of book-entry system with no physical distribution of bond certificates made to the public. The successful bidder for the Bonds, as a condition to delivery of the Bonds, shall be required to deposit the bond certificates with DTC, registered in the name of Cede & Co., its partnership nominee. As a condition to the award of the Bonds, the successful bidder shall be required to communicate to the County the initial offering prices at which a bona fide offering of the Bonds has been made to the public, which prices are to be shown on the cover of the Official Statement (the “Initial Offering Prices”). Furthermore, as a condition to the delivery of the Bonds, the successful bidder shall be required to furnish to the County a written certificate acceptable to the County’s bond counsel to the effect that the successful bidder has made a bona fide public offering of the Bonds at the Initial Offering Prices and that a substantial portion of each maturity of the bonds has been sold to the public (excluding bond houses, brokers and other intermediaries) at the respective Initial Offering Prices. Such certifications shall be made based on actual facts known to the successful bidder as of the sale date. For purposes of the successful bidder’s certificate, a substantial portion of the Bonds is as least 10% in par amount of each maturity of the Bonds. If the successful bidder cannot deliver the certificate as described above, the County’s bond counsel will be required to evaluate the facts and circumstances of the offering and sale of the Bonds to confirm compliance with statutory requirements of avoiding the establishment of an artificial price for the Bonds. Closing Documents. The Bonds will be accompanied by the customary closing documents, including a no-litigation certificate, effective as of the date of delivery, stating that there is no litigation pending against the County affecting the validity of the Bonds and a Tax Certificate and Compliance Agreement signed by the Finance Officer of the County. It shall be a condition to the obligation of the successful bidder to accept delivery of and pay for the Bonds that, simultaneously with or before delivery and payment for the Bonds, such successful bidder shall be furnished a certificate or certificates of the President of the Board and the Chief Administrative Officer of the County to the effect that, to the best of their knowledge and belief, the Official
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PUBLIC NOTICES Statement (hereinafter defined) (and any amendment or supplement thereto) (except for the any information furnished by the successful bidder, as to which no view will be expressed) as of the date of sale and as of the date of delivery of the Bonds does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact and does not omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading and that between the date of sale and the date of delivery of the Bonds there has been no material adverse change in the financial position or revenues of the County, except as reflected or contemplated in the Official Statement (and any amendment or supplement thereto). Preliminary Official Statement. The Preliminary Official Statement of the County concerning the Bonds (the “Preliminary Official Statement”) is in a form “deemed final” by the County for purposes of SEC Rule 15c2-12(b)(1) (the “Rule”) but is subject to revision, amendment and completion in the final Official Statement. Official Statement. As soon as practicable after the award of the Bonds to the successful bidder therefor on the day of sale, the County will authorize the final Official Statement for the Bonds (the “Official Statement”). By submitting its bid for the Bonds, the successful bidder agrees to provide the County with pricing information and such other information as the County may require in order that the County may provide the successful bidder with a final Official Statement in compliance with the Rule. Whether or not any such information is included in the Official Statement (and any amendment of supplement thereto), such successful bidder shall be responsible to the County and its officials in all respects for the accuracy, fairness and completeness of such information, and for all decisions made with respect to the use or omission of such information in any re-offering of the Bonds, including the presentation or exclusion of any such information in any documents, including the Official Statement. Within seven (7) business days after the award of the Bonds to the successful bidder, the County will deliver to the successful bidder an Official Statement, which is expected to be substantially in the form of the Preliminary Official Statement. The successful bidder will also be furnished, without cost, with up to 200 copies of the Official Statement and any amendments or supplements thereto. The successful bidder may obtain additional copies at such successful bidder’s own expense. The County will undertake to provide the successful bidder with further additional information to be included in the Official Statement, when in the opinion of the County or of Bond Counsel, such additional information constitutes a material change to the Official Statement. The County will take such steps as are necessary to arrange for amending and supplementing the Official
Statement in connection with the disclosure of such additional information; provided, however, that the County shall have no obligation to provide such additional information after the date which is twenty-five (25) days after the “end of the underwriting period”, as such term is defined in the Rule. Continuing Disclosure Agreement. In order to assist bidders in complying with the SEC Rule 15c212(b)(5), the County will execute and deliver a continuing disclosure agreement on or before the date of issuance of the bonds pursuant to which the County will undertake to provide certain information annually and notices of certain events. A description of this agreement is set forth in the Preliminary Official Statement and will also be set forth in the Official Statement. Additional Information. The Preliminary Official Statement of County Commissioners of Worcester County, Maryland, concerning the Bonds, and copies of this Notice of Sale may be obtained from Mr. Harold L. Higgins, Finance Officer, Worcester County Government Building, Room 1103, Snow Hill, Maryland, 21863, or from the County’s Financial Advisor, Davenport & Company LLC, 8600 LaSalle Road, Suite 324, Towson, Baltimore, Maryland, 21286 (410-296-9426). COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND By: Madison J. Bunting, Jr. President of the Board of County Commissioners * Preliminary, subject to change as provided herein. OCD-6/4/2t _________________________________
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE ESTATE NO. 16086 NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Register of Wills court of York County, PA. appointed Douglas C. Sommers, 940 Delray Dr., Forest Hill, Md 21050 as the Executor of the Estate of Dorothy M. Adams who died on April 13, 2010 domiciled in Pennsylvania, USA. At the time of death, the decedent owned real or leasehold property in the following Maryland counties: Worcester County. 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.
Douglas C. Sommers Foreign Personal Representative Charlotte K. Cathell Register of Wills One W. Market Street Room 102 - Court House Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of newspaper designated by personal representative: Ocean City Digest Date of first publication: June 04, 2015 OCD-6/4/3t _________________________________
NOTICE OF INTRODUCTION OF EMERGENCY BILL 15-8 WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Take Notice that Emergency Bill 15-8 (Building Regulations - Floodplain Management) was introduced by Commissioners Bertino, Bunting, Church and Purnell on May 19, 2015. A fair summary of the bill is as follows: Title BR2 - Construction Regulations, Subtitle III - Floodplain Management. (Repeals and reenacts the Worcester County Floodplain Management Law in its entirety to conform to current federal regulations in order to continue participation in the National Flood Insurance Program.) § BR 2-301. General Provisions. (Establishes Findings; Statutory authorization; Statement of purpose; Areas to which these regulations apply; Basis for establishing special flood hazard areas and base flood elevations; Abrogation and greater restrictions; Interpretation; Warning and disclaimer of liability; Severability; and Short title of Worcester County Floodplain Management Law.) § BR 2-302. Definitions. (Establishes the interpretation of certain terms and words used in the Subtitle; and establishes definitions of the words and phrases which appear in the Subtitle.) § BR 2-303. Administration. (Establishes the Designation of the Floodplain Administrator; Duties and responsibilities of the Floodplain Administrator; Use and interpretation of Flood Insurance Rate Maps; Permits required and expiration of said permits; Application required for permits, including application contents and opportunity for new technical data; Review of application; Inspections; and Submissions required prior to final inspection.) § BR 2-304. Requirements in all flood hazard areas. (Provides that these requirements apply to all development in special flood hazard areas; establishes requirements for: subdivision proposals and development proposals; protection of water supply and sanitary sewage systems; buildings and structures; placement of fill; historic structures; manufactured homes; recreational vehicles; critical and essential facilities; temporary structures and temporary storage; gas or liquid storage tanks; and functionally dependent uses.) § BR 2-305. Requirements in flood hazard areas (A Zones) that are not
coastal high hazard areas (V Zones) or Coastal A Zones. (Establishes additional requirements which apply to all development in flood hazard areas (A Zones) that are not coastal high hazard areas (V Zones) or Coastal A Zones with respect to: flood protection setbacks; development that affects flood-carrying capacity of nontidal waters of the State; residential structures and residential portions of mixed use structures; nonresidential structures and nonresidential portions of mixed use structures; horizontal additions; accessory structures, additions to accessory structures, and attached garages.) § BR 2-306. Requirements in coastal high hazard areas (V Zones) and Coastal A Zones. (Establishes additional requirements which apply to all development in coastal high hazard areas (V Zones) and Coastal A Zones with respect to: location and site preparation; residential and nonresidential structures; horizontal additions to structures; and other structures and development. § BR 2-307. Variances. (Establishes that the Worcester County Commissioners shall have the power to grant variances from the strict application of the requirements of these regulations where such variance is not contrary to the public interest and where literal enforcement would result in an unnecessary hardship; establishes procedures for application for a variance; considerations for variances by the County Commissioners; and establishes limitations for granting variances.) § BR 2-308. Enforcement. (Requires compliance with these regulations; and provides for notice of violation and stop work order by the Floodplain Administrator for violations.) § BR 2-309. Violations and penalties. (Provides that any person who violates any provision of these regulations is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction is subject to a fine of up to $10,000.00 or up to one year in prison, or both for each violation; provides for civil infractions as an alternatives remedy for minor cases with a fine of not more than $2,500.00.) § BR 2-310. Subsequent amendments. (Provides that parts of other ordinances that are inconsistent with the Worcester County Floodplain Management Law are repealed to the extent of such inconsistency; provides that this ordinance shall be amended as required by federal regulations of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and such amendments are subject to approval by FEMA and the Maryland Department of the Environment.) A Public Hearing will be held on Emergency Bill 15-8 at the Commissioners' Meeting Room, Room 1101 - Government Center, One West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland, on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. This is only a fair summary of the bill. A full copy of the bill is posted on the Legislative Bulletin Board in the main hall of the Worcester County Government Center outside Room 1103, is available for public in-
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PUBLIC NOTICES spection in Room 1103 of the Worcester County Government Center and is available on the County Website at http://www.co.worcester.md.us/commissioners/legsltn.aspx . THE WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OCD-5/28/2t _________________________________
NOTICE OF INTRODUCTION OF BILL 15-9 WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Take Notice that Bill 15-9 (Natural Resources - Abolishment of Shoreline Commission) was introduced by Commissioners Bertino, Bunting, Church, Elder, Lockfaw, Mitrecic and Purnell on May 19, 2015. A fair summary of the bill is as follows: § NR 2-102. Construction along shorelines. (Repeals and reenacts this section for the purpose of abolishing the Worcester County Shoreline Commission in recognition that the review and licensing responsibilities have been assumed by the department designated by the County Commissioners for the issuance of permits under this section; adds definitions of “Approval Authority”, “COMAR” and “Mean High Water Line (MHWL)”, amends the definition of “Routine Maintenance and Repair”, and removes the definition of “Shoreline Commission”; removes the subsection referencing creation of the Shoreline Commission; amends the subsection regarding required permits to add provisions for a shoreline construction permit; provides that the public notification and public hearing procedures shall be satisfied by the Maryland Department of the Environment, however additional public notifications and the opportunity for public comment may also be issued by the County; establishes application procedures for minor construction and major construction; establishes considerations by the Department and Approval Authority in reviewing applications; removes the provisions for hearings by the Shoreline Commission; establishes that conditions and stipulations may be required by the Department and Approval Authority in granting permits; provides for appeals of decisions by the Department or Approval Authority to the Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) and of decisions by the BZA to Circuit Court; provides that construction standards shall be recommended by the Department for approval by the County Commissioners and authorizes the Approval Authority to waive or modify the standards under certain circumstances; provides that the Department shall be responsible for inspections of all work done on shorelines; provides that violations are considered a civil infraction; and provides for exemptions of the County shoreline standards in municipalities which have adopted their own ordinance provided that their shoreline construction standards are equal to or better than the County standards.)
A Public Hearing will be held on Bill 15-9 at the Commissioners' Meeting Room, Room 1101 - Government Center, One West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland, on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. This is only a fair summary of the bill. A full copy of the bill is posted on the Legislative Bulletin Board in the main hall of the Worcester County Government Center outside Room 1103, is available for public inspection in Room 1103 of the Worcester County Government Center and is available on the County Website at http://www.co.worcester.md.us/commissioners/legsltn.aspx . THE WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OCD-5/28/2t _________________________________ William T. Smith One Plaza East, Ste. 102 Salisbury, MD 21801 CRAIG BOUNDS 1110 Johnson Road Salisbury, Maryland 21804 Plaintiff v. THOMAS PETER LANDRY 8335 Langmaid Road Newark, Maryland 21841 MARY P. LANDRY 8335 Langmaid Road Newark, Maryland 21841 PNC BANK Consumer Loan Center 2730 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15222 PHILLIP G. THOMPSON, TREASURER OF WORCESTER COUNTY, MD 1 West Market Street, Room 1105 Snow Hill, Md 21863 JOHN E. BLOXOM COUNTY ATTORNEY 1 West Market Street, Room 1103 Snow Hill, Md 21863 And ALL THOSE PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY INTEREST IN CERTAIN REAL ESTATE LOCATED IN FOURTH ELECTION DISTRICT, WORCESTER COUNTY, STATE OF MARYLAND, KNOWN AS 8335 LANGMAID ROAD, NEWARK, MARYLAND 21864 Defendants IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY STATE OF MARYLAND CIVIL NO: 23-C-75-0638
ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this proceeding is to secure the foreclosure of all rights of redemption in the property hereinafter described sold by Phillip G. Thompson, the Collector of Taxes for Worcester County, Maryland, to the Plaintiff in this proceeding: All that lot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the Fourth Election District, Worcester County, Maryland, near the Village of Newark, located on the northerly side of the county road leading from Newark to Masons's Landing (known as Langmaid Road), and being more particularly shown on a survey entitled: "Lands of William H. Johnson and Annie K. Johnson", pre-
pared by John H. Plummer & Associates, Inc., dated May 8, 1996, CONTAINING 1.036 ACRES OF LAND, more or less, as shown on said survey. IT BEING THE SAME LAND described in a Deed from Mary P. O'Brien, n/k/a Mary P. Landry to Mary P. Landry and Thomas Peter Landry, dated August 26, 2004 and recorded in Liber No. 4297, Folio 673, among the Land Records for Worcester County, Maryland. The Complaint states, among other things, that the amounts necessary for redemption of the subject property have not been paid. It is therefore, this 28th day of May, 2015, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, ORDERED, that Notice be given by the insertion of a copy of this Order in some newspaper having general circulation in Worcester County, Maryland, once a week for three successive weeks, warning the above-named Defendants, and all other persons interest in the property to appear in the Court by the 1st day of August, 2015, and redeem the property aforesaid and answer the Complaint, or thereafter a Final Judgment will be entered foreclosing all rights of redemption in the property, and vesting in the Plaintiff a title, free and clear of all encumbrances. Thomas C. Groton JUDGE True Copy Test: Susan R. Braniecki Clerk of th Circuit Court Worcester County, MD OCD-6/11/3t _________________________________ William T. Smith III 1 Plaza East Suite 102 Salisbury, MD 21801 CRAIG BOUNDS 1110 Johnson Road Salisbury, Maryland 21804 Plaintiff V. PERRY K. MASCIANA 209 Teal Circle Ocean Pines, Maryland 21811 MARlA A. MASCIANA 209 Teal Circle Ocean Pines, Maryland 21811 PHILLIP G. THOMPSON, TREASURER OF WORCESTER COUNTY, MD 1 West Market Street, Room 1105 Snow Hill, Md 21863 JOHN E. BLOXOM COUNTY ATTORNEY 1 West Market Street, Room 1103 Snow Hill, Md 21863 And ALL THOSE PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY INTEREST IN CERTAIN REAL ESTATE LOCATED IN EIGHTH ELECTION DISTRICT, WORCESTER COUNTY, STATE OF MARYLAND, KNOWN AS TRADER BUILDING, SNOW HILL ROAD STOCKTON, MARYLAND 21864 Defendants IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY STATE OF MARYLAND CIVIL NO. 23-C-15-0637
ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this proceeding is to secure the foreclosure of all rights of redemption in the property hereinafter described sold by Phillip G. Thompson, the Collector of Taxes for Worcester County, Maryland, to the Plaintiff in this proceeding: All that lot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the Eighth Election District, Worcester County, Maryland, in the Town of Stockton, and on the comer formed by the intersection of the road leading from Stockton to Georges Island Landing with the road leading from Stockton toward Girdletree and bounded as follows: On the south by the road leading from Stockton to Georges Island Landing, on the west by the road leading from Stockton to Girdletree, on the north by what was the Houston lands and on the east by the lands formerly owned by John H. Burbage. IT BEING PART OF THE SAME LAND described in a Deed from DW Hancock Family Limited Partnership to Perry K. Masciana and Maria A. Masciana, dated July 18, 2003 and recorded in Liber No. 3793, Folio 549, among the Land Records for Worcester County, Maryland. The Complaint states, among other things, that the amounts necessary for redemption of the subject property have not been paid. It is therefore, this 28th day of May, 2015, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, ORDERED, that Notice be given by the insertion of a copy of this Order in some newspaper having general circulation in Worcester County, Maryland, once a week for three successive weeks, warning the above-named Defendants, and all other persons interest in the property to appear in the Court by the 1st day of August, 2015, and redeem the property aforesaid and answer the Complaint, or thereafter a Final Judgment will be entered foreclosing all rights of redemption in the property, and vesting in the Plaintiff a title, free and clear of all encumbrances. Thomas C. Groton JUDGE True Copy Test: Susan R. Braniecki Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County MD OCD-6/11/3t _________________________________ BWW Law Group, LLC 6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 961-6555 Carrie M. Ward, et al. 6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 Substitute Trustees Plaintiffs vs. BARBARA J. JOHNSTONE 9 Seafarer Lane Ocean Pines Berlin, MD 21811 Defendant(s) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND Case No. 23C14000689
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PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE Notice is hereby given this 4th day of June, 2015, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, that the sale of the property mentioned in these proceedings and described as 9 Seafarer Lane, Ocean Pines, Berlin, MD 21811 , made and reported by the Substitute Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 6th day of July, 2015, provided a copy of this NOTICE be insetted in some weekly newspaper printed in said County, once in each of three successive weeks before the 29th day of June, 2015. The report states the purchase price at the Foreclosure sale to be $220,106.69. Susan R. Braniecki Clerk, Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland True Copy Test: Susan R. Braniecki Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, MD OCD-6/11/3t _________________________________ COATES, COATES & COATES, PA. 6200 COASTAL HWY., SUITE 300 OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND 21842 204 WEST GREEN STREET P.O. BOX 2N3 SNOW HILL, MARYLAND 21863 RAYMOND D. COATES, JR. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE Plaintiff vs. OPLAND, LLC Defendant and KATHLEEN M. SCHARDT Defendant IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND Case No. 23-C-15-000545
NOTICE Notice is hereby given, this 4th day of June, 2015, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, that the sale of the property described in these proceedings and described as Lot 58, Record Plat The Sanctuary located at Center Drive and Stacked Stone Lane in West Ocean City in the Tenth Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland, made and reported by Raymond D. Coates, Jr. Substitute Trustee, will be ratified and confirmed unless cause to the contrary be shown on or before the 6th day of July, 2015, provided, that a copy of this Notice be inserted in some newspaper printed and published in Worcester County, Maryland, one in each of three successive weeks before the 29th day of June, 2015. The Report of Sale states that property located at Center Lane and Stacked Stone Lane in West Ocean City in the Tenth Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland was sold for $2,500.00 to Kathleen M. Clark. Susan R. Braniecki Clerk of Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland True Copy Test : Susan R. Braniecki Clerk of the Circuit Court
Worcester County MD OCD-6/11/3t _________________________________ IN THE ORPHANS’ COURT FOR (OR) BEFORE THE REGISTER OF WILLS FOR WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND IN THE ESTATE OF: DAVID STEIN ESTATE NO. 14285
NOTICE OF JUDICIAL PROBATE To all Persons Interested in the above estate: You are hereby notified that a petition has been filed by Wilma Carroll, 201 E. 87th Street, Apt. 10A, New York, NY 10128-3213 for judicial probate for the appointment of a personal representative. A hearing will be held at Worcester County Court House, Court Room 4, One West Market Street, Snow Hill, MD 21863 on 06/23/2015 at 10:00 a.m. 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. Charlotte K. Cathell Register of Wills One W. Market Street Room 102 - Court House Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Phone: (410) 632-1529 Newspaper designated by personal representative: Ocean City Digest Publication Date: 06/11/2015 OCD-6/11/2t _________________________________
TOWN OF OCEAN CITY
ORDINANCE 2015-11 Notice is hereby given by the Mayor and City Council of Ocean City, that an ordinance was introduced for first reading at their meeting of June 1, 2015. Second reading is scheduled for June 15, 2015. A complete text of the ordinance is available for review in the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall 3rd Street and Baltimore Avenue, Ocean City, MD 21842. A fair summary is as follows: Defines the following terms: Boardwalk, Designated Space(s), Director, Expressive Material, Generator(s), Merchant(s), Perform, Performing, Performance(s), Performer, Street End(s), the Town, the Director, Vend or Vending and Vendor; Declares the Findings and Purpose for enacting legislation to address the Boardwalk’s size, location and limitations during peak tourist season resulting in competing interests for space and unregulated performances on the Boardwalk; Establishes rules and regulations governing performers and vendors; Establishes a prohibition to perform and vend on the Street Ends at North Division Street and Dorch-
ester Street; Establishes the need for, and the method of allocation for, designated performance/vending areas from South First Street to Ninth Street or, at any one of the Street Ends between, and including, Tenth Street and 27th Street; Establishes the prohibition to the use of and/or obstructing access to, Town property for performing or vending, and, prohibits the use of any municipal electric outlet, animals and hazardous materials including fire, knives, swords and axes; and, Establishes a fine for violations. OCD-6/11/1t _________________________________
fifty feet from the north side of 63rd Street and being the North East corner of lands herein described: 1) Thence south thirteen degrees twelve minutes twelve seconds west a distance of fifty feet. 2) Thence north seventy six degrees forty seven minutes forty eight seconds west a distance of ten feet. 3) Thence north thirteen degrees twelve minutes twelve seconds east a distance of fifty feet. 4) Thence south seventy six degrees forty seven minutes forty eight seconds east a distance of ten feet to the place of beginning, containing 500 square feet / 0.011 acres. OCD-6/11/1t _________________________________
NOTICE
Town of Ocean City
OF PUBLIC HEARING JULY 6, 2015 AT 6:00 P.M. TOWN OF OCEAN CITY RE: PUBLIC PROPERTY - ALLEY CLOSURES AND CONVEYANCE A Public Hearing is scheduled on Monday, July 6, 2015, at 6:00 p.m., at the Regular Meeting of the Mayor and City Council, in the Council Chambers of City Hall located at 301 Baltimore Avenue, Ocean City, Maryland 21842. The purpose of this public hearing is to consider the closure and conveyance of the remaining portions of two alleys located on the bayside between 63rd and 64th Streets as requested by OC Land Holdings LLC. The hearing will allow public input for Mayor and Council consideration as to whether or not it is in the public’s interest to close both alleys as legally described below. Additional information can be obtained from the City Clerk’s office by calling 410-289-8842. All those tracts or parcels of land situated and being in the Tenth Election District of Worcester County and the State of Maryland and being more particularly described as follows: Alley “A” Beginning at the point that is South thirteen degrees twelve minutes twelve seconds West a distance of one hundred twenty feet from the south side of 64th Street and being the North East corner of lands herein described: 1) Thence south thirteen degrees twelve minutes twelve seconds west a distance of ten feet. 2) Thence north seventy six degrees forty seven minutes forty eight seconds west a distance of two hundred feet. 3) Thence north thirteen degrees twelve minutes twelve seconds east a distance of ten feet. 4) Thence south seventy six degrees forty seven minutes forty eight seconds east a distance of two hundred feet to the place of beginning, containing 2,000 square feet/ 0.05 acres. Alley “B” Beginning at a point that is North thirteen degrees twelve minutes twelve seconds East a distance of
BID SOLICITATION Automated Side Load Refuse Truck The Town of Ocean City is seeking bids from qualified and experienced vendors to provide one (1) Automated Side Load Refuse Truck in conformity with the specifications detailed in the Bid Documents. Bid Documents for the Automated Side Load Refuse Truck may be obtained from the Town of Ocean City’s Procurement Department by either e-mailing the Procurement Manager, Catrice Parsons, at or by calling 410723-6647 during normal business hours, or via the Bid tab on the Town’s . Vendors are responsible for checking this website for addenda prior to submitting their bids. The Town of Ocean City is not responsible for the content of any Bid Document received through any third party bid service. It is the sole responsibility of the vendor to ensure the completeness and accuracy of their Completed Bid Documents. Sealed Bid Documents are due no later than Monday, July 13, 2015 by 4:30 p.m. and will be opened and read aloud at the Mayor and City Council Work Session held on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Bids are to be submitted to the Town of Ocean City, Attn: City Manager, 301 N. Baltimore Avenue Room 230, Ocean City, MD 21842. Late Bid Document will not be accepted. Minority vendors are encouraged to compete for award of the solicitation. OCD-6/11/1t _________________________________
Town of Ocean City
BID SOLICITATION Front Load Refuse Truck The Town of Ocean City is seeking bids from qualified and experienced vendors to provide one (1) Front Load Refuse Truck in conformity
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PUBLIC NOTICES with the specifications detailed in the Bid Documents. Bid Documents for the Front Load Refuse Truck may be obtained from the Town of Ocean City’s Procurement Department by either emailing the Procurement Manager, Catrice Parsons, at or by calling 410723-6647 during normal business hours, or via the Bid tab on the Town’s . Vendors are responsible for checking this website for addenda prior to submitting their bids. The Town of Ocean City is not responsible for the content of any Bid Document received through any third party bid service. It is the sole responsibility of the vendor to ensure the completeness and accuracy of their Completed Bid Documents. Sealed Bid Documents are due no later than Monday, July 13, 2015 by 4:30 p.m. and will be opened and read aloud at the Mayor and City Council Work Session held on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Bids are to be submitted to the Town of Ocean City, Attn: City Manager, 301 N. Baltimore Avenue Room 230, Ocean City, MD 21842. Late Bid Document will not be accepted. Minority vendors are encouraged to compete for award of the solicitation. OCD-6/11/1t _________________________________
as 604 Baltimore Avenue and 607 Atlantic Avenue, in the Town of Ocean City, Maryland. APPLICANT: OCEANS MIST 2 DEVELOPMENT, INC – (BZA 2432 #15-09400006) at 6:10 p.m. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 110-93(3), Powers, of the Code, an appeal has been filed pursuant to the provisions of Section 110-95(1)(b) requesting a variance to minimum lot requirements as referenced in Section 110-906(b)(1) a & c to create two (2) townhouse lots 2312 square feet each instead of 2500 square feet each as required by Code, and lot depth of 50 feet each instead of 100 feet each as required by Code . The site of the appeal is described as Lot 42, Units A & B, Neptune Development Plat, further described as located on the southwest corner of 17th Street and St. Louis Avenue, and locally known as 301 A & B 17th Street, in the Town of Ocean City, Maryland. APPLICANT: JOSEPH E. MOORE, ATTORNEY FOR OWNERS– (BZA 2433 #15-09500003) Further information concerning the public hearings may be examined in the office of the Department of Planning and Community Development in City Hall. Alfred Harrison, Chairman Heather Stansbury, Attorney OCD-6/11/2t _________________________________ SMALL ESTATE
NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS TOWN OF OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND Pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 110 of the Code of Ocean City, Maryland, hereinafter referred to as the Code, same being the Zoning Ordinance for Ocean City, Maryland, notice is hereby given that public hearings will be conducted by the Board of Zoning Appeals for Ocean City, Maryland in the Council Chambers of City Hall located on Baltimore Avenue and Third Street, in the Town of Ocean City, Maryland on: THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 110-93(2), Powers, of the Code, an appeal has been filed pursuant to the provisions of Section 110-94(2)(b) requesting a special parking exception to waive one (1) parking space in conjunction with the newly proposed second phase of Oceans Mist Condominiums, a 4-unit condominium, Ocean Mist II, providing 8 parking spaces instead of 10 as required by Code. One parking space was waived on May 14, 2015, BZA 2430 #15-09400004. The site of the appeal is described as Lots 4 and 5 (on Baltimore Avenue), and Lots 9 and 10 (on Atlantic Avenue), Block 7N of the Sinepuxent Beach Company Plat; the entire project is further described as located on the east side of Baltimore Avenue and west side of Atlantic Avenue, between 6th and 7th Streets, and known locally
OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS ESTATE NO. 15944 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM ALEXANDER FEARS Notice is given that Frederick Fears Jr., 8759 New Hope Road, Willards, MD 21874, was on February 25, 2015 appointed personal representative of the small estate of William Alexander Fears who died on February 3, 2015, without 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 shall file their objections with the Register of Wills within 30 days after the date of publication of this Notice. All persons having an objection to the probate of the will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills within six months after the date of publication of this Notice. All persons having claims against the decedent must serve their claims on the undersigned personal representative or file them 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) Thirty days after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written no-
tice, notifying the creditor that the claim 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. Frederick Fears Jr. Personal Representative True Test Copy Register of Wills for Worcester County Charlotte K. Cathell One W. Market Street Room 102 - Court House Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of newspaper designated by personal representative: Ocean City Digest Date of publication: June 11, 2015 OCD-6/11/1t _________________________________
NOTICE The following Ordinance was passed by the Council and approved by the Mayor of the Town of Berlin on Monday, June 8, 2015. The Ordinance may be petitioned to referendum so long as the petition is filed not later than 20 days after passage. Ordinance No. 2015-02 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF BERLIN ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE OF MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF BERLIN, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND (THE “TOWN”), PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED TWO MILLION FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($2,400,000.00) OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS OF THE TOWN TO BE KNOWN AS THE “MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF BERLIN INFRASTRUCTURE BONDS, 2015 SERIES A” (OR BY SUCH OTHER OR ADDITIONAL DESIGNATIONS AS REQUIRED BY THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION IDENTIFIED HEREIN, THE “BONDS”), TO BE ISSUED AND SOLD PURSUANT TO THE AUTHORITY OF SECTIONS 4-101 THROUGH 4-255 OF THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ARTICLE OF THE ANNOTATED CODE OF MARYLAND, AS AMENDED, AND SECTION 19-207 OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ARTICLE OF THE ANNOTATED CODE OF MARYLAND, AS AMENDED, FOR THE PURPOSE OF (I) REFUNDING IN WHOLE OR IN PART THE OUTSTANDING MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF BERLIN, MARYLAND INFRASTRUCTURE BOND, 2004 SERIES A, INCLUDING PAYING OR PREPAYING, AS APPLICABLE, ANY OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL THEREOF AND ACCRUED INTEREST THEREON, (II) FUNDING A PORTION OF A CAPITAL RESERVE FUND, AND (III) PAYING ISSUANCE AND OTHER COSTS RELATED TO THE BONDS; PROVIDING THAT THE BONDS SHALL BE ISSUED UPON THE FULL FAITH AND CREDIT OF THE TOWN; PROVIDING FOR THE DISBURSEMENT OF THE
PROCEEDS OF THE SALE OF THE BONDS AND FOR THE LEVY OF ANNUAL TAXES UPON ALL ASSESSABLE PROPERTY WITHIN THE TOWN FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF AND INTEREST ON THE BONDS AS THEY SHALL RESPECTIVELY MATURE; PROVIDING FOR THE FORMS, TENOR, DENOMINATIONS, MATURITY DATES AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF THE BONDS; PROVIDING FOR THE SALE OF THE BONDS; AND PROVIDING FOR RELATED PURPOSES, INCLUDING THE METHOD OF FIXING THE INTEREST RATE OR RATES TO BE BORNE BY THE BONDS, THE APPROVAL, EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF DOCUMENTS, AGREEMENTS, CERTIFICATES AND INSTRUMENTS AND THE MAKING OF OR PROVIDING FOR THE MAKING OF REPRESENTATIONS AND COVENANTS CONCERNING THE TAX STATUS OF THE INTEREST ON THE BONDS. The Ordinance can be viewed in its entirety at Berlin Town Hall, 10 William Street, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. OCD-6/11/2t _________________________________ BWW Law Group, LLC 6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 961-6555 Carrie M. Ward, et al. 6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 Substitute Trustees Plaintiffs vs. DAVID LILLEY C. LISA LILLEY AKA CAROL LISA LILLEY 8525 Logtown Road Berlin, MD 21811 Defendant(s) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND Case No. 23C14000530
NOTICE Notice is hereby given this 4th day of June, 2015, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, that the sale of the property mentioned in these proceedings and described as 8525 Logtown Road, Berlin, MD 21811, made and reported by the Substitute Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 6th day of July, 2015, provided a copy of this NOTICE be inserted in some weekly newspaper printed in said County, once in each of three successive weeks before the 29th day of June, 2015. The report states the purchase price at the Foreclosure sale to be $233,750.00. Susan R. Braniecki Clerk, Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland True Copy Test: Susan R. Braniecki Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County MD OCD-6/11/3t _________________________________
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HELP WANTED
Job Fair for RN’s & GNA’s
Wednesday, June 17, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Centers. Interviews will be conducted for all qualified applicants. Come and find out why we are the area’s only CMS 5 Star rated skilled nursing facility.
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LINE COOKS and DISHWASHERS NEEDED The Ocean Pines Yacht Club is currently looking for experienced line cooks and dishwashers. Must have references. Apply in person at 1 Mumford’s Landing Rd., Ocean Pines, MD or email dining@oceanpines.org for more information.
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Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel Attn: Human Resources Dept. 10100 Coastal Highway, Ocean City, MD 21842 Phone: 410-524-3535 Fax: 410-723-9109 EOE M/F/D/V
Touch of Italy is seeking experienced year round people for our locations in Delaware and Maryland:
• Experienced Chef • Experienced Assistant Mgr/Banquet Mgr for year round employment • Line Cooks, experienced, full or part time • Pizza Maker/Deli, experienced preferred, full or part time • Breakfast Server
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Full-Time Position Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel is seeking, a year round full time Catering & Convention Services Assistant; with direct reporting to our Director of Sales & Marketing. Must have hotel sales, catering or convention services experience. Ability to sell and up sell, supervise and oversee events (nights, weekends, holidays). Applicant must be detail oriented and computer literate - Delphi experience a plus. Excellent benefits, working conditions and salary (commensurate with experience). Qualified applicants only, forward resume with salary requirements to:
Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel Human Resources 10100 Coastal Highway, Ocean City, MD 21842 Fax: 410-723-9109 lwatson@clarionoc.com EOE M/F/D/V
HELP WANTED
Beach Stand Jobs - Hiring workers for Umbrella Stands on the Beach! 9 till 5pm. Full and part time. Call or Text 410-726-0315.
Papa John’s is Hiring All Positions for Bethany and Ocean City areas. Earn between $8 and $25 hourly. Apply today: 302-541-8081.
32 Palm
Now hiring PM Cooks Please apply in person at 32 Palm Restaurant in the Hilton Suites, 32nd St., Ocean City, MD
Deep End Pool Bar Now hiring Cocktail Servers
Apply in person at 1701 Atlantic Ave., inside Holiday Inn Suites
7-11 Ocean Pines
is hiring for overnight shift. Apply within or call 410-641-5118. 11055 Racetrack Road, Berlin, MD
HELP WANTED
Condo Inspectors to check properties before and after check in. Must be able to fix minor maintenance issues. Condo Realty Inc. 410-7260931
WANT EXTRA CASH? Restaurant Delivery Driver position available. Come join our Team! Hourly pay PLUS tips. Call today to schedule an interview! 1-877-958-2828 www.justdeliveries.net Drivers: Need a Change? More hometime this Summer? $60K+ per year. Full benefit package + bonuses. CDL-A 1 yr. exp. 855-4540392
PT, Front Desk Clerk 32 hours - $10/hour. Atlantic Hotel, Ocean City Boardwalk, Wicomico St. Stop by for application. No phone calls.
SWIMSUIT MODELS NEEDED TO PROMOTE RESTAURANT. OUTSIDE IN SUN/ON WATER. OCEAN CITY WEEKENDS. 202-815-0509
Vantage Resort Realty is looking for conscientious, detail-oriented Property Inspectors to inspect properties we manage after every check-out to ensure properties are in proper condition. Saturdays only. Ideal for teachers! Please apply at: www.RecruitingVTG@planwithtan.com or call 800.223.0088 x.2167
SPORTS COACH VACANCIES
Worcester Preparatory School, a coeducational college preparatory day school serving over 500 students in grades PK-12, seeks experienced and motivated Coaches in the following positions for the 2015-2016 school year.
GIRLS VARSITY BASKETBALL COACH BOYS SOCCER COACH HEAD CROSS COUNTRY COACH HEAD VARSITY FIELD HOCKEY COACH
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PART TIME CUSTOMER SERVICE POSITION
Customer Service firm in the Ocean View, DE area is seeking applicants for a Part-Time (25-30 hours/week) daytime position. Responsibilities will include answering phones, contacting vendors, scheduling service visits and typing up the necessary paperwork along with performing follow ups calls. Work from home approximately two weekends a month handling emergency calls. Preferred requirements would be a high level of computer proficiency with knowledge of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Outlook, possess excellent communication skills and interact well with others. Applicant should also be detail oriented and able to multi-task. This position is offered as a year-round position.
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HELP WANTED
Taylor Marine Center 11850 Ocean Gateway, WOC needs a person to wash boats, bottom paint & perform yard duties. Must have valid driver’s license. Apply in person. Now Taking Applications for FT Maintenance Staff - Must work weekends. Apply in person - Gold Coast Mall, 115th Street, Coastal Hwy., Mall Management Office
HELP WANTED
AA East Coast Towing now hiring professional tow truck drivers. Please contact Michael, 443-373-1319. $$ Earn Extra $$ - Delivering Phonebooks in Worcester County. Need to be available daily. Must have own transportation & insurance. Call 410-289-2145.
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NOW HIRING!! Seeking Drivers for our OCMD Ice Cream Vending Trucks. SEASONAL FT/PT position. Valid driver's license required. Apply in person. Call 302-436-7439 for more information.
Direct Support Professional Needed in Ocean Pines Must have at least 1–2 yrs. experience working with adults with developmental disabilities. Be 21 years or older / Have direct care experience / Valid driver’s license with good driving record for 3 years / reliable transportation / Clean background check / Non-smoker CPR, First Aid, CMT certified a plus High school diploma or equivalent / Associates degree or college course work preferred in Special Education, Therapeutic Recreation, Disabilities Study Program or other related fields. Interested applicants can call 410-812-8990 or send resume to pamgaughan@comcast.net
The Princess Royale Hotel & Conference Center Located at 91st St. Oceanfront, Ocean City, MD
Year Round Positions General Maintenance Cooks Painter
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Palmer Gosnell Hospitality LLC, is currently accepting resumes for the position of
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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
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HELP WANTED
Hiring Year Round Experienced Servers for Italian/ American Restaurant. Apply in person Alex’s Italian Restaurant, Rt. 50, West Ocean City. PGN Crabhouse 29th Street & Coastal Hwy. Help Wanted. Waitstaff & Kitchen Help. Apply within after 11:00am.
Trim and Punch Out Carpenter Must have transportation, a valid driver’s license and tools. Beachwood Inc., 11632 Worcester Highway, Showell, MD 21862 10am-4pm, M-F
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HELP WANTED
Maintenance Person FT/PT, YR. Dependable, good pay. Applicants should have good skils/vehicle. Contact fred@paradiseoc.com or 410-250-1111.
Exp. Cleaners for OC & Berlin Areas. Good pay! Must be honest & reliable and have transportation & supplies. Call 443-513-4024. King’s Arms (20th Street & Baltimore Ave.) is now hiring Housekeeping Staff for the season. Starting rate $8.50/hr. 410-289-6257
Phillips Crab House Housekeeping-FT, Seasonal. Must be available mornings, afternoon and weekends. Please call 410-289-6821 to schedule an interview.
NOW HIRING!!
West OC Cashier position starting at $9/hr. Apply online at: delmarvadd.com
Pino’s Pizza Cashiers Wanted Drivers Wanted!
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Female applicants must be 5'8" or taller and fit a size 2 dress and size 25 jean. Male applicants must be 6' or taller and fit a size 32"-34" pant. All applicants must be of legal working age. Work permits required for anyone under the age of 18. Email your name, contact info, age, height and sizes with a head shot and full length shot to: models@southmoonunder.com. We will contact you if you fit the criteria.
Thank you for your interest.
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2 shifts open for cashiers are 10pm till 4:30am F/T or P/T. Drivers wanted day, dinner or latenite F/T or P/T w/good tips plus hourly. Come in person anytime between 6pm till midnight at 81st Street or call me at 410-422-4780. 14th Street & The Boardwalk Ocean City, Maryland
Now Hiring for Seasonal Positions
PM Housekeeper Room Attendants
Good Work Ethic, Experience, Outgoing and Friendly a MUST. Applications Accepted in Person from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday thru Friday and online at realhospitalitygroup.com
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Pre-Licensing Real Estate Classes Pt. 1. June 23, 24, 25, 2015 Pt. 2. July 14, 15, 16, 2015 8:00am-5:30pm Limited Space Web site/Registration www.edsmithschool.com 410-213-2700
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HELP WANTED
Security Guards FT & PT Clean criminal record, drug testing, mandatory. Military & police experience A+ but not req’d. Absolute Investigative, Est. 1988. Call toll-free 1-866-828-6460.
Parts Person - Taylor Marine Center Looking for enthusiastic Parts/Accessories/Service Person. Must have computer exp. & people skills. Full-time position with benefits. Call Skip, 410-213-1391.
“Plumber Wanted” With valid driver’s license and own hand tools. Service experience required, plumbing license not required. Good benefits, paid vacation and competitive wages. Please call 410-2132126.
Tokyo Seafood Buffet Now Hiring For All Positions Apply in person. 131st Street, OC 410-390-5939
Five Guys Burgers Ocean City, MD
Now Hiring Y/R & P/T for
All Positions
Apply Within: 64th Street location
Licensed Physical Therapist Local Healthcare Agency has immediate FT opening in West Ocean City OutPatient clinic. Great work environment. Competitive salary & excellent benefits. Interested candidates should fax resume to 302-947-9692 or email krickards@dynamicpt.com
221 Wicomico Street Ocean City, Maryland High Volume Waterfront Restaurant & Dockside Bar
NOW OPEN!!!
For Immediate Placement
Kitchen Positions, Bartenders Must be experienced.
Apply in Person MON thru FRI, 10AM-2PM or Call 410-289-0500 to arrange interview. Now Accepting Applications for
Cooks & Delivery Drivers Come in for Interview on Wednesday @ 11:00 am 5601 Coastal Hwy. (Bayside)
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
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YR Rental or Sale - 3BR/2BA Mobile - 5.7 miles from Fenwick Island. Selbyville, DE. Fully remodeled. W/D hookup. No smoking/pets. $975/ mo. + 1st mo. rent + security deposit. Available immediately! 443-224-7670
Summer Seasonal - 2BR/ 2BA - Ocean City - Nice unit with bayfront pool, W/D, $8500/season plus utilities. No pets. No groups. 443880-5727
RENTALS
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Fager’s returning to roots for 40th anniversary party
By Kara Hallissey Staff Writer (June 12, 2015) Fager’s Island celebrates a milestone this month and to ring in its 40th anniversary, the 60th Street hotspot will be throwing it back with an old school pig roast this Tuesday, June 16. Beginning at 3 p.m., the party lasts all night long with performances from Zion Reggae, The Klassix and DJ Hook will be spinning tunes along with host DJ Batman. Food platters will be available from 3-6 p.m. with choices such as barbecue ribs, chicken and roasted pig along with a selection of side dishes for $4. There will also be an Island Rum punch bar. “In 1980, near the end of summer, a couple of friends and I decided to set up a big fire pit out on the beach to roast pigs,” owner John Fager recalls. “Eventually, it became a tradition and every year around September; we wouldn’t tell anyone and people would wait for the smoke and know we were having our free pig roast party.” People eventually found out about the annual party by word of mouth and Fager’s Island was usually packed by 5 p.m. “That was the cool thing about it — everyone would wait for the smoke,” he added. By the 1990s, the party started to get out of hand and Fager ultimately discontinued them. In honor of 40 years at Fager’s Island, he is bringing back the pig roast for one night to recreate the glory days. “A lot of people who came here in the ‘70s and ‘80s to party have said they met their wife here and are now bringing their children with them to visit,” Fager said. “There’s nostalgia for people who used to hang out here in their twenties and are now 60 years old.” Originally from Baltimore, Fager visited Ocean City with his family in the summer frequently. “Ocean City has been a great place to live and have a business,” Fager said. “It’s a one-of-a-kind town and very unique.” In the 1960s, he owned and operated the Purple Moose Saloon, which he sold to embark on a real estate career. He found the two-acre location on 60th Street in the early 1970s and decided to purchase the land to build dozens of townhomes on the property. Shortly after, the real estate industry crashed, Fager held on for a few years, but as 1975 approached, his funds were dwindling.
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John Fager smiles for a picture in one of his fine dining rooms at Fager’s Island, which offers beautiful views of the bay on 60th Street.
Fager’s Island will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a party on Tuesday, June 16. This photo was taken during its first summer in 1975.
“I had been in the bar business and decided to build a box on pilings to generate some income and when the real estate market rebounded I would move the pilings to make townhomes,” Fager said. Well, that was the plan anyway. “Once we opened the plan went out the window because it was very popular,” he said. “Back then, all bars were closed up with no plants or open views
of the bay. We were different and people showed up.” The original structure had “BAR” inscribed on the front with alcoholic drinks being the only menu choice. “When we first opened it was just a bar. We added food later on,” Fager said. “We didn’t have a sign and people could not see us from the highway back here. It was all word of mouth.” See FAGER’S Page 66
By Lauren Bunting Contributing Writer (June 12, 2015) Many renters want to become homeowners, but they are afraid that low credit score, debt or student loans may prevent them from their dream. There are numerous agencies available that can help improve credit scores and consolidate debt that will allow for improvement to both credit scores as well as debt to income ratios. One such agency is the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) and they are making efforts to become a centralized source for all types of consumer debt assistance. The NFCC recently announced the acquisition of the Student Loan Alliance (SLA). The SLA was formed in 2012 by seven current NFCC member agencies as a joint venture to build a national platform for student loan counseling. The NFCC reported that student loan debt recently surpassed credit card debt at $1.3 trillion, and is now second only to mortgages in terms of total consumer debt. Among the 43 million total federal student borrowers, 7.3 million are at least 90 days delinquent on their loans, 5 million are in default and millions more are in negatively-amortizing income-driven repayment plans. These figures indicate that student debt is likely to drive the next major financial crisis affecting millions of Americans, with spillover effects already impacting the market for homes, cars and basic consumer goods and services. Struggling borrowers in todays’ market often do not know where to turn. There is no established student loancounseling provider, and many clients receive misleading information from servicers and debt collectors. According to a recent report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), student loan debt collection is among the five highlighted areas where the Bureau’s examiners have uncovered legal violations. “The need for a high quality, comprehensive and consumer-driven program to assist student loan borrowers is urgent,” NFCC president Susan C. Keating said. “Student Loan Alliance resources will help our member agencies fill that need for consumers in every state.” In the fall of 2015, the NFCC will expand on the foundation created by the student loan counselors. All participating counselors will be required to complete specialized training that covers the complete inventory of student loan proSee CREDIT Page 67
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Learn About Delmarva Power’s Project to Improve Reliability in Wicomico and Worcester Counties At Delmarva Power, we’re committed to investing in the communities we serve by providing safe and reliable service.
That’s why we’re planning to rebuild a more than 60-year old, highvoltage transmission line between the North Salisbury substation in Salisbury and the Worcester substation in Berlin. The 24 mile line will extend through Wicomico and Worcester counties.
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Fager’s Island celebrates a milestone this month and to ring in its 40th anniversary, the 60th Street hotspot will be throwing it back with an old school pig roast this Tuesday, June 16.
Fager’s Island continues to evolve after 40 years of fun Continued from Page 65 Throughout the years, Fager’s Island has continued to evolve and change with new decorations, decks and bars, plus remodels and beach additions. “People like to see new seating or bar areas; it keeps the restaurant fresh,” Fager said. Fager’s pet project remains the fine dining section upstairs. Fager vows to make the experience a memorable one. “Ocean City needs fine dining with the hundreds of business conventions and golfers who want more than paper napkins and onion rings,” Fager said.
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“They want a nice prime rib in an upscale atmosphere, which we are happy to provide.” Currently, Fager’s Island has 32 premium wines by the glass and a selection of crafted classic cocktails inspired by their 40th anniversary. Also, five original Fager’s T-shirts have been recreated sporting an “eternal child” face on the front. “It’s our theme, Fager’s Island is eternal, we will always be young,” Fager said. “We want to keep it fun for all guests whether they are stopping by for a cocktail to watch the sunset, getting a bite to eat or dancing the night away.”
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New officers announced for OCDC (June 12, 2015) During its June board meeting, the following members were approved as the Ocean City Development Corporation Executive Committee for the next year. They are: President – Chris Trimper, Trimper Amusements
Vice President – Igor Conev, Mann Properties Secretary – Reid Tingle, Bank of Ocean City Treasurer – John Lewis, MR Ducks Immediate Past President – Bob Givarz, Alaska Stand
The Ocean City Development Corporation (OCDC) is a nonprofit organization charged with revitalizing downtown Ocean City. The OCDC website at www.ocdc.org lists its various projects, programs and other information about the organization.
Credit counselors can turn renters into homebuyers
POPEYE’S SUPPORTS SDHS Popeye's Chicken in West Ocean City held a fundraising event to benefit Stephen Decatur High School's Math Honor Society Mu Alpha Theta on April 21. Popeye's owner Salah Hassanein presented a check to incoming president Caroline Dortenzo for $350. Also pictured is outgoing President Ally Beck presenting Salah with a group photo and thank you from the Math Honor society members for supporting their organization. Pictured, from left, are Lydie Yu, Beck, Hassanein, Dortenzo and Danielle Mason.
Continued from Page 65 grams associated with repayment, forbearance, or other forgiveness options. In addition to the training requirement, counselors will have to successfully complete an additional round of examination to earn special certification. Offered along with the credit and housing counseling certification already recognized for setting the highest standards, this will be the most thorough and comprehensive certification process for student loan counselors in the country. The NFCC can be contacted by calling 800-388-2227 or visit them online at www.nfcc.org. Lauren Bunting is a licensed REALTOR® and Associate Broker with Bunting Realty, Inc. in Berlin.
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BUSINESS BRIEFS
Designation Amy Miller, CPM, managing director of Sperry Van Ness – Miller Commercial Real Estate in Salisbury, announced that Property Manager Janiene Thompson has earned her Accredited Residential Manager (ARM) designation through the Institute of Real Estate ManJaniene Thompson agement (IREM). Thompson has been with SVN-Miller since 2013 as a collections specialist in addition to handling residential property management. Prior to joining SVN-Miller she worked at Unifirst Corporation as an Administrative Assistant. The Accredited Residential Manager (ARM) designation is regarded as the most recognized credential for residential real estate managers, and signifies a specialist in managing the complexities of a range of residential properties.
Ribbon cutting Sprout Creatives Inc., a boutique web development company specializing in websites, graphic design and Internet marketing, will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, June 18 at 11 a.m. Sprout Creatives has been cultivating business since 2007, and recently moved its headquarters to the Mid-
town Professional Building located on 29 Broad Street in downtown Berlin. The ribbon-cutting ceremony, sponsored by the Greater Ocean City Chamber of Commerce, celebrates this major milestone for the company. “We are thrilled to introduce our new office space to the community,� said Sprout Creatives CEO and Founder, Paul Starkey. The Sprout team creates user experiences that dramatically influence the way your brand is perceived and consumed on the web. They continue to develop new talent and design websites for their loyal clients here on the Delmarva Peninsula as well as all over the country.
Top agents Ed Wehnert and Mark and Lora Fritschle of the Mark Fritschle Group – Condominium Realty have announced their listing, sales and settlement leaders for May. May was a great month in what has been a record-breaking year for the company. Top Listing By Units – Kevin Decker, Joy Snyder and Rusty Molnar Top Listing By Dollars – Jim Bacco, Decker and Molnar Top Pending By Units – Sheri Smith, Kevin Burton and Snyder Top Settled By Units – Smith, Dave Whittington and Snyder Top Settled By Dollars – Whittington, Snyder and Suzanna Jones
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AGH Wound Care Center earns award for excellence (June 12, 2015) Atlantic General Hospital physicians, leaders and clinicians recently celebrated the Robert A. Warriner III, M.D., Center of Excellence award, which was given to the Atlantic General Wound Care Center for meeting the Center of Excellence quality standards for Healogics, Inc. The Atlantic General Wound Care Center has achieved patient satisfaction rates higher than 92 percent and a median healing rate of at least 97 percent in less than 23 days, among other quality standards for a minimum of two consecutive years. The national benchmark for median days to heal is 30 and the healing rate benchmark is 91 percent. “The level of performance the Wound Care Center has achieved is a true testament to the vision of Atlantic General Hospital to be the leader in caring for people and advancing the health of the residents of and visitors to our community,� said Michael Franklin, FACHE, AGH president and CEO. “We are very proud of this repeated accomplishment and the associates in the Wound Care Center who have worked hard to achieve it.� The Center was awarded this prestigious honor by Healogics, Inc., the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services. Out of 155 eligible centers nationwide, only 88 were hon-
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cate meighan inside going out hile Ocean City might be primarily known for sun, sand and of course, great entertainment venues, we can now add another jewel to our crown of accomplishments. Jolly Roger Amusement Park just debuted a new water ride and already it was named the best one in the country! The Aqua Loop officially opened at the park, located at 30th Street and Coastal Highway, two weeks ago and already it has garnered national attention. According to Steve Pastusak, Jolly Roger general manager, riders travel 37 miles an hour down the tube in a loop after being dropped from a platform. It’s the kind of thrill that no other water park in the country is offering, giving OCMD yet another reason to be the best vacation destination around. What’s interesting about this area is that just as the tourists are starting to descend on us and the season is clearly off to a busy start, there is also a lot more going on for the locals. Last weekend, Berlin was crazy with the high heel race for charity on Friday and then Saturday was devoted to a jazz and blues bash that featured six different acts. Even thunderstorms and torrential downpours couldn’t kill the fun, and after a bit of troubleshooting, the fun was moved indoors to The Globe, located on Broad Street. After getting a bit wet on Saturday I was glad to see the sun surface on Sunday morning, just in time for the second Cars & Coffee meeting at Rosenfeld’s Jewish Deli on 63rd Street and Coastal Highway. Owner, Warren Rosenfeld had originally told me that he was hoping that each monthly meeting would bring out more classic car fans and that was exactly what happened. There were around 20 cars on display and collectors from all over the Delmarva area came to enjoy breakfast and conversation together. If you missed out on the fun, Rosenfeld’s next Cars & Coffee meeting is scheduled for July 12. Last Sunday also marked the fourth annual Kickin’ Wing Fling at Pickles Pub at 706 Philadelphia Ave. in downtown Ocean City. The wing cook-off was packed with customers, at times spilling out onto See CATE Page 72
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By Kara Hallissey Staff Writer (June 12, 2015) Ocean City’s eighth annual Air Show takes off this weekend bringing international performers, World War II bomber planes and numerous other acrobatic displays to the resort. “We’ve pulled off the air show version of a hat trick with the addition of the F-22 Raptor Demo Team. We have three of the biggest acts in the air show industry, all performing in the same year [U.S. Navy Blue Angels and Breitling Jet Team],” OC Air Show President Bryan Lilley stated in a press release. Although the show does not officially begin until Saturday, events have already kicked off, including breakfast with the performers starting at 8 a.m. today, Friday, at Layton’s Family restaurant on 16th Street. “Layton’s is kind enough to offer breakfast to our performers who love the opportunity to mingle with all the fans in Ocean City,” said Cathy Bassett, press officer for the show. “Depending on the day and time you go, you could bump into a member of the Blue Angels team, a pilot from the Breitling Jet Team from France, or
The Ocean City Air Show will feature a number of aircraft Saturday and Sunday, including, clockwise, Mike Wiskus in the Lucas Oil Pitts, P-51 Mustang, U.S. Navy Blue Angels and Breitling Jet Team.
Mike Wiskus or John Klatt, our two aerobatic pilots, and get an autograph signed.” Tonight, a free and open to the public Jack Daniels Fire Take Off Party will take place at Cowboy Coast on 17th Street beginning at 7 p.m. It will feature musical entertainment
and a chance to meet pilots, jumpers and flight crews. On Saturday, the Ocean City Air Show launches with performances by the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, B-25 Mitchell “Panchito” WWII Bomber, an L-39 Albatross Cold War era jet See NAVY Page 70
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Continued from Page 69 and more high-flying acts. The display village lining the Boardwalk from 13th to 19th streets will open at 9 a.m. for guests to visit various information booths and talk to military recruiters about the Blue Angels and other performances. Weather permitting, the air show will officially start at noon with the Blue Angels taking to the sky at 3 p.m. for a 45-minute performance. “This is the first year that the U.S. Navy Blue Angels are performing in Ocean City and with our close proximity to Annapolis and the Naval Academy we know there is a lot of hometown support for these amazing pilots and their entire support team,” Bassett said. “We think Ocean City will be amazed by the show they put on.” For the first time, the Ocean City Air Show will feature an international jet team, Breitling, who has made Ocean City a stop on its first U.S. tour, she added. “I have never seen the Breitling Jet Team and there is just a powerhouse of a line-up,” said Jonathon Billie, who will fly the F-22 Raptor in the show this year. “With the Blue Angels, it’s going to be a really good show.” Billie will give a single-ship demonstration with the F-22 Raptor to show audiences what it can do. He said that although it’s a large aircraft, audiences will see it perform tricks expected of only smaller planes. “You will see the superior maneuverability of the aircraft, moving fast and slow, going from 90 to 600 knots,” he added. “Nothing can compare to the power and noise of the F-22 Raptor as it screams across the beach and demonstrates what this most ad-
The United States Air Force F-22 Raptor, above, and the B-25 Mitchell “Panchito” WWII Bomber will both be featured Saturday and Sunday during the 2015 Ocean City Air Show.
vanced fighter jet can do in the sky,” Bassett said. After Saturday’s Boardwalk activities, an Air Show Performer Party will take place at Ocean Downs Casino, off Route 589 near Ocean Pines, starting at 7 p.m. and will feature a twilight jump by the Lucas Oil Parachute Jump Team and a fireworks display at dusk. “The Air Show Performer Party will be the place to meet all the teams as they mingle with the crowd outside
at Ocean Downs,” Bassett said. The air show continues Sunday at noon with more performances by the Blue Angels, World War II P-51 Mustang, C-130 Fat Albert and other favorites. The public will have a rare opportunity to take rides in the B-25 Mitchell “Panchito” WWII Bomber during the air show. For a $425 donation to the Delaware Aviation Museum Foundation, visitors will get the See BRYAN Page 71
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Bryan Lilley: The ‘15 event will be our best show yet Continued from Page 70 experience of what it was like to fly onboard the B-25 Mitchell Bomber “Panchito.” The flights will take off from the Ocean City Airport today through June 14. The plane can seat up to five people and children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Call 443458-8926 or email panchitoB25@aol.com to save a seat on the 30-minute flights. In addition, the Coast Guard will bring along its MH-65 Dolphine helicopter to demonstrate search and rescue missions for the crowd. Every year, thousands of people watch the Ocean City Air Show from the Boardwalk, hotels, on the beach or on a boat in the ocean, Bassett said. “The 2015 event will be our best show yet,” Lilley said. “With the inaugural performance of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the Breitling Jet Team we expect to have record crowds.” “Everyone should come out, and I speak for the team, we are really excited to show Maryland what we do,” Billie said. At the Air Show’s “Show Center” on the beach at 16th Street, spectators can hear commentary and enjoy great views from most spots along the Boardwalk and beach. Others take their boats on the water to catch a seaside view. Some special packages are still available for the Air Show, but they are selling quickly. Tickets start at $22 for “Drop Zone” seating and $109 for a Flight Line Clubhouse ticket. The VIP Penthouse is sold out for Saturday and Sunday. “We just want to thank Ocean City for their continued support of this air show and we ask everyone to please come early and stay late, and wear plenty of sunscreen as they kick back and enjoy an amazing day of flying right over the beach in Ocean City,” Bassett said. Visit www.ocairshow.com for more information.
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Friday, June 12 8 a.m.: Breakfast with the performers, Layton’s Family Restaurant, 16th Street 7 p.m.: Air Show Jack Daniels Fire Take Off Party, Cowboy Coast, 17th Street Saturday, June 13 8 a.m.: Breakfast with the performers, Layton’s Family Restaurant, 16th Street 9 a.m.: Display Village and Premium Viewing open, 13th to 19th streets on the Boardwalk 10 a.m.: Flight Line Club VIP and Corporate Beach Chalets open, Show Center Beach, 14th to 17th streets 12 p.m.: Air Show begins, featuring L-39 Cold War Era Jet Demo, Fat Albert C-130, B-25 Mitchell “Panchito” WWII Bomber, P-51 Mustang Demo, USAF F-22 Raptor Demo, USAF Heritage Flight, USCG Search and Rescue Demo, Mike Wiskus in the Lucas Oil Pitts, Breitling Jet Team and Lucas Oil Jump Team. 3 p.m.: U.S. Navy Blue Angels performance 7 p.m.: Air Show Performer Party, open to the public at Ocean Downs, featuring the Lucas Oil parachute team twilight jump and fireworks display Sunday, June 14 8 a.m.: Breakfast with the performers, Layton’s Family Restaurant, 16th Street 9 a.m.: Display Village and Premium Viewing open, 13th to 19th streets on the Boardwalk 10 a.m.: Flight Line Club VIP and Corporate Beach Chalets open, Show Center Beach, 14th to 17th streets 12 p.m.: Air Show begins featuring L-39 Cold War Era Jet Demo, Fat Albert C-130, B-25 Mitchell “Panchito” WWII Bomber, P-51 Mustang Demo, USAF F-22 Raptor Demo, USAF Heritage Flight, USCG Search and Rescue Demo, Mike Wiskus in the Lucas Oil Pitts, Breitling Jet Team and Lucas Oil Jump Team. 3 p.m.: U.S. Navy Blue Angels performance
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HOROSCOPE ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20
Aries, this week expect to gain a better understanding of things that have confounded you in the past. Someone comes into your life to play the role of teacher.
TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21
Fun conversations with a friend prove to be a great way to start your week, Taurus. Things will continue to progress on a positive note throughout the week.
GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21
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Stopping by Buddy’s Crabs & Ribs on Wicomico Street, Sunday, from left, are Hailey and George Ralph, Donny Diorazio and Chris and Sam Gorewitz.
the sidewalk. Fifteen local bars and restaurants were on hand to serve up their best wings while Side Project provided the entertainment for a really fun afternoon. Pickles Pub won for its peanut butter and jelly flavored wings. As if Sunday wasn’t already busy enough, it wrapped up with a free concert at Seacrets: Jamaica USA at 49th Street and the bay. The local hotspot is teaming up with Ocean 98 for the Summer Concert Series
2015 and The Davisson Brothers were back in town to kick things off in style. I managed to catch up with Chris Davisson and asked him how it felt to be back onstage at Seacrets. He told me that the venue and staff are always first class and as a touring artist, it’s rare to find places like Seacrets and OCMD in general. If you missed DBB’s this time around don’t worry, they’ll be back soon. The craft beer industry is really thriving here in Ocean City and Fin
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Gemini, make an effort to more effectively manage life at work and at home this week. The fruits of your labors will pay off with more productivity at work and more family time at home.
CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22
Cancer, do not hesitate to share your personal goals with others in your life. Your loved ones are there to offer their support and encourage you to do your best.
LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23
Leo, others are sure to take notice of your work ethic and impressive accomplishments this week. If you keep quiet, recognition may pass you by.
VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22
Virgo, stay true to your faith this week. Don’t feel you have to change to fit in with the masses. Uniqueness is to be prized, and your faith can guide you.
LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23
Worrying about something you can’t change will only bring on more stress, Libra. Trust that things will work out and don’t worry about things you can’t control.
SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22
Scorpio, your ideas are met with encouragement and optimism this week. Stick with your plans and allow others’ encouragement to fuel you as you work toward your goals.
SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21
Sagittarius, don’t be afraid to readjust your work schedule if you are running out of gas. You can handle multiple projects at once, but don’t do so at the expense of your health.
CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20
Capricorn, attention to detail is a staple of your work ethic. Try not to get too caught up in the minor details, as you might end up missing the big picture.
AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18
Aquarius, be there for a friend who needs you in the coming days. This friend has been there to support you in the past, so now it’s your turn to provide support.
PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20
This week you are more comfortable relaxing and engaging in fun pursuits, Pisces. Immerse yourself in creative projects.
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(Left) Doug Parks shows off his 1967 Pontiac Lamaze during the Cars & Coffee meeting at Rosenfeld’s Jewish Deli on 63rd Street, Sunday. Jim Webb displays his 1970 Stingray Corvette.
at the Ocean City convention center on 40th Street and it will include cash awards, trophies, prizes, celebrities and all kinds of live entertainment. You can get more information at www.OCCarShow.com. If you’re looking to cool off while being entertained after a hot day on the beach then keep in mind that The Next Ice Age will be performing nightly at 6:30 p.m. at the Carousel Hotel on 118th Street. The troupe features several former competitive figure skaters and on June 13-14, Kimmie Meissner will be on hand to perform as well. Skating fans will remember that Meissner is both a former world and national champion. She was also the youngest member of the 2006 Olympic team. If you aren’t already a skating fan then catching a live performance may make you one. It’s a totally different experience when you can actually hear those blades crossing the ice and feel the wind created by a skater See CATE Page 74
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to OCMD is the fact that rather than competing, the local brewers actually help each other out in a pinch. It seems that everyone, including Wright via Fin City Brewing Company, really understands that if the industry continues to thrive here then everyone is ultimately going to profit. You can find more information about Fin City and its various brews at www.fincitybrewing.com. Have you figured out how you’re going to spend this coming weekend? There is so much going on here and the diversity of the events is pretty cool. The biggest event is the Ocean City Air Show, which takes place on June 13 and 14 above the beach. You can check out our nations very best military and civilian performers, including, of course, the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and many more. Check out www.ocairshow.com for a full schedule and more information. The OC Car Show is quite literally rolling into town on June 13 and 14. The indoor/outdoor show will be held
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as they fly by. The Next Ice Age’s shows are all free to the public. Buddy’s Crabs & Ribs at 221 Wicomico Street and the bay is excited about its Summer Crab Race Series to benefit the Believe in Tomorrow National Children’s Foundation and Ocean City’s Children’s House by the Sea on 66th Street. Buddy’s OC will present 14 evenings running from now through Wednesday, Sept. 9. Every Wednesday evening, Buddy’s OC will host and welcome “Believers” to an evening of live entertainment featuring Angeline and Joey Saah, drink and food specials, silent auctions, and at 8:30 p.m., the highlight of the evening; Buddy’s OC Hard Shell Crab Race. All auctions and Crab Race proceeds will be donated to the Children’s House by the Sea in Ocean City. Are you a yoga fan? If so then Seacrets: Jamaica USA at 49th Street and the bay has an event scheduled just for you. Yogivibez Fest is happening this Saturday, June 14 from 9-11 a.m. You can experience a yoga class hosted by MC Yogi that will also includes food, drink and a nifty swag bag to take with you. The cost is $75 and you can register at www.seacretsboutique.com/tickets. Seacrets is also teaming up with
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Sandy Summers represents the Worcester County Humane Society during the fourth annual Ocean City Happy Hours Kickin' Wing Fling at Pickles Pub on Eighth Street, Sunday. The event was a fundraiser for the no-kill shelter.
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Joe and Kirsten Brink attend the fourth annual Ocean City Happy Hours Kickin' Wing Fling at Pickles Pub on Eighth Street, June 7.
Frankie Knight, left, and Nicole Hills chat during the fourth annual Ocean City Happy Hours Kickin' Wing Fling at Pickles Pub on Eighth Street, Sunday.
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Friends, from left, clockwise, Michelle and Wilson Chatham, Christie and Bill Ulm, Wanda and Bob Smullen, Joe and Darlene Bussard, Mike and Janice Chance, Tom Himmler and Will and Donna Warren enjoy the food at Rosenfeld’s Jewish Deli on 63rd Street, Sunday.
Angeline and Joe Saah perform Sunday at Buddy’s Crabs & Ribs on Wicomico Street in downtown Ocean City.
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Fin City Brewing Co. debuted its Poor Man’s IPA Monday at Pizza Tugos in West Ocean City. Pictured, from left, is brewer Vince Wright and his wife, Michele, Hooper’s General Manager Ryan Intrieri and manager Patrick Brady. Fin City is based out of Hooper’s in West Ocean City.
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Erin Masters, left, and Gari Katz take in the warm weather while eating crabs at Buddy’s Crabs & Ribs on Wicomico Street, Sunday.
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love that? Tickets cost $35 in advance or $40 at the door. I know I’ve mentioned it before, but if you’re heading to the beach on a Sunday then don’t forget about the live music at Somerset Plaza. Located on Somerset Street between the Boardwalk and Baltimore Avenue, free concerts will be beginning soon. For the 13th year in a row, on select Sunday afternoons all summer long, various musicians will perform beginning at 3 p.m. Blake Haley will be kicking off the series on June 14. For more information on the summer schedule you can contact OCDC at 410-289-7739. Grotto Pizza at 14th Street and the Boardwalk has been open for about a month now and is already enjoying pretty steady business. While its primarily known for pizza and Italian fare, Grotto also offers a great breakfast buffet that you can enjoy on its new outdoor deck overlooking the ocean. Another popular Boardwalk spot is Shenanigan’s at Fourth Street. It’s a perfect stop for a cold one after a day on the beach and while there you can also grab a salad, soup, sandwiches, as well as entrees for either lunch or dinner. Johnny’s Pizza & Pub, located at 56th Street and the bay is always offering up some really great specials. The Family Feast will get you one large pizza, 16 wings, two salads and a 2-liter soda for just $29.99. You can also get two large pizza’s for just $19.99 or one large pizza with an order of wings and a 2-liter soda for just $19.99. Check them out online at www.johnnyspizzapub.com for more deals to choose from. Carousel Oceanfront Hotel & Condos on 118th Street on the ocean, offers happy hour daily in the Bamboo Lounge from 4-7 p.m. The patio bar and grill are both open and Seasons Restaurant is having Family
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Theresa Sakaleski and Mark Hoos visit Buddy’s Crabs & Ribs on Wicomico Street, June 7.
Theme Nights. There is Fish Fry Friday, Steak & Rib Saturday, Italian night on Sunday, Mexican Fiesta’s every Monday, Carousel Crab Feast on Tuesday, Lobster Lunacy on Wednesday and Thursday is an official beach bash. Have you had a chance to check out Ropewalk on 82nd Street, bayside, yet? While the new restaurant is child-friendly enough that they are constructing a playground for kids right on the premises, they also really cater to adults with live entertainment seven days a week. Happy hour is Monday through Friday from 2-6 p.m. with great food and drink specials. Every Thursday from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. is a Luau on the Beach with some great drink specials. You can grab Natural Light cans for just $1.50 and $4 will get you a Slushie, fireball or a variety of other specialty drinks. Fish Tales Bar & Grill between 21st and 22nd Street on the bay is open from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. everyday with happy hour running from 3-6 p.m. Monday through Friday. On June 21, Fish Tales will be hosting a Maryland Fallen Firefighters Fundraiser. Entertainment will be provided by Montgomery County Pipes and Drums. There will be various drink
specials and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the Maryland Fallen Firefighters Fund. Coconuts Beach Bar & Grill, located between 37th and 38th Streets, oceanfront at Castle In The Sand Hotel, has Darin Engh live on the patio on Friday, June 12 from 124 p.m. John LaMere will follow from 5-9 p.m. Happy hour is daily from 5-6 p.m. with two-for-one drink specials, and you should check out Drunken Monkey Ale, Coconuts original craft beer. For those of you that hate to leave your spot on the beach, Coconuts offers beach waitress service, weather permitting, from now through Labor Day. Harborside Bar & Grill on South Harbor Road in West OC celebrates ladies night every Friday beginning at 7 p.m. with $3 Shooters and $4 for a glass of wine. It also has late night food and drink specials, Sunday through Thursday starting at 9 p.m. Macky’s Bayside Bar & Grill on 54th Street, bayside, also features a popular happy hour that runs from 36 p.m. Macky’s also begins serving an early dinner at 4 p.m. BJ’s On the Water at 75th Street and the bay features happy hour Monday through Friday from 4-7 p.m. See CATE Page 78
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and there is also a late night happy hour that runs Sunday through Thursday from 10 p.m. through 2 a.m. Fager’s Island on 60th Street on the bay has taken what is traditionally the most boring night of the week and turned it into a reason to party. It’s “I Love Mondays” deck parties are already a big hit and feature some pretty cool food and drink specials as well. On Friday, June 12, Bell Curve and DJ Hook will be providing entertainment on the deck until Fish Out of Water hits the stage at 10 p.m. Joey Saah and Angeline Leech will be playing on the deck on Saturday, June 13, followed by DJ Groove. The Loop will take over at 10 p.m. on the main stage. Fager’s also features $5 Smirnoff Bloody Mary’s and their special Sunday Jazz Brunch with Everett Spells is from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fager’s Island will celebrate its 40th anniversary on Tuesday, June 16. The festivities begin at 3 p.m. with an old-school pig roast, Island Rum punch bar, Zion Reggae Band, The Klassix and DJ Hook. DJ Batman will host the event. Speaking of Monday, The Brass Balls Saloon on the Boardwalk, between 11th and 12th streets has also created a way to help liven up your
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Cat Astrom, left, is joined on Sunday at Buddy’s Crabs & Ribs on Wicomico Street, by, from left, Jeff and Diane Clum and Mimi Blonder.
Monday nights. Bad Ass Monday has begun each week on the deck from 10 p.m. until closing. They are rewarding you for surviving the first day of the work week with some great specials, including $3 Fireball shots, $3 Twisted Tea and Natural Lights are just $1. Happy hour is from 3-6 p.m., Sunday through Friday and $5 will get you wings or steamed shrimp. If you’re on the other side of the bridge then you might want to stop into The Globe Theater, located at 12 Broad Street in Berlin. It offers Sunday brunch each week from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and happy hour runs Tuesday through Friday from 3-6 p.m. Wednesday’s at The Globe feature
free trivia beginning at 7 p.m. and it’s also Pizza & Pint Nite from 5-10 p.m. The Ocean City Performing Arts Center has some pretty cool acts lined up that you may want to check out. Hal Holbrook performs on July 30, Graham Nash on Aug. 7 and Ronnie Milsap will be in town on Oct. 10. Tickets for the shows are available at the Convention Center Box Office or through Ticketmaster. For more information, call the convention center at 410-289-2800 or Ticketmaster at 1-800-551-SEAT (7328). If you have an event coming up or know of something that deserves a mention, email me at Cate@oceancitytoday.net.
(June 12, 2015) Summer is heating up in Ocean Pines as several popular events offered by the Recreation and Parks Department return for the season. Monday Movies in the Park returns for its second season beginning Monday, June 15 at 8 p.m. in White Horse Park. A different free family-friendly movie will be shown every Monday through Aug. 31. Concessions will be for sale. Visit OceanPines.org for scheduled movies. The Yacht Club pool will open for families Wednesday evenings June 17Sept. 2 from 6-8 p.m. Games, contests and music will be part of the fun. Food and beverages will be for sale. The cost is $3 for swim members, $5 for Ocean Pines residents and $7 for non-residents. Only those swimming pay a fee. Ocean Pines’ summer music series, Thursday Concerts in the Park, will begin Thursday, June 18 from 7-9 p.m. A variety of free family-friendly musical performances will be held weekly through Aug. 27 at White Horse Park. Family games, food and more will be featured. Visit OceanPines.org for performers. These events are open to the public. For information, call the Recreation and Parks Department at 410-641-7052. Information regarding additional recreational programs is available at www.OceanPines.org.
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Inaugural Yogivibez Fest at Seacrets features MC Yogi
By Kara Hallissey Staff Writer (June 12, 2015) Unwind with beach yoga as MC Yogi hosts and spins tunes during the Yogivibez Fest at Seacrets on Sunday morning from 9-11 a.m. “MC Yogi is world-known and will be guiding the class and entertaining the crowd with hip-hop style music,” said Dawn Ehman, Yogivibez coordinator and creator. The yoga class includes food, drinks and a swag bag for $75. The swag bag will have gifts from local vendors, coupons and goodies from Lululemon. Participants must be 21 or older or accompanied by a parent or legal guardian because some of the free drink options include Bloody Mary’s or mimosas, Ehman said. “It’s the first time for this event and something new for Seacrets,” Ehman said. “I wanted to bring someone known to the area to put us on the map with yoga.” Ehman owns Yogavibez on Route 50 in West Ocean City and the event came to fruition with MC Yogi agreeing to visit the beach and teach the class with his turntables. Several vendors will be on hand at the 49th Street venue, including
Lululemon who will have a “Trunk Show” with many items from its store on display. New yoga mats can be purchased from Yoloha yoga mats and Gundalow Juices will be providing sample juices. In addition, local businesses OC SUP & Fitness and Yogavibez will be in attendance. Yoga instructor Karen Dubs will be at Yogivibez Fest to sign copies of her book, “Find Your Flexible Warrior.” Dubs is an instructor in Baltimore and has taught Ravens players. Her book discusses yoga, meditation and relaxation, Ehman said. “The class is for all levels and it’s a unique experience with a live instructor spinning the tunes in a fun atmosphere at the beach,” she added. All proceeds will benefit the Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Outpatient Unit in Salisbury. The maximum amount of people who can sign up is 200, Ehman said. Register at www.seacretsboutique.com/tickets to guarantee a spot. Call Ehman at 443-865-3109 for more information. To learn more about MC Yogi, visit his website at www.mcyogi.com.
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Skating champion Kimmie Meissner to perform in OC
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Five former competitive figure skaters, from left, Rachel Jones, Michael Solonoski, Julianne DiMura, Shaun Rogers and Megan Marschall will amaze audiences this summer during The Next Ice Age at the Carousel Hotel on 118th Street.
By Kara Hallissey Staff Writer (June 12, 2015) Five former competitive figure skaters will dazzle audiences this summer during The Next Ice Age at the Carousel Hotel on 118th Street. Performances began on Wednesday and will take place at 6:30 p.m. nightly through Aug. 20. Each show will run about 30 minutes and are free to the public. Returning to Ocean City for its 15th year, the show is a favorite among Ocean City residents and visitors. “The unique proximity to the ocean… there are not many ice rinks near the beach and the ocean makes it special,” said Nathan Birch, The Next Ice Age executive director. “It’s a free thing to do and exposes the family to a winter sport when they are not expecting it. The show may even inspire people to try skating afterwards at the Carousel.” The performances involve a story about a family and every genre of music will be heard during the shows, Birch said. This year, Megan Marschall, 23, will skate alongside, Julianne DiMura, 23, Rachel Jones, 21, Shaun Rogers, 29 and Michael Solonoski, 31.
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Shows nightly at Carousel Hotel “I love performing in Ocean City because it’s so exhilarating performing for live audiences every night,” Marschall said. “We have a feel-good, family-friendly show where audience members will experience fantastic tricks, beautiful skating and choreography filled with interesting story lines.” For the opening weekend of June 13-14, World Figure Skating champion Kimmie Meissner will join the others and make her Ocean City debut in The Next Ice Age performances. “I’ve always wanted to perform in the show, especially growing up in the area [raised in Towson],” Meissner said. “It’s a company [The Next Ice Age] you want to be a part of and they spend a lot of time thinking up the idea and building the foundation, which sets them apart.”
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For the Next Ice Age opening weekend of June 13-14, World Figure Skating champion Kimmie Meissner, pictured, will join Megan Marschall, Julianne DiMura, Rachel Jones, Shaun Rogers and Michael Solonoski for her Ocean City debut at the Carousel Hotel on 118th Street.
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In 2005, Meissner became the second American woman to land the triple axel jump in national competition. She was a member of the 2006 Olympic team and the youngest American athlete to compete at those games. Meissner is the 2006 world champion, the 2007 United States national champion and the 2007 four continents champion. She is the first American to simultaneously hold the world, four continents and national titles. “The skating has to be at a certain level and the performers are all strong skaters,” Meissner said. “It’s what we really need in the sport and what people love to watch.” Since spectators are standing during the show and their proximity to the action on the rink is within a few feet, performers are constantly inter-
acting with the crowd. “You are really close, with just a rail separating audiences and they get drawn in,” Birch said. “Everyone is invited and encouraged to meet the cast to get autographs and take photos after the show.” Birch said he has met a fair amount of skaters who told him they got their start after seeing a performance. “I am happy to be associated with something so positive and heartwarming,” Birch said. “Performing in skating shows for a living is honestly a dream job,” Marschall said. “Skating is something we fell in love with when we were little kids, and we are so grateful to have careers we trained in our whole lives and truly enjoy it so much.” Watch the Ocean City show every See NEXT Page 83
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NOW PLAYING BJ’S ON THE WATER 75th Street and the bay Ocean City 410-524-7575 June 12: Full Circle, 9 p.m. June 13: Chest Pains, 9 p.m. June 17: It’s About Time, 5 p.m. BOURBON STREET ON THE BEACH 116th Street, behind Fountain Head Towers Condominium Ocean City 443-664-2896 Every Wednesday: Jam Session w/The Baltimore Boyz, 8-11 p.m. Every Thursday: Brant Quick, 6-9 p.m. June 12: Dave Sherman, 7-11 p.m. June 13: Baltimore Boyz, 7-11 p.m. June 14: OHO Just Jay, 4-8 p.m. BRASS BALLS SALOON Boardwalk, between 11th and 12th streets Ocean City 410-289-0069 Every Friday & Saturday: Karaoke w/O’Andy, 9 p.m. BUDDY’S CRABS & RIBS Wicomico Street and the bay Ocean City 410-289-0500 June 12: Kaleb Brown, 5-9 p.m. June 13: Angeline & Joey Saah, afternoon; Jack & T Lutz, evening June 14: Kaleb Brown, evening June 15: Monday Night Deck Party w/Orlando Philips the RasTA American, 5-9 p.m. CAPTAIN’S TABLE 15th St. & Baltimore Ave. Ocean City 410-289-7192 www.captainstableoc.com Every Friday & Saturday: Phil Perdue June 14: Phil Perdue CAROUSEL PATIO BAR AND GRILL In the Carousel Hotel 118th Street and the ocean Ocean City 410-524-1000 June 12: Lennon LaRicci & the Leftovers, 2-6 p.m. June 13: Tim Landers & John Heinz, 2-6 p.m. June 14: Dave Sherman, 2-6 p.m. June 15: Tim Landers, 2-6 p.m. June 16: Kaleb Brown, 2-6 p.m. June 17: Tommy Edwards, 2-6 p.m. June 18: DJ Jeremy, 7-11 p.m. CASINO AT OCEAN DOWNS 10218 Racetrack Road Berlin 410-641-0600 June 12: Everett Spells, 5:30-9:30 p.m. June 13: New Dawn Duo, 4:30-8:30 p.m.; Monkee Paw, 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. COCONUTS BEACH BAR AND GRILL In the Castle in the Sand Hotel 37th Street oceanfront
Ocean City 410-289-6846 June 12: Darin Engh, noon to 4 p.m.; John LaMere, 5-9 p.m. June 13: Kevin Poole & Joe Mama, 4-8 p.m. June 14: Lauren Glick & the Mood Swingers, 4-8 p.m. June 15: Nate Clendenen, noon to 3 p.m.; Bob Wilkinson & Joe Smooth, 4-8 p.m. June 16: Rick & Regina, noon to 3 p.m.; Aaron Howell Duo, 4-8 p.m. June 17: Taylor Knox, noon to 3 p.m.; Chris Button & Joe Mamma, 4-8 p.m. June 18: Sean Loomis, noon to 3 p.m.; Kevin Poole & Joe Mama, 4-8 p.m. THE COVE AT OCEAN PINES YACHT CLUB 1 Mumford’s Landing Road Ocean Pines 410-641-7501 June 12: Tranzfusion, 6-10 p.m. June 13: Wes Davis Duo, 6-10 p.m. June 14: Tommy Edward Solo, 5-9 p.m. DUFFY’S TAVERN 130th Street in the Montego Bay Shopping Center 410-250-1449 June 13: The Bullets, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. DUNES MANOR 28th Street, Oceanfront Ocean City 410-289-1100 June 12: Ms. Shirley or Ellsworth on the piano, 7-11 p.m. June 13: Bill Dickson, 2-5 p.m.; Ms. Shirley or Ellsworth on the piano, 7-11 p.m. June 14: Mike Smith, 2-5 p.m.; Ms. Shirley or Ellsworth on the piano, 7-11 p.m. June 17-18: Ms. Shirley or Ellsworth on the piano, 7-11 p.m. FAGER’S ISLAND 60th Street and the bay Ocean City 410-524-5500 June 12: Bell Curve, 5:30 p.m.; DJ Hook, 9:30 p.m.; Fish Out of Water, 10 p.m. June 13: Joey Saah And Angeline Leech, 5:30 p.m.; DJ Groove, 9:30 p.m.; The Loop, 10 p.m. June 14: Everett Spells, brunch June 15: DJ Wax, 5:30 p.m.; DJ RobCee, 9:30 p.m.; Queen Green, 10 p.m. June 16: Zion Reggae, 3-6 p.m.; The Klassix, 6-10 p.m.; DJ Hook, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
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12841 S. Harbor Road West Ocean City 410-213-1846 June 12: DJ Bill T, 4 p.m. June 13: Simple Truth, 2-6 p.m.; DJ Jeremy, 9 p.m. June 14: Opposite Directions, 2-6 p.m.; DJ Billy T, 7 p.m. June 15: Blake Haley, 4 p.m.; DJ Billy T, 8 p.m. June 16: Funk Shue, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. June 17: Nate Clendenen, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. June 18: Opposite Directions, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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LONGBOARD CAFE 67th Street Town Center Ocean City 443-664-5639 June 14: Joe Mama and guest, 8:30-11:30 p.m. June 16: Chris Button, 8:30-11:30 p.m. June 18: Mike Smith, 8:30-11:30 p.m.
MACKY’S BAYSIDE BAR & GRILL 53rd Street and Coastal Highway Ocean City 410-723-5565 June 12: DJ Casper 10 p.m. June 13: DJ Vybe, 10 p.m. June 14: Jimmy G, noon to 4 p.m. June 16: Theme Party “Circus” w/DJ Dutch Adams June 18: DJ Casper, 10 p.m. OCEAN CLUB NIGHTCLUB In the Horizons Restaurant In the Clarion Fontainebleau Hotel 101st Street and the ocean Ocean City 410-524-3535 June 12-13: Power Play, 9:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. Lenny’s Beach Bar June 12-14: On the Edge, 4-9 p.m. June 15-21: First Class, 4-9 p.m. PURPLE MOOSE Boardwalk, between Talbot and Caroline streets Ocean City
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NOW PLAYING 410-289-6953 June 12: CK the DJ/VJ, 2 p.m.; Remedy, 10 p.m. June 13: VJ/DJ Jammin Jeff, 2 p.m.; Remedy, 10 p.m. June 14: CK the DJ/VJ, 2 p.m.; Slamm, 10 p.m. June 15: Slamm, 10 p.m. June 16-17: VJ/DJ Jammin Jeff, 8 p.m. June 18: “Tribute to Kid Rock” Cowboy, 10 p.m. ROPEWALK 82nd Street and the bay Ocean City 410-524-1009 June 12: Steel Drums, 4-8 p.m. June 13: Bob Brotto, noon to 4 p.m.; Steel Drums, 4-8 p.m.; Dueling Pianos, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. June 14: Bob Brotto, noon to 4 p.m.; Dueling Pianos, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. June 15: John LaMere, 4-8 p.m. June 16: Pat O’Brennan, 4-8 p.m. June 17-18: Steel Drums, 4-8 p.m. SEACRETS 49th Street and the bay Ocean City 410-524-4900 June 12: Jim Long Band, 5 p.m.; 9 Mile Roots, 9 p.m.; Lost in Paris, 10 p.m. June 13: Jim Long Band, 5 p.m.; 9 Mile Roots, 9 p.m.; The Zoo,
10 p.m. June 14: Power Play w/Jim Long, 5 p.m.; 9 Mile Roots, 9 p.m.; The Benjamins, 10 p.m. June 15: Full Circle, 5 p.m.; Rising Sun, 9 p.m. June 16: Opposite Directions, 5 p.m.; Rising Sun, 9 p.m.; The Rockets, 10 p.m. June 17: The JJ Rupp Trio, 5 p.m.; New Direction, 9 p.m.; The Wild Ones, 10 p.m. June 18: The Freddie Long Band, 5 p.m.; Innasense, 9 p.m.; Go Go Gadget, 10 p.m.
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Sunday outdoor worship service at Bethany United
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(June 12, 2015) As folks travel to and from Ocean City and Assateague Park on Stephen Decatur Highway (Route 611) at 8:30 on a Sunday morning, they might be surprised to see a very casual, but lively worship service on the front lawn of Bethany United Methodist Church, located at the intersection of Route 611 and Snug Harbor Road. “Using the front lawn for the outdoor worship service is a new idea for us,” Rev. Connie Paulson said. “With the church’s large cross above us on the front of the building and the shaded front lawn, this spot is ideal for praising God in a natural setting.” Bethany Church has been at this location since the mid-1980s, and many summer vacationers visit the 10 a.m. indoor Sunday service. How-
66th Street, bayside Ocean City 410-723-6762 June 12: Kayla Brown, 4-8 p.m. June 13: The Stims, 4-8 p.m.
Next Ice Age shows nightly at 6:30 p.m. through Aug. 20
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Continued from Page 81 night at 6:30 p.m., June 10 through Aug. 20, at the Carousel Hotel on 118th Street. There will be no shows on July 9 and 10. Those who wish to eat dinner dur-
SHENANIGAN’S Fourth Street and the Boardwalk in the Shoreham Hotel 410-289-7181 June 12-13: James Gallagher & Off The Boat, 9 p.m.
11070 Cathell Road, Suite 17 Pines Plaza, Ocean Pines 443-365-2576 June 12: Karaoke w/Donnie Berkey, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
ever, Rev. Paulson noted, “While many folks really want to worship, they also want to dress in T-shirts, shorts and flip-flops and then hit the beach immediately after worship.” Continuing through September, the 45-minute service will include familiar songs, scripture, a children’s and adult’s message. Worshipers should bring their beach chairs, blankets, and even their morning coffee. Bug spray will be available, if needed. In inclement weather, the service will be held indoors in the sanctuary, but still have the same relaxed atmosphere. Bethany’s motto is “Love Grows Here.” All are welcome. For more information, call 410-641-2186, email bethany21811@gmail.com, or visit bethanyinberlin.
ing the show should call the hotel in advance at 410-524-1000 to make a reservation for rinkside dining. Visit www.thenexticeage.org to learn more about The Next Ice Age skating company.
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fies our show,â&#x20AC;? he added. A customized Nissan GTR Skyline, FRS Scion sports car and 8thGEN Honda Civics will also be on display. The Truck Invasion Zone features a growing 4x4 truck market and will take place both days outside the convention center. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has grown a lot in three or four years [truck customizations] and to keep on top of the trends we will feature a truck invasion with 4x4â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and more,â&#x20AC;? Hoffman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People add customized rims, electronic upgrades, interiors, installs and exhausts to their trucks.â&#x20AC;? The event is family-friendly with numerous activities for Senior Week visitors and younger children. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We pride ourselves on designing a car show with a family environment where kids and parents can safely look at cars parked at the convention center
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;A big component of the show is Sound FX bringing on-site technicians and parts needed to upgrade vehicles,â&#x20AC;? Hoffman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These quality items are 40 to 80 percent off for state-of-the-art goods.â&#x20AC;? Other attractions include the Miss OC Car Show Bikini Contest with a cash purse of $500 at 4 p.m. on Saturday and Bryshere Gray, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hakeemâ&#x20AC;? from the television show, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Empire,â&#x20AC;? will perform on Sunday afternoon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a young guy who is a rising star in music and the television acting world,â&#x20AC;? Hoffman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He is a perfect addition to our show and drawing 60-year-old women who would have never came because they want to meet Hakeem.â&#x20AC;? All weekend the show will feature free giveaways including T-shirts and ear buds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our event attracts people who have a passion for custom cars and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an au-
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By Kara Hallissey Staff Writer (June 12, 2015) Caroline HeeJeon Gale wrote “My Friend Bipolar” to help cope with her own disorder and hopes her honest depiction of the illness does the same for others who are fighting similar battles. Her collections of poems and narrations make for a short read of candid snapshots into the mind of a person struggling with bipolar disorder. “It’s about letting people know they are not alone and to get help,” HeeJeon Gale said. “The medications, talking with a therapist and a support system will all help. Ignoring the disorder is becoming an enemy to yourself. It’s not going away, be its friend by treating and learning how to deal with it.” Her story begins with an honest poem about the day she woke up in the hospital after a failed suicide attempt in 2007. She was a 17-year-old high school student trying to deal with her disorder, was not receiving the proper treatment and ultimately overdosed. She first showed symptoms of the disease at age 12 and continued to deal with her erratic behavior on her own for more than four years.
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Caroline HeeJeon Gale wrote a collections of poems and narrations entitled, “My Friend Bipolar,” which makes for a short read of candid snapshots into the mind of a person struggling with bipolar disorder.
“To let go of the painful memories and not think about them as often, it’s important to have a support system,” HeeJeon Gale said. Talking with therapist Pam Frank in Virginia helped HeeJeon Gale develop techniques to combat her illness. At first, it was hard for HeeJeon Gale to speak at all, she said, but after a while she started to open up about herself and painful memories. She went on to have more than 100 sessions with Frank since 2007. See FAMILY Page 88
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Family, husband huge supporters Continued from Page 86 She explains in her book how becoming a true friend of bipolar meant she had to let go of all sad and painful memories, which is not easy when they cling to her brain like a scar or tumor. Her poem, “Mistakes,” can relate to anyone who has regrets in their life and “My Side” is dedicated to her mother who has been there for HeeJeon Gale throughout her entire illness. Her older sister, Michelle, is her best friend and a huge supporter. She provided the cover illustration and a couple pictures inside the book. “The cover shows different perspectives of myself, which is drawn in pencil, paint and watercolor,” HeeJeon Gale said. “It’s an artistic way of showing bipolar.”
HeeJeon Gale is against the happy and sad faces associated with bipolar disorder because the in-between feelings are never shown, she added. Ironically, her sister originally drew HeeJeon Gale’s front cover artwork for a class she was taking, which touched Gale because she felt it illustrated her disorder. HeeJeon Gale started writing her poems in 2007. About six of them were written in an English class during high school when she was dealing with the worst of her depression, and after graduating she found them lying around. She started writing the narrations of her poems at 20 and after eight years, the book came to fruition. In March 2014, she signed a contract with AuthorHouse Publishing, had her friends edit the copy and the
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“It would help Korean people in Korea. I can be more creative with the Korean language and a friend is helping translate to Spanish,” HeeJeon Gale said. Her 54-page book can be purchased for $5.99 on Kindle and $24.99 in paperback from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and her publisher’s website, authorhouse.com. “I would love to share personal advice and help with changes in their [readers] lives to get better,” said HeeJeon Gale, who lives in Ocean City. “I hope this will help and comfort them.” Readers can contact HeeJeon Gale at myfriendbipolar@gmail.com.
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Dazzle family, friends with fried ice cream Continued from Page 89 ice. Destiny was in the making and there is clear literary evidence that France followed Italy’s experimentation and refined the sweet, creamy treat. According to an article titled, “Ice Cream Facts, Information, Pictures” that appeared on Encyclopedia.com, Mary Eales is credited with the first ice cream recipe printed in English (1718). The first official account of ice cream being served comes from a letter written in 1744 by a guest of Maryland Governor William Bladen. And the first advertisement for ice cream in this country appeared in the New York Gazette on May 12, 1777, when the proprietors announced that ice cream was available almost every day.
Many wealthy colonial Americans owned icehouses, which made the delectable dessert more feasible. Implicit in the operation of making ice cream was the use of metal that transferred the cold temperature of the ice as quickly as possible to the cream. Pewter was the preferred metal of most ice cream makers down to the end of the 19th century, when it was replaced by other alloys. The reasons for replacing pewter were several: it pitted and warped easily, but most importantly it reacted chemically with acids in ice creams, thus forming toxic lead salts. Ice creams have come a long way and with that complexity comes the opportunity for competition. I wonder what our forefathers would think
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Grads urged to be ‘beach smart’ By Kristin Joson Contributing Writer (June 12, 2015) One of the most important skills a lifeguard uses is the scan. They are constantly scanning their area and the water in front of
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OCBP: Diving into shallow water dangerous Continued from Page 91 Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tradition thousands of graduates participate in each year; the trek to Ocean City to enjoy their newfound freedom. Full of confidence, and feeling immune to any dangers, they sometimes allow the excitement of the atmosphere to impede their judgment enough to get them into trouble. When we get a warm sunny day, the water temperatures are inviting. If you add a town full of celebrating graduates to the mix, the lifeguards have their work cut out for them. At no other time of year do we see
more teenagers chase each other down the beach and into the ocean only to end up diving into shallow water. The more experienced among them dive shallow and usually do not suffer any consequences of this risky behavior. The less fortunate will spend the rest of their vacation trying to explain the scabs on their forehead and nose. The really unfortunate will not be able to run or dive, ever again. While beach patrol members re-
spond to spinal injuries every year, none are more tragic than those that occur when young people are injured from diving into shallow water. It is not their age so much, but the fact that these injuries are so preventable that makes them particularly tragic. Beach patrol â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rule No. 1â&#x20AC;? is: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keep your feet in the sand until the lifeguardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the stand.â&#x20AC;? Rule No. 2 is: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Check the water depth with your feet, not your head.â&#x20AC;? Our ocean water is not as clear as pool water, and we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the depth printed along the edge in big black numbers like it is at the local swim club.
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Think before diving, riding breaking waves into beach are caused by people diving into shallow water, the majority result from body surfers and body boarders riding waves that are breaking too close to shore. We encourage people to keep their arms stretched out in front of them when body surfing and to avoid riding waves that are breaking close to the sandbar or beach. We hope that everyone who visits our beach will enjoy many happy, healthy returns. The Ocean City Beach Patrol has worked with trauma doctors to develop a specialized technique to manage suspected head, neck and back injuries. Although every surf rescue technician is trained and skilled in the use of these techniques, it is far better for our beach patrons to have injuries prevented rather than treated. Taking responsibility for your own actions and spreading the caution about spinal cord injuries is the greatest form of prevention we have. Many people just do not realize that wet sand is just as un-yielding as concrete and that it is the bones of the
spinal column that cause the damage and possible paralysis that results from the impact of your head, neck or back with the beach. Most people would never think of attempting a flip in the middle of a parking lot for fear of striking the ground. However, many of these same individuals will attempt these aerial maneuvers on the beach or into a few inches of ocean water, with the all too often result, of witnessing our spinal injury management technique first hand. Please, use your head to protect your spine and think before diving or riding breaking waves into the beach. Have fun but remain safe. An additional factor that has a major influence on risky behavior both on the beach and throughout Ocean City is the addition of alcohol to celebrating teenagers. These recent graduates have worked there entire school careers to achieve this new found freedom, and we do not want that freedom to end in Ocean City. Graduates, remember to “Play it Safe!”
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WORCESTER COUNTY ALCOHOL RETAILERS CARE ABOUT OUR KIDS!
The Worcester County Health Department and the Worcester County Drug and Alcohol Council would like to commend all responsible retailers who request ID and refuse to sell alcohol to persons under the age of 21. These retailers did not sell alcohol products to minors during 2014. Please stop in and say “Thank You” to: 21st St Market–Ocean City 56th St Market Beer & Wine–Ocean City 64th St Market/Rick’s Market–Ocean City 7-11 26th St–Ocean City 7-11 59th St–Ocean City 7-11 94th St–Ocean City 7-11 119th St–Ocean City 7-11 N Division–Ocean City 7-11 Ocean Pines 94th St Beer Wine & Liquors–Ocean City 9th St Market–Ocean City Abbey Burger Bistro–Ocean City Angelo’s Italian Cuisine/Sandbar Lounge–Ocean City Anthony’s Beer & Wine–Ocean City Assateague Crab House–Berlin Assateague Market–Berlin Assawoman Ale Shop–Ocean City Atlantic Hotel–Berlin Baked Dessert Café-Berlin Barn 34–Ocean City Beer Bellies–Ocean City Big Peckers Bar & Grill–Ocean City BJs on the Water–Ocean City Blacksmit–Berlin Blue Ox Steakhouse–Ocean City Brass Balls Saloon–Ocean City Buck’s–Berlin Burley Inn Tavern–Berlin Burley Oak Brewery–Berlin C.W. Cheers–Berlin Carousel Hotel–Ocean City Castaway’s–Berlin Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel–Ocean City Coin’s Pub & Restaurant–Ocean City Crab Bag–Ocean City Crabcake Factory USA–Ocean City Dead Freddie’s–Ocean City Denovo’s Trattoria–Ocean Pines Don’s Seafood and Chicken House–Pocomoke City Duck In–Pocomoke City Duck in II–Snow Hill Duffy’s Tavern–Ocean City E. Z. Food Store–Ocean City Eastern Shore Lanes–Pocomoke City Fager’s Island–Ocean City Frog Bar–Ocean City Frontier Town Camp Store & Lazy River Saloon–Berlin Galaxy Bar & Grill/Late Night Liquor & Kegs–Ocean City Gold Coast Discount Beer & Wine–Ocean City Greenhouse Deli–Ocean City Grotto Pizza–Ocean City Guido’s Burritos–Ocean City Hammerheads Raw Bar & Grill–Ocean City Higgins Crab House North–Ocean City Hilton Hotel Suites/Rumba’s Lounge– Ocean City Ho Feng Garden–Berlin Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites/Coral Reef Café–Ocean City Hooter’s of the Boardwalk–Ocean City JC’s Northside Pub–Ocean City
Johnny’s Pizza–Ocean City Jonah & the Whale Restaurant/Riptide Café–Ocean City JR’s the Place for Ribs–Ocean City Ky West–Ocean City LaHacienda Southwest Bar & Grill–Berlin Mackey’s Bayside Bar & Grill–Ocean City Milano Pizzeria Inc. Coastal Hwy–Ocean City Milano Pizzeria Inc. N Atlantic Ave–Ocean City Mini Market–Ocean City Mitchell’s Market–Ocean City Mother’s Cantina–Ocean City Newark Station–Newark Noble Grape–Ocean Pines O.C. Party Market–Ocean City Oasis Bar & Grill–Whaleyville OC Dollar Store–Ocean City Ocean City Brewing Company–Ocean City Ocean Downs–Berlin Oceans Market–Ocean City Paul Revere Smorgasbord–Ocean City Peaky’s Rooftop Restaurant & Bar–Ocean City Peppers Tavern–Ocean City Pizza Hut Coastal Hwy–Ocean City Pizza Hut Ocean Pines Pizza Tugo’s Stephen Decatur Hwy–Ocean City Pocomoke Beer & Wine–Pocomoke City Pocomoke Goose Creek–Pocomoke City Princess Bayside Hotel/Finnegan’s–Ocean City Quality Inn Oceanfront/Atrium Bar–Ocean City Rita’s World of Wine Beer & Spirits–Berlin Ruby Tuesday–Pocomoke City Sandy Bottoms–Ocean City Seacrets–Ocean City Shore Spirits LCB Store Gold Coast Mall–Ocean City Shore Spirits LCB Store Village Market–Ocean City Siculi Italian Restaurant–Berlin Smith’s Market–Showell Stowaway Grand/Epic Café–Ocean City Taylor’s Neighborhood Restaurant–Ocean Pines Tequila Mockingbird–Ocean City Tex-Mex & Beyond–Berlin Three Brothers Pizza–Ocean City Touch of Italy–Ocean City Town Market Basket-Snow Hill Weaver’s Beer & Wine–Ocean City Whiskers Pub–Ocean City Wine Rack Ocean Gateway–Ocean City Your Store–Berlin
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AIA to host ‘Famous Storms of Assateague’ program, Sat. Presenter Chris Seymour will discuss three major events, impact on island (June 12, 2015) Assateague Island Alliance (AIA), the Friends Group of Assateague Island National Seashore (ASIS), will host the popular “Famous Storms of Assateague” program at Assateague Island Environmental Education Center on Saturday, June 13. Coffee and refreshments will be served at 9:30 a.m. prior to the program which begins at 10 a.m. Discover how Mother Nature shaped the fate of Assateague Island National Seashore; eliminated plans for development and led to the creation of the National Park we know today. Presenter Christopher Seymour, retired National Park Service ranger who spent 20 of his 33 years as a naturalist/park interpreter at Assateague, will revisit three major storms of the last century and their impacts on the island: 1) The August 1933 storm that wiped out seven blocks of the southern part of Ocean City, created the inlet, and resulted in the jetty system that has been starving Assateague of sand for more than 80 years; 2) The Ash Wednes-
day storm of 1962 that destroyed most (but not all) of the developer’s houses on Assateague Island; and 3) the 1992 Nor’easter, the effects of which caused the park to close for three months. This program is presented by the Friends Group in conjunction with the yearlong 50th anniversary celebration of Assateague Island National Seashore which was created in 1965. Due to the popularity of this series, this event will be held in a larger venue at the Assateague Island Environmental Education Center (old visitor center) located at 7206 National Seashore Lane, Berlin, Md. 21811. Overflow parking will be available next door at the new Assateague Island Visitor Center. Assateague Island Alliance (AIA), a 501(c)3 organization, is a Friends Group to benefit Assateague Island National Seashore. AIA financially supports educational, interpretive, scientific and recreational programs. All funds raised by AIA are for the direct benefit of Assateague Island National Seashore. Donations are tax-deductible. For more information, call 443614-3547 or email outreachAIA@gmail.com.
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Join World Wide Knit in Public Day
(June 12, 2015) World Wide Knit in Public Day is coming to the Ocean Pines Farmers Market on Saturday, June 13. This worldwide event is the world’s largest knitter event held every year since 2005. The event is free to everyone, and no registration is required, just join the fun at market. KIP (Knit In Public) participants will gather under the large trees along the Farmers’ Market main mid-way to knit. Bring a lawn chair or blankets to sit on and enjoy knitting together and socializing with other knitters and market shoppers from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Visit wwkipday.com to learn more about the worldwide event. For more information, contact Ocean Pines Farmers’ Market Manager, David Bean at 410-641-6383.
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High school grads celebrate in OC By Irish Kemp Contributing Writer (June 12, 2015) Is Ocean City ready for this year's grads? Would you believe they're already here in great numbers. So far, so good. Kinda' hard to believe that some of them arrived with the Ravens last week. If their smart parents were avid fans, they could have slipped into town and checked their kids out, with no one the wiser. What a great excuse. “Hey, we really trust you, we're only here to support our team.” Sounds plausible to me. It's a differ-
ent world out there these days. We used to call them "June Bugs," but now they arrive in mid May. Be sure to tell them all about the Play It Safe organization. Besides, all weeklong bus rides for a five dollar bill could save them a lot of grief and time looking for a parking place. H'mm, or if you're at the right place at the right time, you'll have a variety of opportunities to enjoy the fun rides, miniature golf, Boardwalk, bowling basketball and volleyball competitions at Northside Park or on the beach, absolutely free. The chance of meeting life-long friends or buddies from nearby states is great. Travel is an education and learning experience. Trust me kids, a trip home with irate parents if they have
to pick you up at the “hoose gow" is not the place to brag about. Our cops are nice guys, but don't push 'em. They'll be glad to tell you where the Play It Safe activities are being held on the beach. Many times these events involves free food and drinks. I'm still bopping around in beautiful Brandywine. Everybody knows there is no place like home, but not having to fix meals or do any chores helps my psych. Name a name, as in Reba, John, Richard Kathy, Terry, Linda, Brenda, Dolores and Bob, they're here. Happy birthday greetings to Sam, Arline, Elsa and Dorothy. Have a good one kids. Also to a few of my own kids, Steve, Jeanne, Kathy and PJ. C U in OC.
(June 12, 2015) The Commander Hotel on 14th Street and the Boardwalk, will host yoga classes starting in June. Poolside yoga will be offered Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8 a.m. under the direction of Patty Winkler. Participants do not need to be fit, flexible or experienced to enjoy the class. Classes will be located on the pool
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Academic honors Wor-Wic Community College student Logan Duncan of Berlin was recently named to the All-Maryland Academic Team, a competition sponsored by the Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) international honor society that recognizes academic excellence and Logan Duncan community service of two-year college students. Duncan was one of 17 students in Maryland to make the First Team. An honors student with a 4.0 grade
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Dean’s List Taylor Tobak of Berlin, a senior music major at York College of Pennsylvania, has been named to the Dean’s List for the spring 2015 semester. To be eligible for this honor, a student must be registered for at least 12 academic credit hours and earn a semester GPA of 3.50 or higher.
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On behalf of the American Cancer Society and Relay For Life, team BJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extends its heartfelt gratitude to the following for their most generous support.
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COMMUNITY BRIEFS Continued from Page 98 and outstanding service to the law school community.” She was also recognized for her service as the law school representative on the Graduate Council and as that organization’s representative to the William and Mary Student Government. She also received an award for her public service. She is relocating to Charlotte, N.C., where she will study for the North Carolina bar examination. Following the bar examination, she will join the Individual Advocacy Team pursuant to a post-graduate fellowship provided by the Council for Children’s Rights. A graduate of Worcester Preparatory School in Berlin, Whalan is the daughter of Judith Ann Whalan, of Cape Isle of Wight and the late Richard Mayo.
Excellence in physics Jon Rothermel, son of Bob and Amy Rothermel of Ocean City, received the Excellence in Physics Award at Salisbury University. The award is given to seniors who have demonstrated a high level of general academic achievement and excellence in engineering. Rothermel is a senior majoring in physics. He is a member of SU’s Society of Physics Students and a 2011 graduate of Stephen Decatur High School.
Author Worcester Preparatory School alumna Erin Hagar ’92 is the author of a new book, “Julia Child: An Extraordinary Life in Words and Pictures,” published by DuoPress, 2015. The biography targets children ages 813 as it presents the famous chef via a Erin Hagar fresh, new approach, delicious ingredients and exceptional taste. Hagar’s prose in the book has been called “sparkling” and “full of rich sensations.” Combining her words with the art of Joanna Gorham, Hagar hopes to encourage upper elementary and middle school children to delight in the fascinating life of Julia Child. Hagar graduated from University of Delaware, Phi Beta Kappa, and holds Master’s degrees from American University and John Hopkins University. While at Hopkins, she helped faculty members with adapting course materials for online access.
Meritorious Award Megan Burak, daughter of Jim and Diana Burak of Berlin, received the Art
Department Meritorious Award at Salisbury University. The Art Department Meritorious Award is presented to an art student in honor of their abilities in the field. Students must submit a portfolio of their work along with a written statement emphasizing outstanding achievement. Burak is a senior majoring in art. She is a 2011 graduate of Stephen Decatur High School.
New board member The Joshua M. Freeman Foundation announces the appointment of Marnie Oursler to its Board of Directors. Oursler is the founder and president of Marnie Custom Homes, which builds community by giving back: whether by using locally-sourced materials, helping stuMarnie Oursler dents get hands-on learning opportunities, or supporting arts education for underprivileged kids. Oursler has been nationally recognized as Professional Builder Magazine’s “40 Under 40” and was awarded 2015 Best of Design by
Houzz.com. Additionally, she received one of the world’s most distinguished business honors, the Gold Stevie® Award as Entrepreneur of the Year for Women in Business. A graduate of the Cross Continent MBA program at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, Oursler is a guest lecturer at the University of Maryland’s Graduate School of Architecture and a frequent public speaker on topics including design, women and business. The Joshua M. Freeman Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, was established in 2007 to honor Josh Freeman, the former Chair of the Carl M. Freeman Foundation, after his untimely death in December of 2006.
Best All Around Stephen Decatur High School senior Jake Gaddis was named the Best All Around student during the Senior Awards Banquet on May 18. Gaddis is the National Honor Society president, a two-sport athlete and he served as the Worcester County Student Page for the Maryland General Assembly this year. Gaddis will attend Virginia Tech this fall.
DAR WELCOMES FARLOW The General Levin Winder Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) welcomed a new junior member during its recent luncheon meeting at Worcester Preparatory School. Regent Barbara May, right, and Chaplain Ann Fowler, left, administered the oath of membership to Madeline Farlow who is a student at Washington College. Her Revolutionary War ancestor is Private William Collier of Maryland. DAR is a women’s service organization dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving American history, and securing America’s future through better education. For more information, visit www.dar.org.
VOLUNTEERS APPRECIATED Diakonia hosted a Volunteer Appreciation Picnic on May 16 at Stephen Decatur Park in Berlin to honor more than 100 volunteers who give their time to the organization. Pictured, from left, are Communications Coordinator Anna O'Neill, Board Member Bill Jones, Delegate Mary Beth Carozza, Volunteer Coordinator Susan Blaney and volunteers Genessa Bambino and Jordan Holt.
DONATION The Auxiliary of Atlantic General Hospital and Health System recently held its awards luncheon and presented President and CEO, Michael Franklin, FACHE, second from right, with a check in the amount of $180,000 for its fiscal year 2015 fundraising efforts. Pictured, from left, are Mary Ellen Arena, corresponding secretary, Auxiliary; Ann Hamilton, treasurer, Auxiliary; Janice Slaysman, vice president, Auxiliary; Michael Gough, president, Auxiliary; Franklin and J. Bergey, Jr. treasurer, AGH Board of Trustees.
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COLLEGE SCHOLArSHIPS Celebrating the college scholarships awarded by the Art League of Ocean City and the Katherine Ellen Brown Fund at the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore, at the Ocean City Center for the Arts last Friday, from left, are Lyn Burr, Marian Bickerstaff, Kayla Isaac, Molly Wooten, rina Thaler, B.J. Summers, Kasey Jones and Judy Tremellen. Not pictured is scholarship recipient Trent Carpenter.
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FEATUrED ArTIST Painter Sandra Esham is the artist in residence in Studio E at the Ocean City Center for the Arts on 94th Street during June.
MUSIC AND DANCE During the annual Spring Music & Art Festival, Worcester Preparatory School Lower School music teacher Alana Parker led students in Pre-Kindergarten through fifth grade in a venue of music and dance selections in a program called, “Musical Mallards Take Flight.” The music and dances presented reflected the diverse cultures represented by the students in Worcester’s Lower School.
MANAGEMENT TEAM SPELLING BEE WINNErS Each year, Worcester Preparatory School’s third grade students compete in a Spelling Bee. This year’s best spellers, from left, are Madilyn Nechay, third place; Isabella Sapna, second, and Emma Crivella. Students in Allison Bescak’s and Yetive Delaney’s classes participated in the Spelling Bee.
The Delmarva Chorus of Sweet Adelines International recently installed its 2015-2016 Management Team. Standing, from left, are Charlene Vanvick, Ginny Stannard, Elissa Mulligan, Jean Beatty and Jeannette Latzo, and seated, Sharon Hunt, Catherine Walker and Director Carol Ludwig. Delmarva Chorus meets year-round every Monday, 7 p.m. at the Ocean Pines Community Center. For more information, visit delmarvachorus.org.
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Dine in, take out and delivery available. ■ BOURBON STREET ON THE BEACH, 116th Street & Coastal Hwy., (Behind Fountain Head Towers Condominium), Ocean City 443-664-2896 / www.bourbonstreetonthebeach. com / $$-$$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations recommended for large parties / Children’s menu/ Full bar / Serving Lunch & Dinner. Eastern Shore fare with a New Orleans Flare. Seafood, Steaks & Pasta dishes—Specializing in Jambalaya, Creole, & Gumbo. Home of the Ragin’ Cajun Bloody Mary. Happy Hour 4-7 p.m. Weekly entertainment. Like us on Facebook. ■ BRASS BALLS SALOON, Boardwalk, between 11th and 12th streets, Ocean City 410-289-0069 / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations suggested for parties of 10 or more / Children’s menu / Full bar / Serving breakfast 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and full menu until midnight. Casual dining on the Boardwalk overlooking the beach. Happy Hour Sunday through Friday, 3-6 p.m. ■ BUDDY’S CRABS & RIBS, Wicomico Street and the Bay, (formerly Bahama Mama’s), Ocean City 410-2890500 / www.buddysoc / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full inside & outside bar / Bayfront inside and outside dining. All Crabs steamed-to-order, ribs, K&M (Buddy's brand) fried chicken, fresh seafood, burgers, sandwiches and more. Open 7 days, 11 a.m. til late night. Live entertainment on the deck. Daily lunch and dinner specials. Carry out food/beer/wine available. TEXT "Crab" to 95577. ■ CAPTAIN’S TABLE RESTAURANT, 15th Street and the Boardwalk, Ocean City 410-289-7192 / www.captainstableoc.com / $$-$$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Family-owned, serving fine seafood, steaks and poultry on the third floor of the Courtyard by Marriott. ■ COACHES CORNER, 74th Street and Coastal Highway, Ocean City 410-723-2468 / $ / V-MC-DIS/ No reservations required / Children’s menu / Open 7 days a week, 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Happy hour, 6-7 a.m. Serving breakfast all day and lunch. Our restaurant offers casual dining atmosphere for families. Family owned and operated, everything home made from our white egg omelets to fresh squeezed OJ. ■ COCONUTS BEACH BAR AND GRILL, Castle in the Sand Hotel, 37th St & the Beach, Ocean City 1-800552-7263 / www.castleinthesand.com / $-$$ / V-MCAE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Beachfront open-air dining in a tropical setting. Serving grilled sandwiches, specialty salads, appetizers, wraps, tacos and your favorite frozen drinks, beer and wine. Children’s menu. Live entertainment daily 5/79/27/15. Happy Hour daily 5-6pm, 2-for-1 drink specials. Waitress service on the beach Memorial Day thru Labor Day. Coconuts is open daily 11am – 11pm, weather permitting. ■ COINS, 28th Street and Coastal Highway, Ocean City 410-524 3100 / www.coinspub.com / $-$$ / VMC-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar/ Open 7 days a week, 11 a.m. Our restaurant offers a casual dining atmosphere for families. Best crab cakes in town, hand-cut steaks, fresh seafood. Everything home-made. Happy hour 3-6 p.m., 7 days a week and early bird 4-6 p.m., daily specials. ■ DOUGH ROLLER, South Division Street & Boardwalk, 410-289-3501; 3rd Street & Boardwalk, 410289-2599; 41st Street & Coastal Hwy, 410-524-9254; 70th Street & Coastal Hwy, 410-524-7981 / www.DoughRollerRestaurants.com / $ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Ocean City’s favorite family restaurant for 35 years. Great kid’s menu. Dayton’s Boardwalk Famous Fried Chicken and Seafood now served — fresh breaded and cooked to order. Available at South Division, 41st and 70th St lo-
cations. ■ DUFFYS, 130th St., in Montego Bay Shopping Ctr. & Coastal Highway, Ocean City 410-250 1449 / www.duffysoc.com / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Casual dining indoor or outdoor seating. Irish fare & American cuisine—Something for everyone our menu features appetizers, soups, salads, sandwiches, steaks & seafood. Dine In, Carry Out, Happy Hour Daily 3-6 pm. ■ FAGER’S ISLAND RESTAURANT & BAR, 60th Street on the bay, Ocean City 410-524-5500 / www.fagers.com / $$-$$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted in the dining room only / Children’s menu / Full bar / Upscale restaurant on the bay. Casual fine dining, fresh fish, prime rib and seafood. Lighter fare menu served on our decks or inside. ■ FISHTALES BAR & GRILL, 21st Street and the Bay, Ocean City 410-289-0990 / www.ocfishtales.com / $$$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / FishTales located in a premier outdoor beach location on the bay with the best sunsets. Come for the best local fare. We offer lunch and dinner with great happy hour food and drink specials. Kids play area too!!!! So sit back and enjoy. ■ GENERAL’S KITCHEN, 66th Street (under The Skye Bar), Ocean City 410-723-0477/ $-$$ / V-MC-DIS / No reservations required / Open 7 days, 6:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Everybody loves breakfast and that is what we are about. House Specialty and The Original House of Creamed Chipped Beef, we make it from scratch and it’s our own recipe! We have it all from juice, cereal, waffles, eggs, corned beef, hash browns, pancakes, bacon, sausage and more. General’s Kitchen #1 Breakfast place in OC. ■ GROTTO PIZZA, 14th Street on the boardwalk, Ocean City 443-664-2617 / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full Bar / OC’s newest spot to watch people on the boardwalk, indoor dining and deck dining. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. Open 7 days. 125th Street and Coastal Highway, Ocean City 410-250-1234 / Serving lunch and dinner. Open 7 days. Grotto Pizza is a family casual dining restaurant that specializes in award winning pizza and hospitality. The full menu includes pizza, pasta, sandwiches, subs, appetizers, salads, beer, wine, cocktails and Grotto Gelato. Takeout available. ■ HARBORSIDE BAR & GRILL, 12841 S. Harbor Road, West Ocean City 410-213-1846 / www.ocharborside.com / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Open seven days a week, 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Casual waterfront dining serving seafood, steaks, sandwiches, salads, wraps and pasta. Home of the “Original Orange Crush.” Entertainment everyday. ■ HARPOON HANNA’S RESTAURANT & BAR, Route 54 and the bay, Fenwick Island, Del. www.harpoonhannasrestaurant.com / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Casual waterfront restaurant serving lunch, dinner. Fresh fish, seafood, steaks, sandwiches and all-you-can-eat Alaskan crab legs. Open year-round. ■ HEMINGWAY’S AT THE CORAL REEF, 17th Street, in the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites, Ocean City 410-2892612 / www.ocmdhotels.com/hemingways / $$$ / VMC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Elegant dining room, Floridian/island-style cuisine. Sea-food, tropical salsas, grilled steaks, pork chops, grilled pineapple, banana fritters, entree salads. ■ HIGGINS CRAB HOUSE, 31st Street, Ocean City, 410-289-2581 / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / We have proudly served Ocean City, Maryland for over 40 years. Known for All You Can Eat crabs, crab legs, fried chicken, steamed shrimp, and baby back ribs. ■ HOOTERS, Route 50 & Keyser Point Rd., West Ocean City 410-213-1841 and 5th Street, Ocean City / www.hootersofoc.com / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Full bar / Open daily at 11 a.m. Brand new menu. Delicious juicy burgers, garden fresh salads, 12 delicious wing sauces and signature seafood entrees. Tropical frozen drinks and signature Hooters cocktails. Large parties are welcome. Call for private party information. Carry out available. The year round Route 50 location features happy hour daily, live entertainment every weekend and Bike Night every Wednesday. ■ HORIZONS OCEANFRONT RESTAURANT, 101st Street, Ocean City 410-524-3535 / www.clarionoc.com / $-$$ ($20-45) / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Open tables / Children’s menu / Full bar / Horizons Oceanfront Restaurant is proud to serve delicious, beach-inspired dishes in both our oceanfront restaurants, Horizons and Breakers Pub. New all-day menu, available 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., features many favorites, as well as exciting new creations with a local flare. Deluxe Sunday breakfast buffet open year-round and AUCE prime rib, crab legs and seafood buffet available most weekends. ■ JOHNNY’S PIZZA PUB, 56th Street, Ocean City 410-723-5600 / www.johnnyspizzapub.com / $ / V-MCAE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Ocean City’s official pizzeria and pub featuring homemade pizzas, serving 18 different gourmet pizzas including local favorites. Huge variety of calzones, subs, burgers and sandwiches to choose from. Ocean City’s place for jumbo wings with 20 different sauces. Voted best sound system for live music. Carry out or delivery til 4 a.m. ■ JULES FINE DINING, 118th Street, Ocean City 410524-3396 / www.ocjules.com / $$, $$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Local fare, global flair. Fresh seafood year-round, fresh local produce.
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■ KITCHEN RESTAURANT, Corner of Philadelphia & Wicomico Street, Ocean City 410-289-2226 / $ / VMC-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Free parking for customers. Open for breakfast and lunch 7 days per week. Home-style cooking, family atmosphere and reasonable prices. Breakfast features huge omelets, home-made cream chip beef, delicious French toast and Momma’s Home-Made Greek Pasteries. Fresh produce from our own gardens. ■ KY WEST BAR & RESTAURANT, 5401 Coastal Highway, Ocean City 443-664-2836 / www.kywestoceancity.com / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Ky West is becoming the local's fine dining and casual fare destination. Ocean City's best veal chop, the freshest seafood and great pasta dishes. Our experienced chefs deliver the finest in cuisine nightly. Ky West has a fine dining side, as well as a beautiful bar best described as New York funky chic. Whether you chill out on our sofas, hang in the bar, or grab a table, Ky West will provide excellent food & drink for a great dining adventure. ■ LONGBOARD CAFÉ, 67th Street Town Center, Ocean City 443 664 5639 / www.longboardcafe.net / $$ / V-MC-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / We are the locals favorite serving lunch and dinner. Longboard Cafés menu offers unparalleled flare from the lite fare to dinner entrees — offering a variety of burgers, paninis, sandwiches and salads … even a popular "veggies" menu featuring their famous wrinkled green beans. Signature house libiations and signature entrees made with the finest ingredients from local farms and fisheries. A family restaurant. ■ MACKY'S BAYSIDE BAR AND GRILL, 5311 Coastal Highway, Ocean City 410-723-5565 / www.mackys.com / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Macky’s is a rustic open air water front seafood restaurant and bar with a beautiful private white sandy beach. Open for lunch everyday at 11 a.m., Happy Hour from 3-6 p.m. and dinner until 10 p.m. Lite fare until 1 a.m. Take out available. ■ MARINA DECK, 306 Dorchester St., Ocean City 410-289-4411 / www.marinadeckrestaurant.com / $$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted for large parties / Children’s menu / Full bar / Ocean City, Maryland's #1 Seafood restaurant! Check out our delicious AYCE Menu: Steamed Shrimp, BBQ Ribs, and Blue Crabs & Crab Legs. Relax and enjoy your dinner while the kids play in our brand new multi-level kid’s area! Join us for lunch & dinner in our dining room or on our open air, roof top deck or at the Wild Pony Bar for our signature cocktails and breathtaking Assateague Island view! ■ OC WASABI, 16th Street and Philadelphia Avenue, Ocean City 410-390-3835 / www.ocwasabi.com / $ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Grab & Go, Take Out Sushi Bar, Open 7 Days, 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. 33rd Street Plaza Coastal Highway, Ocean City 410-524-7337 / $$ / V-MC-AEDIS / No reservations required / Full bar / OC’s freshest, steamed sushi and sashimi and Japanese cuisine. Open 7 days a week, noon to 11 p.m. ■ P.G.N. CRABHOUSE, 29th Street, Ocean City 410289-8380 / $ / V-MC-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Beer, wine / The Kaouris family has been serving the finest crabs, seafood, steaks and chicken to Ocean City locals and visitors since 1969. ■ PHILLIPS SEAFOOD, Crab House, 21st Street, Ocean City 410-289-7747 and Seafood House, 141st Street, Ocean City 410-250-1689 / PhillipsSeafood.com / $$-$$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Full bar / Traditional Dining - Buffet - Carry Out. Early Bird Menu when seated before 5pm - All-You-Can-Eat Buffet - Voted OC’s Best Buffet. Featuring over 75 items including Snow Crab Legs, Carving Station, Made to Order Pasta, Handmade Crab Cakes & so much more. ■ POPEYE’S LOUISIANA KITCHEN, Route 50, West Ocean City 443-664-2105 / $ / V-MC / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Family restaurant. Eat-in, carry out or drive-thru. Open seven days, yearround. Every Tuesday, two-piece chicken for 99 cents. Every Wednesday, free kids meal with purchase of combo. ■ ROPEWALK, 82nd Street on the bay, Ocean City 410-524-1109 / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full Bar / OC’s newest spot to watch the sunsets. Indoor dining and bar, deck dining and tiki bar. Serving lunch and dinner in relaxed casual atmosphere. Happy hour specials Monday through Friday, 2- 6 p.m. Every Thursday Hawaiian Luau and live entertainment daily. Open 7 days a week, 11 a.m. – 2 a.m. combo. ■ ROPEWALK - A FENWICK ISLAND OYSTER HOUSE, 700 Coastal Highway, Fenwick Island, Del. 302-5810153 / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted except 6-9 p.m. / Children’s menu / Family restaurant / Takeout available except between 6-9 p.m. / Full Bar / Lunch and dinner served. Family friendly dining with a rotating oyster list and seafood creations paired with our fresh fruit crushes and extensive craft beer menu. ■ SEACRETS, 49th Street, Ocean City 410-524-4900 / www.seacrets.com / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Island atmosphere. Soups, salads, Jamaican jerk chicken, appetizers, sandwiches, paninis, pizza and fresh seafood. ■ SEASONS OCEANFRONT RESTAURANT, 118th Street, in the Carousel Oceanfront Hotel and Condos, Ocean City 410-524-1000 / www.carouselhotel.com / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Open seven days a week. Oceanfront dining in a casual atmosphere. Serving
breakfast from 7-11 a.m., featuring a breakfast buffet or special order from the regular menu. Dinner served from 4-9 p.m., featuring a wide variety of entrees, seafood, ribs, steaks, pasta and prime rib. Join us for family theme night dinners. ■ SHENANIGAN’S IRISH PUB, Fourth Street and the Boardwalk, in the Shoreham Hotel, Ocean City 410289-7181 / www.ocshenanigans.com / $-$$ / V-MCAE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Oceanfront dining. Enjoy great food and delicious libations while enjoying the boardwalks sights and sounds. Irish music or dueling pianos top off the evening. ■ SHRIMP BOAT, 9924 Stephen Decatur Highway, West Ocean City 410-213-0448 / shrimpboatoc.com / $- $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Beer, wine / Steamed crabs and shrimp. Full menu featuring homemade soups, salads, seafood appetizers, fish and shrimp tacos, crab cakes, sandwiches, seafood dinner entrees, burgers and wings. Fresh seafood market with daily shrimp specials. ■ SICULI RUSTIC ITALIAN KITCHEN, 104 N. Main St., Berlin 410-629-0550 / FB-Siculi Italian Kitchen / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Full Bar / Family friendly. Open for lunch and dinner, 11 a.m.; Sunday brunch, 10:30 a.m. Locally sourced, freshly prepared. Award-winning brick oven pizza, steaks, seafood, chicken and veal selections. Daily lunch, happy hour and dinner specials. ■ SKYE RAW BAR & GRILLE, 66th Street, Ocean City 410-723-6762 / www.skyebaroc.com / $$-$$$ / V-M-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Full bar / Enjoy lunch, dinner, raw bar or lite fare in the Skye, at the top of 66th Street and Coastal Highway. Amazing views of Ocean City, the ocean and bay with spectacular sunsets overlooking Sunset Island. Celebrate happy hour 7 days a week, 3 - 6 p.m. with great food and drink specials including $1 oysters and $15 1 1/4 pound whole lobsters. Live entertainment Fridays & Saturdays, 4-8 p.m. with additional days in season. Entertainment schedule online. ■ THE COTTAGE CAFE, Route 1 (across from Sea Colony), Bethany Beach, Del. 302-539-8710 / www.cottagecafe.com / $, $$ / V-MC-AE / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Seafood, kids’ menu, happy hour specials. Lunch and dinner daily. Breakfast buffet on weekends. ■ THE COVE AT OCEAN PINES, 1 Mumford’s Landing Road, Ocean Pines 410-641-7501 / www.oceanpines.org/ $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS/No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Casual Waterfront - The Cove at Ocean Pines Yacht Club in an all new gorgeous bayfront setting, specializing in coastal cuisine. Serving lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch. Inside and outside dining areas. Open-air bar and live entertainment. Check Web site for special events. Open everyday. ■ THE CRAB BAG, 130th Street, bayside, Ocean City 410-250-3337 / www.thecrabbag.com / $-$$ / V-MCAE / No reservations required / Full bar / Dine in and carryout. Open 7 Days a week, 11 am til late night. Huge menu; something for everyone. Hot steamed crabs, world famous fried chicken, ribs, burgers, barbecue, pasta, seafood, steaks, sandwiches and more. Lunch and weekly carry-out and dinner specials. The best happy hour at the beach with drink and food specials. ■ TOKYO SEAFOOD BUFFET, 131st Street (formerly JR’S North), Ocean City 410-390-5939 / $$ / V-MCAE/ No reservations required / Full bar/ OC’s largest seafood, all-you-can-eat buffet featuring soups, raw sushi and sashimi, steamed and baked seafood along with classic Chinese entrees and many classic desserts and fruits. Open 7 days a week. ■ TWININGS LOBSTER SHANTY, Rt. 54, Fenwick Island, Del. 302-436-2305 / www.twiningsshanty.com / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations suggested / Children's menu / Full bar / A funky little place at the edge of town. Features classic New England fare, with lobsters, steaks and burgers. Open for lunch and dinner. ■ VICTORIAN ROOM RESTAURANT, Dunes Manor Hotel, OCEANFRONT at 28th and Baltimore Ave, Ocean City 410-289-1100 / www.dunesmanor.com / $$ - $$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations not required but recommended / Full Bar / Children’s menu / Open year round. An elegant oceanfront dining atmosphere with local, farm to table/sea to table cuisine. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner daily 7:30am to 9:00pm (Fri & Sat to 10pm). Also featuring Zippy Lewis Lounge with happy hour from 4-7p.m., featuring Craft Beer selections and appetizer menu; Milton’s Out Door Cafe; and the Barefoot Beach Bar in season. ■ VINNY’S PIZZA & ITALIAN GRILL, 25th Street and Philadelphia Avenue, Ocean City 410-390-3713 / www.vinnyspizzaanditlaiangrille.com / $ / V-MC-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Beer, wine/ Open 7 days a week, 11 a.m. Serving lunch and dinner. Our restaurant offers authentic Italian food featuring subs, sandwiches, burgers and entrees. Hand tossed, made from scratch pizzas. Family friendly, eat in and carry out. ■ WHISKERS PUB, 120th Street, OC Square, Ocean City 410-524-2609 / www.whiskerspub.com / $ / VMC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Old World saloon-type feel, Whisker’s is famous for its Certified Angus®burgers and delicious casual fare, as well as its entertaining atmosphere and photo lined walls of famous and infamous “whiskers.” Enjoy flat screen TVs to watch your favorite sports. Open year-round, 11:30 a.m. to 2 a.m., serving lunch and dinner daily. Happy hour every day 4-7 p.m. Nightly food specials.
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FRI. June 12 ‘PLAY IT SAFE’ TENNIS — OC Tennis Cen-
ter, 61st Street, bayside. Sign ups at 1 p.m. Free, alcohol- and drug-free event for 2015 high school graduates I.D. may be required at registration. Info: Al “Hondo” Handy, 410-250-0125. Columbus Hall, 9901 Coastal Highway (behind St. Luke’s Church), Ocean City. Doors open at 5 p.m. and games begin at 6:30 p.m. Refreshments for sale. Info: 410-524-7994.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS BINGO —
CRAB CAKE DINNER — Stevenson United
Methodist Church, 123 N. Main St., Berlin, 4-7 p.m. Single crab cake sandwich, seasoned baked potato and garden salad. Cost is $10. Carry outs and bake table available. Info: 410-641-1137.
2ND FRIDAY ART STROLL — Downtown
Berlin, 5-8 p.m. Artist Kate Cashman will be at Bleached Butterfly; Joan Cooper and Andrew Heller at Salt Water Media; Dawn Tarr at Bungalow Love; Potter Jessie Martin at jjFish; Susan Donahoe at NEST; The Country Grass Band at Victorian Charm; and Lahsib Pouodel at Baked Dessert Cafe. Info: 410-629-1716.
SAT. June 13
OC AIR SHOW — Ocean City Boardwalk at 16th Street, 1-4 p.m. Spectators can see the show free of charge along the entire length of the Boardwalk. VIP seating also available. For a line-up of performers, schedule of events and to purchase VIP tickets, visit www.ocairshow.com.
OC CAR & TRUCK SHOW — Ocean City
convention center, 4001 Coastal Highway, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Featuring amazing vehicles from tuners to exotics, from trick trucks to slammed SUV’s, from crazy classics to super bikes. Also top name companies with interactive displays, vendors and live performances. Updates on artists and special guests: www.occarshow.com. Admission cost is $16 for adults; $10 for children ages 812 and seniors (65+; and free to children 7 and younger. Weekend passes also available. Tickets sold at the door. Info: Brian Stoehr, 302-436-0183, occarshow02@aol.com or www.occarshow.com. Friends of Poplar Hill Mansion, 117 Elizabeth St., Salisbury, noon. To honor the
HUSTON FAMILY LUNCHEON BUFFET —
Hustons, first family living in the Mansion in 1805. Board members will be dressed in Federal apparel and guest are welcome to come as you are or dress in the clothing of the federal period. Menu includes ham, cheese, breads, fruits, vegetables and cake. Raffle items to bid on. Tickets cost $22. Reservations: 410749-1776 or 410-749-5168. Donations of non perishable food items accepted.
COMMUNITY YARD SALE — Germantown
School Community Heritage Center, 10223 Trappe Road, Berlin, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Spaces are available for $10 by calling 410-641-0638. Bring your own table. Rain date is June 20.
BBQ CHICKEN — St. Paul United
Methodist Church, 405 Flower St., Berlin, 11 a.m. A half BBQ chicken and roll for $8. Info: Patrick Henry, 410641-0450 or 443-880-4746. Ocean Pines library, 11107 Cathell Road, 9 a.m. Scott Lennox, 10 year host of “Hooked on OC,” will touch on all things fishing in Ocean City and share some fishing tips. All are welcome. Info: Jack Barnes, 410-641-7662.
OCEAN PINES ANGLERS CLUB MEETING —
KNIT IN PUBLIC DAY — Ocean Pines
Farmers Market, White Horse Park, 239 Ocean Parkway, Ocean Pines. Participants will gather along the Farmers Market main mid-way to knit. Take a lawn chair or blanket. Free event. Info: wwkipday.com or David Bean, 410-6416383.
PANCAKE BREAKFAST — Ocean City Mu-
nicipal Airport, Terminal Building, 9 a.m. to noon, through April 25. Serving pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, etc., and coffee. Suggested donation is $7. Proceeds support the Huey Veteran’s Memorial Display. Info: Airport Ops, 410-213-2471 or Coleman Bunting, 410726-7207.
PANCAKE BREAKFAST — VFW, Post 8296, 104 66th St., bayside in Ocean City, 8-11 a.m. A $5 donation for all-you-can-eat pancakes or 2-2-2, two eggs, two pancakes and two bacon slices. Info: 410524-8196.
FARMERS MARKET — White Horse Park, 239 Ocean Parkway, Ocean Pines, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Locally grown vegetables and fruits, eggs, honey, kettle korn, flowers, artisan breads, seafood, meats and more. New vendors welcome. Info: 410641-7717, Ext. 3006. HABITAT FOR HUMANITY WAREHOUSE
OPEN — Habitat for Humanity of Worcester County Warehouse, 7033 Worcester Highway, Newark, 8 a.m. to noon. Currently accepting donations in the form of gently used furniture, appliances and building supplies. Info: 410208-4440.
SUN. June 14
OC AIR SHOW — Ocean City Boardwalk at 16th Street, 1-4 p.m. Spectators can see the show free of charge along the entire length of the Boardwalk. VIP seating also available. For a line-up of performers, schedule of events and to purchase VIP tickets, visit www.ocairshow.com.
OC CAR & TRUCK SHOW — Ocean City
convention center, 4001 Coastal Highway, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Featuring amazing vehicles from tuners to exotics, from trick trucks to slammed SUV’s, from crazy classics to super bikes. Also top name companies with interactive displays, vendors and live performances. Updates on artists and special guests: www.occarshow.com. Admission cost is $16 for adults; $10 for children ages 812 and seniors (65+; and free to children 7 and younger. Weekend passes also available. Tickets sold at the door. Info: Brian Stoehr, 302-436-0183, occarshow02@aol.com or www.occarshow.com. Somerset Street Plaza, just off of the Ocean City Boardwalk, 2:30-6:30 p.m. Ocean City Cruzers will display approximately 15 vehicles. Live music or DJ provided. Info: 410-289-7739.
OC CRUZERS CAR SHOW & MUSIC —
OC BEACH LIGHTS — Ocean City beach at N. Division Street, 9:30 p.m., 10 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. A five-story tall inflatable sphere featuring a visual laser, lighting, special effects, video and audio production. Each 8-minute show also features fireworks effects. Free event. Info: 800-626-2326 or www.ocbeachlights.com.
‘PLAY IT SAFE’ KARAOKE — Ocean City
beach at Third Street, 6-8 p.m. Free, alcohol- and drug-free event for 2015 high school graduates. I.D. may be required at registration. Info: Al “Hondo” Handy, 410-250-0125.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS BREAKFAST SPECIAL — Columbus Hall, 9901 Coastal Highway (behind St. Luke’s Church), Ocean City, 8:30-11:30 a.m. Menu includes scrambled eggs, western omelet, bacon, sausage, home fries, chipped beef, toast, French toast, pancakes, blueberry pancakes, orange juice and coffee. Cost is $9 for adults and $4 for children 7 and younger. Info: 410-524-7994.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS — Atlantic General Hospital, Conference Room 2, 9733 Healthway Drive, Berlin, noon to 1 p.m. Group shares experience, strength
and hope to help others. Open to the community and to AGH patients. Info: Rob, 443-783-3529.
SHARING SUNDAY — Ocean Pines South
Fire Station, South Gate, Ocean Parkway, 1-3 p.m. The Democratic Women’s Club will collect non-perishable food, toiletries and paper products to be shared with a local food ministry. Info: 410-641-8553.
BERLIN GYMNASTICS CLUB FUNDRAISER — Burley Oak Brewing Company, 10016
Old Ocean City Boulevard, Berlin, 2-5 p.m. Raffle, 50/50 and more. Info: Amanda Cropper, 441-614-0141.
CONCERT ON THE LAWN — Calvin B. Taylor House Museum, 208 N. Main St., Berlin, 6 p.m. Featuring “Such Fools.” Take a lawn chair or blanket. Sponsored by the Berlin Heritage Foundation. Info: 410-629-1716. Front lawn of Bethany United Methodist Church, 8648 Stephen Decatur Highway, Berlin, 8:30 a.m., Sundays, through Sept. 27. Take a lawn chair or blanket. Held indoors during inclement weather. Info: 410-641-2186 or Bethany21811@gmail.com.
OUTDOOR CASUAL WORSHIP SERVICE —
PANCAKE BREAKFAST — Ocean City Mu-
nicipal Airport, Terminal Building, 9 a.m. to noon, through April 26. Serving pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, etc., and coffee. Suggested donation is $7. Proceeds support the Huey Veteran’s Memorial Display. Info: Airport Ops, 410-213-2471 or Coleman Bunting, 410726-7207.
OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS #169 — At-
lantic General Hospital, Conference Room 1, 9733 Healthway Drive, Berlin, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Group is a 12-step program for anyone struggling with a compulsive eating problem. No initial meeting charge. Meeting contribution is $1 weekly. Info: Bett, 410-202-9078.
SUNDAY NIGHT SERENITY AL-ANON FAMILY GROUP MEETING — Woodlands in
Ocean Pines, Independent Living Apartment Building, 1135 Ocean Parkway, Ocean Pines, 7:30 p.m.
MON. June 15 LIVING HEALTHY WITH HYPERTENSION WORKSHOP — Selbyville library, 11 Main
and McCabe streets, Selbyville, Del., 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Interactive program that teaches how to better manage high blood pressure. Register: 410-641-9268.
CPAP MASK FITTING — Atlantic General
Hospital Sleep Disorders Diagnostic Center, 9733 Healthway Drive, Berlin. Free, monthly mask fitting clinic for patients who are having trouble adjusting to their CPAP equipment. By appoint-
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DEMOCRATIC WOMEN’S CLUB SPRING LUNCHEON AND SILENT AUCTION —
Lighthouse Sound Restaurant, 12723 St Martins Neck Road, Bishopville, 11:30 a.m. Speaker will be Commissioner Diana Purnell. Reservations: 814-322-2119.
HISTORIC MUSEUM OPEN — Historic St.
Martin’s Church Museum, 11413 Worcester Highway, Showell, Mondays, 1-4 p.m., June through September. Info: 410-251-2849.
DELMARVA SWEET ADELINE CHORUS MEETS WEEKLY — The Delmarva Chorus,
Sweet Adeline’s, meets each Monday from 7-9 p.m., at the Ocean Pines Community Center, 239 Ocean Parkway. Women interested in learning the craft of a cappella singing welcome. Info: 410641-6876.
TUES. June 16 Ocean City beach at Third Street. Signups at 4:30 p.m., games at 6 p.m. Free, alcohol- and drug-free event for 2015 high school graduates I.D. may be required at registration. Info: Al “Hondo” Handy, 410-250-0125.
‘PLAY IT SAFE’ BEACH VOLLEYBALL —
STEPPING ON FALL PREVENTION WORKSHOP — Pocomoke Senior Center, 400
Walnut St., #B, Pocomoke City, noon to 2 p.m. A well-researched falls prevention program for seniors. The workshop is free and meets for two hours a week for seven weeks, June 2-July 14. Info: 410-957-0391.
dillon128@aol.com.
WED. June 17
MOVIE ON THE BEACH — Carousel Resort Hotel and Condominiums, 118th Street and oceanfront in Ocean City, 8:30 p.m. Free movie on the beach featuring “Muppets Most Wanted.” Take a beach chair or blanket. Info: 800-626-2326. HYPERTENSION CLINICS — Sponsored by
Atlantic General Hospital and takes place at Walgreens, Bethany Beach, Del., 10 a.m. to noon and at Walgreens, Selbyville, Del., 1-3 p.m. Free blood pressure screening and health information. Info: Dawn Denton, 410-641-9268.
BINGO — Every Wednesday at Ocean
City Elks Lodge 2645, 138th Street and Sinepuxent Avenue, rear of the Fenwick Inn. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., games start 6:30 p.m. Food is available. Open to the public. No one allowed in the hall under 18 years of age during bingo. Info: 410-250-2645.
DELMARVA HAND DANCE CLUB — Meets
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Fitness, 12319 Ocean Gateway, West Ocean City, 5 p.m. Weight loss support group with discussions about nutrition, exercise, health and weight loss. Cost is $5 per meeting. Info:
2308 Philadelphia Ave., in Ocean City, every Thursday, year round. Doors open at 5 p.m., games start at 6:30 p.m. Food available. Open to the public. Info: 410289-3166.
CHAIR AEROBICS — St. Peter’s Lutheran Church Community Life Center, 10301 Coastal Highway, Ocean City, 1-2 p.m. Free will offering appreciated. Sponsored by St. Peter’s Senior Adult Ministry. Info: 410-524-7474.
ONGOING EVENTS
Talbot St., Ocean City, August 5-6, 6-9 p.m. The two-night course will provide you with an American Red Cross First Aid certification (Aug. 5, $30) and an American Heart Association CPR certification (Aug. 6, $20), both good for two years. Register for one or both nights: 410-289-7556 by July 22.
Wednesday at the Ocean Pines Community Center, 235 Ocean Parkway. Doors open at 7 a.m., meeting begins at 8 a.m. Info: 410-641-7330.
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Berlin group 331, Worcester County Health Center, 9730 Healthway Drive, Berlin, 5:30-7 p.m. TOPS is a support and educational group promoting weight loss and healthy lifestyle. It meets weekly. Info: jeanduck47@gmail.com.
BINGO — American Legion Post 166,
KIWANIS CLUB OF GREATER OCEAN PINES/OCEAN CITY — Meets every
WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSION FOR WOMEN MEETING — Worcester County
TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY MEETING -
Beach Singles 45-Plus meets for happy hour at Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel, 10100 Coastal Highway, Ocean City, 4-7 p.m. Info: Arlene, 302-4369577; Kate, 410-524-0649.
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL — Holy Trinity Cathedral, 11021 Worcester Highway, Berlin, June 22-26, 5-7:15 p.m. Kids ages 4-12 are welcome to “SonSpark Lab.” Each night there is a Bible story, song, craft, game and dinner. Cost is $10 per child or $25 per family. Register: 410641-4882 or vbsholytrinity@gmail.com.
BAYSIDE BEGINNINGS AL-ANON FAMILY GROUP MEETING — Ocean Pines Com-
Board of Education, 6270 Worcester Highway, Newark, 5-6:30 p.m. Women of all ages are invited. The group seeks volunteers for short-term assignments. Info: L. Eloise Henry-Gordy, 443-2353124.
BEACH SINGLES — Every Thursday,
every Wednesday at Peaky’s Rooftop Restaurant & Bar, located in the Fenwick Inn, 13801 Coastal Highway, Ocean City. Beginner and intermediate lessons, 5:30-6:30 p.m., followed by dancing 6:30-9 p.m. Jitterbug, swing, cha-cha to the sounds of the ’50s, ’60s and Carolina beach music. All are welcome. Info: 302200-DANCE (3262).
Columbus Hall, 9901 Coastal Highway (behind St. Luke’s Church), Ocean City, every Tuesday, 5-7 p.m. Steamed crabs and shrimp, crab cakes, crab soup, corn on the cob, hot dogs, pizza, French fries and onion rings. Reserve crabs and shrimp: 410-524-7994, Mondays and Tuesdays, 9 a.m. to noon.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CRAB NIGHT —
PINE’EER CRAFT CLUB MEETING — Ocean Pines Community Center, 235 Ocean Parkway, 9:45 a.m. Refreshments, meeting and marble necklace craft. Info: Sharon, 410-208-3032.
munity Center, 235 Ocean Parkway, 7:30 p.m.
OCEAN CITY/BERLIN ROTARY CLUB MEETING — Captain’s Table Restaurant in the Courtyard by Marriott, 2 15th St, Ocean City, 6 p.m. Info: 410-641-1700 or kbates@taylorbank.com. Fitness, 12319 Ocean Gateway, West Ocean City, noon. Weight loss support group with discussions about nutrition, exercise, health and weight loss. Cost is $5 per meeting. Info: dillon128@aol.com.
THURS. June 18 WORCESTER COUNTY TEA PARTY MEETING — Ocean Pines library, 11107 Cathell
Road. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., meeting begins at 7 p.m. Topics are “The Lies and Agenda Behind the Climate Change/Global Warming Movement” and “Smart Meters: Welcome to Ocean Pines.” Free and open to the public. Info: WCTTPatriots@gmail.com, www.worcestercountyteaparty.com, www.facebook.com/WorcesterCountyTeaParty or 443-614-7214.
COMMUNITY CPR AND FIRST AID COURSE — Town of Ocean City Beach Patrol, 109
BOOKS BY THE BAG SALE — Ocean City library, 10003 Coastal Highway, during regular library hours through Labor Day. Gently used books for $5 a bag. Info: 410-524-1818.
‘EVEREST…CONQUERING CHALLENGES WITH GOD’S MIGHTY POWER!’ — St. An-
drew Catholic Church, 14401 Sinepuxent Ave., Ocean City, 8:30-11:30 a.m., June 22-26. Participate in team building games, Bible songs, science experiments and tasty treats. Cost is $40 per child with a $65 maximum for a family. Register: 410-250-0300 and at St. Luke and St. Andrew.
‘SALUTE TO SERVICES’ — The Ocean City
Life-Saving Station Museum is offering free admission to all members and their families of the Military active or retired, firefighters, police, U.S. Coast Guard, emergency responders and EMS personnel, through June 17. Info: www.ocmuseum.org or 410-289-4991.
100TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION DINNER — Clarion Resort Fontainebleau
Hotel, 10100 Coastal Highway in Ocean City, June 19, 6-9 p.m. Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the formation of
U.S. Coast Guard. Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan will be the master of ceremonies and Master Chief Steven W. Cantrell, Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard will be the guest speaker. Cost is $42. Deadline is June 12. Info: sandy@ocmuseum.org. Hosted by the Ocean City Museum Society.
MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT & ADVOCACY GROUP — St. Peter’s Lutheran Church,
10301 Coastal Highway, Ocean City, noon to 1:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Fridays of every month. Info: 410-524-7474.
BUS TRIPS — On June 11, July 21 and Aug.
18, tour NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. Cost is $35. On June 14, travel to Camden Yarks to watch the Orioles host the Yankees. Cost is $85 and includes transportation and game ticket. All trips are open to the public. Register: Ocean Pines Recreation and Parks Department, 410-6417052. Info: www.OceanPines.org.
‘PLAY IT SAFE’ ACTIVITIES FOR GRADUATES — Throughout the Ocean City area, May 31 through June 16. The “Play It Safe” program sponsors free, alcoholfree and drug-free events, honoring 2015 high school graduates. Info: 410250-0125.
‘ASK A MASTER GARDENER’ — Ocean
Pines library, 11107 Cathell Road, every Tuesday, 1-4 p.m., through September. Offered by the University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service. Put plant damage samples in a plastic bag and label with name and phone number.
WORCESTER COUNTY PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP — Ocean Pines library,
11107 Cathell Road, second Tuesday of each month, 2:30 p.m. Speakers, exercise, discussions and more. Info: 410208-3132.
MAC INC. FUN DAY — Jolly Roger Amuse-
ment Park, 2901 Coastal Highway, Ocean City, July 25, rain or shine. Tickets include unlimited Splash Mountain and golf from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and amusement rides from 2-6 p.m. Tickets cost $25 and are on sale in advance only by calling 410-742-0505, Ext. 113. Proceeds provide scholarships to the Richard A. Henson Wellness Center at MAC Inc.
STAR CHARITIES MEETING — Ocean Pines library, 11107 Cathell Road, 10 a.m., on the first Friday of each month. Meeting of volunteers. Info: Anna Foultz, 410641-7667. Crossword answers from page 92
Commentary
Uber makes city taxi regs archaic
The advent of Uber is quickly making local cab regulations here and virtually everywhere else generally unfair and, to some extent, pointless beyond their value as revenue producers. Although looking out for the welfare of the public is the argument for the heavy regulation of cab companies from here to New York City, not to be overlooked is the money these rules, inspections and procedures generate for government. Now, however, the constant spread of Uber and similar taxi companies that are largely unregulated have placed both local cab operators and local government at a disadvantage. Cab operators are finding it more difficult not just to compete, but to exist, given that the government-related costs and fare restrictions imposed on them don’t affect Uber, which is only lightly handled in this state by the Public Service Commission. The disadvantage for government, meanwhile, is that the income produced by the sale or resale of medallions will diminish as the value of being a local operator gradually becomes less attractive. Similarly, the revenue from the inspections and fees local companies must deal with also will decline. This puts local government in the position of either lightening the regulatory burden on traditional cab outfits and taking less money from them so they can maintain their operational margins, or waiting for Uber to do it for them by pushing traditional companies to the side. City Hall has to face the facts: its cab regulation model is out of sync with what’s happening the real world. It must either come up with a creative way of clipping Uber’s wings on the local level or revise its regulations to give the traditional cabs a better chance of success. Money aside, it’s just a matter of fairness. True, it’s no one’s fault that Uber has begun to work in Ocean City, but regulating one part of the taxi equation while the other part does what it wants doesn’t seem fair at all.
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Letters to the editor Thanking petition supporters
Editor, I would like to thank all the petitioners for trusting our small group to collect the signatures of Ocean City voters so their voices can be heard. Had we not done the petition, we believe a majority of the council would have raised Ocean City taxes more than they did two weeks ago. We would like to apologize to the many voters who may have wanted to review the petition but never had the opportunity. We had a manpower problem. There were only four of us soliciting, average age 71. Nonetheless, eight out of 10 voters we contacted supported the petition. That is strong voter input. You voters signed the petition to have a public vote to reduce property taxes. This is awfully brave in an environment where local government is hostile to your wishes. The council could vote on lowering taxes in five minutes if they wanted to. They don’t, so you the people did. I would specifically like to thank the election board for verifying the count of valid signatures at over 1,475, confirming what our committee knew. We were required to
get 1,228 signatures. In closing, I imagine shortly you will hear from the city’s lawyer that the petition is illegal. This would mean that you don’t have a right to petition to lower your tax. The Town of Ocean City is in a truly perverse position: the council must sue its own voters to prevent the people from voting to lower their taxes. We have been told to expect a lengthy court battle. In utter disregard of your wishes, your council will spend your money to destroy your lawful petition. At that stage, the battle will become not who will vote for the tax cut, or who will oppose it, but whether or not you have a right to petition your tax grievance. We believe no law can trump your right to petition your grievances. We will do our best to defend your right against your council’s legal challenge to stop the petition. Stay brave, stay firm and God willing we will prevail. Thank you. U.S. Constitution, 1st Amendment: “Congress shall make no law … abridging the right of the people … to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” Tony Christ Ocean City
Good experience with city police
Editor, So often I find myself reading the news and reading about negative incidents. I find it's rare to actually read something positive, where you walk away from reading that article with a renewed faith in humanity or a warm fuzzy feeling in your heart at the least. Here is an article to warm your hearts. I recently visited Ocean City with my family. It was the weekend of June 6-8. Being a Canadian citizen from Northern B.C., Ocean City is a huge shocker for us as you could only imagine coming from the great outdoors, deep forests and mountains with no freeways or the buzz of nightlife anywhere remotely in sight, to a completely foreign environment with the polar opposite atmosphere than what we are used. Our children were in awe of all the lights and noise and arcades, the interesting people and crowds of teens walking about the boardwalks, and the candy shops everywhere. To be honest, it was a bit overwhelming for us and we felt slightly vulnerable See LETTERS Page 106
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LETTERS Continued from Page 105 with the rowdiness around us. I noticed that amongst all of the crowds of energetic people, there was a considerable police presence. I observed them walking about the Boardwalk on duty and overseeing that everyone kept the peace and maintained a safe environment. My children, whose stepfather is RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) in Canada, were immediately intrigued with the different-looking uniforms that the police were wearing in Ocean City. My children asked if they could go get a closer look at the uniforms. This warmed my heart and I felt compelled to approach a handful of the on-duty police officers, so my children could admire the foreign uniforms and also to express our gratitude and tell them what an extraordinary job we felt they were doing monitoring the boardwalk and maintaining the peace. Upon approaching the police, they were exceptionally friendly with us, they seemed almost surprised that we came up and wanted to talk to them and check out their cool uniforms. We had a wonderful interaction with them and they even went and got the children a couple of plastic pin-on style Ocean City Police badges. My children were ecstatic and they proudly pinned the badges on
Ocean City Today their sweaters, admiring the shiny new gift they had been given. We gratefully thanked the officers for the polite conversation and thanked them for their service. They kindly shook our hands and we were on our way down the boardwalk. Our children asked if the police officers we just spoke with were heroes, we told the kids that yes indeed they were heroes, because they go to work and risk their lives everyday in order to keep people safe. Needless to say, we were thoroughly impressed with the interaction we experienced with the Ocean City police members here and we left with smiles on our faces and a warm feeling in our hearts. It's so wonderful to see the policemen and policewomen in the community out and about engaging with the general public. Most importantly, our family felt safe there and we are thankful for that. The next time you see a police officer out walking about, just remember they are there to keep the peace and to ensure your safety, maybe give them a friendly wave or a hand shake as a kind gesture for their service. Thank you for the positive experience Ocean City police. Our kids are still talking about you and proudly showing off their pins to everyone. Mr. and Mrs. Hansen and kiddos Northern B.C. Canada
PUBLIC EYE
Snap-on judgement
By Stewart Dobson Editor/Publisher Here’s the funny thing: it’s socially acceptable to treat people like crap, but what you can’t do is make fun of them, in public anyway, because that would be socially incorrect. Forget the term “politically correct,” because it is perfectly allowable in politics, for instance, to call opponents mouth-breathing liars, but you cannot make fun of mouth-breathers themselves, because they might have some respiratory condition or it could even be a matter of personal choice about which certain people might be sensitive. “I knew many years ago that I was a mouth-breather and I resent the implication that I am somehow the less for it. I demand a public apology or I will ruin you via social media.” Jeez. Apparently, even superstar comedians such as Jerry Seinfeld will no longer play college campuses because of the grief they get if they say the tiniest thing that upsets these sensitive, everybody’s-a-winner people. That means, of course, they no longer can make sex or gender jokes, a prohibition that would have ruined the jokesters of old – “Take my (person) – please!” And especially there can be no jokes about sex changes such as wondering whether there is any relation-
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ship between these personal alterations and, say, Snap-on Tools. You could get into real trouble for that. So, what we’re left with is making fun of plants, rocks or completely normal people, assuming that the latter exist. Writing something amusing about plants or rocks would have its limitations: a plant walks into a bar and says to the bartender, “I’ll have a Bud …” Or, a chunk of quartz rolls into a bar and the bartender says to the quartz, “Hey, you’re full of schist …” Not good. On the other hand, a completely normal person walks into a completely normal bar and says to the completely normal bartender in a completely normal tone, “Do you see anything abnormal about me?” The bartender replies, “You’re fat, odd-looking, breathe through your mouth, have hairy ears, a tail and, it appears, three arms, two of which are playing a banjo while the other keeps time. Nope. You look perfectly normal to me.” “Good,” says the man, “I was afraid someone might make fun of me and hurt my feelings.” “Why?” the bartender asks. “I’m a Democrat.” “Get out!” the bartender roars. “But, you said I was normal.” “Well, I did, but now you’ve made it personal.”
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