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At last, Assateague area will be able to handle your call Verizon installing cell tower at state park office to cure long-standing dead zone

By Elizabeth Bonin Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) After five or six years of goading Verizon and various public officials, it seems as though Worcester County Commissioner Bud Church may finally be successful in obtaining cell service in the Assateague and South Point area.

Apparently unaware of that,

Church said a resident of the area called him two or three weeks ago to report that people were working on a tower at Assateague State Park.

David Weissmann, a spokesman for Verizon, confirmed that the company is working to get cell service functional for the summer 2020 season.

“The new cell site will add coverage and capacity for visitors to the island as well as first responders,” Weissmann said. “We worked closely with both state and local officials for approvals, and expect the site to be See FINALLY Page 59

Verizon’s installation of a cell tower at the office of Assateague State Park, will fix the dead zone that has been a problem for years.

By Elizabeth Bonin Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) Worcester County’s new rental license program cleared muster at the county commissioners meeting Tuesday, but only after the proposed license fees were cut in half.

The commissioners passed the license implementation plan but cut the initial $400 fee proposed for the short-term rental license to $200, and the long-term license cost was reduced from $100 a year to $50. The mobile home park rental license, recommended at $400 per lot, site or unit, is now $200.

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OC govt. books show excellent year-end results

By Josh Kim Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) Ocean City officials can take a step back and breathe following a financial report that showed the city is in good economic shape.

“Fiscal Year 18 was a good year for the town, and I’ll say the same thing for Fiscal Year 19,” Ocean City Finance Director Chuck Bireley said Monday during his presentation to the council.

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Surfrider Foundation awards Maryland ‘B’ State of the Beach Report rates communities on their climate change preparation

By Elizabeth Bonin Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) If the Surfrider Foundation’s 2019 State of the Beach Report had been up to City Environmental Engineer Gail Blazer, Ocean City would have earned a grade “A” in each category. Released on Nov. 12, the report gave the Maryland coast, which includes portions of Assateague Island, a “B.” The goal of the report is to give communities recommendations on how to prepare for future climate change effects. According to the re-

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port, 74 percent of the states are “doing a poor to mediocre job of managing our nation’s shorelines and preparing for future sea level rise.”

The grade is based on four categories – sediment management, development, coastal armoring and seal level rise.

The report recommends a regional sediment management plan, and in that respect, Blazer said Ocean City has a joint plan with Assateague.

“It’s constantly ongoing,” Blazer said. “Every three to five years, we do spot replenishment. It’s a comprehensive program. So to say we don’t do it isn’t fair to Ocean City.”

The Ocean City, Maryland, and Vicinity Water Resources Study details the Integrated Feasibility Report and Environmental Impact Statement. It lists “long-term sand management of Assateague Island and Ocean City” as one of the four project components. The plan recommends “mobile bypassing” to Assateague Island, in which a shallow mobile hopper dredge bypasses sand that has been redirected to other sites back to Assateague.

Beach Patrol Capt. Butch Arbin, who also works at Charles County Public Schools and with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, noted that Ocean City’s beach

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is currently in the best shape he’s seen in his 47 years here, in part because man-made dunes were constructed. The dunes are now self-nourishing, helping create a wider beach.

“It’s healthier than it’s ever been,” Arbin said. “When a storm comes, the dune is there to protect us.”

The State of the Beach Report discourages repairing bulkheads, and coastal armoring in general, but

Blazer said these strategies are necessary to protect the beach.

“They would rather have very soft shorelines, but that’s not conducive to having people being in a boating community,” Blazer said.

Ocean City has wooden, vinyl or metal bulkheads on the bayside for boats to dock and for protection against storms. The alternative, riprap, is a cluster of boulders.

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Around 33rd Street, the bayside has a riprap shoreline, which is a more natural shoreline than the wooden bulkheads used in most of Ocean City.

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Report advises protective upgrades Continued from Page 3 Though Blazer said riprap is healthier for wildlife and the environment, it would be a great expense to take out bulkheads and replace them with riprap.

“There’s a lot of benefits and there’s a lot of problems,” she said of the riprap approach. “Like the horseshoe crabs get caught up in it. They’re trying to get in there and climb up to lay their eggs.”

Though Maryland has a statewide minimum setback of 100 feet from tidal waters, most of Ocean City is already developed within that 100-foot mandate. According to Blazer, property owners must pay a mitigation fee if they are within that 100-foot setback, but they can also make up for the fee with projects such as rain gardens. Ocean City then uses that mitigation fee to fund additional projects to maintain the beach.

Malcolm Taylor, vice chairman of the Surfrider Foundation Ocean City chapter, was pleased with Maryland’s rating, but more cautious than Blazer.

“I do take it with a grain of salt because most of the accolades Maryland is given are statewide policies, so I’d be cautious to laud Ocean City,” Taylor said.

Taylor, who has a background in

environmental engineering, did not think that Ocean City alone would meet the same rating.

“I don’t think beach management and dredging in Ocean City is well thought out,” Taylor said. “It seems like every year they dredge the sand.”

He added that Ocean City sees erosion every year and that the beach consequently no longer has any sand bars, which protect from that erosion.

Taylor thought that the city should also focus on monitoring development on the bayside and consider natural buffers.

“You don’t think of that as the beach, but what gets into the bay directly affects the ocean,” Taylor said.

He praised the city’s efforts in maintaining a litter-free beach, as well as protections for the sand dunes.

“I do think that the dunes are well maintained and protected,” Taylor said. “You’re not allowed to build a condo and just knock those dunes down.”

Arbin also praised the Beach Patrol and Town of Ocean City’s efforts in maintaining a clean beach.

“One of the things we do is our guards each summer get together with people and have a walking clean-up,” Arbin said. “It’s their choice. They want to do it.”

The city removes trash cans before storms so trash doesn’t blow into the ocean. According to Arbin, the city tests the water every week in several locations. Those tests have never come up with a warning or notice.

“We want the public to know how to keep a healthy, safe beach,” Arbin said. “You’re not going to find a town or beach anywhere that does better than Ocean City.”

The State of the Beach Report said that Maryland’s best category is preparing for sea level rise. Ocean City has a five-year hazardous mitigation plan to prepare for possible sea level rise.

Two highlights include adding a foot of freeboard to buildings and looking forward to possibly raising the streets or stormwater drainage structures.

Overall, Taylor believes the Surfrider Foundation’s Report is a helpful tool.

“I think that primary thing is to review what the poorly rated states are doing poor and what the other states are doing well,” Taylor said.

Nearby, Delaware received a “C,” New Jersey received a “D-,” New York received a “C” and Virginia also received a “C.” The full report can be found at surfrider.org.

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By Josh Kim Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) The following topics were discussed last Wednesday, Nov. 13, during the Green Team meeting:

Flood report Ocean City Planning and Zoning Director Bill Neville said the city would need to develop a nuisance flooding plan by next October.

He recommended that the group create a subcommittee that would focus its attention on creating the plan, which probably would need to be evaluated by the United States Corps of Army Engineers.

The subcommittee meets the second Wednesday of every other month.

Sustainable Maryland Ocean City Environmental Engineer Gail Blazer announced that the city had received Sustainable Maryland certification with 380 points.

The required minimum to be considered for certification is 150.

The city was awarded a plaque, which sits in the front hall of City Hall, and is good for three years.

Blazer said Sustainable Maryland is adding more levels to its criteria, and that the Green Team most likely would be certified at a higher level in the future.

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Ryan James, owner of restaurant Mother’s Cantina, volunteered to aid in the education effort, and mentioned that he had been completing a case study on charging a surcharge on to-go containers to help cover the cost of more expensive Styrofoam alternatives.

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City advertising must branch out Tourism Commission seeks to rebrand and target other markets and demographics

By Josh Kim Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) A survey of hotel, motel and vacation rental owners confirmed Ocean City’s status as a “Family Fun” resort, but members of the Tourism Commission want to take the city beyond this image.

“Ocean City can be experiential, but it’s not experiential for people in Baltimore and Harrisburg, it’s just not,” Councilman John Gehrig said.

“There are other people who have

never been here, and a lot of those people are from further away … and they will stay longer.”

Gehrig’s comments followed survey responses from memDonna Abbott bers of the Ocean City Convention and Visitors Bureau, which includes hotel, motel and vacation rental owners.

“The objective was to better understand the current opportunities and challenges that Convention and Visitors Bureau members were facing,” said Donna Abbott, the city’s director of tourism and marketing.

Abbott said the results show that the majority of Ocean City guests were families with small children, followed by young couples without children and groups of friends.

Guests were staying an average of three nights or less at hotels and motels, and stayed six nights or less at vacation rentals.

Sunday through Tuesday saw the fewest guests, while weekends saw the most.

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In the private sector, Sandi Smith, development and marketing coordinator of the Maryland Coastal Bays Program, said she has created a plan for an internship to take over the effort.

Although the group has given cigarette butt huts to several businesses, only half have installed their receptacles.

Melanie Pursel, executive director of the Ocean City Chamber of Commerce, recommended contacting the Salisbury University School of Business, which requires students to complete an internship prior to graduation.

Source reduction Smith said the group was good to go in advertising funding for its “Protect our Sand & Seas” program.

The group will begin advertising the program and Pursel recommended contacting Donna Abbott, Ocean City’s director of tourism and marketing, to include this effort in the resort’s advertising and marketing campaigns.

DeLuca suggested a monthly recognition of businesses who commit to the program’s pledges.

Adopt beach/street The Adopt your Beach and Street programs continue to produce results.

Green Team members reported that people still seek to clean the beaches during the offseason.

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Gehrig: make resort into Md. sports capital Ocean City brimming with potential; begin planning right now councilman says

By Josh Kim Staff Writer (Nov. 25, 2019) Could Ocean City become Maryland’s amateur sports capital? For one councilman the answer is a resounding yes.

“We are built to dominate and be the national leader in [sports] events,” Councilman John Gehrig said during a Tourism Commission meeting last Wednesday, Nov. 13.

Gehrig said the city needs to diversify its advertising budget, which increased by $224,000 from room taxes.

Rather than allowing the money to

roll over into advertising, the councilman argued it should be used to “go out and bring sports” to Ocean City.

The councilman also had brought up the idea during city government’s October Strategic Planning Update meeting.

Then, his focus was on constructing a sports facility in Worcester County.

Council Secretary Mary Knight last Wednesday asked City Manager Doug Miller when the feasibility study for the facility would be complete, and Miller replied that it should have already been in the council’s possession.

Donna Abbott, director of tourism and marketing, said she anticipated the results to come out by the end of November, but would do a follow-up.

Ohio and West Virginia top list Continued from Page 5 crowd comes from Baltimore, Washington D.C. and Virginia, and the city targets an age group between 25 to 49 years old.

Gehrig said the city needs to begin following trends so it can compete with competitors and become “experiential,” as in offering something completely new and exciting.

He said residents of nearby markets such as Baltimore and Washington D.C., are already familiar with Ocean City, and therefore are more likely to come for day trips.

Instead, the city should focus its advertising efforts on states such as West Virginia and Ohio, where a family trip to the beach may be more appealing and exciting.

In addition, because of the travel distance, these guests were more likely to book for multiple days, he said.

He pointed to Pittsburgh and upstate New York as examples of markets the city had successfully entered.

Gehrig also said the city needs to expand its target demographic, and begin catering toward younger cou-

ples with no children and empty nesters.

Hotel-Motel-Restaurant Association member Tom Tawney said the city needs to market more of its nightlife in order to do so, but Council Secretary Mary Knight said the move could alienate established visitors.

“Unfortunately, that’s one of the bad reps we get … that there’s a bar on every corner [or that] there’s a nightclub on every corner,” Knight said.

She said because of this association, people assume that the resort is ridden with crime, thus marketing the city’s nightlife could backfire.

Susan Jones, executive director of the Hotel-Motel-Restaurant Association, suggested moving away from age demographics and focusing on interests, such as gastronomy and wine, instead, which drew warm responses from other members.

Abbott said she would draw up a presentation that refocused the city’s target markets in terms of age, location and interest, and would present it to the commission in January.

However, Gehrig said he was no longer focused on the facility alone, but on hammering down the city’s available resources to take advantage of the sports industry.

“We have facilities, whether it’s private facilities, public facilities, county facilities, we have enough,” Gehrig said. “The travel sports industry is an $18 billion industry. This is how families are using their vacation days, 60 percent of kids, from 8 to 16, are involved in travel sports.”

Abbott pointed to the 13th annual United States Specialty Sports Association’s softball series, which was held in July.

The softball series draws nearly 350 girls’ softball teams from 16 states for three weeks.

The city managed to secure 46 percent of hotel stays during the event, or roughly 4,001 room nights.

This was an 11 percent increase from last year’s 35 percent.

In addition, Abbott mentioned popular sports events returning to the city such as Beachfest Volleyball and the Spartan Race.

The Spartan Race held its inaugural event in the city in October, and more than 5,000 people participated, causing a buzz of excitement among city officials over its potential as a revenue source.

Abbott also mentioned future potential partnerships with sports organizers, one with a sports organizer from Annapolis and the other with the Maryland Office of Sports and Wicomico County.

The city is looking to partner with the state and the county for the Maryland Crab Bowl — a high school youth football game slated for December.

Although the game will take place at Salisbury University, players are expected to rest in Ocean City, and their banquet will be held in the convention center.

“People travel,” said Melanie Pursel, president of the Ocean City Chamber of Commerce. “There are people here [in Ocean City] who play for the Annapolis lacrosse team. They travel to Anne Arundel County to Prince George’s a few times a week just to practice … and the fees it’s like $1,100 to $1,200 just to play in four tournaments.”

With all of this said, Gehrig felt it was in the city’s best interest to begin aggressively pursuing this effort.

“We can still sell ourselves and use the inventory that we have, we just have to plan properly,” Gehrig said. “I don’t think we need to wait, so I’m going to keep putting pressure, and pushing like a crazy person [for this initiative].”

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By Josh Kim Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) It’s a year filled with success for the Ocean City Green Team as the Maryland Tourism Coalition has recognized the group with its Visionary Impact Award. “[I am] proud and appreciative of the Green Team receiving this award,” said City Environmental Engineer Gail Blazer. “As stated before, this is a group effort.”

The award recognizes an individual, business, organization, group or coalition that has made a major impact with an industry project or product within the past year.

Susan Jones, executive director of the Hotel-Motel-Restaurant association and member of the coalition, nominated the Green Team for the award.

The city government advisory committee was recognized for its “Protect our Sand and Seas” source reduction campaign, which encourages restaurants to reduce its singleuse plastic waste.

duce their production of waste more so than recycling it.

“Source reduction is proactive, recycling is reactive,” Councilman Tony DeLuca said.

The campaign had a late start this year because of Gail Blazer Tony DeLuca Sandi Smith funding issues, and began its Through it, participants can com- campaign in mid-July, so it currently mit to one or multiple pledges, and has 42 restaurants pledged. each pledge corresponds with a local However, Sandi Smith, marketing animal: and development coordinator for the Summer Flounder — straws Maryland Coastal Bays Program, said upon request only. the group already has secured fundHorseshoe Crab — no plastic ing for next year, and will begin outstraws or alternatives offered. reach much earlier.

Diamondback Terrapin — no Blazer and DeLuca thanked the plastic bags or Styrofoam use for Green Team and its partners, but extakeout. pressed extra gratitude to the MaryBlack skimmer — no plastic or land Coastal Bays Program — in Styrofoam cups. particular Smith — for spearheading Harbor Seal — no plastic table- the initiative. ware.

“We are really proud to be part of The campaign bases itself on the a community initiative and the Green notion of “prevention is the best Team to create a better environcure,” and aims for restaurants to re- ment,” Smith said.

New year to bring in new tax rules

By Josh Kim Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) Heads up employers — the Department of Labor will begin enforcing its new regulations on salary employee overtime exemptions beginning Jan. 1.

On New Year’s day, the new minimum salary threshold for overtime exemption will increase to $684 per week — $35,568 a year — and the new minimum highly compensated threshold will increase to $107,432 per year.

“I’m going to pause for a second and I’m going to allow you to ask yourselves, ‘Do I have any employees that I am treating as exempt who are making less than $35,000 a year?’” said attorney Doug Desmarais of Smith & Downey P.A., during an Ocean City Chamber of Commerce seminar held at the Dunes Manor hotel on 28th Street on Tuesday.

Currently, employers must pay an employee $455 a week — $23,660 a year — on a salary basis or employees must earn a salary of $100,000 per year to be exempted from overtime pay.

In addition to the weekly minimum payments, employees must fit into one of several criteria known as the duties test: administrative, professional, outside sales, computer professional, executive and highly compensated.

For example, a supervisor would qualify as an executive salary employee or a lawyer as a professional salary employee.

Although the increase is significant, it is light in comparison to the Department of Labor’s original proposal made in 2016, Desmarais said.

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Attorney Doug Desmarais of Smith & Downey P.A., tells participants of an Ocean City Chamber of Commerce seminar to begin preparing internal or external audits immediately as the Department of Labor will begin enforcing its new regulations on salary employee overtime exemptions on Jan. 1, 2020.

In 2016, the Department of Labor attempted to change the salary basis test, and enforce a weekly salary threshold of $913 a week, or $47,476 a year, and a highly compensated threshold of $134,004, with yearly increases for three years.

However, a week before the proposal was passed, a federal court in Texas shot it down.

Nevertheless, employers now must reckon with the Department of Labor’s new regulations — and for Maryland employers that’s in addition to the new state minimum wage increase.

Minimum wage in Maryland will increase in increments: $11 an hour in 2020 to $15 an hour in 2025.

Yet, that’s not all for Maryland employers.

“It’s not entirely clear that Mary-

land honors the highly compensated exemption,” Desmarais said.

This means that the state could, at any time, find an employer in violation of Maryland Wage and Hour law, even if the employer is following federal regulations.

This could prove financially disastrous to employers, as Maryland enforces triple damage penalties, compared to federal double damage penalties.

“Maryland is the strictest state when it comes to penalizing employers when they get it wrong,” Desmarais said.

With all of this in mind, Desmarais said it is critical that employers begin doing internal audits, or hire outside counsel, and begin preparing for the year to come.

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Trendic, who is represented by attorney Bruce Bright, is seeking up to $75,000 in compensatory damages from the association’s board of directors for legal fees following a referendum drive campaign launched in April seeking to amend the OPA bylaws to require the board to conduct a membership vote to approve any single capital expenditure over $1 million.

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During the OPA homeowners annual meeting on Aug. 10, Trendic presented a pair of petitions. One called for limiting the board’s unauthorized spending authority, and the other sought a referendum on the recently commenced club house project at the Ocean Pines Golf Course.

Tucker’s opinion was issued on Aug. 20, and the next day the board opted to invalidate the latter petition, which contained 743 signatures and failed to meet the required 10 percent of eligible voters at 9.69 percent.

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By Josh Kim Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) The following took place on Monday’s Ocean City Council meeting:

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The council approved minutes a private event approval request for the Ocean City Winterfest of Lights 5K on Dec. 8, a private event and 2022 date hold for Cruisin’ OC and a bid award for the painting of the Gorman Avenue water tank and airport hangars.

D & M Painting received the bid for the Gorman water tank project at $351,800, and APEX Business Solutions received the bid for the airport hangar project at $119,423.

Councilman Dennis Dare did not approve of the Cruisin’ OC event, citing past incidents where pedestrians and officers were struck by cars.

“If we can restore the civility of the event. I’ll be glad to vote for it in the future,” he said.

The following took place last Monday, Nov. 12, during an Ocean City Council work session;

Fund transfer THE council approved the transfer of $7,000 from the stormwater mitigation funds for a backflow project.

Twenty-two In-Line backflow valves will be installed between Fifth and 17th Street, as well as the Little Salisbury neighborhood.

The Maryland Emergency Management Agency has committed to fund 75 percent of the project, to a maximum contribution of $88,742, and the city will be responsible for the remaining 25 percent.

Fall update Maryland State Highway Administration representatives gave a status report to the council on multiple state highway projects.

Of the 14 projects presented, the following are active projects and have set schedules: Route 50 Bridge concrete repairs, milling, resurfacing and tender house improvements, West Ocean City Route 50 bike trail, Philadelphia Avenue sidewalk replacement, milling and resurfacing, storm drain catch basin cleaning and new Americans with Disabilities Act ramp designs.

The following projects require further study or had no updates: modifications to Route 50 Bridge median on Philadelphia Avenue, fencing and lighting along Coastal Highway, traffic light installation on Third Street and Philadelphia Avenue, Some projects were not under the administration’s authority, such as dualization of Route 90 and Chesapeake Bay bridge repairs.

Future meetings Tourism Commission — tentatively scheduled for Dec. 9, at 1 p.m. in the Roland E. Powell Convention Center, room 214 on 40th Street.

Transportation Committee — Dec. 10, at 9 a.m. in the Public Works Administration conference room on 204 65th St. Bike Committee — Dec. 11, at 2 p.m. in the City Hall executive conference room.

Green Team — Dec. 11, at 3:30 p.m. in the City Hall executive conference room.

To see the meeting minutes for each committee check out https://oceancitymd.gov/oc/depar tments/cityclerk/standing-committees/ and click on minutes and agenda archives

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Wor. passes $75.1 million capital improvement plan

By Elizabeth Bonin Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) After a silent public comment period, the Worcester County Commissioners on Tuesday passed the county’s $75.1 million capital improvement plan for FY2021-2025.

Since it is a planning document and not a commitment, it does not guarantee that the listed projects will receive county funding. Projects also can be added or removed from the plan as needed.

According to Kim Reynolds, senior budget accountant for Worcester County, $9.8 million of the total, or 13.1 percent, would come from the county’s general fund. General bond funds would contribute $36.9 million, or 49.2 percent, and the remaining money would come from grants, loans and other sources.

The FY21 request from the general fund totals $1.7 million or 25 percent of the capital outlay and the general obligation bonds are zero.

To improve the Pocomoke Library and Snow Hill Library, the county plans to spend a total of $6.3 million within the five years for general government facilities. As for public safety, the county projects to spend

$10 million for improvements to the Worcester County Jail.

Next is public works, which has the highest projected spending within the five-year period at $19 million for roadwork, the replacement of the Bayside Road Bridge, the Mystic Harbour Wastewater Plant expansion, the Newark spray irrigation, the Lewis Road sewer expansion and Ocean Pines service area upgrades.

Worcester County Recreation & Parks plans to work on the Northern Worcester Athletic Complex and the West Ocean City commercial harbor for a projected total of $3 million.

Altogether, $31.4 million will be given to Worcester County public schools, which received approval for its capital improvement plan at the previous commissioner’s meeting.

This funding is needed for roof replacements at Pocomoke Middle School, Snow Hill Middle and Cedar Chapel School, Buckingham Elementary School and Pocomoke Elementary School, as well as the addition to Stephen Decatur Middle School.

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Spending limit battle looming Continued from Page 10 While not contesting that conclusion, Trendic filed suit over the spending limit issue, noting the 808 signatures collected for that drive did,

by Tucker’s admission, meet the 10 percent threshold.

Trendic’s suit takes exception with Tucker’s grounds for refusing to recognize the spending limit petition due to the inclusion of the term, “should,” which he reasoned “seeks an opinion” of membership and does not “ask specifically whether they vote to approve the amendment.”

Tucker goes on to purport, “The petition seeks no referendum to amend the bylaws and does not require action by the Board of Directors.”

Within that legal opinion, Trendic’s legal counsel notes Tucker failed to obtain data regarding past practices.

Tucker’s opinion stated, “I do not know how petitions have been handled in the past. For example, I do not know if every petition that met the signature requirement was allowed to move to referendum regardless of the content of the petition.”

Bright also noted the day after Tucker’s opinion was issued, the board announced its, “ill-considered opinion” to not recognize the 808 validated signatures, while claiming the

petition failed to request specific action and would not go to referendum.

Bright noted OPA bylaw section 408 states a referendum can be initiated by petition that, “must contain a specific question, proposal, or action suitable for an affirmative or negative response on a ballot.”

Bright argues Tucker’s legal analysis based on the inclusion of the term “should,” is “patently unfounded,” and appears contrived to achieve the board’s desired, but improper, goal of avoiding a referendum vote.

“It distorts and misrepresents the straightforward content of the petition form, which plainly and simply presented an appropriate proposal to be put to referendum vote,” Bright wrote in an Oct. 6 letter to the board and Tucker.

Bright further stated OPA bylaws sec 4-07 and 4-08 only require that a referendum petition “present a question” to be voted on by OPA members.

“The bylaws simply require the requisite number of signatures on a petition asking the board to present the specific proposal for a referendum vote,” Bright wrote.

Lastly, Bright noted OPA board resolution B-07 related to petitions includes a sample petition that incorporates the term “should,” in the same manner as Trendic’s petition.

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Business owners say yes to longer pet policy Spike in travellers porting animals on vacation calls for expanded beach time

By Josh Kim Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) Business owners and the Hotel-Motel-Restaurant Association have one message to Ocean City officials: allow pets on the beach for longer.

“In the whole month of May and September, kids are in school and the beach is empty, and I always thought it would be a good time for pet owners to enjoy the improving weather with their dogs on the beach,” said Adam Showell Jr., chief operations officer of Castle in the Sand, following up on the lodging industry’s recommendation to the Tourism Commission last week.

The pet season expansion effort bases itself on studies showing an increasing market of pet-owning travellers.

An American Pet Products Association survey showed 67 percent of American households own a pet, which roughly amounts to 84.9 million homes.

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take their pets along for the ride, and more than half of those travellers will only stay in pet-friendly accommodations, TripAdvisor found.

“Guests would always email us, ‘I wish my dog could come on the beach in September. It’s a shame I’d be willing to come back,’ and our hands are tied,” Showell said.

He also said while Castle in the Sand on 3701 Atlantic Ave. does not allow pets, one of its branch properties, the Barefoot Mailman on 35th Street, does.

As Susan Jones, executive director of the Hotel-Motel-Restaurant Association, told the Tourism Commission last week, there was a time when only four hotels allowed guests to book rooms with their pets. Now, more than 20 hotels take in pets.

“Every year it seems like that’s a market that’s just expanding,” Showell said. “Pet owners, their demographic is a good demographic for Ocean City — they have disposable income.

They’re willing to come here and spend some money in our town and fill hotel rooms.”

What hoteliers would like to see is a pet season after Labor Day in September, and end the season right be-

If Ocean City extended its pet season, pet owners like Nick and Brittney Pruitt of Ocean City would be allowed to take their 2-year-old French Bulldog, Calvin, on to the beach starting right after Labor Day just until Memorial Day weekend. They are pictured at Hammerheads on the Boardwalk.

fore Memorial Day in May. Pets would be allowed on the beach from 33rd Street and north from Sunday through Thursday.

“The reason we chose that is because Ocean City in May and September does really well with their special events like Bike Week, car show weekends, Endless Summer Cruisin’ — we identified a need during the weekdays

to promote business and increase guests coming to visit our island … [but] there’s no need to overreach,” Showell said.

Showell also pointed out that of its competitors, such as Virginia Beach, Dewey, Rehoboth in Delaware and Myrtle Beach, Ocean City has the second most restrictive pet policy.

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The shared-use path project stretches from the west sidewalk of Philadelphia Avenue at North Division Street to South First Street.

Potvin said concrete and work to comply with the American with Disabilities Act would begin this month, but did not know when the work would be complete.

Mauser said the state highway administration generally completes paving and concrete work before Memorial Day weekend.

Mauser with the help of the Department of Public Works, the city will install a sign where Philadelphia Avenue transitions into South First Street that says “bicyclists may dismount and use sidewalk.”

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By Josh Kim Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) The following topics were discussed last Wednesday, Nov. 13, during the Bike Committee meeting:

Bike friendly communities Ocean City Engineering Manager Paul Mauser said the League of American Bicyclists has yet to announce the new round of bicycle friendly communities.

The announcement is now slated for early December.

Hiker, biker trail Jana Potvin, assistant district engineer-traffic at the Maryland State Highway Administration, said the West

Ocean City hiker-biker trail is still on schedule for completion by the end of the year.

Thermoplastic striping work will be completed following paving work, and the highway administration will implement continental or piano key-style crosswalks.

In previous meetings, Councilman Tony DeLuca had mentioned an issue of pedestrians parking on both sides of Route 50 near Hooper’s Crab House on Ocean Gateway and crossing the busy road.

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Pet owners must be responsible for effort to succeed Continued from Page 12 However, business owners do realize that the effort is not as simple as it sounds.

“There’s nothing more enjoyable than taking your pet on to the beach,” said Danny Robinson, owner of Backshore Brewing Company and Hammerheads Bar & Grill located at 10th Street and the Boardwalk. “With that said, you also have to be respectful of people — not everyone likes dogs like I do. It’s one of those things where you try to make everybody happy, but when you try to make everybody happy you make nobody happy.”

For Robinson, it all boils down to responsibility.

“You have to clean up after their mess and you have to control them,” he said. “From experience as a petfriendly business owner, people’s pets are more behaved than their children are. It’s a tough call, but at the end of the day I would be okay with extending [the season].”

To Showell, the decision city officials should make was an easy one.

“The weekdays, with kids in school and people working, it’s tough, so where can we possibly increase our business? People with pets really are no-brainer,” Showell said.

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Nuisance abatement set on track Lynches meet requirements for demolition, other repairs to meet county expectation

By Elizabeth Bonin Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) Worcester County Commissioners received an update regarding a nuisance abatement order for a property on St. Martins Neck Road in Bishopville during their meeting on Tuesday.

County Commissioner Jim Bunting had asked for that information at the last commissioners meeting, since that property is in his district.

Denise and Vincent Lynch, owners of the property, received a nuisance abatement order on Nov. 13, 2018.

The order stated that “the unattended and uninhabitable dilapidated portion of the structure” was deemed “beyond reasonable hope of rehabilitation or restoration.” They appeared before the commissioners on Feb. 5, 2019 to request an extension to the abatement order, which had required compliance by Jan. 15, 2019.

During that February meeting, commissioners and the Lynches discussed possibly repairing the structure, completely demolishing it and partially demolishing.

“When they were before you, they

really had no idea what they wanted to do,” said Ed Tudor, director of review and permitting for Worcester County.

The Lynches agreed to comply with a timeline of 14 days to make application to zoning appeals, 30 days to get a demolition permit and start demolition, 60 days for architectural

‘When they were before you, they really had no idea what they wanted to do.’

Ed Tudor, director of review and permitting for Worcester County stamped drawings, and starting construction six months from Tuesday.

The zoning appeals hearing was necessary to determine if the couple could demolish the building and rebuild within the same footprint.

According Tudor, the Lynches submitted the zoning appeals and permit applications within the given timeline. Since they did not submit signed architectural plans and all permit applications for proposed improvements, the department processed the permit application as demolition only.

The two-story portion of the struc-

ture was demolished at the end of July, before the given deadline. When asked what the Lynches plan to do next, Tudor reported that they wanted to build a manufactured addition, which they later received a special exception for from the Worcester County Board of Zoning Appeals on Oct. 10. Since the couple doesn’t know when they will have the funds to build the addition, Tudor was skeptical that it would ever happen.

Bunting also asked if the property would have to be inspected. Tudor explained that there was no reason for the county to inspect for today’s housing code.

“There are tons of houses out there, if you applied today’s housing codes, they’d never comply,” Tudor said.

He added that there is a tenant on the property, but the county has not received a complaint for which they would inspect. Since there is a renter present, the property will need a rental license with the new rental license program that starts Jan. 1.

Tudor’s final note on the project was that the Lynches are planning on getting work done on the siding in the next few weeks, after a prior appointment was canceled due to inclement weather. In his opinion, the Lynches have met the basic requirements from the county commissioners.

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Rural broadband expansion moves forward County will submit form to express interest in receiving state financial assistance

By Elizabeth Bonin Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) The Worcester County Commissioners took another step toward obtaining an expansion of rural broadband into the county Tuesday by agreeing to submit a requestof-interest form to the state.

According to Worcester County IT Director Brian Jones, the General Assembly is providing $2 million to the Department of Housing and Community Development, Governor’s Office of Rural Broadband to help expand broadband into rural areas.

The document outlines the intent “to leverage the provided funds through direct financial and technical assistance as needed to obtain full project funding via federal funding sources,” according to Jones’ report.

He said submitting the form does not obligate the county to perform any work or cover any associated costs.

“I feel this is the next step in preparation for broadband in rural portions of Worcester County,” Jones said.

Though the county is still waiting for results of the broadband feasibility that began this summer, Jones said

the form should be filled out as much as possible, since responses from all counties are due Dec. 15. Meanwhile, the full results of the study are expected by Brian Jones Dec. 31.

The goal of the study is to determine if providing broadband services is feasible and where any problematic coverage spots may be.

The feasibility study, conducted by Columbia Telecommunications from Kensington, Maryland, involves

building density maps, meeting with stakeholders and discerning where the service location ends. The original feasibility cost of $60,000 was reduced to $30,000 after Gov. Larry Hogan’s office made a grant available.

The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development established the Office of Rural Broadband in 2017 via executive order. Jones had introduced the study to county commissioners at a Nov. 13, 2018 meeting, received bid approval in January 2019 and then study approval on Feb. 26, 2019.

County Commissioner Joseph

Mitrecic clarified with Jones that the $2 million is to be split among the participating counties. While that is true, Jones replied, not all counties have applied.

This same grant was available last year, but Jones said that the county was not ready to apply at that time.

County Commissioner Ted Elder agreed with Jones that the time was right to submit the interest form.

“This is something we need to get moving as quickly as possible,” Elder said. “This stuff seems to drag on longer than Route 113 improvements.”

County approves special exception

By Elizabeth Bonin Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) Churches, temples and mosques will now be allowed in the I-1 light industrial zoning district under special exception.

The Worcester County Commissioners approved the zoning code amendment submitted by Gary McCabe, a pastor at Oak Ridge Baptist Church in Salisbury, during their meeting on Tuesday.

McCabe sought the amendment so

he could build a second location for his church in the former office building for Chaney Concrete Factory outside Bishopville. The Worcester County Planning Commission gave the text amendment a favorable recommendation on Oct. 3, finding that the church’s time of operation generally would be opposite from the industrial time of operation, generally.

During the county commissioner’s meeting, Ed Tudor, director of review and permitting, reiterated a concern

that the amendment could open the door for other less compatible uses in the light industrial district.

At the previous planning commission meeting, Tudor had also said the amendment could cause a slow erosion of the zoning code. In her notes to the planning commission, Zoning Administrator Jennifer Keener also said this could also allow other structures to take up limited industrial space.

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Construction continues on replacement Showell Elementary School site

By Rachel Ravina Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) Progress on the construction of the replacement Showell Elementary School continues to be made, as the Worcester County Board of Education approved a $2.47 million requisition at its meeting Tuesday.

Over the past month, construction workers have installed gas and water service, sanitary sewer piping, as well as a cooling tower pad and related equipment, according to progress reports presented by Facilities Planner Joe Price and Bill Moschler, project manager of Oak Contracting LLC. A number of projects are currently in the works at the Showell Elementary replacement school’s construction site, including roofing, door frames, insulation, stormwater structures and piping, wood blocking for the roof, and interior framing and drywall, according to the building progress report.

Crews expect to install metal panels, a ceiling grid, a kitchen exhaust hood, and a walk-in refrigerator and freezer in the kitchen within the next month, according to the progress reports.

The project’s budget is roughly $39.8 million, and about $14.67 million in payments have been authorized since construction began in September 2018.

Approximately $22.7 million remain in the project’s budget, according to the board.

Construction is expected to finish by next September.

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Crews continue masonry work on Nov. 11 for the grade one area of the replacement Showell Elementary School. The county school board authorized a roughly $2.47 million requisition to continue construction on the project.

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The administration area begins to take shape.

Industrial zone allows churches Continued from Page 15 County Commissioner Jim Bunting shared the same concern.

“When we do something like this, it affects every area that’s zoned that way,” Bunting said.

Attorney Mark Cropper, who represents the church, countered that the amendment is a special exception, meaning that all cases will be individually reviewed by the Worcester County Board of Zoning Appeals.

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He added that the case with Oak Ridge Baptist Church is a perfect scenario in which the landlord is also the owner of the industrial use, and is working with the church to ensure that there are no conflicts between the two different uses.

The commissioners unanimously passed the amendment to allow churches, temples and mosques into the light industrial district by special exception.

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Pines Holiday Holistic Health Fair Wealth of vendors on hand offering alternative medical options, handmade crafts

By Greg Ellison Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) Shoppers might be able to find that elusive original gift idea or the alternative health information needed to start the New Year with renewed energy at the Holiday Holistic Health & Vendor Fairs at the Ocean Pines community center on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Recreation Department Program Supervisor Brittany Jarman, who coordinated the inaugural event last May, said the second installment is being combined with an even larger gathering of Christmas-time craft vendors.

“We have our holiday vendor fair at

the same time, so we’ll have all types here, as well as holistic vendors,” she said.

Jarman said of the roughly 50 vendors participating on Saturday, 15 are focused on holistic health practices that promote self-wellness alternatives to modern medical treatments, with hands-on knowledge provided for attendees.

“They could experience getting a massage or speaking to a medium or even trying out any of the natural services that people bring,” she said.

“Everything from the CBD oils, to massage therapists who treat and heal your muscles.”

Jarman originated the Holistic Health Fair as a means to spotlight area holistic-inspired businesses and the ever-growing interest in alternative medicines, such as acupuncture, essen-

tial oils, crystals and energy therapy.

“All of the vendors are skilled in what they do,” she said. “There are a few things I’ve never even heard of, so I’m interested to learn.”

In addition to finding samples or informational pamphlets, visitors also can schedule health investigations, Jarman said.

“Everything from just walking through and checking it out to setting up future appointments with the vendors,” she said.

After thinking about personal health concerns, visitors to the fair also will be able to peruse the even larger array of vendors offering a variety of arts and crafts items.

“They’re all small local businesses offering handmade crafts and many are holiday related,” she said. “From jewelry to clothing to holiday décor.”

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Two preliminary calendar options presented to BOE

By Rachel Ravina Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) A longer winter break, or an earlier last day of school: members of the Worcester County Board of Education received two preliminary calendar options for the 2020-21 school year at the meeting Tuesday.

Carrie Sterrs, coordinator of public relations and special programs for Worcester County Public Schools, addressed the differences determined by the calendar committee.

Sterrs said committee subgroups were formed to focus on factors such as vacation time, marking periods and half-days.

The “longer breaks” proposal featured a two-week holiday break with school closed from Monday, Dec. 21, 2020 to Friday, Jan. 1, 2021, with students returning on Jan. 4, 2021, according to the proposal. That would make Friday, June 18, 2021 the tentative last day of school, with June 2123 allocated for potential inclement weather make-up days.

The “early release” proposal has a half-day on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, with winter break running from Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020 to Friday, Jan. 1, 2021, according to the calendar proposal. Classes would resume on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. The tentative last day of school is scheduled for Tuesday, June 15, 2021, with inclement weather make-up days from Wednesday, June 16 to Friday, June 18, 2021.

The calendar committee is made up of students, parents, teachers, and administrators.

Sterrs also said a calendar proposal survey would be distributed next month. Survey findings would then be presented at a later Worcester County Board of Education meeting.

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Planning Comm. continues with Airbnb talks When asked about issue, Berlin members all agree, ‘we need to do something’

By Rachel Ravina Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) For the second time, a discussion about Airbnb properties in Berlin took over the late innings of a Berlin Planning Commission meeting, when members last Wednesday resumed a conversation that began in October.

The subject was broached back then when Chairman Chris Denny inquired about existing policies regarding Airbnb and other short-term rental properties.

In last Wednesday’s conversation, Planning Director Dave Engelhart recounted reports of the impacts short-

term rental properties were having in Delaware, partly because of increased traffic they generate.

“In Lewes, people are moving, long-term residents are moving out of town,” said Planning Commission member Ron Cascio said.

Engelhart also said he wanted to determine how the commission members felt about this issue.

Both Cascio and commission member Newt Chandler agreed that “we need to do something.”

Engelhart said that Berlin’s code has language for owner-occupied bed and breakfasts, but nothing else.

“There was no such thing as Airbnb when they wrote the code for Berlin,” Engelhart said. “Now we’re here, we’re in the 21st century.”

He added that he would work on a recommendation to present to the

Town Council, which he added is required in order to augment the code.

Ocean City strengthened its rental license program and Worcester County has been working on instituting one. The Worcester County Commissioners voted Tuesday to set a fee for short-term rental properties, which is considered less than 28 days, to $200 per year.

The fees would also cover employment for two county staff positions and software costs.

Additional staff also would have to be considered were Berlin to adopt a more regulatory approach.

“Are we going to prohibit it [in

Berlin] or are we going to try and control it with our massive staff?” Engelhart asked commission members.

One possibility, commission member Pete Cosby said, would be to categorize short-term rentals as “conditional uses” for zoning purposes.

A conditional use is a limited zoning approval that is granted providing a property owner meets a specific set of conditions.

“We want to encourage modernity and people coming to our town,” Cosby said.

Engelhart said he anticipates having a recommendation ready by early next year.

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Despite some preconceived notions regarding fox behaviors, John Moulis, with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, said these creatures are highly adaptable when residing in densely populated areas.

“People have impressions of what is normal behavior for foxes,” he said.

“It’s based upon whatever their interactions with foxes has been in the past.”

Red foxes, whose males are referred to as dogs and females as vixens, vary widely in stature, weighing between 6-24 pounds and measuring from 18-33 inches. The species can move rapidly if required, reaching maximum speeds of 30 mph.

Moulis, DNR Wildlife and Heritage Service eastern regional manager, said foxes are one of a number of species who manage to co-exist around humans.

“Foxes, raccoons and some other animals have proven themselves to be very adaptable to human environments in suburbia,” he said.

Evaluating behaviors for creatures whose parents have learned to troll backyards and alleys in search of food isn’t easy.

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upon what the preconceived perceptions of what a normal fox does,” he said.

Foxes’ annual cycle involves mating during the winter months, with peak births occurring in mid-March.

By July, cubs begin to emerge and forage solo. By late September, cubs often begin to disperse, although some may fail to launch and remain with their mother.

Throughout the year, the presence of foxes spotted in developed areas during daylight hours hunting prey, playing or basking in the sunshine can alarm residents unfamiliar with adaptation tendencies.

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Beach punch nets 30-day jail term Female aggressor caught on video assaulting OCBP while being escorted away

By Greg Ellison Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) Jennifer Cameron, 23, of Hyattsville was sentenced to 30 days in jail last Friday stemming from an assault on a pair of Ocean City Beach Patrol members this summer.

The incident on July 7 took place on the beach by 13th Street and was captured on video by a bystander.

The video recording shows Cameron throwing punches as she was being escorted off the beach by Beach Patrol Sgt. Tim Uebel and OCBP Assistant Crew Chief Kade Ramm Cameron was facing a pair of second-degree assault charges and netted 30 days jail time for the first, with the second placed on the stet docket in Ocean City District Court.

At the time of the incident, police reported Beach Patrol members were escorting Cameron along with a group of people off the beach for allegedly consuming alcohol when the situation got heated.

Police responded to the scene shortly after Cameron allegedly punched Ramm in the face and also reportedly took a swing at Uebel.

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Jennifer Cameron, 23, of Hyattsville, who was captured on video this summer by witnesses assaulting OCBP assistant crew chief Kade Ramm, while Sgt. Tim Uebel, far left, rushes to intervene, on Friday, Nov. 15, received 30 days in jail in Ocean City District Court.

Foxes residing near human development act differently Continued from Page 20 live under sheds,” he said. “As far as foxes go in suburban areas, it catches people off guard.”

Moulis related a recent response to residents troubled after seeing a fox loitering in their yard during the day.

“I got 20 feet away from the thing, then he looked at me and trotted off towards a few trees,” he said. “You just have to remember animals that grow up in these communities, around all this activity, are probably laying behind somebody’s house underneath a tree all day anyway.”

Moulis said foxes conditioned to living around human activity may appear fearless.

“In suburban areas, they run on the outside of chain link fences and hardly pay any attention to the same old dog that’s barked at them every day for a year,” he said. “It’s just not an issue for them if the dog wants to be noisy on that side of the chain link fence.”

Appreciating genuine concerns over potential exposure to rabies, Moulis said there are cues to help confirm an animal’s health.

“The more time we spend watching them to … discern what normal is, the better off we’ll all be for understanding their behaviors,” he said.

Moulis said the principal cues involve an awareness to stimuli, sound and noises.

“If a car drives down the street and its ears twitch or it turns its head to look because something moves,” he said. “It makes you understand the animal is alert to what’s going on around it.”

Moulis said there are also tell-tale signs of rabies infection, which involve two distinct phases.

“One is the excitable, aggressive phase,” he said. “Anything that moves an animal charges and tries to bite. That’s what people fear.”

The second phase manifests itself as confusion and illness.

“It becomes lethargic [and] may appear to be confused,” he said. “It may appear to be tired or uncoordinated and fall over on its side.”

Animals suffering through this phase of rabies infection are often seen flopped out in open areas without protection from predators.

“It acts confused and most of the time unaware of the stimuli,” he said.

“This is where you can almost walk up to it, but it doesn’t act like it knows you’re there.”

To avoid unnecessary alarm, Moulis advises residents to spend time observing foxes, when possible, to become familiarized with behavioral patterns.

“The more time we spend watching them to be able to discern what normal is, the better off we’ll be for understanding their behaviors,” he said.

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Ocean City Police warn of phishing scheme Emails sent to businesses and residents implore for donations and information (Nov. 22, 2019) The Ocean City Police Department is warning residents and businesses about a phishing scheme that solicits donations via email.

Police said the initial email appears to come from an individual in a management type position within a private organization, directing the recipient to purchase gift cards and

provide the individual with the information on the gift cards.

The email addresses the recipient by name and gives specific directions, such as “after the purchase of the cards, open & scratch the cards. Scan or take snapshot of the back of each card, attach & send to (various charity and email addresses)”.

Some emails will provide a justification as to why the recipient is taking photos of the gift cards. In other emails, it tells the recipient the exact amount and type of gift card to pur-

chase.

Each email has different wording but the same concept. Police said it is common for these emails to stress that time is of the essence and needs to be done quickly. The sending email address appears to be the actual email of the individual they are posing to be.

Police advice recipients that if an email appears to be a scam or if it sounds uncharacteristic of the person, do not reply back to the email. Contact the individual in a different manner or in a new email to eliminate the

phishing scam. In addition, police said if an email or phone call/message sounds suspicious, do not exchange money or personal information with the caller or sender. Check with the individual or business to verify the information that was requested of you.

For more information, or if you have been a victim of a scam, visit the Federal Trade Commission’s website at FTC.gov. In addition, victims who have lost money in one of these scams are encouraged to file a report at their local law enforcement agency.

Berlin man killed in car crash on Rt. 589 Driver veered off road and hit tree near intersection of Taylorville Road, police say

By Rachel Ravina Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) A 63-year-old man died following a crash last Saturday afternoon on Route 589, the Maryland State Police Berlin Barrack said.

Investigators said Mark Scott Teeters, of Berlin, was traveling south on Route 589 in a 2008 Dodge truck when he drove off the road and hit a tree near the intersection of Taylorville Road.

State police went to the crash scene around 1:43 p.m. on Nov. 16.

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A portion of Route 589 was temporarily shut down while authorities investigated the incident, according to state police.

Teeters was taken to Atlantic General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to state police.

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Woman gets 20 years, to serve 10 Redding’s boyfriend dies of drug overdose; convicted for distribution of fentanyl (Nov. 22, 2019) Elizabeth Redding, 28, of West Ocean City, whose boyfriend died in March of a drug overdose, was sentenced on Nov. 14, to 20 years’ incarceration with all but 10 years suspended, after having been convicted of distribution of fentanyl in the Worcester County Circuit Court.

This conviction also resulted in a violation of Redding’s probation in another case, for which she was sentenced by Judge Beau H. Oglesby to serve an additional three years’ incarceration consecutively.

Redding will be on five years of supervised probation upon her release from the Division of Correction.

The distribution charges stem

from an overdose report received by the Criminal Enforcement Team of the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office on March 21.

E. Redding Police were called to Redding’s home where they found a male victim unresponsive. The victim was immediately transported to Atlantic General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on March 23. An autopsy found that the cause of death was a fentanyl overdose.

While still on scene, investigators spoke with Redding who said the victim was her boyfriend. She said they both had laid down to take a nap and when she awoke, she found him unresponsive.

On May 24, investigators uncovered a phone call made by Redding,

who at the time was in jail at the Worcester County Detention Center on a separate matter. In that phone call, Redding tells a friend that on the date of the overdose, she had gone looking through her house for drugs to use.

She states that she found three “caps” in her sister’s room and that she split a “cap” with her boyfriend, causing her boyfriend’s death. She tells her friend that she didn’t tell the truth at the time because police were present and she didn’t want to be charged.

Subsequently, police charged Redding with distribution of fentanyl.

Worcester County State’s Attorney Kris Heiser commended the Criminal Enforcement Team and Detective Lewis for their commitment to holding drug dealers accountable, and to Assistant State’s Attorney Joaquin Cabrera for prosecuting the case.

Berlin man arrested following crash

By Rachel Ravina Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) A 50-year-old man who crashed his car near Berlin early Sunday morning was arrested for driving under the influence and

remains being held without bond at the Worcester County Jail, the Maryland State Police Berlin Barrack said.

Brian Paul Bierley, Brian Bierley of Berlin, was charged with negligent driving and driving or attempting to drive a vehicle while impaired by alcohol, according to the District Court of Maryland’s online court records.

Troopers went to the scene of a single-vehicle wreck around 12:38 a.m. on Nov. 17 at the intersection of

Route 611 and South Point Road.

Police said Bierley was driving a 2005 Nissan Titan on Route 611 when he apparently failed to negotiate a curve.

Bierley and his passenger were not injured in the wreck, state police said.

Bierley was then taken into custody, and had a .11 blood alcohol concentration level, according to state police.

Police also reported that this was Bierley’s “sixth known DUI.” A trial is scheduled for March 10, at Worcester District Court in Snow Hill.

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Hundreds of participants volunteer to help pack care packages for U.S. troops on Sunday, Nov. 17, in Mardela Springs, Maryland. Operation We Care broke its own record during its 25th packing party, with 1,200 boxes going out to troops for Christmas.

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By Morgan Pilz Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) Members of the Worcester County 4-H Club and Operation We Care volunteers packed around 1,200 boxes to send to U.S. troops overseas, including more than 150 to a Worcester County resident and his unit.

Stephen Decatur High School graduate Tyler Kennedy, 25, is a specialist enlisted at the 244th Engineers company under the 253rd Engineers Battalion, who was deployed to Afghanistan in January.

The boxes, filled with a variety of supplies like deodorant, gum, disposable razors, hot chocolate, Pop Tarts, Girl Scout cookies, Boy Scout popcorn, instant oatmeal, canned pasta and Fisher’s popcorn, will be sent to Kennedy who will then distribute the packages to his entire unit.

“The boxes are so important for us because they are a physical and tangible reminder of back home, and that there is light at the end of the tunnel,” Kennedy said. “Not every day is, ‘go, go, go,’ and [inactive periods] are often and routine nearly inescapable. The care packages are a little infusion of something different, which can be hard to find at times.

They also let us know that people we may not be intimately familiar with have us in their thoughts.”

Kennedy is also a former employee of Frontier Town Western Theme

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Kathy Decker, left, co-leader of 4-H Voyagers Club and Diana and Jeff Merritt, founders of Operation We Care, stand in front of one of two trucks containing a total of 1,200 boxes for U.S. military. Of those boxes, more than 150 will be sent to Worcester County resident Tyler Kennedy’s unit.

Park, where he has played the deputy, a robber and other characters during his tenure at the amusement park.

“I truly enjoyed my time working there, being in the shows especially,” Kennedy said. “My favorite role was the town deputy, a role that many customers seemed to enjoy my portrayal of as well.”

His family wanted to send him and his unit some packages, and reached out to Operation We Care and the 4H Club to provide those supplies.

The 4-H Club participated in the 25th annual packing party alongside volunteers from Operation We Care in Mardela Springs, Maryland, on Sunday, Nov. 17, where approximately 300 people packaged over 1,200 boxes in less than four hours.

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only.

“The 4-H Club has been working with Operation We Care for three years,” 4-H Club Co-Leader Kathy Decker said. “The whole idea of supporting the troops has just expanded into more than putting toiletries and Girl Scout cookies and what have you in these boxes to get to the deploy troops. That’s the main focus, of course, but it’s just expanded into so much more under Jeff [Merritt]’s leadership and Diana as well.

“Not everybody’s family can afford to send packages,” she added. “So this may be the only thing that they get to open at holiday time. For them to open that and see the pictures and the greetings, from the letters from the schoolchildren and the treats, neSee TROOPS Page 26

By Morgan Pilz Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) Area residents and guests can skip the tedious process of making Thanksgiving dinner and instead, enjoy a full holiday meal prepared by one of two local churches next Thursday, or, donate to various churches and organizations throughout the county.

For the 41st year, the Ocean City Baptist Church will host its annual Thanksgiving dinner at the North Division Street parish from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

“The ultimate purpose of Thanksgiving is it’s a day you should be with family and we just don’t think anyone should be alone, so we want everyone to be a part of our family if they don’t have one,” Pastor Sean Davis said.

“It’s a nice warm meal filled with fellowship and everyone is so friendly.”

Guests have the option of dining in, carrying food out or calling in advance for delivery. Last year, the church prepared nearly 600 meals that were either eaten inside the church, carried out or delivered.

The food will be made by Chef Paul deHuarte Sr., head chef of Ristorante Antipasti on 31st Street.

The church will serve turkey, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, green beans, corn, peas, stuffing and pumpkin and apple pies and other treats. Dozens of volunteers and even employees from local restaurants help with cooking the turkeys.

“I honestly think we have the best Thanksgiving meal in town,” Davis said.

Volunteers deliver meals to the Ocean City Police Department, Ocean City Fire Department, Ocean City Coast Guard Station, Public Works Department and to those working at local businesses open on Thanksgiving.

“It’s a wonderful community event,” Davis said. “There’s a whole community of Christians and others getting together. You don’t have to be Christian either. Democrats and Republicans, Redskins and Giants fans, it truly is one of the best things to see the community come together.”

For those who need their meals delivered to Ocean City or West Ocean City, call 410-289-4054 or 410-289-6573 or visit www.ocbaptist.org to volunteer or order in adSee ORGANIZATIONS Page 27

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Troops will receive packages with supplies, food, letters Continued from Page 25 cessities and toiletries, razors, toothpaste, toothbrush … all of that means a lot.”

Decker also knows Kennedy, which made this project extra special.

“I’ve known him since he was a young boy,” Decker said. “His family has been involved with Frontier Town’s Western Theme Park since nearly the beginning. [A friend] mentioned that Tyler was in Afghanistan and I said, ‘Well, my goodness, we’ve got to send him packages.’”

Operation We Care, created in 2007

by Jeff and Diana Merritt, is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the military and first responders. Operation We Care has been sending care packages and supporting the military, law enforcement and fire and emergency services departments since its inception.

“We started 12 years ago in October of 2007,” Jeff Merritt said. “I just went to my wife and I said, ‘Hey, what do you think about packing care packages for the troops for Christmas?’ In November, we gathered about 15 of our friends to pack 65 boxes.”

Since its inception, Operation We Care has packed and shipped out over 18,000 boxes to troops deployed overseas.

Merritt realized the importance of sending packages to entire troops, not just a few individuals.

“When we get an address, we like to actually send packages to their entire unit because we’ve discovered over the years that an average of 12 percent is not receiving any mail at all,” Merritt said. “I [talked] to one of the soldiers that returned from his deployment to Kuwait … he said that he had guys in his unit that would order stuff for $5 from Amazon just so they could get a box in the mail.”

“When you are stationed or deployed somewhere around the world

and you get a box from somebody that you don’t know it’s fairly emotional, as you can imagine,” he continued.

Operation We Care allows families to request packages be sent to their loved ones. Then, the entire unit is sent packages.

“For example, the parents might live in Ocean Pines, but their son is stationed in California and then he gets deployed,” Merritt said. “Then I find out the son has 68 Marines in his unit and we send all the packages to their son and he distributes them to everybody in his unit.”

Operation We Care packing parties take place twice a year, in May and November, though it will still send out packages to individuals if a family requests it.

The packages for Kennedy’s unit were processed on Monday and are expected to reach his unit within two weeks.

Kennedy expected to return from his deployment in early 2020.

“I would like to send a heartfelt thanks to the 4-H Club [and] Operation We Care, on behalf of both myself and my unit,” Kennedy said. “The 4-H Club is an excellent activity, allowing its members to experience responsibility and animal interactions, along with physical activity. It is wonderful that the 4-H Club exists to allow youth that experience and the positive personal growth their activities engender.”

For more information or to donate to Operation We Care, visit www.operationwecare.org.

Children ages 5 to 18 years old are invited to join the Worcester County 4-H Club, which is a development program and part of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources out of the University of Maryland, College Park. To sign up, call the extension office in Snow Hill at 410632-1972.

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More than 100 volunteers came together to serve over 800 Thanksgiving meals at the Ocean City Baptist Church located on North Division Street last year.

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Berlin’s First Baptist Church will offer Thanksgiving dinner for its 32nd year on 613 Williams Street from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

“We do this to help the community and show the love of God and just share,” Sharon Parsons, church officer manager and a Thanksgiving volunteer since 2001, said. “We’re a very loving church and we reach out in various ways.”

Last year, the Berlin church provided about 480 meals, either as takeout or dine in. Volunteers are prepared to serve as many, if not more meals this year.

The church will provide a traditional Thanksgiving meal, including turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, rolls, cranberry sauce, cookies and other desserts.

About 100 meals were delivered to shut-ins and people working on the holiday including those at police and fire departments, the nursing home and the DaVita Berlin Dialysis Center, where around 30 patients are required to have dialysis every day.

The church requires people to call and reserve a meal in order to prepare in advance. Diners should call 410-641-4306 to reserve their seats or carry-out meals. Leave a voicemail and someone from the church will return the call.

The Community Church, located on 11227 Race Track Road in Ocean Pines, will be handing out bags of food for people who can’t afford to buy the Thanksgiving necessities, on Monday, Nov. 25.

Community Church members have been collecting turkeys, potatoes, cranberry sauce, packaged stuff-

ing, canned green beans, cookies, other desserts and supplies in order to provide for those in need.

The list of people who will receive these items has already been referred

by Worcester County’s assistance agencies, but the church welcomes any volunteers or donations offered during this time, either for the Thanksgiving dinners or for Shepherd’s Nook Thrift Store and Sarah’s food pantry.

For more information or to volunteer, call 410-641-5433.

The Ocean Pines Farmer’s Market located in White Horse Park will hold a special Thanksgiving market on Tuesday, Nov. 26, from 9 a.m. to noon so shoppers to grab some lastminute orders.

“This market is geared toward our baking vendors especially,” Co-Organizer Lenore Brady said. “This way, people can order pies, breads and other baked goods a few days out instead of a whole week ahead.”

The Tuesday market is not expected to have as many vendors as the year-round Saturday market, but will include bakers and a few fruit and vegetable vendors as well.

The Saturday market will also take place on Saturday, Nov. 23, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. as well.

Diakonia in West Ocean City is asking for donations for its emergency food pantry and will accept canned goods, rice and pastas, paper products or other Thanksgiving goods that can be shared with the community.

Diakonia provides emergency housing, food services, counseling and assistance for its guests.

For more information about Diakonia, call 410-213-0923.

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By Morgan Pilz Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) Runners can sign up for the third annual ThanksKitten Trot and second annual Turkey Day Trash Trot, which offer healthy ways to get active before and after Thanksgiving dinner indulgences.

The ThanksKitten Run will take place at the Ocean Pines South Gate Pond Trail, Thursday, Nov. 28, starting at 9 a.m.

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Continued from Page 28 about 2.5 miles. Families, children and pets on leashes are welcome. The laps are not timed and people can choose to run or walk the entire length.

The event will raise money for Town Cats, a local nonprofit that is dedicated to enriching the lives of free roaming, feral or abandoned cats in Ocean City and the surrounding communities by limiting population growth, and providing medical care and affordable adoption services.

“They do a wonderful job of doing the spay, neuter and release as well as getting foster families for cats when they’re found outside, and they just do an amazing job trying to control the cat population and helping find cats good homes,” CrossFit Assateague Event Organizer Sandra Kerstetter said.

“They work with PetSmart and other organizations and I’m just really impressed with what they do.”

In the past two years the event has raised nearly $1,000 for Town Cats.

Last year, around 70 people participated in the ThanksKitten event. Kerstetter hopes changing the event date this year will draw even more people.

“Last year we tried on the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend to see if we would gain more of an interest not being on Thanksgiving morning,” Kerstetter said. “We had a request to put it back on Thanksgiving morning so we accommodated everyone’s wishes.”

Parking will be available at the Ocean Pines Library on Cathell Road.

Coordinators will be collecting supplies, such as clumping cat litter, Purina One kitten dry food, and Friskies turkey pate canned cat food.

“The medical bills when there’s a sick kitten can get quite costly and [Town Cat] pays for that,” Kerstetter said. “If we can help get them some cat supplies and some extra cash for those expenses we’d like to do so.”

Registration starts at 8 a.m. in Veterans Memorial Park and costs $15 per person, or $10 for children 13-17 or with a cat supply donation. Children 12 and under can participate for free.

“We’re supporting a local organization. There’s not much to do on

Thanksgiving morning besides eating, so it’s a great way to get out and support the community, a great organization, help cats and just feel good about yourself before you sit down for that Thanksgiving feast,” Kerstetter said.

“We just want people to have a good time and spend time with family and friends.”

For more information, a list of needed cat supplies or to register online, visit www.crossfitassateague.com, www.facebook.com/crossfitassateague, or call Kerstetter at 443-9442226 with any questions.

The Surfrider Foundation will be cleaning up trash for the second year during the Turkey Day Trash Trot on Saturday, Nov. 30. Volunteers will meet at the amusement pier by the inlet parking lot at 10:45 a.m. and clean up trash on the beach until noon.

“People should come out for the fresh air to enjoy time spent with friends and family all while providing valuable service to the Ocean City community,” Surfrider Volunteer Coordinator Malcolm Taylor said. “Surfrider Ocean City Maryland prides itself on being a local, all-volunteer organization that is always looking to meet new people and find ways to get folks involved with Surfrider to help promote clean water and healthy beaches.”

During the inaugural Turkey Day Trash Trot last year, 25 people participated and around 40 pounds of trash was collected.

Sponsored by Mother’s Cantina this year, all participants will receive a free taco or drink at the 28th Street establishment after the cleanup. Two participants will also win $25 gift cards to Mother’s Cantina.

Gloves and trash bags will be provided. Volunteers are encouraged to bring a reusable water bottle, and gloves and buckets if available. Volunteers are asked to wear comfortable clothing and shoes and dress appropriately for the weather, as it can get very windy on the beach.

For more information, visit the Turkey Day Trash Trot Facebook page, www.facebook.com/events/26047120 7946247.

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Celebrating Ladies Night at Ocean 13 on 13th Street and the Boardwalk, Friday, Nov. 15, from left, are Emily and Tess Weisenberg of Portland, Maine, owner Jeremy Brink and Believe in Tomorrow Prom Court candidate Sami Glaeser.

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ACS Luncheon and Fashion Show set for Dec. 10 in OC

By Morgan Pilz Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) Tickets are on sale for the 30th annual American Cancer Society “Holiday Wrappings” Luncheon and Fashion Show, set to take place on Tuesday, Dec. 10.

Sponsored by the John H. “Jack” Burbage Regional Cancer Center at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin and the Peninsula Regional Medical Center Richard A. Henson Cancer Institute in Ocean Pines, the luncheon and fashion show will be held at the Ocean City convention center on 40th Street from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

“Our community is so giving and they believe in the American Cancer Society,” Event Promoter Dawne Pappas said.

Pappas has been volunteering with the American Cancer Society for nearly as long as the event has been taking place, and was once the president of the Worcester County American Cancer Society. She currently represents the Worcester County organization on the Greater Philadelphia board.

“I lost my mother to a brain tumor in 2013, and my brother died of a blood-borne cancer when he was 4 years old,” she said. “It’s something that’s been very close to my heart and [I’m] just lucky we have such a great community to support it.”

Tickets cost $45 per person, $450 per table of 10 or $550 to sponsor a table. The deadline to RSVP for the event is Tuesday, Nov. 26.

Last year, around 800 guests attended and raised about $65,000.

Chinese and silent auctions will kick off the event. The Chinese auction will take place from 10:30 a.m. to noon and the silent auction will run from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. A hot lunch will be served immediately after. Music will be provided by Lauren Glick.

The fashion show will begin at 1:15 p.m. and is scheduled to last 40-45 minutes. The event, organized by CraZy LadyZ! owner Jan Patterson, will feature clothing from 13 local shops and boutiques in Ocean City and Berlin, in addition to Ocean View and Lewes, Delaware.

The stores participating this year include CraZy LadyZ!, Bruder Hill, Bomshell Boutique, Chic Boutique, Magnolia Rifle, Southern Exposure, Sandals Bridal, Madison Avenue Boutique, Heart of Gold Kids, SeaQuest, The Dressing Room, Patty Jeans Boutique and Ish. “My mother passed away seven and a half years ago of cancer,” Patterson said. “She loved to model and to this day, I can still see her strutting down the runway. Perhaps she’s the catalyst as to why I still do this.

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More than 800 attendees raised over $65,000 for the American Cancer Society during the 29th annual American Cancer Society Luncheon and Fashion Show, held at the convention center on 40th Street last year.

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Continued from Page 31 “The luncheon and fashion show truly is a wonderful event,” she added. “Even more wonderful is the camaraderie of the merchants all being there together. The best part is how our community pulls together in time of need, healing and helping others. It’s my way of pulling it all together as a means of saying, ‘Thank you’ for being here.”

A range of clothing for children, teens, men, women and pets will be on display.

“We’re all small business owners around here trying to scrape together and do what we can for the community,” Pappas said.

For $10, attendees can participate in a cupcake raffle, where they will choose a treat courtesy of Sweet Disposition in Berlin that will have either a $10, $25, $50 or $100 gift card from Park Place Jewelers.

There will also be a spirit table with either wine or flavored vodka, which can be purchased for a $20 donation.

The Art League of Ocean City will also have a table set up with artwork donated by local artists for purchase.

To apply for sponsorship, fill out the form online at www.acsholidaywrappings.org and make checks payable to: The American Cancer Society (Fashion Show), American Cancer Society, Inc. P.O. Box 163, Salisbury, Maryland 21803.

“We need to find a cure,” Pappas said. “We need to control it. Every bit of the money goes to the American Cancer Society, which helps everybody on the shore with programs, research and education.”

For more information or to purchase a ticket, visit www.acsholidaywrappings.org or email Pappas at dpappo@aol.com.

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By Morgan Pilz Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) Strong winds last Saturday forced the flag retirement ceremony hosted by the American Legion and Scouts of America to be rescheduled for this Saturday, Nov. 23.

The Boy Scouts of Troop 261, Cub Scouts of Pack 261 and Girl Scouts of Troop 621 will properly discard hundreds of flags during the annual retirement ceremony, held at the Worcester County Veterans Memorial at Ocean Pines, Saturday beginning at 9 a.m.

The Ocean City-based scout troops will place worn and torn flags into a fire pit for a respectful burning, in accordance with the U.S. Flag Code.

Ocean Pines Public Works and the Bishopville Volunteer Fire Company will assist during the ceremony.

Worn U.S. flags are still being collected at American Legion Post #166 on 24th Street in Ocean City, Post #123 (10111 Old Ocean City Blvd.)

and Post #231 (104 Showell Street) in Berlin, and at the Ocean Pines Community Center in White Horse Park, until Friday.

Last year, around 1,500 flags were collected and retired, Scoutmaster Ken Nichols said.

A large fire pit will be set up in order to properly retire the flags. Before being placed in the pit, flags will be folded properly, and then sent into the flames with a salute in respect to those who fought and served in the U.S. Armed Forces.

“The American flag isn’t just a piece of cloth ... we’re not just retiring the cloth, we’re retiring the emotion and everything else with it,” Nichols said. “We don’t want that flag to end up in a garbage dump somewhere and that’s why we retire it [this] way.”

The ceremony will end with scouts working together to fold the final flag before sending it into retirement.

For more information, call American Legion Post #166 at 410-2893166.

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By Deborah Lee Walker Contributing Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching and preparations are in full swing.

Every detail must be taken into consideration and executed to the fullest degree. It is then and only then that perfection becomes a possibility.

Entertaining is about being true to yourself and allowing your personal style to flourish.

Planning in advance helps facilitate a memorable occasion. But most important, one must have fun if the theme of merriment is to prevail.

As we prepare our turkey with all the trimmings, remember the daily miracles that brighten our day.

This mirage of incredible wonders is there for all to see, one just has to be open to witness these incredible gifts.

Keep in mind that every dish has its “roots.” Tradition has a way of embellishing the future while memories flavor the blessings that we are about to receive.

But there comes a time where variation comes into play, which allows anticipation to spice up one’s menu. For example, our table always showcased canned cranberries in a petite glass dish and fresh cranberries in a festive bowl.

While this presentation graced our holiday table for years, sometimes change can spark new interest.

Cranberries, Two Ways, consists of a cranberry mold that is made with fresh cranberries, sugar and orange juice. The cranberry juice mixture is strained, gelatin is added, and then it is placed in a mini Bundt pan.

The mold is refrigerated overnight so the mixture hardens.

The next step is to prepare fresh cran-

berries, paying close attention to keep them slightly al dente.

Once they are cooked, the cranberries are spread out on a baking sheet to help cool them quickly.

The last step entails artistically arranging the fresh cranberries on the cranberry mold. The end result is a stunning and innovative way to present both types of cranberries in a single dish.

The following cranberry recipe is the best of both worlds and gives your guests the option of choice.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Cranberry Gelatin Mold 4 cups fresh cranberries 1 cup sugar 1 cup orange juice (no pulp) 1 cup cold water, plus ½ cup cold water 2 envelopes unflavored gelatin 1 (3-cup) Bundt pan 1. Lightly coat the Bundt pan with cooking spray.

2. In a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, combine the cranberries, sugar, orange juice and water and bring to a boil.

Reduce heat to medium-low and cook, stirring occasionally until the cranberries have burst and the liquid takes on the color of the cranberries, about 20 minutes.

Remove the pot from the heat. Pour the cranberry mixture through a finemesh sieve, reserving the liquid.

3. Pour ½ cup of cold water into a medium bowl and sprinkle the gelatin over it. Do not stir.

Let stand for 5 minutes or until the gelatin has softened, then stir until gelatin is fully combined with the water.

4. Add the cranberry juice to the gelatin mixture and whisk until gelatin has completely dissolved in the juice.

5. Pour half of the cranberry liquid in the mold and refrigerate for 1 ½ hours.

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BEACH BARRELS 13207 Coastal Highway, Ocean City 410-250-0522 / www.beachbarrels.com Nov. 22: Monkee Paw, 9 p.m.

Nov. 23: Muskrat Lightning, 9 p.m.

Nov. 26: Open Mic, 8 p.m.

Nov. 27: Bingo w/DJ Rupe, 6 p.m.; Thanksgiving Eve Bash w/Tranzfusion, $5 cover, 9 p.m.

BJ’S ON THE WATER 75th Street and the bay, Ocean City 410-524-7575 / www.bjsonthewater.com

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Nov. 23: Old School, 9 p.m.

Nov. 27: Identity Crisis, 6 p.m.

BOURBON STREET ON THE BEACH 116th Street, Ocean City, behind Fountain Head Towers Condominium 443-664-2896 / www.bourbonstreetonthebeach.com Nov. 23: Randy Jamz, 7 p.m.

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Nov. 27: Reform School, 6 p.m.; Open Mic, 9 p.m.

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12841 S. Harbor Road, West Ocean City 410-213-1846 / www.ocharborside.com Nov. 22: DJ Billy T, 4 p.m. to 2 a.m.

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Nov. 24: Opposite Directions, 2 p.m.

Nov. 27: Dust N’ Bones, 6 p.m.

HOOTERS 12513 Ocean Gateway, West Ocean City 410-213-1841 / www.hootersofoc.com Nov. 22: DJ BK, 4-8 p.m.

Nov. 23: Classic Vibe, 4-8 p.m.

OCEAN CLUB NIGHTCLUB 101st Street, Ocean City In the Horizons Restaurant, in the Clarion Fontainebleau Hotel 410-524-3535 / www.clarionoc.com Every Friday and Saturday: DJ Dusty, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.

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SEACRETS 49th Street and the bay, Ocean City 410-524-4900 / www.seacrets.com Nov. 22: Nowhere Slow, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.; DJ Tuff, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Nov. 23: Whiskeyhickon Boys, 5-9 p.m.; DJ BobbyO, 6 p.m. to 1:50 a.m.; DJ Cruz, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.; Shake, Shake, Shake, 10 p.m. to 1:50 a.m.

SKYE RAW BAR & GRILLE 66th Street, Ocean City 410-723-6762 / www.skyebaroc.com Nov. 22: The Stims, 4-8 p.m.

Nov. 23: Aaron Howell, 4-8 p.m.

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Artistically arrange whole cranberries around mold Continued from Page 33 Add the remaining cranberry liquid and refrigerate for 10 hours.

6. To unmold, dip the mold pan into a bowl of warm water. Make sure the water does not come over the edge of the pan. Let stand for 15 seconds, then remove the pan from the water.

7. Place a serving plate upside down on top of the Bundt pan, invert the platter and Bundt pan together and gently shake until the mold releases from the pan. If it does not release, repeat as directed above.

Fresh Cranberries 1 (12-ounce) bag of fresh cranberries 1 cup of sugar ½ cup of orange juice, no pulp ½ cup of water pinch of ground ginger, nutmeg, cloves, allspice and cinnamon cornstarch fresh rosemary, orange zest, orange slices, or powdered sugar as a garnish 1. Discard any cranberries that are excessively soft or dark. Place cranberries in a colander and rinse thoroughly.

2. Combine cranberries, sugar, orange juice and water in a medium

saucepan. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer and cook just until the cranberries start to pop.

Remove saucepan from heat, add spices and stir constantly. This allows the cranberries to continue to cook, but helps maintain their wholeness verses breaking down and becoming mushy, about 5 minutes.

3. Once the cranberries are cooked, strain, and quickly spread them on a baking sheet. Gently stir them so they will cool faster.

4. Pour the reserved liquid back into the pan. In a small bowl, make a roux out of cornstarch and cranberry liquid.

Add the roux to the leftover cranberry liquid, whisk and simmer until it reduces and thickens. Once the cranberry liquid has cooled, add the cranberries and carefully stir.

4. Presentation: artistically arrange the whole cranberries on and around the cranberry mold. Garnish with fresh rosemary, orange zest, orange slices, or powdered sugar. * Cranberries, Two Ways can also be served with a ham at Christmas. Replace the rosemary with mint.

Secret Ingredient – Feast. “Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.”

– Melody Beattie

PHOTO COURTESY JACKIE KURTZ

Jackie Kurtz, her husband, Ron, and son, Brian, choose the recipients of the awards and grants while looking through the hundreds of submissions they receive for the Matt Kurtz Kindness Award and Grant.

Kindness Award and Grant internationally recognized

By Morgan Pilz Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) One year after creating the Matt Kurtz Kindness Award and Grant, Jackie Kurtz’s program has been recognized nationally and even worldwide.

Kurtz, who tragically lost her son in 2017, created the inaugural Matt Kurtz Kindness Award to honor individuals who help spread a positive life outlook.

Matt Kurtz (1985-2017) was a Worcester County resident who was known for constant acts of kindness, according to his mother.

After hearing from several people about

how small acts of kindness could positively impact health, mood and relationships, the Kurtz family decided to create an awareness program to honor his legacy.

During the first year, the family received around 25 recommendations.

Now, they are receiving around 100, with many spanning all the way from California and Hawaii to even France, parts of Africa, Pakistan and India.

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Continued from Page 35 nominations and grant submissions each time. My husband, Ron, and my son, Brian, and I narrow them down and we think about what Matt would have liked; what would have inspired him.”

The family has even received so many donations – around $3,000 – that they were able to offer more than two kindness awards and grants like they had originally intended. Kindness awards, are presented on Nov. 1 and May 1 and the kindness grants are given out Aug. 1 and Feb. 1. Award and grant recipients both receive $250.

Linda McGean, of Bishopville, was the first recipient of the Matt Kurtz Kindness Award for constant small acts of kindness throughout the day as a guidance counselor at Ocean City Elementary School. She received a certificate and check for $250 last November.

The first Matt Kurtz Kindness Grant was awarded to Jude Al-Hamad, a then Stephen Decatur High School senior who received the award in February 2019. She used her grant to provide care packages for children staying at the Believe in Tomorrow Children’s House by the Sea, a respite housing program.

“We’ve gotten so many people that are sending in their nominations and their projects and it’s evolved beautifully,” Kurtz said. “We know Matt would love it.”

The second grant was awarded to Connie Hammes, of Minnesota, who used the funds to create “catios,” or catfriendly patios for shelter cats to receive fresh air and exercise.

The next set of awards were given in May to Silas Scauzillo, 9, of Florida, and New York City resident Liz Buechele.

Scauzillo’s younger sister, Gianna, has Down Syndrome, and he wanted to educate people about accepting others despite their differences.

“We received over 60 nominations recommending Silas for the Kindness Award,” Kurtz said. “All these people told us how much Silas inspired them and why he should win this award.”

Buechele earned the award after creating The Smile Project, a nonprofit organization with a mission to spread happiness through random acts of kindness, raise awareness of ways that individuals can become more present in the world and positively impact loved ones and strangers throughout the course of everyday life.

The August grant winners were Mindy Oursley, of Ohio, and the first couple to receive the grant went to Indiana residents Ashley and Dustin Beeler.

Oursley used her grant to create new programs and activities inside her Kindness Club for third and fourth grade students in her elementary school. The club teaches kindness, compassion and empathy to everyone and demonstrates acts of kindness around the community.

The Beelers started a local chapter called the Little Free Pantry, which are installed in neighborhoods where there

PHOTO COURTESY JACKIE KURTZ

Jude Al-Hamad, 18, was a senior at Stephen Decatur High School in February when she received the first Matt Kurtz Kindness Grant of $250. The grant was used to create care packages for children staying at the Believe in Tomorrow Respite House on 66th Street.

is a high percentage of food insecurity, where people do not have reliable access to affordable, nutritious food.

The pantry allows people to take and leave supplies as they need them. With the grant, the family was able to install two new food pantries in addition to the three they already had.

“When you tend to focus on the negative, it brings out the negative,” Kurtz said. “When you focus on the positive, it tends to make you more positive. There’s way more kind, positive people out there than negative ones. I think it’s time to give more attention to the kind, positive and compassionate people.”

The most recent Kindness Grant Award recipients for November were Selkirk, New York, couple Renee and Mike Fahey and Jessica Munoz, of Hawaii.

The Faheys created a grassroot organization in 2016 called Street Soldiers, which serves hot meals to the homeless and less fortunate. The family often used their home and vehicles to serve these meals.

Finally, the last award of the year was granted to Munoz for her volunteer efforts and awareness campaign against human trafficking.

By day, she is a nurse practitioner, by night she is the founder of New Life for our Children, which focuses on early intervention and providing care and recovery for children who have been exploited.

“Jessica Munoz had a great quote where she said, ‘She joined the legacy of ordinary people who changed the world,’” Kurtz said. “I thought, ‘That’s beautiful,’ and that’s what these people are … they are ordinary people like you and me, but they go out and do and practice kindness every day, and that is a way to change the world a little bit at a time.”

The Kurtz family will be accepting submissions for the next grant award until Wednesday, Jan. 15. The winner(s) will be announced on Feb. 1, 2020.

To learn more about sharing small acts of kindness, turn in a submission or learn more about the Matt Kurtz Kindness Award and Grant, visit MattsKindnessRipplesOn.com.

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SCRAPBOOKING Ann Wheeler, from Berlin, works on a scrapbook page during the Crop Out Cancer event, a benefit for the American Cancer Society, on Friday, Nov. 15, at the Grand Hotel on 21st Street.

WPS ALUMNI Worcester Prep’s Upper School dedicated the entire week of Oct. 7-12 to celebrate Homecoming.

Festivities kicked-off with an activity-packed Spirit Week and culminated with an alumni/family cookout, soccer game, and Homecoming dance. Home for fall break, some graduates from the class of 2019 cheered on the boys’ varsity soccer team. Pictured, from left, are Dakin Moore (Wake Forest), Colin Miller (University of Maryland), Cooper Richins (Furman University), Remy Trader (University of South Carolina), Graham Hammond (University of Delaware) and Delaney Abercrombie (Washington and Lee).

FILM FESTIVAL Salisbury University student Delaney Samons volunteers to run the Assateague Coastal Trust booth during the ninth annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival, held at Seacrets on 49th Street on Thursday, Nov. 14.

RED RIBBON WEEK Ocean City Elementary School celebrated Red Ribbon Week, an alcohol, tobacco and drug prevention awareness campaign observed annually in the United States, Oct. 21-25. Each day, students, faculty and staff have the opportunity to show their school spirit by dressing in a fun theme that reminds everyone to say “no”to drugs. Friday’s theme was “Team Up Against Drugs.”

Pictured, from left, are fourth graders Trevor Lehman, Trent Macrides, Lucas Ruppert and Tanner Intrieri in their favorite team jerseys.

DONATION The Delmarva Hand Dance Club recently donated $4,000 to the Home of the Brave Foundation. The donation will be split between the Home of the Brave for Women and Children and the Home of the Brave for Men. The mission of the Home of the Brave is to reduce homelessness among the military veteran population by providing transitional housing, food and security, assisting with employment, access to health care and other services. Pictured, from left, are Club officers Howard Simons, Joan McHale, Barbara McArdle, Clarence Emmons, Judy Martin, and Home of the Brave representatives Beth McGinn and Tony Bergfelder and Club officer Mac Smith.

RECOGNITION National Custodial Recognition Day was held on Oct. 2. Pictured is the custodial staff at Ocean City Elementary, in front, from left, Dawn Manuel and Malinda Purnell, and in back, Ivory Smith, Reggie Mills, Joe Sineno and Larry Finney.

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ES Ballet Theatre showing excerpts from ‘Nutcracker’ (Nov. 22, 2019) The Eastern Shore Ballet Theatre will present a free outreach performance of excerpts from the classical ballet “The Nutcracker” at the Ocean City Center for the Arts on 94th Street, Saturday, Nov. 23.

Adults and children of all ages are welcome to attend. Doors open at 10 a.m. with the one-hour performance at 10:30 a.m.

A reading of the traditional Nutcracker holiday story will be mixed with live performances by 20 ballet dancers in full costume and make-up.

The ballet will take place in the main Thaler Gallery of the Arts Center.

Following the performance, children will be invited to meet and take pictures with the characters.

“The Nutcracker” is a classical ballet based on an 1816 fairy tale with music by Tchaikovsky. It tells the story of a little girl who goes to the Land of Sweets on Christmas Eve. The Eastern Shore Ballet Theatre will open its 29th season with five performances of “The Nutcracker” at the Wicomico High School Auditorium, Dec. 6-8.

“The goal of bringing our performers to Ocean City is to reach out to young audiences,” Fawn Mete, East-

The Eastern Shore Ballet Theatre will present a free outreach performance of excerpts from the classical ballet “The Nutcracker” at the Ocean City Center for the Arts on 94th Street, Saturday, Nov. 23.

ern Shore Ballet Theatre board member, said. “The Ocean City Center for the Arts is a beautiful setting to introduce children to this holiday classic, giving them an opportunity to learn the Nutcracker story before they go to

see the full ballet.”

Admission is always free to the Ocean City Center for the Arts at 502 94th Street, home of the Art League of Ocean City, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing the visual

arts to the community through education, exhibits, scholarship, programs and community art projects.

More information is available at 410-524-9433 or www.artleagueofoceancity.org.

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PRESENTATION RED RIBBON WEEK Ocean City Elementary School celebrated Red Ribbon Week, an alcohol, tobacco and drug prevention awareness campaign observed annually in the United States, Oct. 21-25. Each day, students, faculty and staff have the opportunity to show their school spirit by dressing in a fun theme that reminds everyone to say “no”to drugs. Monday’s theme was “I mustache you not to do drugs.” Pictured are third grade students in Eliza Mason-Burt’s math classes.

RAMP BUILD Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic School eighth graders worked with Chesapeake Housing Mission to build a handicap ramp for a Westover resident on Oct. 21. Students worked under the direction of Joe Flanagan and Kevin Johnson of the Chesapeake Housing Mission, in using hand and power tools in their task completion.

District Gov. Bill Ferguson recently attended a meeting of the Ocean City-Berlin Rotary Club and presented the group with the 2019-20 Rotary International Banner. Pictured, from left, are CoPresident Cliff Berg, Ferguson and Co-President Dan Harris. The Ocean City Berlin Rotary Club meets Wednesdays at 6 p.m. at the Residence Inn by Marriott, 300 Seabay Lane in Ocean City.

FIRE PREVENTION Each year during Fire Prevention Week, the Ocean City Fire Department sponsors a poster contest for grades Pre-K to three and an essay contest for fourth grade students. This year’s theme was “Not Every Hero Wears a Cape. Plan and Practice Your Escape!” Each grade level then had a specific topic on which to focus. Pictured with members of the fire department are this year’s contest winners from Ocean City Elementary School.

CONFERENCE FIRST SNOW Third graders at Showell Elementary School show their shock over the surprise snow flurries on Nov. 12. Pictured are Cole Gribble, Thomas Gallagher, Lily Staubs, Madeline Spirito and Paige Oass.

It’s a team effort when it comes to educating children and Stephen Decatur High School is doing all it can to raise its own educators, bringing four prospective teachers to the inaugural Teach in Maryland conference in Linthicum, Maryland, on Oct. 17. Pictured, from left, are Chalea Brittingham, D’Ajah Smith, Billy King and Mandi McCready.

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OP Players perform ‘Assisted AGH Foundation celebrates Living’ musical this weekend campaign wrap with party (Nov. 22, 2019) The zany November production of “Assisted Living the Musical,” by Rick Compton and Betsy Bennett, will be the next production by the Ocean Pines Players.

The play will be performed at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church at 10301 Coastal Highway in Ocean City on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 22-23 at 7 p.m.; a Sunday matinee on Nov. 24 at 2:30 p.m.; and on Monday evening, Nov. 25, at 7 p.m.

To make ticket reservations, visit www.oceanpinesplayers.com.

The Ocean Pines Players recently received a private donation and have decided to pay it forward to the audience.

The first 200 tickets for the show will be reduced from $20 to $15. Those who have already made reservations are included in this discount pricing.

“We are so grateful for this gift and we wanted to share it with our audience to say thank you for your amazing support over the last 40 years, especially during this time of rebuilding,” said the nonprofit group’s president, Karen McClure. “Happy Thanksgiving to all of our wonderful friends here in beautiful Delmarva.”

The musical, an ambitious project for Ocean Pines Players because of its

large cast and many musical and comedic skits, is a vaudeville-style show with as many as 18 characters performing.

It runs 90 minutes, during which time the audience will be entertained by 18 residents of Pelican Roost, a “full-service retirement home for those drifting into their twilight years, but further away from sanity.”

Pelican Roost is home to colorful characters, a place where buffoonery lives next door to screwball, just across the way from cockamamie.

In addition, the Ocean Pines Players will stage the Christmas show, ‘“Twas the Night Before Christmas,” in December.

The play by Ken Ludwig, is a child favorite about a mouse, an elf, and a spunky girl, Emily, who won’t take no for an answer and go on a quest to find out why Santa missed their house last year.

It will run December 14 and 15, starting at 2:30 p.m. at the Red Doors Community Center located at 10959 Worcester Highway in Berlin.

The Ocean Pines Players is a local, all-volunteer, 501 (c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization. Follow the Ocean Pines Players on Facebook, or visit www.oceanpinesplayers.com.

(Nov. 22, 2019) In August 2016, the AGH Foundation announced the start of the Atlantic General Campaign for the Future, the philanthropic community support that will allow Atlantic General to complete $35 million in capital projects to expand healthcare services for the community.

As the three-year campaign comes to an end, the Campaign for the Future committee is planning its final event, the Motown After Party on Friday, Nov. 22, from 7-11 p.m.

Leading up to the event, the community can purchase a raffle ticket for a chance to win trips and other prizes.

Hosted at the Aloft Hotel, located at 4501 Coastal Highway in Ocean City, the theme and attire for the evening will focus on “The Glory Years, 1960s – early 1970s.”

Additional details including attire descriptions can be found at www.agh.care/motown. Features of the event include an abundance of hors d’oeuvres catered by Sunset Grille, cocktails, and live entertainment by Jimi Smooth and the HitTime Band.

The Foundation has raised more than $8.23 million of the $10 million philanthropic community support goal.

To become a Life Donor or purchase tickets to the event visit

www.agh.care/motown or text AGHMOTOWN to 41444 or contact Tammy Patrick at tpatrick@atlanticgeneral.org or 410-641-9690.

Proceeds from the event benefit the Atlantic General Hospital Foundation.

For more information, contact Patrick or Joy Stokes at jstokes@atlanticgeneral.org or by calling the Foundation office at 410-641-9671.

Atlantic General Hospital has been providing quality health care to the residents of Worcester, Wicomico and Somerset counties in Maryland and Sussex County, Delaware, since May 1993.

Built through the commitment and generosity of a dedicated community, Atlantic General’s main facility in Berlin combines the warmth of personalized attention with the reassurance of medical expertise and advanced technology.

The not-for-profit hospital provides quality specialty care in oncology, medical and surgical weight loss, orthopedics, and women’s diagnostics among other services. Atlantic General Health System, its network of more than 40 primary care providers and specialists, cares for residents and visitors throughout the region.

For more information about Atlantic General Hospital, visit www.atlanticgeneral.org.

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ACT and volunteers collect 350 pounds of trash in Berlin (Nov. 22, 2019) Assateague Coastal Trust, The Delmarva Free School and 28 volunteers came together for a Community Watershed Cleanup on Holly Grove Road in Worcester County, Nov. 2, that would turn out to be one for the books.

It was a crisp November morning with frost still on the grass and a late season sun hanging low on the horizon.

By 9 a.m., volunteers slowly began to arrive at the recycling center in front of the Berlin Walmart.

Billy Weiland, communications director for Assateague Coastal Trust and founder of the Trash Free Assateague program, said that with these volunteer events, it is often difficult to predict the energy and motivation from volunteers and what the overall success of the cleanup will be, especially on an early, cold Saturday morning.

“This day was different,” Weiland said. “Within 15 minutes, half of the recycling center parking lot was full of cars and volunteers eager to jump in the van to be shuttled up the road to Holly Grove. Once we were all there and under the curtain of trees that covers Holly Grove, it quickly became apparent that we had achieved what we intended to accomplish.”

In just two hours, Assateague Coastal Trust, The Delmarva Free School and volunteers from around the community managed to remove 350 pounds of trash in just a quarter mile along Holly Grove Road.

Escorted by two Worcester County Sheriff Department patrol cars, volunteers worked in teams to collect an array of plastic, glass, aluminum and miscellaneous trash along the road within the Ayers Creek watershed.

All of the material collected was separated by volunteers and recycled on spot. Ayers Creek drains to Newport Bay, where trash and pollutants can find their way to Assateague Island.

“What this event has demonstrated is, yes, we have a plastic and

Assateague Coastal Trust, The Delmarva Free School and 28 volunteers participate in a Community Watershed Cleanup on Holly Grove Road in Worcester County on Nov. 2.

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waste issue on our hands as a society, and yes, even in 2019 there are still far too many folks who choose to intentionally litter, but more importantly this Community Watershed Cleanup demonstrates we can come together to understand the issue and put forth the work required in solving it,” Weiland said. “The solution isn’t just grabbing a compostable trash bag and cleaning up a beach or side street. It is the act of this work that resides as a symbol and model of the ethic and respect that we all must rekindle. What is on our land, in our waterways, in our environments, it is a reflection on our community, and it represents our level of respect for our planet.”

The Delmarva Free School’s Founder Kelly McMullen was thrilled with the turn out and results, and grateful to Assateague Coastal Trust and Worcester County and each individual volunteer that made it happen.

This project was made possible by a funding award from the National Park Service and the Outdoor Foundation.

The Assateague Coastal Trust’s mission is to promote and encourage the protection of the health, productivity and sustainability of the coastal bays watershed of Delmarva through advocacy, education and conservation. Visit www.ACTforBays.org for more information.

FILM FESTIVAL Assateague Coastal Trust Coastkeeper Kathy Phillips and Communications Manager Billy Weiland welcome guests during the ninth annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival held at Seacrets on 49th Street on Thursday, Nov. 14.

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Dining Guide ■ PRICE RANGE: $, $$, $$$ ■ RESERVATIONS: Reservations accepted ________________________________

DOWNTOWN

South end to 28th Street ■ CAPTAIN’S TABLE RESTAURANT 15th Street and the Boardwalk, Ocean City 410-289-7192, www.captainstableoc.com $$-$$$ | Reservations | Kids’ menu | Full bar Family-owned, serving fine seafood, steaks and poultry on the third floor of the Courtyard by Marriott.

■ COINS 28th Street and Coastal Highway, Ocean City 410-524 3100, www.coinspub.com $-$$ | Kids’ menu | Full bar Casual dining atmosphere for families.

Crab cakes, hand-cut steaks, fresh seafood. Everything home-made. Happy hour 3-6 p.m. and early bird 4-6 p.m.

Daily specials.

■ THE CORAL REEF CAFE / HEMINGWAY'S RESTAURANT 17th Street, in the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites, Ocean City 410-289-2612, www.ocsuites.com/dining $-$$ | Reservations | Kids’ menu | Full bar Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Four-story atrium cafe and an elegant dining room, Floridian/island-style cuisine, fresh seafood, fresh cuts of meat, farm-to-table produce, artisanal desserts, hearty sandwiches and much more.

■ VICTORIAN ROOM RESTAURANT Dunes Manor Hotel, OCEANFRONT at 28th and Baltimore Ave, Ocean City 410-289-1100, www.dunesmanor.com $$ - $$$ | Reservations | Kids’ menu | Full Bar Open year round. Oceanfront dining atmosphere with local, farm to table/sea to table cuisine. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Also Zippy Lewis Lounge with daily happy hour from 4-6 p.m., featuring Craft Beer selections and light fare menu; Milton’s Deck Dining; and tasty beach grillables at the Barefoot Beach Bar, in season.

MIDTOWN

29th to 90th streets ■ 32 PALM 32nd Street, in the Hilton Suites, Ocean City 410-289-2525, www.oceancityhilton.com/dining $$ | Reservations | Kids’ menu | Full bar Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Western Caribbean cuisine, Eastern Shore favorites, extensive wine list and gourmet desserts.

■ BJ’S ON THE WATER 75th Street, Ocean City 410-524-7575, www.bjsonthewater.com $-$$ | Kids’ menu | Full bar Entire dining menu served 11 a.m. to 1:30 a.m., seven days a week, yearround. Daily specials, daily duck feeding.

Entertainment every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. No cover. Available for parties and banquets. Indoor and outdoor dining.

■ THE DOUGH ROLLER 41st Street and Coastal Highway 410524-9254; 70th Street and Coastal Highway 410-524-7981 $$ | Kids’ menu | Full bar

Breakfast served daily at West OC, 41st, and 70th street locations. Check out our new bar and happy hour specials at our new West OC location. Order online at www.TheDoughRoller.com.

■ DRY 85 OC 12 48th Street, Ocean City 443-6648989, www.DRY85.com $$ | Kids’ menu | Full bar Steps from the beach. Gourmet “stick to your ribs” home cooking. A made-fromscratch kitchen with every sauce and every dressing hand crafted. It’s that attention to detail that takes the concept of burgers, fries, pork chops and wings and turns them completely on their head. Late night bar. Seasonal outdoor seating.

■ HIGGINS CRAB HOUSE 31st Street, Ocean City 410-289-2581, higginscrabhouse.com $-$$ | Kids’ menu | Full Bar Known for all-you-can-eat crabs, crab legs, fried chicken, steamed shrimp, and baby back ribs.

■ LONGBOARD CAFÉ 67th Street Town Center, Ocean City 443-664-5639, www.longboardcafe.net $$ | Kids’ menu | Full bar Serving lunch and dinner. Lite fare to dinner entrees offering a variety of burgers, paninis, sandwiches and salads. The "veggies" menu features wrinkled green beans. Signature house libiations and signature entrees made with ingredients from local farms and fisheries. A family restaurant.

■ MARLIN MOON 3301 Atlantic Ave., in the DoubleTree Ocean City 410-280-1201, www.marlinmoonocmd.com $$ | Full bar Featuring Executive Chef Gary Beach.

Fresh cuisine featuring locally sourced seafood, steaks and vegetables. Small plate appetizers, fresh salads. Local craft beers and cocktails. Open for lunch and dinner, 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

■ RED RED WINE BAR OC 12 48th Street, Ocean City 443-6646801, www.RedRedWineBar.com $$ | Kids’ menu | Full bar Steps from the beach. Coastal cuisine with a focus on local seafood and hand tossed pizzas plus artisanal cheeseboards. 35+ wines By the Glass, 120+ By the Bottle. Flights. Luxurious colors and custom built couches. Late night bar. Seasonal outdoor seating.

■ SEACRETS 49th Street, Ocean City 410-524-4900, www.seacrets.com $$ | Kids’ menu | Full bar Island atmosphere. Soups, salads, Jamaican jerk chicken, appetizers, sandwiches, paninis, pizza and fresh seafood.

■ SKYE RAW BAR & GRILLE 66th Street, Ocean City 410-723-6762, www.skyebaroc.com $-$$ | Reservations | Full bar Lunch, dinner, raw bar or lite fare, at the top of 66th Street and Coastal Highway.

Happy hour, 3-6 p.m. with food and drink specials.

UPTOWN

91st to 146th streets ■ ABBEY BURGER BISTRO OC 126th Street, behind the Holiday Inn, Ocean City 410-289-2525, 410-2502333, www.abbeyburger.com/ocean-city $$ | Reservations | Kids’ menu | Full bar Large parties welcome. Craft beer. Award

winning burgers. Voted Best in Maryland, Wild Game.

■ BEACH BARRELS 13207 Coastal Highway, Ocean City 410-250-0522, www.beachbarrels.com $ | Full bar Happy hour Monday through Friday, 3-6 p.m. Live entertainment Friday and Saturday. Featuring primo hoagie menu where premium ingredients are fresh, nothing is pre-cut. Open 7 days, 9 a.m. to 2 a.m.

■ BLUE FISH JAPANESE & CHINESE RESTAURANT AND SUSHI BAR 94th Street, Ocean City 410-524-3983, www.bluefishocmd.com $-$$ | Reservations | Full bar Japanese and Chinese restaurant and sushi bar with beer, wine and cocktails.

Dine in, take out and delivery available.

■ BOURBON STREET ON THE BEACH 116th Street & Coastal Hwy., (Behind Fountain Head Towers Condominium), Ocean City 443-664-2896, www.bourbonstreetonthebeach.com $$-$$$ | Reservations recommended for large parties | Kids’ menu | Full bar Eastern Shore fare with a New Orleans Flare. Seafood, steaks and pasta dishes. Specializing in Jambalaya, Creole, & Gumbo. Home of the Ragin’ Cajun Bloody Mary. Happy Hour 4-7 p.m.

Weekly entertainment.

■ DUFFYS 130th St., in Montego Bay Shopping Ctr. & Coastal Highway, Ocean City 410-250 1449, www.duffysoc.com $-$$ | Kids’ menu | Full bar Casual dining, indoor or outdoor seating.

Irish fare and American cuisine. Appetizers, soups, salads, sandwiches, steaks and seafood. Second season and daily dinner specials. Dine in, carry out.

Happy Hour, daily, noon to 6 pm.

■ HORIZONS OCEANFRONT RESTAURANT 101st Street, Ocean City 410-5243535, www.clarionoc.com $-$$ | Kids’ menu | Full bar Serving beach-inspired dishes in our oceanfront restaurants, Horizons and Breakers Pub. All-day menu, available 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Deluxe Sunday breakfast buffet, open year-round.

■ NORI 11403 Coastal Highway (Gold Coast Mall), Ocean City443-880-6258 $$ | Reservations | Kids’ menu | Full bar Open 7 days serving lunch and dinner.

Our creative menu features hand-cut steaks, grilled fish, crab cakes, sushi and sashimi. Dine-in or carry-out.

■ REEF 118 118th Street, in the Carousel Oceanfront Hotel and Condos, Ocean City 410-524-1000, www.carouselhotel.com $-$$ | Kids’ menu | Full bar Oceanfront dining in a casual atmosphere. Serving breakfast, Friday through Sunday 7-11 a.m. Featuring a breakfast buffet or special order from the regular menu. Enjoy our delicious 3 Course Dinner for $25 served every Friday and Saturday, 4-9 p.m. with the choice of appetizer, entree and dessert.

■ WHISKERS PUB 120th Street, OC Square, Ocean City 410-524-2609, www.whiskerspub.com $ | Kids’ menu | Full bar Certified Angus® burgers and casual fare.

Call for hours.

WEST OCEAN CITY ■ ALEX’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT Route 50, West Ocean City 410-2137717, www.ocitalianfood.com $-$$ | Reservations Accepted | Full bar Serving homemade Italian cuisine, steaks, seafood, chicken, pork and pasta. Elegant dining room. Early bird specials every day from 5-6 p.m.

■ THE DOUGH ROLLER West Ocean City, 12849 Ocean Gateway 410-213-7655 $$ | Kids’ menu | Full bar Breakfast served daily at West OC, 41st, and 70th street locations. Check out our new bar and happy hour specials at our new West OC location. Order online at www.TheDoughRoller.com.

■ HARBORSIDE BAR AND GRILL 128741 S. Harbor Road, West Ocean City 410-213-1846, weocharborside.com $-$$$ | Kids’ menu | Full bar Home of the Original Fresh Squeezed Orange Crush! Open every day, 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Appetizers, fresh seafood, steak and pasta. Live entertainment Wednesday through Sunday.

■ HOOTERS Route 50 & Keyser Point Road, West Ocean City 410-213-1841, www.hootersofoc.com $-$$ | Kids’ menu and game room | Full bar New smoked wings with half the calories. Traditional wings, burgers, quesadillas, tacos and healthy salads. Seafood selections with raw bar and crab legs.

Sports packages and live entertainment.

Large parties welcome.

■ POPEYE’S LOUISIANA KITCHEN Route 50, West Ocean City 443-6642105 $ | Kids’ menu Family restaurant. Eat-in, carry out or drive-thru. Open seven days, year-round.

Every Wednesday, free kids meal with purchase of combo.

OCEAN PINES ■ OCEAN PINES YACHT CLUB 1 Mumford Landing Road, Ocean Pines 410-641-7222, www.OPyachtclub.com $$-$$$ | Full bar Amid a bay front setting, the Ocean Pines Yacht Club offers dining selections for lunch and dinner. Fresh seafood and signature drinks. Open Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

■ TERN GRILLE 100 Clubhouse Drive, Ocean Pines 410-641-7222, oceanpinesgolf.org/dining $$ | Full bar Located next to the Golf Shop, the Tern Grille serves freshly-prepared breakfast and lunch items. Open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, weather permitting.

BERLIN ■ OCEAN DOWNS CASINO, POSEIDON’S PUB 10218 Racetrack Road, Berlin 410641-0600, www.oceandowns.com $-$$$ | Full bar House soups, small plates, sandwiches, burgers and entrees including steaks, chicken, veggie and Eastern Shore favorites. Dining room hours: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 4-11 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, noon to midnight; Sunday, noon to 11 p.m. Pub open late.

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Calendar Submit calendar items to: editor@oceancitytoday.net.

Submission deadline is 5 p.m. Monday, the week of publication. Local submissions have priority. Area event listings are subject to space availability.

Fri., Nov. 22 FIBER FRIENDS Ocean Pines library, 11107 Cathell Road, 10:00 AM. Bring your lap work and join this group as they knit, crochet and embroider. All are welcome. Victoria Christie-Healy, 703-507-0708, http://www.worcesterlibrary.org

Jimi Smooth and the Hit Time Band.

Proceeds benefit Atlantic General Campaign for the Future. Tickets: visit www.agh.care/motown; text AGHMOTOWN to 41444; or contact Tammy at tpatrick@atlanticgeneral.org or 410641-9690.

Sat., Nov. 23

ANNUAL CHRISTMAS BAZAAR

ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT BREAKFAST BUFFET

St. Mary Star of the Sea, 1705 Philadelphia Ave., 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM. Featuring gift shop, linen shop, dollar shop, plants, flowers, Christmas shop with handmade crafts, toys, books, jewelry, homemade baked goods and candy and handcrafted boutique. Food menu includes hot roast beef and hot turkey with gravy and fries, shrimp salad sandwich, fish and chips, chicken salad sandwich, pulled pork, Maryland crab soup, chicken corn chowder, clam chowder and oyster stew, raw bar, oysters on the half shell, beer, wine, hot dogs, chicken and tuna salad, mac & cheese, French fries, desserts and beverages. Eat in or carry out. Also featuring Christmas display raffles, basket of cheer, 50/50s, chance auction with more than 50 baskets, Christmas carnival for kids and secret Santa shopping. All proceeds benefit the Parish Ministries.

Whaleyville United Methodist Church, 11716 Sheppards Crossing Road, 7:00 AM - 10:00 AM. Buffet will include pancakes, bacon, sausage, scrapple, scrambled eggs, chipped beef, hash brown potatoes, toast, fruit and assorted beverages. Cost is $8 for adults and $4 for children.

BRITISH “TEAV” Ocean Pines library, 11107 Cathell Road, 2:00 PM. Join this group for afternoon tea and light refreshments as they view the best of British TV comedies. http://www.worcesterlibrary.org

‘ASSISTED LIVING THE MUSICAL’ PERFORMANCE St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, 10301 Coastal Highway, 7:00 PM. The Ocean Pines Players will perform a vaudevillestyle show of songs and skits for as many as 18 characters. For 90 minutes, the audience will be entertained by the residents of Pelican Roost, a full-service retirement home for this drifting into their twilight years, but further away from sanity. http://www.oceanpinesplayers.com

MOTOWN AFTER PARTY Aloft Hotel, 4501 Coastal Highwy, 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM. The theme and attire for the event will focus on The Glory Years, 1960s - early 1970s. Additional details including attire descriptions can be found at www.agh.care/motown. Features include sophisticated hors d’oeuvres, cocktails and live entertainment by

TURKEY TROT OPEN Eagle’s Landing Golf Course, 12367 Eagles Nest Road, 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM. This is a four-person modified scramble featuring more than $1,000 in prizes and a turkey feast following play. Admission cost is $60. 410-213-7277, http://www.eagleslandinggolf.com

ANNUAL CHRISTMAS BAZAAR St. Mary Star of the Sea, 1705 Philadelphia Ave., 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM. Featuring gift shop, linen shop, dollar shop, plants, flowers, Christmas shop with handmade crafts, toys, books, jewelry, homemade baked goods and candy and handcrafted boutique. Food menu includes hot roast beef and hot turkey with gravy and fries, shrimp salad sandwich, fish and chips, chicken salad sandwich, pulled pork, Maryland crab soup, chicken corn chowder, clam chowder and oyster stew, raw bar, oysters on the half shell, beer, wine, hot dogs, chicken and tuna salad, mac & cheese, French fries, desserts and beverages. Eat in or carry out. Also featuring Christmas display raffles, basket of cheer, 50/50s, chance auction with more than 50 baskets, Christmas carnival for kids and secret Santa shopping. All proceeds benefit the Parish Ministries.

the performance, children will be invited to see and take pictures with the characters. 410-524-9433, http://www.artleagueofoceancity.org

SPAGHETTI DINNER AND LIVE AND SILENT AUCTIONS Bethany United Methodist Church, 8648 Stephen Decatur Highway, 5:00 PM. Cost for adults is $10 in advance or $12 at the door; children, ages 5-12 years is $6; and free to those 4 years and younger. Tickets: 410-207-7039.

SUPER BINGO Willards Lions Club, Main Street, 5:30 PM. Doors open at 5 p.m. Early bird games at 5:30 p.m., 6 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Regular bingo begins at 7 p.m. Pays $125 per game. Free dinner included with admission. Assorted food and desserts for sale. 410-430-1135

FARMERS & ARTISANS MARKET Saturdays - White Horse Park, 239 Ocean Parkway, 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM. Featuring live music, chef demos, children’s activities and other special events. Shop for everything from fresh local produce to unique handmade artisan goods. Open to the public.

Sun., Nov. 24 ‘ASSISTED LIVING THE MUSICAL’ PERFORMANCE St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, 10301 Coastal Highway, 2:00 PM. The Ocean Pines Players will perform a vaudevillestyle show of songs and skits for as many as 18 characters. For 90 minutes, the audience will be entertained by the residents of Pelican Roost, a full-service retirement home for this drifting into their twilight years, but further away from sanity. http://www.oceanpines-

players.com

‘ASSISTED LIVING THE MUSICAL’ PERFORMANCE St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, 10301 Coastal Highway, 7:00 PM. The Ocean Pines Players will perform a vaudevillestyle show of songs and skits for as many as 18 characters. For 90 minutes, the audience will be entertained by the residents of Pelican Roost, a full-service retirement home for this drifting into their twilight years, but further away from sanity. http://www.oceanpinesplayers.com

Mon., Nov. 25 TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY MEETING Atlantic General Hospital, Conference Room 1, 9733 Healthway Drive, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, TOPS is a weekly support and educational group promoting weight loss and healthy lifestyle. Berlin group No. 169. Rose Campion, 410-6410157

‘ASSISTED LIVING THE MUSICAL’ PERFORMANCE St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, 10301 Coastal Highway, 7:00 PM. The Ocean Pines Players will perform a vaudevillestyle show of songs and skits for as many as 18 characters. For 90 minutes, the audience will be entertained by the residents of Pelican Roost, a full-service retirement home for this drifting into their twilight years, but further away from sanity. http://www.oceanpinesplayers.com

DELMARVA WOMEN’S A CAPELLA CHORUS Mondays - Ocean Pines Community Center, 239 Ocean Parkway, 7:00 PM. Come and sing. Drop-ins welcome.

Carol, 410-641-6876

‘THE NUTCRACKER’ FREE PERFORMANCE Ocean City Center for the Arts, 502 94th St., 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM. Doors open at 10 a.m. The Eastern Shore Ballet Theatre will present a free outreach performance of excerpts from the classical ballet “The Nutcracker.” Adults and children of all ages are welcome. A reading of the traditional Nutcracker holiday story will be mixed with live performances by 20 ballet dancers. Following

HAUNTED SDHS The Stephen Decatur High School National English Honor Society sponsored its sixth annual Haunted Hallway featuring an R.L. Stine's “Goosebumps” theme on Oct. 25. Pictured, from left, are students Devin Tucker, Dylan Wilkins and Eddie Aksu.

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CALENDAR Ocean Pines South Gate Pond Trail, 9:00 AM. Registration starts at 8:00 AM in Veterans Memorial Park. The event consisting of three laps around the pond (2.5 miles) with exercise stations throughout each lap. Families, children and pets on leashes welcome. Walk or run. Cost is $15 for adults or $10 for children 13-17 years or with a cat supply donation. Free for children 12 years and younger. Also collecting supplies

such as clumping cat litter, Purnia One kitten dry food and Friskies turkey pate canned cat food. Proceeds benefit Town Cats. Register www.crossfitassateague.com, www.facebook.com/crossfitassateague or 443-944-2226.

BENCH DEDICATION The dedication of a handmade wooden bench, donated by the Republican Women of Worcester County, took place at the Germantown School on Trappe Road in Berlin on Oct. 12. The bench faces the school and is in what was the original apple and peach orchard. Six apple trees were recently planted. Peach trees will soon be planted.

Tues., Nov. 26 BLOW YOUR OWN GLASS HOLIDAY ORNAMENT Jeffrey Auxer Designs Blown Glass Studio, 19 Jefferson St., 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM. Booking individuals or groups up to six people in 30 minute time frames.

Cost is $40 per ornament. Benefits the Bishopville Volunteer Fire Company.

Reservations required: Krista Radena, 443-880-4944.

PM. Dance to the sounds of the ’50s and ’60s music. A $5 donation to benefit Veterans and local charities in the Delmarva region. Members and guests. dance@delmarvahanddancing.com, 410-208-1151, http://delmarvahanddancing.com

OC/BERLIN ROTARY CLUB MEETING Wednesdays - Residence Inn by Marriott Ocean City, 300 Seabay Lane, 6:00 PM. 302-540-2127

“LITURGICAL FOLK” PERFORMANCE

BRIDGE WEDNESDAYS

Historic Saint Martin’s Church, 11413 Worcester Highway, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. An Evening of Music with the “Liturgical Folk.” William Wolf, wthwolf@msn.com, 443-366-2994, https://www.liturgicalfolk.com

Wednesdays - Ocean Pines Community Center, 239 Ocean Parkway, 10:00 AM 2:00 PM. Knowledge of basic Bridge (Goren/American Standard). 410-5965498

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY MEETING Tuesdays - Worcester County Health Center, 9730 Healthway Drive, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM. TOPS is a support and educational group promoting weight loss and a healthy lifestyle. jeanduck47@gmail.com

Thurs., Nov. 28 40TH ANNUAL FREE THANKSGIVING DINNER Ocean City Baptist Church, 102 N. Division St., 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM. Menu includes turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, string beans, cranberry sauce, pies, coffee, tea, rolls and butter. RSVP: 410-289-4054 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Friday. The church will also be serving dinner to shut-ins in Ocean City and West Ocean City. For delivery, call with your location or that of a friend or loved one who needs dinner.

ONGOING EVENTS WINTERFEST OF LIGHTS

Donations can be made during weekly meetings in the Ocean Pines Community Center, Assateague Room, 7-9 a.m. in November (except the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Nov. 27) and Dec. 4.

The coats are given to the St. Joseph House and St. Peters Church. The new, unwrapped toys are taken to Worcester G.O.L.D.

FREE WELLNESS WORKSHOPS

DELMARVA HAND DANCE CLUB Wednesdays - Ocean City Elks Lodge, 13708 Sinepuxent Ave., 5:30 PM - 9:00

THANKSKITTEN RUN

FREE VESSEL SAFETY CHECKS

Wednesdays - Ocean Pines Community Center, 235 Ocean Parkway. Doors open at 7 a.m., meeting begins at 8 a.m. 410641-7330, http://www.kiwanisofopoc.org

‘ACHIEVING SURGICAL WEIGHT LOSS SUCCESS’ SEMINAR

FRIDAY NIGHT SERVICES

Ocean City library, 10003 Coastal Highway. Adults can check out a rod and tackle to use in bay and river waters. An adult library card is required. For more information and regulations, call 410524-1818.

KIWANIS CLUB OF GREATER OP/OC

FORGE Youth and Family, 7804 Gumboro Road, Pittsville, every Friday, 6:308:30 p.m. This is a contemporary youth and family ministry, designed for kids ages 5-65 years. The program providees a meal, music, games, activities and a life lesson that can be of use to anyone.

Info: Rob, 443-366-2813.

KIWANIS COLLECTS WINTER COATS AND HOLIDAY TOYS

Berlin First Baptist Church, 613 Williams St., 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM. Menu includes turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, rolls, cranberry sauce, cookies and other desserts. Takeout oor dine in. Diners should call 410641-4306 to reserve their seats or carry-out meals. Leave a voicemail.

Berlin library, 13 Harrison Ave., 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM. Knitters, crochet enthusiasts, needle artists of all skill levels are invited. http://www.worcesterlibrary.org

FORGE FRIDAY

Atlantic General Bariatric Center Conference Room, 10231 Old Ocean City Blvd., Suite 207, Berlin. Takes place the first Monday of each month at 1 p.m.

This is a free, in-person seminar. Additional opportunities are also available in the form of an online webinar. Register: 410-641-9568.

31ST ANNUAL THANKSGIVING DINNER

WITTY KNITTERS

THE DISCOVERY CLUB Delmarva Discovery Museum, 2 Market St., Pocomoke City, Wednesdays, 10:3011:30 a.m. Children, ages 3-5 years, will enjoy books, art, singing and movement coordinating with the week’s theme.

Caregivers are invited to join in. www.DelmarvaDiscoveryCenter.org

Northside Park, 200 125th St., Ocean City, Nov. 21-Dec. 31. Featuring a 50foot Christmas tree and hot chocolate and pictures with Santa in the heated Winterfest Village pavilion. Board the Winterfest Express to tour the 58 acres of fairy tale themed exhibits of lights.

Admission for the train costs $5 for adults and free for children 11 years and younger. Hours are Sunday through Thursday, 5:30-9:30 p.m. and Friday and Saturday, 5:30-10:30 p.m. Info: 800-626-2326, 410-250-0125 or https://oceancitymd.gov.

Free workshops dealing with hypertension, chronic pain self-management, chronic disease self-management, diabetes, fall prevention and cancer. If you would like to register for one of these workshops or you would like more information about bringing any of the workshops to your business or group, contact Jill at MAC, 410-742-0505, Ext. 159. A new workshop, titled “Building Better Caregivers” has been added. It’s a free, 6-week workshop for caregivers of those with conditions that affect memory.

Wed., Nov. 27

For a free vessel check, by a certified United States Power Squadron vessel examiner, contact Tony Curro at tcurro@mchsi.com.

FREE FISHING ROD LOANER PROGRAM

STAR CHARITIES MONTHLY MEETING Ocean Pines library, 11107 Cathell Road, 10 a.m., on the first Friday of each month. Anyone interested is welcome.

Info: Anna Foultz, 410-641-7667.

Temple Bat Yam, 11036 Worcester Highway, Berlin, every Friday, 7:30 p.m. A reform Jewish Synagogue. Info: 410641-4311.

AUMC THRIFT SHOP Atlantic United Methodist Church, 105 Fourth St., Ocean City, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Open Monday through Saturday, year round. Located behind the church with a donation drop off room that is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 410289-4458

NAACP MEETINGS NAACP meetings are held the fourth Thursday of each month. All are welcome. Info: 443-944-6701.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019 Classifieds now appear in Ocean City Today & the Bayside Gazette each week and online at oceancitytoday.com and baysideoc.com.

* Early Deadline *

HELP WANTED

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For Thanksgiving issue, Nov. 29, deadline for

Established & Growing Dental Office

Become a Better You in 2019!

Now Hiring Maintenance Full-time. Full benefits.

Competitive pay.

Call Club Ocean Villas II, 410-524-0880.

Classifieds will be Friday, Nov. 22, 5 p.m.

looking for part-time

Front Desk Person

HELP WANTED

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Dental knowledge necessary.

Send resume to: contact@atlanticdental.com

Full time & Part time To apply go to: www.mygcjob.com

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ChristinesBeautyShop.com

Full time & Part time Stop by our location on 52nd street! or call 443-664-2825

NOW HIRING!!

Production Crew for our WOC kitchen facility Up to $16/hr.

Apply online at: www.delmarvadd.com

is now accepting applications for the following positions:

Cooks, A/V Staff, Painter, General Maintenance, P/T Distillery Tour Guide For more details or to apply, please go online to www.seacrets.com/employment

Courtyard by Marriott 2 15th Street, Ocean City, MD 21842 Now accepting applications for the following YR positions:

• Front Desk Associate • Front Desk Supervisor

Work At The BEACH...

Work With The BEST!!

Top wages, excellent benefits package and free employee meal available to successful candidates.

Apply in person or email resume to: duran.showell@marriott.com All candidates must go through a satisfactory background check.

AM Dining Room Manager

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State program aids those with student debt attain homes

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The Maryland League of Conservation Voters honored Mother’s Cantina restaurant owners Ryan and Neely James with the President Theodore Roosevelt award. The award recognizes environmentally conscious individuals, groups or organizations. The couple is the first non-mayor recipients.

Mother’s Cantina recognized for waste prevention efforts

By Josh Kim Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) Mother’s Cantina restaurant owners Ryan and Neely James have won the Maryland League of Conservation Voters’ President Theodore Roosevelt award, which recognizes environmentally conscious individuals, groups or organizations.

“We believe it’s important to lead by example with regards to environmentalism,” Ryan James said.

Past recipients are Emmitsburg Mayor Donald N. Briggs in 2017 and Salisbury Mayor Jake Day last year.

The high school sweethearts’ conservation efforts began early on as they both grew up in environmentally conscious families.

“My father is a composter, a recycler and a vegan,” Neely James said.

The couple moved to Ocean City almost 12 years ago from Baltimore, and shortly after opened their TexMex restaurant located on 28th Street.

The duo had always planned for the restaurant to be as eco-friendly as possible, but as their family grew with the births of sons Reed, 11, and Roman, 5, and daughter Kaia, 8, they began to pursue the effort with a new sense of urgency.

“The defining moment for me was when we had kids and started to see how much waste being a restaurant

owner creates,” Ryan said.

“It’s always to the point of source reduction,” Neely, 41, said. “Being a larger consumer… and knowing that we have a larger impact on the environment, it then becomes our responsibility to do the best that we can.”

As an example, while a consumer may use five to six straws in one week, a restaurant uses roughly 500 in one day, Ryan, 43, said.

“If we’re not setting the tone … then we’re going to set a poor example for our consumers,” he said.

The couple have cut out 99.9 percent of single-use plastic from their business and no longer use styrofoam takeout containers.

The only single-use plastic items they still use are trash bags, but they are hoping to find a suitable alternative in the near future.

None of this happened overnight, the two said, and it took about five years for them to feel comfortable enough to begin phasing out the plastics and styrofoam and converting to the pricier alternatives.

“The main obstacle is the price.

The products that we are using are more expensive,” Ryan said. “However, it’s worth it because if we don’t have a planet then what’s the point of paying less money.”

The couple absorb some of the cost, but it is also passed on to the consumer.

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Mother’s Cantina owners Ryan and Neely James use no single-use plastic items, except for trash bags, in thier restaurant. Takeout containers, straws and sauce cups are made from 100 percent biodegradable and compostable materials such as sugarcane.

For instance, there is a 25-cent charge on carryout to help pay for the sugarcane takeout boxes, which are 100 percent compostable and biodegradable.

Despite this, the duo have received nothing but praise and positive feedback from customers.

“The consumer has the power,” Ryan said. “If [consumers] are spending money on items that are recyclable, then producers, companies have no choice but to adjust because if not they are going to go out of business.”

The husband and wife have been active politically as well, and advocated for the styrofoam ban and the Clean Energy Jobs Act, both of which passed.

“We’re working on holding information sessions here for other restaurants See OWNERS Page 50

By Lauren Bunting Contributing Writer (Nov. 22, 2109) The state rolled out a unique program called Maryland SmartBuy, which can help buyers with student debt attain homeownership.

This program can also significantly increase a buyer’s purchasing power.

The program works by paying off student debt during the purchase of the home through special Maryland Mortgage Program (MMP) financing.

In August 2018, Maryland SmartBuy 2.0 was rolled out and provides an opportunity for homebuyers to purchase any home in Maryland that meets Maryland Mortgage Program guidelines while paying off student debt.

To qualify for either Maryland SmartBuy program, homebuyers must have an existing student debt with a minimum balance of $1,000.

Maryland SmartBuy financing provides up to 15 percent of the home purchase price for the borrower to pay off their outstanding student debt.

Maryland SmartBuy 2.0 offers the same student debt relief of 15 percent of the home purchase price with a recently increased maximum payoff of $40,000.

The full student debt must be paid off at the time of the home purchase, and homebuyers must meet all eligibility requirements for the Maryland Mortgage Program.

Donna Allenbaugh, mortgage broker with The Federal Savings Bank company, offered a comparison showing that when a buyer uses this program to its fullest capacity (paying off approximately $38,900 in student debt) they could increase their purchasing power by more than $21,000.

With prices increasing in Worcester County and inventory becoming more limited in the $200,000300,000 price range, this increase in purchasing power can make a big difference.

The payoff of the student loan debt comes in the form of a loan that is fully forgivable in five years (reduced by 20 percent each year until year five See MINIMUM Page 50

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Ocean City Downtown Association installation

By Josh Kim Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) The Ocean City Downtown Association celebrated the installation of its new board members and presiding officers on Nov. 13, at Ocean 13 restaurant on the Boardwalk.

The officers are: President, Brooks Trimper; Vice President, Kevin Gibbs; Secretary, Nancy Howard; Treasurer, Amy Rothermel and Immediate Past President, Joe Manganello.

One-year term board members are: Vi Candeloro, Ray Robinson and Steve Taylor. Two-year term members are: Lauren Taylor, Nick Ruggieri and Frank Knight; and three-year term members are: Nancy Bradford, Vicki Barrett and Melody Cedarstrom.

Mary Ann Manganello will serve as the executive director, while Kelly Mitchell will take on the events coordinator role.

Membership fees to join the association are $100 for businesses, and

$30 for individuals.

Rothermel, who has served on the board for 34 years, said the association was born in 1977 when downtown business owners grew concerned over a variety of issues such as parking, street lighting and landscaping.

Since then, the organization has continued to bring these issues to light, while also serving a social function to year-round residents as well.

“Downtown is the heart of Ocean City,” Howard said. “It’s the place where 99 percent of the people who live here now came as children, and couldn’t wait to move in. This is their island in the sun, so I think keeping it the beating heart of Ocean City is still the purpose of the association.”

Ruggieri added that another objective of the association is to increase the overall traffic in Ocean City outside of the summer season.

“I can see a difference from when I used to be here in the 70s as a vaca-

tioner, to these days where you see so much going on all year round,” Ruggieri said.

The organization hosts events throughout the year such as the Crap Soup Cook Off and the After Dark dinner gatherings, which are open to the public.

One effort the group seemed especially proud of was its fundraising initiative to light up the downtown area.

“The Christmas lights and displays you see downtown now are from us,” Joe Manganello said. “Years ago they had it in the inlet parking lot, but the wind was destroying them so they moved what they could up to the Winterfest of Lights [at Northside Park, 125th Street], but we’re trying to bring them back down here.”

While the association is more than 100 members strong, many of the board members have served for a number years.

“Ocean City is a microcosm,” Howard said. “We have a very small

number of people, but we have all of the same organizations and charities that Baltimore has. Baltimore has thousands of people, and we have the same four people that are involved with [it] all … we just can’t help but be redundant in some cases, because there are just not enough of us.”

Nevertheless, board members and officers alike said they look forward to continuing their work with the association and keep the spirit of the downtown flourishing.

“We live here and we work here,” Rothermel said. “My family has had a business [here] for five generations, nearly 100 years. We think [downtown is] an important area and it’s important to keep awareness alive.”

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Continued from Page 49 with regards to the styrofoam ban,” Ryan said. “The styrofoam ban goes into effect July 1, and we feel like a lot of people will be unprepared for that and we want to help them. We want to show them how we have been able to make that transition seamlessly.”

The couple said they were honored to receive the award, but that their work was part of a larger, collective effort here in Ocean City spearheaded by organizations such as the Maryland Coastal Bays Program, Surfriders Foundation, Assateague Coastal Trust, Ocean City Green Team and city officials as well.

“We’re humbled and honored and we can’t wait to use the award to pay it forward and spread the good word,” Ryan said.

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The 2020 officers of the Ocean City Downtown Associations present for the installation event on Nov. 13 at Ocean 13 restaurant, from left, are Kevin Gibbs, vice president; Nancy Howard, secretary; and Amy Rothermel, treasurer.

Continued from Page 49 when it’s fully forgiven).

Financing for the Maryland SmartBuy Program is available only through approved Maryland SmartBuy lenders. These lenders can help you confirm your eligibility and ensure you meet all applicable requirements.

A list of the approved lenders is available at www.mmp.maryland.gov.

— Lauren Bunting is an Associate Broker with Bunting Realty, Inc. in Berlin.

Owners desire to lead by example in waste reduction

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New hire Atlantic General Hospital and Health System has announced that family nurse practitioner Gena Swift, CRNP has joined the medical staff of Atlantic General Health System to provide gastroenterology care alongside Drs. Jonathan Bell and Lee Klepper at Atlantic General Gastroenterology practice.

Swift has ties to the Lower Shore and received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Salisbury University. Upon grad-

uation, she worked in primary care and transitioned to the gastroenterology specialty in 2017.

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Joins staff John Burnett, MD, has joined Peninsula Regional Medical Center’s Richard A. Henson Cancer Institute as a radiation oncologist in Ocean Pines and Salisbury.

Dr. Burnett earned his medical degree from the University of Kansas, where he Continued on Page 52

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BOARD MEMBERS The Ocean City Downtown Association celebrated the installation of its 2020 board members at Ocean 13 restaurant on the Boardwalk, on Nov. 13.

Members, from left, are Frank Knight, Nancy Bradford, Steve Taylor, Vicki Barrett, Viola Candeloro, Melody Cedarstrom, Lauren Taylor, Ray Robinson and Nick Ruggieri.

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More than $98K presented to schools in three counties (Nov. 22, 2019) Schools in Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester counties received $98,449 in grant funding through the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore’s 2019 Education Award Grants Program, which will be distributed across 31 school-based programs.

“By investing in local education programs, we are investing in the future leaders of our community – our children,” said Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore President Erica Joseph. “Teachers are in the classroom every day and see critical needs firsthand. These grants are a unique opportunity to empower local educators to create solutions and opportunities where they think they can make the greatest impact.”

Worcester County received $26,400 of the more than $98,000 distributed.

They will benefit: Buckingham Elementary School will host a bike safety event to raise awareness and educate students on safe biking. Bikes and helmets will be given as prizes during the event.

Cedar Chapel Special School’s Elizabeth Atwood will purchase “switch-accessible devices” to enable students with gross and fine motor difficulties and/or blindness to access curricula.

In addition, Cedar Chapel Special School will install a sensory walkway to

provide students with engaging opportunities for structured movement throughout the day, organized by Mary Beth Lampman.

Ocean City Elementary School’s Eliza Mason-Burt will purchase virtual reality headsets for use in science classes.

Pocomoke High School’s “Speak Up” club will host events and discussions that celebrate diversity, raise awareness about social justice, and strive for a more inclusive community.

Pocomoke High School’s Stephen Whitaker will invite visiting writers to the school to teach advanced creative writing workshops throughout the school year.

Pocomoke Middle School’s Edna Wright will lead a summer program where at-risk students from Pocomoke City schools will be paired with mentors, take swimming lessons, eat lunch, and go on field trips to places like the zoo and museums.

Snow Hill High School’s Tarah Threadgill will stock the school library with a diverse, high-quality set of audio books for students studying for the AP exam.

Snow Hill High School’s Brittany Tignor will help facilitate the student-led Project LIT Book Club.

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Becker Morgan Group ranked 72nd amongst architecture engineering firms and was also recognized as a leader in a series of sector-specific categories including K-12 Schools, Healthcare, Hotel, Office Space, and Higher Education.

W. Ronald Morgan, AIA, president of Becker Morgan Group, continues to attribute the firm’s success to its clients and staff.

Becker Morgan Group emphasizes the importance of continuing education for team members, a value Gregory V. Moore, P.E., Principal says has contributed to the growth of the firm.

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Foundation of the Eastern Shore connects people who care to causes that matter for the common good of the Lower Eastern Shore.

It is a 501c3 nonprofit with a history of fostering charitable endeavors, and has provided $84 million in grants and scholarships to the local community since 1984.

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It is devoted to improving the regional community and believes in the power of philanthropy.

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Continued from Page 51 also completed an internship in surgery.

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WOW! Are you look for a BARGAIN then this 3BR/2BA front and rear bedroom floor plan will be the one for you. Located in North Ocean City. The community amenities include 2-in-ground swimming pools (1 in-ground kiddie pool for the little ones), 2-tennis courts, 2-shuffleboard courts, 9-hole miniature golf course, Bayfront boardwalk with 3-fishing piers, canal front fishing & crabbing area, 8-acre wildlife sanctuary/pond with a 1/2 mile walking path 5-acre open park and street lighting. Sold Unfurnished For $159,500. We Are The Original Montego Bay Specialist Since 1971!!!

Larry Holdren Real Estate, Inc©

Larry Holdren Real Estate, Inc©

13901 Coastal Hwy., Suite 8, Ocean City, MD

13901 Coastal Hwy., Suite 8, Ocean City, MD

For More Information Call 800-252-2223 • 410-250-2700

For More Information Call 800-252-2223 • 410-250-2700

www.larryholdrenrealestate.com • email: ocmdhre@gmail.com

www.larryholdrenrealestate.com • email: ocmdhre@gmail.com

MONTEGO BAY COMMUNITY MONTEGO BAY COMMUNITY

3BR/2BA in N. OC & less than 3/4 of mile from beach. 1 master, open floor plan w/1536 sq. ft. of living space, family room, cathedral ceilings, crown moldings, gas fireplace, natural gas heat, central air, breakfast bar, laundry area w/full size washer & dryer, double-pane windows, 2 x 6 wall construction & 5 ceiling fans. Large utility shed, cement patio & 2-car cement parking pad.

Community amenities - 3 pools, including wading pool for the little ones, 2 tennis courts, 9-hole miniature golf course, shuffleboard court, bayfront boardwalk w/3 fishing piers, canalfront fishing & crabbing area, an 8-acre wildlife sanctuary/pond with 1/2 mile walking path, 5acre open park and street lighting with a lamppost at every residence. Additional amenities include city streets & sidewalks, city water & sewer and city trash collection.

The HOA dues are just $272 a year. $272,000

Call Michael “Montego Mike” Grimes

800-745-5988 • 410-250-3020 108 S. Ocean Drive • Ocean City, MD

155 YAWL DRIVE

This residential building lot is located in the Montego Bay community in North Ocean City which is located between 130th & 135th Street-bayside. The lot is one of the largest (6473 +/-) lots in the community and is zoned for mobile, modular and stick-built (custombuilt) construction up to 2 habitable floors. The community features 3 pools, including a wading pool, 2 tennis courts, 2 shuffleboard courts, a 9-hole min. golf course, a pickle ball court, a bayfront boardwalk with 3 fishing piers, a canalfront crabbing area, an 8-acre wildlife sanctuary with a 1/2 mile walking path and a 5-acre open park. Additional amenities include city streets & sidewalks, city water & sewer and city trash collection. The homeowners association dues are just $272.00 a year. $143,500

Montego Bay Realty

Call Michael “Montego Mike” Grimes

Montegomike@verizon.net www.montegobayrealty.com

108 S. Ocean Drive • Ocean City, MD

800-745-5988 • 410-250-3020

SANDY HILL DRIVE

Montego Bay Realty Montegomike@verizon.net www.montegobayrealty.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2019 Law Offices of Jeffrey Nadel 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 200 Calverton, Maryland 20705 240-473-5000

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY 113 Austin Circle Berlin, MD 21811 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Dennis Sykes and Kathleen Sykes, dated June 6, 2005, and recorded in Liber 4461, Folio 435 among the Land Records of Worcester County, MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Substitute Trustee will sell at public auction at Circuit Court for Worcester County, Courthouse Door for Worcester County, Snow Hill, MD on December 9, 2109 at 11:00 AM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND KNOWN AS Lot 28, Austin Acres, situated in Worcester County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust, carrying Tax ID No. 03154912.

The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions, agreements, easements, covenants and rights of way of record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.

Terms of Sale: A deposit of $18,000.00 will be required at the time of sale in the form of cash, certified check, or other form as the Substitute Trustees determine acceptable. No deposit shall be required of the noteholder where the noteholder bids in the property at auction. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, time being of the essence for purchaser. In the event that settlement does not occur within the said ten days, the purchaser shall be in default. Upon such default the Trustees may file a Motion and Order to Resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser, and purchaser(s) hereby consent to entry of such resale order without further notice, in which case the deposit shall be forfeited and all expenses of this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit. The Trustees may then readvertise and resell the property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser; or, without reselling the property, the Trustees may avail themselves of any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser. Interest to be paid on the purchase money less the stated deposit called for herein, at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note

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Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes, agricultural transfer tax, if any and settlement expenses shall be borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of damage to the property from the date of auction forward. If the Substitute Trustee does not convey title for any reason, including but not limited to the Secured Party executing a forbearance agreement with the borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust, or allowing the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, or if the sale is not ratified for any reason including errors made by the Substitute Trustees, the foreclosure sale shall be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy in law or in equity shall be the return of the deposit without interest. Further terms and particulars may be announced at time of sale, and purchaser may be required to execute a Memorandum of Sale at the time of auction. (Matter #23163) Jeffrey Nadel, Scott Nadel, Daniel Menchel and Doreen Strothman, Substitute Trustees Tidewater Auctions, LLC 305 West Chesapeake Avenue, Suite 105, Towson, Maryland 21204 410-825-2900 www.tidewaterauctions.com OCD-11/21/3t _________________________________ McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC 312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800 Laurel, MD 20707 www.mwc-law.com

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE

OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 12 FOOTBRIDGE TRAIL OCEAN PINES, MD 21811 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Cynthia C. Marks, dated October 29, 2009 and recorded in Liber 5397, folio 66 among the Land Records of Worcester County, 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 County, at the Court House Door, One W. Market St., Snow Hill, MD 21863, on DECEMBER 2, 2019 AT 2:10 PM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON situated in Worcester County, 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 $24,000 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 County, Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase price at the rate of 5% per annum from date of sale to the date the funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased by an entity other than the noteholder and/or servicer. If payment of the balance does not occur within fifteen days of ratification, the deposit will be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser.

There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event settlement is delayed for any reason. Taxes, ground rent, water rent, and all other public charges and assessments payable on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, and front foot benefit charges, if applicable, 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 (including agricultural transfer taxes, if applicable), 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 #19-601324).

Laura H. G. O'Sullivan, et al., Substitute Trustees ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC.

908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204 410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com OCD-11/14/3t _________________________________ VICTORIA L. O’NEILL, ESQ. AYRES, JENKINS, GORDY & ALMAND, P.A. 6200 Coastal Hwy, Suite 200 Ocean City, Maryland 21842

TRUSTEE’S SALE

OF TIME SHARE INTERVALS IN THE BORDERLINKS I CONDOMINIUM OCEAN PINES, MARYLAND By virtue of a certain Claim of Lien recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County, Maryland, and pursuant to the Order of the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, Case No. C-23CV-19-000256, the undersigned Trustee will offer for sale at public auction at the entrance of the Borderlinks I Condominium, located at, 438 Ocean Parkway, Ocean Pines, Maryland, the following described property located in Ocean Pines, Worcester County, Maryland, on Monday, December 2, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. the following timeshare intervals: Condominium Units Ad4 Ad4 Ad4 Ad4 Ad4 Ad4 Ad4 Ad4 Ag7 Ag7 Ag7 Ag7 Ag7 Ag7 Ag7 Ag7 Ag7 Al12 Al12 Al12

Time Intervals 3 8 15 17 46 48 49 51 4 10 12 14 36 38 47 51 52 18 41 43

Each time interval being one week per year in the corresponding unit, each unit being part of the Borderlinks I Condominium, including an undivided interest in the common elements thereof, as established pursuant to a Declaration of Condominium and Timeshare recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County, Maryland in Liber 1332, folio 280, et. seq.

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 warranties and guarantees. A secured party may bid and shall be excused from deposit requirements. The Trustee reserves the right to withdraw any interval from the sale and/or to reject any and all bids.

Terms of Sale: A deposit in the full amount of the sales price per time interval will be required at the time of sale, such deposit to be in cash or check. Cost of all documen-

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tary stamps, transfer taxes, 2019 maintenance fees and all other settlement costs shall be borne by the purchaser. The date of settlement shall be within fifteen (15) days after final ratification by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, time being of the essence; otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser, or in any manner designated by the Trustee; or, without forfeiting deposit, the Seller may exercise any of its legal or equitable rights against the defaulting purchaser.

For more information, call: Victoria L. O’Neill, Esq., Trustee, at 410723-1400 OCD-11/14/3t _________________________________ VICTORIA L. O’NEILL, ESQ. AYRES, JENKINS, GORDY & ALMAND, P.A. 6200 Coastal Hwy, Suite 200 Ocean City, Maryland 21842

TRUSTEE’S SALE

OF TIME SHARE INTERVALS IN THE BORDERLINKS I CONDOMINIUM OCEAN PINES, MARYLAND By virtue of a certain Claim of Lien recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County, Maryland, and pursuant to the Order of the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, Case No. C-23CV-19-000258, the undersigned Trustee will offer for sale at public auction at the entrance of the Borderlinks I Condominium, located at, 438 Ocean Parkway, Ocean Pines, Maryland, the following described property located in Ocean Pines, Worcester County, Maryland, on Monday, December 2, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. the following timeshare intervals: Condominium Units Aa1 Aa1 Aa1 Aa1 Aa1 Ab2 Be31 Be31 Be31 Be31 Bi35 Bi35 Bi35 Bi35 Bi35 Bi35

Time Intervals 37 41 42 45 47 8 4 12 16 50 3 15 46 47 49 51

Each time interval being one week per year in the corresponding unit, each unit being part of the Borderlinks I Condominium, including an undivided interest in the common elements thereof, as established pursuant to a Declaration of Condominium and Timeshare recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County, Maryland in Liber 1332, folio 280, et. seq.

The property will be sold in an “as

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is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranties and guarantees.

A secured party may bid and shall be excused from deposit requirements.

The Trustee reserves the right to withdraw any interval from the sale and/or to reject any and all bids.

Terms of Sale: A deposit in the full amount of the sales price per time interval will be required at the time of sale, such deposit to be in cash or check. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes, 2019 maintenance fees and all other settlement costs shall be borne by the purchaser. The date of settlement shall be within fifteen (15) days after final ratification by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, time being of the essence; otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser, or in any manner designated by the Trustee; or, without forfeiting deposit, the Seller may exercise any of its legal or equitable rights against the defaulting purchaser.

For more information, call: Victoria L. O’Neill, Esq., Trustee, at 410723-1400 OCD-11/14/3t _________________________________

is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranties and guarantees.

A secured party may bid and shall be excused from deposit requirements.

The Trustee reserves the right to withdraw any interval from the sale and/or to reject any and all bids.

Terms of Sale: A deposit in the full amount of the sales price per time interval will be required at the time of sale, such deposit to be in cash or check. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes, 2019 maintenance fees and all other settlement costs shall be borne by the purchaser. The date of settlement shall be within fifteen (15) days after final ratification by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, time being of the essence; otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser, or in any manner designated by the Trustee; or, without forfeiting deposit, the Seller may exercise any of its legal or equitable rights against the defaulting purchaser.

For more information, call: Victoria L. O’Neill, Esq., Trustee, at 410723-1400 OCD-11/14/3t _________________________________

VICTORIA L. O’NEILL, ESQ. AYRES, JENKINS, GORDY & ALMAND, P.A. 6200 Coastal Hwy, Suite 200 Ocean City, Maryland 21842

BWW Law Group, LLC 6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 961-6555

TRUSTEE’S SALE

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE

OF TIME SHARE INTERVALS IN THE BORDERLINKS I CONDOMINIUM OCEAN PINES, MARYLAND By virtue of a certain Claim of Lien recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County, Maryland, and pursuant to the Order of the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, Case No. C-23CV-19-000257, the undersigned Trustee will offer for sale at public auction at the entrance of the Borderlinks I Condominium, located at, 438 Ocean Parkway, Ocean Pines, Maryland, the following described property located in Ocean Pines, Worcester County, Maryland, on Monday, December 2, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. the following timeshare intervals: Condominium Units Al12 An14 An14 An14 An14 Au21

Time Intervals 49 5 6 9 51 40

Each time interval being one week per year in the corresponding unit, each unit being part of the Borderlinks I Condominium, including an undivided interest in the common elements thereof, as established pursuant to a Declaration of Condominium and Timeshare recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County, Maryland in Liber 1332, folio 280, et. seq.

The property will be sold in an “as

OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 8201 ATLANTIC AVE., UNIT #P-3 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated October 9, 2004 and recorded in Liber 4265, Folio 617 among the Land Records of Worcester County, MD, with an original principal balance of $489,500.00, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester County, at the Court House Door, One W. Market St., Snow Hill, MD 21863, on NOVEMBER 26, 2019 AT 3:30 PM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon situated in Worcester County, MD and described as Unit No. P-3, Building One, in the “Oceana 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 $45,000 in the form of certified check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase

NOVEMBER 22, 2019 money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of current year’s real property taxes are adjusted as of the date of sale, and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. Taxes due for prior years including costs of any tax sale are payable by the purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All other public and/or private charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale to be paid by the purchaser.

Any deferred water and sewer charges that purports to cover or defray cost during construction of public water or wastewater facilities constructed by the developer and subject to an annual fee or assessment are to be paid by the purchaser to the lienholder and are a contractual obligation between the lienholder and each owner of this property, and is not a fee or assessment imposed by the county. Any right of prepayment or discount for early prepayment of water and sewer charges may be ascertained by contacting the lienholder. All costs of deed recordation including but not limited to all transfer, recordation, agricultural or other taxes or charges assessed by any governmental entity as a condition to recordation, are payable by purchaser, whether or not purchaser is a Maryland First Time Home Buyer. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale.

The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further liability. The defaulted purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, 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 return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 340173-1)

NOVEMBER 22, 2019 PLEASE CONSULT WWW.ALEXCOOPER.COM FOR STATUS OF UPCOMING SALES Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC. 908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204 410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com OCD-11/7/3t _________________________________

plaint or thereafter a final judgment will be entered foreclosing all rights of redemption in the property, and vesting in the Plaintiff's title, free and clear of all encumbrances.

Brian D. Shockley JUDGE True Copy Test: Susan R. Braniecki Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County MD OCD-11/7/3t _________________________________

Terrapin Certificates LLC c/o James F. Truitt, Jr. 20 East Timonium Road, Suite 106 Timonium, Maryland 21093

Terrapin Certificates LLC c/o James F. Truitt, Jr. 20 East Timonium Road, Suite 106 Timonium, Maryland 21093

Terrapin Certificates LLC c/o James F. Truitt, Jr. 20 East Timonium Road, Suite 106 Timonium, Maryland 21093 Plaintiff v.

Federal National Mortgage Association 14001 COASTAL HIGHWAY, #318 and Worcester County, Maryland (for Maryland Annotated Code 141836(b)(1)(v) purposes only) and Any and all person having or claiming to have any interest in the fee simple in the properties and premises situate, lying and being in the County of Worcester described on the Tax Rolls Worcester County Collector of State and County Taxes for said County known as: 14001 Coastal Highway, Condo Unit: 318, Ocean City, MD 21842, 10th (Tenth) Election District, des All that lot of land and imps. Item 12 10-173086 and 137073-25720: Described as Orleans Court Condominium, Unit 67 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY IN EQUITY Case Number: C-23-CV-19-000310

Terrapin Certificates LLC c/o James F. Truitt, Jr. 20 East Timonium Road, Suite 106 Timonium, Maryland 21093 Plaintiff v.

Michael 0 Green 504 YAWL DRIVE and Worcester County, Maryland (for Maryland Annotated Code 14-1836(b)(1 )(v) purposes only) and Any and all person having or claiming to have any interest in the fee simple in the properties and premises situate, lying and being in the County of Worcester described on the Tax Rolls Worcester County Collector of State and County Taxes for said County known as: 504 Yawl Drive, Ocean City, MD 21842, 10 (Tenth) Election District, described as follows: All that lot of land. Item 16 10-258669 and 124885-40198: Described as Plat Montego Bay Section 6C, Lot 339 3600 Sq Ft IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY INEQUITY Case Number: C-23-CV-19-000311

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this proceeding is to secure the foreclosure of all rights of redemption in the following property 14001 Coastal Highway, Condo Unit: 318, Ocean City, MD 21842 in the County of Worcester, sold by the Collector of Taxes for the County of Worcester and the State of Mary1and to the Plaintiff in this proceeding: All that lot of land and imps. Item 1210-173086 and 137073-25720: Described as Orleans Court Condominium, Unit 67 The complaint states, among other things, that the amounts necessary for redemption have not been paid.

It is thereupon this 25th of October, 2019 by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Ordered, That notice be given by the insertion of a copy of this order in some newspaper having general circulation in Worcester County once a week for three (3) successive weeks, warning all persons interested in the property to appear in this Court by the 2nd day of January, 2020, and redeem the property 14001 Coastal Highway, Condo Unit: 318, Ocean City, MD 21842 and answer the com-

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ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this proceeding is to secure the foreclosure of all rights of redemption in the following property 504 Yawl Drive, Ocean City, MD 21842 in the County of Worcester, sold by the Collector of Taxes for the County of Worcester and the State of Maryland to the Plaintiff in this proceeding: All that lot of land. Item 16 10258669 and 124885-40198: Described as Plat Montego Bay Section 6C, Lot 339 3600 Sq Ft The complaint states, among other things, that the amounts necessary for redemption have not been paid.

It is thereupon this 25th of October, 2019 by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Ordered, That notice be given by the insertion of a copy of this order In some newspaper having general circulation in Worcester County once a week for three (3) successive weeks, warning all persons Interested in the property to appear in this Court by the 2nd day of January, 2020, and redeem the property 504 Yawl Drive, Ocean City, MD 21842 and answer the complaint or thereafter a final judgment will be entered foreclosing all rights of redemption in the prop-

erty, and vesting in the Plaintiffs title, free and clear of all encumbrances.

Brian D. Shockley JUDGE True Copy Test: Susan R. Braniecki Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County MD OCD-11/7/3t _________________________________ COHN, GOLDBERG & DEUTSCH, LLC ATTORNEYS AT LAW 600 BALTIMORE AVENUE SUITE 208 TOWSON, MD 21204 410-296-2550 File #: 452224 Edward S. Cohn Stephen N. Goldberg Richard E. Solomon Richard J. Rogers Michael McKeefery Christianna Kersey David W. Simpson, Jr. 600 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 208 Towson, MD 21204 Substitute Trustees Plaintiffs v.

Richard Boothe 2 133rd Street, Unit 204 Ocean City, MD 21842 Defendant IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND Case No. C-23-CV-19-000214

NOTICE

Notice is hereby given this 5th day of November, 2019, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, that the sale of the property mentioned in these proceedings, made and reported, will be ratified and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 9th day of December, 2019, provided a copy of this notice be published in a newspaper of general circulation in Worcester County, once in each of three successive weeks before the 2nd day of December, 2019.

The Report of Sale states the amount of the foreclosure sale price to be $185,000.00. The property sold herein is known as 2 133rd Street, Unit 204, Ocean City, MD 21842.

Susan R. Braniecki Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, Maryland True Copy Test: Susan R. Braniecki Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County MD OCD-11/14/3t _________________________________ COHN, GOLDBERG & DEUTSCH, LLC ATTORNEYS AT LAW 600 BALTIMORE AVENUE SUITE 208 TOWSON, MD 21204 410-296-2550 File #: 454435 Edward S. Cohn Stephen N. Goldberg Richard E. Solomon Richard J. Rogers Michael McKeefery Christianna Kersey David W. Simpson, Jr. 600 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 208

Towson, MD 21204 Substitute Trustees Plaintiffs v.

Francesco Gambo AND Jean Gambo 13 69th Street, Unit 209 Ocean City, MD 21842 Defendants IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND Case No. C-23-CV-19-000213

NOTICE

Notice is hereby given this 5th day of November, 2019, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, that the sale of the property mentioned in these proceedings, made and reported, will be ratified and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 9th day of December, 2019, provided a copy of this notice be published in a newspaper of general circulation in Worcester County, once in each of three successive weeks before the 2nd day of December, 2019.

The Report of Sale states the amount of the foreclosure sale price to be $137,725.00. The property sold herein is known as 13 69th Street, Unit 209, Ocean City, MD 21842.

Susan R. Braniecki Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, Maryland True Copy Test: Susan R. Braniecki Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County MD OCD-11/14/3t _________________________________ REGAN J.R. SMITH, Assignee CHRISTOPHER T. WOODLEY, Assignee Plaintiffs vs.

DYAN GUSH And IRENE NEIDHARDT Defendants IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY STATE OF MARYLAND Case No. C-23-CV-19-000300

NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, this 7th day of November, 2019, by the Circuit Court for the COUNTY OF WORCESTER, Maryland, and by the authority thereof, that the sale made by Christopher T. Woodley, Assignee of the real property designated as Parcel 4, containing 20.49 acres of land, more or less, as shown on the Plat entitled, "Parcels 2, 3, 4, 8, 5, Minor Subdivision of Lands of Linda Lynch Sellers", having an address of Worcester Highway, Berlin, MD 21811, said Property having Tax Identification No. 03-135772, and Parcel 5, containing 29.16 acres of land, more or less, as shown on the Plat entitled, "Boundary Line Adjustment of Lands of Linda L. Tingle and Stephen L. and Yvonne M. Babcock", having an address of Worcester Highway, Berlin, MD 21811, said Property having Tax Identification No. 03-135780, and reported in the above-entitled cause, will finally be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 19th day of

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PUBLIC NOTICE The motor vehicles described below have been abandoned. The owners and lien holders are hereby informed of their right to reclaim the vehicles upon payment of all charges and costs resulting from the towing, preservation, and storage of the vehicles.

The failure of the owners or lien holders to reclaim the vehicles within three weeks of notification shall be deemed a waiver by the owners or lien holders of all rights, title and interest and thereby consent to the sale of the vehicles at public auction beginning November 21, 2019 or to have it otherwise disposed of in a manner provided by law.

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All vehicles will be sold at auction on-line at www.govdeals.com. For details call 410-723-6643.

AUTH: Ross Buzzuro Chief of Police OCD-11/21/3t ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ December , 2019; provided, a copy of this Order be inserted in the Ocean City Digest, a newspaper of general circulation published in Worcester County, Maryland, once in each of three successive weeks, before the 12th day of December, 2019.

The Report states the amount of the Assignees' Sale to be $75,000.00.

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NOTICE

OF PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING AMENDMENT TO COUNTY ROADS INVENTORY WORCESTER COUNTY Notice is hereby given pursuant to Section 1-204 of the Public Works Article of the Code of Public Local Laws of Worcester County, Maryland that the County Commissioners of Worcester County will hold a Public Hearing on December 17, 2019 at 10:20 a.m. in the County Commissioners’ Meeting Room, Room 1101 Government Center One West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland 21863 The purpose of the hearing is to receive public comment on the proposed deletion from the Inventory of County Roads of a portion of the following public road which is located on the north side of Old Ocean City Boulevard in the Third Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland as shown on Worcester County Tax Map 25 as Parcel 395 and Parcel 86, Lots 3 through 13 and known as I.G. Burton of Berlin:

1. The eastern portion and part of the northeastern portion of Barrett Road being approximately 0.14 mile in length which bisects the properties of Acorn Berlin Chevy, LLC, also known as I.G. Burton of Berlin which have been annexed into the Town of Berlin, Maryland. The property proposed to be deleted from the County Roads inventory will be incorporated into and become a part of the annexed adjacent properties within the Town Limits of Berlin.

Copies of the plat for the above referenced road are filed with the Department of Public Works - Roads Division, 6113 Timmons Road, Snow Hill, Maryland and are available during regular business hours (Monday through Thursday, 6:00 AM 4:30 PM, except holidays) for inspection. The public is invited to attend the hearing and make comment.

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NOTICE

OF APPLICATION FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE Application has been made by the Undersigned for a Transfer of a Class: "A" BEER-WINE License: 7 Day, By: George Frederick Mitchell, 2107 Orchard Drive, Pocomoke City, MD 21851; Theresa Joan Coutu, 7848 Richardson Road, Willards, MD 21874; Thomas Gary Coutu, 7848 Richardson Road, Willards, MD 21874.

For: TI & TC, LLC For the premises known as and located at: T/A: Market Street Deli 1206 Market Street Pocomoke City, Maryland 21851 Formerly: Russ Enterprises, Inc. There will be a public hearing on the application in the Board Room,

Room 1102 in the Government Center, Snow Hill, Maryland, on: November 26, 2019 @ 1:00 P.M. The Board welcomes written or oral comment at said public hearing from any interested party.

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OF APPLICATION FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE Application has been made by the Undersigned for a Class: "A" BEERWINE License: 7 Day, By: Steven Michael Davis, 7903 East Shire Drive, Berlin, Maryland 21811; Nareshkumar Patel, 101 Angela Way, Newark, Delaware 19702; Ranchhodbhai Patel, 16 Penny Lane, Newark, Delaware 19702.

For: Sat Kaiwal, Inc. For the premises known as and located at: T/A: Uncle Willies 111 Flower Street Berlin, Maryland 21811 There will be a public hearing on the application in the Board Room, Room 1102 in the Government Center, Snow Hill, Maryland, on: November 26, 2019 @ 1:10 P.M. The Board welcomes written or oral comment at said public hearing from any interested party.

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NOTICE

OF APPLICATION FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE Application has been made by the Undersigned for a Request to change live entertainment hours inside from 3 P.M. until 9 P.M. to 4 P. M. UNTIL 11 P.M. for a Class: "B" BEERWINE-LIQUOR License: 7 Day, By:

Krista N. Brooks, 11805 Coastal Highway, Ocean City, Maryland 21842.

For: Crabcake Factory Seafood House, LLC For the premises known as and located at: T/A: Loca Madre Tex Mex 11805 Coastal Highway Ocean City, Maryland 21842 There will be a public hearing on the application in the Board Room, Room 1102 in the Government Center, Snow Hill, Maryland, on: November 26, 2019 @ 1:45 P.M. The Board welcomes written or oral comment at said public hearing from any interested party.

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TOWN OF BERLIN

PUBLIC NOTICE CASE NO. 9508 (n)

IN THE MATTER OF THE CONTINUING INVESTIGATION OF THE ELECTRIC FUEL RATE AND PURCHASED POWER COST ADJUSTMENT CHARGES OF THE MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC SYSTEM OF THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF BERLIN PUBLIC UTILITY LAW JUDGE’S NOTICE OF HEARING A Public Hearing in the above entitled matter will be conducted by the Maryland Public Service Commission in the Commission’s 19th floor, William Donald Schaefer Tower hearing room located at 6 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Maryland, on Monday, December 16, 2019 at 1:00 p.m.

OCD-11/21/1t _________________________________ REGAN J. R. SMIHT ESQ WILLIAMS, MOORE, SHOCKLEY & HARRISON LLP 3509 COASTAL HIGHWAY OCEAN CITY, MD 21842

NOTICE

OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Estate No. 15776 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF RALPH JOHNSON JR. Notice is given that Renee L. Johnson, 11628 Church Street, Showell, MD 21862 and Rick A. Johnson, 12 Decatur Street, Berlin, MD 21811, were on November 12, 2019 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Ralph Johnson Jr. who died on July 18, 2014, with a will. There was a prior small estate proceeding.

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

NOVEMBER 22, 2019 of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 12th day of May, 2020.

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.

Renee L. Johnson Rick A. Johnson Personal Representatives True Test Copy Terri Westcott Register of Wills for Worcester County One W. Market Street Room 102 - Court House Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of newspaper designated by personal representative: Ocean City Digest Date of publication: November 21, 2019 OCD-11/21/3t _________________________________

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TOWN OF BERLIN Pursuant to Article III, “District Changes and Other Amendments”, Section 108-214, and Section 108215 of the Berlin, MD Town Code, the Berlin Planning Commission will hold a Public Hearing during its regularly scheduled meeting on December 11, 2019 at 5:30 PM in the Mayor and Council Chambers of Berlin Town Hall, 10 William Street, Berlin, MD to consider a petition for annexation received for two parcels contiguous to the Berlin corporate boundary located on the south side of U.S. Route 50, east of Seahawk Road.

The two parcels are identified as Worcester County Tax Map No.25, Parcel 430 owned by Two Farms, Inc., and Worcester County Tax Map No. 25, Parcel 408, owned by the Michael G. Myers Revocable Trust.

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Bus system needs to return to roots Isn’t it interesting how new technology butts up against the way we’ve always done things, and leaves traditionalists scrambling for a competitive edge?

Welcome to the world of bus transit systems and, somewhat incongruously, newspaper publishing, both of which have been beset by high-tech alternatives that purport to do the same thing, only better.

Except they don’t.

Newspapers, for instance, have been killed, allegedly, by internet news sites that steal and post material from print publications because they don’t have their own reporters.

But this isn’t about newspapers, which, incidentally, are doing fine in this neck of the woods. This is about bus systems, and an Ocean City Council that’s looking for a way to keep phone app-summoned ride-sharing services from siphoning off riders from its traditional, but still excellent, service.

In short, it can’t be done by the usual means, because there’s no way to make a bus ride sexy or exciting.

Putting more buses on the road to reduce the wait time at the bus stop won’t necessarily work either, since Uber can be just about anywhere anytime a customer calls or texts.

Public transportation, like newspapers, has to adapt by deciding what its true mission is and then doing something the new competition can’t or won’t do.

In the case of this area’s local publications, they have retained their readership by publishing stories other outlets won’t do — strictly local and in detail — and then adjusting their prices to match the market.

At one time, public transportation’s job was simply to reduce traffic, and the fares reflected that. That changed over the years, and now the system is expected to do more to pay its own way, even though it’s not the bargain it used to be.

If local government wants to go up against the Ubers of the world, it has to go back to what it once was and endure the losses, at least until the market changes.

There are times, after all, when the way we’ve always done it isn’t the wrong answer.

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The ‘Little Table’ days

By Stewart Dobson Editor/Publisher Among the universal truths declared by deep thinkers such as Aristotle, Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton, were these fundamental laws of our existence: Aristotle — the earth is a sphere; Galileo — the earth orbits the sun; Sir Isaac Newton — at every great family Thanksgiving feast, there is a Big Table and a Little Table.

Ah yes, the Little Table, where the giggle fits and fun with food abide.

Most families of any size have had these Little Devil’s Islands in the dining wilderness, where tots and young preteens are exiled until they are capable of intelligent, adultlevel conversation, such as: Dad: “I think the Republicans have it wrong.”

Aunt Tilly: “You’re a *#%&* idiot. Please pass the asparagus.”

Dad: “Nanny nanny booboo, stick your head in doodoo. More gravy?”

And other intellectual musings to which youngsters can only aspire.

I was stuck at the Little Table for many years, possibly because I once exhorted 7year-old Cousin Nutella to “Shoot for the stars!” with her

knife-and-fork pea catapult. I was 40, and may have been wrong.

In any case, I recently discovered an old family photo of our Little Table Gang that I’d like to share, along with an update on who did what in the following years.

Cousin Esperanza, the one with the fingers in her mouth, is about five minutes away from biting off two of her digits right down to the last knuckle, thus dooming her to a career as a so-so blackjack dealer with a shuffling problem.

Next to me is my brother, who is buttering both sides of his bread, which shows why he’s now retired and I’m not.

Closest to the camera is Cousin Ozzie, who is packing a cap pistol. I haven’t heard

from him in years, but the last thing he said to me as they took him away was, “You rob one bank, and …”

The two girls on my left are Cousins Missy and Sissy. In this photo, Missy (far left) has just consumed a dreaded lima bean and is trying to figure out her next move.

Ultimately, it flew across the room and dropped smack onto the Big Table in front of Uncle Cosmo, who proclaimed, “I knew it! Look, everyone! It fell from heaven!”

Sissy, the sulky one, became a top IRS auditor, whose opening phrase was, “You think you got trouble now? Wait, it gets worse.”

And me? As the photo shows, I haven’t changed much at all.

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Finally, cell service comes to Assateague area Continued from Page 1 available to Verizon users well in advance of the summer season.”

That is outstanding news to the many people who have been frustrated by Assateague’s well known dead zone.

Church said he has had letters from residents as well as the superintendents of both the state and national parks recounting the times they could not make a phone call or send a text message.

That situation was especially alarming in the cases of emergency.

“Someone would have an injury and try to call for help, and it wouldn’t work,” Church said.

In a March 2017 letter to Church, Angela Baldwin, park manager for Assateague State Park, mentioned that the campground office received visitor questions and concerns regarding cell service.

“They are especially concerned when overnight camping since their cell phone is the only means of communication,” Baldwin said in the letter.

He said the project took several years because of three issues – location, proof of need and funding. He believes that Verizon is funding the entire project.

In addition, those Church reached

out to, including Rep. Andy Harris (R-1) and Gov. Larry Hogan, were reluctant to get involved. Church said he was told by many people that Verizon would not make the effort for only 300-400 residents. But the letters from residents and the employees of the two parks apparently got someone’s attention, according to

Church.

“If you get an emergency that results in a death, and you knew about it, that might end up in some liability,” Church said.

He added that communications service is vital because the state and national parks receive millions of visitors a year. For now, it seems like the

voices of residents, state and national park employees and Church wore down Verizon.

“Verizon gave me half a dozen people to talk to from Baltimore and Washington,” Church said. “They could’ve cared less. It was frustrating.

I’m a dog when it gets a hold of a bone it doesn’t want to give up.”

Revenue, savings aid FY19 budget Continued from Page 1 amount the city ended with was $87,048,529 — a positive variance, or difference, of $1.3 million.

In addition, the city’s expenses were budgeted at $80,544,387, but the actual expenses for Fiscal Year 19 were $77,632,430.

In total, the city saw a variance of almost $4.3 million, which resulted in a roughly $1 million surplus in fund balance.

“We anticipated reducing fund balance by $3.1 million, but ended up increasing fund balance by $1,147,252,” Ocean City Budget Manager Jennie Knapp said. “There was unanticipated revenue on the revenue side and unanticipated savings on the expense side.”

Bireley also told city officials that its Other Post Employment Benefit (OPEB) trust fund is also well on its way of being funded.

The city created its trust fund, which pays for retiree health benefits, in 2009 with a 30-year funding plan.

Fiscal Year 19 marks 10 years of payments for the city and as of June 30, the city had an unfunded liability of $21.6 million.

“So even though we are only 33 percent in to the timing of the plan, we are 62 percent funded, that is a good ratio,” Bireley said.

Another key success for the city is its unassigned fund balance, which jumped from $20.3 million last year to $21.3 million this year.

As a percentage of expenditures,

the general fund increased from 25.8 percent to 27.5 percent.

This means the city has a double-A bond rating based on Moody’s credit rating system, which implies the city has very strong creditworthiness.

Moody’s credit rating agency is nationally recognized as one of the “Big Three” agencies.

Moody’s median level for doubleA bond rated organization is an unassigned fund balance of 24.5 percent, so the town is now three full percentage points above the double-A median, and is less than two percentage points away from a triple-A rating.

“I look at this as something that’s very positive for the town, and the town is in a very good, strong financial position,” Bireley said.

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Letters Lucky accidents do occur, says Ocean Pines resident Editor, There is no such thing as a good accident but, as happened to me recently, there can be good outcomes, a lot having to do with assistance from others.

Recently, I was entering the fourway stop intersection at Walmart from Route 50 when another driver coming down the service road blew right through at a high speed and removed the front end of my vehicle, causing my airbags to inflate and disabling my vehicle in the middle of the intersection.

Both cars were eventually totaled by the insurance company. The good part is that no one was hurt including, from my inquiry, the other driver.

The fortunate part of this accident for both drivers was that Steve Grunewald, the Ocean Pines fire chief, was following within a short distance behind the other driver and called in the accident immediately.

He also checked to see if we both were OK. Within minutes, Deputy Sheriff Michael Newcomb arrived on

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the scene whose calm manner and professionalism were comforting.

The Berlin Fire Department was also on scene in minutes and fire police handled traffic control at a difficult and busy intersection.

The fire crew had to first assist the other driver who was trapped in the car.

While I was waiting, another driver who had witnessed the accident stopped and came over to my car and offered her name and number if needed. Her name was Donna … a Walmart employee.

I was eventually able to drive my vehicle slowly, with the front fascia hanging, after failing to remove it myself, into the adjacent parking lot.

While there a young man I only know as Harvey, who worked at the water quality facility in the center, drove over and offered to help me remove the front fascia so I might be able to drive the vehicle but by then I had called the tow truck.

Both Donna and Harvey did not have to stop, take time out of their day and offer assistance but it says a lot about who they are and I certainly appreciate their willingness to do so.

The professionals on the scene

were impressive in the handling of their duties which, considering the circumstances, made things go smoothly and safely. A good outcome thanks to a lot of good people.

I have since learned that drivers speeding through the stop sign are not an unusual occurrence at that intersection.

As my insurance adjustor stated; “I can’t believe there is a four-way stop at an intersection with five lanes.”

Having a red flashing light attached to each stop sign especially on Samuel Bowen Blvd. the service road would be a good start in improving safety.

If something is not done to address the problem, next time the outcome might not be so good.

Jack Barnes Ocean Pines

Wind turbines size change demand additional review (The following is a letter from Delegate Christopher T. Adams (R-37B) to Maryland Public Service Commission Chairman Jason Stanek and forwarded to Ocean City Today for publication).

Dear Chairman Stanek, Thank you for the opportunity to provide comments related to the increase in turbine sizes for Maryland’s Offshore Wind developments. As a representative from the Eastern Shore, I have unique interest in these projects and provide the following comments.

Background On Sept. 24, 2019 and Oct. 1, 2019, respectively, Skipjack Offshore Energy, LLC (“Skipjack”) and US Wind Inc. (“US Wind”) filed non-confidential letters notifying the Maryland Public Service Commission to a change in the turbine selection size originally anticipated for use in the two commission-approved offshore wind projects in Order No. 88192.

Specifically, Skipjack notified the commission that it now plans to use General Electric’s Haliade-X 12MW wind turbines for its approved offshore wind project. In addition, US Wind notified the commission that the Siemens SWT-4.0-130, a 4.0 MW wind turbine and other turbine units that were being evaluated in 2016 by US Wind are no longer commercially available and that US Wind is now evaluating a variety of units with higher (8, 10, and 12) megawatt ratings. US Wind also stated that it would notify the commission of its final turbine selection decision as soon as it is made.

Upon these notifications, Maryland Energy Administration (“ MEA’’) filed a letter dated Oct. 21,

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by Director Mary Beth Tung. In the letter, Director Tung notes the difference in size from what the OSW developers initially planned to use and the new planned sizes.

She writes, “MEA believes that these changes demand additional review by the commission to ensure that the facts underlying the original Order have not been materially modified.”

The commission did issue a notice for an Opportunity to Comment to parties of record and interested persons regarding the turbine size changes and potential impacts on these offshore wind projects.

These comments represent my remarks to the commission under this Opportunity to Comment.

Introduction The increase in size of the turbines is significant for at least two reasons.

The increase in size represents 1.5 to 3 times the size of the turbines originally contemplated by the developers in their applications.

Such an increase will have an impact on construction costs, operations and maintenance costs. Larger capacity turbines are taller to accommodate the larger blades and as a result will have an impact on the viewshed. This could be construed as directly violating Condition I.V. G (7) for set forth in Commission Order No. 88192.

Impacts to Project Cost In her June 4, 2019 letter, Joy Webber, development manager for Skipjack writes, “This change will have no impact on the OREC price schedule and we remain committed to all conditions of the Order.”

This suggests that Skipjack will seek no change to the OREC price schedule to support the new technology. This implies further that the new turbine sizes will have zero net impact on the cost of the Skipjack program. This is without support.

In his Oct. 1, 2019 letter to the commission, Carville Collins, counsel to US Wind goes further and writes: “US Wind assures the commission that although technology is rapidly changing with regard to turbines that are commercially available and ultimately to be selected by US Wind, the final turbine selection is expected to have no material impact on US Wind’s overall construction costs for its project.

Similarly, as a result of final turbine selection, US Wind expects no changes in net ratepayer impacts or the OREC price schedule, and no impact on any condition, US Wind or obligation or other requirement under Order No. 88192.

Neither developers offers a single piece of evidence supporting that

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR their project costs will remain the same.

This increase in size will have an impact on the number of turbines needed to satisfy the order. The order governing the OREC contemplates a certain amount of generation. If indeed that generation can come from fewer turbines, costs should fall as well.

Fewer turbines means developers will spend less money on construction. Fewer towers are necessary.

Fewer blades are necessary. Fewer turbines are necessary. Fewer towers means less manpower to construct them. Fewer boats and boat trips to the lease area will be necessary.

Fewer turbines will require less cabling to connect them.

Beyond reduced construction costs, there are also reduced operations and maintenance costs over the 20-year life of the OREC contract.

Fewer employees are necessary to operate and maintain fewer turbines.

Fewer turbines require fewer replacement parts.

Every cost associated with the project goes down by some degree as the size of the turbine increases.

Maryland’s OREC is worth $131.93 per megawatt-hour (MWh).

Electricity generated by offshore wind turbines is extremely expensive.

However, recent procurements in both Massachusetts and New York,

while expensive, will cost ratepayers of those states remarkably less, $65/MWh and $83.36/MWh respectively. That is to say that Massachusetts’ approved projects will cost less than half of what Maryland projects will cost. New York’s projects will cost about two thirds of Maryland’s cost.

It should be noted that Sunrise Wind shares one thing in common with Skipjack, they both count Ørsted, among their owners.

Skipjack and US Wind bid their OREC applications based on the best technology available at the time of their bids. Now each wants to modify their projects to reflect current technology. If current technology represents reduced costs as procurements in both New York and Massachusetts might indicate, Maryland ratepayers should enjoy a similar modification in the form of an adjusted OREC reflecting the reduced costs. If there are no material impacts to costs as asserted by both developers, then they should show why this is the case.

Viewshed Impacts In condition I.V. G(7), the commission wrote in its 2017 order that both US Wind and Skipjack: “... shall use best commerciallyreasonable efforts to minimize the daytime and nighttime viewshed impacts of its Qualified Offshore Wind Project, including through the reliance on best commercially-available

technology at the time of deployment.

The 12MW turbines now under consideration, particularly by Skipjack measure 260 meters or 853 feet tall, exceed the height of the turbines contemplated within Skipjack’s OREC application.

US Wind’s now possible 8, 10, or 12MW turbines at least double if not triple the 4MW nameplate capacity of turbines in their OREC application.

These too will stand taller than those US Wind had originally planned.

These increases in height for both programs could be construed as directly violating conditions set forth in Commission Order No. 88192. Taller turbines will have an increased impact on the viewshed.

Despite perhaps a reduced number, the horizon will have a lessened mitigating impact on one’s ability to see these turbines from Maryland shores. Even if there are fewer turbines in number, those remaining will be even more noticeable.

This violates the very condition to which both developers agreed.

Conclusion Skipjack and US Wind have each determined to use turbines larger than those contemplated in their original OREC applications. An increase in size will have immediate impacts on the cost of development for both projects and then operations and maintenance in outyears.

The cost change in this case benefits the developers and represents nothing short of a “bait and switch” for Maryland ratepayers forced to pay a now unsupported $131.93 OREC. Maryland’s payers will indeed be paying twice as much as their counterparts in Massachusetts and over 60 percent more than payers in New York. Maryland ratepayers are entitled to know that they are getting the best deal for their electricity sourced from offshore wind.

Further, the impact on viewshed is dramatically taller than originally contemplated in the OREC applications. There have been no studies or analysis done with these sized turbines in mind.

For these reasons alone, the PSC should open a full evidentiary proceeding to determine whether the new turbine sizes justify the $131.93 OREC and whether the increase in overall turbine height will have a negative impact economic or otherwise on Maryland.

Delegate Christopher Adams

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Ravens Roost solicits local teams for swim New Year’s Day fundraiser for AGH could see fewer out-of-town participants

By Greg Ellison Staff Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) Because New Year’s Day falls on a Wednesday next year and fewer visitors are likely to travel to the resort for a mid-week holiday, organizers of the Atlantic General Hospital Foundation’s annual Jan. 1 Penguin Swim hope to bolster the event’s ranks with more local participants.

OPA Clubs Committee Chairman Gary Miller, who is also a member of the OC Ravens Roost #44 penguin swim team, said the Wednesday date of the fundraiser could mean fewer participants from out of town.

“What we’re trying to do is get more teams involved,” he said.

Miller, who has taken the icy dip for the last dozen years, encouraged residents from Ocean Pines and elsewhere to register individually or gather friends and family for a team effort, with pre-event registration available online at aghpenguinswim.org or in-person the day of, or evening prior, to the event which originates from the Princess Royale on 91st Street.

Kam LaBrunda, AGH Foundation development coordinator, said weather conditions, in addition to calendar alignments, can negatively affect turnout for the New Year’s Day shindig, which under optimal conditions has peaked at more than 1,000 water-braving souls.

“In 2018, Monday, was the year it was really cold and we had about 420 participants,” she said. “Last year it was a Tuesday … it was warm and we had about 650 participants.”

By comparison, LaBrunda said in 2016, when the year debuted on a Friday, a record draw occurred.

“Our most participants were in 2016 … and that was 1,035 people,” she said.

Miller said the OC Ravens Roost, which was the top earning commu-

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The OC Ravens Roost #44 Penguin Swim team was awarded top earning community team honors during Atlantic General Hospital Foundation’s annual New Year’s Day fundraiser and has raised over $120,000 in total over the last 10-plus years.

nity team in 2019, has raised over $120,000 in total over the last 10plus years.

“There’s a lot of different ways money is raised,” he said.

For example, Miller said the Ravens Roost recently held a “guest bartender night” at the Ocean Pines Yacht Club to solicit funds in advance of the event.

Miller also said outside partners have lent backing, such as Capt. Joe Crocetti with the Shrimp Boat in West Ocean City.

“He held an AGH appreciation day two weeks ago and a percentage of funds were donated to the penguin swim,” he said.

While registration is available up until the event, Miller said anyone contemplating jumping into the fray, or water, especially those forming a team, should do so sooner than later.

“The earlier teams can get formed, the longer team members have to hold fundraising events and send out letters to family and friends,” he said.

Registration can be done online and includes a $25 per-swimmer fee, with all participants receiving a commemorative T-shirt. Pre-registration

by Dec. 1 guarantees size selections.

“We’re also trying to get athletic teams at different schools to participate,” he said.

LaBrunda said the last penguin swim to occur on a Wednesday drew about 650 attendees.

“That’s pretty much what we are expecting” she said.

Now in its 26th year, the annual dip has raised more than $1.4 million to support the AGH Foundation.

Of that sum, LaBrunda said roughly $600,000 has been generated through the efforts of Bull on the Beach, 94th Street, and sister restaurant Crab Alley in West Ocean City.

“They have events throughout the year, [including a] golf tournament [plus] bull roast and crab feast,” she said.

Regardless of the precise dollar total raised, LaBrunda said the event

includes numerous contests and inside activities to add entertainment value to the New Year’s Day charity endeavor.

“We do a costume contest [and] maybe half show up in costumes,” she said. “They don’t all register for the contest but they definitely show up.”

LaBrunda said day of registration, the only option for costume entries, takes place at the atrium in the Princess Royale, with pre-registration and advanced check in on New Year’s Eve from 2-4 p.m.

“Also in the atrium … we have carnival games for kids and families to stay occupied while waiting for even,” she said.

LaBrunda said the roughly half dozen children’s games also help raise funds, with tickets running a dollar per pair.

“Kids can win prizes like stuffed animals,” she said.

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County approves reduced rental license fees Continued from Page 1 lowed an influx of complaints and concerns about the initial proposals, as Commissioner Bud Church alone reported having received well over 200 email complaints about the high costs.

“It may adversely affect the people that comply,” Commissioner Joseph Mitrecic said, adding that the county might see more compliance with a $200 license than it would if licenses cost twice that.

Ed Tudor, director of review and permitting for Worcester County, added that he set that high number to ensure that the program would pay for itself. He also cited areas in the south and west whose rental license fees were up to $1,000. Talbot County’s fee is $440, according to Tudor.

“But $400 compared to what’s going on locally, especially when this doesn’t impact the incorporated towns, to me smacks of being unfair,” Commissioner Chip Bertino said.

He also pointed out that since the new software for the rental license program will also be used to collect the hotel room tax, which will be a major source of revenue, then the rental license fee should be insignificant.

In Ocean City, which has its own

rental license program, the fee is $116, with an added $25 for a noise control permit.

Wicomico County does not have a rental license program, but the city of Salisbury does. Its license fee is $120.

According to their county government websites, Montgomery County charges $114 per unit for a singlefamily rental license. Prince George’s County charges short-term rental licenses at $150 and single-family unit rental licenses at $115 for two years.

County Commissioner Joshua Nordstrom, who represents the Pocomoke district, was uneasy about the proposed $100 long-term rental fee hurting tenants.

“You’ve got a lot of folks who live in this county, outside municipalities, a lot of them who are in my district, who rent because they can’t afford to buy,” Nordstrom said. “If you are just barely making your bills now, which there are a whole lot of people in my district and throughout the county who are in that position, $100 is more than too much to ask to burden them.”

Bunting cited a similar concern about the proposed $400 fee for mobile homes, highlighting that those mobile parks are the only affordable housing for some residents, and therefore could be an even bigger

hurt than the proposed $100 longterm rental fee. County Treasurer Phil Thompson countered that because of the current mobile home excise tax, those who rent mobile homes are already paying nearly that much.

In his report, Tudor said the $400 per lot, site or unit was proposed to make up for the loss of the mobile home excise tax. The excise tax currently requires rented mobile or manufactured homes to have a license.

The excise tax was abolished during the commissioner’s Aug. 20 meeting to mirror the upcoming rental license program.

Tudor also advised the commissioners to hire two new employees – one to process license applications and renewals and the other to focus on education, enforcement and complaints.

Mitrecic moved to hire one employee for now and reevaluate during the county budget meetings in six months, noting that the county would be in a difficult decision if it ended up only needing one employee.

“I’m a full-steam-ahead kind of guy,” Mitrecic said, “but I think we need to take a step back and crawl a little bit and see how this first year is going to shake out for us before we hire.”

Diana Purnell, president of the Worcester County Commissioners, expressed a concern that managing the rental program would be too much work for one employee.

In addition, she said the county was already behind on the Jan. 1, 2020 enactment, considering that the county has no system and hasn’t started searching for the new employee. Tudor confirmed that even if the county authorized the software that day, it would not be ready in time. Rentals will have to be processed by paper until the software is ready.

In addition to passing the license program with its reduced fee schedule, the commissioners agreed to buy the Munis CSS software at an initial cost of $50,492, implementation cost of $39,200 and annual maintenance of $11,736.

Tudor said the implementation cost may be less since county employees are already familiar with the program. The county will hire one employee to manage the program and will reevaluate hiring a second employee during the budget meetings.

Nordstrom and Purnell opposed the motion. Commissioner Ted Elder was absent.

Sarah Rayne, government and public affairs director for the Coastal Association of Realtors, said she was glad to see the fees brought down to other license fees in the area.

“You’re going to get more people who want to continue to operate their rentals and comply with the licensing requirement if you’re reasonable with your fee,” Rayne said. “Two hundred dollars is completely reasonable and I know that my members feel the same. I think the rental industry will continue to thrive.”

She did express some concern about the possibility of confusion as the program starts, especially since it will be a slow start without the software on Jan. 1.

“If this is supposed to go in effect on January 1, we need some direction on how to apply,” Rayne said.

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Despite the penguin “swim” theme, Miller said full submersion is not required.

“People don’t have to get their whole body into the water,” he said. “All you’ve got to do is get your feet wet.”

“We definitely get more participants when it’s warmer,” LaBrunda added. “Toes count [and] you don’t have to go all the way in.”

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Nazi German battle cruisers sink Rawalpindi

By Sam Ghaleb Contributing Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) This week, 80 years ago, the armed merchant cruiser Rawalpindi was sunk by two German battle cruisers.

Just days before the outbreak of the Second World War, the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) sent two pocket battleships into the Atlantic Ocean. The pocket battleships Admiral Graf Spee and Deutschland steamed quickly, with their support vessels, to their predesignated war stations to conduct operations as surface raiders.

In Britain, as the clouds of war rapidly approached, the Royal Navy began to requisition ships from civilian companies such as Cunard and White Star. These ships were converted for use, in war time roles, as “Armed Merchant Cruisers” (AMC).

Armed merchant cruisers were desperately needed in the Royal Navy. Prewar studies had shown that the U.K. would need at least 70 modern cruisers to protect all the trade routes around the world and secure the flow of goods to the British Isles.

The Royal Navy had about 65 cruisers of all types in 1939. But many of these were of the C and D classes of outdated World War I design. At the start of hostilities in September 1939, the Royal Navy requisitioned 50 merchant ships. The ships were mostly liners and passenger cargo ships, which were converted to armed merchant cruisers. The ships were armed with seven to eight pre-World War I six-inch naval guns that were considered antiquated compared to modern naval guns.

One such ship was the Rawalpindi, named for a city in Pakistan, which at that time was a part of India and the British Empire. The ship was one of a class of four 16,000-ton passenger ships built by Harland & Wolf shipbuilding yard in Belfast.

Launched on March 26, 1925, Rawalpindi began her sailing days with P&O’s Line on the Britain to

India route, via the Mediterranean and Suez Canal. After an uneventful 14 years of service, on Aug. 24, 1939, the Rawalpindi was formally requisiGrand Admiral tioned by the Admiralty for use as an Erich Ræder AMC. A week later, as the passenger liner began to be fitted out for war service, Germany invaded Poland.

During her refit, the Rawalpindi was placed under the command of Capt. Edward Kennedy RN. A veteran Royal Navy officer, he was 60 years old and retired when he was recalled to active duty. His crew of 302 was mostly Rawalpindi’s civilian crew who were part of the Royal Navy Reserve. A few full-time members of the Royal Navy were also embarked.

The Rawalpindi was armed with eight 6-inch guns built in 1900, and two 3-inch gun mounts. Her crew had seen service in the First World War. The ship’s outside appearance and interior were altered to make her fit for war time service.

The passenger liner’s aft funnel was removed, as were most of the civilian luxuries, leaving a bare bones passenger liner. By mid-September, HMS Rawalpindi was out of the yard as an AMC. She then sailed for the RN Base at Scapa Flow to begin conducting patrols in the Atlantic that would last three weeks at a time.

HMS Rawalpindi began her first patrol in late September. The confusion caused by the action of both surface units and submarines of the Kriegsmarine was apparent. Some merchant ships were being sunk as far east as the Indian Ocean.

Rawalpindi’s task was to report back to Home Fleet Headquarters about the movement of German surface raiders trying to break into the Atlantic. During this period, British Intelligence sources were in the dark about how many surface raiders there were, or the identity of the ships in-

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Reports from vessels of neutral countries that encountered a German pocket battleship in the South Atlantic incorrectly believed that the pocket battleship was the Admiral Scheer or Deutschland, rather than the Admiral Graf Spee. As more merchant ships were sunk in the South Atlantic, the continuing confusion on which ship, or how many ships were actually out there began to make the search for the German raiders much more difficult, and would stretch the Royal Navy’s resources to the limit.

During Rawalpindi’s second northern patrol, the AMC intercepted the German merchant freighter Gonzenheim in the North Atlantic on 19 October, but as the boarding party moved toward the freighter, she was scuttled by her own crew rather than be claimed as a war prize.

HMS Rawalpindi then headed back to port to intern the captured crew of Gonzenheim as prisoners-ofwar. In early November 1939, Capt.

Kennedy received orders to sail to the southeast of Iceland to begin the third northern patrol for his ship.

Also, in early November, Grand Adm. (Großadmiral) Erich Ræder, the chief of the Kriegsmarine, noting the effects of both pocket battleships on the Royal Navy’s operations, ordered Vice-Adm. Wilhelm Marshall, on Nov.13, to sail for a position south east of Iceland, with the Kriegsmarine’s two most modern “battleships,” the sister ships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

His orders were to maintain pressure on the Royal Navy, distract it from pursuing the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee in the south Atlantic, and to engage targets as they presented themselves.

The Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were classified by the German Navy as battleships. In fact, the Royal Navy viewed them as battle cruisers because their main gun battery was of 11-inch caliber only. These ships were launched in 1936. Although these ships were to be 10,000 tons under the Treaty of Versailles, both ships were 38,000 tons fully loaded and armed with nine 11-inch guns as their main battery and 12 5.9-inch guns as their secondary battery.

With a speed of 32 knots and a crew of more than 1,450 officers and sailors, they were at the time the most advanced battleships (battle cruisers) built by Germany.

The Scharnhorst and Gneisenau headed north. After 36 hours sailing in appalling weather at 12 knots, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau reached their northern patrol area of operations.

With the weather masking their movements and with visibility less than a mile, Vice-Adm. Marshall, still being cautious, ordered both battleships to fly the Royal Navy’s White Ensign in a further attempt to deceive any other ship. At late afternoon on Nov. 23, lookouts onboard Scharnhorst spotted a ship. Capt. Hoffman ordered an increase in speed to identify the ship and signaled Vice-Adm. Marshall, on Gneisenau, that he sighted a large steamer and continued to close on the ship, which Capt.

Hoffman identified as an armed merchant cruiser.

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On the Scharnhorst, Capt. Hoffman treated the encounter as an unknown warship. He ordered a signal sent: “What Ship?” and with the range going down to four and one half miles, far too close for comfort, the battleship fired a warning shot across Rawalpindi’s bow.

Capt. Kennedy received the signal and then sent the ship’s identification code to the German warship. He tried to lay a smokescreen but the chemical canisters used proved to be duds. He then ordered a small increase in speed and a course change to port.

Capt. Kennedy then ordered a distress signal to be sent to Home Fleet HQ stating that a German warship had intercepted Rawalpindi. He also mistakenly identified the lead German ship as the pocket battleship Deutschland.

But time for HMS Rawalpindi had run out. Capt. Kennedy knew the odds. A converted passenger liner with no armor and limited weapons against two battleships with heavy guns and armor piercing shells stood no chance. His ship, which could make 17 knots at best while his adversaries could almost double that, meant that his ship could not even run away from her German assailants.

At that moment, the chief engineer arrived on the bridge. After a quiet word, Kennedy shook the chief’s hand, and then said; “We’ll fight them both, they’ll sink us — and that will be that. Goodbye.” Capt, Kennedy then proceeded to clear the decks of Rawalpindi for action.

He ordered a second signal to be sent to Home Fleet HQ: “Under Attack By Deutschland.” At 1703 hours, the captain ordered Rawalpindi’s gun batteries to open fire. The first salvo of 6-inch shells from the port guns burst harmlessly against Gneisenau while a second salvo missed Scharnhorst.

The Scharnhorst replied only moments later and her second 11-inch salvo knocked out the merchant cruiser’s electrical system, leaving the ship in darkness and disabling the

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At 1706 hours, the Scharnhorst’s fourth salvo struck the forward superstructure, killing Capt. Kennedy and most of the ship’s officers, and destroying the radio room. The Gneisenau was also now within range and started to fire at Rawalpindi’s port side, joining with her sister ship in tearing the Rawalpindi to pieces.

The many fires onboard were now joining into one big fire from stem to stern. As a result, the ship’s water supply was out, the steering controls were destroyed, and the engines were finished. Rawalpindi began to sink, with many of her gun crews either dead or severely wounded, and the rest of her crew abandoning ship by jumping into the freezing waters of the North Atlantic.

While pulling out the remaining 27 sailors of the Rawalpindi from the freezing waters, Gneisenau lookouts spotted a warship on the northern horizon. It was the modern cruiser HMS Newcastle, the closest Royal Navy warship to the battle. ViceAdm. Marschall ordered both battleships to depart the area heading west into the twilight. HMS Newcastle was then joined by the old cruiser HMS Delhi. Both knowing that they were outgunned, they shadowed both German battleships, reporting back to the Admiralty.

The battle between Rawalpindi, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau lasted for 40 minutes, showing the insanity of placing an armed merchant cruiser alone against modern warships. She was a lookout without backup.

What made Rawalpindi unique was the magnificent futility of her last stand in the finest tradition of the Royal Navy. Capt. Kennedy had no option but fight to the bitter end.

Also, the courage of her crew is exemplary. Capt. Kennedy and his men did everything possible in the hope of keeping Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in the area so the Royal Navy’s heavy units could finish them off. But through no fault of theirs, that was not to be. Capt. Kennedy’s actions were recognized by the Royal Navy when he was awarded the Victoria Cross (posthumously). The actions of Rawalpindi’s crew were above and beyond what was expected of them, and brought honor to both the Merchant Marine and the Royal Navy.

Despite the British effort to intercept

MARYLOU THOMPSON LAMPE Selbyville Marylou Thompson Lampe, age 89, of Selbyville, passed away peacefully in her home after a long illness on Friday, Nov. 8, 2019. She was surrounded by her children and loving husband of 69 years.

Marylou was born on Oct. 20, 1930 in LaHarpe, Illinois, and Marylou Lampe was the daughter of the late Ernest and Ruth (Anderson) Thompson.

She has many cherished friends from her early school days that she maintained strong and loving bonds with over her lifetime.

She attended the University of Illinois where she met and married Chuck Lampe. She moved several places from the Mid-West to the East Coast until finally settling in the Maryland/Delaware area.

She enjoyed her work at the University of Maryland, Speech and Hearing Department until her retirement.

The greatest joys in her life were her faith, and her family.

Marylou was an active and supporting member of Mariner’s Bethel United Methodist Church in Ocean View and was very active in co-teaching the Church Sunday School Joy Class until her illness.

Marylou loved her family. She is survived by her husband of 69 years, Charles R. Lampe; three children, Greg Lampe and wife, Beverly, of Silver Spring, Maryland, Jeff Lampe and wife, Karen, of Meyersville, Maryland, and Jeanne Mecca and husband, Billy, of North Haven, Connecticut; five grandchildren, Sarah,

Linnea, Shayna, Christina and Nikki and eight great-grandchildren, Dylan, Sofia, Connor, Olivia, Julia, Owen, Oliver and Josie.

A funeral service was held on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019 at Mariner’s Bethel United Methodist Church in Ocean View, Delaware. Burial was in Mariner’s Bethel Cemetery.

The family would like to offer a special thanks to her caregivers Suzanne, Rhoda and Cathy who helped Marylou through her long illness.

In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to: Mariner’s Bethel United Church, 81 Central Ave., Ocean View, Delaware 19970, or to a charity of your choice.

Condolences may be sent by visiting www.bishophastingsfh.com.

the German ships, both German battleships returned to Wilhelmshaven on Nov. 27, 1939.

Rawalpindi’s magnificent last great act of defiance became the standard that those on AMC’s held for themselves. The AMC HMS Jervis Bay, while defending a convoy of 38 ships against the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, on Nov. 5, 1940, met the same fate as Rawalpindi. Jervis Bay fought the pocket battleship, allowing all but five ships of her convoy to escape.

During the Second World War,

Britain and her Allies converted 57 civilian ships to Armed merchant cruisers, including HMAS Westralia, Manoora, and Kanimbla). They all served with honor.

The price was 15 armed merchant cruisers lost — three to German surface warships, one by shipboard fire, one to Japanese carrier aircraft, and 10 to U-boats. In the end, the remaining armed merchant cruisers were converted to the more suitable role for ships of that size as troop transports.

Next week: Winter War

CECIE GERTRUDE ARDIS Girdletree Cecie Gertrude Ardis, age 76 went to be with the Lord on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019.

Born in Girdletree in the family home on Taylors Landing Road, she was the daughter of the late Clarence Wilson Ardis and Dolly Nancy Holland Ardis.

Cecie Ardis She is survived by her brother, Calvin Lee Chesser of Leesburg, Virginia, and many cousins, nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her brothers, Louis E. Ardis and Francis N. Hooks.

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OBITUARIES Continued from Page 66 and friends, and spending time at Taylors Landing.

A graveside service was held on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019 at Springhill Cemetery in Girdletree. Pastor John Oltman officiated.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests you plant a flower, go for a bicycle ride, or just sit in peace and watch the gentle waves on the bay at Taylors Landing.

Letters of condolence may be sent via: www.burbagefuneralhome.com.

Arrangements are in the care of the Burbage Funeral Home in Berlin.

DOROTHY D. NUTTLE Berlin Dorothy D. Nuttle, age 94, died on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019 at Gull Creek Retirement Community near Berlin.

Born in Westchester, Pennsyvania, she was the daughter of the late Amon and Ruth Long Deaver.

She was preceded in death by husbands, Lewis William Davis, Sr. and Elias Nuttle, and son, Bill Davis, Jr. She is survived by her daughter, Vicki Lynn Davis of Berlin, and stepson, Henry Nuttle and his wife, Heidi, and their children, Gena and Chrissie.

There are two grandchildren, Kelly Anne Mansel and David Gallway, and four great-grandchildren, Savana, Hailey, Colton and Marick.

Mrs. Nuttle earned an associate’s degree, and had worked as an accountant in retail. She was a member of St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Denton.

Being a “Mom” was her favorite pastime, along with cooking and volunteering at church. She was also a member of Methodist Women.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019 at 1 p.m. at the Community Church at Ocean Pines, 11227 Racetrack Rd. Berlin, Maryland 21811.

Letters of condolence may be sent via: www.burbagefuneralhome.com.

Arrangements are in the care of the Burbage Funeral Home in Berlin.

RICHARD LEE CORRIGAN Berlin Mr. Richard Lee Corrigan, “Dick,” age 86, died on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019 at the Snow Hill Nursing Home.

Born in Baltimore, he was the son of the late Henry and Cleta Franey Corrigan.

He is survived by his wife, Sarah “Sally” M. Corrigan, and children, Richard Lee Corrigan, Jr. and his wife, Libby, of Ellicott City, Douglas Corrigan and his wife, Catherine, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, Gene Engler and his wife, Gabi, of Dusseldorf, Germany, and Kimberly Corrigan and her husband, Gerry Frenze, of Newark, Delaware.

There are seven grandchildren and two step-grandchildren.

Janet Corrigan, Dick’s first wife and the mother of Kim, Lee and

Doug, passed away in 2001 after losing the battle to cancer.

An accomplished lacrosse player and coach, Mr. Corrigan received his bachelor’s degree from the Dick Corrigan University of Maryland, College Park.

While playing at the University of Maryland he was a First Team AllAmerican and received the prestigious “Turnbull Award” given to the Attackman of the Year in collegiate lacrosse.

From there, he became an assistant lacrosse coach to the famous Willis Bilderback at the United States Naval Academy during a period of unprecedented success, never matched again.

He moved on to Yale University as the head coach where his teams enjoyed Ivy League titles.

After coaching, he became an athletic administrator at the University of Pennsylvania and the Big Five and then moved onto the business world and enjoyed success as a developer of lightweight foam products that are still featured in athletic equipment and athletic shoes today.

In the twilight of his career, he migrated back to the University of Maryland where he was able to reconnect with old friends and team-

mates in his role as fundraiser for the athletic department.

Above all his accomplishments, he will be remembered for his devotion to family and friends, humor, generosity and humility.

A celebration of life will be held Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019 at noon, at St Mary’s Govans, located at 5502 York Rd. Baltimore, Maryland 21212.

The service will be followed by a reception at the Accelerator Event Space, located at 417 Benninghaus Road (two blocks away from the church). All family and friends are welcome.

A donation in his memory may be made to: Coastal Hospice. Letters of condolence may be sent via: www.burbagefuneralhome.com.

Arrangements are in the care of the Burbage Funeral Home in Berlin.

DARLENE MAE HALL Bishopville Darlene Mae Hall, age 70, of Bishopville, died Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019 at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin.

Darlene was born in Millsboro, Delaware, and was the daughter of the late Granville Thomas and Nora Ruth (Fisher) Wootten.

She had worked for Perdue Farms in Salisbury. She loved her dogs and cats and trips to the slots.

She is survived by three children, Glenn A. Hall Jr. and Greg A. Hall, both of Bishopville, and Susan R.

Holloway and husband, Robert, of Berlin; and one granddaughter, Rachel P. Holloway.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Glenn A. Hall, in 2013, and a brother, Ronald Wootten.

A graveside service was held 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019 at Redmen’s Cemetery in Selbyville.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to: Showell Volunteer Fire Department, 11620 Worcester Hwy., Showell, Maryland 21862.

Condolences may be sent by visiting www.bishophastingsfh.com.

WILLIAM MILLER SHOOP, JR. Ocean City William Miller Shoop, Jr., age 79, of Ocean City, Maryland, passed away peacefully on Nov. 2, 2019, at the Capital Caring Adler Center in Aldie, Virginia.

He was born on Aug. 29, 1940, to the late William Shoop, Sr. and Mary Dietrick Shoop.

W. Shoop, Jr. Bill’s prize possessions were his faith, wife and his family.

Time spent with his wife, his children and their families brought him the most joy. He loved them with all his heart.

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OBITUARIES Continued from Page 67 His faith influenced the way he lived his life and you could see it in all his actions. Bill always saw the good in people and loved to strike up a conversation with anyone.

He has been involved in sports since childhood. He played basketball and baseball at John Harris High School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Bill graduated from Penn State University and worked at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for 37 years.

Once Bill and Sue retired, they moved to Ocean City, Maryland, where they achieved their dream of living at the beach. They were able to travel many places and treasure their time together.

Bill was involved with many groups in the community. He served as deacon, Sunday School director, youth group leader, and sang bass in the church choir.

Once he retired to Ocean City, he became involved in the AARP group and was the treasurer for the local chapter. He also served as treasurer for the condo association.

Bill and Sue became members of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Ocean City and happily became involved in many duties and activities he performed so lovingly.

William joins his parents and his sister, Betty Groff.

He is survived by his loving wife of 55 years, Susan Neely Shoop; daughters, Cynthia Louise Thomas and her husband, Andrew Thomas, Sr., Ceda Anne Putiyon and her husband, Jeff, and Carolyn Sue Pope and her husband, Shannon; grandchildren, Andrew Thomas, Jr., Amanda Thomas, Patricia Putiyon, Austin Thomas, and Christopher Pope; great-grandchildren, Andrew Thomas III, and Trinity Thomas; and his little dog, Teddy.

The memorial service will be held on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019 at St.

Peter’s Lutheran Church, 10301 Coastal Highway, Ocean City, Maryland 21842 at 11 a.m. The family will receive visitors from 10-11 a.m.

In lieu of flowers donations may be made to: St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, 10301 Coastal Highway, Ocean City, Maryland 21842.

DORIS ANN REW Girdletree Doris Ann Rew, age 78, died on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019.

Born in Salisbury, she was the daughter of the late William and Madeline Wilkens Smith.

She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Lynden Rew; a sister, Carolyn Murdock; Doris Rew and a brother, William Smith.

She is survived by her daughters, Deborah L. Pilchard of Laurel, and Teresa L. Pilchard and her husband, Lubin, of Pocomoke.

She was an adored grandmother to Chris Richmond, Melissa Cooper, Eric Bolding and his wife, Rachael, Kyle Pilchard and his wife, Kristen, and Mike Rew and his wife, Kelly.

There are several great-grandchildren and four great-great-grands.

Also surviving is a niece, several nephews, and a host of friends.

Mrs. Rew had worked as a seamstress for over 40 years and at Newark Station for many years.

A loving mother, grandmother great- and great-great-grandmother, she also loved and cherished her little dog, Dobie, who was a constant companion.

Doris was a 16-year member of the Girdletree Volunteer Fire Company Ladies Auxiliary, also having served as a past president.

Hobbies included playing cards with her best friend, Millie, shopping

and raising beautiful flowers in her yard.

A funeral service was held on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019 at the Burbage Funeral Home in Snow Hill.

Pastor Donny Baily officiated. Interment was in Springhill Cemetery in Girdletree.

A donation in her memory may be made to: Girdletree Volunteer Fire Company, 2739 Snow Hill Rd., Girdletree, Maryland 21829.

Letters of condolence may be sent via: www.burbagefuneralhome.com.

VICTORIA SHARP RYMER Fenwick Island Victoria Sharp Rymer, age 79, of Fenwick Island, died Friday, Nov. 15, 2019 in Lewes, Delaware.

Victoria was born in Bronx, New York, and was the daughter of the late Edward J. and Mary (Desmond) Sharp and the older sister of Gloria.

Vicki graduated from the University of Maryland in 1961 with a BS in accounting and then went on to earn her master’s degree and PhD in accounting from the same university.

Vicki spent over 40 years as an accounting professor primarily at the University of Maryland.

She was married to the late John L. Rymer for over 56 years and was the mother of two sons, including the late David Rymer.

Vicki was an avid Terp fan and could be found at countless Maryland sporting events with her husband at her side.

Victoria is survived by her younger sister, Gloria Brimm; her son, William and his wife, Kelly, and her two grandchildren, John and Catherine.

A Mass of Christian burial will be held 11a.m. on Friday, Nov. 22, 2019 at St. Luke Catholic Church in Ocean City, Maryland. Friends may call an hour before the service.

In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be sent to Delaware

Hospice, 100 Patriots Way, Milford, Delaware 19963 (www.delawarehospice.org).

Condolences may be sent by visiting www.bishophastingsfh.com.

PITSA VANECHANOS YEATRAS Ocean City Pitsa Vanechanos Yeatras, age 83, of Ocean City and Winchester, Virginia, died Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019, at her home in Ocean City.

She was born in Potamia, Greece, and was the daughter of the late George and Antonia (Solomou) Vanechanos.

Pitsa managed her late husband’s dental practice, Dr. Peter S. Yeatras, D.D.S. She was a member of St. Georges Greek Orthodox Church in Ocean City and The Ladies Philoptochos Society of St. George.

She is survived by a son, Steven Yeatras of Ocean City; a daughter, Eleni Yeatras and her partner, Noah Schenendorf, of Washington, D.C.; a sister, Popi Konstantinou; and a brother, Antoni Venetsanakos.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Peter S. Yeatras in 2015, and two daughters, Stella Yeatras and Toni Yeatras.

A funeral service was held on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019 at St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Ocean City with Father Chris Wallace officiating. A graveside service will be held at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia, on Friday, Nov. 22, 2019 at 1 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to: St. George Greek Orthodox Church, 8805 Coastal Hwy., Ocean City, Maryland 21842, or to The Cooley’s Anemia Foundation, 330 Seventh Ave., #200, New York, New York 10001. (www.thalassemia.org) Condolences may be sent by visiting www.bishophastingsfh.com.

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By Lisa Capitelli Managing Editor (Nov. 22, 2019) Several Stephen Decatur High School and Worcester Preparatory School student-athletes signed National Letters of Intent to play their sport at the collegiate level, last Wednesday.

Five members of the Decatur girls’ lacrosse team committed to either Division I or II schools.

Sarah Engle will compete for Division I Loyola University of Maryland.

“When Sarah Engle came on the field as a ninth grader, the upperclassmen were taken aback by her skills and not shy in saying how impressive she was,” said Decatur Coach Sara Braniecki. “She immediately earned a lot of playing time, [but] unfortunately her freshman season was cut short with a broken ankle.”

Each following year, Engle played an instrumental role in the team’s success, Braniecki said.

“Our opponents look to shut Sarah down often, and I’ve never seen it done well,” she added.

Braniecki presented the team’s Most Valuable Player award to Engle the last two years. She also earned a spot on First Team All-Bayside her sophomore and junior seasons as well.

Last year, she was named CoPlayer of the Year for the Bayside South. Additionally, Engle was named a US Lacrosse All-American in June.

“Throughout her career at Decatur, Sarah has scored 84 goals, leading our team in points for each of the past two seasons,” Braniecki said.

“All of these awards justify her lacrosse abilities, however, some of Sarah’s greater attributes are her work ethic and compassion for her teammates.”

Braniecki said that although Engle’s lacrosse skills are top-notch, she never settles.

“She continues to be coachable, ask questions and make adjustments to improve her game,” Braniecki said.

“She always wants the best for her team and helps to push her teammates to reach their potential.”

Ellie Dutton will play lacrosse for Division I Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

Braniecki said Dutton is a quick attacker with great stick work.

“Ellie’s passion for the sport of

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Several Stephen Decatur student-athletes signed National Letters of Intent to play their sport at the collegiate level, last Wednesday at the Berlin high school. Pictured, in back, from left, are Decatur girls’ lacrosse Assistant Coach Michelle Fluty and Head Coach Sara Braniecki, Athletic Director Don Howard, Eric Gwin (RPI, lacrosse), boys’ lacrosse Coach “Hoffy” Hoffman, Ella Peters (Baylor, equestrian), Assistant Principal Curt Bunting, Principal Tom Sites, County Athletic Director Tyrone Mills and Equestrian Trainer Alyssa Coscia, and in front, lacrosse players Summer Vorsteg (Shepherd University), Abby Yesko (Youngstown State), Sarah Engle (Loyola), Ellie Dutton (Winthrop) and Alyssa Romano (University of Tampa).

lacrosse and her dedication to the game and our team have helped her become one of the most consistent attackers in the conference,” Braniecki said. “When Elie is approached by a defender that might be twice her size, she isn’t intimidated, she is confident in her quick footwork and strong stick skills to beat them.”

As a junior last season, Dutton earned First Team All-Bayside recognition.

“In our regional championship game last season, Ellie scored the goal that finally brought our team to the lead after being down by five points just minutes earlier. This game was a true showing of the athlete that Ellie has become over the past few years,” Braniecki said. “She was poised and determined under incredible pressure. Mentally, she was ready to do anything [and] for the last minute of the game I tasked her with trusting her stick work and her running legs that never slow down to just hold the ball.

“She did it without hesitation and in my eyes, that game symbolizes the poised and consistent player that Ellie Dutton is,” she added.

Abby Yesko will take the field for Division I Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio.

Braniecki said Yesko can play anywhere on the field and make a huge

impact. She has been a member of the varsity team since her freshman year.

“As a freshman and sophomore, she played a huge leadership role on our defensive end of the field,” Braniecki said. “That’s not Abby’s favorite end of the lacrosse field, but our defensive end needed her, so she did it selflessly.”

As a freshman, Yesko received the team’s Rookie of the Year award and as a sophomore Braniecki presented her with the Unsung Hero award.

“I think the Unsung Hero award describes Abby best,” she said. “Abby is an incredibly thoughtful and disciplined player. She understands all aspects of the game and makes great decisions while on the field.”

Last year, she was hampered by an ankle injury.

“Her presence on the sideline while recovering was even influential for our team,” Braniecki said. “She is the type of teammate that genuinely looks out for all of her teammates and will give any possible input to help our team grow and be successful, even if she’s injured on the sideline.”

She scored a spot on the Bayside South Second Team last season.

Alyssa Romano will compete for Division II University of Tampa in Florida.

Braniecki said Romano is a relent-

less athlete and a tenacious midfielder who has been exciting to watch evolve over the past few years.

“She is strong-willed and never settles for anything less than her absolute best,” she said.

Her sophomore year, she received Second Team All-Bayside recognition. Last year, as a junior, Romano earned Decatur’s Most Improved Player award and was recognized as a First Team All-Bayside player.

“In our game against Parkside last year, which determined whether or not we would win the Bayside South title, Alyssa won 14 draw controls,” Braniecki said. “We often say that the team who wins a majority of the draw controls will win the game; it’s a very valuable aspect of the game. Not only did Alyssa capitalize on the draws for us in that game, she also contributed five goals. That game truly captured Alyssa’s ‘nothing can stop me’ mindset.”

Summer Vorsteg is headed to Division II Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia to play lacrosse.

Braniecki said Vorsteg is an endlessly hardworking defender, athletic, versatile and can shut down a dominant opposing player.

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Two Worcester Prep student-athletes signed National Letters of Intent to play their sport at the collegiate level over the past week. (Left) Abbi Nechay will play field hockey for Division I Monmouth University. She is pictured with Prep Coach Katie Oxenreider. (Right) Alessia Matha will compete in Division I lacrosse at Radford University. She is pictured with Prep Coach Chris Williams.

Local athletes sign National Letters of Intent Continued from Page 69 her game,” Braniecki said. “In Summer’s three years playing at Decatur, I’ve watched her mature into a strong and loud defender. She is a defender that helps with our defensive communication by helping to address things that are going wrong and come up with a solution.”

Vorsteg is a dedicated and compassionate teammate, on and off the field, often offering an encouraging word to a teammate who may need it, Braniecki said.

“Summer has played a vital role in shaping our team’s positive culture, which in turn has helped our team find success,” Braniecki said. “Summer is a great role model for all those around her, showing how to truly be a good person, on or off the field.”

Equestrian Ella Peters will compete for Division I Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

“Ella is a passionate showman, with an undeniable work ethic,” said trainer Alyssa Coscia. “She vigorously worked her way to prove to herself, and many others, how deserving she is to be on such a prestigious team.”

Peters’ drive to do her best is most recognizable in the many accolades she has earned over the years, including winning numerous circuit titles, regional awards, and the Novice East Champion in 14-18 Western Riding, Coscia said.

“Her partner hasn’t always been close, often driving upwards of seven hours a day to go to practice,” she added. “During that time, she often spent it by watching videos – of both herself and others she competes against – knowing exactly what it takes to be at the top. I am looking forward to seeing what great things Ella achieves in her time with Baylor.”

Although players do not sign a National Letter of Intent for Division III schools, Eric Gwin has committed to play lacrosse for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York.

“RPI is getting a player with great character and athletic ability,” Decatur Coach “Hoffy” Hoffman said.

“He’s a great person on and off the field. He’s grown as a player and he’s grown as a person.”

Gwin was second on the team in scoring last season, with 33 goals and

25 assists. He was presented All-Bayside South Second Team Attack honors.

“He’s been as asset to the team,” Hoffman said. “He’s a silent, but strong leader for the team. He’s quiet, but when he speaks, everybody listens.”

He has been a member of the varsity team since his freshman year. He was a captain his junior year and will be a leader again this season.

Hoffman said Gwin has worked hard during the offseason.

“I’m expecting him to pick up where he left off last year,” Hoffman said. “He’ll probably run the point for attack like he did last year.”

Last Wednesday at Worcester Prep, Abbi Nechay signed on to play field hockey for Division I Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey.

Nechay started every game since her freshman year and was an Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference award winner the past three years.

“Not only is Abbi a talented player, but she has been a captain since her

sophomore year,” Prep Coach Katie Oxenreider said. “Even as a young player, others have looked up to her as a role model on our team. Abbi never cared about her own success as much as she cared about everyone else on the team.”

Nechay led Worcester with 15 goals and three assists this fall season, and finished her career with 31 goals and 14 assists.

“She actually played a lot more on defense over the years, but by her junior and senior year she had to take over as an offensive threat as well,” Oxenreider said. “We didn’t have a winning season this year, but she cared about passing on her love for the game on to our very young team and wants to see them grow the game at our school.”

Oxenreider is excited for Nechay to play at the next level, and to see her growth continue to flourish as a person and player.

Earlier this week, Alessia Matha made her commitment to play Division I lacrosse at Radford University in Radford, Virginia.

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Student-athletes headed to Decatur soccer players earn Division I, II and III schools Bayside South Conf. awards Continued from Page 70 As a junior last season, she received Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference honorable mention accolades. She scored 25 goals, recorded 14 assists and had 19 ground ball possessions.

“Aly is a natural goal scorer, with one of the hardest shots I have seen from a high school player. However, it’s also incredibly accurate,” said Prep Coach Chris Williams. “She has great stick skills and soft hands to

catch and control any ball that comes near her.”

Williams said Matha is athletic and is going to be very successful at the next level.

Before then, she has one more season at Worcester.

“I’m looking to Aly to be a leader of our offense and step up to take the place of some of our departed seniors from last year,” Williams said. “We will lean on her leadership and scoring ability to drive our offense.”

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By Lisa Capitelli Managing Editor (Nov. 22, 2019) Nearly a dozen Stephen Decatur soccer players received Bayside South All-Conference honors for their performances during the fall season.

Nine boys earned conference accolades.

Senior defenders John Karacoulakis and Drew Haueisen scored spots on the Bayside South First Team.

Karacoulakis started in every game since his freshman year.

“He’s definitely been a great asset to

the program,” said Decatur Coach Jamie Greenwood.

Karacoulakis was a forward for most of the 2018 season and earned First Team honors for his efforts on the attack.

He started up top this season, but was moved to the defensive end about halfway into the year.

“We needed him in the back and he did a great job,” Greenwood said. “He and Drew locked things down.”

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“He did a great job of being my voice on the field,” Greenwood said. “He commanded the ship well. Everyone respected him.”

Greenwood presented Haueisen with the team MVP award.

Even as a center back, Haueisen netted 10 goals this season to earn the Golden Boot award, as a scoring leader.

He was the go-to player of corner kicks, where he scored a majority of his goals.

He shared the Golden Boot honors with junior Kellen Catrino, who also tallied 10 goals.

Greenwood said Haueisen anchored the defense, which only allowed 10 goals in 14 games this year.

“He definitely put us on his back a lot,” Greenwood said. “He was a great leader and definitely one of the best players in the conference.”

Senior defender Hunter Wolf received Bayside Second Team distinction. Greenwood said while he may not have been a stat leader, Wolf worked super hard as a member of the team for three years.

He was also part of the foursome that held opponents to only 10 goals this season.

Junior midfielder Eric Berry also scored a spot on the Bayside South Sec-

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Stephen Decatur senior captain John Karacoulakis, left, and junior Drew Haueisen earned First Team All-Bayside South Conference honors for their performances during the fall soccer season.

ond Team.

In addition, Greenwood presented Berry with the team’s Unsung Hero award.

“He played almost every minute of every game and he worked hard on the field,” Greenwood said. “He was willing to do anything we asked and he did his job well.”

He had a high percentage pass completion, Greenwood added.

Catrino took home a Bayside honorable mention award.

Catrino, the co-Golden Boot recipient, was key to the team’s success at the end of the regular season, netting all goals in

both the Kent Island (2-1) and James M. Bennett (2-1 overtime) victories.

“He was a great goal scorer,” Greenwood said. “He had a knack for being in the right place at the right time and putting the ball on goal.”

He moved up to the forward line from the midfield midway into the season.

“I’m super excited that he’s with us next year,” Greenwood said. “I hope he’ll have even more of an output next year.”

Sophomore Miguel Cervantes was also awarded Bayside honorable mention accolades.

Greenwood gave him the team’s Most

Improved award.

Cervantes went from forward to midfield when “we needed him,” Greenwood said.

“He grew and grew and wanted to get better every single game,” he said. “He was always willing to learn.”

Midfielders, sophomore James Barrett and junior Evan Kinsey scored honorable mention nods as well.

Barrett missed several games because of a foot injury, but Greenwood said he was a “phenomenal player with great skills and great vision.”

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“They were like my warrior players.

They brought a high level of intensity.

They both have a great work ethic.”

Isett presented Rookie of the Year awards to three freshmen starters – forward Mia Kemp, midfielder Hannah Dang and defender Keeley Catrino.

“They’re good soccer players. They’re travel players and they brought a lot to the team this year,” LISA CAPITELLI/OCEAN CITY TODAY Isett said. “I’m look- Stephen Decatur junior captain Macy Dill was presented Bayside South ing forward to having Honorable Mention accolades for her performance during the fall socthem back next year.” cer season.

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“She has a good, consistent attitude and was always positive,” Isett said.

“When she got knocked down, she didn’t retaliate, she just got up and got back to what I was asking her to do.”

Decatur finished the season with a 49 record.

With half a dozen freshmen on the squad this season, Isett said he is looking to continue to build and develop the program.

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Romano was a forward last year, but Isett wanted to utilize her talents in the defensive end this season.

“She was willing to take on whatever role for the team to be successful,” Isett said. “She anchored our defense.”

Isett presented her with the team’s MVP award.

Junior captain Macy Dill also earned an honorable mention award.

“She was our star soccer players. She has a good skill set and she can read the game pretty well,” Isett said. “She’s a competitor. She’s physically strong on the ball and she always wants to compete.”

She played forward and in the midfield, tallying eight goals this season to lead the team.

“For us, she was our best offensive player,” Isett said. “I’m looking forward to having her back next year. She was a captain this year and I anticipate her to be one of the leaders next year.”

Isett gave Dill the Offensive MVP award. The Defensive MVP award went to senior captain, goalie Isy Kristick.

“She made some incredible saves this year,” Isett said. “She always had a great attitude. [The goalie position] will definitely be a big hole to fill.”

Coaches Awards went to junior defenders Julianna Fohner and Victoria Mueller.

“They played phenomenally on the defensive side of the field,” Isett said.

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Continued from Page 72 “He’s a well-versed soccer placer,” he added. “We’ll look to him to lead the midfield as a junior next year.”

Greenwood said Kinsey was a hard worker who stepped up and learned a new position. He went from center back to center midfield around the middle of the season.

“To go from defending to being an attacker, he did an excellent job,” Greenwood said. “He’ll be a leader next year.

He’ll be our only four-year starter.”

Senior defender Eric Gwin was also presented honorable mention accolades.

Greenwood gave him and sophomore goalie Zach Powers Coaches Awards.

“They’re two great kids,” Greenwood said. “They were super helpful at practice and they were willing to take suggestions and criticism. They worked hard and did all the little things.”

Decatur finished the season with a 122 record.

“We’re returning seven starters,” he said. “I think we’ll be good next year.”

On the girls’ side, senior captain Alyssa Romano was presented and honorable mention award.

Decatur Coach Steve Isett said Romano is a great athlete, she has a good work ethic and she knows what it takes to be successful.

“She understands you’ve got to put in the work to improve,” he added. “She has a great attitude and she’s a great

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SURF REPORT

SDMS Surf Into Integrity program successful

By Dave Dalkiewicz Contributing Writer (Nov. 22, 2019) Another session of Surf Into Integrity has wrapped up at Stephen Decatur Middle School.

Wednesday, Nov. 13, was the last class in the form of a graduation.

This was the culmination of a multi-week program which started at the beginning of the school year. Each week featured a classroom session and a beach session.

It was conceived by Attorney Rich Bruckner, based on 1977 world champion Shaun Tomson’s book, “The Surfer’s Code,” and serves as a blueprint to not only to introduce these young folks to surfing, but to inspire them to live good lives as well.

The class was run by the Ocean City Surf Club, with President Tommy Vach and Vice President Rusty Ruszin leading the way.

A team of volunteers instructed the students both in the classroom and on the beach.

This was the fifth year of an ongoing extracurricular program. With about 25 students, the class was full with more wanting to attend than there was room for.

Tomson’s book, subtitled, “12 Simple

Lessons for Riding Through Life,” is full of surf stories as metaphors and analogies promoting virtuous ways to navigate the sometimes difficult road of life.

Each student was required to read two chapters each week. The chapters would be discussed in the classroom setting, monitored by instructors and then applied to the beach sessions.

Culminating in each beach session would be the physical aspects, in the ocean, of learning to ride a wave.

Fun, frustration, fear, respect, perseverance and joy all became part of each session.

We, as instructors, would push each student into waves with the basic goal of getting to one’s feet and actually riding a wave. Some of the sessions proved to be quite difficult as I’m sure every student learned respect for the ocean.

Two beach sessions even had to be cancelled due to conditions being too rough, but there was no substitute for the exhilaration, joy and stoke when a student got to their feet and rode a wave.

For some, it still has yet to happen and yet the process is enough to hopefully continue on one’s journey of perseverance. Plus, there’s always the pleasure of simply being in the water.

Tomson is one of the sport’s greatest ambassadors as well as being one of its greatest performers. He revolutionized

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A native of South Africa, much of his background was formed through the abolishment of Apartheid.

Even with all of his achievements in the surfing world this book is probably his best.

The influence it has had on the Surf Into Integrity program along with the

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The happy graduating class made excellent marks going forward into the surf world, their own personal lives and the stoke of all who participated.

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CANCER SUPPORT In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Worcester Prep girls’ field hockey, soccer (pictured) and volleyball teams donned pink shirts, ribbons, and/or socks during their games in October.

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Ocean City Today

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CLARION RESORT – FONTAINEBLEAU HOTEL

The Finest Buffets in Ocean City, MD 10100 COASTAL HIGHWAY 410-524-3535 WWW.CLARIONOC.COM

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

VOTED 2019

WINNER of the Wine Spectator’s Award of Excellence for 15 Years and The Best of Excellence Award for 10 years!

OCEANFRONT DINING Open Wed. thru Sun. | Breakfast 7am-Noon | Lunch 11am-2pm | Dinner 5-10pm

LIVE MUSIC 9:30pm-2am

Friday, Nov. 22 & Saturday, Nov. 23

ON THE EDGE FIRST CLASS Friday, Nov. 29 & Saturday, Nov. 30

Friday & Saturday: DJ DUSTY 9 pm – 2 am OPEN WED.-SUN. 11AM

Breakers Pub

Happy Hour 4-7pm

Best Craft Beer

REDUCED HAPPY HOUR DRINK PRICES

2

3

2

Beers $ 30 Select Drafts $ 85 Margaritas $ 90 Domestic Rail Drinks House Wines

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL? Happy Hour Drink Prices & 9 HI-DEF TVs

Food Specials During ALL NFL Games WEDNESDAY THRU FRIDAY

HORIZONS & BREAKERS PUB

Soup & Salad or Soup & Half Sandwich

STEAMER SPECIALS

1 lb. Alaskan Crab Legs with an Ear of Corn

2195

$

Plus Many Other Specials!

1 lb. Steamed Shrimp in Old Bay & Onions

1895

$

2 lbs. Alaskan Crab Legs with 2 Ears of Corn

3795 Whole Chick Lobster $1995 $

Available All Day at Horizons & Breakers Pub Wed. thru Sun.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY

30% OFF Dinner Menu Entrées 5-7pm $16.95 Dinner Specials 5-10pm Holidays & Specials Excluded

SUNDAY & THURSDAY

Happy Thanksgiving!

Famous ‘All-You-Can-Eat’ Holiday Buffet

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28 Crystal Ballroom • Noon to 8pm Horizons Restaurant • 1pm to 8pm Reservations Suggested Adults $31.95 • Children 4-12 $20.95 • Children 3 & Under FREE

BREAKFAST WITH SURFIN’ SANTA Saturday, December 7, 2019 8:00 am to Noon Adults $13.95 • Children 4-8 $10.95 • Under 3 FREE Includes Gift & Picture with Santa

2019 Gala

New Year’s Eve Party

Gourmet Dinner Buffet, Dancing, and Entertainment Tuesday, December 31 Gourmet Dinner Buffet 8 pm – 10 pm Dancing and Entertainment 9 pm – 3 am Open Bar 8 pm – 1 am

• Visit Both Bands - First Class & On The Edge • Reservations Required | Must be 21 Years of Age – Proper I.D. Required

SATURDAY

BREAKFAST BUFFET 7am-10:30am

$13.95 Adults • $10.95 Children • 3 & Under Free

STEAK NIGHT 5-10pm • 50% OFF Steaks

SUNDAY

SUNDAY, WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY 50% OFF Dinner Menu Entrées 5-7pm

DELUXE BREAKFAST BUFFET

Holidays & Specials Excluded

$12.95 Holidays Dinner Specials 5-10pm & Specials Excluded

Check Out

7am-1pm

$15.95 Adults • $11.95 Children • 3 & Under Free

Prices & Menus are Subject to Change