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esidents throughout Worcester County started picking up the debris Tuesday that had been left behind by Hurricane Sandy, but compared to other areas, damage was slight. County officials lifted the state of emergency and closed all county shelters Tuesday when it was clear that Sandy was no longer a threat. Residents who evacuated were authorized to return to their homes, but in some areas, roadways remained impassable because of standing water, fallen trees or other debris left behind by Sandy as she intensified and blew north. During the storm, Worcester County Public Works crews See COME on Page 32

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espite near-apocalyptic predictions from state and federal officials, Ocean City appears to have sustained limited damage from the hybrid storm system surrounding Hurricane Sandy. Although flooding caused some loss in the low-lying downtown areas of the island, the rain, tides and wind left most homes and businesses soggy, but structurally sound. “All in all, compared to some of the places to the north of us, we got spared,” said Ocean City Public Works Director Hal Adkins. Ocean City ordered a mandatory evacuation of the area below 17th Street by 8 p.m.

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Route 50 was open only to emergency vehicles Monday, as Hurricane Sandy brought with her a large amount of rain that flooded the downtown area.

on Sunday, although Ocean City Police Department Chief Bernadette DiPino estimated that roughly 80 percent of downtown’s residential population, about 200 people, chose to stay. By Sunday night, the city had restricted vehicle access below 17th Street, eventually moving the roadblock up to 33rd Street and then to 62nd

Street as the storm worsened Monday morning. Traffic restrictions were gradually removed on Tuesday. Flooding, several feet high in some locations, owed little to Sandy’s rain and more to her amplification of the high tide. This was due to winds that backed water up into the bay and the enormous See DESPITE on Page 14

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While the sky looks menacing, the worst was over when this photo of Ocean City was taken Tuesday from Route 50. PHOTO COURTESY GINA WHALEY

(Nov. 2, 2012) Ocean City’s voters will go to the polls Tuesday for a contest that will certainly see a big change in how residents vote – and possibly in who they vote for, given the unprecedentedly polarized nature of this year’s municipal contest. The City Council, whose members serve four-year terms, alternates position vacancies. This year, four of the seven slots are up for grabs. Incumbents Joe Hall, Mary Knight, Jim Hall, and Doug Cymek will be challenged by Dennis Dare, Joe Mitrecic, Sean Rox, Bob Baker, John ‘Frank’ Adkins, and Philip Sayan. The position of mayor, which serves a twoyear term, is also up for grabs between incumbent Rick Meehan and newcomer Nick Campagnoli. In June, the City Council made the decision to change the city’s municipal election from its traditional date in October to the national Tuesday date, but decided against actually combining the city’s ballot and polling system with the larger contest. The Worcester County Board of Elections, under the purview of the state board, runs the polls that account for the county, state and federal contests. Under its charter from the state, however, Ocean City conducts its own election, with its own regulatory body, voting equipment and, until this year, its own time and place. Consolidating the two polls – with the idea of making a single date more convenient for voters and possibly boosting voter turnout – was an idea that had been broached several times before, but did not gain traction until See UNION on Page 25

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Dennis Dare aims to become one of city manager’s seven bosses INTERVIEW WITH DENNIS DARE STEWART DOBSON ■ Editor (Nov. 2, 2012) Dennis Dare, who is seeking election to the Ocean City Council, is not an incumbent, but he has been a fixture at City Hall for 29 years, first as city engineer and then as city manager. He was dismissed from his post in 2011 by the four-member council majority for reasons that have not been detailed, except that no wrongdoing was involved. Now Dare wants to serve on the body that ended his run as Ocean City’s longest-tenured city

manager. Last week, he sat down for a discussion of the past and the future. ■ Ocean City Today: What’s the central issue in this election? What do you think the core issue is Dennis Dare here, outside of personalities? ■ Dennis Dare: My central issue is to move forward, to be able to give back to the community after all the years of experience that I have. I want to carry that forward and help Ocean City grow. Some of the others … their central issues look backwards and what’s transpired in the last

year. I’m over that. I’m past that and I want to look to the future. ■ OCT: What do you mean you’re past that? Past what? ■ Dare: My dismissal. ■ OCT: I’m not even going to get into that because, as I understand it, Jim Hall’s lips are sealed legally and yours too. Is that right? ■ Dare: As part of the settlement – it took four months to negotiate the details of how they were going to make my pension whole – and in that was an acknowledgement of no wrongdoing, saying they wanted to make a management change. And they had every right to do that and I

came to work every day knowing, for 21 years, that they had the right to do that. However, this agreement says there was no wrongdoing and they couldn’t even insinuate that. ■ OCT: Nobody is accusing you of stealing or anything like that anyway. I mean it’s not like … ■ Dare: No. But as soon as there was talk about me running for City Council, all of a sudden there were reasons why I was dismissed and to have people talk about that this past week … that I was a bully with Joe Hall. Well, when there was a report that I might run for City Council and Continued on Page 36

Joe Hall: election hinges on what kind of community people want INTERVIEW WITH JOE HALL ZACK HOOPES ■ Staff Writer (Nov. 2, 2012) Councilman Joe Hall is one of four incumbents running for reelection this year. Hall’s rise to fame, or infamy, began in 2010 when a new council majority was formed. Newcomer Brent Ashley joined Hall and Margaret Pillas, as well as current Council President Jim Hall, to form an alliance that went on to make a number of major — and controversial — changes. The most notable of them was reducing

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the employee pay scale and benefits system for new hires following an exceptionally bitter council battle, the effects of which went on long afterward and led to the forced reJoe Hall tirement of former City Manager Dennis Dare. Hall has been roundly criticized by his political opponents as being inarticulate and prone to gaffes. Proponents of collective bargaining for the city’s general employees have alleged that Hall’s insensitivities towards employee retirement were a sparking point for dissatisfac-

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tion in the ranks. ■ Ocean City Today: Why did you get into politics, and why do you want to stay in now, given that the scene has been rather unpleasant of late? ■ Joe Hall: This is going to be my seventh election. My start in politics was 16 years ago. I had determined that I loved and cared about Ocean City – which everybody says, I know. Ocean City has been very good to me and my family. Growing up in a family business of myself, my mom and dad, and three siblings, sometimes you have identity issues of who you are, what you’re about. I was looking for a way to expand who I was and what I

did in life. I felt giving back to my community would be a way to grow. Serving the public in an elected capacity was something that I felt strong about. So I threw my hat in the ring, not quite knowing anything. I had served on some committees, been active in the downtown association, been active in the fishing community, but never having served on a planning commission or anything like that. I just kind of leapt into the political arena And I only got about 200 votes that time out. But what I did find out was that 200 people agreed with me, and I was encouraged to run again. So two years later, Continued on Page 46

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‘Ping Pong Summer’ completes 28 days of shooting in OC area ZACK HOOPES ■ Staff Writer

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Film crews set up outside the Kings Arms motel, the location of the last day of shooting for ‘Ping Pong Summer.’ At right, male leads Marcello Conte and Myles Massey await their cues.

(Nov. 2, 2012) Now that the film’s presence in the resort is over, Ocean City has entered the long waiting period before it will see the results – both artistic and financial – of “Ping Pong Summer,” the independent film that shot in the city with the town’s backing earlier this month. Friday, Oct. 26, was the last day of filming, according to producer George Rush. Shooting had started Sept. 19, and had a production schedule of 28 days, including roughly a week of work with Hollywood heavyweight Susan Sarandon. In a final press release, Rush credited the city and county for making the film possible. “The welcoming reception we received in Ocean City was truly remarkable,” Rush stated. “We felt the support of the community every step of the way, and there is simply no way that we could have done what we did here had this film been shot in a city or state more typically associated with film production.” “We can’t imagine a film-friendlier place than Ocean City,” he continued. But an accommodating attitude was not the only stake the city and Worcester County government had in the film.

Rush and other producers were anticipating a significant boost from the Maryland Film Office, but the legislative stalemate in Annapolis early this year meant that their credit request never came up, leaving budgetary hole. In August, the Worcester County Commissioners announced that they would invest $100,000 in the film if the town of Ocean City did the same. The tone of the city’s elected officials was positive toward the film’s marketing value for the resort, if somewhat cynical towards its success as a feature production. “I’m not thinking it so far out, as to say ‘Oh my God, what if we don’t’ get our money back,’” said Council President Jim Hall at the time. “If nothing else, you’re going to get a hell of a commercial.”

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Indie production makes use of local resources, talent, nostalgia Producers also sought small investments from anyone with interest in the area and the film’s success, of which, they said, there have been several. One of these was Andrew Russo, a former Ocean City resident and businessman who happened upon the opportunity by chance. “I happened to be in town for a funeral of a friend … in Berlin. I always read the local papers when I’m here… that’s when I got interested,” Russo said. His reasons for investing closely mirrored the pitch that the film’s makers had previously given the city and county governments. “It seemed like a no-brainer to me,” Russo said. “They have good stars. I thought it had a good theme, because it appeals to family, and internationally, Ping Pong has a certain amount of appeal to it.” The positive portrayal of Ocean City in a nostalgic, family-friendly manner has always been one of the film’s major selling points. Writer and director Michael Tully has previously described the film as a “sincere coming of-age comedy” about a listless young boy’s interest in table tennis and hip-hop, and his life-changing family vacation, Tully has drawn parallels between his script and the 1984 movie, “The Karate Kid,” which shares a similar young-underdog theme. Filmmakers have also gone to great lengths to boost the film’s authenticity

by filling the main youth roles with local, Maryland kids who reflect the kind of young people who could have been vacationing at the resort in 1985, when the film’s story is set. All of its relatively unknown child stars are from the Mid-Atlantic, with Ocean City native and Worcester Prep student Emmi Shockley as the female romantic lead. The potentially higher return on investment didn’t hurt the project’s appeal, either. The use of supporting appearances by big-name stars – Sarandon is featured alongside such names as Lea Thompson, John Hannah, Judah Friedlander, Robert Longstreet and Amy Sedaris – in an otherwise indie-budgeted film gives the film great market value, producers said, at a strikingly low cost. Even with municipal backing, Tully’s budget is still quite low — under $1.5 million, due largely to the willingness of several key actors, including Sarandon, to work for minimal pay on what was described as an independent “passion project.” “Until it actually is sold, you really don’t know how much money you’re going to make,” Russo said. “The fact that it has named actors in it will at least get you a look. That’s my hope.” Rush said that post-production is expected to finish in the spring, putting the film on track to debut in late 2013. So the plan now is to get into one of the film festivals,” Russo said. “That’s the place to get it exposed and see who would take a bid on it.”

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Volunteers help others to clean up after Sandy sweeps through OCBP veteran forms group to aid damaged properties NANCY POWELL ■ Staff Writer

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Mendy Fiori, left, of Ocean City, and Ginger Fleming of Ocean Pines clean the floor of Bayside Jet Drive on Wednesday. The two are members of the volunteer project called Sandy Clean Up Help, formed by Colby Nelson in an effort to help people and property affected by Hurricane Sandy.

(Nov. 2, 2012) Strangers worked side by side Wednesday in an effort to help people and property affected by Hurricane Sandy. They replaced a deck at a house in Pittsville and then started work cleaning out Bayside Jet Drive, a 52nd Street Kawasaki and Yamaha dealership. Some carried out debris while others tossed trash into bins and still others used hoses to clean the floors. On Thursday, they planned to help residents of Warrens Park Trailer Community, which is close to Bayside Jet Drive. Colby Nelson, a 19-year veteran of the Ocean City Beach Patrol, started the volunteer project she called Sandy Clean Up Help. She got the idea while sitting at home at about 5 p.m. Monday during the storm and thinking about the coming need for assistance. “I knew my friends would want to help,” she said. She added a few people to her Facebook group page and as word spread, so did the number of people willing to volunteer. As of Tuesday afternoon, many people had signed on to help others. Because

of the response, Nelson started a Facebook fan page, Sandy Clean-Up Help Across Delmarva, to make it easier for people to “like” the page and find out what is happening. “Anyone can see it,” Colby Nelson she said. Nelson is hoping her group makes a difference. People may ask for help by using the Facebook page. “So many people want to help, but not too many are asking for help,” she said. “If people are asking for help, it’s for debris removal.” Some of the volunteers have chainsaws and trucks to make clean-up easier. Many of the volunteers are steadily employed, but are willing to work nights and weekends. “We will continue as long as we can keep offering volunteers,” Nelson said. At Bayside Jet Drive, 24 volunteers were working to clean up after the storm. “It’s amazing,” said Bayside Jet Drive owner Eric Fiori. “It’s absolutely free. This would have taken us three weeks to do by ourselves.” The free work of so many volunteers inspired Fiori to volunteer. When asked when he would help someone else, he said, “As soon as we’re done here.” The volunteer effort also inspired peoSee RESTAURANT on Page 10

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Damp but determined,downtown resort residents waste no time clearing homes ZACK HOOPES ■ Staff Writer (Nov. 2, 2012) “We got lucky, real lucky.” This is not a statement one expects to hear from the owner of a building which, 24 hours earlier, had nearly a foot of standing water in its first floor. But flooding is something that Christine Godman, owner of the apartment building on the north side of St. Louis Avenue and North Division Street in Ocean City, has become accustomed to. Hurricane Sandy will mark the fourth time that water has gotten into the units since Godman bought the building in 1991. And, according to Godman, this wasn’t even the worst. She measured just over 11 inches of water in the ground units – but prior, anonymous storms have submerged the units even further on at least one occasion. “We lost the mattress, the sofa, the carpet – I think that’s it,” said Godman as she cleaned out the unit occupied by her son, Brett, on Tuesday afternoon. “And this pair of Timberland boots, if that counts.” “And a blanket, apparently,” she added as she peeled the soggy cloth from beneath the sofa. Much of the danger usually associated with hurricanes comes from wind, something which Sandy did not have much of. Instead, Sandy brought flooding, which owed less to the rain from the storm her-

self and more to the tidal effects she induced. The large, slow moving storm system created a massive area of low pressure which, combined with the already-expected tidal cycle, compounded the rise in sea level over several days. In fact, according to AccuWeather, Sandy’s low pressure — 27.76 inches of mercury on Monday afternoon — is the second-lowest on record for the seaboard north of Cape Hatteras, N.C. It was surpassed only by Hurricane Gladys in 1977. The ground floor of Godman’s building consists of efficiency-style units – single rooms with sofa beds and kitchenettes, plus a bathroom. Brett has been living in the southernmost unit for a little over two years. Determined at first to stick out the storm, he left when it became clear that the water was going to get in as far as it wanted. “I waited until it was about ankle high,” he recalled. Despite its flood-prone location next to the Route 50 bridge, the apartment block – most notable for the large billboard on its roof that greets visitors coming into the island – has a small group of devotees who rent units from Godman year-round. Resident Rich Airey has lived in Ocean City since 1981, but only moved to the St. Louis Avenue building recently. “I’ve been through most of these before See FOR THOSE on Page 13

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Brett Godman, left, and his father, Darren, are in good spirits as they remove a sodden sofa from Brett’s apartment on St. Louis Avenue and North Division Street. Water in the unit was nearly a foot high during the peak of Hurricane Sandy.

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Shots heard ’round the block OC homeowner takes aim at derelict boat bashing his property on Marlin Drive ZACK HOOPES ■ Staff Writer

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When a wayward boat made its way toward his property during the height of Hurricane Sandy, Marlin Drive resident Bill Salvatore shot the vessel to prevent it from damaging his property.

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(Nov. 2, 2012) It’s a story that results in a classified not often seen: “Boat for sale — some weather damage, major gunfire damage.” This is not Somalia, where gunplay and maritime navigation frequently go hand in hand. But for a few minutes, Ocean City’s Marlin Drive may very well have come close. On Monday, during the height of Hurricane Sandy’s bombardment of the resort, Marlin Drive resident Bill Salvatore found himself defending his home — with a shotgun — against a marauding vessel threatening the homes of himself and his neighbors. But rather than being piloted by pirates, the boat was a runaway, propelled by Sandy’s tidal surges straight into the bay bordered by Marlin Drive, which runs along a small peninsula north from 19th Street on the island’s west side. “I looked out the window, and there’s this giant boat bearing down on our houses,” Salvatore said. “The water was already above our property line, so there was nothing holding it back from coming right into us.”

Salvatore’s first instinct was to call the police – but he was told that marine issues were out of the city’s jurisdiction, and would have to be handled by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. “I told the guy at the DNR that I thought I should try to sink it,” Salvatore recalled. “He said, ‘I can’t tell you to do that, but if you’re protecting your property, you’re probably okay.’” The next step, naturally, was to seek legal advice. Salvatore made a call to his brother’s law office in Hagerstown, Md. where one of his brother’s colleagues told him essentially the same thing. By the time Salvatore made the decision to act, the meandering vessel had already rammed itself into his Jetski lift – fortunately, Salvatore had pulled his own boat and WaveRunner out of the water before the storm started. “It had already crushed it (the lift). The big metal arm was completely gone,” Salvatore said. Being hung up on the remains of the lift provided Salvatore with, at the very least, a semi-stationary target at which to fire. Producing his shotgun, Salvatore put, by his count, 15 rounds into the hull of the vessel, firing as close to the water line as possible. Shooting too high wouldn’t allow any water into the boat, but shooting too low would mean that the water would slow the projectiles down enough so that they See RESORT on Page 12

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O’Malley visits Ocean City to assess Hurricane Sandy damage NANCY POWELL ■Staff Writer (Nov. 2, 2012) Accompanied by Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan and Sen. Jim Mathias, Gov. Martin O’Malley walked about one block on the Boardwalk Wednesday while assessing the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. “We were able to dodge the bullet,� O’Malley said. The governor had been in Crisfield before coming to the resort. Some Crisfield residents remained in shelters, he said, but the town looked “remarkably good.� As for Ocean City, he said he knew part of the pier was missing, but he was glad the Boardwalk was still in place. It was “a beautiful sight,� he said, to see Ocean City intact as he flew over the resort earlier. “We were very fortunate in the storm,� O’Malley said. Garrett County is still under two feet of snow and some people were still without power, but “as we clean up, we notify FEMA

and they can go north� where damage was more severe and more widespread. Water rescue crews and tower crews were headed from Maryland to New Jersey. Northern states are also flexing their resources, he said. O’Malley also mentioned the beach replenishment project that was started many years ago to save property, lives and buildings. Meehan said the Army Corps of Engineers was in town Wednesday and there were “some minor dune repairs to make.� “If beach replenishment wasn’t done, the beach wouldn’t be here,� he said. The governor also complimented the first responders for their work during the storm and told Bud Church, president of the Worcester County Commissioners that he was glad the commissioners opened shelters at some of the schools. Before returning to his vehicle for a ride down the Boardwalk, he congratulated Police Chief Bernadette DiPino on her upcoming new career as police chief of Sarasota, Fla.

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Gov. Martin O’Malley tours the Boardwalk during his visit to Ocean City on Wednesday afternoon to check on storm damage. Before coming to Ocean City, he visited Crisfield, which had a considerable amount of damage. “We were very fortunate in the state,� O’Malley said.

ple in the restaurant business. Bethany Blues BBQ, a restaurant in Bethany Beach, Del., provided lunch for the volunteers at Bayside Jet Drive. Another restaurant, Shark on the Harbor in West Ocean City, provided 65 crab cake sandwiches to people on Tuesday.

“We walked up and down the Boardwalk and saw people cleaning and contractors working and business owners and we just gave the sandwiches to anyone who looked like they were working hard,� said Jody Wright, a co-owner of the restaurant. “We just wanted to do something to help.�

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Barge workers remove the derelict boat from the Marlin Drive waterfront. The hole gouged by Salvatore’s Jet Ski lift is clearly visible. PHOTO COURTESY JANET HOUGH

Resort man shoots boat to prevent from damaging property Continued from Page 8

wouldn’t penetrate the fiberglass. Shortly thereafter, the boat began to sink, but not, Salvatore suspects, due to effort of his own. He noted that the vessel’s bilge pump, apparently running on an automated system, was bailing out water as he fired. “That bilge pump was much more powerful than the holes I was making,” Salvatore said. It was the jagged metal of the lift, he believes, that ripped a hole in the side of the boat big enough to put it under. “Honestly, I don’t think that what I did actually did a thing to sink that boat,” Salvatore admitted. The owner of the boat, according to reports, had a much worse day. The boat broke free when the storm destroyed the dock at his second home farther up the bay. His main residence is in New Jersey, where he remained, as his boat took off on its own, without power.

Ocean City ‘Beach Bus’to begin winter schedule Monday (Nov. 2, 2012) Ocean City’s daily shuttle service to and from the Park and Ride facility and Tanger Outlets on Route 50 in West Ocean City has concluded for the season. The Greyhound ticketing office at the Park and Ride is also closed for the year. Greyhound bus service to and from the Park and Ride will continue with Greyhound ticketing services available in Salisbury. Shore Transit will stop at the West Ocean City Park and Ride to pick up passengers going into Ocean City and will make return trips to the Park and Ride upon request, enabling passengers to catch outbound Greyhound service. Coastal Highway “beach bus” winter schedule will begin Monday, Nov. 5. Frequency of service Sunday through Thursday will be every 40 minutes, from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., and every 80 minutes, 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. On Fridays and Saturdays, frequency of service will be every 30 minutes, 7 a.m. to 7 a.m. Passengers may ride Ocean City bus for $1 per-boarding or $3 for a ride-allday pass. Exact fare is required. Discount coupon books are available at a cost of $15 for 20 coupons. Discount coupon books are available on any Ocean City bus (exact cash amount required). With cash or credit card, visit City Hall on Third Street, the convention center box office on 40th Street, Ocean City Police Department on 65th Street or Northside Park Recreation Complex on 125th Street. For more information about current or future transportation schedules, call the Ocean City Transportation Department at 410-723-1606 or visit www.oceancitymd.gov.

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For those living near bridge, high water part of experience Continued from Page 7

… but I’ve never seen it get this high,” Airey said, pointing to the thin line of flotsam and jetsam that had dried onto his wall, marking the peak of the tide. Ocean City ordered a mandatory evacuation of the area below 17th Street by 8 p.m. on Sunday, although Ocean City Police Department Chief Bernadette DiPino estimated that roughly 80 percent of downtown’s residential population, about 200 people, had chosen to stay. Airey ended up leaving during the height of the storm. “I had to call the National Guard to come get me out,” he said. But other than sodden carpeting, Airey found most of his possessions intact, including his rabbit hutch, which – much to the advantage of its leporine inhabitants – was elevated. In contrast to some of his neighbors, the building’s longest-term tenant – John McKee – was so well recovered that it almost appeared, to the casual observer, as if the storm had somehow not happened in his unit. By 2:30 pm on Tuesday, he had successfully used an industrial vacuum to get all of the sand and water out of his carpeting, and was leaning

in his doorway, drinking an Old Milwaukee. “I try to keep on top of it. It’s the best you can do,” said McKee, who has lived in the building for the past five years while working as a cook at the Bonfire. “But I love it here. It’s the hazard of living on the beach, I guess.” McKee had stayed in his unit through the entire storm, pulling the bottom drawers out of his furniture, and stacked everything on top of his elevated bed frame. Godman had done the same using milk crates in her son’s apartment, with relative success. “Although, for your own information,” she warned, “it seems that a milk crate is about ten and a half inches high.” McKee also observed what several others have noted – that the majority of the flooding occurred before the rain even started, due to the high tide forcing water back out of storm drains and, in McKee’s unit, the drain on his bathroom floor. “You get a lot of ground water that comes up through there,” he said. Despite his meticulous cleaning, McKee said, “if you look real close, you can tell the ocean’s been in here.”

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Col. Trey Jordan of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begins his inspection of the beach and seawall Tuesday at the Boardwalk’s north end. The city’s sands absorbed much of Hurricane Sandy’s impact.

area of low pressure that she incurred, which was complemented by other low pressure systems, as well as a strong jet stream and full moon, a scenario that caused many meteorologists to dub her a “Frankenstorm.” Sandy’s effect stood in contrast to the Ocean City area’s last major weather event, 1985’s Hurricane Gloria, which caused damage over a relatively short period of high winds. Even before Sandy’s worst weather arrived, elevated tides caused water to back out of the city’s storm drains, flooding streets. Although the height of the storm hit on Monday night, it was actually the Monday morning tide that saw the highest floodwaters. “Yesterday [Monday] morning was definitely the highest,” Ocean City Communications Manager Jessica Waters said. “The course of the storm changed a little bit, and [the Monday night tide] was about a foot less than what we had expected.” Nevertheless, debris from flooding cluttered the streets, affecting the Boardwalk most severely. Although the city’s sea wall and dune system had prevented the surf from hitting oceanfront buildings, wave breaks were still strong enough to rip out trashcans, railings, and benches, even though the latter were bolted into the boards. “The wave would hit the bench, rip the lag bolts out, and then push it across the Boardwalk like it was rolling a bowling ball,” Adkins said. Still, the sea wall succeeded in holding back the majority of the pressure. “We had waves slamming into it, crashing over it, but at least it wasn’t undercutting the buildings,” Adkins said. Like many resort business owners, Ragamuffin Jewelry and Clothing owner Susan Emond found her store to be a bit damp, but structurally unharmed. “We got some water in the back, but we can just use a shop vac to clean it out,” Emond said. “Considering what it could’ve been … we took all the precautions, but we were lucky. If this is all we got, we did well.” Adkins said the city’s priorities lie in clearing detritus from the roads and Boardwalk, as well as moving tons of sand that had been washed inland back into place. “I’ve got a fleet of loaders and bulldozers coming in on the beach for sand removal along the seawall,” Adkins said. “Our next major effort will be when we go to attack the inlet parking lot. The sand is about four feet deep on the east side.” On Tuesday, Adkins estimated that cleanup from the municipal side could take as little as a week. Because the beach and dunes absorbed so much impact, structural damage along the oceanfront was little to none. The most visible casualty was the city’s fishing pier, which lost roughly 100 feet of its eastern tip. “We are luckily not in the position of

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PHOTO COURTESY NICK DENNY

Flooding in Philadelphia Avenue in downtown Ocean City was enough on Monday to make vehicular travel impossible.

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Most of city remains structurally sound despite tidal effects New Jersey or New York,� Waters said. “Obviously the pier is a regrettable loss, though, and there will be some debris cleanup and beach replenishment issues.� On Tuesday, Col. Trey Jordan of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers toured the city’s beaches to assess the condition and performance of the city’s sea wall and dune system, which the Corps had helped the city build in 1991 following Gloria. “If this project hadn’t been built, you would’ve seen just how serious this storm was,� Jordan said. The next beach and dune replenishment by the Corps is scheduled for 2014. While the surf gradually erodes the surface of the beach, the work of moving the sand absorbs much of the impact “People say ‘the beach just washed away, it didn’t work,’� Jordan said. “But that’s what it’s supposed to do. It did its job.� “The question now is, ‘Did the storm do enough damage to go ahead and do repair now, or do we wait until 2014?’� Jordan continued. Waters confirmed that 49 people had been evacuated during the storm to shelters elsewhere in Worcester County. The city enlisted the aid of the National Guard in patrolling flooded downtown streets with heavy military trucks that could plow through the high water. Power outage was also surprisingly limited on the island. Delmarva Power, Ocean City’s sole electricity provider, preemptively cut power to some downtown areas because of flood encroachment, but restored the service early Tuesday morning, according to Delmarva representative Matt Likovich. Likovich noted two instances of damage to the city’s electrical infrastructure that caused outages. On 24th Street, a broken pole and downed wires had 345 customers in the dark, while on 32nd Street, a switch gear corroded with salt and sand knocked out another 314. Downed poles on 18th and 65th Streets were not affecting customers. A handful of single-building outages were also reported, scattered throughout the island. Delmarva Power was hoping to resolve most of the issues by Tuesday evening, Likovich said at the time.

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Fra atteernal Order Order of o Police Policce Fraternal Oce an City, Cittyy, Lodge L Lodge 10 10 Supports Supports p Ocean ayor R t Council in 1985 and ser ved as City Council President ffo or Mayor M Rick ick Meehan Meehan was elected to the City 14 years up until he took over the office of Mayor in June 2006. Rick is a graduate of the University of Baltimore with a B.S. degree in Business Administration. Rick was born in New Yo York City but grew up in Baltimore and spent or good in 1971. He is an his high school and college summers working aatt the beach. He moved to Ocean City ffo active realtor with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage. Rick is a member of the Governors Economic Development Committee, Downtown Association, Chamber of Commerce, and is the President of the Delmar va Irish American Club and the Co-chairman of the Ocean City St. Patrick’s Day Parade. As Mayor, he ser ves on the Pension Committee and the Police Commission.

Doug C Cyymek was elected to the City Council in 2008. Mr.. Cymek has 38 years experience as a successful Cymek ty. He has ser ved several terms as the President of the Caine K Keeys II Civic small business owner in Ocean City To own of Ocean City Noise Control Board Association and currently ser ves as Vice-President. He ser ved on the T from 1995 to 2010 and is a graduate of the Ocean City Police Department’s Citizens Police Academy, a recipient Awa ward and a past member of the Seasonal Employee Qualiity of Liffe Tas Task Force. of the Governor’s Crime Prevention A Waatch Area Coordinaator ffo or Caine Keys II, 1994-1999, and is a member of the Police He was the Neighborhood W for 42 years and has two children (Kim & Steve), Commission. Mr.. Cymek has been married to his wiffe, Vicki fo a son-in-law (Kevin), daughter-in-law (Michele) and eight grandchildren (Logan, Finley, Madilynn, Kevin, Matthew, Riley, Connor and Carrie).

Dennis Dar Daree graduated ffrrom the Pennsylvania Staate University and served in the U.S. Navvyy aboard the U.S.S. Hermiage. A registered professional engineer, he is a member of the Internaational City Management Association and past President of the Mar yland City/County Managers Association. He is also a member of the American Legion Post 166, VFW Post 8296 and Elks Lodge 2645. He has ser ved as chairman of the AUMC Administrati tive Council Trustees. He was as ffo ounding President of Boy Scout Tr Troop 225. Dennis ser ved as the City Engineer ffo or the and AUMC Tr Town of Ocean City ffrrom October 1982 to March 1990, and as City Manager ffrrom April 1990 to September 2011. Wo oods Communiity Association. Married to Elizaabeth Brownell Dare He currently ser ves as President of the Caine W since 2000, Dennis has three sons, Andrew (wiffe Kim), Jason (wiffe Carrie) and Rya Ryan, and one granddaughter, Lexie.

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Coyotes trapped near elementary school NANCY POWELL ■ Staff Writer

PHOTO COURTESY JIM REAVIS

A coyote roams the woods off Mary Road near Berlin. Five of the animals were trapped on property off Route 589 in September.

(Nov. 2, 2012) Although some recently trapped coyotes in Worcester County had eaten kittens and at least one cat, people should not be unduly alarmed, according to a state wildlife expert. Anyone who sees a coyote should realize “they are just another part of nature,” said Denny Price, a wildlife technician with the Wildlife and Heritage Division of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, on Wednesday. In some cases, they can become a nuisance. In September, an owner of property near Showell Elementary School saw coyotes on his land and contacted his caretaker, who contacted Gene Garrett, a Willards resident who has a license to trap nuisance animals and is a director of the

National Trappers Association. Although he has been trapping for years, usually in the area between Delmar and Selbyville in Delaware, he most often traps foxes, raccoons, groundhogs, opossums or skunks. This was the first time he had trapped coyotes, five of them. Although Garrett had not seen any coyotes before that, he knew they were in Worcester and Wicomico counties. One was trapped in Snow Hill last year and one was shot in Pittsville. Before setting his traps, Garrett researched coyotes and learned that they are not really dangerous to people. There have been only two reported attacks on people throughout the entire United States, Garrett said, but they can still be a nuisance. “Any coyotes around farms or woods are very destructive to wildlife,” Garrett said. “If they don’t have wildlife [to eat], they move to residential areas.” Garrett set his traps on the property near the school and caught two coyotes on Sept. 18, two on Sept. 20 and one on Sept. 21. Three were pups and two were adults. Garrett turned over the coyotes to the Maryland Department of Agriculture to be studied. Scientists there wanted the animals for research to find out what they had been eating. The research showed that two of the trapped coyotes had a kitten in their stomachs and one coyote had half of an adult cat and a kitten, Price said. Outside See COYOTES on Page 23

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Hall, Dare, Knight, Hall recommended It’s time to put aside the harsh politics and personalities of this Ocean City election and decide, as one candidate has said, what kind of community voters want in the years ahead. Although there’s no disputing that this has been one of the most divisive political periods in Ocean City’s governmental history — a microcosm of the national scene – the real issues are the same now as they always have been: money, services and the ability to decide how both should be handled in the best interests of the public and taxpayers. The one difference between now and years past is that the economics have changed dramatically for Ocean City. This is not just because of the deep slide of the resort’s tax base at the beginning of the year, but also the forecast from most quarters that real improvement could take several more years. Meanwhile, some big money items will be coming to the table at City Hall, which is concerning, since it won’t be matched by the easy flow of big money into the city’s coffers. Among other things on the agenda this year alone are the negotiations with the police union for a threeyear contract. Without question the results of this exercise also will affect the payroll of general employees, regardless of the results of their bid to gain collective bargaining. Although it has been argued that resident homeowners are more or less protected from big spikes in their tax bills, while nonresidents pick up the bulk of the tab, that is not necessarily so. Many long-time residents also have investment properties or own their own shops, while renters of both residential and commercial properties also feel the effects of the local tax bill, as landlords adjust their fees accordingly. With that in mind, we are recommending a continuSee RECOMMENDED on Page 22

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Every vote counts, except those not cast Editor, I have waited to pen this in the hope that it would be published just before the election. It is not my intent to tell those reading whom to cast their vote for; those who know me know my politics and that I have had my mind made up for quite some time as to who will best lead this country as its president. I would like to address my thoughts to those who are voting for the first time, primarily young adults. No doubt they have heard more than once how crucial an election this is – let me reinforce that as an understatement! I have voted in every election since my first in 1972. They have all been important in their own way, but this year that importance cannot be underscored enough. The most important questions you need to ask yourselves are – where am I now?; where do I want to be in the future?; and is that future I want for myself within my control? If you are a college student about to graduate, will you be able to secure a job within your degree and carve out your future? If you are part of a young married couple, will you have all the necessary pieces to make your marriage happy and prosperous? If you are a young parent, will you be able to provide for your child/children those things in life that are needed?

tell us y l l a e r u o y what think ... Mail your letter to editor@oceancitytoday.net All letters are subject to editing for clarity and potentially libelous material If you have recently started your own business, will you be able to build it beyond its initial start-up? Yes, these questions make one’s head spin, I know. But, they need to be asked and answered, and how you cast your vote will help to provide those answers. Make sure you exercise your right, duty and privilege on Nov. 6. Don’t let anyone tell you your vote isn’t going to count. Every vote counts except those that are not cast. Gail Schuler Ocean City

Writer disagrees with paper’s policy Editor, This week, the Ocean City

Today published in the letters to the editor column stated policy regarding the non-publication of letters received from the citizens who were in support or opposed to certain candidates. As stated in the notice, “the intention for the paper is not to stifle public comment on political affairs.” Well, excuse me, if you won’t print the concerns expressed by the citizens regarding a candidate who has stated his personal stand on critical issues that could have an adverse effect on the financial status of the city now and in the future, what then are you doing if you won’t print this concern? We are presently faced with a very critical financial situation in this country at the federal level that will impact state, city and towns if let to continue. The corrections that are needed have to Continued on Page 21

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By Stewart Dobson Hat’s off to the city workers who cleaned up in front of my house on Wednesday. You did an excellent job and we really appreciate it. Besides, I was getting really tired as I stood on the porch watching my wife trying to take care of it. *** Hat’s on, however, to on-the-scene weather people. I have never understood, after being bombarded by television meteorologists who tell us we should stay inside and contemplate the possibility of having to kiss our rear-ends good-bye, why they’re the ones standing outside in the storms. As far as I know, most places these days have windows through which one might point a camera. But, “Oh no,” they would say, “That wouldn’t work because the weather is so bad that the windows wouldn’t be clear enough to shoot through True, but that’s because THE WEATHER IS BAD AND YOU SHOULDN’T BE OUT IN IT, YOU NIMROD. And a double hats on to the weather person who stood outside the Hilton, as the wash from the waves went over the dunes, and said if the waves and tide got any higher, it “would flood the basements in these houses next door.” Basements? Beach houses with basements? Oceanfront beach houses with basements? It may be something of a stretch, but I would say you’re about as likely to find a basement on the beach as you are to find outdoor dining on an airplane. And speaking of basements, mine did not flood. All two inches of it. Because of something strange in home insurance situations, if the bottom of your crawl space is below grade at all, it qualifies as a basement and must be charged accordingly. I don’t understand the rationale behind this provision, but I am relieved that my basement didn’t flood, so I can proceed in my effort to make a little extra money by renting out that space to people who are two-inches tall or less. *** Hats off to my friend Bill, who, rather than worry and fret about what to do as a 30-foot boat threatened to sail into his yard, took action by trying to shoot holes in it. I’m sure some people will think that’s odd, but Bill is in fine company in this regard. Years ago, after a barge broke free and battered the Bay Bridge-Tunnel connecting the Eastern Shore of Virginia to the rest of the World, the late Virginia Sen. Willaim Fears offered in the legislature a solution to future problems of that nature. He advocated putting up a shore battery – i.e. big, stinking cannons – on the coast around Cape Charles and blowing any errant unpiloted vessel to smithereens should it approach the bridge. It was not approved.

be done at all levels of government. We have a very small percentage of people who vote in this city and because of that I think it’s your duty to the public to print all concerns sent to your paper especially when they’re based on stated facts regarding a specific candidate running for a position in the local council. I’m sure each of you in the news media are aware of the fact that most of the major news media have failed in their duty to remain neutral and objective when reporting the news regarding specific people and because of their failure we are now faced with a leadership problem that, if left to continue, will destroy this country. I would hope that the Ocean City Today editors would reconsider their policy of not accepting letters concerning political candidates or issues. To

continue your policy as stated you would fail in your responsibility to the public. Paul St. Andre Ocean City

Job well done in time of need Editor, Super Storm Sandy brought severe damage and destruction to Ocean City and Worcester County this week. Many of us who live in this area want to thank the Worcester County Dept. of Social Services, the Worcester County’s Sheriff’s Department, Stephen Decatur High School’s Food Services (go Seahawks!) and Ocean City’s Transportation Services for a job well done. All of us enjoyed great food and getting together in enjoyable conversation. Those of us who experienced this in this time of need are thankful for the

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professionalism expressed to all of us. Russ Cook Ocean City

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Vote ‘no’ on bargaining rights for Ocean City govt. workers On Nov. 6, Ocean City voters will decide what is being characterized as one of the major issues of this election: collective bargaining for local government’s general employees. While unionization in general in a community with a seasonal economy and more part-time than full-time jobs would deal a big blow to business and tourism, the effect of collective bargaining for municipal workers involves the

relationship between government and residents. At the same time, the benefits of collective bargaining for Ocean City’s public employees won’t be that noticeable. Non-union employee salaries and, to some extent, benefits, have been tied to the police union contract since 2006. That’s when city officials adopted a form of pay parity, bringing the compensation of general workers and de-

partment heads more in line with the police pay scale. When the police get a raise, everyone gets a raise. Union activists, however, say money is not the issue and that their complaint concerns working conditions and job security. That may be, but a union contract won’t provide any more job protection than what general workers already have. A worker or a police officer can still be fired for cause and “re-

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ation of a conservative approach in government, but with some modifications that we believe will give the town a City Council that is more experienced and more prone to the sort of teamwork City Manager David Recor needs to implement his strategic plan. Our endorsements for Tuesday’s election are Jim Hall, Dennis Dare, Joe Hall and Mary Knight. Although this might appear to be an unlikely match, it really isn’t. Jim Hall and Joe Hall were among those who took on some unprecedented challenges when they sought to revamp the salary schedules and benefits for new city employees and succeeded. They did so after hearing the rising voices of taxpayers, who saw their own

jobs and personal worth diminishing two years earlier. They might not always have gone about it the way some would have liked to see, but the bottom line is that it was what the public said it wanted and they did it. Putting matters of personal style aside, when it gets down to the money, and it always does, we believe residents will continue to be well-served by people who have demonstrated the ability to keep their eyes on the treasury. One casualty of the salary and benefit dispute was City Manager Dennis Dare. Whether that should have happened or how it happened is an argument that could go on forever. What is important, Dare himself has noted, is what happens now. With his long experience in the city’s

employ and institutional knowledge of the city itself and how government works, his addition to the council would be a benefit to everyone. It is doubtful that a candidate could be found who knows more about the inner workings of local government than Dare. Mary Knight, while proving herself to be a formidable opponent in the political arena, is nevertheless the kind of person who believes in teamwork. She is not going to agree with the others all the time and that’s good, as it leads to discussion of the subjects at hand. In this particular instance, with this lineup, we believe that discussion will occur and that the acrimony on the council will fade into something more civil and productive, while also protecting the pocketbooks of all residents.

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cats and kittens are among the coyotes’ favorite foods, he said. Garrett said coyotes can be dangerous to small dogs and have been known to eat them. In California, coyotes are a considerable nuisance to pets and one coyote got a dog off a leash that was being walked by its owner, he said. Price, however, said small dogs are not in danger “unless it’s a very small dog and by itself. As a rule, coyotes are not going to fool with dogs.” Just a few weeks ago, Jim Reavis of Mayo, just south of Annapolis, learned of coyotes in Worcester County. “I honestly didn’t believe we had coyotes down there until I checked my trail camera and saw the images,” he stated in an e-mail last Wednesday. “I was blown away.” He had set up the camera at the hunting property he leases off Mary Road near Berlin to use during deer season. According to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, coyotes were historically a western species. During the 20th century, the animals expanded their territory to the east. They are now in every state, but Maryland and Delaware are the last two states to have them. They were first documented in Maryland in 1972. Price said the coyotes reached Maryland from the north and also from the

south when the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay froze over. Those early sightings were in Cecil, Frederick and Washington counties. They are now seen statewide, with the fewest seen on the Eastern Shore. Coyotes were seen in the Pocomoke area five years ago. It was realized that coyotes were in the area when cats started missing. “When cats start missing, you’ve got coyotes,” Price said. If someone sees a coyote, Price said they should not be alarmed. Dave Wilson, executive director of the Maryland Coastal Bays Program, said coyotes are not in Worcester County in great numbers and they tend to be more common in less populated areas. “It’s crucial to have them here,” Wilson said Wednesday. The animals are known to eat opossums, raccoons and red foxes so they keep the number of those animals down, he said. “They are good for the quail and turkey populations, and ground-dwelling birds,” Wilson said. “It’s all about diversity, diversity of nature.” Anyone experiencing problems with a coyote, however, may call 877-463-6497, the nuisance animal hotline established by the USDA and Department of Natural Resources.

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Worcester County extends early voting to Nov. 2, at 9 p.m. NANCY POWELL ■ Staff Writer

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Voters line up outside Gull Creek in Berlin to cast ballots on Saturday, the first day of early voting in Worcester County.

(Nov. 2, 2012) Hurricane Sandy not only endangered lives and property on the East Coast, it had an effect on early voting in Worcester County. Because of the storm, there was no early voting on Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 29 and 30. Instead, it resumed Wednesday and was extended through today, Friday, Nov. 2. It had been scheduled to conclude Thursday. Hours were also changed for early voters. The hours had been 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., but were extended to 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. The polling place also changed from Gull Creek, an assisted living facility in Berlin, to the Government Office Center at 1 W. Market St., Snow Hill. Voters who prefer to vote on Election Day can vote on Tuesday, Nov. 6. On Election Day, polling places will be open for voting from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. To avoid delays, the Worcester County Board of Elections recommends that voters try to vote 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sample ballots are available online at www.elections.state. md.us by clicking on the “Look up your voter information” box. Approximately 1,000 people voted at Gull Creek on Saturday, the first day of early voting. At times, the line reached from the voting place, Gull Creek past its parking lot to the road. Many people waited in line more than an hour to vote, but Hurricane Sandy had little influence on some of them to cause them to vote early. Susan Pollack said she was voting early because she splits her time between Worcester County and Baltimore and she is a registered voter here. “I’m going to be in Baltimore the next week or so,” Pollack said. Jackie Carey of Ocean Pines was in line for civic-minded reasons. “Voting is a civic duty,” Carey said. “Voting early gets it done and gives candidates an idea of how it’s going.” With Carey was her husband, Skip, who said, “I think early voting is one of the better things our system has come up with and it will be even better if South Carolina won.” Ocean City Police Chief Bernadette DiPino was also in line to vote. She said she was voting early “because I’ll be in training during the election. It is everyone’s right and duty to vote and I’m proud to do it. I’ve not missed an election. We’re privileged to do that and I won’t miss the opportunity.” Carol Spurrier of Ocean Pines, who had spent the previous day at the hospital with a friend, said,” You never know what will come up. We could be without power and electricity.”

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this year, mainly due to concerns that the municipal contest would be glossed over by voters if it was on the same ballot as larger-scale contests. But after investigation of the issue earlier this year, a compromise solution conveniently presented itself. Merging the electoral system of the city with that of the county was found to be a messy proposition, as there seemed to be some disagreement from higher up as to what would need to be done. “Honestly, the enthusiasm from the state and the county is very low,” City Solicitor Guy Ayres said at a meeting earlier this year. “The county board won’t approve it if the state doesn’t, and they’re still taking the position that it will take some kind of legislation.” But that didn’t mean that the city couldn’t just change its own election date to match, yet still hold a separate poll. “There’s nothing that prohibits you from changing the election date and still having a separate election,” Ayers said. “If, logistically, the convention center is big enough, and it clearly is, you could still have the state and federal election, then walk out the door and participate in the city election, and that would require nothing from the state or county.” The success of that solution will be put to the test Tuesday, as voters can go to the city’s convention center between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. to cast two separate ballots – one for the county, state, and federal contests, and another for the city. But even that change did not slip by unpoliticized, as – soon after the decision was finalized – some council members appeared to have been tipped off that the date consolidation might have had ulterior motives. “It’s pretty obvious to me now that the date of the election was changed to help one candidate run for council,” Council President Jim Hall said just a week after the change was through. Hall was referring to reports that former City Manager Dennis Dare was considering seeking a council seat this season. Dare was forced into retirement last fall by a 4-3 vote, with President Hall and council members Margaret Pillas, Brent Ashley, and Joe Hall – the council’s majority voting bloc – in support and council members Mary Knight, Doug Cymek, and Lloyd Martin opposed. Dare was given a severance package that had him on the city’s payroll until Oct. 31, after which he ceased to collect a salary and entered the city’s pension pool. Running for office while still in the pay of the municipality could have presented some legal hoops for Dare to jump through, although Ayres said that he had not yet found a definitive answer to the question, given Dare’s purgatorial status as an employee who does not actually hold his own position. The majority/minority split in council, which was present before Dare’s dismissal, but certainly galvanized even more afterwards, has essentially become the central issue of the election. It also reflects a policy program put in place with the 2010 election of Ashley, the majority’s newest member, designed to cut what some see as the city’s unnecessarily burgeoning expenses. Most controversial was the bitterly partisan battle through late 2010 and early 2011 regarding pension and benefit re-

form, with the council’s majority finding that employee compensation practices had become unsustainable. This founding divide between the council’s two factions has made the health and wealth of the city’s employees a constant political straw man, prompting – some say – the unionization drive that solidified this summer and will be posed to the voters as a referendum question on Tuesday. An organization calling itself the Ocean City Employees’ Coalition began circulating a petition in May to change the city’s charter to allow collective bargaining for general municipal employees. After garnering sufficient signatures, 20 percent or more of registered voters, council moved to accept the petition and put it on the ballot. The city’s charter has been changed twice before to allow for police and firefighters’ unions, in 2002 and 2007, respectively.

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ELECTION DEBATE: HALLOWEEN IN OCEAN PINES Three-year-old Matthew Laick of Ocean Pines, at right, is dressed as Jake and the Neverland Pirates for the Halloween event in Ocean Pines on Saturday. His mother built the pirate ship around his stroller. (Far right) Lydia DeBilbiss, 3, of Ocean Pines, tries her hand at a game during Saturday’s Halloween event. OCEAN CITY TODAY/ NANCY POWELL

How far should a health plan go? ZACK HOOPES ■ Staff Writer (Nov. 2, 2012) With the city’s hightension election looming Tuesday, nothing has been fought over harder than the allegedly uncertain fate of the Ocean City’s municipal workforce and the competing approaches to employment philosophy that are said to determine it over the next several decades. The outcome is impossible to predetermine, since the future lives of the city, its workers, and the nation as a whole are not set in stone – although the benefits and pitfalls of possible outcomes have certainly been debated, extensively, by the town’s elected officials. Nowhere is this more evident than in the city’s retiree health plan, which underwent a big change in the spring of 2011. The original design of the council’s leading majority was to eliminate – for new employees only – the pre-set retiree health subsidy that the city provides. Any employee eligible to receive pension benefits may also receive health benefits, with an additional service minimum of 15 years for those retiring after Jan. 1, 1998 and 25 years for those hired after July 1, 2006. The city pays for 80 percent of the employee’s premiums, which, according to the last valuation report by Bolton Partners, are rated at $10,045 for PPO coverage and $7,777 for the lowerlevel HMO coverage that some employees have. Once the retired employee becomes eligible for Medicare, both premiums drop to $7,177 for a supplemental plan. The city subsidizes dependent coverage only for certain Wastewater Department employees who had been given the benefit by Worcester County before the county transferred its service to the town in 1994. Cutting the health plan off for new hires would have reduce the city’s benefits liability, but only in the long term, as relative savings would only occur when employees currently being hired began to retire at an age when they would normally receive substantial health subsidies. The alternative, proposed by Mayor Rick Meehan, would institute a cap of three percent on the city’s annual cost for each employee, and would’ve applied to new hires and any current employee with less than 15 years of service. In a rare show of cooperation, however, the council merged the two methods and applied the cap only to those hired after July 1, 2011. Those employees will see their share of the premiums increase until they reach 65, gradually shifting the burden onto employees until they reach the Medicare-eligible age. Meehan said at the time that the move would reduce the city’s projected See CITY on Page 27

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liability by $3.5 million. The liability estimate for the end of FY12 is $40,674,000. This compromise was also supplemented with the introduction of a separate plan that employees can switch into, which provides a high-deductible health insurance plan and a supplementary, city-incentivized Health Savings Account (HSA). There was some debate earlier this year regarding the HSA system’s effect on the city’s insurance rate, which went up less than half of what it was projected due to an improved claims record. While the transition of employees – 18 and counting – to the HSA partly influenced insurers’ favorable view of the city, other restrictive factors that were introduced earlier were also possible contributors. As expected, the council’s majority wished to exaggerate the HSA’s role, while their opponents sought to diminish it. The end game for the city, however, may depend little on the success of the HSA transition or the cap, and much more on the happenstance of its experience with the health of its employees. The city’s current amortization schedule assumes that it will account for all liabilities to current employees in 27 years – a common funding schedule, given that the city will not be on the hook for recently hired employees’ retirement benefits for several decades. But Ocean City may be paying a bulk of its liabilities ion the very near future, given that it has an older workforce. The average age of employees is roughly 47, and the city has 85 employees — as of May 2011 — who are 55 or older and have put in the 15-year service minimum. A lot can change in 27 years. Bolton works under a certain set of assumptions, over which the city has no control and which, even at the national level, are uncertain. For instance, Bolton’s estimates assume a 7.5 percent return on investment of the money that the city stocks away for health coverage. It also allows a 3.2 percent rate of inflation, a 1.9 percent growth in per capita GDP, and a 1.2 percent growth in health costs due to “technology and other factors.� It also uses a factor of 1.4 to increase health spending depending on income level, given that people who make more tend to devote more money to their health care. Even more influential than these variables is any variance in the projected trends of health care costs. The city’s annual contribution to retiree health care – the combination of its immediate or “normal� costs and its payment towards anticipated liabilities – was $3,675,000 for FY12. But a one percent variance in future costs could increase that contribution over 24 percent, to $4,566,000.

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OCEAN PINES BRIEFS NATHAN BRUNET ■ Bayside Gazette Staff Writer (Nov. 2, 2012) The following issues were discussed during the Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors meeting on Saturday, Oct. 27. All board members and General Manager Bob Thompson attended:

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Todd Elder is one of an elite few who braved the precarious conditions brought on by Hurricane Sandy early this week. The surfers used a personal watercraft to tow them into the surf, and as a rescue vehicle if needed (it was not). The waves were some of the biggest some local surfers have seen. “Believe it or not,” photographer Nick Denny said, “these guys wait a long time for storms like this and train all year for hurricane season. Three guys went out and made history.”

In his general manager's update, Bob Thompson reminded residents of the strict regulations on political signs placed on properties. Thompson said he has received complaints from supporters of both political parties about residents who have lined their yard with multiple signs supporting the same candidate, and some have even placed signs in the median of the parkway. Reciting the guidelines set by the Architectural Review Committee, signs cannot be placed in the right of way or in an easement area. Further, properties can display only one sign per candidate. Only one sign featuring multiple candidates’ names is allowed to be displayed on properties.

New technology As made apparent by the new microphones installed for each member of the board, Thompson said his objective for the upcoming year is to improve technology in Ocean Pines’ facilities. He is reviewing all software and hardware used by every department to determine what is needed. Some servers used by the OPA, Thompson said, are about 10 years old. The phone system is scheduled for an upgrade as well. Sparked by a comment from board Parliamentarian Sharyn O'Hare, Thompson said he has received a bid to install a Wi-Fi system in the Ocean Pines Community Center for $7,000. He said the system would use a secure router that allows multiple people to be online at once. Board Vice President Ray Unger said the big price is inexpensive, and usually systems such as this cost much more if it is being installed in a building that has already been constructed.

Golf drainage OPA is close to resuming its project to fix drainage issues at the Ocean Pines Golf & Country Club. As holes one through seven are complete, Thompson has recommended that the project skip the remaining holes on the front nine to work on holes 11 and 12, which are in greater need of attention. The project would entail more than one mile of drainage piping installed underneath the course, along with a change in the course's elevation in certain areas to direct water away from residential properties, and off the golf course. Forty inlet points for stormwater will be installed on holes 11 and 12. The pond at the end of hole 12 will also be enlarged to expand stormwater storage, and a pond outfall system will be installed. Most importantly, according to Thompson, more than 23 acres of Ocean Pines properties will be greatly alleviated of flooding problems as a result of the proposed work on both holes. The plan is to perform construction between Dec. 15 and April 15. Using money from the association’s historical fund, the project will cost about $540,000. The directors chose not to approve a motion to continue the golf drainage problem, saying they have not had enough time to look at the entire plan before being able to make an informed decision.

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ter County Commissioners, had minor damage at his West Ocean City residence. A tree fell on his house. A number of houses in the Cape Isle of Wight area had water inside and some trees toppled to the ground because of a combination of wind and the wet ground. The situation in South Point was worse. “Three people lost parts of their property,� Church said. One property owner also lost his entire septic system. Piers and docks were also demolished in the South Point area. During the storm, 143 people were sheltered at Stephen Decatur High School, 68 people and 45 pets stayed at Stephen Decatur Middle School, 15 people stayed at Snow Hill High School and 77 people and two pets stayed at Pocomoke High School. Two pets stayed at Animal Control. Altogether, the county provided shelter for 305 people and 49 pets. The county Health Department set up an emergency hotline, but discontinued it Tuesday afternoon at 5 p.m. Public Works crews worked during the bad weather and immediately afterward, but many county employees were off work Monday and Tuesday and could stay off work Wednesday because liberal leave was in effect. Schools were also closed for three days. As Assateague Island National Seashore, camping closed Saturday at 11 a.m. and the park closed Sunday at noon and was scheduled to remain closed at least through Tuesday. Then park personnel expected to assess when it could reopen. They needed to determine the condition of the Verrazano Bridge to Assateague. In Ocean Pines on Tuesday morning, residents were asked to remain in their homes for a few more hours. Crews were assessing damage at daybreak that day. The wind advisory was still in effect and residents were warned that trees could still fall because of the soggy ground conditions. Abnormally high water levels were still evident. Initial evaluations showed buildings and other structures held up well during Sandy. The Clubs, Aquatics and Recreation and Parks remained closed Tuesday, but Ocean Pines crews removed more than 30 trees from the roadways. Residents were advised to take their storm debris to the Public Works facility near the South Fire Station. Only yard debris is acceptable. Ocean Pines General Manager Bob Thompson said volunteers assisted the employees before, during and after the store. “We will be back up and running at full speed tomorrow,� Thompson said in an email message to residents. In Ocean Pines, which is served by Choptank Electric Cooperative, not a single residence lost electricity during the duration of the storm. Elsewhere in the county, 2,264 Choptank customers had outages as of 10:15 a.m. Tuesday morning. The cooperative expected to have power restored by late that day to some areas and expected to restore power to the other areas by Wednesday morning. In Berlin, some residents lost power

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Ocean Pines reports no power outages Monday WORCESTER COUNTY twice, once for two hours and once for two-and-a-half hours. At the peak of the storm, more than 71,000 customers of Delmarva Power were out of service. As of 11 a.m. Wednesday, slightly more than 8,600 customers in Maryland and Delaware remained without power. “We were very fortunate in Berlin,” said Councilwoman Lisa Hall, who was one of the Berlin residents who lost power, on Tuesday. “We had a few limbs down, and older trees down, but they didn’t fall on houses. No one was injured and I think we made out very well.” Hall rode around town to check out the situation first-hand. “We had flooding in the usual areas, but it wasn’t as bad a it has been,” she said. Areas flooded during the day Monday and then the water receded. When high tide returned, the water level did not get as high as it had during the previous high tide. Flooding, Hall said, was worse in August when she had 13 inches of rain in her yard in eight hours. During Sandy, she had 10.5 inches of rain, but it was during a longer period of time, so the effect was not damaging. The town of Berlin cancelled its Monday recycling collection and rescheduled it for Monday, Nov. 5. It also cancelled the Tuesday trash collection and rescheduled it for Wednesday, Oct. 31. Ocean Pines, which is served by Choptank Electric Cooperative, did not have any power outages. On Gum Point Road in Taylorville, resident Charlotte Powell walked down the road to check for damage and there was little, if any, damage to see, although she did not survey the entire length of the road because of high water. She said a tree fell on a shed and water was in yards, but that was about the extent of the damage. Water reached the deck on one house, but did not get into the house. “We were very lucky,” she said.

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ART FOR ASSATEAGUE WINNER RECEIVES ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING Sharon Kuessner of Berlin was the winning donor in the “Art for Assateague” fundraiser conducted by Assateague Island Alliance, which concluded Oct. 1. Kuessner won the original 30-inch by 40inch oil painting, “Reflections of My Life” showing Assateague stallion Chance standing in the salt marsh. Pictured, from left, are National Park Service Ranger Liz Davis, Kuessner and AIA Program Manager Christina Hulslander with the painting, “Reflections of My Life” by Rob Franco.

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(Nov. 2, 2012) Forty local artisans and businesses will be selling their original works at the third annual Winter Wonderland Holiday Craft Fair at the Ocean Pines Community Center on Saturday, Nov. 3. “It gives people in the area an opportunity to attend a fair where everything is handmade,” said Carol Quinto, cochairperson of the event and a member of the Pine’eer Arts & Crafts Club, which is sponsoring the fair. Between 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the public can stroll the Community Center, which will be filled with vendors selling original, holiday crafts such as wreaths, photographs, handmade soap, jewelry and stained glass. There will be no charge for admission. Most vendors are private artists, but some area businesses will participate as well. Before being accepted to sell their crafts at the fair, vendors’ applications are reviewed to ensure what is being sold meets appropriate guidelines to provide a wide array of items for attendees. “We have to know exactly what the products are and that they are 100 percent original,” Quinto said. “You’re not going to walk in and see 20 jewelers.” Local artisan Barbara O’Connor will be selling her handcrafted stained glass designs. “I started this as a project with a friend 10 years ago and can make any design,” O’Connor said. Landscapes with wildlife such as birds and seagulls are among her favorite works. The artist makes individual glass creations, but also can do projects for entire windows. Her stained glass will be for sale and she will take requests for custom work. In a building directly next to the Ocean Pines Community Center, the Pine’eer Arts & Crafts Club will have an open house where crafts from members of the club will be for sale. There will be door prizes. “We raise money to give back to Ocean Pines service organizations,” Quinto said. She added that the proceeds from their public events are always donated back into the community. A bake sale featuring goods made by Pine’eer Arts & Crafts Club members will also contribute to those proceeds. The Kiwanis Club of Greater Ocean Pines-Ocean City will be selling food and drinks. Although this is only the third year of the fall crafts fair, a summer fair has been held every August for the past 35 years at White Horse Park. Because of the fair’s success, according to O’Connor, the event has been able to expand to an additional date before the holidays.

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they’d say, “If he runs for City Council, we’re going to tell you why he was dismissed.” You know, that’s schoolyard bullying too. And I’m open to bringing that forward because I did the best I could. I have nothing to hide. n OCT: Years ago, (former City Manager) Tony Barrett said this is how it works: “The council proposes, the manager disposes.” n Dare: Exactly. n OCT: So wasn’t the situation, what they’re alleging is that the four-member majority proposed and you did not necessarily dispose? n Dare: Their recollection of that is different than mine. They asked at times for information and I did my best to provide them information. I suppose some of the information didn’t match what they were looking for and they considered that not being what they’d asked for. n OCT: I remember when they asked for, Margaret (Councilwoman Pillas) or somebody, asked for the list of take-home cars. It took a long time to get that list. n Dare: That information was readily available because those cars had payroll deductions on them. You had to do that so that taxes were paid on that benefit. n OCT: But it took a year, I think, to get that list out to the membership. I mean if I go back and look at (reporter) Christine Cullen’s stories, it seems to me it took quite a while to get that list. A year… n Dare: I don’t remember that. I wouldn’t know why. That information was readily available.

Ocean City Today n OCT: That would be the assumption that it was just there … but it appeared from the story that at least some of the council wasn’t all that excited about getting into that. This was before the 2009 trimming and all that business. They weren’t that excited about going in there and examining that at the time. That was a 4-3 majority in the other direction, I believe, when Joe Mitrecic was council president. n Dare: Yeah, I guess there was some rub between how they wanted to handle that. That’s one of the biggest difficulties being a city manager. You work for seven council people and the mayor. You have eight bosses. n OCT: You don’t really work for the mayor. You do, because the guy is there and the guy’s got the bully pulpit. But essentially you have seven bosses. n Dare: You work for seven elected officials and you work with eight. In any case, one of the difficulties is that when one councilperson comes to the city manager and asks for something, you want to provide, but I was always careful in trying to provide it to everybody. That was just a policy I had, but that was for information. They ask you to do something and it was more than a pothole? It’s important for that to be a council decision. The last year of my career, a lot of times, these requests weren’t made in the form of a motion in a council meeting where the council was giving me that direction, and that, at times, probably caused some of them to think that I wasn’t being responsive to them. They were asking for things that, as an individual, wasn’t proper. It should have been done collectively. n OCT: And did you tell them that?

n Dare: Yes. n OCT: You told Jim Hall that as a council president? Wouldn’t he be the guy you would complain to? n Dare: I’ve told individuals but I’ve since heard that I didn’t supply them or didn’t do what they had to say. I was learning at that point in time, long after the incident, that they thought I wasn’t responsive. I thought they understood. n OCT: The question really is what we are going to do now? One of the things you have said in your campaign marketing was that the current majority is fiscally irresponsible. What do you mean by that? n Dare: I watched the budget process last spring, where the mayor, as acting city manager, presented a budget that was, in all essence, identical to the previous year’s and the one I prepared. It was $600,000 less and that was largely [because] they didn’t need to put a payment into the beach replenishment. So as far as the effort being put forth in all the departments, it was basically treading water, same level of effort. During the budget deliberations – we seemed to fly through those – I didn’t see any changes by the council. The budget is the blueprint for the coming year, it’s the financial blueprint and they made no changes. The budget is where you would adjust revenues, increase it here, decrease it there. You know if you were going to cut back on something, you do it in the budget and you balance things out. At the very end, instead of instead of making any real changes to the budget, they take $860some thousand out of the fund balance and reduced the tax rate a penny. That’s a thinly veiled election year ploy. And the $863,000 in the fund balance helped us

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get a lower interest rate. We had our bond rating increased because of the reserves that we have and our fiscal management and so that jeopardizes the bond rating for the town. We want to put money toward street paving – it should be pay as you go, it shouldn’t be bonded – the price of asphalt has gone up so much that $2 million now spends like $1 million did a few years ago as far as getting the streets paved. And that $863,000 would have been better spent maintaining streets in Ocean City rather than trying to give everyone a $20 rebate in an election year. n OCT: That’s when decreases go out generally in the nation is it not? Nobody gets elected saying, “I’m raising your taxes.” So, when you say fiscally irresponsible, you’re not talking about revamping the pay and the benefits. You’re talking about that [the tax reduction]. n Dare: I think I said fiscal responsibility not irresponsibility. n OCT: Well, the implication would be that if you’re going to bring fiscal responsibility to the town, that would say that’s something is lacking. n Dare: Reducing the tax rate at the expense of the rainy day fund. That, I guess you could say, was irresponsible in my opinion. n OCT: What was your feeling then when they revamped the salaries for new hires and they redid the pension program as a 401k-style plan? n Dare: Here’s where a city manager with a lot of experience, trying to evaluate something very complex in a simplified manner is difficult for me. Let’s take the salaries. My approach with the salaries is to do a comparison with other municipal-

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INTERVIEW WITH DENNIS DARE ities, with other private sectors. That’s the way we’ve done it historically. We would take a number of jobs like secretary, equipment operator and we look at other jurisdictions, colleges, towns and the private sector, if they’ll share that information. They don’t have to and they don’t share that a lot of times. And we benchmark those and then with the job evaluations internally, people are ranked by grades. By benchmarking a few common things externally, we can make those adjustments internally as well. If the council would have given me direction to evaluate salaries in this climate, because we have, several years ago, we’ve frozen them … n OCT: 2009. n Dare: That sounds right. That’s how I would have gone about it. But they said, “We want to cut back 8 percent,” and I’m sitting there thinking, “Why not 10, why not five?” Then, when you think about it a little bit more, it probably should have been zero (pay cut) at the bottom. The people who are making living wages at $8-$10 an hour who are paying the same for a gallon of milk and the city manager’s earning a lot more money, maybe it should have been 10 percent [cut] at the top and zero at the bottom. n OCT: But in principle, you weren’t opposed to ... I mean in principle, scaling them back was not a bad thing? You’re saying that the numbers may not have matched, but the idea is not necessarily wrong. n Dare: You’re assuming that when we did the research that the city salaries would have been higher than the compa-

rables. n OCT: True enough. But now the comparables have shifted over the years because in 2006 or so or 2005, when you had the last Hendrix study, I think that Rockville was in there and I think a number of those other towns, the fortunes of those particular areas got hit a lot harder than those in Ocean City, so I don’t know where they stand now, but I think across the country, they were doing this very thing and I think a majority of the local and state governments have gone back and retrenched somewhat because of the declining tax base. Actually 31 states went back and did stuff like that and so it’s not necessarily out of the realm of reasonability that this needed to be done at some point. Given the size of the payroll growth over the years – and I know that’s come up in all the discussions – the growth of the payroll between 2000 and 2008. That was a pretty big increase, so I guess what I’m asking is do you think it was the thing to do or not? Should they have left them where they were, frozen them or should they have considered dropping them back? It’s lot of money we’re talking about here. n Dare: Right. And I don’t understand where the confusion is here. You do your comparables with the private sector, and other public entities to see if you’re offering the appropriate salary and benefits. If you find that you’ve become higher because you have annual cost-of-living raises that others hadn’t, you either freeze it or you cut it back. Now that we’ve had our salaries frozen for so long, I have no idea that where we rank. We want to hire a water plant operator, okay? Is our salary and is our benefit program compatible with Sal-

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isbury or Sussex County? I don’t know. n OCT: Is that who you would compare it against, Salisbury or Sussex County or would you go to the suburban areas or all over? n Dare: With 500 employees in a town of 7,000 residents on the edge of the earth, far from, in a lot of cases, the market for the people we need, we have a fairly sophisticated town and some of the positions aren’t readily found in the immediate area. So for some jobs, we have to be competitive on a regional basis. In others, and probably the majority, we need to be competitive in the local area. n OCT: We offer living in Ocean City or at least around Ocean City. That is its own incentive. I mean otherwise we could have gone anywhere, we could have gotten jobs somewhere else and maybe made more money, but we chose to live here because we like it here, we like the beach. If this were inland, I’d venture to say that you wouldn’t be here. But we like the lifestyle. There are tradeoffs. n Dare: That’s true to an extent. It doesn’t explain why we don’t have m0re Fortune 500 companies in Worcester County. You know and I think that from a regional standpoint, now that you have Wallops (Goddard Space Flight Center), literally taking off, more and more people and employers will realize what the Eastern Shore, whether it’s on the Chesapeake or the Atlantic or in between, has to offer. Think about this though, when all your friends and acquaintances, and your children, you send them off to college [and] not many of them come back. n OCT: And we all know why. It’s because of the lack of opportunity.

n Dare: I agree. n OCT: I had a guy, very talented, and he went to California two months ago because there is more opportunity and more room for salary growth. We’re not the big leagues and we know we’re not the big leagues, so doesn’t that also apply to government? There are people obviously extremely talented in local government, who nevertheless said this is where I’m making my stand. Do we have to say this guy is the best guy in the world and he deserves the same pay? I mean he’s already made a decision. Isn’t there a ceiling on how much we can afford? n Dare: Yes. It’s a fine balancing act to balance for 500 employees running the gamut from labor to department heads, balancing their needs and what the town can afford. n OCT: Or wants to afford. There’s a difference, isn’t there? I mean we could afford a lot. The people, the taxpayers can afford a lot. It’s whether they choose to afford it or not. n Dare: Let’s go back to the water plant operator. You have an opening and you have advertised it in the paper at a certain salary, and we’re trying to attract a licensed water plant operator. They’re going to say, “Well, I’m working in Salisbury now; I’d like to work at the beach. I don’t know if I can afford to move down there. I can commute. And they look at benefits. If we’re attractive and they come here – we want them to be dedicated, hardworking, proficient at what they’re doing – but if they’re going to leave again in five years and we have to bring somebody else in to train, being on the low end, do you really Continued on Page 38

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save money when you’re constantly hiring and training people? It’s a fine line and I maintain that we could probably do a lot of things with fewer people if they have tenure. You see it a little bit from where you are, but we’re flexing from 7,000 to 250,000 people. There’s a lot that goes into that, whether you’re operating a water plant or a police department. It doesn’t matter what department. Out of 20-some departments, there’s a lot of institutional knowledge that’s needed in order to do what’s done by city government, because it’s unlike any other town. And I think that a lot of the businesses can relate to that because they go from 25 dinners a night in the winter to, hopefully, 300 dinners in the summer or four rooms a night to 120 rooms a night. It’s like that in every one of our departments. n OCT: Obviously, the difference is that you’ve got to keep them on when there aren’t 200,000 people in town. I mean they have that knowledge, but they’re kind of on standby a little bit. n Dare: We hire a lot of people in the summer, like 900. But like the water plant operators, if you go to Baltimore and the water plant operators there, they operate the water plant. Then, they have a group of maintenance people who maintain the water plant. We don’t have any maintenance people. Our water plant operators also maintain the plant. They don’t do it in the summer, but in the offseason, they’re in there chipping off the old paint, painting valves, repacking valves, rebuilding chlorinators. They’re doing all the maintenance

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the special events are and all of that. n OCT: The next thing on the fiscal menu, the benefit plan change. What is your take on that? n Dare: Let’s talk about the pension, the town’s defined benefit. When the FOP earned the right to collective bargaining, my intense education of pension benefits began and they were quick to point out that our pension plan was like a Chevrolet without air-conditioning, with roll up windows and stick shift. And there were things like cost-of-living raises. We didn’t have it, but General Motors did. There’s health care for spouses. We don’t have it, but GM did, in fact, GM was spending more on retiree healthcare per vehicle than they were steel. So they had a Cadillac of a pension plan and it was instrumental in their problems. Our defined benefit plan is so basic and it’s going to be replaced with a defined contribution. It may end up being more expensive. n OCT: That’s what candidate Joe Mitrecic said. He said it would cost the city like a million bucks by 2030 or something like that, but if that’s so, then we know exactly how much the city is going to owe in 2030, whereas we have no way, outside the actuarial tables, we have no way of knowing what we’re going to owe in perpetuity. Or until all these people die or until the town goes away. n Dare: The defined benefit plan won’t be closed probably for 70 years because an employee with a 30-year career, starting out now, married to a younger spouse who might live to be 83 years old, it could be around for a long time. And there’s nobody new coming into it, so there’s nobody paying into it, additional people. So it is going

work all winter long. n OCT: That would have been hired out otherwise? n Dare: Exactly. We’ve evolved. Each of the departments has evolved. n OCT: I know that the late Kathy Mathias did the Ocean City University, where she attempted to and did get people to understand more about how local government works. But do you think that the town of Ocean City does enough to educate the voters on how its money is being spent? You’re telling me why this guy costs this much and that a guy with institutional knowledge who’s going to stay on and on may be less expensive, as opposed to retraining somebody every five years. Does the town of Ocean City explain that to the public as well as it ought to? n Dare: We do a CAFRA (Comprehensive Annual Financial Report) every year that breaks down all the facts and figures. It will make your head spin, and what I did about seven or eight years ago was have it made into a four-page “See Dick run,” something that says here’s how much money we took in and here’s how we spent it. It’s very simplified but it’s something that people at a glance can look and see. If you want more information than that you can look at the big document. And we mailed that (the simplified version) to every one of the taxpayers. n OCT: Whether they read it or not, it’s up to them. n Dare: Exactly. We sent every one of the taxpayers and residents and voters two newsletters. Here’s what you do in a hurricane, here are the capital projects we’re doing, here’s a calendar of when the special events are, what the town does and when

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INTERVIEW WITH DENNIS DARE n Dare: Yes. That’s why we developed the DROP (deferred retirement program) program – to get some of the logjam broken up within the police department. n OCT: I didn’t see a lot of turnover before. n Dare: No and there’s a good example where turnover isn’t a good thing because of all the institutional knowledge that police officers build up operating here. Not just how to deal with people who come down here to have a good time and sometimes get out of hand, but we have a lot of special events. There’s an art to being an Ocean City police officer, so that experience is vital. n OCT: Nevertheless, and I’m not talking about the police here, they had a story in the Washington Post, in a column – five states have introduced a less-expensive hybrid defined benefit/defined contribution system to employees. They’re saying, “We did this because it’s going to save us money.” We have these other 31 states that have reduced benefits of new employees by raising the retirement age or whatever they did. So you’ve got all these other jurisdictions saying, “We’re scaling back on our defined benefit program, we’re going with a hybrid or a 401(k). All these guys are wrong? I mean this money can’t be saved? n Dare: Let’s look at it this way: I maintain that our defined benefit plan was already scaled back. We were 30 years ahead of them. n OCT: How so? I mean, I’m not talking about GM, I’m talking about public … n Dare: No, and I’m talking about the defined benefit plan that Ocean City has,

that had no cost-of-living [increases], the employees pay in 5 percent, and it had no spouse health care coverage associated with it. We already had an affordable plan. And as far as hybrid goes, that’s a discussion if I’m on the council, I’d like to see us have. n OCT: But it’s already been switched now, so you’re saying that you would switch it back? n Dare: No, I wouldn’t switch it back. I want to see the numbers. I want to see if the performance has been what’s promised. If there’s a combination, maybe we ought to be offering both. n OCT: But I’m saying you would switch it back. I mean you’re talking about offering both to the current employees as opposed to the new hires? n Dare: Yep. Both. If you’re talking about the 20-something that comes to work for Ocean City to work as a career, just like people did at Bethlehem steel and Black &Decker back 40-50 years ago, they may be interested in a defined benefit and it may be something that they’re willing to pay for. Our defined benefit program, with our general employees paying 5 percent into it, costs the taxpayers the same amount of money as it did back in (the late mayor) Harry Kelley’s day. When they first put in a pension plan, from a percentage standpoint, it didn’t change. Now there’s other employees that come to work later in their career for the town, and they’re not interested in a defined benefit; they’d be interested in a defined contribution, so if we’re going to attract the best people maybe there ought to be some more flexibility, maybe it shouldn’t be only this or only that, maybe

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it ought to be a combination. n OCT: We want to attract the best people, but everything is applied across the board, so not everybody can be the best person. I mean it’s a physical impossibility. I haven’t heard of any big firings going on in the last 20 some years. Usually, we move them around so if they’re not doing this, then we’re going to find something that maybe they can do, so we can keep them. I mean I don’t know how many people you have fired in the course of 20-some years. Maybe none for all I know. But you know what I’m saying: everything is across the board for everyone. There’s no such thing as a merit situation necessarily. I think (the late city councilman) Jay Hancock tried to get into that and everybody said, “No, we’re not doing that because it would be too political. That was back when they were talking about revamping some of this stuff. n Dare: The employees are evaluated annually. If they’re not performing their job satisfactorily, they’re told that they’re not, what they’re doing wrong and what they need to do to correct it. And they’re evaluated on a shorter interim basis. If they don’t perform or correct their behavior, that’s grounds for dismissal. And we have. In the meantime their salaries are frozen. The concept is you’re better working with an employee who may be having a problem. It may be a health issue or a relationship issue at home. Who knows what their issue is? And they’re not performing satisfactorily at work. We would try to correct it and if it couldn’t work, then the appropriate actions were taken. But we didn’t call you and tell you and the public didn’t know it necessarily. n OCT: You wouldn’t. You get rid of

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people, it’s a personnel issue. Some would say that’s why nobody talked about your dismissal. It’s a personnel decision; now it turns out to be a political issue. But back to the defined benefit versus defined contribution issue. In [the] “Washington Post,” an assistant professor of finance at the University of Rochester school of business and a professor of finance of Stanford graduate school and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution said the problem now with the defined benefit programs is the accounting standards that government is allowed to use, when the actuaries come to town. They said they are optimistic guesses at best and would take an unprecedented 30year bull market to meet the expectations and that it’s just not going to happen. We’re not talking about the federal government – that’s a whole different deal – we’re talking about state and local jurisdictions. They’re saying that people need to realize that whatever the anticipated return is in the market, that’s probably not going to happen like it did from the 1950s. The global economic climate is not the same, the stock market is not the same …and so I don’t know what the anticipated growth is, 7 percent or 8 percent? They’re saying that’s too much. n Dare: Then you have to adjust it. See, these guys are speaking in general terms and pensions are not like baseball caps. One size doesn’t fit all. In our specific case, we had a pension fund that was 100 percent funded and what I mean by 100 percent funded is that if the town of Ocean City went out of business on that given day, there was enough money invested to pay all the employees the pension that they had Continued on Page 40

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earned up until that day. n OCT: That was in 2000 or in 1999 or something? n Dare: It was in the 1990s and when we established the public safety program, we split the pension plan in half, general, public safety. And the funding levels went down because public safety was a higher payout, but they were going to pay in 7 percent of their salary instead of 5. And it (the funding level) was down in that 60 percent range for both of them. And the town paid in, the employees paid in to get it back up in the 80-90 percent [range]. Then there were other changes made in the pension plan that resulted in some grandfathering, so the actuaries said that you’re going to need this much more money and that brought the percentage back down in the 60 percent range and now it’s come back up into the 70 percent range. n OCT: 76 percent? n Dare: Yeah, 76 or 77. That sounds right. So the reason we went from a 100 percent funded and then down twice was because we made changes, consciously made changes, in that period. We have been aggressive in the payback period. A lot of governments may have spread it out over a longer period of time, and we said, “No, we want to pay back quicker.” The police, in order to get their increase, agreed to go higher, I don’t know if you will find another agency that is paying 8 percent. n OCT: They’re paying 8 percent? n Dare: Some seven some eight. The general employees are paying five. We polled the general employees at the time

saying, you want to go up from 35 percent to 50 percent [of salary at the time of retirement]? You’re going to have to pay that 15 percent difference. And it’s going to be 5 percent. Are you comfortable with that or do you want to see 3 percent? And they voted overwhelmingly for that [5 percent]. So the enhancement really didn’t cost the taxpayers more, but it cost the employees, but the funding ratio went down because the obligation became more over time. But now that you’ve taken the new employees out of the plan, that’s why the cost can go up. n OCT: But you’ve also reduced the overall liability of the town. Some of your costs are going to go up, and we know that. But the liability of the unknown goes down. You’re talking about fewer people you’re responsible for. n Dare: And I believe that to be so far out that, for today’s discussion, that is almost irrelevant. n OCT: It’s been mentioned that the retiree health plan has a huge unfunded portion [and that] is still going to be an issue. n Dare: Yeah, that’ s a big number because the federal government said you have to start reporting that. Government in the past just said, “Here’s the benefit that we are paying and this is what it’s going to cost this year. We have 55 employees and it’s going to cost us a couple hundred thousand dollars to do that.” That’s what the expense was. Then the government said, “You’ve promised it to all these people, so let’s see what that expense is.” So now, instead of the 55 retirees, we’re trying to save money for 500 employees plus 55, so that you would have the same thing you would

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have with your pension. n OCT: That’s an actuarial study on your health insurance? n Dare: Yeah. But as you know, or anybody knows, if the town just turned in its charter and said, “Worcester County you have the town,” that benefit goes away and that cost goes away, if they didn’t want to do it. n OCT: So you’re saying, if Ocean City defaulted, it’s just too bad. n Dare: Yeah. n OCT: I’ve learned everything I needed to know about pensions. n Dare: Yeah and it just isn’t “USA Today” simple, and that’s why I find it difficult at times to talk about these things because you just don’t know to what degree of detail you need to go to adequately explain something. n OCT: But don’t you think that when these two things were so polarizing in City Hall, outside City Hall … and you’ve got all kinds of stuff hitting the fan, rather than have people come out and say, “It’s going to do this or it’s going to do that,” without any backup, don’t you think it would help the public to have a discussion that’s a little more detailed? I’m not talking about you specifically; I’m talking about the council in general. Everybody should have said that. n Dare: And I did. When the motions were made for these ordinance changes in the pension, I tried to tell the City Council that they needed an actuarial study and part of my reasoning at the time was I had a good understanding that it was going to be more costly to do what they wanted to do. n OCT: In the short term or the long

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term, or are you saying in general? n Dare: In general. But they weren’t in any frame of mind to hear what Dennis Dare had to say about that. They weren’t going to listen to Dennis Dare, his opinion and they needed the facts. I was naïve enough to think they would look at it and say, “Well, you know, maybe this isn’t the right thing to do. They didn’t even want the actuarial study. They said, “Just do it, we don’t need that. That’s what we want, just do it.” So we started doing it. Four months later we’ve got to put something in the budget for this. What do you want us to put in there? Well, I don’t know. That’s what the actuary would have told you. They said, “Alright, just get the actuarial study done. So we get the study done … the actuary says it’s going to cost you this much more. Again, I think they missed the point on what the report was but at least then I had the number to include in the budget so that we can cover that increased cost. The accusations were, “I didn’t do what I was told.” I did. “I didn’t get the information that you needed.” I did. But when you got it, you didn’t like it. n OCT: Budget growth. You said the rapid rise in government spending reflected growth in the community. To me, the surge in spending was in 2005 and 2008 and the community wasn’t really growing at that point. Our real estate sales had dropped off by 35 percent or something at that point. n Dare: A lot of that was salary adjustment. n OCT: Which brings us to salary adjustments. n Dare: I think the reference that I saw, if that’ s what you’re talking about, in

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INTERVIEW WITH DENNIS DARE the newspaper that was back in 1980 up until now. n OCT: Was it ’80? I thought it was like 2000. n Dare: One was ’78 and one was ’82 and then 2000. OCT: From 2000 to 2008, the budget more than doubled. n Dare: What I can tell you is that from 2001 to 2010 or ’11, the number of general employees went down by 52. n OCT: That was at the end of that run. I think that in 2009 or 2008 … it was around 600 employees and then started going down at that point. n Dare: I only gave you half of my statistic. The public safety employee numbers did increase, both in fire and police. Remember the ... study with the police, where they tried to statistically look at this oddball situation of ours with full-time residents and visitors? They said we had a police department that was very lean at the top but we needed more year-round police officers so, what I did with Bernadette, Chief DiPino, was to try to civilianize positions like the crime lab and the supervisor of records. What we did was hire civilians to run those functions so we could put more sworn officers out in the field, but also hired additional police officers to come up to that level. With the firefighters/paramedics in that time span, it was when it became difficult for volunteers to have adequate coverage 24-7. They asked for assistance and we hired additional firefighter paramedics so those shifts could be covered when needed. So the increase was in public safety, while there was a correspon-

Ocean City Today ding decrease in the general employees. n OCT: The total number of people went up; it’s just the division of labor went … n Dare: … more toward public safety. n OCT: Back in 2006, when the city increased the salaries because of the Hendrix study, it said employees were paid less than their counterparts in certain other small governments. That same study said (general employee) supervisors were making 30 percent less than their counterparts in the police department. Overall, when that adjustment was made, I think the average increase was like 15 percent. That’s a lot of money. Why did it have to be done at once? Why couldn’t it have been done incrementally? Like 5 percent one year, 5 percent the following year and 5 percent the following year. At that particular moment, that was a big jump for the public to absorb. Were people complaining that something had to be done? n Dare: Why wasn’t it done before that incrementally to keep the salaries competitive? n OCT: Was it competitive or was it an issue of fairness between the supervisors? The supervisors were the ones that got the big hits. They went up a lot because lieutenants were making a $100,000-some. n Dare: In the (FOP) negotiations, I argued against that because I saw that issue. The issue was that sergeants were getting a certain amount of overtime on an annual basis and the fear was that nobody would want to be a lieutenant unless you make the lieutenant’s salary equal to or more than a what a sergeant makes plus the overtime. So the jump from the sergeant’s base pay to lieutenant was like 21 percent or something. I argued against

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that, but I don’t have a vote – I hope to after Nov. 6. But I argued against that because it was such a large jump. I knew that it would create unrest across the board, where we have a lieutenant in charge of one function in the police department making a salary that’s more than a department head that’s in charge of a $12 million budget and 50 people. I mean that’s not what you call internal equity. Our pay system, in fairness, is based in large part on that. n OCT: On the police pay? n Dare: On the part of the city. n OCT: I mean they [the police] drive… n Dare: They did in this instance, yes. n OCT: Before they got collective bargaining … the council voted to give the police a 13 percent raise, I think, for all practical purposes to buy off the push to get collective bargaining. And then they (the police) came back and got a contract on top of this raise. n Dare: I’m not too sure that happened when the contract was made. n OCT: I know you didn’t have a vote on that issue, but then the Hendrix study comes back and says … the supervisors are getting 30 percent less than the lieutenants are making. So it looks to me that the police got paid too much at the get-go. Is that where things got a little out of kilter? n Dare: I think it had a large part to do with it. In the first negotiation with the police department, they came in with comparable salaries from across the Mid-Atlantic from the New Jersey state police to the Montgomery County police and a lot of places. The town came in with comparables from the Easton police department and the Salisbury police department and

the Worcester county sheriff. The reason they call it negotiations is you then negotiate those comparables so while the police had 13 or 14 [comparables] and the city had 10 or 11, we combined that … and we ended up with 10 agencies [for comparables]. Not everybody has the same rank and file, not everybody has the same requirements to be a sergeant or the same responsibilities. Our sergeants may perform more duties than some other agency’s lieutenants. They may not have PFCs. You may just go from officer to sergeant. It’s a lot to combine in there and look collectively. Now, you throw on top of this, large cities. Up until sometime in the ’60s, their police officers weren’t required to be in Social Security, so you take somewhere like Baltimore City: they don’t get Social Security. Their pension is their pension plus what they get in Social Security, so sometimes their pay and pensions are going to reflect that. n OCT: So their pay would be less? n Dare: Not necessarily. Their pay would be more so they could afford to pay more in to the their pension. It didn’t really have anything to do with it, but the fact is, you had a lot more apples oranges and grapefruits and tangerines in there and you have to make everything to come out to something that’s comparable. And we recruit police officers not from West Ocean City, but from the eastern United States, so we have to be competitive with a whole lot of agencies and, yes, there is the fact that they get to live on the Eastern Shore. n OCT: I think it was back in 2006 … and it’s either Baltimore City or Baltimore County … the lieutenants in Baltimore Continued on Page 42

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County would actually be paid less than the ones in Ocean City. n Dare: And it could be, and their job may be equivalent to our sergeant. We don’t have lieutenants on patrol; the sergeants are in charge of the patrol division. OK? Other jurisdictions, it may be the lieutenants’ responsibility to be out on patrol and serve as backup, so a lieutenant is not a lieutenant in every agency. Where I’m going with all this is that we negotiated comparables, and we negotiated a salary structure, a pay structure for our police department based on what was done. For example, we created corporal that has some supervisory responsibility because PFCs didn’t. Only the sergeant was the first level of supervisor. With corporal, they get paid a little bit more but they also fill in when the sergeant is not available to do supervision. So you negotiate all these things, as I said earlier, and jump from sergeant plus overtime up to the lieutenant, captain and then chief. You end up with the chief making more money than the city manager, making more money than the director of public works, who has been there three times as long as the chief of police and has three times the budget and three times the employees. It came down to that internal equity. But it all started with the police looking at the comparables and that’s why we did do a study on everybody except the police and we rewrote everybody’s jobs to get it up to date and them ranked them internally.

It’s interesting, the way it works, because you give so many points for how complex the job is, including the dangers. You look at a wastewater plant operator that’s dealing with a gazillion volts and hazardous materials. n OCT: This is why some of the union activists say their jobs are as dangerous as some of the police? n Dare: Yeah, and when you go to the workman’s comp rates for a wastewater plant operator, they’re probably going to tell you it’s more dangerous than being a police officer. But I’ll tell you what we’re going to be doing in November, for the new council members, one of the first things they’re going to be doing is negotiating a contract with the police n OCT: The police put it (the contract negotiations) off, right? n Dare: The council agreed with the police to extend it, yes. n OCT: The police kind of suggest that they will get a more favorable hearing from the new council as opposed to the current majority. Do you think that’s a false assumption? n Dare: I don’t know what they suggested. I mean your words “favorable” … n OCT: We’ll say sympathetic. n Dare: If I’m elected, it will be fair. It will be what I think is right for the citizens and for the police officers. n OCT: What about the raises they gave up and the cost-of-living bumps? Do they get restored? n Dare: My hat’s off to the police officers, they had a contract. They had binding arbitration. They could have insisted that they get a raise and they voluntarily gave

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and phased in through a three-year contract. So if you’re working with a three-year contract, you can easily address phasing steps in, and we have in the past. n OCT: So back to 2006. Couldn’t it have been done at 10 percent a year as opposed to all at once? That’s kind of a big hit. Why not do it that way instead of doing it all at one time? n Dare: I don’t recall all the specifics on it. n OCT: But looking at the decline in [real estate] sale prices from 2006 to 2008, you could see the prices had fallen by 35 percent. This was in 2008, so did people not see trouble in the next cycle of reassessments? You knew it was going to come due in 2012, you just knew it. So why not act on it then? n Dare: In the summer of ’08, is when I first started sensing that we were going to actually see a decrease in the assessed value. But I know what constant yield is, so I didn’t hyperventilate over the fact that real estate prices were going down. What it amounts to is that you don’t send a check in for 38 cents, that’s the real tax rate. You send it in for $900, what your tax bill is. And do people receive a good value for those $900 no matter what their house is worth? They’re getting the trash picked up, they’re getting a police officer to come in two minutes, the beach is clean. Is that $900 acceptable for the services? So it doesn’t really matter what your house is worth or what the tax rate is, it’s what you’re writing the check for. But in ’08 it started to feel as if the real estate bubble was going to start to spill into the economy and in August of ’08, as we’re coming out of the summer season and the department heads are looking at their budgets for the coming year, I refused to bring any new employees on, full time, in ’08. In October of ’08, I went to the council formally and said, “I’d like to freeze our hiring. We need to start to look at downsizing.” I went to the employees and asked for cost-saving measures and during the budget process, and that would have been in the spring of ’09, I went to the council with what I called the low-hanging fruit and we started. At the department level, we were trying to assess everything we did. A lot of times, people just do what they’ve always done. And we took this opportunity to reassess everything we could and we went to the council with a long list of things. Some of which they weren’t interested in doing. However, in the next year, I brought a lot of those ideas back and because it hadn’t gotten that much better it was becoming more acceptable to downsize some things. I think one of the items I’m referring to is bus service. We were running two buses all night long, every half-hour service. At 3 a.m. in January, we don’t need to do that. And somebody comes up and says, “My dishwasher has to get home.” I’m sitting there thinking, “Give them a ride.” Pay them an extra 20 cents an hour so he can take a taxi or something. Why do the taxpayers have to pay to get your dishwashers home at 3 a.m. in January? And they weren’t interested. The second year, as things got progressively got a little tighter, we did make adjustments … we went from two buses to one bus and so then you just had to plan your evening around that onehour interval. n OCT: Was recycling a part of that cost-saving measure? n Dare: Not the low hanging.

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INTERVIEW WITH DENNIS DARE n OCT: The medium hanging? n Dare: Yeah, we were on a ladder then, reaching. It got into the recycling because of the process we go through. n OCT: The manual labor as opposed to taking it all up to Pennsylvania and burning it or whatever it is they do? n Dare: But they pull out the metals. n OCT: People say, I don’t understand why they got rid of recycling. n Dare: I don’t know why Worcester County didn’t put a recycling center in Ocean City so our residents, if they elect to do the conventional recycling, they don’t have to do it by going to Ocean Pines or Berlin. n OCT: Union membership in the public sector has gone up while the private sector is going down. Why do the people in the public service want unions? It’s not like they’re rolling cigars for 5 cents an hour. Why do they want that? And is it good? n Dare: I don’t know if I’m the person to ask that because… I will tell you an observation I had when the police brought the question of collective bargaining to referendum, I think three times before it passed. I was opposed to it, personally, I voted against it. The third time, I was surprised that the largest taxpayer in the city posted on his marquees … one morning I was going to work and I see this “support the referendum” and I said, “What?” When I sit down to negotiate as the city manager, with a mandate from the public that they were unopposed to collective bargaining, I’m thinking we’re going to have two officers to a car and a lot of take-home vehicles. A lot of that stuff comes up, and

Ocean City Today everything goes on the table and you toss stuff out, one by one, until you get down to the nitty-gritty. But I had one of the officers give us an example why they wanted collective bargaining and it was working conditions. In the beginning of the summer, he put in for a couple days of vacation days over the Columbus Day weekend because his kids were off school, his wife was off work and they wanted to take the kids to Disney World, and it was approved. He bought tickets from the airline, got the Disney tickets, got a place to stay, and a week before he was to leave on vacation, his vacation was cancelled because it was cruiser weekend and everybody needed to be there. Well, [cruiser weekend] was Columbus Day weekend every year. When he requested it in June, he knew it was Columbus Day weekend, but it suited him then and if his boss approved it, fine. That’s not his decision. He asked, his boss approved it and then, a week before, it gets cancelled. It cost him a lot of money, but more importantly it was devastating to his children, who had been looking forward to this, and all of a sudden, bang, it’s gone. Devastated. n OCT: The union changed that? n Dare: Yes, because there was no penalty in there for management to do something like that. Now, it’s no problem to do your schedule six months ahead, and any leave changes have to have 30 days’ notice. It forced us to be better managers and it accommodated the rank and file, so I’ve seen the benefits. n OCT: Union activist James Moxley says that’s one of the big things for their push for the union — working conditions. He says some of the supervisory staff treats

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people differently and they want it more uniform. But isn’t that more or less just a management memo? n Dare: It’s a management responsibility. I realize that we hire a police officer because they shoot straight and then we promote them because they do a good job at policing, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re a good manager because we didn’t hire them for management skills. It’s incumbent upon us to make them good managers and that’s true when we hire a ditch digger with a strong back and we promote him because he does a really good job, he’s conscientious and dedicated. But if we don’t give him training to make him an effective supervisor then that reflected on me as city manager. So I did two things: I started a training program for entry-level and new managers, just the fundamentals, you know, harassment, progressive punishment and all the fundamental things to train them to be good managers. The second thing I did was start focus groups. I go into recreation and say I want 25 of your 75 employees to sit down with me for an afternoon. I want men, women, I want minorities, entry-level positions, I want senior people, I want a cross-section, and we will talk about anything you want to talk about: salaries, benefits, working conditions. And I’d also take the conversation to how can we do a better job: “What do you all see as things we can do to better serve the public?” And we’d spend that couple hours talking about these working conditions and I learned a lot. I came back and instituted things. For example, vacation: We were talking about the abuse of sick leave. I did a study and I found out that 25 percent of city employees

took no sick leave but 10 percent took all they got. So how do we [fix] that? One of the suggestions from a park worker was you have to wait a year [for] your first vacation. You earned it all year but you didn’t get your two weeks until you’re there a year. But we’ve earned it during that year. That was back when everything was done manually and that was done for ease. Now it’s done by computer and, yeah, we can do that. So we change the accruing of vacation. The first month you were a city employee you earned 8 hours, 8.37 hours, of vacation. That’s on your pay stub, and if you’re child is sick, you call in and say I need to take vacation today because my child is sick. In the past, they would have called in and said, “I’m sick,” OK? We made our employees honest and they got what they earned and when they earned it, but that was a suggestion from a focus group. Two years ago, I was told not to do that anymore, for whatever reason. I think as city manager, I was able to talk to the employees about their lives, their jobs. One of the mechanics said, “I’ve asked for them to put a window on the door between the garage and the parts room. It’s a solid door. I don’t know how many times that door slammed in my face. If you just put a window in there, we’d see each other coming – there wouldn’t be any workman’s comp claims.” That made sense to me and I had the department head put a window in there but it never got done before. n OCT: You’re also saying that, in the course of things, you are training some of your own, you are raising people through Continued on Page 44

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the ranks so that goes all the way back to the salary issue – that you have to pay this certain amount in order to attract people of a certain caliber when the fact is we also raise people to that certain caliber. We can raise them from ditch digger to … a superintendent of construction. So we’re not necessarily going out and hiring all these people from the outside, we’re raising some of our own quality people. n Dare: We’re very fortunate to be to promote from within, because we’ve hired quality people to begin with, because our salary and benefit package attracts a good caliber person. n OCT: Let’s talk about the commission system. Are we looking at redoing that, going back to the old way of things? n Dare: If I’m fortunate enough to be elected Nov. 6, I’m one of seven people, whoever they are, and I’m all about teamwork, whether it’s working with the employees or with the council. I think there may be a conversation. I can tell you as a city manager I worked with commissions and I worked without them. They [commissions] have their benefits. And I’m talking about operations, not perceptions or whatever some people want to talk about, but when special events has an idea for a new special event, they’ll talk internally and then they will go to (Rec Department Director) Tom Shuster and talk to him about it. Tom may then come and talk to me about it, before it gets proposed. We could take that to a work session. The council reviews it and says, “We don’t like this, how about this?”

Ocean City Today So without the commission it works fine. With a commission it would have gone to the rec commission from Shuster’s departmental level and we would have brainstormed it a little bit, so when it was brought forward to the full council it was just massaged a little bit more. Historically, as city manager, sometimes I take a concept to the mayor and council and they go, “How are we supposed to decide on this? There are no details to this.” No, it’s a concept. “We need to know more about it before we make a decision.” On the other hand, the other edge of the sword, if I studied something and went into the council and said, “What do you think about this?” “Well, you’ve already done all the work on it. You should have come to us initially to get approval to do it.” So, sometimes you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t. And that’s kind of the way it is with the commissions. I think it worked well. I understand that some people thought that it had ulterior motives and that, but from an operations standpoint, it worked well. n OCT: The Tourism Commission is the example. That’s what we do for a living here. I know there has been talk among other candidates that they would like to see that restored even though the TAB (Tourism Advisory Board) is doing a good job. They liked the way [the commission] expedited things and got things done more quickly. There’s been some talk about rewinding that a little bit. How do you feel about that? Do you think TAB is doing what it needs to do? n Dare: I guess the short answer is, I only know what I read in the paper. The TAB was formed two years ago, and I think

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I just read in the paper that they finally agreed on a memorandum of understanding. Two years later. The whole time I was city manager, the year while TAB was there, I was never invited to any of the meetings, so I don’t know. They couldn’t even establish what the relationship was between them and the town. What I know from attending the old tourism commissions is that we work up an agenda, have items on it, if we needed to have the police there to talk about traffic control or a special event or something like that, then it was easy for us to get those people there. n OCT: I think the current majority said, when they abolished (the commission), “Wait a minute, we do want this stuff out in public and that was their impetus for doing this. There have been instances in the past when the commission system hasn’t been as open as it should have been, either with the council or with the public. n Dare: I can understand why people would think that. Going back to recreation – if special events people have an idea, it may be a great idea or it may be a horrible idea. It just seemed like at the commission level you can bring it up and talk about it. And those meetings were open. The reporters were there. The only time they closed the meeting was if there was a personnel thing. n OCT: I’m referring specifically to … n Dare: If the tourism thing was wrong, or the police commission was wrong, why give up something like the recreation commission that was working? I didn’t understand that, and as far as the tourism commission goes, if the majority that wanted to do that had something in mind, they should have written an agree-

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ment right then and there and given it to them and said, “Here’s how you operate,” instead of back and forth for two years. n OCT: Back when we were picking our ad agency, that’s when they took all the proposals and sealed them and weren’t even going to give them to all the council members, much less to all the commission members. They stayed with the council. I forget who was on there, Margaret (Pillas), Mary Knight, Rick (Mayor Meehan) and they initially were the only ones who had the bid packages. Then the commission, I believe, was asked to vote on these bid packages without even knowing what was in them. So I don’t understand how that accomplishes anything. n Dare: In professional services, for architects, engineers, it’s a common practice in government to get proposals in two sections. One is the qualifications and the other is the cost. And the concept of that is you want to pick the most qualified person. Then you open up the cost and negotiate a price. If you can’t negotiate a fair price, then you rebid it or, if you have somebody else who is nearly as well qualified, maybe you would negotiate with him or her. Because in professional services, whether you’re looking for an oncologist or an ad agency, you want somebody who’s going to do a good job. But also a fair and reasonable cost. n OCT: Why shouldn’t the tourism commission members at the time who weren’t on the council … why go through the charade of asking them to vote on something they hadn’t even seen? n Dare: I’m not positive of what you’re referring to. n OCT: When the bids were negotiat-

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INTERVIEW WITH DENNIS DARE ing for ad agencies. MGH was one of the bidders. Initially, the whole bid packages came in. The members from City Hall who were on the commission got copies of everything. The others didn’t. n Dare: They got the cost proposal? n OCT: They got everything. They got the ideas, the presentation, everything. The civilians, as it is, they saw a closed presentation from the individual agencies. Initially, the copies weren’t even going to the other members on the council. We covered that. A particular member of the council raised a stink about it and everybody got it. Nobody else got them. The civilians didn’t get them, the chamber didn’t get them, the hotel-motel association didn’t get them, the newspapers didn’t get them. We had to file a Freedom of Information Act. It took us six months. They said it was proprietary information. Well, all bids have proprietary information, and once they’re open, it’s tough to steal. That, I think, is one of the arguments that led to the situation with the commission. They shouldn’t be holding things quite as close to the vest as they do. It’s a matter of providing information to people. Wouldn’t you agree with that? n Dare: My recollection is that there were a lot people who didn’t understand the process and all these years later, I can’t recall all the specifics, but as I recall, there was more going on then … because of who was on the commission and who wasn’t. n OCT: City Manager David Recor. Can you separate yourself from your old job and let him do his? n Dare: Absolutely. I went in the other

Ocean City Today day to sign up for my retirement pension. I walked over and stuck my head in his office and held my papers and said, “I’m retired and I’m not coming back.” We got a good laugh out of that. n OCT: One of the things you said at the AARP forum with regard to the development of the remainder of Ocean City’s open space is to give the OCDC a broader … n Dare: Responsibility? It’s not just the remaining open space. The town is substantially developed. It’s like a parking lot with 1,100 spaces. If there’s 20 spaces in there, the parking lot’s [still] full, because you can’t find the 20 spaces. All the easy redevelopments have been done, probably. What we are is we’re substantially developed. We have a lot of condominiums that were built back in the ’80s and even the ’70s and so we’re going to start to look at some challenges with them. We talked at the forum about businesses remaining viable in town. I think the concept is having the Ocean City Development Corporation, where we got business people and citizens in the town, with their private sector experience and ability to come in an apply those principles and help with redevelopment. n OCT: Are we talking design guidelines or economic development? n Dare: It could be. Whatever’s needed. The council directed the OCDC initially [to work] south of 3rd or 4th street and then they said, “Let’s take it up to 17th Street.” I’m just suggesting, if we now have the North Ocean City Business Alliance … the question at the forum was that most of the residents live in north Ocean City and “We don’t have a restroom on the beach.” That was the question that I was responding to and I’ve often thought that maybe

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the talents of the OCDC and the experience that they have in the downtown, maybe it’s time to expand their horizon to the entire town … I think some things can be done to make business more viable in Ocean City. n OCT: The convention center expansion. According to Trade Show Week, when they project what the economic impact is of convention centers, they say 91 percent of the attendees visit restaurants, 52 percent do other entertainment, 44 percent go shopping, and, of course, 90-100 percent stay in hotels and motels. A lot of our growth in the restaurant and shopping industry is happening outside of Ocean City. We’re expanding this convention center on the premise that it’s going to generate more economic activity, yet we’re going to be sending a good chunk of it to West Ocean City. So what do you do to encourage commercial growth in Ocean City? n Dare: You have to level the playing field. I think for the conventioneers, we’re a drive-to destination, so they do have their cars, they are mobile. But we also have a convenient bus system that for a dollar, you can get to any hotel, any establishment in town [but] won’t get you to West Ocean City. But the basic thing here is that land was cheaper in West Ocean City, so they went over and built the outlets in West Ocean City instead of 94th Street. Taxes are cheaper there than they are in town. And perhaps the building and zoning requirements were less stringent there than here. Some businesses, some of the restaurants, their tax bill barely covers what they would have to pay in trash disposal if they were outside of town. If a restaurant looks at all its expenses – taxes and trash re-

moval – it’s not any cheaper to go outside of town. You don’t see a lot of hotels in West Ocean City because people want to be at the beach. When people asked, “Is the casino going to be successful?” I said, well, if people want to leave the beach to gamble, the racetrack would be gangbusters. But the town doesn’t have any nursing homes, doesn’t have any funeral homes, doesn’t have any shoe stores, doesn’t have a lot of things that used to be associated with main street or a shopping mall because we’re so focused on being a resort destination. I don’t know if you can go to Disney World and buy a pair of wingtips. And why would you want to come to the beach and buy wing tips? You may have to go somewhere. But the service, all the businesses and the residents, a lot of people moved out of town because they don’t have to pay Ocean City taxes. Now, you get your service for that $900-some you pay in taxes, but they’re also being duplicated … over the basic service you would get in the county. I would like to have a discussion about tax differential. If we could have a level playing with Worcester County and the services that the town provides that they (Worcester County) don’t have to and that’s recognized, then that will make it more attractive for people to live in Ocean City year-round instead of outside Ocean City and make business more of a level playing field. n OCT: That’s all fine, and the tax differential discussion makes a great headline, but why in the world does (County Commissioner) Judy Boggs of Ocean Pines vote for that? You only have one county commissioner who’s directly responsible to Continued on Page 49

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I grew my knowledge of politics and how things operate in this town, and I dove into learning about municipal government and its functions. And I did better. The third time was the charm, it was the third election that I won a seat. And boy, did I learn. I was idealistic that government could be run like a business. That was my whole strategy, ‘I’m going to get in and I’m going to run government like a business.’ What I quickly learned was that there are two different goals between business and government. Business has one goal, and that’s net profit, and everything you do in business needs to support that goal. Of course, government’s goal is not about profit, it’s about services and infrastructure. I was able to learn and engage and participate the first two years – I won a two-year term the first time – and I was able to win a second four-year term. The other thing I thought was ‘you know, if I’m going to run and become an elected official, I’m only going to serve two terms, because that’s enough.’ I thought there should be term limits. But what I found out is that government is inherently inefficient. Because it’s run on consensus, and there’s no one true leader. In that inefficiency, things take twice as long to get done. So the idea that you can get a lot accomplished in a term or two is difficult. You can be effective, but to really know the workings of the system – and on top of that, once you know the system, to effect change – takes time. I believe clearly now, in the position I’m

Ocean City Today in, that I’ve learned what it takes to accomplish effective change. And that’s what I think we’ve done over the last four years, but we’ve really done a tremendous amount in the past two years. You mentioned why, with all the tension and appearance of controversy would I like to continue to be in there. I recognize that change in government is difficult and scary and people resist. Therefore, all the public scrutiny and negativity out there is a result of fighting that change. A different group than in the past has been able to steer the ship, so to speak. People who used to steer the ship don’t necessarily agree, and tension is caused. But it’s part of government. I liken it to the family table around Thanksgiving. Everyone pulls together for a nice dinner, but not everybody at the table agrees. Aunt Mable doesn’t like Gertrude, and such. We’ve asked – I believe the voters asked in the last couple elections – to become more transparent. Don’t hide government behind closed doors with committees. We changed the system so that the whole council would get all the information at the same time, in a public format. Things that used to be worked out behind closed doors now are in the public, and the public therefore sees the give and take in conversation, and sometimes the argument, that used to transpire behind closed doors. I think that’s healthy, if we can all understand what’s going on. I can tell you from my 10 years that all the arguing and the differences of opinion existed. They were just hidden from public view. What you see now is true transparency. If you don’t want that, you can vote to go back. But I don’t think that’s the best thing for government.

n OCT: I feel like people infer that there are missed opportunities because a committee-less system is just not streamlined. n Hall: I think that’s a false perception. The committees that we had before were in groups of three, because you couldn’t have a quorum or you would have to have a public meeting. So the inefficiency of that was, first, that it was done out of sight of the public, and two, once it was brought to the council, the four people who weren’t involved in the conversation would say ‘I don’t get this, I can’t agree to this.’ And they’d have to kick it back. That’s the inefficiency I talked about. That existed then, and therefore when we have an issue that’s presented to the council and we have to kick it back to staff for more information, it’s the same thing that’s always happened. It’s just happening in front of you. n OCT: There was an issue, I think, with MGH’s last contract renewal where people weren’t getting the information out of committee before decisions were made. n Hall: It was a constant criticism of the committees that, once it got to the council level, it was almost pre-determined. It was like you couldn’t vote against it, because it came from the committee so there was already three votes in support and only needed one more. So your input wasn’t really valuable. That happened on the tourism level, with Parks and Recreation, and mostly the Police Commission. The Police Commission we haven’t disbanded as of yet, because that body actually has the authority to make decisions on its own level. We would get the final product. If you weren’t on the tourism commission, you wouldn’t see the development of the marketing plan. All you would get would be the final version of what would air, and by the time you saw it, if you didn’t like it, it was too late. Half the time, it was already airing. You heard about it from your cousin in Baltimore what the ad was before the full council even saw it. That was a huge criticism and a huge discomfort for anyone serving on one of those committees. n OCT: Right now, going forward, what do you think the heart of the election is? What is the overall issue in question? n Hall: I believe it goes to the overall type and structure you want from municipal government. Do you want a government that provides the essential services and amenities that you feel are necessary for the town to function – police, fire, EMS, roads, public works? And when it comes to reasonable wants, and the engagement level of tourism, do you want a government that says ‘this is how it’s done, this is the type of customer you should cater to.’ Or do you want an enabling government that allows for business to prosper on its own and allow for market forces to work? I believe in the latter. I want to manage the assets of the town in a way that allows prosperity to happen via the entrepreneur, the investor, and the local resident, so that they can come here – like my father did – and apply themselves with determination and a goal and succeed. That’s the kind of person that succeeds in Ocean City. I took umbrage with Dennis’ quote in one of his interviews, where he says that the success of the town has been upon what government has been doing. I don’t buy that. I think business and the community have succeeded in spite of what government has to do for everybody. The traditional family businesses that have suc-

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ceeded here have done it on true grit. I think that’s the foundation that government should be laying. n OCT: In the case of, let’s say marketing, if what we’re doing right now is too heavy-handed, how would you scale that back and transfer some of the onus onto businesses instead of having the city be the premier marketer, as it has become? n Hall: We took a tremendous amount of criticism for creating TAB. And then, I became a critic of TAB myself. But I think it’s a transition group that is enabling a structure that allows business to start to take the lead in the marketing decisions of the town. I certainly have not agreed with all those decisions, but as long as the makeup of that board continues to move in the direction of the stakeholders, I think when that brainpower gets pulled together, it can guide those dollars in the most effective way. I think the town needs to continue to be the conduit, because we have access to the capital needed. Frankly, we have the power to tax. And that tax is the room tax, of which we use a portion towards the marketing. So we have a resource, but I think the brainpower of the businesses is the key. It has to be the stakeholders, not their managers. We don’t need the manager, we need the guy that’s on the mortgage making the decision, because he knows about net return. n OCT: The measures in the last two years to scale back the city’s expenses or liabilities – have they been successful? Whether through your part or someone else’s, that seems to have become the record that you’re defending. n Hall: We made bold changes to the pay and benefits offered to employees of the town of Ocean City, which came with a tremendous amount of resistance and a tremendous amount of criticism. We were approached in public meetings by administrative staff who said that we would ruin the town, that we would never have anybody apply for an open position again because we would be uncompetitive with the new structure. That has not been proven to be the case. We’ve had record applications for positions and record qualified applicants for the positions. So it goes back to that ‘change is scary.’ People would prefer the devil they know to the devil they don’t know. But as time has progressed, things have shown to be beneficial to the town. And when really looked at deeply, its beneficial to the employees. Say you worked for us for eight years in public works. And you decide that that’s not the career for you, you don’t leave with any retirement benefit other than what you paid in yourself. But what the town’s contributed, the town keeps. Under the new plan, if you’re working for public works and you decide to become a nurse in Salisbury or something, whatever you’ve paid in – and whatever the town has matched – to your 401(a), you get to take that with you. You get something. When you get your paycheck, you’re paid in full by the town of Ocean City, and the citizens have paid in full. There’s no future liability for them, and you’ve gotten what you’ve earned, when you’ve earned it. I think that is a tremendous positive. n OCT: Changing that structure so that it enables a more mobile workforce is something that there’s been pushback on, specifically from the police. They want to train people here and keep them as long as possible, because it’s an investment. Is that

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INTERVIEW WITH JOE HALL something that the city is just going to have to deal with, ultimately? n Hall: Ultimately, we want employees who want to be here because they want to be here. We don’t want to make them indentured servants to the town. And that’s what this whole plan does. It says that once you’re in here or eight or 10 years, you have to stay because if you leave, there’s a punishment. I don’t buy that. I want a police officer to be a police officer in Ocean City because that’s what he wants to do and loves to do, and the compensation meets his needs. I think we’ll continue to do that. I’m sure that, if we get to a point where we have an exodus of officers because pay and compensation doesn’t meet the need, we’ll make an adjustment. But if a police officer is leaving the town of Ocean City because he no longer wants to be a police officer here, there should be no amount of money that would keep him here, because his heart’s not in the job. Or if he falls in love with someone in Pennsylvania, and they don’t want to live in Ocean City and he leaves, he shouldn’t be punished if he decides for that change. There are lots of circumstances why people leave. If it’s ever proven that it’s because of lack of pay or benefits, the city at that time will be able to make an adjustment. But right now, what we pay is very competitive for this area, so our goal is to attract people that want [to be] in Ocean City. And I think we do that. It’s a great place to be. That’s why the residents that are making this decision choose to pay a premium to live on-island, and they’re doing that to the detriment to the equity of their property, for some. So that’s a commitment. n OCT: With the pension change, one of the complaints was that the change was made prior to the Mercer study that came through saying it would be cheaper to modify the pension plan rather than to close it out and go with the 401(a). n Hall: The body that made the movement forward, with the 11 ordinances that were put on the table – when that motion was made and voted on, that didn’t’ make it etched in stone. What it said was ‘Dennis Dare, administration, this is where we want to go. We’re moving to first reading, we’ve got a month to get this all done. Get the information we need to get it done.’ There was resistance and delay in saying ‘this won’t work.’ They didn’t say why it won’t work, they just said it won’t work. And we said ‘it’s working other places, we don’t agree.’ And we had to send them back, time and time again, for more information.

In the end, what happened was what was supposed to happen. The conversations were had. The mayor vetoed some, we had additional discussion, and in the end we have a better system now than we had before. And we’ll continue to do that. n OCT: That level of resistance, I’ve been led to believe, is ultimately what resulted in Dennis being let go. What specifically did that entail? Was it just the expression of resistance, or were there other things that were being dealt with? n Hall: The accumulation of everything that happened clearly convinced me that Dennis was committed to a different vision of how the town’s government operated than how I felt it should be. And eventually, three other people agreed that Dennis was not in the best interest of the future development of Ocean City. It’s been said many times that it was appreciated, the work he’s done. He managed the town through an incredible growth time. Back when Dennis first started, there was a lot of raw land in Ocean City. A lot of infrastructure to be built that was able to be built because new assessed values from new development were continually coming on year after year. But Dennis, I believe, resisted the idea that we have come to a build-out in Ocean City and must now shift gears from a growth government to a sustainability government. And I didn’t have the confidence then, when I voted to let him go, and I don’t have the confidence now that he’s running for council, that he has the ability to change gears. I think he has said that the success of the town has been due to what the town has done. I don’t believe it. I believe the success of the town in the past and in the future will be on what its citizens, businesses, and taxpayers will do. What they enable government to do. n OCT: How linked was that firing to the current level of discontent amongst employees, or even residents or businessmen. Everybody seems to give a bit of a different story on that, and it’s kind of become its own straw man. n Hall: I believe Dennis allowed an atmosphere where employees were allowed to express beyond normal professionalism their discontent with the leadership of Ocean City. There was a feeling that the town council did not have the will to make the moves that it made, that there would always be some level of tolerance, or a fear of a corrective measure. He was wrong. I think that Dennis knew that. He had conversations with people over time about his job security level. I stand by my vote. It’s time for the town to move past Dennis’ era,

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and now allow David Recor’s era to develop. I think the strategic planning initiative that he’s championed is going to be a short-term, mid-term, and long-term vision that will be easy to understand and will be embraced by the taxpayers of Ocean City. That needs to develop unencumbered by old visions. n OCT: One of the other things was what was cut and what wasn’t cut for new employees versus current employees. Was it ever considered to make cutbacks for current employees? n Hall: Honestly, I would say that all things were on the table. During the election of 2010, I was asked and talked about an across-the-board pay cut. It did not have the support to move forward, and was only an idea for something to put on the table for conversation. One of the things was that in 2008 and 2009, we made some adjustments that eliminated employees. We did eliminate jobs in the town. One of my conversations with Dennis was that, if we would just take 5 percent of the top 100 employees’ pay and scale it back, we could save some of the lower-end jobs. I laid that option out to Dennis. But it was not an option to save a lower-end job by cutting the pay scale of the top end. He wouldn’t have it. This whole idea of how unfair we were – it was talked about saving jobs by having everyone feel the pain. But it wasn’t supported by the administration. n OCT: The move to change the retiree health plan, was that the same thinking? You sort of switched sides to go ahead with Rick’s compromise solution. n Hall: I have a tremendous amount of concern about the retiree health benefit.

It’s a great idea, but to put a future liability on a future taxpayer and a future council… right now, we’re projecting $30 million in unfunded liability with that program, and not knowing where health care costs could go, it’s a scary proposition. We’re putting a couple million dollars a year into this for work that’s going to be done today but paid for down the road. I think the health savings account helps with that. At least employees earn a pot of money that will be there to help subsidize Medicare or whatever we end up with in the future. I think right now, the best thing we can do for the taxpayers and the citizens is pay as you go. Compensate the employee on pay day in full for everything, and give them the knowledge and support that allows them to make good decisions for themselves. We have to become self-empowering to the employees, the taxpayers, and businesses. We can’t be the backup system for everybody. n OCT: Transitioning people to that account was also one factor in keeping the insurance rates low, do you think the city will continue to see a savings? n Hall: I’m very happy to see that our projected costs for health care this year came in under by $100,000. Our goal would be to repeat that, and I think we can if we continue to educate ourselves, keep our minds open to change, and implement the best strategies for everyone. I’ve said it many times – what good is the very best of everything if, in the end, you can’t afford it? Three minute ambulance service is great, if you’re willing to pay the money to live in town. But if the costs get to where you Continued on Page 48

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choose to live in Ocean Pines or outside the island, it does you no good. Affordability has to matter. We can’t have it, at all costs, the very best, because then the only people that benefit are the elite. You had mentioned what this election is about, and while the hot button issues are the union and the power struggle between two different ideologies, this election isn’t about that. It’s about the kind of community you want. This is your hometown. Is this the type of town where people want to live, where we attract more people, or does this continue to be a town where we have a decreasing year-round population. I look, in this election, to help develop that plan where Ocean City is the town where you continue to want to live, and others want to become your neighbors. And that’s what this election is most about. n OCT: So in the years leading up to this particular time, the growth of city government had outstripped the growth in what the city needed? n Hall: I think the community got very comfortable with deferring to government to do for them. Under the guise of tourism, at any cost, we could get away with growing government. It’s very hard to get people off the nipple of government. ‘We want public art, we should fund public art.’ And a group of people come down and recommend that it would be good. And it is nice – I supported the marlin at the inlet, and we need some of it for the community. But all the sudden, for the community doing for itself, we’re taking different pots of money and doing for. We choose what music people

Ocean City Today listen to for public entertainment. We choose what art you look at, what kind of playground you have. Shouldn’t that bubble up from the community, not from administrators sitting in a room deciding how it’s best to spend your money? n OCT: Do you think that all these things that have been done have grown the town, whatever that ultimate goal is, be it the tourist base or the quality of life? n Hall: I think we have enhanced the quality of life, but at a tremendous cost. And if you weigh the cost to the benefit, I don’t know if it’s there. The reality is that people are here because of the ocean. Over the last ten years, we’ve increased tourism – just in destination marketing - by over 500 percent. But if you add in the growth in parks and rec, in special events, in economic development, we’ve probably increased funding to support tourism by 1,000 percent. Special events used to be a one guy show; it’s now 7 employees and a multi-million dollar budget. But the reality is that tourism numbers haven’t moved. We all have argued the metrics – and I’ve gone back and forth on them myself - but all the metrics that we have and use in our financial reports say that tourism has been flat over the last 20 years. But yet the cost to support tourism has increased by 1,000 percent. That’s a very poor return on investment. n OCT: Do you think a certain level of tourism investment has to be made just to stay afloat? n Hall: I think that, every day that I’ve lived in the town of Ocean City, the sun has come up. And it will continue to come up. And if it continues to come up, and the beach is hot, we’re going to continue to have tourism. That’s what they came down

for 20 years ago, and it’s what they’ll come down for 20 years from now: a good weather report. And that’s the basis of that 100-day foundation of seasonal business that we have. We can add all the value, events, entertainment, performing arts centers, art leagues, and boat ramps we want, but as long as that sun comes up, that’s what’s going to bring people to Ocean City. n OCT: Do you think the move to lower the tax rate this year has been worth it? n Hall: It was absolutely the right thing to do. The mantra out there now, to try to diminish what we did, is to say that it’s only 20 bucks in the taxpayers’ pocket. No, it was $863,000 of the taxpayers’ money that we collected and didn’t need. The reality is that we have a fund balance and a level of balance that we project to have. We were above that. We have the fund balance that we’re required to have. We have a fund balance bigger than what is recommended. So it’s just money in the kitty. The only thing that could happen with that money isn’t about a hurricane or a Nor’easter giving us an expense. That’s what the [existing] fund balance is for. That money was for ‘uh-oh, we need this or we need that.’ And if it’s in the town’s savings, history has shown that we find a way to spend it. What we said was that this money was not allocated or needed in the budget, let’s give it back to the taxpayer. And if we need it, if we have that event and we need some extra money, we’ll ask the taxpayer to pony up the – as they said – only 20 bucks. That reserve fund, I believe, is now back up, so we’re ahead of the game even more. The exaggeration that that put the town at risk is rhetoric, plain and simple.

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n OCT: It seems to me like a lot of the election right now is the interpretation of history. One of the things, which Joe Mitrecic brought up last week, is the idea that you and Jim were complicit in the past Hendricks studies. When those popped up, what was your take on that situation with moving to fund these pay increases on the merit of comparative studies. Do you now think that was a bad idea? n Hall: At the time, I believed that the votes taken on those things were honest and true with the information provided and the knowledge we had. The funny thing about the Hendricks study was this. We’re part-time elected officials. We make our choices based on how the administration presents information. When the Hendricks study came back, it said certain jobs were underpaid, and certain jobs were overpaid. As much as overpaid by 10 percent and underpaid by 23 percent. The idea way to make adjustments would’ve been to go job by job and pull some down to increase other jobs. That would’ve been the prudent way to do it – a very long way to do it also. Well, Dennis says ‘if you take all these numbers, put them together and divide it, it becomes 8 percent. So why don’t we just adjust all pay scales across the board 8 percent.’ This is coming from the $150,000-plus city manager’s recommendation at the time to $10,000 per year part-time officials. What are we supposed to do? It’s easy, quick, and the administration says we can afford it. In hindsight, I know we should’ve went job by job. I’ll never do that again, but that’s how we did it. Not to mention, after we made that adjustment, what I didn’t realize was that we were making

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INTERVIEW WITH JOE HALL that adjustment at the same time that the administration had planned all along to apply the yearly COLA on top of it. Then, other people earned wage adjustments in the same year. We had employees who, in one year, got a 21 percent raise. n OCT: And those were mainly people in higher-level positions, which caused some discontent. n Hall: Correct. After the first negotiation with the police department, the command staff earned about a 10 percent increase across the board. Dennis came to the council and said ‘now, I have peers in the general employees’ management level who all are now the same grade as these lieutenants, but didn’t get their raise. I think that my management deserves that 10 percent.’ Again, we are part-time elected officials. We make our decisions based on the city manager’s recommendation. We took his advice, again, not recognizing that Dennis applied the 8 percent across the board raise to his managers, plus the COLA. I will admit that I did not follow that bouncing ball until it was too late. Once it was too late, and once I recognized it, I’d learned, but it wasn’t really a reversal process. n OCT: Just to give some numbers, the January 2006 Hendricks study – in which it was noted that department heads were making 30 percent below police command staff, and suggested to compensate those department heads appropriately – you, Jim, and Lloyd weren’t there for that vote, which seemed bizarre. It resulted in over $1 million added to the city’s payroll, $338,000 of which went to the top 35 positions n Hall: Whether I was there or not, I can tell you the mindset that I had would’ve mirrored the rest of the council. I had a deep trust in Dennis’ ability to guide us in the right direction. I understand now that my responsibility is to question more. I think that the way government function can be a very expensive lesson for everybody. I just think it’s refreshing when you have some elected officials who are willing to own up to it and say that they’re willing to roll their sleeves up and take corrective action. n OCT: The council moved to put the union to referendum, but now it seems like it’s gone back and everyone on council wants to use it as a political weapon, even though you voted to take it out of your hands. Do you think you and Brent making that motion to force everyone to take a stance was a good idea?

n Hall: I don’t have a problem with my motion. I was vocal against it. I think that, in the beginning when they first made the initiative to get the signatures for the referendum, I said ‘I support the legal process, and if that’s something you choose to do, go do it.’ I didn’t say ‘once you do it, I’m going to agree with you.’ You went out and did it, and once you did it I felt it was my duty as an elected official to let the citizens know how I felt about it and how it will affect them. I feel it will be a tremendous negative and a tremendous roadblock to employee relations to have another party in the mix. It has not boded well on the police and EMS level. It’s not productive for the taxpayers, period. Yeah, it’s become a political Ping-Pong ball. n OCT: Do you have a sense, then, of why the FOP seems to have it out for you? n Hall: The FOP does not want me at the negotiating table for the taxpayer, and they don’t want Jim Hall. They know we’re going to fight, and that’s the only reason they don’t want us at that table. n OCT: Do you think the city will ever be able to truly lower taxes, as in being able to lower its rate below the constant yield and actually survive on less revenue? n Hall: The reality is that the tax rate is a non-meaningful number. The reality is

that what you care about is your tax bill. We just need to make sure that we generate the minimal amount of revenue to keep the town clean, fund, and safe. There’s nothing wrong with, ahead of time, saying ‘this is the bar.’ Traditionally, how budgets in government are made is that you identify the need, and then go try to find the revenue to do it. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with ahead of time saying ‘city manager, this is the revenue we want you to fit the need into.’ You can do that by identifying the tax rate earlier than we have in the past. We can certainly run this town as well for less. There’s no doubt in my mind. n OCT: Are there major projects that you would still like to see done, though? n Hall: For 30 years this community has asked for a parking garage. We’ve studied it ten times in 10 different ways, and they’ve all come back and said that there’s merit to a garage. I’d like to see that happen. As a conservative that’s watching the money, I have to work within the budget and the numbers to say how that can be accomplished without overburdening the rest of the community. I think it can be done. I think the revenue generated already through parking in the area can help fund that garage in a cost-neutral way. I don’t have

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the will of the council to get that done yet. My 10 years of service, I advocated for the boat ramp. That’s going to happen now. Again, it goes back to government taking a lot of time. I started 16 years ago saying ‘we’re a seaside, island community, and we don’t have an adequate boat ramp.’ The garage has taken over 35 years. It’s designed, it’s one of those shovel-ready project that people talk about, it’s now just a matter of having a conversation of how to fund it, and I think I have an idea on how to make that as cost-neutral as possible. More importantly, it’s to fit the size of government into the reasonable needs that the taxpayer is willing to pay for. I think we can still maintain the level of service we have, and fit it into that smaller box that the taxpayer is asking us for. Ocean City is still about the sun, the beach, the fishing, the crabbing. That’s why we live here. We don’t live here because Dennis Dare had a wonderful municipal government, we live here because we’re on the ocean. We’re in God’s country. Most people feel the same way about any hometown they live in. We’re no different than Berlin or Snow Hill or Altoona, Pennsylvania. The people that live there love their community. We’re here because we love Ocean City, not because of the government.

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Ocean City voters. The rest are responsible to Ocean Pines, Snow Hill, Pocomoke and Berlin. There’s nothing in it for them at all except the chance they won’t get reelected. They’re looking at a 15-17 percent tax increase. So why would they do that? n Dare: Sometimes you have to take care of the goose that lays the golden egg. If you take the tax money that comes out of Ocean City, historically, it’s been about the same as the school board’s budget. For some reason, all the counties on the western shore, from Garrett down to St. Mary’s up to Cecil, they have tax differentials. The residents in Annapolis pay a lesser Anne Arundel tax rate than residents who live in the unincorporated area just outside of Annapolis. If everybody over there in Hagerstown, in Finksburg and places in between, if they can figure out how to do tax differential, why can’t Ocean City and Worcester or Salisbury and Wicomico County. Why can’t they figure it out? n OCT: So the county commissioners

either agree to it or they get it foisted on them through legislature. The legislature can do that, can’t it? n Dare: The legislature wrote the law and said west of the Chesapeake is “shall” [have a tax differential] and east of the Chesapeake is “may” [have a tax differential]. I don’t know why they just didn’t make it uniform one way or the other, but for some reason its fair on the western shore, but not fair on the Eastern Shore. The problem is paying for things twice. That money would go back in your pocket. n OCT: How do you rate the tax burden of our residents as compared to that of other communities in the state? n Dare: I think it’s fair. In 2007, we did a national citizens survey. This is a survey that the International City Managers Association sponsors. You pay to have it done, but they endorse it and it’s been done in thousands of communities across the country. We sent out the survey and we used the statistical models … just like the Nielsen [television ratings]

survey, and our response rate was remarkable, very high. So we know we got a good cross-section, and this is broken down to trash removal, to the aesthetics of the community … everything from cold facts stuff to more touchy-feely things, and we’re in the upper 90 percentile satisfaction for public works, public safety. Some were 100. Probably 100 different questions and ratings. The things we scored lower in were like planning and zoning, because in 2007 people were seeing property value (issues) and [big developments] and all those things. That should have been taken to heart. What I’d like to see us do is do that survey again and that may be part of David Recor’s strategic planning. We have a base from 2007 that’s a scorecard on how the city is doing. And maybe it’s time to ask the question again, in 2013, or 2014, how are we doing now? When people say that you’re doing a good job in that 90 percentile, then I think they feel as if they’re getting good value for the taxes they are paying.

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WOC firefighters want county to pick up tab for water line NANCY POWELL ■ Staff Writer

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Bud Church, president of the Worcester County Commissioners, left, discusses the request of firefighter/paramedic Mike Maykrantz, right, to not require the firefighters to pay for a water line to their new fire station on Keyser Point Road in West Ocean City.

(Nov. 2, 2012) West Ocean City firefighters want the county to forgive a debt, specifically, the debt to extend a water line to their new fire station on Keyser Point Road. “I think the county took advantage of the fire company,” said fighter/paramedic Mike Maykrantz last Thursday during a social gathering of the West Ocean City Association at the firehouse. The county charged $250,000 to run the water line to Keyser Point Road and Center Drive so the fire station could have water. “This sounds outrageous to put in water lines for the fire company,” West Ocean City resident Bud Morley said. The Ocean City Volunteer Fire Company, Maykrantz said, is nonprofit and built the new $1.8 million fire station in West Ocean City to meet the needs of the community. No Ocean City government money goes to the fire company for West Ocean City and no career personnel are stationed there, he said. “The volunteer fire company pays the mortgage through fundraisers and donation drives,” Maykrantz said. “It definitely fits the needs of the West Ocean City area.” During the summer, crews are stationed at Dorchester Street, but during the winter, crews are stationed farther north See MORE on Page 51

Hydrant to go on north side of Route 50 near Keyser Point Road NANCY POWELL ■ Staff Writer (Nov. 2, 2012) The fire at Waterman’s Seafood Restaurant last month made it quite evident that additional fire protection is needed in West Ocean City. Specifically, a fire hydrant is needed on the north side of Route 50 in the area of Keyser Point Road. During that Oct. 5 blaze, firefighters were obliged to get water from fire hydrants on the south side of Route 50. Not only was

traffic stopped for a considerable amount of time because of fire hoses atop the road, but it also took the firefighters longer to hook up because of the location of the hydrants. Worcester County Commissioner Bud Church went to the scene of the fire and saw the hoses crossing Route 50. He also saw that traffic was backed up because the highway had to be closed between Golf Course Road and Route 707. The highway was lined with the small cars whose owners were congregating in Ocean City that weekend.

“It was a nightmare for traffic,” Church said last Thursday, adding that a firefighter told him they needed a hydrant on the north side of Route 50. The morning after the fire, Church called Gerry Mason, the county’s chief administrative officer, about the fire safety issue. He told Mason about the problems with the hoses and the traffic and e-mailed him photographs of the scene. A day or so later, Mason called Church. “He said it’s an emergency expense that

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Public Works was working on it and ‘we’ll get it done,’“ Church said last Thursday. The estimated expense to put the fire hydrant on the north side of Route 50 in the area of Keyser Point Road is $225,00o to $250,000. The Worcester County Fire Marshal’s Office determined a faulty electrical circuit caused the fire at the restaurant, which is about a mile west of the Route 50 bridge. It was about 6:45 p.m. when the odor of smoke was noticed. The restaurant was nearly full of diners, who all made it out safely. Firefighters from Ocean City, Berlin, Ocean Pines, Showell and Bishopville fought the fire and were on the scene for about four hours.

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and farther away from West Ocean City, at 15th Street. Paid crews were in West Ocean City, however, during the weekend of the White Marlin Tournament. The management of the Ocean City Fire Department does not put paid staff in West Ocean City. Now, they could reallocate personnel there, Maykrantz said. The county would pay for part of that. A problem is that when Ocean City runs out of crews, it takes firefighters longer to reach West Ocean City. There are now three crews in Ocean City. When two crews are on calls, the last crew goes to the 74th Street fire station. “So if it’s busy and firefighters are needed at Mystic Harbour, they’re coming from 74th Street,� Maykrantz said. “Demand is up. There were over 800 calls out here last year. And it continues to go up.� Maykrantz said the water line was needed so the firefighters could have water at the firehouse and to fill their tankers and they plan to ask the Worcester County Commissioners to forgive their debt for that water line. “It’s just not right to charge us that much money,� he said. Bud Church, president of the Worcester County Commissioners, disagrees. “The fire company knew it was an expense when they did it,� Church said. “So there’s two sides to every story. There have been other requests from other fire companies and the county has told them, ‘no.’� In addition to wanting the debt forgiven, Maykrantz had another item on his wish list. “We need a public water system,� Maykrantz said. “I think a lot of residents want a public water system.� Church was not at all in agreement with that. The issue of a public water system for the area was considered a few years ago and was met with vehement opposition from West Ocean City citizens.

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Stabbing incident A 69-year-old Berlin man who allegedly stabbed a woman multiple times Oct. 29 was being held in the Worcester County Jail on a $50,000 bond. Berlin police said Douglas Woodrow Largent stabbed the woman in her arm, chest and hand. She was taken to Peninsula Regional Medical Center where she was treated and released. Largent was charged with first- and sec-

OBITUARIES Georgette S. Crowley OCEAN PINES — Georgette S. Crowley, nĂŠe Moreau, 71, died Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, at her home in Ocean Pines after a brief bout with cancer. Born in Baltimore, she grew up one block from her husband of 50 years, Thomas R. Crowley. She graduated from Southern High School in Baltimore in February 1959. She loved dancing and attended all the local social and church dances. Mrs. Crowley was dedicated to her husband, daughters and granddaughters, and she was always helping others any way she could. She was the daughter of the late Albert and Annie Moreau. She is survived by two daughters, Michele (Shelly) Graham and her husband, Rodney, and Mary Beth Perry and her husband, Terry; two granddaughters, April Mitchell and her husband, Phil, and Amanda Perry; two brothers and a sister, Albert Moreau Jr., Pamela Shortt and her husband, Billy, and Fred Moreau; and many nephews and nieces. She was preceded in death by her sister-in-laws and very close friends, Nancy Moreau, wife of Albert; Margaret Crowley, wife of Jerry; Georgia Crowley, wife of Charles; and Pat Staley, wife of John. Mrs. Crowley was affectionately known as “Momâ€? by her daughters and

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ond-degree assault and reckless endangerment. The stabbing occurred in an Austin Circle residence.

He was also shouting that it was his spot and he was not going to move. He told police he is homeless and has no fixed address.

Disorderly conduct

Assault

A 55-year-old Ocean City man was charged Oct. 22 with disorderly conduct after allegedly being a nuisance on the Boardwalk. According to the charging document, Russell Douglas Jester was sitting on the Boardwalk at Somerset Street and shouting profanities to himself and passersby, including a young boy and a young girl.

A 22-year-old Ocean City woman was charged Oct. 22 with second-degree assault. According to Ocean City police, Katie May Coursey punched a man in his face. The police officer who handled the incident wrote that the area beneath the man’s right eye was red and swelling and that he might have suffered a broken nose.

their friends, and as “Grambo� by her granddaughters and their friends. She was loved by all and made friends easily wherever she lived. Family and friends will be received from noon to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 3, at Burbage Funeral Home in Berlin. A memorial service will follow at 1 p.m. After the service, there will be a luncheon in Ocean Pines at the Club House in The Parke. In lieu of flowers, the family is asking for donations to the Colon Cancer alliance, www.ccalliance.org.

Center in Salisbury. She was the wife of the late K.C. “Hoss� Harrington Sr. She is survived by three children, K.C. Harrington Jr., Michael P. Harrington and Mary Harrington Bane. Also surviving are four grandchildren, Blakelyn Harrington, Corion Bane, Dillon Harrington and Dallas Harrington; two daughters-in-law, Sherry Harrington and Michele Harrington; as well as many family members and friends. Mrs. Harrington was an artist; she completed several oil paintings and was involved years ago in many Baltimore art shows. She owned her own business, Interiors by Marianne Harrington, for several years, as she enjoyed interior decorating and was a member of A.S.I.D. Her creativity was one of a kind and she was also involved in drawing with pen and ink. She drew several postcard pen and ink drawings of local museums and landmarks. She was a talented and loving mother that will be greatly missed. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 1 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 2, at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Ocean Pines. Father Joseph Cocucci will officiate. Friends may call prior to the service, from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Arrangements are in the care of Burbage Funeral Home. Donations in Mrs. Harrington’s memory may be made to the Children’s House by the Sea, P.O. Box 3627 Ocean City, Md. 21843.

Evalyn V. Prag BERLIN — Evalyn V. Prag, 91, died Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, at the Berlin Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center. Born in Baltimore, she was the daughter of the late Percy Ruark and Rose Brook Ruark. She is survived by her daughters, Carmen Hoehn and her husband, Edward, of Ocean Pines, and Joan Lenhart and her husband, Robert, of Northern California; eight grandchildren; and 13 great grandchildren. Mrs. Prag had worked as a secretary for Park-Davis Pharmaceutical Company. A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 3. Marianne Harrington OCEAN CITY — Marianne Harrington of Ocean City passed away Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, at Peninsula Regional

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HURRICANE SANDY

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Ferris wheel, inlet, Ocean City

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Hilton Oceanfront Suites, 32nd Street

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Pier, inlet, Ocean City

Philadelphia Avenue near Worcester Street

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Layton’s, 16th Street, Ocean City

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St. Louis Avenue near Caroline Street

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Boardwalk near Dorchester Street, Ocean City

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Fishing pier, Ocean City

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Philadelphia Avenue and 11th Street, Ocean City

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Caroline Street, Ocean City

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Boardwalk, 25th Street, Ocean City

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Seahawks host Eagles today in 3A playoffs

Decatur teams to compete in regional meet

LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Nov. 2, 2012) The Stephen Decatur volleyball team concluded regular-season competition last Thursday with a three-game victory over the Colonel Richardson Colonels during the Lady Seahawks’ “Senior Night.” Decatur won the first game 25-12. “We came out and looked confident and comfortable,” said Seahawk Coach Sarah Zimmer. The scores of the second and third games were a bit closer, but Decatur came out on top 25-19 and 25-22. “We started to play down to their level,” Zimmer said. Decatur’s four seniors— Bianca Alvarado, Ashley Trice, Alexis Martinek and Casey Ortiz—were honored before the Oct. 25 match. Alvarado had seven kills and junior Taylor Black chipped in with eight aces. Trice tallied 10 assists and recorded 12 digs. Martinek dug 11 Colonels’ hits and Ortiz had eight kills and 13 assists. The Seahawks’ are 9-6 going into the 3A East Regional tournament. “I’m sure they’re excited. It’s a matter of playing smart and paying attention to what’s going on on the other side of the court,” Zimmer said. “We need to find the holes and not make it easy for them by playing the ball right to them.” The 11th-seeded Northeast Eagles will travel to Berlin today, Friday, for first-round playoff action against sixthseeded Decatur. Game time is 5 p.m. Zimmer said competing on their home court will be an advantage for the Seahawks. “It means we don’t have to travel two to two-and-a-half hours. Hopefully, we’ll get a good number of fans there,” she said. “They’re 6-10, but that can mean nothing. They play a different group of teams than we do. Across the bridge the teams are typically tall and they have talent. It will be interesting.” The winner of today’s match will face the third-seeded River Hill Hawks on Monday in Clarksville.

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Several Worcester Prep players swarm junior Meg Lingo after she gave her team a 3-2 lead with 30 seconds remaining in last Friday’s Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference championship game against Sts. Peter & Paul.

ESIAC CHAMPIONS Lady Mallards capture Worcester’s first field hockey title LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Nov. 2, 2012) “Always a bridesmaid, never a bride” has been the story of the Worcester Prep field hockey team. The Lady Mallards have come close, but they have never captured the Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference championship title. That is until this year when the squad edged out the Sts. Peter & Paul Sabres 32 last Friday in the ESIAC tournament finals to finally win the trophy. “This is history for Worcester Prep. We’ve come in runnersup, but never have we won firstplace in the tournament,” said Prep Coach Jenny Frostrom after the Oct. 26 game in Berlin. Frostrom thought her team dominated the first half. “We kept it right there inside the circle. We had amazing shots and the goalie and the de-

fense stopped everything we put in. We couldn’t have done anymore,” she said. Sophomore Jordie Loomis scored off a pass from junior Sarah Arrington with 4:25 remaining before halftime. Frostrom said she made some adjustments in the second half to the team’s corner plays and it paid off. About eight minutes into the half, Worcester was awarded a corner. The Mallards battled to put the ball in the cage and junior Hannah Esham was successful, scoring off an Arrington pass. The Sabres cut the Mallards’ advantage to one at the 14minute mark. The Mallards continued their offensive pressure and had several chances to extend their lead, but were unsuccessful. Sts. Peter & Paul gained controlling of the ball and netted a shot to even the score at

2-all with 2:46 left to play. As the seconds disappeared off the clock, Arrington carried the ball down the right sideline and passed to junior Meg Lingo, who fired a shot past the Sabres goalie. The Mallards held on for the final 30 seconds to secure the victory. “Those two girls have the best give-and-gos. They read each other and they know what the other is going to do before she even does it,” Frostrom said. “Meg was just able to get enough time to turn her hips and make a perfect shot for the cage.” Added Arrington, “I knew she was going to be there. We have practiced that so many times.” “I knew there was 30 seconds left and this was it. We were tired and overtime was going to be tough. I was just praying it was going to go in,” See THEY on Page 58

Decatur golfers perform well at states LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Nov. 2, 2012) Four of the five Stephen Decatur golfers competing in the 4A/3A state championship scored low enough on Oct. 22, Day 1 of the tournament, to advance to the

Oct. 24 final round at the University of Maryland-College Park. Senior Joe Iacona, juniors Andrew Urban and Matt Ruggiere and sophomore Delaney Iacona competed as a team. J. Iacona and Ruggiere both shot 77s last Monday, Urban carded

a 78 and D. Iacona an 89, for a team score of 321. The foursome’s total put them in seventh place out of the 21 teams entered and qualified the group for the final round. It was first time in school history since moving from the See STATE on Page 58

(Nov. 2, 2012) The Stephen Decatur boys’ cross country team finished in fourth place, while the Lady Seahawks took fifth during the 16-school Oct. 24 Bayside Conference championship meet in Cambridge. Senior Nick Molitor was the first Decatur male runner to cross the finish line. He placed 14th overall (17:16.2). Dan Winters, also a senior, was right behind him, finishing in 15th place (17:34.98). Rounding out the top five Seahawk finishers are junior Kevin Herbert (30th, 18:39.84), sophomore Jake Gaddis (32nd, 18:44.40) and senior Noah McAleer (33rd, 18:48.82). “I think we did pretty good considering how we performed at the beginning of the year. We’ve definitely improved a lot,” said Decatur Coach Jody Stigler. I’m pretty happy with how we did. I thought the times were good.” The top 15 finishers in the boys’ and girls races were named to the All-Bayside Conference Team. Molitor and Winters received accolades. The Lady Seahawks were competing without one of their top runners, junior Chloe FauntLeRoy, who has been hampered by a knee injury. Leading the Decatur girls’ team was senior Lauren Buckman. She finished 20th overall (22:00.77). Junior Alex Saunders and Alex Tushup, placed 25th (22:23.13) and 30th (22:54.15) respectively. Sophomores Jordan Klebe crossed the finish line 32nd overall (23:17.08) and Calais Rodriguez placed 44th (24:56.66). “Our times were about what I expected, but I feel like we maybe could have done a little better,” Stigler said. Decatur will compete in the 3A East Regional meet today, Friday, at Centennial High School in Howard County. “Our region might be the toughest in the state,” Stigler said. “Hopefully, we can qualify someone for states.” The top 25 percent of individual runners and teams will advance to the Nov. 10 state championship at Hereford High School in Parkton.

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Mallards edged out 3-2 by Jaguars in championship game LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Nov. 2, 2012) The Worcester Prep boys’ soccer team hoped to capture its 12th consecutive Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference title last Friday, but the Salisbury Christian Jaguars spoiled their efforts, winning the championship game 3-2. “We started off tentative and they came out hard and fast. We were down 2-0 and that put us in a hard hole to get out of,” said Prep Coach Terry Underkoffler. The Jaguars scored about eight minutes into the match. Two minutes later, the home team pulled ahead 2-0. Salisbury tallied its third goal about 10 minutes after the second was scored. The Jaguars had a free kick near midfield about two minutes before halftime. Prep junior Ryan Nally, who at times was double- and triple-teamed, took advantage of a miscommunication between Salisbury players, dribbled the ball and shot past the Jaguars’ goalie. “We knew we had an uphill battle. We were just going to take one goal at a time,” Underkoffler said. “We really started pressing in the second half.” Salisbury was called for a foul in the 18-yard box and Worcester was awarded a penalty, which junior J.B. Loomis capitalized on, cutting the Jaguars lead to one goal with about 10 minutes remaining in the contest. “We had great chances to tie it up, but we were just unsuccessful. Their keeper made some great saves. We played hard and they gave it everything they had,” Underkoffler said. “We were much more aggressive in the second half. If we only started the game with that intensity. We were definitely disappointed with the results.” Senior Zander Farr stopped six Jaguars’ shots in his final game as a Mallard. Worcester advanced to the championship game after shutting out the Holly Grove Eagles 3-0 on Oct. 24 in Berlin. Nally, who was “unstoppable,” scored all three of the Mallards’ goals. “The team played well, especially defensively,” Underkoffler said. The Mallards finished the season 115-1 under the direction of their new coach. He replaced Tom Westcott, who hung up his whistle at the end of the 2011 season after 35 years. Underkoffler enjoyed his first year coaching the Prep squad and said he “learned on the job.” “I know I’ll be better with this group next year. We have a good core returning and I know what we need to work on,” Underkoffler said. Senior Seth Conboy, Nally and Loomis were named to the All-Conference First Team. Harrison Brennan and Gordon Abercrombie, both seniors, and freshman Wyatt Richins received Second Team honors. Farr and junior Chris Klug earned Honorable Mention accolades.

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2A classification to 3A in 2007, that the entire team qualified for the finals. After Day 1, Decatur Coach Jim Krall said “we’re on Cloud 9 right now.” Decatur was 15 strokes behind the leader, Wootton High School, heading into last Wednesday’s final round. During Day 2 of the tournament, J. Iacona shot a 75, Ruggiere carded a 78, Urban tallied a 77 and D. Iacona recorded an 83. Decatur tied for fifth place overall in 3A/4A. “I thought their performances on Day 2 were outstanding. The fact that Joe and Delaney both went lower and Matt and Andrew were just one stroke off in either directions speaks volumes about their levels of determination, focus and resolve,” Krall said. J. Iacona, the teams lone senior, said from tee to green, he did extremely well. It

was some of the best tournament golf he has ever played, he said. Unfortunately, Iacona said he couldn’t make a few birdies when he needed to, or his rounds could have been lower. “My final hole at states was a short par 4. I hit a great drive, an even better approach shot and I birdied my last high school golf hole,” he said. “Birdieing my final hole sums up my high school golf career as well as I could have dreamed.” Krall said the Decatur golfers’ performance at the state tournament was amazing and the perfect end to a fairy tale season that was filled with firsts. “It was the first time in 15 years that the golf team went undefeated as we were [Worcester] County champions, Ryder Cup champions, Bayside South champions, Bayside Conference champions, District VIII champions and qualified for the 3A/4A state finals as a team,” he said.

It is also the first time the top for golfers in the Bayside South are all from Decatur. Both Iaconas, Urban and Ruggiere were named to the All-Conference First Team. J. Iacona was the No. 1 golfer on the Eastern Shore for the second consecutive year. Ruggiere and Urban tied for second. “I can look back on each year and see that my game improved. I’d say my career was just about what I expected when it began freshman year. I’ve met any and all expectations I could have ever set for myself,” Iacona said. “The season was incredible and there are no words to describe how proud I am of the team. I knew we were going to be good this year, but I never would have predicted how well we played.” Krall said he has never been so proud as a coach and he congratulates all of his players on their accomplishments. The group was led by its only senior, who Krall said epitomizes what a team captain

should be. “[Joe] has been an amazing role model for the entire varsity and JV program and I dedicate the success of this year to him,” he said. Krall said the Decatur golf program gets stronger each year because of the caliber of players, and parents. This year’s players, he said, have been groomed, loved and supported by their families in preparation for being champions on a well-respected team. “The future of Decatur golf continues to look bright and very competitive, but I want all those upcoming super stars to know that Coach [Don] Furbay and I hold character higher than any other trait or ability,” he said. “This year’s squad lived up to our expectations for character and in the end their performance and respect for upholding the tradition of the game showed that they are true champions.”

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she said. Lingo had the same sentiments. “I thought, ‘I just got to get this in,’” she said. “It all just happened in a blink of an eye. It was kind of an adrenaline rush. I’m just really happy because we really deserved it.” After Lingo scored, a teammate shouted from the sideline, “That’s why you’re [conference] Player of the Year.” When the final whistle blew, the Mallards sprinted to hug and celebrate with senior goalie Claire Brown, who stopped seven Sabres’ shots. Brown is the team’s only senior. “It’s so great after being on the team for four years and every year our goal has been to get that banner. Being a senior just makes it all that more memorable,” Brown said. Following the contest, the championship trophy was presented to the Mallards. “I can’t even believe it. We are tournament champions for the first time ever,” Arrington said. Players named to the All-Conference teams were also recognized. Brown, Arrington, Loomis, Lingo and junior Ali Greer were presented with First Team honors. Esham and junior Maddy Stearns took home Second Team awards. Junior Libby Truitt and sophomore Natalie Twilley received Honorable Mention accolades. Frostrom was named ESIAC Coach of the Year. Worcester also received the Sportsmanship Award. Worcester finished the year with a 12-2 record. The team will lose only Brown to graduation. “The beginning of season I saw a lot of potential in these girls. This group, their heart is 10 times bigger than any I’ve coached,” Frostrom said. “They wanted this from Day One and they weren’t afraid to work for it. The girls just give it all they got. It looks good for next year, and hopefully, we’ll just pick up right where we left off.”

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Mallards, Sabres battle in OT again LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Nov. 2, 2012) Both games between the Worcester Prep and Sts. Peter & Paul girls’ soccer teams during regular-season competition went into double overtime. The Sts. Peter & Paul Sabres edged out the Lady Mallards of Worcester Prep 2-1 in the first meeting on Sept. 10 in Easton. During the second match-up on Oct. 22, in Berlin, the Mallards tied the score at 1all in the final minute of regulation. After two 10-minute overtime periods and no goals, the game ended in a 1-1 tie. The two teams went head-to-head for a third time last Friday, battling for the Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference title in Easton. There was no score after 80 minutes of soccer, so the squads once again played overtime. With about 1:40 remaining in the second overtime period, the Sabres scored and held on to win the trophy. “It was back and forth the whole time just like we played before. It was the same game three times in a row,” said Prep Coach Carol Hartnett. “We were a little flat in the first half. We played much better in the second half. In a toe-to-toe battle like that you want to come out on top, but we just came up a little short.” The Prep squad was competing without several veteran starters who were sidelined due to injuries so underclassmen stepped in to fill the spots, and

Hartnett said they did well. Freshman goalie Grace Tunis stopped 11 Sabres shots. The Mallards advanced to the championship game after a 4-1 semifinal victory over the Salisbury School Dragons on Oct. 24 in Berlin. “We connected our passes well and we didn’t let up,” Hartnett said. “We had good contribution from different people.” Junior Lilly DiNardo scored twice. Senior Meredith Soulé and junior Frankie Willing each tallied a goal. Tunis recorded nine saves. The Mallards ended the season 8-4-1. Their only losses were to St. Andrews and Sts. Peter & Paul. Hartnett said she had a good mix of upperclassmen and underclassmen on her roster and all of her players improved. “It was a wonderful, enjoyable season. I couldn’t have asked for them to play any harder than they did,” she said. “We have a bright future with talented players coming back.” Seven girls will graduate, but a core group of 19 will return in 2013, Hartnett said. Among the players who will be back to compete is DiNardo, who was named ESIAC Player of the Year. Junior Alissa Talbert and Willing received All-Conference First Team accolades. Tunis and sophomores Amanda Gabriel and Molly Soulé took home Second Team honors.

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Decatur to host county rival Snow Hill tonight LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Nov. 2, 2012) Neither team gained much yardage in the first two quarters of last Friday’s football game between the Stephen Decatur Seahawks and the WiHi Indians in Berlin. Decatur’s kicker Fletcher Case attempted a field goal from about 20 yards out with about 1:36 left in the half, but it went wide left. Seconds before halftime, the Seahawks made a mental error, according to Coach Bob Knox, and the visiting Indians scored on a “hail Mary pass” to go in the break on top 7-0. “It was a defensive struggle in the first half. They have a high-power offense and I think our defense did a tremendous job,” Knox said. “Our kids were down a bit at the half because they knew they played so hard. [At halftime] we told them ‘It’s time for a gut check. Yeah they scored, but they didn’t outplay us.’” Wi-Hi gained a 13-0 advantage in the third quarter, but junior Andrew Borradaile ran into the end zone to cut the lead to seven points. The Seahawks had momentum, Knox said, but the wind was taken out of their sails when the Indians returned the ensuing kickoff and pulled ahead 19-6. Wi-Hi held the home team scoreless to win by 13 points. “We had seven turnovers. You can’t win against a team like that making seven

LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Nov. 2, 2012) The Stephen Decatur field hockey team’s season came to an end last Thursday in the second round of the 3A East Regional tournament. “Unfortunately, even though the girls played hard, we didn’t make the corrections that we needed to make throughout the game – much like the rest of our season – in order to be successful,” said Decatur Coach Michelle Fluty after the fifth-seeded Lady Seahawks’ 10-1 loss to the No. 4 Northeast Eagles of Anne Arundel County in Pasadena, Md. “We were playing on turf [field], which is always an adjustment for the girls,” she said. “It’s like a different game – a much faster game and you have to hit and stop the ball different. They were a decent team, but the score shouldn’t have been what it was.” Junior Chloe Maykrantz scored Decatur’s lone goal. Decatur finished the season with a 211 record. “It was a rebuilding year and we knew that going into it,” Fluty said. “With a good amount of players returning — we only lose two seniors [to graduation] — I’m hopeful and looking forward to next year and seeing what we can build upon with a year of experience under our belts.”

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The Stephen Decatur defensive line squares off against the Wi-Hi offense during last Friday’s game in Berlin.

turnovers,” Knox said. “It’s really frustrating from my standpoint because some of the kids really played their hearts out. By the end of the game their tanks were empty.” Knox said the Decatur offense’s 192 total yardage was “disappointing.” Borradaile tallied 100 of those yards, rushing 10 times. Senior James Mapp ran the ball 10 times for 36 yards and junior P.J. Copes gained 24 yards on seven carries. Junior Chase Sams led the Decatur defense with 12 tackles. Ryan Kail and Patrick

Phillips, both seniors, made eight tackles apiece. Senior Colin May recorded six tackles, two of which were quarterback sacks. The Seahawks final game of the season is tonight, Friday, at 6 p.m. against Worcester County rival, the Snow Hill Eagles, who Knox said are “hot and on a roll right now.” Decatur’s seniors will be honored before the competition in Berlin. “The recipe for success is to be disciplined, be physical and block to the whistle,” Knox said.

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Homeowners and flood ins. important duo LAUREN BUNTING ■ Contributing Writer (Nov. 2, 2012) In the wake of super storm Sandy, it’s important to understand flood insurance and how it compares to a regular homeowner insurance policy. It is estimated that Sandy will end up causing about $20 billion in property damages, according to IHS Global Insight, a forecasting firm. So, who will foot that bill? If you carry flood insurance, it is written by the National Flood Insurance Program, which was created in 1968 by Congress, and is the same program that was in danger this past year of expiring. But, at the last minute it was reauthorized for another five years by Congress. The NFIP offers flood insurance to homeowners, renters and business owners if their community participates in the NFIP. Participating communities agree to adopt and enforce ordinances that meet or exceed FEMA requirements to reduce the risk of flooding. All of Ocean City and many of the surrounding waterfront areas are in a federally mandated flood zone that qualifies for federal flood policy coverage. The NFIP covers 5.6 million people throughout the country. A flood policy provides coverage up to the policy limit, and protects two types of insurable property, building and contents, but does not cover the land your building occupies. Building coverage includes the insured building and its foundation; the electrical and plumbing system; central air conditioning equipment, furnaces, and water heaters; refrigerators, cooking stoves, and built-in appliances such as dishwashers; and permanently installed carpeting over unfinished flooring. Contents coverage includes: clothing, furniture, and electronic equipment; curtains; portable and window air condiSee HOMEOWNERS on Page 63

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South Moon Under’s 18th store opened on Oct. 5, in the Mosaic District in Fairfax, Va. A grand-opening party is scheduled for Nov. 13.

SOUTH MOON UNDER CONTINUES TO EXPAND Resort-based company recently opened its 18th location; additional stores to come LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Nov. 2, 2012) South Moon Under’s first store, a small surf shack, opened in the summer of 1968 in Ocean City and since then, the company has expanded, opening its 18th store in early October. “We were originally a full-on surf shop with swimwear and some clothing,” Owner Frank Gunion said of the first South Moon Under, which was located around the 33rd Street area. “Today, we are a contemporary clothing store for men and women. While we still have some surf lines, we are clearly oriented to contemporary men’s and women’s clothing. Also, [we] have lots of shoes, swimwear, jewelry and items for the house.” According to Gage Lester, director of sales and marketing for South Moon Under, the

business outgrew its midtown space and in the mid-1980s was relocated to 81st Street, the store’s current location. The corporate office occupied the upstairs area until 2001, when the space was needed for merchandise to be displayed, he said. South Moon Under now has a corporate campus and distribution center in Berlin. The intention was to expand after the first store. The second South Moon Under opened in Bethesda, Md. in 1989, Lester said. “Generally, growth for us is a combination of needing to have enough size to remain competitive in the fashion world and to provide opportunity for growth for our staff ...We endeavor to thread the needle of being large enough to make the economics work, but small enough to be able to be unique and to feature small independent ‘indie’ manufactur-

ers,” Gunion said. “We have 70 people working in our Berlin home office and they are all very talented and want the thrill of new challenges along with economic growth for themselves. As head of the company it is my duty and in South Moon Under’s best interests to provide that for them.” South Moon Under stores can be found in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. The company’s 17th location opened in the Ridge Hill Shopping Center in Yonkers, N.Y. on Sept. 7. A grand-opening celebration was held at the store on Oct. 18. South Moon Under’s 18th store opened on Oct. 5 in the new Mosaic District in Fairfax, Va. A grand-opening party is scheduled for Nov. 13 from 69. Famed style blogger Emily

Schuman of Cupcakes and Cashmere will be signing copies of her book. Guests will also be treated to cupcakes and cocktails, and will receive 20 percent off all purchases. There will also be giveaways throughout the night and a special “swag bags” will be distributed to the first 50 guests. “While we are a much larger company today, we still hold to the ethos that was created during our time as a surf shop,” Gunion said. “The ethos embraces individuality, consensus building, high-level work balanced with time to go surfing or whatever the activity of choice happens to be for each staff member.” The company is adding two to three stores a year, which Gunion said in the retail world is a very small number, but an amount that feels right for South Moon Under manageSee SMU on Page 63

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tioners; portable microwaves and dishwashers; carpeting that is not already included in property coverage; and clothing washers and dryers. A homeowner’s insurance policy doesn’t provide coverage for flood damage, but it does provide coverage for many types of water damage to your home. Opposite from flood damage, water damage is considered to occur when water damages your home before the water comes in contact with the ground, for example, a broken pipe causes a leak in your home. Flood insurance and homeowners insurance do not duplicate coverage for water damage; instead, they work hand in hand. — Lauren Bunting is a member of the Coastal Association of Realtors and a licensed REALTOR® with Bunting Realty, Inc. in Berlin.

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CAR elects 2012-13 Board of Directors Twelve local REALTORS® were elected to the Coastal Association of REALTORS® Board of Directors at its annual general membership meeting on Oct. 3 at The Fountains Wedding and Conference Center in Salisbury. The day began with a small scale convention comprised of 13 affiliate sponsors including Chesapeake Utilities, Prime Lending, Capitol Title, First Shore Federal, Home Seal Services, House Master, Maryland Title Service Corporation, PNC Mortgage, Primary Residential Mortgage, T & G Builders and First Home Mortgage. D3 Corporation sponsored the grand prize, an Apple iPad. REALTORS®, affiliates and guests enjoyed a morning of networking while participating in learning activities about real estate history. The theme of the event was,“The Future is Now! The Future is You.” The 2012-2013 Board of Directors and officers for the Coastal Association of REALTORS® are President Pam Wadler, Shamrock Realty Group; President Elect Susan Megargee, Re/Max Crossroads; Vice President Neda Cox, Long and Foster Real Estate; Secretary Linda Moran, Prudential PenFed Realty; Treasurer Joel Maher, Re/Max Premier Properties; Immediate Past President Chris Jett, Vantage Resort Realty, and directors Don Bailey, Long and Foster Real Estate; Lauren Bunting, Bunting Real Estate; Wes Cox, Sperry Van Ness – Commercial Miller Real Estate; Vicki Harmon, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage; Terrence McGowan, Prudential PenFed Realty; and Joni MartinWilliamson, ERA Bill Martin and Associates.

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South Moon Under’s first store, a small surf shack, opened in the summer of 1968, near 33rd Street in Ocean City. It was a surf shop with swimwear and some clothing.

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ment. New stores are planned in New Jersey and Virginia in 2013. Gunion said it is exciting when they open a store and see the public’s reaction. “We feel we offer something that is missing in most people’s shopping experiences. We feel in our own way that we provide a service valued by the public and want to share it with them,” Gunion said. “Our e-com (e-commerce) site is gaining traction all across the

country, including highly competitive markets like New York, California and Texas. People like the fashion that we cherry pick for their consideration and they like what we call the ‘unexpected service’ they receive. So we are very proud of what we do and want to deliver it to more people, but at a pace that doesn’t compromise our ethos.” Lester said staff members aim to provide service beyond what the customer expects. The goal, he said, is to

help people look good and feel better about themselves. Employees are trained to style customers. “We want to provide a more personal experience. We try to identify and meet customer’s needs,” Lester said. “We get fresh merchandise in all the time and we have many customers who come in several times a week. We know a lot of them by name. We have a great relationship with our customers.”

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PARTY ON, LADIES! close of ’12 series with a giant fundraiser, featuring food, music, silent auction LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor Ocean City’s Pink Ribbon Classic series, which provides an assortment of local activities each October designed to raise awareness while garnering money for the American Cancer Society, wraps up today, Nov. 2, with a big party. The Jammin’ Out Cancer fund“Most of the raiser will be held Pink Ribbon at Seacrets on Classic events 49th Street from are sporting and 5-9 p.m. The cost is $20 and ingame events … cludes a “Taste of Jammin’ is one Ocean City” with food donated by that offers area restaurants, something for including Tequila Mockingbird, everyone.” Duffy’s Tavern, The Crab Bag, CHAIRWOMAN Jules, OC Wasabi, AMY KATZ The Greene Turtle, of Jammin’ Out Cancer, which will include live music, Desserts by Rita, food from area restaurants, Fisher’s Popcorn, raffles and a silent auction Ken’s Bayside and High Stakes. One complimentary glass of house wine or draft beer will be provided. There will be a 50/50 raffle and silent auction featuring Ravens, Orioles, Redskins, Nationals and Steelers merchan-

Ginger Fleming, left, of the Pink Ribbon Pinups and Amy Katz, right, chairwoman of the Jammin’ Out Cancer event, which will take place from 5-9 p.m. tonight, Nov. 2, at Seacrets on 49th Street. Proceeds from the event will benefit the American Cancer Society.

dise, as well as gift cards to area retail shops and businesses, spa items and rounds of golf, as well as a Pink Wagon of Cheer, filled with beer, wine, liquor and mixers. Raffle tickets are available for a Sea Wind lavender Electra Beach Cruiser. Tickets cost $5 each and proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society. The winning ticket will be drawn during the

Jammin’ Out Cancer event. The winner does not have to be present. Live music will be provided by Nate Clendenen, an award-winning bluegrass flat picker. Singer/songwriter Bryan Russo has recently been added to the musical line-up, and Funk-O-Licious, a predominately Eastern Shore-based cover band, will also take the stage. “Most of the Pink Ribbon Classic events are sporting and game events; however, Jammin’ is one that offers something for everyone,” Jammin’ Out Cancer Chairwoman Amy Katz said last week. “With all of the other charity organizations bringing their fundraisers to Ocean City, the Pink Ribbon Classic is grateful for the continuous support from the community in the fight against breast cancer.” For more information about the event, contact Katz at amy-katz@hotmail.com. Nancy Dofflemyer, Judy Schoellkopf and members of the Executive Women’s Golf Association established the Classic in 1996. Since its inception, the series has raised nearly $1.2 million for the cause. While some of the money will be earmarked for national breast cancer research, the remainder will stay on the Eastern Shore, where it will be used for education projects, patient programs and services. See JAMMIN’ on Page 78

Sharon Willey of Berlin has earned a doctorate degree from University of the Rockies, an advanced graduate institution specializing in social and behavioral sciences. Classes are presented online and at the Colorado Springs, Colo. campus. The class of 2012 includes the first doctoral students to earn their advanced degrees through the online education model. Of 598 students from 38 states and Canada, only 16 doctoral students earned their degrees online. Willey is one of them. Willey, who earned a doctorate degree in psychology, health and wellness psychology, was scheduled to attend graduation ceremonies in Colorado Springs on Oct. 28. “The 2012 class is a milestone in University of the Rockies’ mission to shape psychology and business professionals into tomorrow’s thought leaders,” said Dr. Charlita Shelton, president of the university. “Online education is a model for graduate students to advance their education from anywhere at anytime without disrupting and uprooting their lives.”

‘Starving Artists’ dinner tonight in OC The Art League of Ocean City will hold its annual Starving Artists Dinner on Friday, Nov. 2. The event will serve as the opening reception for the holiday show, which will showcase original works of art by ALOC members. The exhibit will remain on display until Dec. 16. The dinner, from 5-7 p.m., is open to the public and will feature many varieties of homemade soups, salads, breads, wine and desserts. The cost is $12 per person. In addition to food and artwork, the event will feature a 50/50 raffle. Funds from the raffle will support the non-profit programs of the Art League of Ocean City, including education, exhibits, community art projects as well as funding for the new Ocean City Center for the Arts. This event has been a popular part of the ALOC’s schedule for the past 20 years. For more information, call 410524-9433. The Art League is temporarily located on 94th Street in the Ocean Plaza Shopping Center.

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Annual Fine Arts show, Craft Expo features handmade gifts LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor

WHAT: 16th annual Fallfest of Fine Arts and Christmas Craft Expo WHERE: Roland E. Powell Convention Center, 40th Street WHEN: Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. COST: $5 adults, $4 AARP members (with card) and students ages 13–17. Children 12 and younger admitted free. FOR INFORMATION: Call 410–524– 9177

(Nov. 2, 2012) Handmade and one-ofa-kind gifts will be available this weekend at the Ocean City convention center during the 16th annual Fallfest of Fine Arts and Christmas Craft Expo. Event Coordinator Donald Hastings of Donald’s Duck Shoppe, located in the Gold Coast Mall on 115th Street, said he expects approximately 80 artists and crafters to sell their wares at the 40th Street venue. “It’s a juried show, which means people exhibiting make their own products,” Hastings said. Regional exhibitors from Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, as well as vendors from as far north as Vermont, as far west as Ohio and as far south as North Carolina, will converge at the convention center for the two-day show, which begins Saturday at 10 a.m. Barren Creek Alpacas, a farm home to a huacaya herd of alpacas and other animals in Mardela Springs, is scheduled to attend the event this year. Alpaca fleece is comparable to cashmere, according to Tammy Schnoor, owner of the farm with Frederick Schnoor. It is non-allergenic because it contains no lanolin. Barren Creek sells handmade hats, scarves, gloves, sweaters, yarn, purses and toy alpacas and bears.

Two of the farm’s alpacas, Cookie and Serifina will be at the show. “We are excited to bring the pacas,” Tammy Schnoor said. Sixteen years ago, Hastings combined his long-running gift show with the fine arts expo. Approximately 6,000 shoppers annually visit what Hastings calls “two great shows under one roof.” The Fine Arts show, now in its 28th year, once featured only wildlife and nautical art. When the two shows merged, Hastings opened the event to all subjects and media. The 2012 show will include paintings, photography, jewelry, carvings, metalwork, sculptures, stoneware, glass and woodwork. Hastings said fine art artists have a special talent that no one else has. It is easy to tell who has created a product beSee CRAFT on Page 77

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Hurricane adds unnecessary stress to event planning FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Planning key to great event and thinking ahead crucial DEBORAH LEE WALKER ■ Contributing Writer (Nov. 2, 2012) It’s that time of the year, where the fox’s ingenuity is put to the test. Hounds lead the way to pick up on any trace of the fury animal known for his cleverness. Riders and horses mount to form a special bond that is indicative of the illustrious sport itself. It is time to kick into gear and head to Harwood Farm. The annual foxhunt is always the first Saturday in November. I must admit I am stressed, but the forecast of a possible hurricane five days before the event is certainly adding another element of anxiety. Entertaining is never a perfect setting, so improvisation is a common ingredient on the menu. Planning is the key to a successful event and thinking ahead is crucial. My first task at hand is to finalize the menu. Believe it or not, but this is probably the simplest of all my endeavors. Invited guests and the public are encouraged to arrive at 10:30 a.m.; the blessing of the hounds commences at 11 a.m. The challenge for the first course is the number of people for which we will be cooking. Three hundred is not an easy task, even for an experienced chef. But experience prevails and my blood pressure

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is remaining normal, at least for the time being. The advantage of hosting an annual event is one learns something new each year. Making a list is very time consuming, but invaluable. But I will break down the list one more time. Allow me to explain. Dad and I will be shopping at Baldacci’s (an exclusive gourmet market), Cosco’s (wholesale store) and Giant. To save time, I will take the original list and break it down into three separate lists for each particular store. While we are on the subject of lists, I decide to prepare a list for my cooking schedule before the hunt. I must keep in mind that there is the possibility of a hurricane; power outages must be taken into consideration. So I initially decide to cook dishes that require the use of the stove. Our butternut squash parfait topped with whipped cream, candied ginger and walnuts is quite popular. Originally, I used acorn squash but prefer the creaminess of the butternut squash. Last year I steamed the squash as opposed to baking it. This was a much better choice for the parfait. The steam kept the squash juicy which made the process of pureeing much easier. Prime tenderloin of beef sizzling on a rotisserie is always a hit. Due to the unique set of circumstances, I decide to follow Sandra Lee’s philosophy of semihomemade. The base of the sauce for the

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APPEARING LIVE 19TH HOLE BAR & GRILL 9636 Stephen Decatur Highway West Ocean City 410-213-9204 Nov. 2: Scott Glorioso, 6-10 p.m. Nov. 3: Walt Farozic, 6-10 p.m. Nov. 4: Louis Wright, 9 a.m. to noon ADOLFO’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT 13th Street and the Boardwalk in the Beach Plaza Hotel 410-2894001 Nov. 2: Rhonda Apple and Dale Britt Dale Britt (dinner hours) Nov. 3: Dale Britt on piano BJ’S ON THE WATER 75th Street and the bay 410-524-7575 Nov. 2: Comfort Zone, 9 p.m. Nov. 3: No Byscuyts, 9 p.m. Nov. 7: Randy Lee Ashcraft, 5-8 p.m. COTTAGE CAFÉ Route 1, Bethany Beach, Del. 302-539-8710 Every Friday: DJ Bump, 5-8 p.m. Every Tuesday: Pub Party Trivia w/DJ Bump, 6-9 p.m. Nov. 3: Carbon 14, 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.

FAGER’S ISLAND 60th Street and the bay 410-524-5500 Nov. 2: Saltwater Stringband 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Chester River Runoff, 9:30 to close Nov. 3: Shell-ShockedOpposite Directions & Friends, 1-5 p.m. Nov. 5: Bryan Clark GALAXY 66 66th Street, bayside 410-723-6762 Nov. 2: Philly George Project, 7 p.m. HARBORSIDE BAR & GRILL 12841 S. Harbor Road West Ocean City 410-213-1846 Nov. 2: Red Solo Cup Night w/DJ Billy T, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Nov. 3: Simple Truth, 2-6 p.m.; DJ Jeremy, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Nov. 4: Opposite Directions, 2-6 p.m.; DJ Billy T/DJ Bigler, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Nov. 8: Opposite Directions, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. HIGH STAKES Route 54, Fenwick Island, Del. 302-537-6971 Nov. 2: DJ Zman Nov. 3: DJ Rupe; Monkee Paw HOUSE OF WELSH 1106 Coastal Highway, Fenwick Island, Del. 888-666-0728 302-541-0728 Every Friday: DJ Norm, 3-6 p.m.; Tony Vega, 6-10 p.m.

Every Saturday: Tony Vega, 6-10 p.m. Every Sunday: Tony Vega, 6-10 p.m. Every Monday: DJ Norm, 6-9 p.m. Every Wednesday: DJ Norm, 6-9 p.m. JOHNNY’S PIZZA & PUB 56th Street, bayside 410-524-7499 Nov. 2-3: Open Juke Box OCEAN CLUB NIGHTCLUB In the Horizons Restaurant In the Clarion Fontainebleau Hotel 101st Street and the ocean 410-524-3535 Nov. 2-3: Power Play, 9:30 p.m.

POWER PLAY Ocean Club Nightclub: Friday and Saturday, Nov. 2-3, 9:30 p.m.

SEACRETS 49th Street and the bay 410-524-4900 Nov. 2: Tripp Fabulous, 10 p.m. Nov. 3: Lucky You, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.; Jon Maurer Band, 5-9 p.m.; Melodime, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. SMITTY MCGEE’S Route 54 West Fenwick Island, Del. 302-436-4716 Every Tuesday: Let’s Do Trivia, 7 p.m. Every Thursday: Randy Lee Ashcraft, 8 p.m. Every Friday: Randy Lee Ashcraft and the Saltwater Cowboys, 8 p.m.

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Ocean Club bartenders, Brian Popp and Betty Anne Childs, take care of customers during the Halloween party on Oct. 27. (Right) Amanda Campbell and Eric Buterbaugh don costumes as they celebrate Halloween at the Clarion Hotel.

Winner of the Best Halloween Costume Contest at the Ocean Club in the Clarion Hotel, above, is Karen, dressed as “Owl in a Tree.” The $500 award was presented by managers Richard Heubeck and Ms. Trudi. (Top photo) Cassandra and Sean Rox partake in the Halloween festivities at the Ocean Club.

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Horizons Oceanfront Restaurant managers Richard Heubeck and Trudi Clubb are festively dressed for the Halloween party last Saturday at the 101st Street establishment. (Right) Armando Martinez sports a raven costume. (Far right) Shannon Southcomb, left, and Jillian Rostek welcome guests to the Ocean Club Nightclub, inside the Clarion Resort Hotel.

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FRIDAY, NOV. 2 STARVING ARTISTS DINNER & RECEPTION Art League of Ocean City, 502 94th St., in Ocean City, 5-7 p.m. Holiday show and sale. Artists’ choice. Featuring many varieties of homemade soups, salads, breads, wine and desserts. Also, 50/50 raffle. Cost is $12. Exhibit will be on display until Dec. 16. Info: ocart@verizon.net, 410524-9433 or www.artleagueofoceancity.org. JAMMIN’ OUT CANCER — Seacrets, 49th Street, 5-9 p.m. Tickets cost $20 at door, and include food donated by area restaurants, complimentary wine or beer. Raffles, silent auction and music by Bryan Russo, Nate Clendenen and Funk-O-Licious. This is a Pink Ribbon Classic series event. Proceeds benefit American Cancer Society. Info: 443-614-7520 or amy-katz@hotmail.com. BINGO — Knights of Columbus, 9901 Coastal Highway (rear of St. Luke’s Church) in Ocean City. Doors open at 5 p.m. and games begin at 6:30 p.m. Refreshments for sale. Info: 410-524-7994. WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP PUNKIN CHUNKIN 18598 Road 591, Bridgeville, Del., Nov. 2-4. Competition begins Friday, 8 a.m. Showcasing the creativity and engineering prowess of entrants of all ages from around the country. Annual program on The Discovery Channel and The Science Channel. Event also features a

cooking contest, a chili cook-off competition and the annual Miss Punkin Chunkin contest. A share of the proceeds goes to a host of nonprofit organizations. Info: www.punkinchunkin.com. 32ND ANNUAL HUMANE SOCIETY BENEFIT DINNER — Adolfo’s on the Ocean, 13th Street and the Boardwalk, Ocean City. Cash bar at 6:30 p.m., buffet dinner at 7:30 p.m. Entertainment, raffles. Cost is $55 per person. Reservations: 410-524-9177 or 410-202-6769. WOMEN SUPPORTING WOMEN BREAST CANCER BENEFIT DINNER — American Legion Post #166, 2308 Philadelphia Ave., Ocean City, 68 p.m. Menu includes chicken cordon bleu, scalloped potatoes, vegetable medley, salad, dinner roll and coffee. Music by Tranzfusion, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Raffles, silent auctions and 50/50s. Tickets cost $12. See bartender for tickets or call 410289-3166. Sponsored by American Legion Riders.

SATURDAY, NOV. 3 FALLFEST OF FINE ART — Ocean City convention center, 4001 Coastal Highway, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Juried show features fine art painters, sculptors and high craft artisans. Admission costs $5 for adults ($4 with AARP card), $4 for students 13-17, and children 12 and younger are free with a paying adult. Cost includes admission to the Christmas Craft Expo. Info: Donald A. Hastings,

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410-524-9177, duckmandon@comcast.net or www.donaldsduckshoppe.com. CHRISTMAS CRAFT EXPO — Ocean City convention center, 4001 Coastal Highway, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Christmas Craft Expo provides an opportunity to find a unique gift or something for your home. Admission costs $5 for adults ($4 with AARP card), $4 for students 13-17, and children 12 and younger are free with a paying adult. Cost includes admission to the Fine Art Show. Info: Donald A. Hastings, 410-524-9177, duckmandon@comcast.net or www.donaldsduckshoppe.com. CHRISTMAS BAZAAR — Community Church at Ocean Pines, 11227 Racetrack Road, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Decorations, gifts, books, toys and baked goods. Vendors wanted: 410-251-8341. BASKET BINGO AND MORE — Ocean City Volunteer Fire Department Headquarters, 15th Street, second floor, Ocean City. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with games beginning at 6 p.m. Longaberger Basket, Thirty-One and Vera Bradley purses. Each item filled with other prizes. Also, 50/50, instant bingo, silent and Chinese auctions. Refreshments available. Benefits LAOCFVC and OCFVC Cadet program. Tickets cost $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Tickets: 443-523-2370. BINGO AND LUNCH — Ocean City Elks Lodge #2645, 138th Street and Sinepuxent Avenue. Doors open at 11 a.m., lunch at noon and bingo

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at 1 p.m. Admission costs $30 and includes soup and sandwich, non-alcoholic beverage and dessert, 16 regular games, four specials and one cover all special. Buy five tickets and get sixth ticket free. Tickets available at Wednesday night bingo, the lodge bar or call Bill Thompson, 302-436-8038 or 302-381-3115. 3RD ANNUAL FALL FEST SILENT AUCTION St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 302 St. Alban’s Drive, Salisbury, 5-8 p.m. Free hors d’oeuvres and entertainment. Portion of proceeds benefits Delmarva Education Foundation. SPAGHETTI DINNER, AUCTION — Bethany United Methodist Church, 8648 Stephen Decatur Highway in West Ocean City, 5 p.m. Pie auction, Certificates from merchants and other items to be auctioned. Cost is $6. 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 2-22, two eggs, two pancakes and two bacon, includes coffee and juice. Bloody Marys cost $3. Info: 410-524-8196. 3RD ANNUAL HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR — Ocean Pines Community Center, 239 Ocean Parkway, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Featuring all handcrafted items. Free admission. Bake sale and lunch available. In conjunction with the Fair, the Continued on Page 72

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FALLFEST OF FINE ART — Ocean City convention center, 4001 Coastal Highway, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Juried show features fine art painters, sculptors and high craft artisans. Admission costs $5 for adults ($4 with AARP card), $4 for students 13-17, and children 12 and younger are free with a paying adult. Cost includes admission to the Christmas Craft Expo. Info: Donald A. Hastings, 410-524-9177, duckmandon@comcast.net or www.donaldsduckshoppe.com.

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AARP MEETING — Ocean Pines Community Center, 239 Ocean Parkway. Social time begins at 9:30 a.m., meeting starts at 10 a.m. Guest speaker will be Rob Hart from the Department of Aging. All those over 50 years welcome. Info: Larry Walton, lrwalto@yahoo.com or 443-831-1791. HAND DANCING — House of Welsh, 1106 Coastal Highway, Fenwick, Del. Free lessons from 6-7 p.m., open dancing 7-10 p.m. No cover charge. Info: DC Hand Dance Club, 302-5410728.

TUESDAY, NOV. 6 SPAGHETTI DINNER — Stevenson United Methodist Church, 123 N. Main St., Berlin, noon to 6 p.m. Cost is $8 for adults, $5 for children ages 6-12 and free to those 5 and younger. Includes spaghetti, bread, salad and drink. Carryout and bake sale table available. To place an order, call Kathy, 443-235-6761.

GRACE PARKER ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT BREAKFAST — First Presbyterian Church, 1301 N Philadelphia Ave., Ocean City, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eggs any style, pancakes, buckwheat pancakes, bacon, sausage, country ham, homemade biscuits, hash brown potatoes, grits, coffee and tea. Cost is $8 and $6 for carryout. Milk, sodas and orange juice available. Info: 410-289-9340. BINGO — Every Wednesday at Ocean City Elks Lodge 2645, 138th Street across from Fenwick Inn. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., games start 6:30 p.m. A $1,000 jackpot available, food, snacks and non-alcoholic beverages. No one under 18 years allowed in the hall during bingo. Info: 410250-2645.

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9 p.m. Jitterbug, swing, cha-cha to the sounds of the ’50s, ’60s and Carolina beach music. All are welcome. Discounted food and drink prices. Info: 302-337-3638. TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY MEETING — Ocean City library, 10003 Coastal Highway, Wednesdays, 4:45-6 p.m. TOPS is a support and educational group promoting weight loss and healthy lifestyle. It meets weekly. Info: 302436-3682.

THURSDAY, NOV. 8 SILVER SIZZLES REVUE — Ocean City convention center, 4001 Coastal Highway, 7 p.m. Vegas style revue with all the glamor, glitz and feathers.

DELMARVA HAND DANCING CLUB — Meets every Wednesday at Skyline Bar & Grille at The Fenwick Inn, 138th Street and Coastal Highway in Ocean City. Beginner and intermediate lessons, 5:30-6:30 p.m., followed by dancing until

This 90-minute show features beautiful costumes, exciting dance productions, great songs and hilarious comedy. Tickets cost $21 and can be purchased at the convention center, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., online at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 800-5517328. Info: 410-289-2800 or www.ococean.com. SENIOR EMERGENCY KIT — Berlin Senior Center, 10129 Old Ocean City Blvd., 11 a.m. Kit is an information management tool and Web site to help seniors and their family members track medications and other important medical, legal and financial information. Includes checklists and worksheets for medications, conditions, allergies, doctors, health advisors and a place to store other vital records. Info: 410-641-0515 or Claude or Leslie Lewis, 410-641-0901.

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Lot# 1 1 Bedroom on a Beautiful Pond Lot. Florida Room & Covered Rear Deck with View of the Water. Fresh Paint, Washer/Dryer, Courtyard & Shed. No Reasonable Offer Refused! $119,900 Call Tony Matrona 1-800-628-6758 Answers on page 78

Lot# 72 Beautiful 2 Bedroom. New Roof in 2011, New Carpet, Dishwasher, Washer/Dryer, Courtyard & Shed. Bring All Offers! $137,000 Call Tony Matrona 1-800-628-6758 REDUCED $5,000!

Lot#281 Immaculate 1 Bedroom. Drywall Interior. New Carpet, Large Deck. Fully Equipped. Bring All Offers! $94,500 Call Tony Matrona 1-800-628-6758

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DINING GUIDE ■ CREDIT CARDS: V-Visa, MC-Master Card, AE-American Express, DIS-Discover ■ PRICE RANGE: $, $$, $$$ ________________________________ ■ 19TH HOLE BAR & GRILLE, 9936 Stephen Decatur Highway, West Ocean City 410-213-9204 / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Casual and family-friendly, featuring great American cuisine for breakfast, lunch and dinner at affordable prices. Open seven days a week, year-round. Happy hour daily, 3-7 p.m. Entertainment Friday through Sunday. ■ 32 PALM, 32nd Street, in the Hilton Suites, Ocean City 410-289-2525 / www.ocmdrestaurants. com / $$ / V-MC-AEDIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Western Caribbean cuisine, Eastern Shore favorites, gourmet and tasty liquid desserts. ■ ADOLFO’S, 13th Street, on the Boardwalk, Ocean City 410-289-4001 / www.ocadolfos.com / $$ / V-MC-AE / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Northern and southern Italian dishes, prepared fresh daily. Quiet, intimate atmosphere for couples, room for large families or choose to enjoy our outside seating with views of the ocean. ■ BJ’S ON THE WATER, 75th Street, Ocean City 410-524-7575 / www.bjsonthewater.com / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Open year-round. Entire dining menu served 11 a.m. to 1:30 a.m., seven days a week. Daily specials, daily duck feeding. Entertainment every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. No cover. Available for parties and banquets. Indoor and outdoor dining. ■ BLUE FISH JAPANESE & CHINESE RESTAURANT AND SUSHI BAR, 94th Street, Ocean City 410-524-3983 / www.bluefishoc.com / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Full bar / Japanese and Chinese restaurant and sushi bar with beer, wine and cocktails. Dine in, take out and delivery available. Open Monday-Friday, 11:30 a.m.; Saturday and Sunday, noon. ■ CAPTAIN’S TABLE RESTAURANT, 15th Street and the Boardwalk, Ocean City 410289-7192 / www.captainstableoc.com / $$$$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Family-owned, serving fine seafood, steaks and poultry on the third floor of the Courtyard by Marriott. Open 7 days a week, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. ■ DEVITO’S ITALIAN DELI AND SUB SHOP, 143rd Street, Ocean City 410-250-1122 / $ / V-MC / No reservations required / Italian cold cuts pizza, sandwiches and subs for lunch and dinner. ■ DUFFY’S TAVERN, 130th Street, Montego Bay Shopping Center, Ocean City 410250-1449 / $ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Unique Irish tavern serving the best steaks, seafood and over-stuffed sandwiches. A local’s favorite with authentic Irish specialities, including shepard’s pie and corned beef and cabbage. Outdoor seating available. Open for lunch and dinner. ■ FAGER’S ISLAND RESTAURANT & BAR, 60th Street on the bay, Ocean City 410524-5500 / www.fagers.com / $$-$$$ / VMC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted in the dining room only / Children’s menu / Full bar

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/ Upscale restaurant on the bay. Casual fine dining, fresh fish, prime rib and seafood. Lighter fare menu served on our decks or inside. ■ FRESCO’S, 82nd Street, Ocean City 410524-8202 / www.ocfrescos.com / $$-$$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / On the bay, serving seafood, steaks and pasta in an intimate atmosphere. Reservations highly recommended. ■ GALAXY 66 BAR & GRILLE, 66th Street, Ocean City 410-723-6762 / $$-$$$ / V-MAE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Full bar / Contemporary restaurant offering light fare and full entrees. Award- winning wine list, signature drinks and cocktails. ■ GIUSEPPE O’LEARY, Sunset Avenue, West Ocean City 410-213-2868 / www.submarinaoc.com / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Full bar / Featuring homemade Italian cuisine in a cozy atmosphere. Open year-round. Happy hour food and drink specials Monday-Friday, 4-7 p.m. ■ GREENE TURTLE NORTH, 116th Street, Ocean City 410-723-2120 / www.thegreeneturtle.com / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / The Turtle, est. 1976, is an Ocean City tradition with a friendly staff, great food and something for everyone! Menu favorites are homemade crab cakes, kids’ menu, salads, burgers, wings and more! Featuring weekday lunch specials and happy hour, 50 high-def flat screen TVs, game room, gift shop, carry out, party trays, nightly drink specials, Keno, MD lottery, DJs with dance floor. Open 11 a.m. to 2 a.m., year-round. ■ HALL’S SEAFOOD & STEAK, 60th Street, Ocean City 410-524-5008 / www.HallsOC.com / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Serving Ocean City’s finest breakfast buffet and all-you-can-eat sea-food buffet. Open 7 days a week, all summer. New menu serving old favorites and new treats. ■ HARBORSIDE BAR & GRILL, 12841 S. Harbor Road, West Ocean City 410-2131846 / www.ocharborside.com / $$ / V-MCAE-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 Thursday through Sunday. ■ HARPOON HANNA’S RESTAURANT & BAR, Route 54 and the bay, Fenwick Island, Del. www.harpoonhannasrestaurant.com / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Casual waterfront restaurant serving lunch, dinner. Fresh fish, seafood, steaks, sandwiches and all-you-caneat Alaskan crab legs. Open year-round. ■ HEMINGWAY’S AT THE CORAL REEF, 17th Street, in the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites, Ocean City 410-289-2612 / www.ocmdrestaurants.com / $$$ / V-MC-AEDIS / 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. ■ HIGH STAKES BAR & GRILL, Route 54, Fenwick Island, Del. 302-537-6971 / $-$$ / V-M-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Carry-out available / Full bar / Casual dining, daily happy hour and daily food specials. Live

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entertainment. ■ HOOTERS, three Ocean City locations: 123rd Street, Ocean City 410-250-7081, Fifth Street, on the Boardwalk, Ocean City 410-289-2690 and Route 50, West Ocean City 410-213-1841 / www.hootersofoc.com / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS. Fresh new menu items include ground chuck burgers, green salads, world famous chicken wings with 11 flavorful sauces, healthy choice sandwiches and seafood. Fun children’s menu. Relaxed beach atmosphere. Full bar. Large flat screen TVs, attentive service by delightful Hooters girls. Wingfest: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3-6 p.m., featuring 50-cent wings and awesome drink specials. Like us on Facebook. This is why we say Hooters makes you happy. ■ HORIZONS OCEANFRONT RESTAURANT, 101st Street, Ocean City 410-524-3535 / www.clarionoc.com / $-$$ ($20-45) / V-MCAE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Open tables / Children’s menu / Full bar / Proud to have Chef Shawn Reese creating beach-inspired dishes in both oceanfront restaurants, Horizons and Breaker’s 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. ■ HOUSE OF WELSH, 1106 Coastal Highway, Fenwick Island, Del. 1-800-311-2707 / www.houseofwelsh.net / $, $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Specializing in steaks and seafood. Open daily. Happy hour all day and night. Entertainment Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Casual attire. ■ JOHNNY’S PIZZA PUB, 56th Street, Ocean City 410-524-7499 / www.johnnys56.com / $ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Pizza, subs, wings, salads, beer, live music, high definition TVs, surf, movies, BlueRay. ■ JR’S THE ORIGINAL PLACE FOR RIBS, 61st and 131st streets, Ocean City 410250-3100, 410-524-7427 / www.jrsribs.com / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / The place for ribs since 1981. Family-friendly dining. Angus steaks, jumbo lump crab cakes, prime rib, seafood, chicken. Early bird. ■ JULES FINE DINING, 118th Street, Ocean City 410-524-3396 / 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. ■ OCEAN PINES YACHT CLUB, 1 Mumfords Landing Road, Ocean Pines 410-641-7501 / www.oceanpines.org, www.theclubsofoceanpines.com / $$ / V-MC-AE / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Ocean Pines Yacht Club and Marina is open to the public for casual waterfront dining. Fresh local menu, on-site catering and Sunday brunch. ■ P.G.N. CRABHOUSE, 29th Street, Ocean City 410-289-8380 / $ / V-MC-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Beer, wine / The Kaouris family has been serving the finest crabs, seafood, steaks and chicken to Ocean City locals and visitors since 1969. ■ PHILLIPS CRAB HOUSE, 20th Street, Ocean City 410-289-6821 / www.phillipsseafood.com / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS

/ No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / The original Phillips, serving the finest seafood since 1956. Complete with allyou-can-eat seafood buffet, a la carte menu and carryout counter. Daily early bird specials and plenty of free parking. ■ PHILLIPS SEAFOOD HOUSE, 141st Street, Ocean City 410-250-1200 / www.phillipsseafood.com / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Just minutes to the Delaware line. All-you-can-eat seafood buffet, a la carte menu and carryout counter. Daily early bird specials and plenty of free parking. ■ PONZETTI’S PIZZA, 144th Street, Ocean City www.ponzettispizza.com / $ / MC / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Italian dinners, subs and homemade pizza. Happy hour Monday through Friday, 3-6 p.m. Sports bar, live music on weekends. Light fare served till 1 a.m. Carry out available. ■ REFLECTIONS RESTAURANT, 67th Street, in the Holiday Inn Oceanfront, Ocean City 410-524-5252 / www.ocmdrestaurants.com / $$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Tableside flambé dining. Casually elegant, cuisine prepared tableside in the European tradition. Private dining rooms. Eclectic chef’s specials accompanied by an award-winning wine list. ■ SEACRETS, 49th Street, Ocean City 410524-4900 / www.seacrets.com / $$ / V-MCAE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Island atmosphere. Soups, salads, Jamaican jerk chicken, appetizers, sandwiches, paninis, pizza and fresh seafood. ■ SMITTY McGEE’S, 37234 Lighthouse Road, West Fenwick Island, Del. 302-4364716 / www.smittymcgees.com / $$ / V-MCAE-DIS / No reservations required / No children’s menu / Full bar / Casual. Big menu, including hot wings and drinks. ■ THE COTTAGE CAFE, Route 1 (across from Sea Colony), Bethany Beach, Del. 302-539-8710 / www.cottagecafe.com / $, $$ / V-MC-AE / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Seafood, kids’ menu, happy hour specials. Lunch and dinner daily. Breakfast buffet on weekends. ■ THE STERLING SEAFOOD GRILL & OYSTER BAR, 67th Street, in the Holiday Inn Oceanfront, Ocean City 410-524-5252 / www.ocmdrestaurants.com / $$ / V-MC-AEDIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Fabulous raw bar serving the freshest raw oysters and clams, steamed shrimp, crab legs, mussels and oyster stew, made to order. “Fresh off the grill” items include rockfish, tuna, mahi mahi and salmon. Happy hour specials daily, 4-6 p.m. ■ WHISKERS PUB, 120th Street, OC Square, Ocean City 410-524-2609 / www.whiskerspub.com / $ / V-MC-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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cause of this, he said. The Christmas Craft Expo offers an assortment of handmade merchandise. Holiday gifts available at the Expo will include jewelry, clothing and apparel, woodwork, candles, furniture, paintings and ornaments. “There will be all kinds of things. Anything you can think of,” Hastings said. Both shows are juried by Hastings. Each artist must be approved by him before he or she may sell their handcrafted work at the event. Hastings said guests like that everything is handmade and the personal experience they get when buying from the person who made the product. “They can associate a face with a product,” he said. “They can know how [the artist] made it. It’s much more meaningful.” The grand door prize this year is a $300 shopping spree at Donald’s Duck Shoppe. Local musician Frank Nanna will provide entertainment both days. Show hours are Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission costs $5 for adults and $4 for AARP members (with card) and students ages 13-17. Children 12 and younger admitted free. The Expo’s ad, featured in this issue of Ocean City Today, is good for $1 off adult admission. For more information, call 410–524–9177.

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Sheryl Mitrecic, left, and Jean Bean Keagle sell raffle tickets during the 2011 Jammin’ Out Cancer fundraiser. The 2012 event is scheduled for Nov. 2, at Seacrets on 49th Street.

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Some of those include free wigs, hats and turbans for patients; the Look Good Feel Better program, which teaches patients how to cope with the cosmetic sideeffects of treatment; Reach to Recovery, a one-on-one support visitation program by trained breast cancer survivors for new patients; Road to Recovery, which offers patients transportation to and from medical facilities for cancer treatments; Dietician On Call, in which a registered dietician provides free personalized nutrition counseling for cancer patients; and a 24-hour/seven-day information center with oncology nurses or social workers. All of these services are free. The American Cancer Society is the largest source of cancer research funds in the country, next to the U.S. government. “Since the beginning of the Classic 16 years ago, we have brought in over $1 million in donations to the American Cancer Society that are earmarked specifically for breast cancer programs of development and research, an amazing amount to raise in our quaint little beach town,” Katz said. “It is truly gratifying to be a part of such a generous community and to contribute in such a significant way to something that is way bigger than ourselves.” For more information about the Pink Ribbon Classic, visit www.facebook. com/pinkribbonclassic. To learn more about the American Cancer Society, visit www.cancer.org, call 1-800-ACS-2345.

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Hooters fundraiser to help local respite program acquire elevator LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Nov. 2, 2012) Believe In Tomorrow House By The Sea on 66th Street is in need of a full-service elevator. A Nov. 7 event at Hooters in West Ocean City aims to raise funds for that project. Wednesday’s party will take place from 6-9 p.m. Tickets cost $30 and can be purchased by calling Wayne Littleton, coordinator for the Believe in Tomorrow Children’s Foundation Beach Respite Housing Program. Tickets will also be available at the door that evening. Admission cost includes domestic draft beer, wings, pulled pork, salad, meatballs and fish and chips. There will also be live music, a silent auction, 50/50 drawing and raffles. “It’s going to be a fun evening,” Littleton said. “Whatever we raise will go to the elevator fund.” The project is expected to cost between $30,000 and $40,000, Littleton said. Approximately $15,000 has been raised so far. “We’ll get there. We need a full-service elevator,” he said. “It’s a lot more efficient than what we have now.” The 66th Street four-unit apartment building currently has a wheelchair lift. Because it is exposed to the salt air, the lift is prone to mechanical issues and rust, Littleton said. The lift only goes up

to the first floor of the facility so just one unit is handicap accessible. With a fullservice elevator, the three units on the second floor will be handicap accessible, as well. At this time, a hole has been dug for the new elevator and concrete blocks surround the base. Those who can’t make the Nov. 7 event and still want to donate money, services, labor or materials should call Littleton at 410-723-2842. Believe in Tomorrow Children’s Foundation Respite Housing Program provides critically ill children and their families a much-needed getaway to the beach from the everyday stresses of a child’s medical illness. There are three resort facilities: the four-unit apartment building on 66th Street; a house on the bay at 28th Street, the first respite house in the country to focus on the needs of military pediatrics; and a townhouse in Fenwick Island, Del. Rarely is there a time when the facilities are empty. Six families fill the houses each week throughout the summer. Approximately 80 families (between 300 and 400 people) stayed at one of the houses from Memorial Day through Labor Day this summer. In the off-season — the winter, spring and fall — at least three or four families on average stay at the facilities each week.

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Adam Stone, and his 7-year-old son, Jacob, of Annapolis, test out their entry into “The Great Pumpkin Race” last Saturday off the Boardwalk at North Division Street. The competition featured 10 tricked out pumpkin race cars. Families, friends, groups and individuals designed their own racecar from a single pumpkin for the final event of the inaugural O.C.toberfest.

(Nov. 2, 2012) The town of Snow Hill is happy to have three new businesses and an Independent Artists Fair to showcase for First Friday on Nov. 2. This is an excellent opportunity to begin holiday shopping as merchants and gallery owners in the downtown area will stay open until 8 p.m. Visitors will find special discounts, art openings and light refreshments throughout the downtown. Miss Patti Cake, Snow Hill’s new bakery, has been open a few weeks providing delicious treats. Owner Patti McDermott has just the right desserts and pastries for the holidays. Across Green Street the Emporium Dinette & Ice Cream is under new management and will be serving dinner on First Friday. My Style Fitness Center is open on the corner of Washington Streets, specializing in zumba exercise classes. The second annual Independent Artisans Fair will be in full swing on the second floor of the firehouse. Artists will have a variety of crafts and art items for holiday giving. The Serenity Shoppe will be among the

businesses participating in the Fair which will be open again on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. You will find paintings by the Dougherty family, Barbara, Elvi and Luke, at the American Art Gallery. Guitarist Nick Haglich will set the mood for the evening. Antiques by The River offers books, collectibles and antique treasurers that are ideal for holiday giving. Bishop’s Stock Fine Art and Wine Gallery welcomes local artist Scott Dolby. Wines for tasting will come from Spain. The Blue Dog Cafe will feature Todd Crosby and WW Tunes while Opposite Directions will be playing at Harvest Moon Tavern. The Flower Shoppe in Snow Hill is offering a 40-percent discount off all fall items. Jerry Nolte has been hard at work creating new fall items to sell in his store, Jerry’s Wood Craft at 112 W Green Street. Enjoy apple cider and cookies while you shop. The Sassy Girl Boutique is featuring holiday items and new jewelry. The Flower Shop in Snow Hill is offering 15 percent off all fall items. Artist Nancy Carver Thompson will treat First Friday visitors to a watercolor demonstration in her studio on Pearl Street. First Fridays are sponsored by Arts on the River, Snow Hill’s Art and Entertainment District, the Worcester County Arts Council and the Maryland State Arts Council. For more information, call 410-632 2080.

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YR South Ocean Pines 4BR/2BA - All appliances. No pets/smoking. $1195/Mo. + utils. + sec. dep. Call Barry, broker/owner 302-275-9412

3BR/2BA Mobile on Water Bishopville, unfurnished. No smoking. No pets. $950/mo. Howard Martin Realty 410352-5555.

Winter Rental - 2BR/2BA $700/mo. Now thru May 5th. Call Bill 301-537-5391

WR - 1BR Condo - Off 28th St. - Furnished, $650/mo. includes cable & utilities w/limits. Available now. No smoking/pets. 410-903-8169

YR Rooms, $125-$150 North OC. Util. incl., W/D, cable, furnished. Move in today. 410250-0865

Berlin - 4BR/2BA - Remodeled Rancher, hardwood floors. Large yard, shed. $1300/mo. Call Bunting Realty 410-6413313

YR-2 Bedroom, 1 Bath House, large yard, close to WalMart. $900/month. Call Dale 443-736-5589 or e-mail dale@ocrooms.com

Winter Rental - Two Pristine Condos. 3BR/3BA and 2BR/ 2BA. Call Bill 443-373-7232.

Winter Rental or Year Round2BR/2BA 142nd Street Winter Rental-3BR/2BA-28th Street-$700. Call 443-880-0510

Part/Time Cleaning person for restaurant-start date early Nov. 410-641-7501 apply in person Thurs-Sun at the Ocean Pines Yacht Club 1 Mumford Landing Road, Ocean Pines, MD or email info@oceanpines.org

Part Time Administrator needed for local Non Profit Youth Sports OrganizationMust have excellent organizational & communication skills as well as basic computer skills. Must be able to establish home office and have own transportation. Please send resume to beachlacrosse@yahoo.com Part Time Lead Generator$9/hr. + Incentives. Interested applicants should fax their resume to 410-641-1437. No phone calls please. Nite Club Taxi is hiring F/T & P/T Drivers. Call Michael 443373-1319. Experienced Cosmetologist/ Esthetician Email resume to info@Blissoc.com or stop by Bliss Salon in West Ocean City.

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YR or Winter Rental - 28th St. 2BR/1BA Condo - DW, W/D, $950/mo.-$1100/mo. + utils. + 1 mo. sec. dep. No pets. Call Mary 484-955-9976.

Legal Secretary: Busy Ocean City and Ocean Pines law firm has an immediate opening for a motivated and experienced legal secretary. Experience in Estate Planning, Wills and Corporate matters and prior experience in preparation of Real Estate Settlements is preferred. Proficiency in word processing, written and oral communication skills necessary. Please send resume to: P.O. Box 739, Ocean City, MD 21843.

WR - Direct Bayfront, 26th St. - Furn., 2BR/2BA, W/D, pets allowed. $900/mo. + utils. Oct. thru May. 443-783-6383

2 and 3 Bedroom properties starting at $750 monthly, plus utilities and security deposit. resort rentals, LLC, 410-524-0295

YR - 3BR/2BA - NOC - Furnished, 1800 sq. ft., house. Ready to move in. $1200 + utils. + sec. dep. 410-250-0865

Now hiring sales reps and promo models for weekend work. Paid travel, $100 a day + bonuses. J-1 welcome. Experienced sales managers for travel also needed for PT/FT salaried position. Please call 443-2917651

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Year Round: Banquet Housestaff, Servers/Cocktail Servers, Busser, Painter, Housekeeping Housestaff, Room Attendant Part Time: AM Food Runners, Doorman 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

9942 Elm Street, WOC, directly behind Starbucks. Wi-Fi, AC, laundry, pool. Call 443-614-4007

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YR WOC, 4BR/4.5BA Penthouse, unfurnished, 3BR/2BA Oceanfront Condo, furnished, 1BR/1.5BA Oceanfront Condo, furnished. Available now! Income verification req’d. Call 443-521-3202.

Year Round Rental-43rd St. 2 large bedrooms, 1 bath Apartment. Coin-op washer and dryer on site. Family friendly building. $900 per month. Call Dale at 443-736-5589 or e-mail to dale@ocrooms.com. Winter Rental - 1st St. and Philadelphia Ave. Large 2 bedroom, 1 bath Apartment. $600/ month, $600 S/D, utilities not included. Call Dale 443-7365589 or e-mail to dale@ocrooms.com. Winter Rental-Midtown OC Furnished, large 2BR/1BA W/D, DW, quiet. $575 + utils. + sec. deposit. 443-497-4746 or 410251-8399. Winter Rental-135th St., 2BR/1BA, full kitchen, LR, W/D, parking. $500/mo. + Sec Dep. Call 443-235-6770

Winter rental 1 & 2 Bedroom Apts. $550-$795 per month. Fully furnished, W/D in downtown OC.

Call 410-430-6284

WINTER RENTAL Open now. Month to month. Blue Turtle Apts. on 57th St., Oceanside. 2BR/1BA, fully furn., kitch., lvg rm. Elect. & Cable incl. $575-$600 depending on one or two persons. 2 person max. No pets. No smoking inside. Quiet required. $300 sec. dep. 410-422-4780

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Available Now-April 1. 312 Sunset Dr. 2BR/1.5BA, newly remodeled, big kitchen/living area. $250/week includes utilities or $800/mo. you pay utilities. Security deposit $1200. Call 410-428-7333 or 410-251-4259 www.sunsetterracerentals.com

Single Family Homes Starting at $865 Apartments Starting at $650 Winter Rentals Starting at $700

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Winter Rentals - 1BR Ocean Block Condos. 69th St. or 135th St. Includes cable. No smoking/pets. Avail. now. $500/mo. + electric. 410-596-7873.

WR or YR - 2BR/2BA Bright, spacious, newly remodeled, Furnished House in WOC. Nr Harbor. Potential studio in loft. Vaulted ceilings, fireplace & deck. 240-620-3041

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Year Round Rentals. 1, 2, 3, 4, Bedroom units available. Call 410-723-0988.

Just reduced to $19,900. 2BR Mobile, very close to the water. Terrific Condition! Lot rent $350/mo. includes water/sewer, trash & taxes. Call Howard Martin Realty 410-352-5555

Puzzle Place Daycare has immediate openings for ages 19 mos. and older. Structured curriculum in my home. Crafts, story time, lesson time and outside play. Accredited daycare license with 25 years experience. 410-641-1952

WINTER RENTAL - OCEAN CITY 2BR/1BA - Sleeps 6, Bayshore Drive. $600/month plus utilities. Non smoking, no pets. Holtz Property Mgmt. 443-359-9863. YR OC Rental House - 104th St. 4/5BR/4BA, XLarge Rooms, Large Living Room, Kitchen, Parking. Only $1500/mo. 410430-1746

COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL Self-Storage Units on Route 50. Various sizes starting at $75 to $175/month. 100 to 200 sq. ft. Call Bill 301-537-5391

Winter Rental-Spotless 2 BR NOC Condo. Great Ocean view, fully furn. w/W/D. $475/mo. No Pets/Smoking 412-496-1574

Prime Office Space for Rent On the corner of Main St. & Broad St., Berlin. 1250 sq.ft. Second floor unit with exclusive deck. Central air conditioning & heat. Recently remodeled. Starting at $1100/mo. for long term lease. Call Russell 443497-2729.

YR WOC Townhome-2BR/1.5 BA screened porch, pool, excellent location. Walk to restaurants & park/ride. $1200/mo. Avail immed. Call 443-497-6115

Upscale Mid-town Office Space in O.C. for Lease.

Winter OC Rooms for Rent! Lg. rms. $100. Furnished and all utilities. Call 410-430-1746.

WANTED RENTAL RENTAL WANTED Executive Couple Looking To Rent - w/option to buy single family home. Prefer WOC on water. Must allow pet. 703622-5181.

ESTATE REAL REAL ESTATE $159.900 Bishopville - 3BR Home - 1 acre, garage, 3 season room, NO city taxes. Need 20% down for financing. Call Howard Martin Realty 410352-5555. 15 Raft Road, Berlin, 3BR/2BA. Needs cosmetic work. Oversized lot. “Sold as is.” $127,500. Call Ethelee, owner/agent 301-633-0474 1/2 Acre Canal Lot in lovely Bishopville, Holiday Harbor. $79,900. Call Howard Martin Realty 410-352-5555.

REAL ESTATE CLASSES ED SMITH REAL ESTATE SCHOOL Pre-Licensing Real Estate Classes Pt. 1. Nov. 27th, 28th, 29th, 2012 Pt. 2. Dec. 4th, 5th, 6th, 2012 8am-5:30 pm Limited Space Web site/Registration www.edsmithschool.com 410-213-2700

Flexible floor plan. From 650 to 5,150 sq. ft. Call Brian 443-880-2225

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& FOUND LOST LOST & FOUND GLASSES - Found on King Richard Road in Ocean Pines. Glasses in case, Richard Taylor on case. Call 410-208-1497. Lost Kitten taken from Oasis parking lot in Whaleyville on Sept. 30th. Between 3-7pm. Buff color w/cream swirls. Please return him. He’s missed by his brothers & sisters. 443880-3389

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POWER WASHER Industrial w/ Hana motor. 3000psi. 150’ of hose, spray gun. 24’ ladder & disc. Sprayer. $1000/obo. 410603-5038.

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Legal Notices McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC 312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800 Laurel, Maryland 20707 www.mwc-law.com

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 1702 CEDAR ST. F/K/A 1702 WOODBROOK DR. POCOMOKE CITY, MD 21851 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Cynthia M. Kirkwood, dated April 30, 2008 and recorded in Liber 5114, folio 569 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, Snow Hill, on

posit, 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 #2011-17595) This property will be sold subject to a 120 day right of redemption by the Internal Revenue Service. Laura H. G. O’Sullivan, Deborah K. Curran, Erin M. Brady, Diana C. Theologou, Laura L. Latta, Jonathan Elefant, Anne L. Peightel, Substitute Trustees ALEX COOPER AUCTS., INC. 908 YORK ROAD, TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 410-828-4838 OCD-11/1/3t ___________________________________ McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC 312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800 Laurel, Maryland 20707 www.mwc-law.com

NOVEMBER 19, 2012 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 $44,000 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 8% 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 de-

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 6 127TH ST., UNIT #406 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Gisella P. Gonzales, dated September 16, 2005 and recorded in Liber 4559, folio 61 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, Snow Hill, on NOVEMBER 19, 2012 AT 2:16 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON situated in Worcester Co., Maryland and described as Unit No. 406, in the “Marylander Hotel Condominium” 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 $15,000 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 8% 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 #2012-22333) Laura H. G. O’Sullivan, Erin M. Brady, Diana C. Theologou, Laura L. Latta, Jonathan Elefant, Laura T. Curry, Benjamin Smith, Chasity Brown, Substitute Trustees ALEX COOPER AUCTS., INC. 908 YORK ROAD, TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 410-828-4838 OCD-11/1/3t ___________________________________ Covahey, Boozer, Devan, & Dore, 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. 9503 HARBOUR LIGHT DRIVE BERLIN, MD 21811 CASE NUMBER 23-C-11-001730 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from John T. Timmons and Stephanie K. Timmons recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 4661, folio 501, and Declaration of Substitution of Trustees recorded among the aforementioned Land Records substituting Thomas P. Dore, Mark S. Devan, Gerard F. Miles, Jr., Shannon Menapace, and Erin Gloth as Substituted Trustees, the Substituted Trustees will offer for sale at public auction, at the Courthouse Door, Snow Hill, Maryland on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2012 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 4661, folio 501, also being further described in a Deed recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 3329, folio 282. 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. 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 $50,000.00 will be required of the purchaser, other than the Holder of the Note or its assigns, at the time and place of sale. 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 twenty (20) 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 6.75000% 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. In the event the Substituted Trustees do not convey title for any reason, purchaser`s sole remedy is return of the deposit. 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. Thomas P. Dore, Mark S. Devan, Gerard F. Miles, Jr., Shannon Menapace, and Erin Gloth, Substituted Trustees Tidewater Auctions, LLC (410) 825-2900 www.tidewaterauctions.com OCD-11/1/3t ___________________________________

SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY KNOWN AS NO. 619 HOLIDAY DRIVE POCOMOKE, MD 21851 CASE NUMBER 23-C-12-000806 Covahey, Boozer, Devan, and Dore, P.A. 11350 McCormick Road, Executive Plaza III, Suite 200 Hunt Valley, MD 21031 (443) 541-8600 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from William J. Shockley

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Legal Notices recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 5456, folio 81, and Declaration of Substitution of Trustees recorded among the aforementioned Land Records substituting Thomas P. Dore, Mark S. Devan, Gerard F. Miles, Jr., Shannon Menapace, and Erin Gloth as Substituted Trustees, the Substituted Trustees will offer for sale at public auction, at the Courthouse Door, Snow Hill, Maryland on Tuesday, November 20, 2012 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 5456, folio 81, also being further described in a Deed recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 5456, folio 75. 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. 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 $9,000.00 will be required of the purchaser, other than the Holder of the Note or its assigns, at the time and place of sale. 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 twenty (20) 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 4.87500% 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. In the event the Substituted Trustees do not convey title for any reason, purchaser's sole remedy is return of the deposit. 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. Thomas P. Dore, Mark S. Devan, Gerard F. Miles, Jr., Shannon Menapace, and Erin Gloth, Substituted Trustees Tidewater Auctions, LLC (410) 825-

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SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY KNOWN AS NO. 10000 COASTAL DRIVE, UNIT #1407 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 CASE NUMBER 23-C-11-001536 Covahey, Boozer, Devan, and Dore, P.A. 11350 McCormick Road, Executive Plaza III, Suite 200 Hunt Valley, MD 21031 (443) 541-8600 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from Albert E. Bernier, Jr. and Susan Bernier recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 4821, folio 714, and re-recorded in Liber 5206, folio 430, and Declaration of Substitution of Trustees recorded among the aforementioned Land Records substituting Thomas P. Dore, Mark S. Devan, Gerard F. Miles, Jr., Shannon Menapace, and Erin Gloth as Substituted Trustees, the Substituted Trustees will offer for sale at public auction, at the Courthouse Door, Snow Hill, Maryland on Tuesday, November 20, 2012 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 4821, folio 714, and rerecorded in Liber 5206, folio 430, also being further described in a Deed recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 4287, folio 584. 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. 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 $47,000.00 will be required of the purchaser, other than the Holder of the Note or its assigns, at the time and place of sale. 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 twenty (20) 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 7.00000% 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. In the event the Substituted Trustees do not convey title for any reason, purchaser's sole remedy is return of the deposit. 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. Thomas P. Dore, Mark S. Devan, Gerard F. Miles, Jr., Shannon Menapace, and Erin Gloth, Substituted Trustees Tidewater Auctions, LLC (410) 825-2900 www.tidewaterauctions.com A-4320167 11/01/2012, 11/08/2012, 11/15/2012 OCD -11/1/3t ___________________________________

SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY KNOWN AS NO. 607 OSPREY ROAD, UNIT 2 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 CASE NUMBER 23-C-12-001144 Covahey, Boozer, Devan, and Dore, P.A. 11350 McCormick Road, Executive Plaza III, Suite 200 Hunt Valley, MD 21031 (443) 541-8600 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from Cynthia J. Michaud recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 4933, folio 239, and re-recorded in Liber 4986, folio 383, and Declaration of Substitution of Trustees recorded among the aforementioned Land Records substituting Thomas P. Dore, Mark S. Devan, Gerard F. Miles, Jr., Shannon Menapace, Erin Gloth, and Christine Drexel as Substituted Trustees, the Substituted Trustees will offer for sale at public auction, at the Courthouse Door, Snow Hill, Maryland on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 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 4933, folio 239, and re-recorded in Liber 4986, folio 383, also being further described in a Deed recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 4933, folio 236. 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. 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 $20,000.00 will be required of the purchaser, other than the Holder of the Note or its assigns, at the time and place of sale. 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 twenty (20) 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 10.12500% 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. In the event the Substituted Trustees do not convey title for any reason, purchaser’s sole remedy is return of the deposit. 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. Thomas P. Dore, Mark S. Devan, Gerard F. Miles, Jr., Shannon Menapace, Erin Gloth, and Christine Drexel, Substituted Trustees Tidewater Auctions, LLC (410) 825-2900 www.tidewaterauctions.com A4317397 10/25/2012, 11/01/2012, 11/08/2012 OCD-10/25/3t ___________________________________

SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY KNOWN AS NO. 12903 HORN ISLAND DRIVE OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 CASE NUMBER 23-C-12-001259 Covahey, Boozer, Devan, and Dore, P.A. 11350 McCormick Road, Executive Plaza III, Suite 200 Hunt Valley, MD 21031 (443) 541-8600 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from Cathy E. Hale recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 4438, folio 263, and Declaration of Substitution of Trustees recorded among the aforementioned Land Records substituting Thomas P. Dore, Mark S. Devan, Gerard F. Miles, Jr., Shannon Menapace, Erin Gloth, and Christine Drexel as Substituted Trustees, the Substituted Trustees will offer for sale at public auction, at the Courthouse Door, Snow Hill, Maryland on Tuesday, November 20, 2012 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 4438, folio 263, also being further described in a Deed recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 4089, folio 40. 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. Neither the Substituted Trustees nor their respective agents,

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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 504 ROBIN DR., UNIT #67 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Cathryn G. Pena, dated August 31, 2006 and recorded in Liber 4852, folio 522 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, Snow Hill, on NOVEMBER 13, 2012 AT 12:45 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON situated in Worcester Co., MD and described as Unit No. 67, in the “Bayshore Condominium” 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 and agreements of record affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind. Terms of Sale: A deposit of $14,000 by cash or certified check. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within 10 days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Worcester Co. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. If the purchaser fails to settle within the aforesaid ten (10) days of ratification, the purchaser relinquishes their deposit and the SubTrustees may file an appropriate motion with the court to resell the property. Purchaser waives personal service of any paper filed with the Court in connection with such motion and any Show Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees to accept service of any such paper or Order by certified mail and regular mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser and as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that actual receipt of the certified mail is not required for service to be effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the deposit shall be forfeited to the SubTrustees and all expenses of this sale (including attorney fees and full commission on the gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged against and paid from the forfeited deposit. In the event of resale the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of the property regardless of any improvements made to the real property. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate of 7.375% per annum from the date of sale to the date the funds are received in the office of the Sub-Trustees. Taxes, ground rent, water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. Purchaser shall be responsible for physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the date of sale forward. The sale is subject to post sale audit by the Noteholder to determine whether the borrower entered into any repayment/forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid off prior to the sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees that upon notification by the SubTrustees of such event the sale is null and void and of no legal effect and the deposit returned without interest. If the Sub-Trustees are unable to convey either insurable or good and marketable title, or the sale is not ratified

for any reason by the Circuit Court including errors made by the SubTrustees, the purchaser’s sole remedy at law or in equity shall be limited to a refund of the deposit without any interest. Mark H. Wittstadt, Gerard Wm. Wittstadt, Jr., Deborah A. Hill, Sub. Trustees ALEX COOPER AUCTS., INC. 908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204 410-828-4838 OCD-10/25/3t ___________________________________ BWW Law Group, LLC 4520 East West Highway, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 961-6555

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 10237 BENT CREEK RD. OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Luigi A. Mollichelli and Giselle Leite dated May 24, 2005 and recorded in Liber 4445, Folio 180 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, with an original principal balance of $328,000.00 and an original interest rate of 5.750% 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, Snow Hill, on NOVEMBER 14, 2012 AT 2:00 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 $33,000 in cash, cashiers check or certified check is required at time 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 real property taxes will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. All past due property taxes paid by the purchaser. All other public and/or private charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale to be paid by the purchaser. All transfer taxes shall be paid by the Purchaser. Purchaser shall pay all applicable agricultural tax, if any. 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 ser-

vicer 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 10 days of ratification, the Sub. Trustees may file a motion to resell the property. If Purchaser defaults under these terms, deposit shall be forfeited. The Sub. Trustees may then resell the property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. 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. Howard N. Bierman, Jacob Geesing, Carrie M. Ward, David W. Simpson, Jr., Substitute Trustees OCD-10/25/3t ___________________________________ BWW Law Group, LLC 4520 East West Highway, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 961-6555

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 106 120TH ST., UNIT #404 A/R/T/A 106 EDWARD TAYLOR RD., UNIT #404 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Daryll L. Grabek dated May 17, 2007 and recorded in Liber 4932, Folio 626 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, with an original principal balance of $245,000.00 and an original interest rate of 6.375% 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, Snow Hill, on NOVEMBER 14, 2012 AT 2:10 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. 404, Phase I, in the Marlin Cove 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 $26,000 in cash, cashiers check or certified check is required at time 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

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Legal Notices from the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of current real property taxes will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. All past due property taxes paid by the purchaser. All other public and/or private charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale to be paid by the purchaser. All transfer taxes shall be paid by the Purchaser. Purchaser shall pay all applicable agricultural tax, if any. 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 10 days of ratification, the Sub. Trustees may file a motion to resell the property. If Purchaser defaults under these terms, deposit shall be forfeited. The Sub. Trustees may then resell the property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. 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. Howard N. Bierman, Jacob Geesing, Carrie M. Ward, David W. Simpson, Jr., Substitute Trustees OCD-10/25/3t ___________________________________ BWW Law Group, LLC 4520 East West Highway, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 961-6555

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 309 BAY SHORE DR., UNIT #6 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Rebecca F. Rotman dated January 4, 2005 and recorded in Liber 4623, Folio 333 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, with an original principal balance of $144,000.00 and an original interest rate of 7.0000% 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, Snow Hill, on NOVEMBER 14, 2012 AT 2:20 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon situated in Worcester Co., MD and described as Condominium Unit Number 6 in the

“Bell Claire 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 $18,000 in cash, cashiers check or certified check is required at time 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 real property taxes will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. All past due property taxes paid by the purchaser. All other public and/or private charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale to be paid by the purchaser. All transfer taxes shall be paid by the Purchaser. Purchaser shall pay all applicable agricultural tax, if any. 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 10 days of ratification, the Sub. Trustees may file a motion to resell the property. If Purchaser defaults under these terms, deposit shall be forfeited. The Sub. Trustees may then resell the property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. 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. Howard N. Bierman, Jacob Geesing, Carrie M. Ward, David W. Simpson, Jr., Substitute Trustees OCD-10/25/3t ___________________________________ BWW Law Group, LLC 4520 East West Highway, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 961-6555

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 11700 COASTAL HWY., UNIT #909 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842

Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Richard S. Lynard and Sheila L. Lynard dated November 24, 2004 and recorded in Liber 4310, Folio 384 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, with an original principal balance of $356,000.00 and an original interest rate of 3.500% 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, Snow Hill, on NOVEMBER 7, 2012 AT 2:00 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. T-909 in the Carousel Center 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 $37,000 in cash, cashiers check or certified check is required at time 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 real property taxes will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. All past due property taxes paid by the purchaser. All other public and/or private charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale to be paid by the purchaser. All transfer taxes shall be paid by the Purchaser. Purchaser shall pay all applicable agricultural tax, if any. 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 10 days of ratification, the Sub. Trustees may file a motion to resell the property. If Purchaser defaults under these terms, deposit shall be forfeited. The Sub. Trustees may then resell the property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. 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. Howard N. Bierman, Jacob Geesing, Carrie M. Ward, David W. Simpson, Jr., Substitute Trustees OCD-10/18/3t ___________________________________ BWW Law Group, LLC 4520 East West Highway, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 961-6555

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 16 DECATUR ST. BERLIN, MD 21811 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Shireen Ramadan dated August 5, 2003 and recorded in Liber 3828, Folio 566 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, with an original principal balance of $111,500.00 and an original interest rate of 5.000% 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, Snow Hill, on NOVEMBER 7, 2012 AT 2:10 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 $7,000 in cash, cashiers check or certified check is required at time 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 real property taxes will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. All past due property taxes paid by the purchaser. All other public and/or private charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale to be paid by the purchaser. All transfer taxes shall be paid by the Purchaser. Purchaser shall pay all applicable agricultural tax, if any. 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

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NOTICE OF INTRODUCTION OF BILL 12-5 WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Take Notice that Bill 12-5 entitled AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE AND EMPOWER THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND TO BORROW ON ITS FULL FAITH AND CREDIT, AND TO ISSUE AND SELL ITS GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND ITS BOND ANTICIPATION NOTES THEREFOR, AT ONE TIME OR FROM TIME TO TIME WITHIN FOUR YEARS FROM THE DATE THIS BILL BECOMES EFFECTIVE, IN AN AMOUNT NOT EXCEEDING $6,200,000, TO FINANCE OR REFINANCE (1) THE PREPAYMENT OF ALL OR A PORTION OF THE COUNTY’S OUTSTANDING SPECIAL ACCRUED LIABILITY CONTRIBUTIONS RESULTING FROM THE TRANSFER OF THE CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS OF THE WORCESTER COUNTY JAIL TO THE CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND ON JULY 1, 2008, TOGETHER WITH ANY PREPAYMENT PREMIUMS AND/OR ACCRUED INTEREST, AND (2) THE REIMBURSEMENT TO THE COUNTY OF SPECIAL ACCRUED LIABILITY CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SUCH PLAN WHICH ARE PAYABLE BY THE COUNTY AFTER THE DATE THIS BILL BECOMES EFFECTIVE; AND INCLUDING PAYMENT OF ALL RELATED COSTS AND COSTS OF ISSUANCE OF SUCH BONDS was introduced by Commissioners Boggs, Bunting, Church, Gulyas, Lockfaw, Purnell and Shockley on October 2, 2012. A fair summary of the bill is as follows: APPENDIX "HH" BOND AUTHORIZATION TO FINANCE OR REFINANCE (1) THE PREPAYMENT OF ALL OR A PORTION OF THE COUNTY’S OUTSTANDING SPECIAL ACCRUED LIABILITY CONTRIBUTIONS RESULTING FROM THE TRANSFER OF THE CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS OF THE WORCESTER COUNTY JAIL TO THE CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND ON JULY 1, 2008, TOGETHER WITH ANY PRE-

PAYMENT PREMIUMS AND/OR ACCRUED INTEREST, AND (2) THE REIMBURSEMENT TO THE COUNTY OF SPECIAL ACCRUED LIABILITY CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SUCH PLAN WHICH ARE PAYABLE BY THE COUNTY AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS LOCAL LAW. (a) Recites legal authorization for borrowing; recites Resolution No. 0810 of the Commissioners withdrawing the Correctional Officers of the Worcester County Jail from the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System Contributory Pension Plan and transferring said officers to the Correctional Officers Retirement System of the State of Maryland (CORS) on July 1, 2008 and referencing the unfunded actuarial accrued liability of $4,667,231 which resulted from the transfer and was to be paid with interest by level annual payments of $412,245 for a 25-year period, commencing December 31, 2008; and recites the determination of the Commissioners to borrow not more than $6,200,000 through general obligation bonds to finance or refinance (1) the prepayment of all or a portion of the County’s outstanding special accrued liability contributions resulting from the transfer of the Correctional Officers of the Worcester County Jail to the Correctional Officers Retirement System of the State of Maryland on July 1, 2008, together with any prepayment premiums and/or accrued interest, and (2) the reimbursement to the County of special accrued liability contributions for such plan which are payable by the County after the effective date of this Local Law. (b) Declares that the County is obligated to pay to the CORS the remaining 21 CORS special accrued liability contributions in the aggregate amount of $8,657,145; declares that the County’s financial advisor, Davenport & Company LLC, has advised that the County may be able to realize significant savings by issuing its general obligation bonds for the purposes of financing or refinancing the CORS Prepayment and Reimbursement; declares that the funds to be borrowed can be provided at the lowest annual interest rate and cost of issuance by the issuance of general obligation bonds by the County; and declares that financing or refinancing the CORS Prepayment and Reimbursement is a proper public purpose which may be financed by the issuance of bonds. (c) Authorizes the County to borrow $6,200,000 by issuance of bonds. (d) Provides that the proceeds of the bonds shall be for the purpose of financing or refinancing the CORS Prepayment and Reimbursement, and related costs. (e) Provides that the County shall levy annual property taxes sufficient to pay the principal and interest on the bonds due each year. (f) Authorizes the issuance of Bond Anticipation Notes. (g) Provides that before the issuance of any bonds, the Commissioners shall adopt a Resolution which describes the amount, purpose and form of the bonds and other matters relating to the issuance of the bonds. (h) Provides that the bonds shall constitute a pledge of the full faith and credit of the County. (i) Provides that the bonds may be sold either at private sale or at public sale as determined by the County

Commissioners. (j) Provides that the bonds shall be exempt from certain provisions of Article 31 of the Annotated Code of Maryland. (k) Provides that the County may enter into agreements to enhance the marketability of the bonds. (l) Provides that the signature of the officer that appears on the bonds shall be valid even if that officer ceases to be an officer before delivery of the bonds. (m) Provides that upon delivery of the bonds to the purchaser, payment shall be made to the Finance Officer of the County. (n) Authorizes the issuance of interim certificates or temporary bonds. (o) Provides that the authorities set forth in this law are supplemental to existing authorities. (p) Provides for severability provisions. A Public Hearing will be held on Bill 12-5 at the Commissioners' Meeting Room, Room 1101 - Government Center, One West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland, on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 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-10/18/3t ___________________________________

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Estate No. 14873 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF JOSEPHINE A. LIEBERT Notice is given that Jacqueline Spitzer, 9507 Country Roads Lane, Manassas, VA 20112, was on October 05, 2012 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Josephine A. Liebert who died on September 4, 2012, with a will. Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney. All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 5th day of April, 2013. 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. Jacqueline Spitzer Personal Representative True Test Copy Charlotte K. Cathell Register of Wills Worcester County Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of newspaper designated by personal representative: Ocean City Digest Date of publication: October 11, 2012 OCD-10/18/3t ___________________________________ Rosenberg & Associates, LLC 7910 Woodmont Avenue Suite 750 Bethesda, Maryland 20814 (301) 907-8000 Diane S. Rosenberg Mark D. Meyer John A. Ansell, III Stephanie Montgomery Kenneth Savitz 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 750 Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Substitute Trustees Plaintiff(s) v. Shane L. Sales Amber L. Sales 3306 Johnson Road Pocomoke City, MD 21851 Defendant(s) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND Case No. 23C12000713

NOTICE Notice is hereby given this 11th day of October, 2012 by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, that the sale of 3306 Johnson Road, Pocomoke City, MD 21851, made and reported, will be ratified and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 12th day of November, 2012, 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 5th day of November, 2012. The Report of Sale states the amount of the foreclosure sale price to be $93,500.00. Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, MD True Copy Test: Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, Md. OCD-10/18/3t ___________________________________ Paul J. Schwab, III, Esp. Azrael, Franz, Schwab & Lipowitz, LLC 101 E. Chesapeake Avenue 5th Floor Baltimore, Maryland 21286

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE ESTATE NO. 14881 NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Circuit Court of Sarasota County, Florida appointed Amy Coughlin, 706 Oakwood Avenue, Dayton, Ohio 45419 as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Diane H. Fritschle who died on June

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NOTICE ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County this 12th day of October, 2012, that the foreclosure sale of the real property know as 9703 Peerless Road, Bishopville, Maryland 21813, being the property mentioned in these proceedings, made and reported by Mark H. Wittstadt, Gerard Wm. Wittstadt, Jr., and Deborah A. Hill, Substitute Trustees, be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 12th day of November, 2012. Provided a copy of this Order is inserted in some weekly newspaper printed in Worcester County, once in each of three successive weeks, before the 5th day of November, 2012. The Report states the amount of the Foreclosure Sale to be $146,026.60. Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court of Worcester County, Maryland

True Copy Test: Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, Md. OCD-10/18/3t ___________________________________ Morris/Hardwick/Schneider, LLC 9409 Philadelphia Road Baltimore, Maryland 21237 MARK H. WITTSTADT GERARD WM. WITTSTADT, JR. DEBORAH A. HOLLOWAY HILL Substitute Trustees 9409 Philadelphia Road Baltimore, Maryland 21237 V Deborah D. Everett Michael Everett 102 Washington Street Berlin, Maryland 21811 Defendant IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY CASE #23-C-12-000909

NOTICE ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County this 17th day of October, 2012, that the foreclosure sale of the real property known as 102 Washington Street, Berlin, Maryland 21811, being the property mentioned in these proceedings, made and reported by Mark H. Wittstadt, Gerard Wm. Wittstadt, Jr., and Deborah A. Holloway Hill, Substitute Trustees, be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 19th day of November, 2012. Provided a copy of this Order is inserted in some weekly newspaper printed in Worcester County, once in each of three successive weeks, before the 12th day of November, 2012. The Report states the amount of the Foreclosure Sale to be $210,000.00. Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court of Worcester County, Maryland True Copy Test: Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, Md. OCD-10/25/3t ___________________________________ JAMES E. CLUBB, JR., ESQ. 108 N. 8TH STREET OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND 21842 LIGHTHOUSE POINT VILLAS TIME-SHARE OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. c/o Paradise Properties, Inc. 12505 Coastal Highway, Suite 11 Ocean City, MD 21842 Plaintiff vs. BENSON, JOHN T. et al. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY STATE OF MARYLAND CASE NO. 23-C-12-0981

NOTICE ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland this 17th day of October, 2012, that the foreclosure sale of the properties mentioned in these proceedings, made and reported by James E. Clubb, Jr., Trustee, be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 19th day of November, 2012 provided a copy of this order be inserted in some weekly newspaper printed in Worcester County, Maryland once in each of three

successive weeks, before the 12th day of November, 2012. The Report of Sale filed in the above case states the amount of the sales to be as indicated below for the referenced time-share intervals: Timeshare Price Wk 9, #2 $50.00 Wk 14, #2 $50.00 Wk 4, #5 $50.00 Wk 36, #5 $50.00 Wk 40, #5 $50.00 Wk 2, #6 $50.00 Wk 42, #7 $50.00 Wk 44, #10 $50.00 Wk 2, #12 $50.00 Stephen V. Hales Clerk True Copy Test: Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, Md. OCD-10/25/3t ___________________________________ JAMES E. CLUBB, JR., ESQ. 108 N. 8TH STREET OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND 21842 COUNCIL OF UNIT OWNERS OF OCEAN TIME CONDOMINIUM, INC. c/o Paradise Properties, Inc. 12505 Coastal Highway, Suite 11 Ocean City, MD 21842 Plaintiff v. BEHRENS, HERBERT T. VIRGINIA S. et al. Defendants IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY STATE OF MARYLAND CASE NO. 23-C-12-0980

NOTICE ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland this 18th day of October, 2012, that the foreclosure sale of the properties mentioned in these proceedings, made and reported by James E. Clubb, Jr., Trustee, be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 19th day of November, 2012 provided a copy of this order be inserted in some weekly newspaper printed in Worcester County, Maryland once in each of three successive weeks, before the 12th day of November, 2012. The Report of Sale filed in the above case states the amount of the sales to be as indicated below for the referenced time-share intervals: Timeshare Price Wk 9, #201 $50.00 Wk 15, #201 $50.00 Wk 3, #203 $50.00 Wk 15, #206 $50.00 Wk 46, #206 $50.00 Wk 13, #301 $50.00 Wk 47, #301 $50.00 Wk 46, #303 $50.00 Wk 3, #304 $50.00 Wk 9, #401 $50.00 Wk 7, #402 $50.00 Wk 16, #402 $50.00 Wk 50, #402 $50.00 Wk 16, #403 $50.00 Wk 13, #406 $50.00 Wk 2, #501 $50.00 Wk 46, #501 $50.00 Stephen V. Hales Clerk True Copy Test: Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, Md. OCD-10/25/3t ___________________________________

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING WORCESTER COUNTY BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS AGENDA

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2012 Pursuant to the provisions of the Worcester County Zoning Ordinance, notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held before the Board of Zoning Appeals for Worcester County, in the Board Room (Room 1102) on the first floor of the Worcester County Government Center, One West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland. 6:30 p.m. Case No. 12-42, on the application of Russell Hammond Surveying, LLC., on the lands of Triple D Rentals, LLC., requesting a special exception to create a minor subdivision within the RP District on a dual zoned parcel designated as A-1 Agricultural District and RP Resource Protection District, pursuant to Zoning Code Sections ZS 1-116(c)(3), ZS 1-201(b)(6), ZS 1-215(c)(3), ZS 1-305 and ZS 1-311, located at 10507 Hotel Road, approximately 1,800 feet east of the intersection of Bishopville Road (MD Route 367) and Hotel Road, Tax Map 9, Parcel 146, Proposed Lot 1, in the Fifth Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland. 6:35 p.m. Case No. 12-43, on the application of Maximilian Kurz, on the lands of Jeri Kurz, requesting an after-the-fact variance to further reduce the rear yard setback from 19.1 feet to 17.09 feet (a further encroachment of 2.01 feet) associated with a screen porch and open deck incidental to a single family dwelling in a R-2 Suburban Residential District, pursuant to Zoning Code Sections ZS 1-116(c)(4) ZS 1206(b)(2) and ZS 1-305, located at 73 White Sail Circle, approximately 650 feet east of the intersection of Windjammer Road and White Sail Circle, Tax Map 16, Parcel 38, Section 1, Lot 568 of the Ocean Pines Subdivision in the Third Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland. 6:40 p.m. Case No. 12-41, on the application of Glen DiEleuterio, on behalf of Eastern Shore Natural Gas, on the lands of Gloria Nolan and Carol Fulginiti, requesting a special exception for use of land for a public utility property, requesting a variance to reduce the Ordinance prescribed easterly side yard setback from 30 feet to 5 feet (an encroachment of 25 feet) and requesting a variance to reduce the Ordinance prescribed northerly side yard setback from 30 feet to 10 feet (an encroachment of 20 feet) and requesting a variance to reduce the Ordinance prescribed lot width from 100 feet to 0 feet (a reduction of 100 feet) associated with a proposed gas meter and regulating station in an A-1 Agricultural District, pursuant to Zoning Code Sections ZS 1-116(c)(3), ZS 1-116(c)(4), ZS 1-201(c)(23), ZS 1-305, ZS 1-306(a)(7) and ZS 1-325, located on the westerly side of Friendship Road (MD Route 452), approximately 700 feet south of the intersection of Griffin Road and Friendship Road, Tax Map 25, Parcel 134, in the Third Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland. ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS OCD-10/25/2t ___________________________________

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS BOARD OF PORT WARDENS Pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 106, “Waterways,” Article II – “Shoreline Development” of the Code of the Town of Ocean City, Maryland, hereinafter referred to as the Code, same being the Port Wardens Ordinance of Ocean City, Maryland, notice is hereby given that public hearings will be conducted in the Council Chambers of City Hall located at 301 Baltimore Avenue, Ocean City, MD Thursday, November 8th, 2012 At 2:00 PM A request has been submitted remove existing 20’ ”T” pier, to install 41’ of replacement vinyl bulkhead 18”channelward of existing bulkhead, to install a 4’ x 20’ pier (to connect to existing pier), to install a 5’ x 14’ parallel dock with steps down to pier, and to install batter piles vs. tie rods. The site of the proposed construction is described as being located at 638 Gulfstream Drive Parcel # 8020A-1505B7A-0 -0117-194377 in the Town of Ocean City, MD Applicant: Ocean Services of DE, INC Owner: Ray Lioli PW12-093 A request has been submitted to install a 5’x12’ pier extension, 2 - 3 mooring piles and a boatlift. The site of the proposed construction is described as being located at 105 Newport Bay Drive Unit D Parcel # 3667A-D1-5-0 0116-131952 in the Town of Ocean City, MD Applicant: Ocean Services of DE, INC Owner: Michael Moyer PW12-094 A request has been submitted to remove decking, stringers, headers on existing 5’ wide dock (leaving piles in place), to install 49’ of replacement vinyl bulkhead 18” channelward of existing bulkhead, to install new stringers, headers, decking on exisitng dock piles to install a 5’x10’ pier extension on a 6’ x 12’ “L” dock attached to install new decking on existing 25’ pier, and to install steps at dock to access pier. The site of the proposed construction is described as being located at 615 Harbour DR Parcel # 8020A1549B-8B-0 -0117-315131 in the Town of Ocean City, MD Applicant: Ocean Services of DE, INC Owner: Frank Torsella PW12-095 A request has been submitted to widen an existing 22” finger pier within slip #264 to a width of 42” and a maximum of 29’ channelward. The two (2) new piles at 20” will be completely within slip #264. The site of the proposed construction is described as being located at 203 125th St, Slip 264D Hidden Harbour V, in the Town of Ocean City, MD. Applicant: J. Stacey Hart & Associates, Inc. Owner: Ronald Rinaldo PW12-096 A request has been submitted to install one (1) boatlift with associated pilings. The site of the proposed construction is described as being located at 10600 Point Lookout RD Parcel # 1720A-45-0 -0116-108896 in the Town

of Ocean City, MD Applicant: J. Stacey Hart & Associates Inc. Owner: Patti Leonard, Virginia Stingers, John McKeown PW12-097 A request has been submitted to redeck an existing 4’ x 38’ dock and install a 10k lb. boatlift with all associated pilings. The site of the proposed construction is described as being located at 704 139th ST Parcel # 9461A-2-40- 3-0 -0118-178185 in the Town of Ocean City, MD Applicant: Bayshore Marine Construction Owner: Brian Hartz PW12-098 A request has been submitted to demo the existing parallel dock, and install 142’ of new vinyl replacement bulkhead, a 6’ x 33’ parallel dock, a 6’ x 26’ pier with one (1) boatlift with all associated poles for a maximum channelward extension of 35’. The site of the proposed construction is described as being located at 216 Kingfish ST Parcel # 3332 -66-0 -0111-041716 in the Town of Ocean City, MD Applicant: Hidden Oak Farms LLC Owner: Jeffrey Elms PW12-099 A request has been submitted to install 40’ of new vinyl replacement bulkhead, re-deck the existing parallel dock, and install (2) two boatlifts and two (2) PWC lifts with all associated poles for a maximum channelward of 36’. The site of the proposed construction is described as being located at 732 Gulfstream DR Parcel # 8020A1527B- 8C-0 -0117-318246 in the Town of Ocean City, MD Applicant: Hidden Oak Farms LLC Owner: David Jones PW12-100 Board of Port Wardens Blake McGrath, Chairman Valerie Gaskill, Attorney OCD-10/25/2t ___________________________________

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AMENDMENT TO WORCESTER COUNTY WATER AND SEWERAGE PLAN REGARDING TOWN OF OCEAN CITY REFINEMENT OF TECHNICAL DATA AND UPDATED CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN FOR WATER AND SEWER SERVICES WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND The Worcester County Commissioners will hold a public hearing to consider proposed amendments to the Worcester County Comprehensive Water and Sewerage Plan (the Plan) filed by Jim Parson, Chief Deputy, Town of Ocean City Department of Public Works, on behalf of the Mayor and Council of the Town of Ocean City, Maryland. The proposed amendment seeks to revise water and sewer technical data in the Plan and includes an updated Capital Improvement Plan for water and sewer facilities in the Ocean City Service Area. There are no planned changes to the service area maps other than a consolidation and update to the existing maps and diagrams. The Worcester County Planning Commission reviewed the proposed Water and Sewerage Plan amendment at its meeting of October 4, 2012 and found it to be consistent with the Comprehensive Plan for Worcester County, Maryland. The public hearing on this application will be held on

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2012 at 10:30 A.M. in the Commissioners’ Meeting Room, Room 1101 - Government Center One West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland 21863 The case file for the applications may be reviewed at the Department of Environmental Programs, Room 1201 (2nd Floor) - Worcester County Government Center, Snow Hill, Maryland 21863 between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 4:30 P.M., Monday through Friday (except holidays). Interested parties may also call 410-632-1220, extension 1601. THE WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OCD-11/1/2t ___________________________________ Ronald B. Katz, PA Eric A. Hartlaub 11403 Cronridge Dr. Suite 230 Owings Mills, Md. 21117 410-581-1131 RONALD B. KATZ and ERIC A. HARTLAUB, Substitute Trustees Plaintiffs v. GREGORY A. GRIM, et al. Defendants IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF MARYLAND FOR WORCESTER COUNTY CASE NO. 23-C-12-000727

NOTICE OF SALE Notice is hereby issued, this 24th day of October, 2012, by the Circuit Court of Maryland for Worcester County, that the sale of the property mentioned in these proceedings and described as 12917 Horn Island Drive, Ocean City, Maryland 21842, made and reported by Ronald B. Katz and Eric A. Hartlaub, Substitute Trustees, will be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 26th day of November, 2012 provided that a copy of this Notice be published at least once a week in each of three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in said County before the 19th day of November, 2012. The Report states the amount of the sale to be $49,000.00, subject to a prior mortgage in the amount of $168,038.85. Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland True Copy Test: Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, Md. OCD-11/1/3t ___________________________________ Covahey, Boozer, Devan, & Dore, P.A., Attorneys 11350 McCormick Road Executive Plaza III, Suite 200 Hunt Valley, MD 21031 (443) 541-8600 Thomas P. Dore, et al as Substituted Trustees VS. Robert Blank IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY CASE NO. 23-C-12-000223

NOTICE Notice is hereby given this 23rd day of October, 2012, by the Circuit Court

for Worcester County that the sale of the property being described in the above-mentioned proceeding, known as 5104 Coastal Highway, #102, Ocean City, MD 21842, made and reported by Thomas P. Dore, Mark S. Devan, Gerard F. Miles, Jr., Shannon Menapace, and Erin Gloth, Substituted Trustees, be ratified and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary be shown on or before the 26th day of November, 2012, provided that a copy of this Notice be inserted in some newspaper in Worcester County once in each of three successive weeks on or before the 19th day of November, 2012. The Report states the amount of sale to be $122,500.00. Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court for Worcester County True Copy Test: Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, Md. OCD-11/1/3t ___________________________________ Rosenberg & Associates, LLC 7910 Woodmont Avenue Suite 750 Bethesda, Maryland 20814 (301) 907-8000 File Number: 29296 Diane S. Rosenberg Mark D. Meyer John A. Ansell, III Stephanie Montgomery 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 750 Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Substitute Trustees Plaintiff(s) v. Joseph H. Rosen Arlene M. Rosen 73 Windjammer Road Berlin, MD 21811 Defendant(s) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND Case No. 23C11001098

NOTICE Notice is hereby given this 23rd day of October, 2012, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, that the sale of 73 Windjammer Road, Berlin, MD 21811, made and reported, will be ratified and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 26th day of November, 2012, 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 19th day of November, 2012. The Report of Sale states the amount of the foreclosure sale price to be $120,000.00. Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, MD True Copy Test: Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, Md. OCD-11/1/3t ___________________________________

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Estate No. 14906 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF VIRGINIA DOOLEY Notice is given that William F. Dooley, 12105 Franklin Street, Beltsville, MD 20705, was on October 25, 2012 appointed Personal Representative of

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Legal Notices the estate of Virginia Dooley who died on October 7, 2012, 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 25th day of April, 2013. 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. William F. Dooley Personal Representative True Test Copy Charlotte K. Cathell Register of Wills Worcester County Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of newspaper designated by personal representative: Ocean City Digest Date of publication: November 01, 2012 OCD-11/1/3t ___________________________________

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Estate No. 14904 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF ROBERT C. ADAMS Notice is given that Francine S. Adams, P.O. Box 527 507 #5 Sunlight Lane, Berlin, MD 21811, was on October 23, 2012 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Robert C. Adams who died on April 22, 2009, 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 23rd day of April, 2013. 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. Francine S. Adams Personal Representative True Test Copy Charlotte K. Cathell Register of Wills Worcester County Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of newspaper designated by personal representative: Ocean City Digest Date of publication: November 01, 2012 OCD-11/1/3t ___________________________________

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Estate No. 14907 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF NORMAN UDOFF Notice is given that Regina Snyder, 4028 Richardson Road, Virginia Beach, VA 23455, was on October 25, 2012 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Norman Udoff who died on October 13, 2012, 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 25th day of April, 2013. 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. Regina Snyder Personal Representative True Test Copy Charlotte K. Cathell Register of Wills Worcester County Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of newspaper designated by

personal representative: Ocean City Digest Date of publication: November 01, 2012 OCD-11/1/3t ___________________________________

PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 110, Zoning, of the Code of the Town of Ocean City, Maryland, notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be conducted by the Planning and Zoning Commission in the Council Chambers of City Hall located at 301 Baltimore Avenue in the Town of Ocean City, Maryland on: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2012 At 7:00 pm To consider amending Code Sections 110-933 (e) and (k) related to parking regulations determining how to calculate required parking spaces in mixed uses. (e) Where a fractional space results after tabulating the total number of required spaces, the parking spaces required shall be construed to be the next highest whole number. (k) In the case of mixed uses, or uses with different parking requirements occupying the same building or premises, or in the case of joint use of a building or premises by more that one use having the same parking requirements, the parking spaces required shall equal the sum of the requirements of the various uses computed separately, except that in such mixed uses the computation shall not be subject to the base minimum requirement specified in section 110-932(b) above for individual uses; and that the parking requirements for permitted accessory retail and services uses in a hotel, motor or motor lodge containing 50 or more dwelling units may be reduced by the following percentages: (1) Retail sales, offices and service establishments, 30 percent; (2) Restaurants and dining rooms, 50 percent; (3) Ballrooms, banquet halls, meeting rooms and auditoriums, 70 percent. APPLICANT: PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION – FILE #1214100002 No oral or written testimony will be accepted after the close of the public hearing. Public hearings that are not completed at one meeting may be continued without additional advertised notice provided the Commission Chairman announces that the hearing will be continued and gives persons in attendance an opportunity to sign up for written notice of the additional hearing dates. For further information concerning this public hearing, please contact the Department of Planning and Community Development, Room 242, City Hall, 301 Baltimore Avenue, Ocean City, MD 21842. Phone 410-289-8855. PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION PAM GREER BUCKLEY,

CHAIRPERSON WILLIAM E. ESHAM, III, ATTORNEY OCD-11/1/2t ___________________________________

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, NOVEMBER 15, 2012 at 6:00 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 Sections 110-95(1)(a) and 110-422(1)i requesting a variance to allow a distance of less than 10’ between the sides of any two mobile homes or extensions thereof in the Sundowner Mobile Home Park (MH District). The site of the appeal is described as Lot 23 of the Sundowner Mobile Home Park Plat, further described as located on the north side of 134th Street between Coastal Highway and Sinepuxent Avenue, and locally known as 115-134th Street, in the Town of Ocean City, Maryland. APPLICANT: DON BURILL – (BZA 2356 12-09500004) 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-11/1/2t ___________________________________

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