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‘Chamber Lights’ contest winners (Dec. 28, 2018) Each year the Greater Ocean City Chamber of Commerce and its community partners host the annual “Chamber Lights” Decorating Contest.

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By Stewart Dobson Editor/Publisher (Dec. 28, 2018) The top story of the year for 2018 for northern Worcester County did not involve government, politics, individual achievement, notable people, crime, or good works.

The story of this year was rain. Soggy, miserable, soaking, stupid rain. Of the calendar’s 52 weekends, some form of precipitation occurred on 30 of them, according to Wunderground data collected from the Ocean City Municipal Airport.

Some days, it was a drizzle, on other days a deluge, but rain throughout the year added up to 53.17 inches as of Dec. 26, or 11 inches and change above the average 42 inches a year.

In addition, the frequency of wet weekends sank the budgets of the resort’s many weather-dependent tourist venues. May

List of ‘Chamber Lights’ winners Continued from Page 3 Business (outdoor): US Coast Guard Station Ocean City, 1st Place. General Business (indoor): A Barefoot Beach Bride, 1st Place. General Business (outdoor): Jolly Roger at 30th Street, 1st Place, Jolly Roger at the Pier, 2nd Place.

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1st Place, Brandon Connolly, 2nd Place, Lisa and Sean Stephenson, 3rd Place.

Hotel (outdoor): Inn On the Ocean, 1st Place, Comfort Inn Boardwalk, 2nd Place, Grand Hotel & Spa, 3rd Place. Hotel (indoor): Dunes Manor Hotel, 1st place, Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites 17th Street, 2nd Place, Grand Hotel & Spa 3rd Place.

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was the worst month of all with 10.56 inches of rain as compared to the historical average of 3.46 inches.

The lost weekends in the run-up to summer put many businesses behind the financial eight-ball coming out of the gate, with hundreds of thousands of dollars lost before summer truly began.

Precipitation totals from January through July, since 2014, show the resort hasn’t been this wet in quite a while.

Average precipitation for the area for the seven-month period is about 25 inches, according to multiple sources. This year, however, Ocean City’s official rain gauge showed 33.22 inches for that stretch.

The driest seven-months in recent years was in 2014, with 14.54 inches of precipitation. Last year saw not quite 24 inches, while 29.7 inches was recorded in 2016.

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By Greg Ellison Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) Some 2,500 resort residents cast ballots in the 2018 Ocean City municipal election in November, selecting newcomer Mark Paddack to join incumbents Lloyd Martin and Matt James on City Council, while also reinstating Mayor Rick Meehan and approving binding interest arbitration for the firefighter’s union.

Council members Martin, James and Wayne Hartman ended their respective four-year terms in 2018, along with Mayor Rick Meehan concluding a sixth consecutive two-year term.

In December 2017, with the municipal election filing deadline scheduled the following October, Councilman Wayne Hartman declared b his 2018 candidacy for the Maryland House of Delegates District 38C, which encompasses parts of Worcester and Wicomico counties.

“If for some reason I’m not successful in the primary race for the House of Delegates, there still is the option to run for council or another office in the city,” he said.

On June 26, Hartman topped three other Republican primary candidates, capturing 49.3 percent of the elec-

torate with 1,996 votes, to finish ahead of Joe Schanno at 39.1 percent with 1,584 votes, Ed Tinus at 8.2 percent with 333 votes and Jim Shaffer at 3.3 percent with 134 votes.

Following the primary victory in June, Hartman assumed the campaign was over after Democrats failed to field a candidate.

Within a week those plans were amended when Ed Tinus, fresh from losing the Republican primary, changed party affiliations to meet the July 2 registration deadline for Independent or third-party candidates, ultimately mounting a write-in campaign as a constitutionalist.

Regardless, Hartman handily took the general election in November, with 95.4 percent or 14,437 of 15,139 votes cast.

In October the candidate pool for mayor and council began to fill up, when in addition to incumbents Martin and James, then-soon-to-be-retired OCPD Sgt. Mark Paddack tossed his hat in the ring.

Rounding out the candidate list by the Oct. 9 filing deadline were Ocean City Board of Zoning Appeals member Christopher Rudolf and Emily Nock, president of Salisbury-based Nock Insurance Agency.

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Breaking recent tradition, Mayor Rick Meehan, who was first elected in 2006 after serving on council since 1985, faced competition for only the second time in a dozen years.

Although Ocean City resident Joe Cryer, who since 2006 has staged several unsuccessful campaigns for council, eventually abandoned plans to run for mayor, in October former City Councilman Joe Hall filed to oppose Meehan for office.

Hall, who previously operated Hall’s Restaurant on 59th Street and served on council for three two-year

terms, was defeated by 74 votes during the 2006 election. In 2012, Meehan defeated his last challenger, political newcomer Nick Campagnoli by a margin of 2,238 to 629 votes.

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On Jan. 4, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management released a draft proposal for its 2019-2024 National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program, which would open more than 98 percent of the Outer Continental Shelf for potential oil and gas leases.

Three proposed locations are off the coast of Maryland.

In late February, the Ocean City Council approved a resolution reiterating its opposition to offshore oil and gas drilling.

“While we support most of the benefits of offshore wind,” Mayor Rick Meehan said, “We can’t find anything that benefits the Town of Ocean City [or] the State of Maryland … in having drilling for gas and oil off the Atlantic coast.”

Meehan traced local government’s continuing concern back to a comparable resolution from Oct. 1974. Signed by then Ocean City Mayor Harry Kelly, the resolution noted the serious potential for “polluting the natural environment of Maryland’s only seashore

resort.”

In September 2015, the council passed a resolution opposing a Bureau of Ocean Energy Management proposal to permit seismic blasting for oil and gas exploration off the Maryland coast.

“We’ve been very clear in our opposition,” he said.

The 2018 resolution described the proposed actions as a “clear and present danger,” to Ocean City due to the discharge of production waste, the potential for catastrophic oil spills and possible visual impacts.

“This resolution will be sent to the governor of the State of Maryland and our congressional representatives,” he said.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s Draft Proposed Program is the first of three analytical phases required to develop its 2019-2024 leasing program. The 60-day period for public comment ended on March 9.

Meehan, while noting an additional comment period would take place if the project moves to the next phase, said the city would send written comments to the bureau while also encouraging concerned parties to weigh in online or via mail.

Ocean City government’s campaign to keep wind turbines from becoming part of the seaside horizon resumed

center stage center in early-March after the General Assembly held hearings for SB1058 and HB1135, companion legislation designed to alter distance requirements for turbines from between 10-30 nautical miles to not less than 26 nautical miles off the coast. A nautical mile is 1.15 statute miles.

The Annapolis bills were an outgrowth of a resolution passed by the City Council on Feb. 5 that opposed the construction of offshore structures that would be visible from shore. The next day the Worcester County Commissioners followed suit with their own vote in opposition to placing turbines within view of the resort’s oceanfront.

The Maryland Public Service Commission issued conditional approvals in May 2017 for US Wind and Skipjack Wind to construct hundreds of turbines off the Ocean City Coast.

The original terms established US Wind’s project would be located 12-15 nautical miles offshore, with an added stipulation to build structures as far east as practical.

Before it received state approval in May, US Wind attempted to assuage Ocean City officials’ fears by pledging to place the turbines 17 nautical miles from shore.

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By Greg Ellison Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) Although opinions varied this spring after the State Highway Administration completed installation of mid-town median fencing on Coastal Highway, it apparently did its job. By summer’s end zero serious pedestrian injuries occurred in the nearly two-dozen block stretch.

According to statistics provided by Ocean City Police Department, only a handful of minor pedestrian-involved

accidents took place next to the fenced areas this summer. The year before, two pedestrians were killed in traffic there.

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Nock missed mark by four votes Continued from Page 6 binding interest arbitration if collective bargaining negotiations with the city reach an impasse.

IAFF President Ryan Whittington said the issue arose following a stalemate during the union’s most recent contract negotiations, which started in January 2016 but were not resolved, albeit to varying degrees of satisfaction, until February 2017.

In February 2016, negations ended over the city’s plan to change shift schedules for fire/EMS personnel from the long-standing policy of working four 24-hours shifts followed by 72 hours off. The city sought to implement two 10-hour day shifts, followed by two 14-hour night shifts, followed by four days off.

After the disagreement dragged on for more than a year, union members voted last February to ratify the collective bargaining agreement, but contended the city failed to negotiate a fair compromise.

At the same time, Whittington said the fire union began collecting signatures for a petition to amend the city charter to permit binding interest arbitration if future contract negotiations reach an impasse.

“Binding interest arbitration is simply a safeguard against bad decisions, that’s it,” he said. “Hopefully, the citizens vote in favor of the charter amendment.”

Under this change, if the city and the union failed to reach agreement on contract terms and declared that further negotiations would be pointless, a neutral third party would decide the dispute.

In 2002, resort voters approved a collective bargaining with binding arbitration request from the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 10, by a 1,090 to 927 tally. Never has a contract dispute gone that far, however.

Meehan said the city granted the IAFF collective bargaining without binding interest arbitration in 2007 and since that time have bargained

successfully during the last four rounds of contract discussions.

“In each of those contracts, the 41 members of the IAFF that are there today have received salary and benefit enhancements,” he said. “We worked with the IAFF to make sure they’re positioned correctly, and I do believe we’ve been able to bargain in good faith.”

Looking ahead, Whittington said the union’s current contact, which expires in June 2019, would be renegotiated next year.

“For the upcoming year, there has been a notice of intent to negotiate by both parties,” he said.

When the dust settled and votes were tallied on Nov. 6, Meehan defeated Hall by a 1,695-to-733 margin to win a seventh two-year term as mayor.

In the council race, of the five candidates jockeying for three openings, Councilman Matt James was the top finisher with 1,787 votes.

Newcomer Mark Paddack, who retired after three decades with OCPD one week prior to the election, finished second with 1,187 votes, narrowly ahead of Council President Lloyd Martin who had a 1,183 tally.

Only four votes off the mark was Emily Nock, whose inaugural campaign garnered 1,179 votes, with Chris Rudolf’s 848 total placing fifth.

Voters also approved the IAFF Local 4269 ballot referendum to amend the city charter and permit binding interest arbitration by a 1,288to-1,048 margin.

In total, resort residents cast 2,566 votes in the municipal election on Nov. 6, including 139 absentee ballots, marking a slight uptick from the 2016 contest when 2,380 votes were counted, including 105 absentees.

Overall, 44 percent of the 5,808 active voters registered in the Ocean City precinct weighed in, with an additional 530 names on the inactive rolls. In 2016, voter turnout was roughly 41 percent of the resort’s 5,818 registered voters.

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YEAR IN REVIEW 2018 Median fence budgeted at $6.8M Continued from Page 10 dian fencing from the convention center on 41st Street to 62nd Street, budget constraints later delayed the project.

In January 2017, the city solicited bids and received only one, which was priced at $6.48 million for a project originally budgeted at $4.5 million.

In late June of that year, the State Highway Administration, after combining the fence work with resurfacing work on Coastal Highway, put the project back out to bid.

The expanded scope of work, now budgeted at $6.8 million, included, landscaping and LED lighting, repaving roughly two miles of Coastal Highway and improving the left lane turn on northbound Coastal Highway at 52nd Street.

Two bids were opened by state highway on Aug. 3 with low-bidder George & Lynch of Dover, Delaware getting the nod for $6.5 million.

Construction started in November 2017, with a pre-Memorial Day completion targeted.

Answering questions as 40-foottall LED light poles with extending arms varying between four and 10 feet in length were installed, Tanesha Hankerson, State Highway Administration community liaison, said the

arm lengths were staggered to match the fence design.

Councilwoman Mary Knight highlighted the numerous emails received about the number of new median lighting poles and arms.

Jay Meredith, state highway district one engineer, said energy-efficient LED lighting provides superior illumination.

City Engineer Terry McGean said once the LED lighting goes live, the city could consider removing a number of current lights along Coastal Highway and save money.

In November, McGean’s concept of removing the pre-LED lighting garnered extensive council debate prior to a split-vote to retain and upgrade all perimeter lighting in the mid-town stretch.

The council voted to spend an additional $13,000 a year to convert 88 lights along a 20-block stretch of Coastal Highway to LED lamps.

Councilmembers James, DeLuca Knight and Mark Paddack, voted to retain the entire amount of perimeter lights and convert them to LEDs. More than 48,000 vehicles travel Coastal Highway daily, according to state highway, and since 2011, 171 pedestrian collisions, including four fatalities, have occurred.

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YEAR IN REVIEW 2018 OC fights to protect viewshed Continued from Page 8 asked both companies to place turbines 26 nautical miles (about 30 statute miles) offshore.

Testifying in March during General Assembly hearings for SB1058 and HB1135, James Bennett, Bureau of Ocean Management renewable energy program manager, presented an overview of the wind energy area lease approval process, which got underway in 2010.

In April 2010, a task force was created to examine the issue, which Bennett said continued to meet bi-yearly though 2013. Maryland leases were issued on Dec. 1, 2014.

Bennett broke down the four-stage approval method for wind energy projects, which starts with a two-year planning and analysis phase. This is followed by up to two years to complete the lease process and an additional five years for site assessment.

The final stage involves a construction and operation plan, which takes roughly two years to build, with an estimated quarter century of anticipated energy production.

“The site assessment plan is done and moving forward with still a little to go,” he said. “We are still not at the first day of the (construction plan) process.”

Bennett noted obstacles remain that could make moving turbines at least 26 nautical miles problematic.

“There [are] two corridors of vessel traffic which converge just to the west of the [lease] area,” he said.

Additionally, Bennett said bathymetric charts indicate ocean depths increase to nearly 200 feet as the distance from shore grows.

“That’s where you get beyond the shallow shelf that is appropriate for the technology that we’re trying to deploy,” he said.

Bennett also noted altering the turbine distances to 26-nautical miles or greater would start the approval clock over.

Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan said the scale of the proposed turbines has changed significantly since the task force supported the original 10-nautical mile distance more than half a dozen years ago.

“At that time, those were two megawatt power and significantly smaller than what’s being proposed today,” he said.

Meehan got his first visual rendering of the turbines from the beach during a Public Service Commission meeting in late March 2017 at Stephen Decatur Middle School in Berlin. In May of that year the state PSC approved two projects off the Maryland and Delaware coasts, one by US Wind and the other by Skipjack Wind.

“I stood up and held up those renderings and said, ‘this is much more dramatic than anybody had ever antic-

ipated,’” he said. “We’ve been in dialogue throughout but the ... game has changed.”

Bennett said even though the last phase for authorization is approaching, the time for changes has not passed.

“This is not a closed process [and] there are lots of opportunities for input,” he said. “We can be contacted at anytime by stakeholders.”

Later that month, HB1135 received an unfavorable report from the House Economic Committee on Monday by a 14-5 vote.

In reaction to the legislative roadblock, Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan quickly issued a letter thanking Public Service Commission Chairman Kevin Hughes for his earlier testimony before the House Economic Matters Committee, where he highlighted another potential avenue for legal recourse.

“If US Wind proceeds to construct an 8 megawatt or larger tower, that would be considered a material change, which would require US Wind to come back to the Public Service Commission for permission and approval subject to a … hearing,” he said.

The State Senate also investigated offshore drilling in March after Sen. Jim Mathias (D-38) became sole sponsor for SB1128 the Offshore Drilling Liability Act and primary sponsor for SJ11 a joint resolution seeking to protect Maryland’s coastal area from oil and gas energy exploration. Both pieces of legislation had Senate hearings on March 13.

Mathias joined joined 41 co-sponsors who supported a joint resolution asking the federal government to give Maryland the same consideration it gave to Florida, which less than a week after January’s draft proposal announcement was removed from the list.

If protecting the coast fails, Mathias said SB1128 is intended to hold the federal government financially accountable, up to $100 million, if offshore drilling caused a natural disaster.

“If congress would act in a reckless manner and let this go forward, the legislation establishes strict liability penalties,” he said.

Corresponding house legislation, HB1456, sponsored by Delegate Kumar Barve (D-17), was vetted before the Judiciary Committee on March 7.

“Barve said the bill would apply the same strict liability standards for damages by oil or gas drilling that Maryland established for the Chesapeake Bay.

By April, the Offshore Drilling Liability Act passed both chambers but was subsequently vetoed by Gov. Larry Hogan in May. After receiving a 47-0 favorable Senate vote, the joint resolution failed See CITY Page 13

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As year closes, still awaiting topless lawsuit resolution

By Greg Ellison Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) Ocean City’s legal battle over prohibiting women from baring their breasts on the beach continued this year with a federal civil suit challenging the resort’s ban and ended with a federal district court judge denying the plaintiff’s request for a temporary injunction to lift the ban until the lawsuit is decided.

Civil rights attorney Devon Jacob, representing Eastern Shore resident Chelsea Eline and four other plaintiffs, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Jan. 16 and filed a preliminary injunction request with Chief Judge James K. Bredar on June 29 to lift the restriction pending the lawsuit’s resolution.

In June 2017, Ocean City passed an emergency ordinance prohibiting females from baring their breasts in pub-

lic within city limits subject to a fine of up to $1,000.

Along with Eline, fellow plaintiffs Megan Bryant of Lothian, Maryland, Rose MacGregor of Salisbury, Christine Coleman of Long Island City, New York, and Angela Urban of Pittsburgh, filed their discrimination lawsuit in January 2018, contending Ocean City’s ordinance banning public nudity violates the constitution’s equal protection clause, since men don’t have to cover their chests, but women do.

Eline, who was known as Chelsea Covington two years ago, set the wheels of the case motion in August 2016, when she advised the Ocean City Police Department and the Worcester County State’s Attorney of her intention to go topless on the beach.

Ocean City had nothing on the books that specifically banned toplessness and See OC Page 18

City opposes offshore wind, oil Continued from Page 12 to clear the House before session closed in April.

The wind turbine debate fired back up in late July when US Wind reiterated the approval process is ongoing in response to concerns shared with City Council from commercial seafood industry representatives earlier that month.

Salvo Vitale, US Wind general counsel, said although the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approved a site assessment plan this March, which was originally submitted in April 2016, evaluation of the construction and operation phases would provide further opportunity for public comments.

“Everyone will be told once again to submit their observations or mitigation measure proposals,” he said.

In November 2010, as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, BOEM initiated a leasing process to establish Maryland offshore wind energy areas.

In August 2014, BOEM auctioned two lease areas off the Maryland coastline totaling 79,000 acres. The winning bid of $8.7 million was submitted

by US Wind, a subsidiary of Renexia, an Italian renewable energy company.The leases went into effect in December 2014 and were subsequently merged into a single lease area this March. Several weeks later, BOEM approved US Wind’s site assessment plan that was submitted in April 2016.

In terms of next steps, US Wind hopes to submit its Construction Operation Plan by the end of this year. Vitale described that as an extensive

document that requires further surveys and continued analysis.

Concerns about offshore oil drilling rose to the surface again on Nov. 30 after the Trump Administration granted a handful of “incidental harassment authorizations,” or IHAs, permitting five private firms to employ seismic airgun blasts to determine if big reservoirs of oil or gas are buried beneath the sea floor between southern New Jersey and central Florida.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said deep penetration seismic surveys, which are conducted by vessels towing an assortment of airguns that emit acoustic energy pulses into large sections of seafloor over long durations, could penetrate several thousand meters beneath the seafloor. The sonic blasts go off every 10 seconds, 24 hours a day for the duration of a mapping exercise, which can last several weeks.

This is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to boost offshore oil and gas production, starting with the America First Energy Plan rolled out shortly after taking office, which was followed by an executive order in April 2017 seeking to expand drilling and exploration in U.S. waters.

The executive order also sought to roll back Obama-era environmental regulations, most notably a drilling ban in parts of the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic Oceans, as well as reversing a Jan. 2017 denial for half dozen drilling permits in the south and mid-Atlantic regions.

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Motor events’ roar draws heavy focus in OC

By Greg Ellison Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) Despite extensive efforts in 2018 to restrain rowdiness recklessness at annual automobile and motorcycle gatherings, Ocean City officials want increased law enforcement assistance for 2019.

Looking to address behavior problems related to car events in 2017, especially during the unsanctioned H2O International event, the city formed a Motor Events Task Force in December of that year to determine a course to take.

The task force conversation quickly focused on reducing the throngs of spectators who line Coastal Highway during its second meeting in mid-January.

Jim Knapp, National Street Rod Association division director and 37-year member, noted whenever sidewalks are packed with spectators bent on inciting high-horsepower vehicles to engage in reckless behavior, disaster is on the horizon.

Knapp also suggested hotels and condominium buildings could focus on monitoring their parking lots for unauthorized vehicles to discourage spectator congregation.

“I think 95 percent of businesses will buy into it,” he said. “Most people want

the events to be here, but they don’t want trouble.”

At the task force inaugural meeting in Dec. 2017, G. Hale Harrison, of Harrison Group Resort Hotels, suggested lobbying Annapolis legislators for amended legal solutions.

In January, Ocean City Police Chief Ross Buzzuro reported that state legislators were formulating a bill to allow jurisdictions to establish temporary special event zones, where much stiffer penalties for motor vehicle violations could be imposed.

At the same meeting Cruisin’ event organizers with TEAM Productions reviewed plans for a host of associated activities, including concerts at the Performing Arts Center and rev-it-up fun at the U.S. 13 Dragway in Delmar.

Buzzuro said at that point any plans to stage a H2O International car rally in 2018 were unknown, noting despite a last-minute cancellation in 2017 the unsanctioned end-of-summer event still drew thousands, many which seemed intent on being disruptive.

“I think they come here for one reason – to cause havoc in the town of Ocean City,” he said. “There is very little redeeming value with this group and how they conduct themselves. The vast majority of those motorists are just here

to violate the law.”

In February, Sen. Jim Mathias (D-38) introduced Senate Bill 872 to authorize the State Highway Administration to designate roadways under its purview as special event zones to allow for reduced speed limits and increased penalties.

The bill sought to prohibit reckless driving, racing, burning rubber and making too much noise in designated areas where pedestrians gather near highways. First-time violators would be fined up to $1,000 and face up to one year in jail, with a potential two years of incarceration for subsequent offenses.

In March, Ocean City leaders converged on Annapolis to testify before several General Assembly committees, with Mayor Rick Meehan characterizing the bill as an attempt to discourage at-

tendees, “that come to Ocean City for all the wrong reasons to not come at all.”

Delegate Mary Beth Carozza (D-38C) co-sponsored corresponding legislation, HB1406, and testified before the House Environment and Transportation Committee to the need for enhanced penalty structures.

TEAM Productions Bob Rothermel, who organizes the Cruisin’ events, testified before the house committee that social media feedback indicated that most registered participants supported the proposed legislation.

In April, the bills’ original text was amended by the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee to localize the bill to Worcester County and to modify its schedule of fines.

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Resort keeps focus on motor event mayhem Continued from Page 14 The initial bill language included fines of up to $5,000 and potential jail time if a pedestrian was injured, but the amended measure reduced the fine to a maximum of $1,000.

Also changed was the definition of “special event,” which was limited to motor vehicle events occurring in close proximity to a highway authorized by local jurisdictions or those with anticipated attendance of at least 1,000 spectators.

The legislation passed the Senate 460 in mid-March, before clearing the House and being signed by Gov. Larry Hogan in April as an emergency bill to permit immediate implementation.

Later that month, the H2O Interna-

tional car rally announced its 2018 event would be relocated to Atlantic City, New Jersey.

During the Motor Event Task Force meeting in late April, Meehan said H2Oi promoter Jay Shoup has signed a contract with the Showboat Hotel for October.

Buzzuro said preliminary meetings with held the State Highway Administration and Ocean City Public Works to coordinate the newly created special event zones.

“It will be all of Ocean City, but with an emphasis on Coastal Highway from 33rd to 62nd Street as top priority, as well as locations on the top end [of town],” he said. “I’m not going to give everything away, but we’re going to have

locations that we have identified to be problematic.”

Buzzuro said special event zones would be established starting on Tuesday May 15 until Sunday May 20, with speed limits lowered to 30 mph.

In the end, Mother Nature tossed a curveball at the 28th annual Cruisin’ Ocean City, when in addition to heightened speed enforcement, soggy conditions made for a relatively quiet and uneventful weekend.

OCPD made 44 arrests between Thursday and Sunday, with 26 occurring on Saturday after damp skies finally cleared. Last May 53 arrests were made during Cruisin’, with 40 arrests in 2016 and 54 arrests in 2015. There were also

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half dozen DUI arrests, a small increase over the four incidents in 2017, but both significantly lower than the 11 cases in 2015.

Traffic citations totaled 467, about a hundred fewer than the 568 written during Cruisin’ Ocean City in 2017.

Looking ahead, Buzzuro said the city would institute special event zones for the H2O International and Endless Summer Cruisin in the fall, but to this point were not including OC Bikefest.

“There’s nothing we’ve seen that would necessitate establishing a special event zone for Bike Week,” he said.

During OC BikeFest in mid-September, Mother Nature threw another curve, with Hurricane Florence looming close enough to discourage thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts from visiting the shore.

Susan Jones, executive director of the Ocean City Hotel-Motel-Restaurant Association, said uncertain weather forecasts and Gov. Larry Hogan’s declared state of emergency, which reflected the possibility of extreme rainfall and flooding elsewhere in the state, caused many bikers to rethink their travel plans.

“It was not a complete washout, but not what we’ve come to love with a solid bike weekend,” she said. “Going into Tuesday, once the state of emergency was announced, we saw a lot of cancellations.”

OC BikeFest and Delmarva Bike Week organizer Chase Micheal said the event’s usual attendance is about 150,000 people.

“In my estimate, based on concert tickets sold, we were about a quarter of the crowd we would normally see,” he said. “The weather forecast is certainly something I’ve never … experienced in my life.”

Although the official H2Oi event relocated to Atlantic City, in late-September Ocean City braced, not for extreme weather, but potentially extreme behavior with the highly predicted onslaught of the tuner car armada.

Fueled by social-media protestations, tuner car fans showed up by the droves, but instead of soggy weather were met by a highly focused law enforcement presence.

OCPD and an array of allied agencies, armed with the new Special Event Zone law that dropped speed limits to 30 mph and significantly increased fines, set a five-year high in tickets written over the four-day weekend, with a significantly reduced number of warnings issued.

In total 1,280 traffic citations were issued, shattering the previous high of 858 last year, while the number of accidents fell from 28 last year to 16 this year.

Two of the more extreme crashes were captured on video and widely shared on social media.

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OC hopes to close topless lawsuit in 2019 Continued from Page 13 then-State’s Attorney Beau Oglesby (now a Worcester County Circuit Court judge) sought the advice of the Maryland Attorney General.

In the meantime, a policy memo sent to the Ocean City Beach Patrol on June 6, 2017 advising guards to leave the issue of bare-topped female sunbathing to the police department was leaked to social media.

That led to coast-to-coast news coverage, with many people misconstruing the memo to mean that Ocean City was about to allow semi-nude women on the beach.

City officials scrambled to refute that misconception, with Mayor Rick Meehan declaring days later that Ocean City

is not and would never be a topless beach.

The council followed up its intentions on June 10 last year by passing an emergency ordinance prohibiting the practice. Four days later, the attorney general’s office told the mayor and council in a letter of advice that the city appeared to be on solid legal ground were a challenge to be made to the Maryland Court of Appeals.

In the injunction motion filed this past June, however, Jacob contended the case could drag out for years depending on appeals, while also arguing against the legitimacy of separate topless rules for men and women.

“The gender classification does not further an important government inter-

est, but rather codifies longstanding discriminatory and sexist ideology in which women are viewed as inherently sexual objects,” the motion reads.

Jacob said the emergency ordinance violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, while also questioning Ocean City’s assertion that topless sunbathing hurts the resort’s family image.

City Solicitor Guy Ayres has countered that there is no constitutional right to appear nude in public.

On July 27, Ocean City filed a response asking Judge Bredar to deny the plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction to suspend the enforcement of the resort’s anti-nudity ordinance.

In the court motion, Ocean City gov-

ernment’s attorney Bruce Bright noted parties seeking preliminary injunctions are required to demonstrate the request is, “likely to succeed on the merits at trial.”

Citing a long list of court rulings in Maryland and elsewhere that upheld government prohibitions of public nudity, Bright argued that Eline and her co-plaintiffs are unlikely to prevail in this case.

Among the cases he referenced was a Maryland U.S. District Court decision in 2016 that affirmed Prince George’s County’s right to restrict the location of adult clubs.

Bright pointed to a previous topless scandal in the area, when the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond upheld the conviction (and $25 fine) of a woman who had been charged with sunbathing sans bathing suit top on Assateague in 1989.

Although U.S. District Court on Aug. 23 denied the plaintiff’s request for a preliminary injunction, it later granted an extension until Dec. 7 so the litigants could gather additional expert testimony.

Testifying for Ocean City in U.S. District Court on Dec. 7 were Mayor Rick Meehan, Councilwoman Mary Knight, City Clerk Diana Chavis and Ocean City Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Melanie Pursel.

On Dec. 20, Judge Bredar sided with the city’s argument, concurring that government has the right to protect the public’s sensibilities, even though these sensibilities could change over time.

That time has yet to come, said Bredar, whose opinion also concluded that Eline’s case was unlikely to win at trial.

Resort keeps eye on motor events Continued from Page 16 “Moving forward, we will take a close look at the weekend and evaluate what changes need to be made to help us in the future, including future attempts to bolster the special event zone legislation even more,” he said.

By comparison, the 21st annual Endless Summer Cruisin’ the following weekend was a relatively peaceful affair.

OCPD reported 433 traffic citations were issued, a five-year high for Endless Summer Cruisin’, which saw 403 tickets issued the prior year.

On the flip side, traffic warnings dropped from a five-year high of 592 in 2015 to 377 this year. Overall traffic stops hit 485 this year versus the 577 detained last October.

Even so, resort officials believe more can be done, and will ask the General Assembly for more help when it reconvenes in January.

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Paid Sick Leave Bill becomes election issue

By Rachel Ravina Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) A bill requiring employers to offer paid sick leave to seasonal workers roiled Ocean City businesses in 2018, with ramifications extending into the year’s elections.

The Maryland Healthy Working

Families Act or HB01, which was passed over the veto of Gov. Larry Hogan, gives one hour of leave per 30 hours an employee works and applies to many seasonal employees, much to the concern of tourism operations in Ocean City.

Originally, the measure covered all employees who worked most of the

Cannabis dispensaries come to Worcester County in 2018

By Rachel Ravina Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) Two medical marijuana dispensaries made it to West Ocean City in 2018, six years after the Maryland General Assembly legalized cannabis for medical purposes.

Following years of preparation and bid process considerations, the state cleared the way for growers, processors and purveyors.

Positive Energy at Jerry Mack Road in West Ocean City opened on Jan. 25, and Hi-Tide Dispensary on Marjan Lane, also in West Ocean

City, opened on April 4.

Maryland law permits two dispensaries in Senate District 38, which encompasses Somerset, Worcester and portions of Wicomico counties.

As of December 2016, preliminary approval had just been granted to two candidates, with another round of considerations and procedures ahead. That entailed criminal background investigations, financial due diligence, compliance inspections, raising capital and securing local zoning approvals for the facilities.

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traditional summer season, but thenSenator Jim Mathias succeeded in extending the length of time an employee must work to qualify for the benefit.

But his vote for the amended bill, instead of opposing the overall approach from beginning to end, infuriated local employers, who contended that Mathias, a Democrat, went along with his party’s majority leadership at their expense.

Mathias said he knew the paid sick leave bill would pass no matter how he voted, and that he attempted to work within the party to make the best of a bad situation.

In the meantime, summer business operators complained that the meas-

ure would obligate them to shoulder the expense of sick leave, even when it was not warranted. As some business people explained it, a seasonal employee who is approaching the end of his or her summer tenure here, could call in sick during the final days of employment, leave employers short-staffed and still be paid.

While businesses will probably seek some kind of modification of that law when the General Assembly convenes in January, they won’t be doing it through Mathias. Because of his sick leave vote, Ocean City area voters turned against him in such numbers to swing the 38th District senate election to Republican Mary Beth Carozza.

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Safety top priority after Fla. school shooting

By Rachel Ravina Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) Following the mass shooting at a Florida high school, Worcester County officials made safety a top priority for its school system.

Seventeen lives were lost at the Valentine’s Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and it was only natural that parents and officials elsewhere would react by instituting new policies

and procedures to protect their children.

In Worcester, that effort began with the Worcester County Commissioners appropriating $35,000 to upgrade the schools’ radio systems.

Commissioners President Diana Purnell also called for a meeting between the county, board of education, public health and law enforcement officials to discuss safety in schools.”

Forums and conferences were sched-

uled throughout the county, including a a March 13 safety conference at Worcester Technical High School in Newark and a March 14 session at Stephen Decatur High School.

The Worcester County Board of Education also voted in closed session to accept 30 “emergency response shields “from the Pocomoke-based company, Hardwire. The donation included a training program for staff for by an evaluation.

The decision to accept the donation took place on March 20, sis,” Sterrs said.

The vote happened on March 20, the same day a school shooting took place at Great Mills High School in St. Mary’s County.

The board of education responded by finding money for someone to oversee school safety, and the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office posted an opportunity for part-time deputies, whose responsibilities included providing school safety.

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Results for 2018 Election in Worcester Co.

By Rachel Ravina Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) The 2018 election brought new and familiar faces to represent the people of Worcester County.

The area has a new senator: Mary Beth Carozza, a Republican who defeated incumbent Democrat Jim Mathias in the race for District 38.

Carozza had a 2,287-vote margin over Mathias, 12,330 to 10,043.

Carozza won 53 percent of the total votes to Mathias’ 46.9 percent, according to the Maryland State Board of Elections.

Carozza, who had been this district’s member of the House of Delegates, returns to Annapolis in the senior house.

Elected to fill her place in the House of Delegates was Republican Ocean City Councilman Wayne Hartman, who faced only write-in competition in the general election for District 38C. Also representing a portion of Worcester County will be incumbent Del. Charles Otto, Republican, in District 38A. He defeated Democratic challenger Kirkland Hall. Otto won by 2,631 votes in Worcester County.

Otto got 59.5 percent of the vote compared to Kirkland’s 40.4 percent.

Also notable about the election was that it was the first time the voters in District 38, Worcester, Somerset and part of Wicomico, elected to send an all-Republican delegation to the General Assembly.

At the county level, three incumbent county commissioners, Bud Church, Ted Elder and Chip Bertino, were re-elected. Church defeated Berlin Town Councilman Zackery Tyndall in the race for District 3 (2,302 votes to 1,182), Ted Elder held off former commissioner Virgil Shockley in District 4 (1,586 votes to 1,367) and Chip Bertino won against Judy Butler in District 5 (2,516 votes

to 1,451).

Out of seven county commissioner seats, there is only one new member: Democrat Joshua Nordstrom, who defeated Republican Merrill Lockfaw, 1,321 votes to 1,138, in the District 1 race.

As for the Register of Wills contest, Terri Delaney Westcott, a Republican, won against Democrat Nicole Caudell 13,790 votes to 7,550.

Worcester County also joined the rest of the state to deliver a landslide victory to incumbent Gov. Larry Hogan, the first Republican governor to be re-elected since 1954.

Locally, Hogan won 76.3 percent of the vote to Democrat Ben Jealous’s 22.7 percent.

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Worcester County Jail holds ICE detainees, nets profits

By Rachel Ravina Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) Worcester County has received more than $42 million since 2012 for housing Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees at its jail. Worcester is just one among several other counties in Maryland to do this.

The county is being paid $87.11 per day, per inmate. With 151 detainees in the jail as of June, that would have made the county $13,200 per day.

The county received more than $5 million to hold ICE detainees, according to revenue figures since 2012 provided by Chief Administrative Officer Harold Higgins. There was one exception: figures for 2015 were less than $5 million.

The county was paid around $5.68 million in 2012, about $5.75 million in 2013, approximately 5.19 million in 2014, nearly $4.7 million in 2015, about $5.04 million in 2016, and around $5.22 million in 2017, according to Higgins.

The figure for 2018 is unclear, but the 2019 budget allocated $5.2 million for those years, according to county data.

Approximately $42,282,043 was put into the jail’s fund over the past

several years.

Kim Moses, a public information officer for the county, said the fees paid for detainees’ expenditures. It’s unclear who exactly is being held at the jail for immigration issues, but Moses said there weren’t many detainees being held at the jail who were actually arrested in Worcester County. She added no families or children were held at the jail.

Moses then directed Ocean City Today to ICE’s public affairs office for further questions on federal guidelines via ““Privacy Guidance for Enforcement and Removal Operations Field Offices: responding to phone calls about detainees June 7, 2011.”

In order to get information about specific detainees, ICE Spokesperson Justine Whelan, said she’d need the detainees name and “A-number,” which identifies a specific case.

If the caller doesn’t know the specific information about the detainees, the overall process appears to stop dead in its tracks.

“If you have a name and an Anumber, I can look into whatever releasable information is available for a specific individual, however I don’t have anything further for you on this,” she said in a statement.

Worcester Co. workers have issues with identity theft

By Rachel Ravina Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) Identity theft was a concern in Worcester County after several county employees learned notices of unpaid bills made it to collection agencies.

Specifically, the notices were for Comcast cable bills, and this issue could have possibly ruined the employees’ credit.

Kim Moses, public information officer for the county, said county officials learned of the issue between late March and early April. She added a notice was sent to county employees on April 3.

The notice advised employees to check their credit card bills for any charges for purchases that they didn’t make themselves. American citizens can get a free annual credit score report from Experian, Equifax and Transunion.

However, Federal Trade Commission said it authorized one website to provide these credit score reports: www.annualcreditreport.com.

Moses added there victims’ place

of employment appeared to be the only connection.

Harold Higgins, chief administrative officer, said protecting county employees was a top priority. He went on to say there was no breach in the county’s security.

Lt. Ed Schreier, a public information officer for the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office, said the agency was investigating the situation, and agreed people should get a credit report.

There have been thousands of fraud and identity cases across the country for the last several years involving these phony Comcast accounts.

A class action suit in California accused the company of failing to take precautions to verify customers’ identities before opening accounts. A U.S. District Court judge approved the fourth version of the proposed $15.5 million suit in September, according to topclassactions.com, a website dedicated to connecting people to settlements, lawsuits and attorneys.

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New Year’s Eve bus fares YEAR IN REVIEW 2018 earmarked for United Way Boardwalk barrier project to become permanent in 2019

By Greg Ellison Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) New Year’s Eve bus service in Ocean City is once again free, but riders have the option this year of dropping cash or coins in the fare box to support the United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore.

Transit Manager Mark Rickards said year-end revelers can catch free bus lifts from 6 a.m. on New Year’s Eve until 6 a.m. on New Year’s Day. Rickards said extra buses will be deployed for the holiday with 15minute headway times scheduled.

The charitable campaign is a

new venture this year, with participation strictly voluntary Rickards said.

“They can donate anything they want whether it be a quarter … or more,” he said.

Transit Administrative Manager Brian Connor suggested the new charitable initiative, which took root during subsequent conversations, Rickards said.

During past New Year’s celebrations, patrons often redirect nonrequested fares to tip drivers, which Rickards said technically isn’t permitted.

“Tip United Way not the drivers,” he said.

By Greg Ellison Staff Writer (Dec.28,2018) After undertaking temporary safety measures this spring to restrict Boardwalk access for vehicles this spring, the two-phase project is on track to be completed next year with the installation of permanent barriers.

Last month, Ocean City Council accepted Hercules Fence’s $1.95 million bid to install vehicle barriers at 26 access points along the Boardwalk and at the inlet parking lot.

In January, the council agreed to pay Hunt Valley-based engineering firm JMT more than $155,000 to begin design work.

At the time, the company was working on a similar project at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore. In April, the council selected West Ocean City-based Apex Business Solutions to install the temporary barriers for $139,000 and also earmarked $300,000 in the fiscal year 2019 budget for the second phase of the project.

In July, the council suffered sticker shock after initial cost estimates for the permanent barriers topped $4.2 million, and the began to look at cost-cutting measures, an effort that ended with about $1.3 million was chopped off the price tag. The dozen mechanical gates that could be raised to give access to emergency vehicles was reduced to 10, and switched to a manual means of lifting them rather than power. Also dropped were aesthetically pleasing elements, such as spherical bollards and planters, envisioned for higher density areas downtown.

Assuming the bids come in close to expectations, construction could start this month with a finish date in May.

First two medical dispensaries open in West Ocean City Continued from Page 19 Only after satisfying all those criteria would the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission then vote whether to grant the licenses.

Even then, the slow pace of the state approval process held things up longer than anticipated. Some of the delay was because of the number of applicants for dispensary permits.

As of August 2016, state regulators still had to cull through 811 applications for the 94 dispensary licenses that would be issued.

In addition, Maryland’s licensing process was seen by some as overly complicated and, in some aspects, unfair.

It took three years for Positive Energy, which is owned by the Odachowski family and managed by Lyndsey Odachowski, to open in January, while Robert Davis, owner of Hi-Tide, thought he’d be running in February, which became March and, finally, April.

If the process seemed to drag on forever for clients, suppliers and the businesses themselves, the legalization and eventual provision of medical marijuana moved at light speed as compared to the push to eliminate county government control of alcohol sales in Worcester County.

That effort began in earnest in 1998 and didn’t occur until 2016.

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130th St. OC, MD • 410.250.1449 More than $98,000 was raised by 420 people during the 24th annual AGH Penguin Swim on New Year’s Day.

By Morgan Pilz Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) From frigid penguin swims, a record-breaking Sunfest and $2 million won for a local children’s charity, here are some of the year’s top stories: Penguin Swim Despite air temperature of about 23 degrees, with the wind chill about 10 degrees and ocean temperature of 39 degrees, several hundred men, women and children sprinted into the water for the 24th annual New Year’s Day Penguin Swim, a fundraiser for Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin.

“The event went very well, considering the circumstances with the weather,” said Kam LaBrunda, co-organizer of the event and development analyst for the Atlantic General Hospital Foundation. “Participants and spectators still had a blast enjoying activities in the [Princess Royale] Atrium – carnival games, heated pool, live music and costume contest.

Many participants still wore a variety of costumes into the water, despite the frigid temperatures.”

Over the years, the temperature

has ranged from the upper 30s and 40s, to a high of nearly 70 degrees.

A total of 340 people registered or checked-in for the swim at the Princess Royale on 91st Street. They were then joined on the beach by about 100 or so guests, who gathered at Bull on the Beach bar and restaurant on 94th Street prior to the event.

At 1 p.m., they ran into the ocean at 91st Street. Some participants just got their feet wet, while others totally submerged their bodies.

About $98,000 was raised for the Berlin hospital. In 24 years, the Penguin Swim has raised about $1.2 million for the hospital.

AGH has been providing health care to residents of Worcester, Wicomico and Somerset counties, as well as Sussex County, Delaware, since May 1993. For more information about Atlantic General Hospital, visit www.atlanticgeneral.org.

The 2019 event will take place New Year’s Day beginning at 1 p.m.

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YEAR IN REVIEW 2018 Continued from Page 27 Komen Foundation’s Race for the Cure and raised $165,254 on April 14, on the Ocean City Boardwalk.

“Susan G. Komen’s sole focus is a world without breast cancer,” said Kim Schmulowitz, communications and marketing director of Komen Maryland. “Founded in 1982, Susan G. Komen is the world’s largest breast cancer organization, funding more breast cancer research than any other nonprofit while providing real-time help to those facing the disease.”

The event raises awareness, support and funds for breast cancer research with a 5K fun run or walk and a 1-mile family walk.

Since the inaugural event in 2012, Ocean City cancer survivors, supporters and race participants have raised more than $1.5 million for the organization.

Komen has set a bold goal to reduce the current number of breast cancer deaths by 50 percent in the United States by 2026.

“This event celebrates survivors, honors those living with the disease and remembers those we have lost,” Schmulowitz said.

The 2019 Race for the Cure will take place April 13.

OC Air Show The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds headlined the 11th annual Ocean City Air Show, which showcases a number of military aircrafts performing acrobatic displays over the beach downtown from June 10-11.

Performers included the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, C-17 Globemaster III, L-39 Cold War Era Jet Demo, U.S. Coast Guard Search & Rescue Demo, P-51 Mustang Demo, GEICO Skytypers, United States Special Operations Command Parachute Team – the “Para-Commandos,” B-25 Mitchell “Panchito” WWII Bomber and aerobatic pilot Scott Francis.

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HOROSCOPE ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20

Aries, if you find your mind wandering, make an effort to refocus your attention on important matters.

Daydreaming can be beneficial, but only to a certain extent.

TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21

Use your words and mind to make quick decisions that have others reacting to you with awe, Taurus. Your intuition will guide you where you need to be.

GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21

Gemini, begin the week with some vigorous exercise to get the blood flowing through your body and your mind. This will help you think and act more clearly.

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22

The Thunderbirds soar through the sky during the 11th annual Ocean City Airshow on June 15-16 in front of an audience of thousands of people.

Cancer, if you have been looking for ways to spend your free time, why not think about giving back to your community? Consider how your talents can be volunteered.

LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23

Approach a major project with your signature enthusiasm, Leo. All you need to do is break it down into smaller portions and work step by step for the greater whole.

VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22

Virgo, try not to compare yourself to other people or make judgements too quickly. Keep an open mind and recognize your self-confidence is a great asset.

LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23

The 44th annual Sunfest, held at the inlet parking lot from Sept. 20-23, holds the largest attendance record in the event’s history – 268,406.

Depending on the weather, hundreds of thousands of people watch the Ocean City Air Show from the Boardwalk, hotels, on the beach or on

a boat in the ocean and bay each year.

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Libra, there is a great deal that can be learned from your sense of freedom to explore and dream. See things from a new perspective and embrace your creativity.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22

Attempt to engage more of your rational mind this week, Scorpio. Consider enlisting others who can keep you on a track to greater discipline and accountability.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21

Sagittarius, now is a good time to put yourself in others’ shoes. By doing so, you can figure out how your own actions affect others and determine if you need to make some changes.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20

Don’t hesitate to pick up a fashion magazine or learn about the latest trends, Capricorn. It may be time to reinvent yourself. Start with a few new pieces of clothing.

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Aquarius, you have the right tone of voice for various situations. That is why you can be such a people-pleaser.

Use this to your advantage in the days ahead.

PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20

Do not get hung up on thinking the grass is greener somewhere else, Pisces. The key to happiness is making your situation the best it can be.

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This year breaks the record set in 2016, when attendance hit 251,577.

In 2017, 235,637 visited the festival.

According to Miller, this was also the most profitable year for vendors.Weather was also a contributor to the high numbers for this year’s festival.

The 2019 Sunfest festival will take place Sept. 19-22.

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer The eighth annual Ocean City Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5K run and walk took place Saturday, Oct. 20, on the Boardwalk, with proceeds benefitting the American Cancer Society.

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Hundreds participate in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5K run and walk at the inlet parking lot on Saturday, Oct. 20.

Continued from Page 28 Show has clearly become an event that families plan for each year,” said Chris Dirato, director of public relations. “In fact, many schedule their vacation around the show. It’s become a tradition in a sense. The show attracts fans from the entire region which clearly provides an economic benefit to the city in the form of filled hotel rooms and busy restaurants.”

The 2019 Ocean City Air Show will take place June 15-16 and featured performances from the Blue Angels and the Canadian Armed Forces Snowbirds.

Visit www.ocairshow.com to purchase a show package. For more information, go to www.facebook.com/ocairshow.

Sunfest Ocean City’s 44th annual Sunfest celebration in September attracted the largest crowd in the festival’s history as 268,406 people came to the inlet parking lot to shop, dance, eat and drink.

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Gay Dot Pitz, of Ocean Pines, and Lacey Murray, of Whaleyville, share a jolly sweater during the Believe in Tomorrow Volunteer Appreciation party at the Residence Inn by Marriott on 61st Street, Thursday, Dec. 13.

Volunteers Bruce and Julie Wagner, of Parsonsburg, Maryland, bring their children Bryce, 6, and Alura, 11 months, to the Believe in Tomorrow Volunteer Appreciation party at the Residence Inn by Marriott on 61st Street, Thursday, Dec. 13.

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Coordinator of the Children’s House by the Sea Wayne Littleton, left, enjoys some holiday cheer during the Believe in Tomorrow Volunteer Appreciation party at the Residence Inn by Marriott on 61st Street on Thursday, Dec. 13, with Believe in Tomorrow Vice President Maryanne Davis and CEO Brian Morrison.

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Lauren Glick, left, poses for a photo with Rina Thaler and Zac Ettz, grandson of Hal Glick, all from Ocean City, during the 2018 Hal Glick Distinguished Service Award Gala in the Crystal Ballroom at the Clarion on 101st Street, Sunday, Dec. 16.

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Award recipient Kim Messick, left, strikes up a conversation with Chris and Jayme Hayes, of Salisbury, during the 2018 Hal Glick Distinguished Service Award Gala in the Crystal Ballroom at the Clarion on 101st Street, Sunday, Dec. 16.

Gala event chair Jeff Thaler, left, and Ocean City resident Stan Kahn enjoy a cocktail hour before the 2018 Hal Glick Distinguished Service Award Gala begins in the Crystal Ballroom at the Clarion on 101st Street, Sunday, Dec. 16.

Sandy and Palmer Gillis are the Emcees for the 2018 Hal Glick Distinguished Service Award Gala in the Crystal Ballroom at the Clarion on 101st Street, Sunday, Dec. 16.

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YEAR IN REVIEW 2018 Continued from Page 29 breast cancer program at the American Cancer Society,” Mary Bellis, senior community development manager for the Northeast Region of the American Cancer Society, Inc., said. “Our goal is to find the cure to cancer but in the meantime, to maximize people’s quality of life, whether that’s providing transportation to treatment or giving them information to help make treatment decisions, or giving them free wigs or connecting them to our cancer support community.”

Several hundred runners, walkers and spectators participated.

Visit www.makingstrides walk.org/oceancitymd or “Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Ocean City, MD” on Facebook. Contact Mary Bellis at Mary.Bellis@cancer.org or call 410749-1635.

The Ocean City Making Strides 5K run and walk is one of several events that make up the Pink Ribbon Classic at the Beach Series, an assortment of local activities to increase breast cancer awareness while raising money for the American Cancer Society.

In 2018, $289,000 has been raised through the Pink Ribbon Classic at the Beach Series, Bellis said. Donations can still be made until Dec. 31.

The Pink Ribbon Classic Series was started in 1996 by a group of volunteers. Since its inception, the series has raised about $3.4 million for breast cancer research, awareness, programs and services.

To learn more about the American Cancer Society, visit www.cancer.org or call 1-800-227-2345. Visit makingstrideswalk.org/oceancitymd for more information. Find the chapter on Facebook at www.facebook.com/makingstridesoc or at the Twitter handle @OCMDStrides.

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Oct. 19.

Believe in Tomorrow Wayne Littleton, coordinator for the Believe in Tomorrow Children’s Respite Housing Program in Ocean

Stephen Decatur High School senior Michelle Hernandez was named the Worcester County Youth Volunteer of the Year during the Volunteer Spirit of Worcester County Awards Dinner in August. Hernandez was also recognized during the recent Stephen Decatur High School Presidential Service Awards ceremony.

Hernandez is a member of the volunteer group, Connections, and the National Honor Society.

She is pictured with County Commissioner Madison “Jim” Bunting.

City, is known for saying “ordinary people do extraordinary things,” which must have been the case leading the Believe in Tomorrow Foundation to win $100,000 and a two-year partnership with NASCAR. Carl Dakes, a longtime volunteer with Believe in Tomorrow, was chosen by an online fan vote as the winner of The NASCAR Foundation’s eighth annual Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award.

The award ceremony took place in Las Vegas Nov. 29.

“It was just an unbelievable experience to walk on that stage and look out all the people who were there,” Dakes said. “I’ve won trophies in the past, but nothing has ever come close to this.”

Dakes, of Crofton, Maryland, is a paint contractor by profession and president of The Dakes Company Inc.

He has volunteered thousands of hours over the past 18 years, painting all nine Believe in Tomorrow facilities, including the pediatric hospital in Baltimore and several respite houses spanning from North Carolina to Fenwick Island.

Dakes and Believe in Tomorrow came out on top out of four national finalists, all competing for a different children’s organization. For four weeks from Oct. 24 to Nov. 19, online voting took place every day to determine the winner.

A two-year partnership with NASCAR will “bring greater awareness about what Believe in Tomorrow does,” foundation CEO Brian Morrison said.

“It allows us to really be a part of the NASCAR family and to get our mission and our name out there,” Morrison said.

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Believe in Tomorrow Children’s Foundation provides hospital and respite housing services to critically ill children and their families. Since 1982, Believe in Tomorrow has provided over 900,000 individual overnight accommodations, from every state in the U.S. and more than 82 countries worldwide.

The Believe in Tomorrow facility on 66th Street in Ocean City is open year-round to provide a free getaway to the beach for critically ill children and their families whenever they may need to escape the stresses of their child’s illness.

Families can also vacation at the Believe in Tomorrow House in Fenwick Island and House by the Bay on 28th Street. Learn more about Believe in Tomorrow at http://believeintomorrow.org or call Littleton at 443-978-0680.

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Penguin Swim hits 25-year mark for annual AGH event

By Morgan Pilz Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) Atlantic General Hospital will complete its yearlong 25th anniversary celebration on Tuesday with the annual Penguin Swim.

Hundreds of men, women and children will run into the ocean at 91st Street on New Year’s Day as a fundraiser for Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin.

“The Penguin Swim is a fun, annual event to support our not-for-profit community hospital,” AGH Event Coordinator Joy Stokes said. “Each year, hundreds of penguins raise funds to help the hospital provide the excellent quality care our community depends on.”

Registration and check-in for the 2019 Penguin Swim will take place from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 1, at the Princess Royale Hotel on 91st Street, with the swim starting at 1 p.m.

The cost is $25 per swimmer. All registered swimmers will receive an official 2019 Penguin Swim T-shirt.

Early registration and advance checkin will be available on Monday, Dec. 31, from 2-4 p.m. at the hotel.

The Princess Royale will also offer a number of activities including carnival games, girls dressed as mermaids in the heated pool, Sherman the Shorebird mascot, live entertainment, a selfie station and face painting. Ice carving will take place on the beach as well.

In 2018, more than 420 swimmers participated, raising $98,000 for the hospital. There were also 50 sponsors, Stokes said.

“In total, the event has grossed nearly $1.4 million since 1995,” Stokes said.

“Funds raised are used to support AGH’s strategic initiatives and mission-driven community-based programs and services.”

Swimmers will also have other incentives and each registered participant will receive an official 2019 Penguin Swim Tshirt.

Penguins who raise anywhere from $50-$99 have the choice of a Penguin Swim plush hat or stainless-steel thermal water bottle while those who collect $100-$249 will take home an official Penguin Swim long-sleeve T-shirt or

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sweatshirt. Swimmers who collect $250$499 will be given a Penguin Swim beach towel, and anyone raising $500 or more will be able to choose one prize from each level, Stokes said.

The top-three donors from each category, which includes individuals and adults, teams, businesses, community groups, youth and family and 18 and under, will be awarded trophies and prizes.

There will be costume contest prizes awarded and special recognition will be given to the oldest and youngest penguins.

Before swimmers take the plunge, the Bull on the Beach team will parade down the beach in honor of being “the Emperor Penguin” and a legacy sponsor who has participated for 25 consecutive years. The parade will begin at 12:45 p.m.

“It’s a great event that brings together our community and visitors to have fun doing something a little silly and unique, as well as help one of the most important assets in our community,” Stokes said.

“It’s a fun family event that has become an annual tradition for many participants and spectators. It’s [also] a great way to ring in the new year while sup-

porting Atlantic General Hospital.”

Organizers are always looking for sponsors and checks can be made out to the AGH Foundation and mailed to: 9733 Healthway Drive Berlin, Maryland 21811.

For more information on event sponsorship opportunities, call 410-641-9671 or email jstokes@atlanticgeneral.org.

To sign up for the 25th annual Penguin Swim or to make a donation, visit aghpenguinswim.org or text PENGUIN to 51555. The event can be found on Facebook at facebook.com/penguinswim or call the hospital foundation office with questions at 410-641-9671.

Proceeds from the event support strategic plans started by Atlantic General Hospital and back its mission to improve individual and community health.

“The Penguin Swim is one of our largest fundraisers in support of Atlantic General Hospital’s mission to create a coordinated care delivery system that will provide access to quality care, personalized service and education to improve individual and community health,” Stokes said.

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Fireworks, music for New Year’s Eve at Northside Park

By Morgan Pilz Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) Northside Park on 125th Street will again wrap up Winterfest of Lights with a bang and celebrate the start of 2019 with fireworks on New Year’s Eve. There will be live entertainment from Baltimore’s DJ Kutt, hot chocolate and baked goods available for a small fee, giveaways from Coca-Cola and an opportunity to ride through the Winterfest of Lights for the last time in 2018, which will have extended hours until 11:30 p.m. for the special occasion.

“In terms of environment, Winterfest still offers that family friendly [experience],” Frank Miller, special events director for the Town of Ocean City, said. “If you want to show up late in the evening, enjoy the heated tent at Winterfest, buy some New Year’s Eve tchotchkes that can help you celebrate the upcoming 2019 year, we have those available for sale inside the Marlin Marketplace gift shop.”

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DJ Kutt will start spinning the tunes at 5:30 p.m. inside the pavilion and will move outdoors around 11 p.m. in preparation for the midnight fireworks display.

“It will be a fun occasion and if people have not come up to experience Winterfest yet, and they’re waiting until the last minute, there’s nothing like coming to do that on New Year’s Eve,” Miller said.

Attendees can also look forward to a couple photo opportunities and organizers are working on a sequence countdown to midnight on the 50foot Christmas tree. The pavilion will have non-alcoholic drinks available for purchase as well.

Winterfest of Lights has become a tradition for residents and families visiting during the holiday season.

Many check out the award-winning nighttime festival each year to take the guided open-air tour through the 125th Street park accompanied by holiday tunes.

The New Year’s Eve festivities begin at 5:30 p.m. inside the Winterfest Pavilion.

Winterfest of Lights runs nightly through Dec. 31 at Northside Park.

Hours of operation are 5:30-9:30 p.m.

Sunday through Thursday, and 5:3010:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. The cost to ride the train is $5 for adults.

Children 11 and younger ride for free.

For information, call 410-2500125 or visit www.ococean.com/events.

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Berlin rings in new year with events for children, adults

By Josh Davis Associate Editor (Dec. 28, 2018) The busy Berlin events season – and calendar year – concludes with a New Year’s Eve celebration downtown on Wednesday, Dec. 31.

Kicking things off from 5-6 p.m. is a special event for children and families that is timed to coincide with the New Year’s countdown in Berlin, Germany.

Town Councilman Thom Gulyas asked Economic and Community Development Director last year to spearhead the earlier bash.

“I enjoy the more family-oriented atmosphere,” Gulyas said. “We can restrict any kind of public consumption of alcohol, and it’s centered and geared around children – me included – because we all can’t stay awake until the New Year.

“It works out very well that way and kids have a great time,” he continued.

“Ivy Wells … does a fantastic job and I’m so pleased that she put this together for the town, because it’s just a lot of fun.”

Gulyas said the debut event last year was “just awesome.”

“We had no idea what do expect. We didn’t know if we were going to have six or 60 kids, but I remember there were well over 200 people in attendance that were children and parents,” he said. “[Downtown store] Heart of Gold Kids was also really instrumental in getting things pulled off, and making sure the kids had stuff to do and were enjoying themselves. It was a blast.”

A portion of Main Street was closed for the event and, at one point, volunteers handed out several large sheets of bubble wrap for children to enjoy stomping on.

“It was so loud at one time from kids jumping on it and popping it,” Gulyas said with a laugh. “I looked at the mayor and said, ‘We’re going to need headphones next year.’

“But they were really having a blast.

That’s the kind of hometown stuff I like to see done,” he added.

The celebration for adults is set to run from 10 p.m. until 12:30 a.m., with a light show from the balcony of the Atlantic Hotel and a countdown clock shining on the Town Center Antiques building.

Burley Oak Brewing Company will provide beer, with some proceeds benefiting the Lower Eastern Shore Area Heritage Counsel. Sessa’s Vending and Catering will provide a food truck.

Holiday events in the town started in November with a tree-lighting ceremony and this month included a townwide parade, free carriage rides, and several fine art and arts and crafts events – not to mention many busy shops and restaurants.

Throughout the season, the downtown sported a serious holiday makeover courtesy of town staff. Wells said the economic impact was significant.

“People want to go and shop in a beautiful place,” she said. “There’s a lot of repeat customers that come downtown, because they know what to expect. They know the shop owners, and the shop owners know what a lot of the people are looking for: beautiful and unique items, and a lot of handmade gifts made right here in Berlin.

“You just see people that you know, and it’s very warm and welcoming downtown,” Wells continued. “And people want to be part of something special.”

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NOW PLAYING BJ’S ON THE WATER 75th Street and the bay Ocean City 410-524-7575 www.bjsonthewater.com Dec. 28: Full Circle, 9 p.m.

Dec. 29: Chest Pains, 9 p.m.

Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve Party w/DJ Fast Eddie, 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.

Jan. 2: Old School, 6 p.m.

BOURBON STREET ON THE BEACH 116th Street, behind Fountain Head Towers Condominium Ocean City 443-664-2896 www.bourbonstreetonthebeach.com Dec. 28: Randy Lee Ashcraft, 4-7 p.m.; Dave Sherman, 7-11 p.m.

Dec. 29: Chris Button & Joe Mama, 7-11 p.m.

Dec. 30: Keri Anthony, 6 p.m.

Dec. 26: Reform School, 6 p.m.; Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Dec. 31: OHO, 4-7 p.m.; New Year’s Eve Party w/Reform School (entire band), 8 p.m.

Jan. 1: Hangover Party 1 p.m.; 2 Guyz & A Mama, 3-7 p.m.

Jan. 2: Reform School, 6 p.m. & Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Jan. 3: Chris Button, 7-10 p.m.

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Dec. 31: Phil Perdue DUFFY’S TAVERN 130th Street in the Montego Bay Shopping Center 410-250-1449 www.duffysoc.com Dec. 28: Bob Hughes, 5-8 p.m.

Dec. 29: Karaoke w/DJ Chuck D, 8 p.m. to midnight Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve Party w/DJ Rut, 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.

HARBORSIDE BAR & GRILL 12841 S. Harbor Road West Ocean City 410-213-1846 www.ocharborside.com Dec. 28: DJ Billy T, 4 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Dec. 29: Side Project/Chris Button, 2-6 p.m.; DJ Jeremy, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Dec. 30: Opposite Directions, 2-6 p.m.; DJ Billy T, 4 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Dec. 31: DJ Billy T, 4 p.m.; New Year’s Eve Party

101st Street and the ocean Ocean City 410-524-3535 www.clarionoc.com Every Friday and Saturday: DJ Dusty, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Dec. 28-29: First Class Dec. 31: Power Play; On the Edge PICKLES 706 Philadelphia Ave. Ocean City 410-289-4891 www.picklesoc.com Dec. 28: Beats By Jeremy, 10 p.m.

Dec. 29: Swell Fellas, 10 p.m.

Dec. 30: City Painted Green, 10 p.m.

Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve Party w/Crop Top, 9 p.m.; Karaoke w/Jeremy, 9 p.m.

Jan. 3: Beats by Wax, 9 p.m.

PURPLE MOOSE SALOON 108 S. Atlantic Ave. Ocean City 410-289-6953 www.purplemoosesaloon.com Dec. 29: CK the DJ/VJ, 2 p.m.; Green Light, 9 p.m.

Dec. 30: CK the DJ/VJ, 2 p.m.; New Year’s Eve Party w/One Louder, 10 p.m.

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410-524-4900 www.seacrets.com Dec. 28: Lima Bean Riot, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.; DJ Tuff, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Dec. 29: John McNutt Band, 5-9 p.m.; DJ Bobby-O, 6 p.m. to 1:50 a.m.; DJ Cruz, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.; My Hero Zero, 10 p.m. to 1:50 a.m.

Dec. 31: Full Circle, 4-7:30 p.m.; New Year’s Eve Bash, 4 p.m. to 4 a.m.; DJ Davie, 4:45-9:30 p.m.; DJ Tuff, 7 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.

SKYE RAW BAR & GRILLE 66th Street, bayside Ocean City 410-723-6762 www.skyebaroc.com Dec. 28: Zach Project, 4-8 p.m.

Dec. 29: Ricky & Lennon LaRicci, 4-8 p.m.

WHISKER’S BAR & GRILL 11070 Cathell Road, Suite 17 Pines Plaza, Ocean Pines 410-208-3922 www.whiskersbar.com Dec. 28: Karaoke w/Donnie Berkey Dec. 31: New Year’s Ever Party: Karaoke w/Donnie Berkey

PEP RALLY In celebration of Homecoming and all of the spirited activities, the Stephen Decatur High School senior class officers led the class of 2019 in the annual themed pep rally walkout, which was "Welcome to the Jungle" this year. Pictured are Stephen Decatur High School senior class officers Hannah Johnson, Halle Friedman, Orre Omer and President Allison Jones.

PAJAMA DRIVE Ocean City Elementary held its second annual Pajama Drive, Oct. 15-Nov. 2, and students were encouraged to bring in a new pair of pajamas to donate to the Pajama Program, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that provides new, warm pajamas and books to children in need. OCES students, faculty and staff collected 94 pairs of pajamas. Pictured, from left, are Trevor Lehman, Hayden Yeager, Wyatt Scimgeour, Lewis Takacs and Jamari Sears.

HOMECOMING COURT Worcester Preparatory School hosted its Upper School Homecoming Dance on Oct. 20. Homecoming court members, from left, are freshman prince and princess Vaughn Zender and Faith Sens, sophomore prince and princess Daniel Chen and Arusa Islam, junior prince and princess Gavin Carmody and Jordan Campbell, senior prince and princess Alec Dembeck and Maria Deckmann, and senior king and queen Cameron Hill and Kendall Whaley.

DIABETES DAY Berlin Intermediate School recently rallied around World Diabetes Day by wearing blue. Students and staff talked about the signs of type 1 and type 2 diabetes and the effect it has on the families and lives of the BIS community. Pictured are fourth grade students.

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New Year’s parties scheduled throughout Wor.

By Morgan Pilz Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) The end of 2018 is here, and several restaurants and hotels in the area are celebrating with specials and live entertainment to ring in the new year.

Here are some of the festivities taking place throughout Worcester County: BJ’s on the Water, 75th Street, will offer its regular menu until 1:30 a.m. on New Year’s Eve. A champagne toast and party favors will be given out at midnight. DJ Fast Eddie will provide music, 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. No cover charge.

The establishment will be open New Year’s Day starting at 11 a.m. until 1:30 a.m. For more information, visit www.bjsonthewater.com.

Bourbon Street on the Beach, 116th Street, will offer a special New Year’s Eve menu in addition to the regular menu. The seating will start at 4 p.m.

Catch live entertainment at 6 p.m. with OHO, followed by Reform School at 8 p.m.

New Year’s Day celebrate with Two Guys and a Mama at the “Hangover Party” beginning at 1 p.m.

For more information, call 443-6442896.

Carousel, 118th Street, will offer a buffet on New Year’s Eve for $39.95 from 6-10 p.m.

There will be a free ice skating shows

at 6:30 p.m. A New Year’s Eve party will take place in the Atrium, with music provided by DJ Jeremy at 7:30 p.m. into the new year at 1:30 a.m.

For more information or to make a reservation, call 410-520-2282.

Casino at Ocean Downs, Racetrack Road, will host a live table games grand opening on New Year’s Eve. Attendees must be 21 years of age or older.

There will be a chance to win slot dollars and various prizes.

DJ BK will spin from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m.

Live entertainment will be provided by the Kevin Poole Duo, 4:30-8:30 p.m.

Dark Gold Jazz will play 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. There will be a special $2,018 slot dollar drawing at midnight.

Monday, Jan. 1, listen to the Matt Lafferty Trio, 12:30-4:30 p.m. followed by Dark Gold Jazz, 5:30-9:30 p.m. To hear more, call 410-641-0600.

Clarion hotel, 101st Street, will offer a gourmet dinner buffet from 8-10 p.m. on New Year’s Eve with dancing and entertainment, 9 p.m.to 3 a.m.

Two bands, Power Play and catch On the Edge, will provide entertainment throughout the night. An open bar is available 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Participants must be 21 years of age or older, with proper ID. Tickets to the party cost $150 per person, which includes dinner, the open bar and a complimentary champagne toast at

midnight. Barstool seating, which does not include dinner, costs $95.

Packages are available. To make a reservation, call 1-800-638-2100.

Coins Pub, 28th Street, will offer a special New Year’s Eve menu starting at 4 p.m. Reservations can be made for parties of six or more. To make a reservation, call 410-289-3100.

Cowboy Coast, 17th Street, will have a premium open bar all night with a champagne toast at midnight. Live entertainment will be provided by Sam Grow. Tickets cost $60, and can be purchased on Ticket Web. VIP seating will be available for extra charge. Doors open at 9 p.m.

For more, visit www.cowboycoastoc.com.

The Cove at Mumford’s, in Ocean Pines, has sold out for its New Year’s Eve party. On New Year’s Day get half-price

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Duffy’s, 130th Street, has a threecourse dinner available for $30 per person on New Year’s Eve that includes a choice of soup, salad and an entrée. Entrée selections include beef Wellington, or stuffed lobster tail. Entertainment will be provided by DJ Rut. Following its New Year’s Day tradition, the restaurant will serve brunch from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

To make a reservation, call 410-2501449.

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Harborside, West Ocean City, will feature live music from DJ Billy T at 4 p.m. and offer late night specials beginning at 10 p.m. A champagne toast will welcome the new year at midnight.

For more information, call 410-2131846.

Holiday Inn Oceanfront, 66th Street, will have a New Year’s Eve party from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. with a dinner buffet from 7-9 p.m. and desserts until 1 a.m.

Entertainment will be provided by A Brit of Magic as well as a Performance by Dicken’s Parlour Theatre. A champagne toast will take place at midnight.

For more information, call 410-5241600.

Jules, 120th Street, will offer a threecourse dinner on New Year’s Eve for $35. To make a reservation, call 410524-3396.

Longboard Cafe, 67th Street, doors open at 6 p.m. on New Year’s Eve. Live music starts at 7 p.m. with Dave Hawkins.

Tickets cost $70 and includes hors d’oeuvres and buffet all evening, party favors and champagne and reduced drink prices. This is the sixth annual “It’s 12 o’clock Somewhere” New Year’s Eve Party.

The ball will drop 10 p.m., and guests can burst piñatas in celebration. To make a reservation, call 443-664-5639.

OC 360, Fenwick Inn, 138th Street, will open at 7 p.m. with dinner served from 7:30-9 p.m. There will be a full buffet dinner, with an open bar and dancing. The cost is $99 per person, with a champagne toast at midnight.

Enjoy a New Year’s Day brunch at the Fenwick Inn. Adults pay $14.95, children $9.95 (4-12 years old). Children ages 4 and under eat free. For more information, call 410-250-1100.

Pickles Pub, Eighth Street, will have live entertainment provided by Ray and the Revolvers on New Year’s Eve. There is no cover charge. A champagne toast will kick off the new year at midnight.

For more information, call 410-2894891.

Princess Royale, 91st Street, has several events for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day happening.

On New Year’s Eve, reserve a seat for dinner in the Palmetto Ballroom, for $129 per person beginning at 7 p.m. The reservation includes a five-course gourmet dinner of roasted tenderloin and crab cakes, Louie salad, shrimp cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and a six-hour open bar.

Coat and tie attire are required. Hear live entertainment by ‘Don’t Stop!’, dancing and a champagne toast.

Schooners Restaurant will also offer

a three-course dinner, 5-9 p.m. with drink specials and light fare after 9 p.m.

The cost is $29 over person. The restaurant will reopen at 11 a.m. on New Year’s Day for brunch. To make a reservation, call 410-524-7777.

Rare and Rye, 32nd Street, will be open for New Year’s Eve will offer a customized new year’s menu. The specialty menu includes grilled rack of lamb, brie oysters, pan seared scallops, and a triple “surf and turf” consisting of beef tenderloin, scallops and scalloped potatoes stuffed with lobster meat. For dessert, the restaurant offers the New Year’s Eve chocolate balloon – a chocolate shell filled with chocolate mousse.

Dinner reservations are available for 5 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. seating. Only 22 tables will be served each reservation period.

To make a reservation, call 410-2137273.

Seacrets, 49th Street, offers a New Year’s Eve Bash until 4 a.m., and opens again at 11 a.m. New Year’s Day. Dinner reservations cost $65 at 5:30 p.m., $75 at 6:30 p.m. $85 at 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Dinner includes the party cover charge, a salad, appetizer and entrée. Dessert is available for an additional cost.

Cover starts at 4 p.m. for $20 in the bar area. At 6 p.m. the charge increases to $30. Entertainment starts on the tiki stage at 4 p.m. with Full Circle, John Maurer at 8 p.m. and Nine Mile Roots at midnight. Inside Morley Hall Nite Club listen to Garden State Radio, at 8 p.m. and Flowers for Tacos at 1 a.m.

To make a reservation call Christine Komlos at 410-524-4900 or visit www.Seacrets.com.

Skye Bar, 66th Street, will have its New Year’s Eve with live entertainment starting at 9 p.m. Dinner reservations are available for 5 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. seating. A champagne toast with party favors at midnight. There will not be a cover charge. To hear more, call 410723-6762.

Tailchasers, 123rd Street, will have a limited menu on New Year’s Eve. The establishment will reopen at 11:30 a.m. on New Year’s Day. To make a reservation, call 443-664-7075.

Whiskers Bar and Grille, Ocean Pines, will hold a Karaoke party starting at 9:30 p.m. with live entertainment provided by Donnie Berkley on New Year’s Eve. For more information, call 410208-3922.

The Town of Ocean City’s Transportation Department, will offer free bus service from 6 a.m. on Dec. 31 to 6 a.m. on Jan. 1.

On Dec. 31, bus services will run every 20 minutes from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. and every 10 minutes from 6 p.m. until 4 a.m. on Jan. 1. Buses on New Year’s Day will also run every 20 minutes from 4 a.m. until 7 a.m., at which time they will resume a normal winter service schedule of every 40 minutes.

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116th ST. & Coastal Hwy. behind Fountain Head Towers condominiums

Sustained winds and freezing cold were enough to limit, but not eliminate, participation in Assateague Coastal Trust’s 38th annual Ilia Fehrer/Judy Johnson New Year’s Day Walk at the state park. Several dozen people listened to former National State Park Service Ranger Chris Seymour describe the beach, while another select few wandered the frozen beach unguided.

ACT will host 39th annual NEW YEARS EVE MENU New Year’s Day nature walk APPETIZERS

SEATING STARTS AT 4 PM • RESERVATIONS ARE RECOMENDED

By Morgan Pilz Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) Celebrate the start of 2019 with a scenic nature walk during Assateague Coastal Trust’s 39th annual Ilia Fehrer/Judy Johnson New Year’s Day Beach Walk at Assateague State Park.

“This is an excellent way to get outside and experience the island during a time of year that offers an experience you won’t get during other times of the year,” ACT Communications Manager Billy Weiland said. “By putting ourselves out there in environments and learning new things about them, we develop a refined respect for them and are more inclined to care about them and ensure such natural resources, like Assateague, are protected from any kind of environmental harm.”

Weiland will be leading participants up the beach to scenic and pristine views, with Ocean City’s strip in the distance, beginning at 1 p.m. on Tuesday. He is taking over for former National State Park Service Ranger Chris Seymour, who had led the walk for more than three decades.

The walk is about an hour long and less than one mile, Weiland said. The theme for this year’s walk comes from ACT’s online journal, “The Marsh.”

“I developed ‘The Marsh’ a little over a year ago and I am the author of its stories,” Weiland said. “It resides as the philosophical voice of our organization, which is that to care about the environment, we have to first immerse ourselves in, and experience our environment to better understand it on a scientific and personal level.

“Assateague never fails to offer something new to see or think about,” he continued. “As a barrier island it is constantly ‘on the move.’ Native and migratory bird species are usually always fairly easy to find anywhere on the island, depending on wind and weather. This time of year, the beach

is scoured pretty well in areas from increased swell activity, so it’s not rare to find a few cool things that would normally be buried under the sand during the spring and summer (such as old wood planks, seas glass [and] sought after shells, etc.).”

Anywhere from 175 to 300 people come out every year. The numbers fluctuate depending on the weather, Weiland said.

“Last year was a wicked cold New Year’s Day walk,” Weiland said. “I believe our wind chill was in the single digits with noerheast wind at about 25 [knots]. That said, about 60 people came out and we shortened our walk to an hour.”

In the early 1970s, Judy Johnson formed the Committee to Preserve Assateague Island to draw attention to its beauty.

Around the same time, Ilia Fehrer of Snow Hill, visited Assateague on New Year’s Day wanting to reconnect with the wilderness. She was an avid voice in preserving the wetlands and shorelines on Assateague Island. Her family continued to join every year, even coming down from Baltimore.

The invite went out to Assateague Coastal Trust, formally the Committee to Preserve Assateague Island, to join and members started participating. It grew larger every year.

The first beach walk was organized

by Fehrer and Johnson on Jan. 1, 1980, the same year former President Jimmy Carter declared “Year of the Coast.”

The New Year’s Day tradition is now named in their honor.

“I hope to see a lot of members from our community join us for this walk,” Weiland said. “I’ve been with ACT for a little over a year now and feel privileged to be leading our long legacy of this event.”

Entry into the park is free for the walk, and hot chocolate and cookies See NATURE Page 39

Crab Stuffed Mushrooms $12 Mozzarella Sticks $7 Char Grilled Oysters $10 Crab & Spinach Dip $12

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Scallops in Bacon $12 Half Shell Oysters $10 Caprice Salad $10

Gumbo-Red Beans with Fresh Vegetables $18

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CAJUN CATFISH WITH CRAWFISH ALFREDO $25 CRAB CAKES $32 CHIECKEN CHESAPEAKE WITH LUMP CRAB $24 DEKMONICO & STEAMED SHRIMP $38 TENDERLOIN NEW ORLEANS $38 SURF N TURF $60 (80Z FILET W/ 8OZ TAIL)

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Fourth annual New Year’s concert

By Morgan Pilz Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) Mayor Rick Meehan and members of the Ocean City Council will host a free concert at the performing arts center on 40th Street, on New Year’s Day to kick off 2019.

This is the fourth annual concert held at the Performing Arts Center.

There will also be a meet and greet with the mayor and several members of the community including Ocean City council members, the Ocean City Development Corporation, the Downtown Association, beach patrol, fire department, and the Ocean City LifeSaving Museum, which will have a small display set up.

“The tradition actually started more than 20 years ago as the Mayor’s Open House,” Jessica Waters, Ocean City communications manager, said. “About four years, the new Performing Arts Center was done and Mayor Meehan decided to modernize the tradition, and instead of having an open house at City Hall, he invited the community to come to a free concert at the Performing Arts Center.”

The 2019 Mayor’s New Year’s Day Concert will feature performances by local singer/songwriter Bryan Russo and a special performance by Baltimore’s Cardinal Shehan School Choir.

“They have quite the reputation and they’re amazingly talented kids from Baltimore,” Waters said. “Mayor Meehan is very adamant that we start New Year’s Day in a very positive and uplifting way, and I can’t think of a better way to start 2019 than inviting the school choir from Baltimore, our neighboring city in Maryland, to kick off the new year.”

Cardinal Shehan School operates under the Archdiocese of Baltimore Department of Catholic Schools and serves students in Pre-K3 through eighth grade.

The Cardinal Shehan School Choir gained national attention when the

Nature walk set for Assateague Continued from Page 37 will be offered at the end. ACT encourages walkers to bring personal mugs to reduce waste caused by disposable cups.

Meet ACT staff and Weiland at the Assateague State Park concession stand at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 1 to join the walk and make sure to dress accordingly.

From Route 50, follow Route 611 south across the Verrazano Bridge, then drive to the end of the road and turn right into the State Park’s parking lot.

For more information, call ACT at 410-629-1538 or visit ACTforBays.org.

group’s performance of the Andra Day song “Rise Up” went viral on Facebook with more than 60 million views. Since the viral hit, the Cardinal Shehan School Choir has performed on “Good Morning America” and sang the National Anthem at a Ravens game at M&T Bank Stadium.

“The New Year’s Day Concert is an uplifting and positive tradition, which brings members of our community together to celebrate the start of a new year in Ocean City,” Mayor Rick Meehan stated in a press release. “Local talent, Bryan Russo, has raised the bar each year and helped this event evolve in to what it is today. This year we are excited to welcome the Cardinal Shehan School Choir from our neighboring city, Baltimore. What better way to start the new year than bringing together Maryland talent on

our beautiful stage at the Ocean City Performing Arts Center.”

Residents and visitors are invited to the Ocean City convention center to meet Mayor Meehan and City Council members from 1-1:30 p.m.

After the meet and greet, the Performing Arts Center doors will open for seating and the concert will start promptly at 1:45 p.m. with Russo opening the show. Light hors d’oeuvres will be offered during the event.

“We have this beautiful Performing Arts Center in Ocean City that a lot of people have yet to have the opportunity to visit,” Waters said. “It’s a free show … I can’t imagine a better way to start the new year.”

Tickets will not be issued, as seating will be first come first serve. For more information, call Waters at 410289-8967.

PHOTO COURTESY D.J. LANDIS, SR.

BELL RINGER On Black Friday, bell ringing for the Salvation Army’s Holiday Red Kettle Drive began. Kiwanis Club of Greater Ocean Pines-Ocean City manned its customary Red Kettle station at the Berlin Walmart on Route 50. Pictured is Kiwanian Stella Hartington who again chaired the event for the club.

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HOLIDAY WRAPPING Volunteers from the Berlin-Ocean City Jaycee’s take a photo break during a busy day of wrapping presents, Saturday at Stevenson United Methodist Church in Berlin. A table nearby shows off all the presents that were donated that day, which will be distributed to needy families in the area by Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services.

GIVING BACK The Synepuxent Post #166 American Legion and Unit #166 American Legion Auxiliary of Ocean City have donated to Atlantic General Hospital’s community flu clinics. Rosie and Sarge Garlitz presented the checks for the second year in a row during an Atlantic General Hospital community flu clinic at Holy Savior Catholic Church, Oct. 25. Rosie Garlitz is the chair of community service for Unit #166 of the American Legion Auxiliary of Ocean City and Sarge is the public relations officer for Post #166 and the commander of the American Legion’s South Eastern Shore District. The presented $1,100 to Tracey Mullineaux, BSN, RN, employee health and wellness coordinator.

LARGE DONATION NEW OFFICERS The Ocean City/Berlin Leo Club recently installed new officers for the 2018-19 year. The Leo Club is a youth group sponsored by the Ocean City Lions Club and is based at Stephen Decatur High School in Berlin. Every year the Leos assist the OC Lions in raising awareness and funds for its many eyesight programs, including the National Lions Leader Dogs for the Blind program. The Leo Club is also involved with the Wounded Warriors Supply Drive and various food and clothing drives around the community. Picture, from left are Treasurer Logan Townsend, President Kennedy Duke, Vice President Samantha Short and Secretary Halle Friedman.

Bill and Carolyn Johnston recently donated $5,000 to the Believe in Tomorrow Children’s Foundation which provides hospital and respite housing services to critically ill children and their families. The Believe in Tomorrow House by the Sea in Ocean City offers chronically ill children and their families the opportunity to relax in a beach-style family vacation and spend precious time together amidst the struggles of childhood illness. They have been supporters of the organization for more than 20 years. This past summer their Gold sponsorship of the Believe in Tomorrow 5K in Bethany Beach, Delaware created an added fundraising boost. The Johnstons used their Donor Advised Fund at the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore to create a matching donation for a combined total of $10,000 to the organization. Pictured, from left, are Brian Morrison, the Johnstons, Riley Marshall and Wayne Littleton.

HONOR SOCIETY INDUCTEES The Charles R. Jenkins Chapter of the National Honor Society at Worcester Preparatory School inducted 36 new members on Nov. 8. Pictured in front, from left, are Annika Larsen, Quinn McColgan, Rylie Carey, Hana Miller, Ellie Todorov, Kathryn Marini, Maddy Shanahan, Saylar McGuiness, Ashley Laws, Madison Van Orden and Carly Hoffman; second row, Charlie Brinker, McKenzie Blake, Damiana Colley, Abbi Nechay, Jenna Elrick, Kennedy Humes, Aly Matha, Audrey Stearns and Max Taylor; third row, Enzo Zechiel, Sami Repass, Emily Copeland, Abi Plylar, Clare DeMallie and Spencer Paquette; and in back, Ryan Cronin, Alec Dembeck, Alec Willing, Kelly Polk, Kurt Leinemann, Devin Wallace, Frank Carter and Gavin Hentschel. Not Pictured: Max Huber and Eli Prushansky.

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Presley, Perkins, Lewis & Cash to preform in resort

By Rachel Ravina Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) Ocean City residents and visitors can experience the musical stylings of Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, this Saturday.

Presley, Perkins, Lewis & Cash will preform shows at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center on 40th Street. Tickets cost $29 and $36.

Ben Hale assumes the musical role of Johnny Cash as a member of the group, but he said it’s all about putting his own spin on it.

“It’s a tightrope walk, and we honor the music, and we don’t do it by absolute rote,” Hale said. “We like to breathe life into it, and keep it vibrant and moving.”

Hale said what sets the group apart from other tribute ensembles is that they’re “a bunch of young guys who are working musicians out of Nashville, and all over, and they’re all stellar, stellar entertainers.”

Hale said his group’s talent often allows them to shake things up during performance.

“My favorite kind of Rock and Roll lives in the … unpredictable,” Hale said.

Hale said he spent two-and-a-half years working on Million Dollar Quartet in Las Vegas, a show that put a more theatrical take on the lives of these singers.

“This is the concert version, unbridled, and people often will get up and

PHOTO COURTESY BEN HALE

Members of the tribute group “Presley, Perkins, Lewis, and Cash” will preform two shows on Dec. 29 at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center in Ocean City.

dance around you if the venue allows it,” he said.

Mike Wicklein, of Ocean Promotions, said the 4 p.m. matinee show was a last-minute addition “because tickets are selling quite nicely.”

Hale said the group is thrilled to perform in Ocean City.

“We are all for it. I mean every show has its own challenges, and every audience presents a new opportunity to win them over,” Hale said. “I’m looking forward to it.”

Anyone interested in purchasing tickets can do so at the convention center’s box office on 40th Street, call the center at 410-289-2800, through Ticketmaster at 1-800-551-7328, or visit ticketmaster.com.

Former NFL player to speak at Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast

By Morgan Pilz Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) The fourth annual Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast, presented by the Ocean City Chamber of Commerce, will feature retired football placekicker, David Akers, as the keynote speaker.

The 2019 event, scheduled Friday, Jan. 11 in the Crystal Ballroom at the Clarion hotel on 101st Street, will begin at 8 a.m. with breakfast served and Akers beginning his speech.

Akers played for the Philadelphia Eagles, San Francisco 49ers and Detroit Lions, as well as a brief career with the Washington Redskins. He is currently a free agent and Christian speaker.

Akers joined the Philadelphia Eagles in 1999. The six-time Pro Bowl Selection has been a member of playoff teams 10 times, participated in seven NFC Championship games, and played in two Super Bowls.

He owns the NFL postseason record of 19 consecutive field goals made and

holds nearly every Pro Bowl kicking record.

“He has a great story and how he just kept moving forward … and how his faith’s a part of that,” Events Director Lisa Layfield said. “That’s what we look for … we look for someone who has an inspiring story and we definitely felt like he was someone that was a good fit for everyone.”

Last year, over 300 people attended the event. The 2018 keynote speaker was Victor Mooney, who paddled from Africa to New York in a rowboat.

“It’s a great way to just get out and see people,” Layfield said. “It gives people in the community the opportunity to see and talk to people that they may never see during the year.”

The guest clergy speaking during the event will be Brian Pugner from the Ocean City Worship Center.

The event is sponsored by the Farmer’s Bank of Willards, Mountaire Farms, Ocean Pines Chamber of ComSee MAYOR’S Page 42

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Satisfy your sweet tooth in decadent holiday indulgence

By Deborah Lee Walker Contributing Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) Whether it is by chance or by choice, we have become a society where convenience and mass production has become the “norm.”

Modernization can be a good thing, but at the same time we need to preserve our culture and continue the tradition of our forefathers.

It is a pity that homemade desserts are being passed up for boxed mixes.

The holidays are about extravagance and prepackaged goodies do not meet the criteria.

If your sweet tooth happens to be craving a decadent dessert and do not want to settle for anything less, consider trying your luck at a luscious cheesecake.

There is no need for intimidation; a few tips will bring out your best. An understanding of science also helps add to your success. With that thought in mind, let us delve into the specifics for a mouthwatering cheesecake.

Room temperature cream cheese is a must; it blends better with the other ingredients. If the cream cheese is too cold, the consistency will be lumpy and so will your finished cake.

If you are pushed for time, all is not lost. Remove the foil wrapping from the blocks of cheese and place them in a microwavable-safe bowl and heat just until they get soft.

Sometimes the smallest details can make the biggest difference; add a touch of cornstarch or flour to your recipe. This simple step causes the starch to interact with the egg proteins and prevents them from overcoagulating.

In other words, your cheesecake will have a creamier texture and will be less likely to crack.

There is no getting around it; a springform pan is well worth the money. The removable sides make the task of removing the cheesecake from the pan to the serving plate a breeze.

Mixing the cheesecake batter is a delicate balance of mixing and timing. You have to mix the cream cheese enough to avoid lumps, but do not overmix because the batter will absorb too much air.

The end result – your cheesecake will rise too rapidly which causes it to collapse and increase the chances for cracks.

Cooking a cheesecake in a water bath is imperative for a successful dish. A water bath is the technique of putting your cake pan in a container

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Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast has something for everyone Continued from Page 41 merce and Snow Hill Chamber of Commerce.

“We wanted to involve everyone in the area,” Layfield said. “It’s something for everybody. The event is more about bringing people together and starting off the year on a positive note.

“So, I would just invite people to come out and join us,” she continued.

“Start the year off on a positive note with an inspiring story, a great fellowship … meeting new people and seeing

people that maybe you haven’t seen in a while.”

Tickets cost $20. Guests also have the option to provide a sponsor table, which costs $300 and includes 10 tickets, a sponsor recognition and a mention in the program, or a $100 open seating sponsorship which also receives a mention in the program.

For more information, to become a sponsor, call Layfield at 410-213-0144 ext. 104. To order tickets, visit www.chamber.oceancity.org/events.

PHOTO COURTESY OCEAN CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

David Akers will be the keynote speaker of the Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast on Jan. 11 in the Crystal Ballroom at the Clarion on 101st Street.

CROSSWORD

of water while baking. The water helps the heat disperse evenly, which again helps avoid cracks.

Lastly, it is important to allow the cheesecake to cool gradually. After the cheesecake has finished cooking, turn off the stove and keep the oven door closed for a period of time. Resist the temptation to open the door and peak at your finished dessert.

The first of the year is here and eggnog cheesecake is a festive way to use leftover “spirits.” The following recipe is delicious and straight forward. The whipped topping is optional.

Enjoy and have a Happy New Year!

Eggnog Cheesecake

Crust 2 cups graham cracker crumbs ½ cup salted butter, melted 3 tablespoons sugar ½ teaspoon nutmeg 1/8 teaspoon each ground cinnamon, allspice, and cloves aluminum foil

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Line a 9-inch springform pan with parchment paper in the bottom and grease the sides.

2. Combine the dry crust ingredients in a small bowl. Then, add the melted butter and mix thoroughly.

Press the mixture evenly in the bottom of the springform pan. Using the back of a spoon, press the edges down so the crust is perfectly smooth.

3. Bake the crust for 10 minutes, See REMAKE Page 44

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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. Fourstory 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 410-2891100, 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. (Friday and Saturday, till 10 p.m.). Also Zippy Lewis Lounge with happy hour from 4-7 p.m., featuring Craft Beer selections and appetizer menu; Milton’s Out Door Cafe; and 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, year-round. Daily specials, daily duck feeding. Entertainment every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. No cover. Available for parties and banquets.

Indoor and outdoor dining.

■ DRY 85 OC 12 48th Street, Ocean City 443-664-8989, 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.

■ LONGBOARD CAFÉ 67th Street Town Center, Ocean City 443664-5639, www.longboardcafe.net $$ | Kids’ menu | Full bar Serving lunch and dinner. Lite fare to dinner entrees offering a variety of burgers, pani-

nis, 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.

■ RARE AND RYE 106 32nd St., Ocean City 410-213-7273, https://www.rareandrye.com Full Bar Whiskey and wine bar. Farm to table. Locally grown and prepared cuisine with an eclectic menu. Unique libations with robust selection of ryes, bourbons, whiskeys and specialty drinks. Authentic green space with industrial and rustic décor.

■ RED RED WINE BAR OC 12 48th Street, Ocean City 443-664-6801, 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

■ ALBERTINO’S BRICK OVEN EATERY 13117 Coastal Highway, Ocean City 410250-2000, www.albertinosoc.com $-$$ | Kids’ menu | Full bar Lunch and dinner daily. Open Wednesday and Thursday, 4 p.m. and Friday through Sunday, 11 a.m. Homemade pizza and pasta, seafood, steaks. Daily specials and happy hour.

■ 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.

■ THE CRAB BAG 130th Street, bayside, Ocean City 410250-3337, www.thecrabbag.com $-$$ | Full bar Dine in and carryout. Open 7 Days a week, 11 am til late night. Hot steamed crabs, world famous fried chicken, ribs, burgers,

barbecue, pasta, seafood, steaks, sandwiches and more. Lunch and weekly carryout and dinner specials. Happy hour at the beach with drink and food specials.

■ 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 410-524-3535, 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 and AUCE prime rib, crab legs and seafood buffet available Friday and Saturday, 5-9 p.m.

■ JULES FINE DINING 118th Street, Ocean City 410-524-3396, www.ocjules.com $$, $$$ | Reservations | Kids’ menu | Full bar Local fare, global flair. Fresh seafood yearround, fresh local produce.

■ NICK’S HOUSE OF RIBS 144th Street & Coastal Highway, Ocean City 410-250-1984, www.nickshouseofribs.com $$ | Kids’ menu | Full bar Casual, family friendly with upscale atmosphere. Extensive menu from our famous baby back ribs, fresh seafood, black angus steaks.

■ NORI 11403 Coastal Highway (Gold Coast Mall), Ocean City 443-880-6258 $$ | Reservations accepted | 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 410-5241000, www.carouselhotel.com $-$$ | Kids’ menu | Full bar Open seven days a week. Oceanfront dining in a casual atmosphere. Serving breakfast from 7-11 a.m., featuring a breakfast buffet or special order from the regular menu. Dinner served from 4-9 p.m., seafood, ribs, steaks, pasta and prime rib. Join us for family theme night dinners.

■ WHISKERS PUB 120th Street, OC Square, Ocean City 410524-2609, www.whiskerspub.com $ | Kids’ menu | Full bar Certified Angus® burgers and casual fare.

Call for hours.

DELAWARE

■ FOX’S PIZZA DEN 31225 American Parkway, Selbyville, Del. 302-436-FOXS, www.foxspizzade.com $-$$ | Kids’ menu | Full bar Sit-down bar and restaurant. Full menu includes pizza, pastas, salads, sandwiches and more. Specializing pizza and chef specials. Open daily for lunch and dinner at 11 a.m. Take out and delivery.

WEST OCEAN CITY

■ ALEX’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT Route 50, West Ocean City 410-213-7717, www.ocitalianfood.com $-$$ | Reservations | 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.

■ FOX’S PIZZA DEN 11328 Samuel Bowen Blvd., West Ocean City 410-600-1020, Foxpizzamd.com $-$$ | Kids’ menu | Full Bar Enjoy a brand new spacious dining room.

Happy hour every day from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. with $5 food specials. Full menu includes appetizers, salads, stromboli, hoagies and wedgies, pizza, spaghetti and more. Open every day from 11 a.m. to midnight.

■ 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 Thursday 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.

■ PIZZA TUGOS Routes 50 and 611, West Ocean City 410524-2922; 114th Street and Coastal Highway, Ocean City 410-524-2922, www.pizzatugos.com $-$$ | Kids’ menu | Full bar Serving lunch and dinner. Open 7 days.

Pizza Tugos is a family-friendly dining restaurant that features award winning pizza, pasta, craft burgers, sandwiches, subs, appetizers and salads. Great happy hour and football specials with full bar and 54 craft beers.

■ POPEYE’S LOUISIANA KITCHEN Route 50, West Ocean City 443-664-2105 $ | Kids’ menu Family restaurant. Eat-in, carry out or drivethru. Open seven days, year-round. Every Monday and Tuesday, two-piece chicken for 99 cents. 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. Live music Fridays and Saturdays, 6 p.m. Happy Hour daily, 3-6 p.m. Tiki Bar opens at 3 p.m. Sunday brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

■ TERN GRILLE 100 Clubhouse Drive, Ocean Pines 410641-7222, oceanpinesgolf.org/dining $$ | Full bar The Tern Grille serves freshly-prepared breakfast and lunch items. Winter hours are Friday and Saturday from 4-9 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

BERLIN

■ OCEAN DOWNS CASINO, POSEIDON’S PUB 10218 Racetrack Road, Berlin 410-6410600, www.oceandowns.com $-$$$ | Full bar House soups, small plates, sandwiches, burgers and entrees including steaks, chicken, veggie and Eastern Shore favorites. Dining room hours: Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday, noon to 10 p.m.; Monday and Tuesday, noon to 8 p.m.; and Friday and Saturday, noon to 11 p.m. Pub open late.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Remake holiday tradition with cheesecake Continued from Page 42 remove the pan from the oven and set aside to cool.

4. Cover the outside of the pan with aluminum foil so water from the water bath cannot get in. Set prepared pan aside.

Filling 24 ounces cream cheese, room temperature 1 cup sugar 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1 cup eggnog ¾ teaspoon ground nutmeg 1/8 teaspoon each ground cinnamon, allspice, and cloves 4 large eggs, room temperature

5. Reduce heat to 300 degrees.

6. In a large bowl, mix the cream cheese, sugar and flour on low speed until well combined. Using the low speed helps keep less air from getting into batter. Scrape down the sides to ensure even distribution of ingredients.

7. Add the eggnog, nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice and cloves and continue to mix on low speed.

8. Add the eggs one at a time, and scrape the sides of the bowl after each egg.

9. Pour the cheesecake filling into the crust and spread evenly.

10. Place the pan inside a larger

sheet pan. Fill the sheet pan with enough warm,water to go halfway up the sides of the springform pan.

11. Bake for 1 hour and 30 minutes.

12. Turn off the heat and leave the cheesecake in the oven with the door closed for 30 minutes.

13. Crack the door and leave the cheesecake in the oven for another 30 minutes.

14. Remove cheesecake from the oven and remove the old foil. Wrap the entire cheesecake in new foil and refrigerate overnight.

Whipped Topping 1 cup heavy whipping cream 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 tablespoon confectioner’s sugar ground nutmeg as a garnish

15. Place a medium bowl and whisk in the freezer for 20 minutes.

16. In the chilled bowl, whip cream until soft peaks are just about to form. Beat in vanilla and sugar until peaks form. Make sure not to overbeat; otherwise, the cream will become lumpy and butter-like.

17. Pipe whipped cream onto the cheesecake and top with a sprinkling of nutmeg.

Secret Ingredient – New Beginnings. “The beginning is always today.”

– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

PHOTO COURTESY D.J. LANDIS, SR.

COMMISSION ON AGING Community For Life for “Keeping Adults Living Independently in Their Homes” is part of the Worcester County Commission on Aging and Ocean Pines is the focus of its new program. Pictured, from left, during the Kiwanis Club of Greater Ocean Pines - Ocean City’s Oct. 17 meeting, are Worcester County Commission on Aging Executive Director Robert Hart, Program Manager Rachel Zelkind, Kiwanis Club President Dick Clagett and Community Navigator Shea Wise.

DEMOCRATS DONATE During every Democratic Women’s meeting cash and food donations are provided for a food pantry in Worcester County. October’s donations of food and $248 were provided to Sarah’s Pantry. Sarah’s Pantry helps between 72 and 102 families. Pictured, from left, are Sandy Miller, Harriet Batis, Vicky Wallace and Nancy Tuttle.

CRAB FEAST FUNDRAISER

RACHEL RAVINA/OCEAN CITY TODAY

SANTA CALLING Santa is waving on top of an Ocean City Fire Department Truck at station 5 in West Ocean City before heading to Ocean City.

The Caine Woods Community Association in Ocean City held its 10th annual crab feast fundraiser at Higgins Crab House North on Sept. 22. Close to 300 attendees enjoyed crabs, fried chicken and more. The crab feast was the final event of the year for the CWCA’s selected charity, the Open Kettle Soup Kitchen at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Ocean City. Over the past year, the CWCA raised $5,100 for this nonprofit organization. Pictured, in front, are Senior Pastor Frank Harpster, Karen Butterweck of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, CWCA President Joe Kostelac, and John Oleksak of Higgins Crab House, and in back, CWCA board members Rich Hansen, Irene Hansen, Lloyd Martin and Dennis Dare, and Carly Meagher of Higgins Crab House.

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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., Dec. 28

Sun., Dec. 30

Ocean Pines library, 11107 Cathell Road, 10:00 AM. Bring your lap work and join this informal group. Knitters, crocheters, embroiderers, etc. are welcome. Victoria Christie-Healy, moonlightknitting@gmail.com, 703-507-0708, http://www.worcesterlibrary.org

ANNUAL HOLIDAY MODEL TRAIN GARDEN

FIBER FRIENDS

Berlin library, 13 Harrison Ave., 10:30 AM. Stories, rhymes, songs and finger plays for children up to two years of age and their caregivers. http://www.worcesterlibrary.org

LAP TIME

Ocean City library, 10003 Coastal Highway, 1:30 PM. Some crafty fun during the long break from school. http://www.worcesterlibrary.org

AFTERNOON CRAFTS

Ocean Pines library, 11107 Cathell Road, 2:00 PM. Join the group to discuss books chosen by the club. Discussion questions will be shared after each meeting. All titles are available on Hoopla and are appropriate for middle-grades readers. 410-208-4014, http://www.worcesterlibrary.org

HOME SCHOOL BOOK CLUB

Sat., Dec. 29 CRAFTY SATURDAY MAKE & TAKE ‘BABY NEW YEAR’

Ocean Pines library, 11107 Cathell Road, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM. Create themed crafts using materials provided by the library. For all ages. http://www.worcesterlibrary.org Pocomoke River Canoe Company, 2 River St., 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM. Featuring the Corddry Company Model Railroad Club. Free to the public.

ANNUAL HOLIDAY MODEL TRAIN GARDEN

Ocean City Performing Arts Center, in the Ocean City conventtion center, 4001 Coastal Highway, 4:00 PM and 8 PM. Celebrating the music of Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash. Tickets cost $29 and $36 and are available at the OC Convention Center Box Office or www.ticketmaster.com. 410-289-2800, https://www.presleyperkinslewiscash.co m/audio-video

PRESLEY, PERKINS, LEWIS & CASH

Pocomoke River Canoe Company, 2 River St., 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM. Featuring the Corddry Company Model Railroad Club. Free to the public.

Mon., Dec. 31 Ocean City library, 10003 Coastal Highway, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM. Celebrate the new year with crafts, snacks and a countdown to 12 o’clock noon. http://www.worcesterlibrary.org

NOON YEAR’S EVE PARTY

Kids party and a special Berlin Kids Ball Drop from 5-6 p.m. with hot chocolate, cookies, dancing and the Berlin Bubble Stomp at 6 p.m. Outdoor bars open at 10 p.m. with the Burley Oak beer truck, wine and food vendors. Dancing and light show with Ocean98 DJs Big Al Reno and Schwab. http://www.BerlinMainStreet.com

NEW YEAR’S EVE IN BERLIN

Northside Park, 200 125th St., Ocean City, MD, 5:30 PM. Festivities begin at 5:30 p.m. inside the Winterfest Pavilion.

The free fireworks display, which will begin promptly at midnight, will be accompanied by live entertainment, warm hot chocolate and the opportunity to ride through the Winterfest of Lights.

Hours for the Winterfest of Lights will be extended until midnight.

NEW YEAR’S EVE CELEBRATION

Tues., Jan. 1 Princess Royale Hotel, 9100 Coastal Highway, 1:00 PM. Registration/checkin held from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Activities for the whole family including carnival games, face painting, mermaids and more held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Bull on the Beach team will parade down the beach at 12:45 pm. from 94th Street. The swim begins at 1 p.m. All penguins will receive an official 2019 AGH Penguin Swim T-shirt for their $25 registration fee. Prizes awarded for several categories including oldest, youngest, most money raised and best costumes from 1:15-2 p.m. Pre-registration and advance check-in held on New Year’s Eve in the Premier Lobby from 24 p.m. Proceeds support the Atlantic General Hospital. 410-641-9671,

25TH ANNUAL PENGUIN SWIM

http://www.facebook.com/penguinswim Ocean City Performing Arts Center, in the Ocean City conventtion center, 4001 Coastal Highway, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM. After a brief meet and greet with Ocean City elected officials and community partners, the concert will feature performances by local singer/songwriter Bryan Russo and a special performance

by Baltimore’s Cardinal Shehan School Choir. Doors open for seating at 1:30 p.m. and concert begins at 1:45 p.m.

Being a free concert, tickets will not be issued and seating will be first come, first served. Jessica Waters, , 410-2898967

MAYOR’S NEW YEAR’S DAY CONCERT

ILIA FEHRER - JUDY JOHNSON 2019 MEMORIAL BEACH WALK

Concession Stand at the Assateague State Park, 6915 Stephen Decatur Highway, 1:00 PM. Celebrate the legacy of Assateague Island on New Year’s Day. Participants are asked to wear clothes and shoes appropriate for the weather.

Also bring water for drinking. Hot chocolate will be served. Personal mugs are encouraged. Info: Bill Weiland, billy@actforbays.org or call the Assateague Coastal Trust office at 410-6291538. http://www.ACTforBays.org/eventsevents

Wed., Jan. 2 Sponsored by Atlantic General Hospital and takes place at Rite Aid, 10119 Old Ocean City Blvd., Berlin and at Rite Aid, 11011 Manklin Creek Road, Ocean Pines, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM. Free blood pressure screening and health information., Michelle, , 410-641-9268,

HYPERTENSION CLINICS

Ocean Pines library, 11107 Cathell Road, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM. Sponsored by Atlantic General Hospital, the group is open to the public and meets on the first Wednesday of each month. AGH Diabetes Outpatient Education program, 410-208-9761

DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP

Thurs., Jan. 3 Indivisible groups from Dorchester, Kent/Queen Anne’s and Worcester counties, plus Lower Shore Progressive Caucus, Talbot Rising and Together We Will - Delmarva, will be holding their first coordinated joint demonstrations of the year at Congressman Andy Harris’ Kent Island district office (100 Olde Point Village, Suite 101, Chester, MD) and in front of Wicomico County Circuit Court (101 N. Division St., Salisbury, MD), call for his support for the democ-

REFORM BILL DEMONSTRATIONS

racy reform bill that Democrats are expected to introduce that day (H.R. 1).

The group will meet at noon.

ONGOING EVENTS Northside Park, 200 125th St., and throughtout Ocean City. Featuring a 50foot Christmas tree, more than one million holiday lights and hundreds of animated light displays throughout Northside Park. The Winterfest Village pavilion offers hot chocolate, photos with Santa and the Winterfest Express.

Admission to board the train is $5 for adults and free to children 11 years and younger. The event runs through Dec. 31. Hours are Sunday through Thursday, 5:30-9:30 p.m. and Friday and Saturday, 5:30-10:30 p.m.

WINTERFEST OF LIGHTS

Any branch, through December. Need some one-on-one help with your resume, job application, E-Reader or basic computer skills? Contact your closest library branch to schedule a personal appointment. www.worcesterlibrary.org

BOOK A LIBRARIAN

FIRST STATE DETACHMENT OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE MONTHLY MEETINGS

Meetings are held on the fourth Wednesday of each month at Ocean City American Legion Post, 2308 Philadelphia Ave., Ocean City, at noon. Open to all fellow Marines and FMF Corpsmen.

Info: firststatemarines.org St. Paul’s by the Sea Episcopal Church, 302 N. Baltimore Ave. in the DeWees Hall. Open Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to noon. Offering dry food goods with NOEL carry out lunches on Saturdays.

Use the DeWees Hall north entrance door located at the top of the driveway.

Info: 410-289-3453. Volunteers contact Jane Ellis, 540-808-6055.

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DECEMBER 28, 2018 Classifieds now appear in Ocean City Today & the Bayside Gazette each week and online at oceancitytoday.com and baysideoc.com.

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Now Hiring all FULL TIME Positions.

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Accounting Clerk Wanted

Full Time - $14-$15 per hour Responsible for providing accounting support to accounting supervisors and other managers within the department.

Keys daily worksheets to the general ledger system, ensures files are complete and maintained as needed, handles accounts payable duties, and assists accounting personnel.

Job Tasks and Responsibilities: Perform accounting and clerical functions to support supervisors.

Research, track, and resolve accounting problems.

Compile and sort invoices and checks.

Issue checks for accounts payable.

Record business transactions and key daily worksheets to the general ledger system.

Record charges and refunds.

Support accounting personnel.

Input type vouchers, invoices, checks, account statements, reports, and other records.

Provide front desk customer service.

File and tally deposits.

Work with adding machines, calculators, databases and bank accounts.

Match invoices to work orders.

Process bills for payment.

Open mail and match payments to invoices.

Arrange for money to be delivered to bank.

Utilize computer systems to run databases, pay bills and order supplies.

Contact individuals with delinquent accounts.

Ensure customers accept payments or refunds.

Email Resume to: dunkindonutjobs@gmail.com Subject Line: Accounting Clerk or Apply in Person @ 9919 Golf Course Rd., Ocean City, MD Serious inquiries only, must live within a 30 minute radius of West Ocean City Maryland.

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HELP WANTED

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RENTALS RENTALS

WR - 1BR Condo - Off 28th St. - Furnished, $700/mo. w/WiFi. $500 sec. deposit.

1BR w/queen & full size bed.

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No smoking/pets. 410-7681791 YR - NORTH OC CONDO 1BR, 1 bath, beautifully renovated, modern furnished. $800/mo. No pets, non-smoker, max. 2, ref. & sec. dep. req.

Victor 410-422-5164

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RENTALS

Winter Rentals available on St. Louis Avenue, right before 1st Street, Ocean City.

Call 301-331-2209.

Year-Round Rentals available in West Ocean City.

2 bedroom, 1 bath and 1 bedroom, 1 bath.

Call 1-877-289-1616 for more information.

WINTER WEEKLY RENTALS

4BR House $500/week 2BR Apartment $300/week Burgundy Inn 1210 Philadelphia Ave. 410-289-8581

RAMBLER MOTEL 9942 Elm Street, WOC (Behind Starbucks) Sleeps 4, $250 per week Manager onsite 410-213-1764

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Self-Storage Units on Route 50. 100 sq. ft., 150 sq. ft., and 250 sq. ft. Call Bill, 301537-5391.

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Call 410-726-5471 or 410641-4300.

1BR, 1BA Starting at $695 2BR, 2BA Starting at $1200 3BR, 2BA Starting at $1150

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2 Office/Retail Spaces & 3 Warehouse Units available in West Ocean City. Call 443-497-4200.

SERVICES SERVICES

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Also, will clean out garages/ sheds. 302-222-7297, 302422-9390 Leaf Removal and Yard Clean Up all winter long.

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Located in a desirable community in West Ocean City, Just minutes away from the Assateague Island State Park and Ocean City Beaches, Close to Shopping and Restaurants. This home is located on a corner lot and features a front living room floor plan, 1 bedroom 1 full bath. You will enjoy the nice yard just right for relaxing and having that special summer cookout.

Ground rent includes water and sewer, cutting of the grass and trash Pickup. Property sold Furnished for the Unbelievable Price of $10,000. Call Today for more information This one won’t last!!!

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Community w/3 pools, wading pool, 2 tennis courts, 2 shuffleboard courts, 9-hole miniature golf course, bayfront boardwalk w/3 fishing piers, canalfront fishing & crabbing area, 8 acre wildlife sanctuary/pond w/walking path & 5-acre open park. In addition there are city streets & sidewalks, city water & sewer and city trash collection. HOA dues are just $247.50 a year. $259,900

Call Michael “Montego Mike” Grimes

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BUSINESS YEAR IN REVIEW 2018

By Morgan Pilz Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) Atlantic General Hospital celebrated 25 years of service in 2018, while other businesses opened and prospered. Many operations changed management, added a new business, or moved to different locations.

Here are some of the county’s 2018 business highlights: Ocean City Cambria Resort and Conference Center, located adjacent to the Route 50 Bridge, celebrated its groundbreaking on Feb. 15. The eight-and-half story structure will have 133 rooms, in addition to a restaurant, indoor and outdoor pool and rooftop bar area. The $17.5 million hotel is projected to open next summer.

Ocean City developers signed a lease with Starbucks in early March to offer a drive-thru coffee shop in the 123rd Street shopping center, while a familiar local group will take over another restaurant in the center. The store opened in May. The Shanghai Buffet and Bar, formerly Tokyo Seafood Buffet, is under new ownership and management and had its grand opening on May 1. The buffet offers more than 100 items for customers to try, including baked scallops, steamed snow crab legs, crawfish and sushi on 131st Street.

Phillips Seafood owners introduced Bayside Cantina to the public in early May, which offered a range of Mexican cuisine including tacos, fajitas, burritos and quesadillas on 141st Street. The restaurant was short-lived, as it closed permanently after four months of business in September.

Shawn and Donna Harman, owners of Fish Tales in on 22nd Street in Ocean City, celebrated 35 years with a parking lot party on Tuesday, May 22. Besides being a busy sportsfishing marina, Fish Tales is known for its fish tacos, and the original big tale sandwich. A ribbon-cutting ceremony took place 3 p.m. with a number of guest speakers, including Mayor Rick Meehan and Delegate Mary Beth Carozza presented a proclamation from the governor.

Based on Coastal Highway in Ocean City opposite Seacrets, the Ocean Pines Beach Club officially opened May 26, two weeks after the well-received reopening of the Ocean Pines Yacht Club.

Less than one year after opening Ocean 13, a bistro and bar on the first floor of the Beach Plaza Hotel on

13th Street and the Boardwalk, Jeremy Brink and his partners purchased a second spot for a restaurant directly above it. The restaurant, formerly known as Adolfo’s, opened in late May. Originally owned by the Phillips family, the restaurant space has an old-fashioned, Prohibitionstyle atmosphere.

Tiki boat charters arrived in Ocean City at Fish Tales and Bahia Marina on 22nd Street, bayside in early June.

Cruisin’ Tikis is a floating, motorized tiki bar franchise started in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Fish Tales currently owns two tiki boats. The boats are fully Coast Guard rated and have all the safety equipment, such as running lights, underwater lights, life jackets, and a licensed captain.

Tailchasers Restaurant & Dock Bar, the most recent addition to the Off the Hook Restaurant Group family, opened on 123rd Street and the bay early June. Restaurateur Steve Hagen purchased the former Parched Pelican restaurant location on May 22 and turned it into a family-friendly and boat-accommodating establishment featuring American casual cuisine. Despite being part of the Off the Hook Restaurant Group, Tailchasers is the only one to not have “Hooked” in the name.

Joey Biafore took over Hair We R in the Montego Bay Shopping Center on 129th Street one year ago and celebrated her anniversary Sunday, July 1. Biafore worked as a stylist under the original Hair We R owner, and purchased the salon on her birthday, June 27, last year.

Nori Sushi Bar and Grill, a sushi and American cuisine restaurant, opened June 27, after undergoing a month of construction and renovations, at Gold Coast Mall on 115th Street. Chris and Sophia Christian, and their children Johnny, Phillip, and Saphara Lambrinos, along with younger brother, Basil Christian, 17, took over the former Mexican restaurant on June 5, doing most of the renovations themselves.

Delmarva Boil Company, featuring southern cuisine, opened on 143rd Street in Ocean City in late June. The company serves a lowcountry boil style feast. This style of cooking requires steam, and a traditional low-country meal includes red bliss potatoes, sweet corn, sweet onions, spicy andouille sausage and jumbo shrimp, served with a homemade cocktail sauce.

After months of demolition and construction, the K-Coast Surf Shop on 78th Street opened for business late June. The old structure was

Park Place Plaza owners Todd and Jill Ferrante and their daughter Sophia, 9, officially open Park Place Jewelers in West Ocean City on Friday, Dec. 7.

torn down last July and replaced with a 2,800-square-foot complex that includes a 4,700-square-foot space for a restaurant. The new store is equipped with the latest surfing equipment, including accessories such as booties, gloves, surfboard maintenance accessories and other necessary gear.

Trimper’s Rides commemorated its 125th anniversary with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and park-wide celebration on Aug. 17. Gov. Larry Hogan, Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan and Comptroller Peter Franchot made an appearance during the ribbon-cutting ceremony, which took place front of the carousel in the indoor amusement building on the Boardwalk near the inlet. Of the 4,000-plus amusement parks that have existed in the U.S., Trimper’s is one of only 13 to have reached the 125-year milestone. Only 10 of those are still in existence. Trimper’s is the oldest family-run amusement park in the country, and the second oldest in the world, according to National Amusement Park Historical Association historian Jim Futrell. The oldest family-run amusement park in the world is Blackgang Chine in England, which opened in 1842.

A new “boat Uber” hit the bay in mid-August. OC Bay Hopper is a water taxi service set up in a kiosk near Food Lion on 117th Street. Coowners and brothers, Steve and David Butz, partnered with Jeff Mason and came up with the idea last year. The service provides transportation from as far north as Harpoon Hanna’s in Fenwick Island, all the way down to West Ocean City.

Trips to Ocean Pines will also be available. Currently, OC Bay Hopper

has one boat and four licensed captains. The owners plan to add a fifth captain and three more boats by the time the business reopens next season in May. Rosenfeld’s Jewish Delicatessen branched out to the Salisbury airport in October. The Salisbury-Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport has been expanded and redesigned to be more appealing for travelers. Additions include new lounges, furniture and the restaurant.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the Residence Inn by Marriott on 61st Street on Thursday, Oct. 4, to celebrate its grand opening. The 150-room, 164,000-square-foot hotel opened its doors on April 30. The eight-floor facility features amenities such as an indoor pool, gym, restaurant, conference room, two bars, a buffet breakfast service, fire pit and wireless internet access.

Park Place Jewelers has moved from the White Marlin Mall in West Ocean City up the road into the Park Place Plaza, at 12720 Ocean Gateway.

Construction of the Park Place Plaza began in 2016. The 3,000-squarefoot jewelry showroom officially opened Tuesday, Oct. 23. It features high ceilings, opulent crystal chandeliers and gleaming oval and round display cases. Several businesses are located in the Park Place Plaza, including The Bank of Delmarva, Tequila Mockingbird restaurant and Dolle’s candy store and factory. Three additional spots are still available.

West Ocean City Owner Jeanne Mills relocated Ocean Elements Salt Cave and Float Center in early February. The rest station was created in a partnerContinued on Page 50

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BUSINESS YEAR IN REVIEW 2018 Continued from Page 49 ship with nonprofit organization, Pathways for Veterans, to help ease military veterans back into society after they are discharged. The business also helps reduce anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.

Owner Margie Calvello opened Blushing Beauty Boutique on March 1 in West Ocean City and offers an assortment of dresses and accessories. Calvello’s shop features new and slightly used dresses, which range in price from $10 to $50. She also sells accessories including hats, pocket books, beach bags and jewelry.

Resort mainstay Mione’s Pizza and Italian Restaurant marked two decades of fresh Italian food in West Ocean City on March 12.

Mione’s Pizza opened its doors in the Ocean City Factory Outlets on March 12, 1998. On March 24, Mione’s Pizza in West Ocean City celebrated its anniversary with 20 percent off menu items in addition to two slices of pizza and a soda for $5.25.

Chris Wall and Lloyd Whitehead, owners of West Ocean City’s popular Harborside Bar and Grille, celebrated 25 years in operation with a party from open to close on March 25.

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Ocean City opened its doors in early April, offering fresh juices, smoothies, kabobs, pita sandwiches, falafel and other homemade Mediterranean flavors.

OC Pet Spa, located at 9935 Stephen Decatur Highway in West Ocean City, is a professional grooming facility, while also offering boarding and a dog daycare as well. The spa opened Aug. 1.

Berlin Dr. William “Eddie” Gunn opened the Shore Wellness and Med Spa in the Pavilions on Race Track Road at the beginning of the year. Patients can choose from several therapeutic programs, including treatment of scars, skin elasticity, wrinkles, hair loss, weight loss, unwanted hair, skin discoloration and spider veins. Shore Wellness & Med Spa doctors can also give medical cannabis recommendations for those suffering from chronic pain, post-traumatic stress disorder, seizure disorder, glaucoma, severe nausea, and persistent muscle spasms.

Procino-Wells & Woodland LLC opened a third office in Berlin, Feb. 1, to improve its service to its Eastern Shore clients. At ProcinoWells & Woodland, all three attorneys practice elder law, focusing on estate planning to help families with wills, trusts, powers of attorney, sheltering assets from the costs of longterm care, assistance with settling estates and preserving public benefits for people with special needs. Procino-Wells & Woodland has been operating out of Seaford, Delaware since 2005 and its Lewes, Delaware firm opened in 2014.

Mike Vadella opened Burley Florist on Pitts Street Jan. 29, offering a wide assortment of flowers including roses, gerbera and regular daisies, hydrangeas, sunflowers, tulips, lilies, carnations, larkspurs, blue delphiniums, baby’s breath, waxflower, silver dollar and ruscus.

Atlantic General Hospital held a 25th anniversary celebration on Healthway Drive in Berlin in early May. On May 21, 1993, Atlantic General Hospital opened to the community with 62 beds, a small emergency department and a long-term care unit. Atlantic General Health System started with three primary care providers, but now includes 30 physicians in Berlin, Ocean Pines, Ocean City, West Ocean City and Pocomoke in addition to Ocean View, West Fenwick Island and Selbyville, Delaware.

They offer primary care, pediatrics, gynecologic services, pulmonary care and imaging services.

Leanna Slaughter and Joe Fultz opened Just Four Paws pet grooming in June, located on Route 50 at 10543 Ocean Gateway, in Berlin.

Slaughter has been grooming dogs for eight years and Fultz for 12 years.

They both worked at other grooming businesses before opening Just Four Paws.

Habitat for Humanity of Worcester County opened a ReStore in early September at 9026 Worcester Highway, in Berlin. Habitat ReStores are home improvement stores that accept donations of new or gently used furniture, appliances, houseware and building materials, among other items. Proceeds from the sales of these items help Habitat’s work in

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Worcester County. Projects include critical repairs for existing homeowners and building projects for new properties. This is the first ReStore in the county.

Diabetics in Worcester County can find treatment closer to home now, as Peninsula Regional Medical Center’s Endocrinology Practice, located on 314 Franklin Ave., Suite 108, Berlin, officially opened mid-September. The center offers insulin pump and glucose sensor therapies as ways to help diabetes suffers, but it also provides services for other endocrine issues such as thyroid, pituitary, adrenal, sodium, potassium, blood pressure and cholesterol problems.

A dry-cleaning store on Williams Street in Berlin, which has operated for nearly 100 years, avoided closure after being purchased by Peninsula Cleaners. Venable Cleaners, which opened in 1924, nearly shut down all its locations as a result of lack of financial stability. Peninsula Cleaners officially took over the store in early November.

Ocean Pines After record losses at the Ocean Pines yacht and beach clubs a year ago, the former facility opened May 18 to rave reviews and the latter reopened Memorial Day weekend.

Both are under the new management of the Matt Ortt Companies.

The Hungry Donut opened July 1 on Nicholas Lane in Ocean Pines, serving piping-hot cake donuts with dozens of icings, drizzles and toppings to choose from. Owner Jay Shoup tested several different recipes Continued on Page 51

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AMENDED Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan FY 2020 through FY 2024 Worcester County, Maryland The Worcester County Commissioners will conduct a public hearing on the AMENDED Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) for fiscal year (FY) 2020 through FY2024. The current Worcester County Five-Year CIP for FY2020 through FY2024 was adopted by the County Commissioners by Resolution No. 18-24 on November 20, 2018. However, certain revisions have been requested by the Worcester County Board of Education (BOE) with respect to the Showell Elementary Replacement School project and the Stephen Decatur High School (SDHS) Turf Field project since adoption. Specifically, the BOE has requested additional funding of $1,000,000 for the Showell Elementary Replacement School project for additional classrooms to accommodate anticipated Pre-Kindergarten enrollment, and has revised the scope of the SDHS Turf Field project to include a running track and athletic improvements. The CIP is a planning document the County will use in preparing future operating budgets, to anticipate future financial needs of the County and to identify possible funding resources. Inclusion of a project in the CIP does not constitute a guarantee of funding from the County. Some capital projects will be added, deleted and/or amended as necessary. As with the Operating Budget, the projects for each fund have to be balanced with the resources available in that fund. Copies of the Worcester County AMENDED Capital Improvement Plan for FY2020 through FY2024 summary may be obtained from the Worcester County Administration Office, Room 1103 - Government Center, One West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland 21863 or online at www.co.worcester.md.us. For additional information, please contact the County Administration Office at (410) 632-1194.

The public hearing will be held on: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 10:10 A.M. in the County Commissioners Meeting Room Room 1101 - Government Center One West Market Street Snow Hill, Maryland 21863

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BIZ YIR 2018 Continued from Page 50 before choosing one from a recipe book dating back to the late 1950s.

The result is a light, airy, hint of lemon vanilla cake donut. Icing flavors vary from traditional favorites such as chocolate, strawberry and vanilla, to unique ones like mint, grape, maple, blueberry, peanut butter and Nutella.

Paul and Vinny’s Pizzeria opened for business on June 16 in the Ocean Pines Plaza on Cathell Road.

From classic thin crust Neapolitan pizzas to cold subs, the restaurant serves 100-percent authentic, homemade Italian recipes made to order and always fresh. Co-owner Paul DePietro is no stranger to owning a restaurant. He ran Paul’s Pizza in Salisbury for five years, which closed in June to focus his attention on the Ocean Pines eatery.

The Salisbury shop will be closed until further notice.

The FYZICAL Therapy and Balance Center of Ocean Pines, on 11204 Racetrack Road, held a grand reopening Tuesday, Sept. 25.

The 4,000-square-foot, state-of-theart physical therapy center houses multiple treatment spaces for a variety of therapeutic needs, such as neurological, vesicular, orthopedic – also including knee and hip replacements – and treatment for people who are experiencing dizziness.

REAL ESTATE REPORT

Several factors hurt home sales

By Lauren Bunting Contributing Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) The economy is strong, but Maryland home sales in 2018 were suppressed due to higher prices, increasing mortgage rates and shrinking inventory.

According to data released by Maryland Realtors, home sales statewide were down 10.8 percent on a year over year basis.

Some counties fared better than others, and two local counties covered by the Coastal Association of Realtors experienced an increase in home sales on a September 2017 to September 2018 basis: Somerset (+38.5 percent) and Wicomico County (+5.7 percent).

Consistent with scarce housing inventory and a decent economy, average and median home sales prices have continued to trend higher.

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set—9.0 months.

Worcester represented a slight increase from 5.1 in 2017, but Wicomico and Somerset represented decreases, 6.2 and 10.8 respectively for 2017 average months of inventory.

The total number of units sold in Worcester County from January to October 2018 were 1,816.

By comparison, in 2017, there were 1,974 units sold representing an 8 percent decline for Worcester County in home sales or units sold.

The luxury market posted 22 sales over the $1 million mark. The majority of these homes were in the town limits of Ocean City and sales prices ranged from $1 million for an oceanfront 3 bedroom/3.5 bath condo in North Ocean City to $2 million for a bayside waterfront home in Sunset Island.

Lauren Bunting is a licensed Associate Broker with Bunting Realty, Inc. in Berlin.

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Worcester County’s sales prices comparisons year over year did not show much movement.

For the month of October 2018, average sales price in Worcester County was $285,742 vs. an average of $285,579 in 2017.

The overall average sales price so far in 2018 in Worcester County (from the beginning of 2018 through October 2018) was $286,634.

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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 10 129TH ST., UNIT #106 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated July 24, 2006 and recorded in Liber 4749, Folio 187 among the Land Records of Worcester County, MD, with an original principal balance of $284,050.00, 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 JANUARY 8, 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. 106 in the “Delray 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 $30,000 in the form of certified check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of current year’s real property taxes are adjusted as of the date of sale, and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. Taxes due for prior years including costs of any tax sale are payable by the purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All other public and/or private charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale to be paid by the purchaser.

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 lien-

Ocean City Today / Public Notices holder 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. 330926-1) 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-12/20/3t _________________________________ Law Offices of Jeffrey Nadel 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 200 Calverton, Maryland 20705 240-473-5000

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY 8333 Circle Road Berlin, MD 21811 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Cassandra R. Brown, Randolph L. Brown and Sonya Brown, dated January 17, 2008, and recorded in Liber 5051, Folio 673 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 January 7, 2019 at 11:00 AM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND KNOWN AS metes and bounds, situated in Worcester County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust, carrying Tax ID No. 03002020.

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 $19,000.00 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 from the date of auction to the date funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustee. There shall be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement or if settlement is delayed for any reason, including but not limited to exceptions to sale, bankruptcy filings by interested parties, Court administration of the foreclosure or unknown title defects. All taxes, ground rent, water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable, are to be adjusted to the date of auction and thereafter are to be assumed by the purchaser.

DECEMBER 28, 2018 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 #21306) Jeffrey Nadel, Scott Nadel, Daniel Menchel and Doreen Strothman, Substitute Trustees MDC Auctioneers 305 West Chesapeake Avenue, Suite 105, Towson, Maryland 21204 410-825-2900 CGD file# 70578 OCD-12/20/3t _________________________________ Stern & Eisenberg Mid-Atlantic, PC 9920 Franklin Square Drive, Suite 100, Baltimore, Maryland 21236 Paul J. Moran, Esq. Steven K. Eisenberg Substitute Trustees 9920 Franklin Square Drive, Suite 100, Baltimore, Maryland 21236 V Debra M. Corvin Timothy Corvin 123 Street Jockey Beach Club 325 Ocean City, Maryland 21842 Defendant IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY CASE # C-23-CV-18-000155

NOTICE ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County this 17th day of December, 2018, that the foreclosure sale of the real property known as 123 Street Jockey Beach Club 325, Ocean City, Maryland 21842, being the property mentioned in these proceedings, made and reported by Paul J. Moran and Steven K. Eisenberg, Substitute Trustees, be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 14th day of January, 2019. Provided a copy of this Order be inserted in some weekly newspaper printed in Worcester County, once in each of three successive weeks, before the 7th day of January, 2019.

The Report states the amount of the Foreclosure Sale to be $81,000.00.

DECEMBER 28, 2018 Susan R. Braniecki Clerk of the Circuit Court of Worcester County, Maryland True Copy Test: Susan R. Braniecki Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, MD OCD-12/20/3t _________________________________

NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF 7DAY CLASS "B", "C", AND "D" ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSES ISSUED BY WORCESTER COUNTY Pursuant to the Alcoholic Beverages Article, Section 9-2005 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, the Board of License Commissioners for Worcester County has determined that all premises holding 7 Day Class "B", "C", and "D" alcoholic beverage licenses shall be permitted to sell alcoholic beverages for ON PREMISES CONSUMPTION ONLY until 4:00 a.m. on January 1, 2019.

This notice shall not be construed as enlarging or broadening any other privilege conferred under said license except the two (2) additional hours of sale for ON PREMISES CONSUMPTION ON NEW YEAR'S EVE. BOARD OF LICENSE COMMISSIONERS FOR WORCESTER COUNTY, William E. Esham, Jr., Chairman R. Charles Nichols, Member Marty W. Pusey, Member *********************** April R. Payne, License Administrator OCD-12/13/3t _________________________________

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Estate No. 17661 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF MATTHEW LEROY HARRIS Notice is given that Mary Loraine Kerns, 11314 Marie Drive, Bishopville, MD 21813, was on December 13, 2018 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Matthew Leroy Harris who died on November 17, 2018, with a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 13th day of June, 2019.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of

Ocean City Today / Public Notices 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.

Mary Loraine Kerns Personal Representative 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: December 20, 2018 OCD-12/20/3t _________________________________ ARLETTE K. BRIGHT ESQ. THE LAW OFFICES OF ARLETTE K. BRIGHT, PC 213 WEST MAIN STREET, SUITE 206 SALISBURY, MD 21801

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Estate No. 17663 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF BILLIE JO SACHS Notice is given that Sharon L. Sachs, 2224 Primrose Road, Falls Church, VA 22046, was on December 14, 2018 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Billie Jo Sachs who died on October 10, 2018, with a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 14th day of June, 2019.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is

unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Sharon L. Sachs Personal Representative 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: December 20, 2018 OCD-12/20/3t _________________________________

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL: REPAIRS TO BULKHEAD The Ocean Pines Association (OPA) invites qualified bidders to submit proposals for the repair of existing bulkhead at Westfield Circle Tax Map 16 Parcel 47 various lots and Wood Duck Drive Tax Map 21 Parcel 260 Lots 84-86 in Ocean Pines, MD. All bidders must include adequate information to demonstrate that they have the necessary experience and professional qualifications and licensing to complete the work.

Bids Due. bids are due by Friday January 14, 2019 by 3:00 PM. Bids should be delivered to: Ocean Pines Association, Inc. Public Works Building 1 Firehouse Lane Ocean Pines, MD 21811 Attention: Kevin Layfield Facilities Manager klayfield@oceanpines.org OCD-12/20/4t _________________________________

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Estate No. 17659 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF VIRGINIA CARSON DORMAN Notice is given that Leslie Konicek Carson, 4 Decatur Street, Berlin, MD 21811, was on December 11, 2018 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Virginia Carson Dorman who died on October 18, 2018, with a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the11th day of June, 2019.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1,

PAGE 53 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.

Leslie Konicek Carson Personal Representative 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: December 20, 2018 OCD-12/20/3t _________________________________ DULANY, LEAHY, CURTIS & BROPHY, LLP STEPHANIE R. BROPHY, ESQ. 127 EAST MAIN STREET WESTMINSTER, MD 21157

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE ESTATE NO. 17654 Notice is given that the Circuit court of Fairfax County, VA appointed David Everett Crim, Dulany, Leahy, Curtis & Brophy, LLP, 127 East Main Street, Westminster, MD 21157 as the Personal Representative of the Estate of William Crim AKA: William Martin Crim who died on September 06, 2018 domiciled in Virginia, America.

At the time of death, the decedent owned real or leasehold property in the following Maryland counties: Worcester County.

All persons having claims against the decedent must file their claims with the Register of Wills for Worcester County with a copy to the foreign personal representative on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Two months after the foreign personal representative mails or delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claim within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. Claims filed after that date or after a date extended by law will be barred.

David Everett Crim Foreign Personal Representative Terri Westcott Register of Wills One W. Market Street Room 102 - Court House Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of Newspaper:

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL: DRAIN PIPE REPLACEMENT The Ocean Pines Association (OPA) invites qualified bidders to submit proposals for the replacement of existing drain pipe located under Boston Drive adjacent to 82 Boston Drive in Ocean Pines, MD. The work consists of road closure, installation of sediment and erosion controls, excavation, removal and disposal of existing pipe, installation of new 15” HDPE pipe, filling, grading, asphalt replacement and stabilization of all disturbed areas. All bidders must include adequate information to demonstrate that they have the necessary experience and professional qualifications and licensing to complete the work.

Bids Due. bids are due January 4, 2019 by 3:00 PM. Bids should be delivered to: Ocean Pines Association, Inc. c/o John Bailey General Manager 239 Ocean Parkway Ocean Pines, MD 21811 Electronic Copies to: Kevin Layfield Facilities Manager OCD-12/20/3t _________________________________

18-hole miniature golf course on the southeastern portion of the property.

The site of the proposed use is described as Land Unit 4, 4.72 acs., 45th and 46th Street Land Condominium Plats; further described as located on the west side of Coastal Highway between 44th and 46th Streets, and locally known as the 45th Street Village, in the Town of Ocean City, Maryland.

APPLICANT: OCEAN CITY BOARDWALK (FILE #18-12100005) No oral or written testimony will be accepted after the close of the public hearing.

Public hearings that are not completed at one meeting may be continued without additional advertised notice provided the Commission Chairman announces that the hearing will be continued and gives persons in attendance an opportunity to sign up for written notice of the additional hearing dates.

For further information concerning this public hearing, please contact the Department of Planning and Community Development, Room 242, City Hall, 301 Baltimore Avenue, Ocean City, MD 21842. Phone 410-289-8855.

PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION PAM GREER BUCKLEY, CHAIRPERSON WILLIAM E. ESHAM, III, ATTORNEY OCD-12/20/2t _________________________________

cally known as 106-72nd Street, in the Town of Ocean City, Maryland.

APPLICANT: KATHRYN D. BURKE REAL ESTATE TRUST – (BZA 2522 #18-09500002) 6:10 p.m.

Pursuant to Section 110-94(3)a, applicant requests a special yard exception to extend the height of the building in the rear yard setback. A variance for 5’ into the required 10’ yard was approved with BZA 1847 on September 12, 2002, that allowed applicant to construct the first floor.

Applicant also requests a special parking exception to be associated with the new commercial square footage if applicable. The site of the appeal is described as unnumbered parcels of land on the Sinepuxent Beach Company Plat, 1891; further described as located on the west side of Coastal Highway and south side of 49th Street, which is the property improved by Seacrets Nightclub, known locally as 117-49th Street, in the Town of Ocean City, Maryland.

APPLICANT: JOSEPH E. MOORE, ESQ., ATTY FOR LEIGHTON’S WEST END, LLC (BZA 2523 #18-09400012) Further information concerning the public hearings may be examined in the office of the Department of Planning and Community Development in City Hall.

Alfred Harrison, Chairman Heather Stansbury, Attorney OCD-12/27/2t _________________________________

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING WORCESTER COUNTY BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS AGENDA PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 110, Zoning, of the Code of the Town of Ocean City, Maryland, notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be conducted by the Planning and Zoning Commission in the Council Chambers of City Hall located at 301 Baltimore Avenue in the Town of Ocean City, Maryland on: TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2019 At 6:45 p.m.

CONTINUATION To consider amending Article II, Division 3. Section 110-72(a) Determination of existence of nonconforming use, structure or lot, to limit a Determination of Nonconformity for parking requirements.

APPLICANT: PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION (FILE #18-14100014) At 7:00 p.m.

Pursuant to the provisions of Article II, Section 5, Conditional Uses, a request has been filed under the provisions of Section 110-544, Uses permitted by Conditional Use in the SC-1, Shopping Center District by reference to Section 110-514(8) Conditional Uses in the LC-1, Local Commercial, District, to permit an

NOTICE

THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2019

OF PUBLIC HEARING BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS TOWN OF OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND Pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 110 of the Code of Ocean City, Maryland, hereinafter referred to as the Code, same being the Zoning Ordinance for Ocean City, Maryland, notice is hereby given that public hearings will be conducted by the Board of Zoning Appeals for Ocean City, Maryland in the Council Chambers of City Hall located on Baltimore Avenue and Third Street, in the Town of Ocean City, Maryland on: THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2019 at 6:00 p.m.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 110-93(3), Powers, of the Code, an appeal has been filed pursuant to the provisions of Section 110-95(1)(a) requesting an after-the-fact variance in the rear yard for the structure to remain with a 9.5’ setback instead of 10’, and the deck to remain with a 3.3’ setback instead of 4’ as required

by Code. An after-the-fact variance is also requested for the east side yard to allow the two HVAC units to remain with a 2.2’ setback instead of 3’ as required by Code. The site of the appeal is described as Lot 17, Block 11 of the Ocean Bay City Plat, dated 1937; further described as on the north side of 72nd Street, and lo-

Pursuant to the provisions of the Worcester County Zoning Ordinance, notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held before the Board of Zoning Appeals for Worcester County, in the Board Room (Room 1102) on the first floor of the Worcester County Government Center, One West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland.

6:30 p.m.

Case No. 19-1, on the lands of Harold & Janet Outten, requesting a special exception to locate a manufactured home for a transient use (medical hardship) in the A-1 Agricultural District, pursuant to Zoning Code Sections ZS 1-105(c)(5), ZS 1116(c)(3), ZS 1-305 and ZS 1337(b)(2), located at 220 Liberty Lane, approximately 283 feet north of the intersection with Garland Taylor Road, Tax Map 101, Parcel 4, in the First Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland.

6:35 p.m.

Case No. 19-2, on the lands of Michael & Diane Karsnitz, requesting a shoreline modification to exceed the allowable channelward extension of 16.25 feet by 7.75 feet (for a total of 24 feet channelward) in conjunction with a proposed boat lift in the R-2 Suburban Residential District, pursuant to Zoning Code Sections ZS 1-116(n)(2) and ZS 1206(d)(6) and Natural Resources

DECEMBER 28, 2018 Section NR 2-102(e)(1), located at 12620 Sheffield Road, approximately 262 feet northeast of Brighton Road, Tax Map 21, Parcel 8, Section A, Block 11, Lot 14, of the Cape Isle of Wight Subdivision in the Tenth Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland.

6:40 p.m.

Case No. 19-3, on the application of Jamie Covington, on the lands of Tarak Patel, requesting a special exception to construct a freestanding non-monument sign in the C-2 General Commercial District, pursuant to Zoning Code Sections ZS 1116(c)(3), ZS 1-210(d)(3) and ZS 1324(c)(4)B.4, located at 127 Ocean Highway (US Route 13), on the northwest corner of the intersection with Sparrow Road, Tax Map 100, Parcel 141, Lot 1, in the First Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland.

ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS OCD-12/27/2t _________________________________

NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF BILL 18-7 WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Take Notice that Bill 18-7 (Zoning - Campgrounds - Recreational Vehicle Camping Areas) was passed by the County Commissioners on December 18, 2018.

A fair summary of the bill is as follows: § ZS 1-318(c)(3)B. (Repeals and reenacts this subsection to remove the requirement for a specific angle of access and egress to each pullthrough campsites in rental and membership campgrounds. The current language requires an angle of between one hundred twenty and one hundred thirty-five degrees, which may not be appropriate in all cases and is better self-regulated by the owner of the campground.)

This bill becomes effective fortyfive (45) days from the date of its passage.

This is only a fair summary of the bill. A full copy of the bill is posted on the Legislative Bulletin Board in the main hall of the Worcester County Government Center outside Room 1103, is available for public inspection in Room 1103 of the Worcester County Government Center and is available on the County Website at www.co.worcester.md.us .

THE WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OCD-12/27/3t _________________________________

NOTICE Disposal of Personal Property Owned by Worcester County, Maryland In accordance with the provisions of Section CG 4-403 of the County Government Article of the Code of Public Local Laws of Worcester County, Maryland, the County Commissioners have declared the following described personal property as surplus and are considering disposal of same by conveyance back to the Ocean Pines Volunteer Fire Department which proposes to use this

DECEMBER 28, 2018 property for other public purposes.

1985 FORD/PEIRCE FIRE ENGINE The 1985 Ford/Peirce fire engine was donated to the County by the Ocean Pines Volunteer Fire Department (VFD) in 2008 to be used by the Worcester County Special Hazards Response Team (Hazmat), the Worcester Technical High Scheol’s cadet vocational program and as a reserve engine for the County’s Fire Service. Recently, mechanical engine problems were discovered during a routine scheduled maintenance inspection. Due to the age of the truck, the lack of usage and the estimated cost to repair the vehicle, it has been decommissioned. By agreement upon acceptance of this fire engine from the Ocean Pines VFD, the County agreed to offer the Ocean Pines VFD the opportunity to take the fire engine back.

DETERMINED TO BE USED FOR OTHER PUBLIC PURPOSE: The County Commissioners have determined, by at least five-sevenths majority vote, that conveyance of this personal property to the Ocean Pines Volunteer Fire Department, constitutes a valid public purpose.

TERMS OF CONVEYANCE: The County Commissioners propose to convey the above described property to the Ocean Pines Volunteer Fire Department at no cost.

Anyone objecting to the proposed conveyance of the above personal property shall do so in writing submitted to the address below prior to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, January 11, 2019, or in person at the regularly scheduled meeting of the County Commissioners to be held at 10:00 a.m. on January 22, 2019 in the County Commissioners Meeting Room, Room 1101 - Government Center, One West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland 21863.

WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OCD-12/27/3t _________________________________

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Design of Selsey Road Resiliency Project West Ocean City, Worcester County, Maryland The Worcester County Commissioners are currently seeking proposals for design engineering services for the Selsey Road Resiliency Project. Proposals for Design Engineering Services shall also include a Statement of Qualifications and a Concept Plan. The project goal is to design a climate-resilient living shoreline and marsh restoration project to protect residential infrastructure and reduce road flooding.

The project is located at the end of Selsey Road on the Isle of Wight Bay in West Ocean City. We anticipate hiring a firm that has significant experience in designing successful living shoreline projects and can provide quality work in a timely fashion for a reasonable cost. Proposal specification packages and bid

Ocean City Today / Public Notices forms may be picked up from the Office of the County Commissioners, Worcester County Government Center, One West Market Street - Room 1103, Snow Hill, Maryland 21863, obtained online at www.co.worcester.md.us or by calling the Commissioners’ Office at 410-632-1194 to request a package by mail. Interested professionals are required to attend a MANDATORY Pre-bid Meeting on site at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, January 9, 2019, at the east end of Selsey Road in the Cape Isle of Wight subdivision in West Ocean City. In the event of inclement weather the meeting will be moved to January 16, 2019 at the same time and location. Sealed proposals will be accepted until 1:00 PM, Monday, January 28, 2019 in the Office of the County Commissioners at the above address, at which time they will be opened and publicly read aloud. Envelopes shall be marked "Proposal for Selsey Road Resiliency Project Design" in the lower left-hand corner. After opening, proposals will be forwarded to the Department of Environmental Programs for tabulation, review and recommendation to the County Commissioners for their consideration at a future meeting. In awarding the proposal, the Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all proposals, waive formalities, informalities and technicalities therein, and to take whatever proposal they determine to be in the best interest of the County considering lowest or best proposal, quality of goods and work, time of delivery or completion, responsibility of bidders being considered, previous experience of bidders with County contracts, or any other factors they deem appropriate.

All inquiries shall be directed to Katherine Munson, Planner V, at 410-632-1220, ext. 1302 or by email at kmunson@co.worcester.md.us.

OCD-12/27/1t _________________________________

NOTICE TO BIDDERS Request for Proposals Diakonia Inc. Shelter Renovations Worcester County, Maryland The County Commissioners of Worcester County, Maryland are seeking proposals from qualified contractors for shelter renovations at Diakonia, Inc. in which contractors will provide all labor, materials and permitting for a number of repairs outdoors including parking lot and driveway paving, siding and roofing, deck, ramps, steps and railing replacement. Repairs indoor include bathroom renovation, kitchenettes, flooring, laundry equipment, lockers and electrical work.

Requests for Proposals (RFPs) including Bid Documents are available from the Office of the County Commissioners, Room 1103 - Worcester County Government Center, One West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland 21863, obtained online under the "Bids" drop-down menu in the lower right hand side of the home page at www.co.worcester.md.us, or by call-

ing the Commissioners' Office at 410-632-1194 to request a package by mail. Interested contractors are encouraged to attend a pre-proposal meeting on Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at 10:00 AM onsite at 12747 Old Bridge Road, Ocean City, Maryland 21842. For directions and details, contact Mr. Mike Diffendal, Board of Directors, Diakonia, Inc. mthomasdiffendal@comcast.net .

Sealed proposals will be accepted until 1:00 PM, Monday, February 4, 2019 in the Office of the County Commissioners at the above address, at which time they will be opened and publicly read aloud. Envelopes shall be marked "Proposal for Diakonia, Inc. Shelter Renovations - (Scope #)" in the lower lefthand corner. Email submissions will not be accepted.

The project is to be funded by the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program and is thus subject to all applicable Davis Bacon Wage Rates, Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights guidelines. Bids will be reviewed by staff and awarded by the County Commissioners at a future meeting. In awarding the proposal, the Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all proposals, waive formalities, informalities and technicalities therein, and to take whatever proposal they determine to be in the best interest of the County considering lowest or best proposal, proposal content, qualifications of the contractor, time of delivery or completion, responsibility of contractors is being considered, previous experience of contractors with County contracts, or any other factors they deem appropriate.

All inquiries regarding the proposal shall be directed to Diakonia, Inc. Board Member Mike Diffendal at 410-726-7016.

OCD-12/27/1t _________________________________ BWW Law Group, LLC 6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 Carrie M. Ward, et al.

6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 Substitute Trustees Plaintiffs vs.

ONEITA S. DOHRMAN TERESA L. DOHRMAN W. CHARLIES DOHRMAN, JR. 14001 Coastal Highway Unit 328 Ocean City, MD 21842 Defendant(s) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND Case No. C-23-CV-18-000259

NOTICE Notice is hereby given this 20th day of December, 2018, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, that the sale of the property mentioned in these proceedings and described as 14001 Coastal Highway, Unit 328, Ocean City, MD 21842, made and reported by the Substitute Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 21st day of January, 2019, provided a copy of

PAGE 55 this NOTICE be inserted in some weekly newspaper printed in said County, once in each of three successive weeks before the 14th day of January, 2019.

The report states the purchase price at the Foreclosure sale to be $107,000.00.

Susan R. Braniecki Clerk, Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland True Copy Test: Susan R. Braniecki Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County MD OCD-12/27/3t _________________________________ BWW Law Group, LLC 6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 Carrie M. Ward, et al.

6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 Substitute Trustees Plaintiffs vs.

THERESA NIELSON 8 Canal Side Mews West Ocean City, MD 21842 Defendant(s) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND Case No. 23-C-16-000605

NOTICE Notice is hereby given this 20th day of December, 2018, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, that the sale of the property mentioned in these proceedings and described as 8 Canal Side Mews West, Ocean City, MD 21842, made and reported by the Substitute Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 21st day of January, 2019, provided a copy of this NOTICE be inserted in some weekly newspaper printed in said County, once in each of three successive weeks before the 14th day of January, 2019.

The report states the purchase price at the Foreclosure sale to be $550,000.00.

Susan R. Braniecki Clerk, Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland True Copy Test: Susan R. Braniecki Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County MD OCD-12/27/3t _________________________________ WIDDOWSON & DASHIELL PA 312 W. MAIN STREET, SUITE A-SOUTH SALISBURY, MD 21803 SMALL ESTATE

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS ESTATE NO. 17669 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF KURT LYNN GOCHNOUR Notice is given that Kim T. Gochnour, 6041 Hunters Mill Drive, Salisbury, MD 21801, was on December 20, 2018 appointed personal representative of the small estate of Kurt Lynn Gochnour who died on October 12, 2018, without a will.

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PAGE 56 Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment shall file their objections with the Register of Wills within 30 days after the date of publication of this Notice. All persons having an objection to the probate of the will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills within six months after the date of publication of this Notice.

All persons having claims against the decedent must serve their claims on the undersigned personal representative or file them with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Thirty days after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claim within thirty days from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. Any claim not served or filed within that time, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter.

Kim T. Gochnour Personal Representative True Test Copy Register of Wills for Worcester County Terri Westcott 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: December 27, 2018 OCD-12/27/1t _________________________________ KIRK SIMPKINS & SIMPKINS, PA. ATTORNEYS AT LAW P.O. BOX 550 PRINCESS ANNE. MD 21353 TELEPHONE 410-651-4400 MARK GOSNELL P.O. Box 11961 Gwynn Oak, MD 21207 Plaintiff VS. JOHN F. KLOSEK 5433 Kerger Road Ellicott City, MD 21043-7042 And JOAN A. KLOSEK 5433 Kerger Road Ellicott City, MD 21043-7042 And WHITE HORSE PARK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION c/o Ayres, Jenkins, Gordy & Almand 6200 Coastal Hwy., Suite 200 Ocean City, MD 21842 And WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND Serve on: Phillip G. Thompson, Treasurer P.O.Box248 Snow Hill, MD 21863 And All persons or Corporations having Or claiming to have interest in the hereinafter described properties situate in Worcester County, Maryland Defendants

DECEMBER 28, 2018

CIVIL NO. C-23-CV-18-000336 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY STATE OF MARYLAND

ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this proceeding is to secure the foreclosure of all rights of redemption in the following property, sold by the Collector of Taxes for the County of Worcester and the State of Maryland to the Plaintiff in this proceeding: "The property located in Worcester County, further described as List Number: 64 Parcel Number: 03119440 Property Description Lot 190 PH 1 SEC 3 Timberline Circle PL White Horse Park assessed to: Klosek John F & Klosek, Joan A." The Complaint states, among other things, that the amounts necessary for redemption have not been paid.

It is thereupon this 8th of November, 2018, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, ORDERED, that notice be given by the insertion of a copy of this order in some newspaper having a general circulation in Worcester County once a week for 3 successive weeks, warning all persons interested in the property to appear in this Court by the January 15, 2019, and redeem “The property located in WorcesterCounty, further described as List Number: 64 Parcel Number: 03119440 Property Description Lot 190 PH 1 SEC 3 Timberline Circle PL White Horse Park assessed to: Klosek John F & Klosek, Joan A.” and answer the complaint or thereafter a final judgment will be entered foreclosing all rights of redemption in the property, and vest-

ing in the plaintiff a title, free and clear of all encumbrances.

Failure to answer or redeem this property within the time allowed may result in a Judgment foreclosing the right 0f redemption.

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Right response to chaos is the key

The natural order of things isn’t all that orderly, as random events can connect in so many different ways that it’s impossible to predict the outcome.

That’s called Chaos Theory, a branch of mathematics that looks at how one thing can, incongruently, lead to another … and another to produce an unpredictable result.

Scientists call it The Butterfly Effect, which maintains that a butterfly in China flapping its wings at a precise moment under the right circumstances can lead to a hurricane in the Caribbean.

Obviously, not all unanticipated consequences are bad or as extreme as that. Negative events also can lead to positive outcomes, depending on how people react.

In Ocean Pines, for instance, bad oversight, bad management and bad business practices led the board of directors to take a chance on an outside operator for its food services. Result: an immediate turnaround everyone raves about.

In Berlin, the closing of a poultry operation threw hundreds of people out of work and left a shell of a compound that could have been a blight on the town for decades. Result: the opportunity to create a park that could be among the biggest and best of any small town in the country.

Ocean City’s history brims with negative situations turned positive — the August 1933 storm that cut the island in two gave rise to an outstanding sportsfishing industry. It also spurred more development and tourism, the creation of the motel industry, new restaurants and entertainment, all of which combined to create billions of dollars of wealth in the northern county.

That generated an amazing level of personal generosity that helped to create a hospital, a new hospice center, respite housing for critically ill children, and support for every worthy charity imaginable.

Maybe the storm that cut the inlet was caused by a butterfly in China and maybe not. It doesn’t matter, because the important thing to recognize as we go into the new year isn’t that problems will arise; it’s how we respond to them that counts.

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A new year, clean slate

By Stewart Dobson Editor/Publisher Looking back at New Year’s columns past, I re-discovered why I don’t make New Year’s predictions: if I did, it might ruin the surprise, given my ability to be right just about everything. Go ahead, ask my wife (just kidding, don’t ask, I want to start the new year with a clean slate).

For instance, I had a vision late last year that I would fall asleep in the chair during 247 prime time television shows, By 23 Saturday afternoon B Stewart movies, several hours of Dobson Home Shopping Network – because my remote control finger hit the wrong button – and nine baseball games, including one when the dogs spent an afternoon eating sandwich remnants off my shirt.

Amazingly, it all turned out to be true. But did I tell anyone this would happen? No. That would have killed the wonder of it all and deprived a certain someone of the pleasure of saying 181 times, “Well, I see Mr. Excitement has returned to the living” while on the other 98 times she simply observed, “Ah, the beast awakes!”

Unfortunately, the little bit of clairvoyance that I possess is limited to my own circumstance and does not extend to the outside world.

If it did, I would not have begun last spring thinking there was no way the Orioles would lose more than 114 games. Nor would I have said, “Mark my words, the odds of the Orioles

losing 115 games are about the same as Brittany Spears having another wardrobe malfunction.”

Obviously, I was wrong on both counts, and just as obviously, only a wretched few bothered to care about either.

Even though I can’t see into the future, I do feel that certain things are destined to happen in 2019: 1. The public approval rating of Congress will go up, if only because there’s a point where even a 1 is a positive trend. This also will prove that while we remain dissatisfied with its performance, Congress at least has the support of beings living in an alternate universe.

2. The Other Guy, who is to blame for everything, will reveal his or her identity.

3. The NSA will start its own Facebook page and, like everyone else, have its information sold to Google and Amazon: “Dear NSA, people who bought the A1 Eavesdropper also purchased …”

4. In a bow to public pressure, the Washington Redskins will change their name, but will rethink that decision when the Prince George’s Redskins doesn’t catch on.

5. The Maryland General Assembly will pass a law requiring all participants at annual family dinners to wear helmets, even at the little table.

6. I will not win the lottery, because just in case I do, I’m not telling.

7. 2019 will be a good year for everyone who thought 2018 wasn’t that bad. Those who thought 2018 was great are living in an alternate universe, have picked the O’s to win it all and like the way Congress has really stepped up to the plate.

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Young people looking for opportunity in Wor.

By Rachel Ravina Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) It appears the young people living in Worcester County are few and far between.

It begs the question, what keeps them around and what resources are at their disposal?

Ashley Rodriguez, 30, of Salisbury, is a director of sales and marketing at Courtyard by Marriott, and the 2018 chairperson of the Young Professionals of Ocean City, said she’s enjoyed the social aspect of the organization, and went onto say one of the friend’s she made will be in her upcoming wedding.

“It’s been really great,” Rodriguez said. “It’s harder to make friends as an adult.”

The group’s annual Christmas Spirit Shopping campaign is Rodriguez’s favorite. This year, she said 89 kids went on a $100 tax free shopping spree at the Berlin Walmart. “[We’re] affecting their life in such a big way.”

That event is also what originally got incoming chairperson Danielle Bellante, 26, events coordinator at Oceans 13, involved with the Young Professionals back in 2016.

Bellante said an organization like the Young Professionals is “about bringing young people of the town to-

gether.”

The 65 active members are accomplish that task through networking opportunities, resume builders and speaking engagements from local businesses. Cate Nellans, 33, said members also give their time volunteering for other organizations like the Humane Society, ASPCA and March of Dimes walk.

For more information about upcoming meetings, visit the group’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ocmdyp/.

Nellans works as an insurance agent for NFP. She said she wanted to find a network here.

“I just wanted to get involved in something,” she said. “I wasn’t involved in any volunteer organizations at all and I ended up really liking the people in the group and made a lot of friends.”

But Bellante added it’s about laying the groundwork for the area’s young people.

“We’re the future of Ocean City,” Bellante said.

She went on to say anyone interested in joining doesn’t have to make every meeting, just showing “even an inkling of interest” is enough.

And for Nellans, as a mother of two kids, she loves the accessibility factor that the group offers to keep members

informed on area happenings.

Bellante acknowledged a “generational gap” as more and more people choose this area for retirement.

District 38 Sen.-elect Mary Beth Carozza said she believes the increasing demographic could actually provide an employment opportunity for young workers.

“This is an exciting time for our young people to pursue health care related careers on the Shore,” Carozza said in a statement.

Nordstrom acknowledged the amount of retirees in the area as all the more reason to keep young people in Worcester County.

“We also need to keep younger people here because we want to maintain [a] steady workforce [and] tax base,” Nordstrom said.

Bellante, 26, now calls Ocean Pines home after moving from Annapolis.

While it appears some young people leave the area for another part of the state or country to find economic prosperity, she’s heard different.

“I also hear a lot about the times they come back,” she said.

That’s also the case for Nellans, who’s from Berlin, and has lived there for most of her life. She moved to Brooklyn, New York, for a few years, but she said she couldn’t stay away.

But she said she remembers the

area’s offseason being considered a wasteland with not many people around.

“Well it is hard, growing up here for a long time there was nothing the winter time it closed down there was nothing to do,” Nellans said.

However, Nellans said she’s starting to see a shift in the business community.

“Being in a business that offers growth potential is a huge thing, and I think a lot of the businesses are … cluing into that,” she said. “They need to change, they need to improve with the times … in order to keep the workforce interested and here.”

Worcester County Commissioner Joshua Nordstrom emphasized the need to advocate for educational incentives and vocational training. In order to give those incentives and funding to the people that really need it, Nordstrom said it’s going to require local and state assistance.

“Having the county and these state help out some of our young people who are bright and talented … get that education that they need,” he said.

Carozza said she’s also making this a priority for constituents across her district.

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OC Council continues work on topless case Mayor Meehan testifies in Baltimore, says not much support for bare breasts

By Greg Ellison Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) Ocean City moved closer to resolving the lawsuit challenging a ban on female toplessness after U.S. District Court Chief Judge James K. Bredar denied a preliminary injunction request from the plaintiff last Thursday.

The decision rejected a request made in July by civil rights attorney Devon Jacob, representing Eastern Shore resident Chelsea Eline and four other plaintiffs, which sought to suspend the city’s June 2017 ordinance prohibiting female toplessness pending the outcome of a lawsuit filed in January.

The issue began in 2016 when Eline, formerly Chelsea Covington, wrote to then-Worcester County State’s Attorney Beau Oglesby requesting clarity about the legality of female bare-chestedness in public places across the state.

Last summer, as Oglesby awaited a legal opinion from the Maryland Attorney General’s office, the topic gained national media attention after a departmental memo from

beach patrol Capt. Butch Arbin came to light instructing staff to document, but not take action, if alerted to women sunbathing topless.

In response to that publicity, the City Council last June passed an emergency ordinance prohibiting females from publicly baring their breasts within the city limits of Ocean City. Violations of the municipal infraction are subject to a fine of up to $1,000.

In the 11-page decision last week, the court concurred with legal opinion in an earlier case, United States v. Biocic 1991, which concluded there was a discernable difference between the female and male breasts, “whether justifiably or not in the eyes of all.”

The Biocic case involved a woman cited for violating a US Fish and Wildlife regulation prohibiting any act of indecency as defined by state or local law on any national wildlife refuge. In that instance the court ruled a public nudity prohibition in Accomack County, Virginia, did not violate the equal protection clause in the U.S. Constitution, which was later upheld by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond.

Testifying for the resort on Dec. 7 in U.S. District Court in Baltimore were Mayor Rick Meehan, Council-

woman Mary Knight, City Clerk Diana Chavis and Melanie Pursel, Ocean City Chamber of Commerce CEO/president.

In its August motion, Bredar characterized the Biocic decision as assuming, without concluding, a distinction based upon anatomical differences between male and female is gender-based for equal protection analysis purposes, while also opining gender distinctions were substantially related to an important government interest and therefore does not deny equal protection.

Bredar characterized the Ocean City witnesses as, “accurate barometers of public sensibilities,” who were, “equipped to, ‘take the pulse,’ of the community.”

On Dec. 7, Meehan, who testified city government’s priorities are public safety and tourism, said national media coverage of the issue resulted in a flood of emails and phone calls expressing opposition to toplessness.

Meehan said numerous nonresident property owners threatened to sell, with others contemplating cancelling family vacations, if toplessness were permitted.

Councilwoman Mary Knight testified that from her perspective Ocean City’s ordinance restricting

public nudity accurately reflects the sensibilities of residents and visitors.

Knight and Meehan both said they had not heard a single voice in support of allowing bare breasted females on the beach.

Jacob called one expert witness, Dr. Debby Herbenick, professor Indiana University School of Public Health, whose areas of expertise are sexual health and gender issues.

Herbenick, while highlighting past involvement with roughly a dozen nationwide studies in the area of human sexuality, told the court a comparable approach was not taken regarding the sensibilities of Ocean City residents or visitors.

In the motion, Bredar said Herbenick’s arguments were not persuasive to the court.

“Instead of her testifying as to what Ocean City’s citizens’ public sensibilities are, she testified as to what she thought they should be,” he wrote.

Bredar also said the decision does not mean the public sensibilities recognized today will always be regarded as appropriate, but, for now, the Court has seen no evidence that the public sensibilities are not what Ocean City’s representatives say they are in the ordinance

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POLICE/COURTS

Drugs found after fight Dennis Michael Tadeo, Jr., 21, of Lutherville-Timonium, Maryland, was arrested on Dec. 22 and charged with disorderly conduct, violating a noise ordinance and two counts of possession, according to an arrest report from the District Court of Maryland for Worcester County.

Police saw a man, later identified as Tadeo, involved in what appeared to be a fight around 1:24 a.m. on the sidewalk downtown, according to a report.

An officer took Tadeo into custody, and a search of his belongings produced a baggie of suspected cocaine, and a segmented bar of Alprazolam, also known as Xanax, according to the report. Police said Tadeo did not have a prescription for the Xanax.

Baby in car Richard Six, 29, of Berlin, was arrested on Dec. 25 and charged with two counts of driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, driving a vehicle while impaired by alcohol, driving a vehicle while impaired by alcohol while transporting a minor, and negligent driving, according to an arrest report from the District Court of Maryland for Worcester County.

A police officer traveling west on Route 90 on the Assawoman Bridge around 1:46 a.m. saw a black Audi Q3

traveling east across the bridge, according to the report. The officer saw the Audi swerve toward the jersey wall and swerve back into the lane. It’s unclear if the Audi hit the wall itself.

Police stopped the Audi on 66th Street and Coastal Highway after observing the vehicle travel 64 mph in a 55 mph. The vehicle’s occupants included the driver, later identified as Six, a woman and a 5-month-old baby, the report said.

Six said he consumed three beers and did not complete the field sobriety tests adequately, according to the report.

Cocaine in hat Anthony Delarry Hayward, Jr., 37, of Berlin, was arrested on Dec. 18 and charged with possession, according to an arrest report from the District Court of Maryland for Worcester County.

Police saw two people riding bicycles without illuminated front lamps near the intersection of Robin Drive and Sparrow Lane. One of the bicyclists, later identified as Hayward, was given a warning and was free to go, but the officer then asked if he could speak with Hayward. When asked if he had any drugs or weapons on his person, Hayward told the officer he didn’t.

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Manuel and Hudson were charged with possession and possession of paraphernalia, according to the arrest report.

Manuel was also charged with driving with a suspended license, driving with a revoked license and unsafe lane changing, the report said. Hudson was additionally charged with a second count of possession, and possession of a controlled paraphernalia.

An officer saw a white Chevrolet Lumina fail to stay in the left-hand turning lane on 62nd Street approaching Route 90. The officer also saw the driver quickly change lanes to turn west, according to the report.

After police stopped the car at the western end of the Route 90 bridge, Manuel reportedly told police he had no driver’s license.

A search of the car and each person produced a broken glass pipe with cocaine residue, a cigarette box

containing two burnt pipes with suspected crack cocaine residue, and a cigarette box containing suspected heroin residue. Police said they also found two syringes and a metal spoon.

When asked about the heroin, Hudson said, “well, I start rehab in like a week,” according to the report..

Two arrested for car theft Spring Grove, Pennsylvania residents Courtney C. Knight, 30, and Shawna D. Beard, 32, were arrested and charged with unlawful taking of a motor vehicle and theft of $1,500 to under $25,000, according to an arrest report from the District Court of Maryland for Worcester County.

A license plate reader on the Route 50 Bridge alerted police to a stolen Mitsubishi Outlander Sport with a Pennsylvania registration, according to the report. Ocean City Police confirmed the stolen vehicle through the Southwestern Regional Police Department in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania.

Police stopped the vehicle at 56th Street, according to the report. Police also detained the vehicle’s occupants, later identified as Knight and Beard.

An York County police officer said the car was stolen on Sept. 15 from a gas station by a woman purporting to be an official auditor. Instead, according to the report, she entered the station office and took the keys to an employee’s car and left.

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Continued from Page 58 tion funding formulas and policy reforms, our focus should be on career readiness, which could include college, apprenticeships, and other workforce training,” she said in a statement.

Nordstrom and Carozza agreed there are available positions in the nursing and skilled labor professions.

Nordstrom said it’s about “incentivizing young people to go into these jobs that are right here on the Shore.”

Rodriguez said it’s crucial to have

as many resources available as possible in order to improve the quality of life for the area’s young people who choose to stay. “[It’s] important to me to stay on [the Shore], [and] having groups like this makes it more desirable,” Rodriguez said.

Bellante said it’s really about making her mark on Ocean City.

“In the last couple of years [I’ve] become a core part of the group … [it’s] something to be proud of,” Bellante said.

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Nathans Associates wins appeal in Annapolis

By Morgan Pilz Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) An iconic ice cream shop on the Boardwalk will continue to serve resort guests and residents, after the Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled last Friday that the Town of Ocean City failed to prove its legal authority to have the business removed.

Ownership of the Boardwalk Dumser’s property was called into question in 2016 after a long-term agreement between the city and the building’s owners, Nathans Associates, expired.

Located on the east side of South Division Street near the south end of the Boardwalk, the structure was built in 1905 and owned by Nathan Rapoport. Since the 1970s, the twostory building has been home to a Dumser’s Dairyland ice cream parlor.

In 1966, Rapoport reached an agreement with the city to demolish the existing structure and erect a better building on the site with a commercial interest on the Boardwalk level, and living quarters above on the second floor. The package offered

two 25-year agreements between the town of Ocean City and the heirs of Rapaport, now known Nathans Associates.

The first 25-year agreement expired in 1991 and Nathans Associates agreed to the second 25 years under the language in the agreement. When that expired in 2016, the city asserted its authority over the property, which it claimed sits in the right-of-way for Atlantic Avenue, or all the property east of the deeded properties on the west side of the Boardwalk.

The case went to trial in April of 2017 and Worcester County Circuit Court Judge Dale Cathell gave an opinion in favor of the town of Ocean City. Nathans Associates were required to remove or demolish the structure by the end of the year in 2017, according to Cathell’s ruling.

Nathan Associates appealed to the state’s Court of Special Appeals, which found that, based on the evidence provided by the city, maybe the building sits in a city-controlled public easement and maybe it doesn’t.

“There was insufficient evidence to support the conclusion that a

property was located within a public easement when the only evidence presented in support was a 150-yearold handwritten deed and hand drawn plat and no additional evidence, such as testimony from a licensed surveyor or other expert, was presented to establish the onground-location of MORGAN PILZ/OCEAN CITY TODAY the property today in relation to the Dumser’s Dairyland located on the Boardwalk will continue to sell area described in creamy treats to guests and residents after the Maryland Court of the 1876 deed and Special Appeals rule in favor of Nathans Associates last Friday. accompanying plat,” Judge Stuart location of the property as well as Berger wrote. surrounding buildings.

“The burden was placed upon the “We agree with the circuit court Town of Ocean City to establish the that the aerial photograph estabproperty was located within city lishes that the Property is located boundaries. However, the informa- north of the center of South Division tion provided by the 1876 deed, with Street as the street is located today,” hand written site plans, proved to be the opinion said. “As we shall exillegible. An aerial photo also pro- plain, however, the evidence is, in See WE’RE Page 62 vided as evidence showed the current

WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS BRIEFS

By Rachel Ravina Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) The Worcester County Commissioners approved several projects at their meeting last Tuesday:

nents.

The proposed nature park consists of 574 acres complete with small beaches, marshes, inlands, and woodland areas, according to the project description.

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Resiliency project in Wor.

The commissioners unanimously agreed to allow permission to pursue a $175,000 Land and Water Conservation grant, which would cover half the cost to develop Grey’s Creek Nature Park’s passive recreation compo-

The commissioners unanimously approved a request for design proposals for a flood mitigation project at the Cape Isle of Wight community.

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Worcester OKs bond bills for CIP

By Rachel Ravina Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) Bond bills for several proposed projects in the Capital Improvement Plan were unanimously approved during a Worcester County Commissioners meeting last Tuesday.

The projects that would be financed through general obligation bonds include $38 million to build Showell Elementary School, $1.5 million for a new turf athletic field and track at Stephen Decatur High School, $3,328,000 to complete cell site No. 5 at the central landfill, according to a resolution.

A fourth project is for $3,250 for the water and wastewater projects in

Ocean Pines and the Riddle Farm Service areas.

The fourth project does not require a bond bill, but a public hearing and comments are mandatory, according to the proposal.

The purpose of the official intent resolution is to be able to “use the bond proceeds to reimburse expenses incurred for each of these projects prior to the issuance of the bonds.”

Commissioner Joseph Mitrecic made the motion for an official intent resolution, which was seconded by Commissioner Jim Bunting.

In reference to education funding, several commissioners, including Bunting expressed frustrations with

the disproportionate state government assistance Worcester County gets as opposed to other counties across the bridge.

“It’s not fair,” Bunting said. “It’s not working.”

Mitrecic echoed Bunting’s concerns.

“Worcester [County] is at the bottom ... [of] funding for support,” Mitrecic said.

Commissioner Bud Church asked audience member Superintendent Lou Taylor if he was surprised?

“It does not come as a surprise.

Thirty-five years later,” Taylor said.

Public hearings for the four proposed projects were scheduled for Jan. 22, 2019.

Wor. declines land lease request

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By Rachel Ravina Staff Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) A request to lease the outdoor space at the county’s liquor control warehouse was denied during a Worcester County Commissioners meeting last Tuesday.

Paul M. Jones Lumber Company Inc. offered to pay the county $1,000 per month to store lumber in the covered loading bays on the property from Dec.

2018 to June 2019.

However, the decision to renovate the property or sell was unclear at the time of the request, and the county informed the company that choice would play a role in the decision to lease.

The county also cited fire safety, supervision and the need for separate insurance as reasons for “respectfully declining the request.”

Commissioner Chip Bertino made the

motion to decline the request, which was seconded by Commissioner Bud Church.

Assistant Chief Administrative Officer Kelly Shannahan then asked commissioners what they’d like to do with the building. They commissioners agreed they wanted to sell, but first needed to establish a price.

Shannahan said he’d bring commissioners a report regarding that to the next meeting.

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Continued from Page 61 our view, insufficient to establish that the Property is located north of Division Street as indicated on the 1876 Plat. Simply put, this case is not about the location of Atlantic Avenue and South Division Street as they exist today.”

The matriarch of Nathans Associate and granddaughter of Nathan

Rapoport, Mona Strauss, was pleased with the decision.

“We own the ground,” Strauss said. “It’s encouraging when everyone is happy for you. We believe the New Year will be a good one for Nathans Associates and the Timmons family. We’re delighted with the verdict.”

As a result, the original Worcester

County Circuit Court decision issued in 2017 was reversed and the case will be remanded back to the circuit court level to incorporate last Friday’s ruling, removing the order to remove and demolish the property.

The Town of Ocean City could not be reached for comment.

The Boardwalk Dumsers will reopen for the season in March.

WORLD WAR II

TIME picks Hitler for Man-of-Year

By Peter Ayers Wimbrow III Contributing Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) This week, 80 years ago, TIME Magazine announced its “Man-of-the-Year.”

Shockingly, TIME’s Man-of-the-Year for 1938 was none other than the German Führer, Adolf Hitler. As TIME explained, in its issue that was released on Jan. 2, 1939, “Hitler became in 1938 the greatest threatening force the democratic, freedom-loving world faces today.”

It’s selection of “Man-of-the-Year” was obviously not one who had done the most good, but rather, the person who has had the greatest impact for

that year. That certainly was Adolf Hitler.

He had left the Treaty of Versailles in shambles. The new chancellor had put Germans to work. Of course, they were building roads with which to transport the Fatherland’s new armies, and manufacturing weapons with which to threaten and overrun its neighbors. He had also absorbed Austria into the Third Reich, and dissembled Czechoslovakia, all the while proclaiming his peaceful intentions, and converting Germany’s Jewish citizens into the unwanted. ith his, and Fascist Italy’s, help, Generalissimo Francisco Franco was

about to achieve his vision of substituting a Fascist dictatorship for a freely elected democracy in Spain.

TIME’s cover portrayed Hitler playing a giant organ, with the caption, “From the unholy organist, a hymn of hate.” Above the organ is depicted a St. Catherine’s Wheel, from which dangle the regime’s victims, as the Nazi hierarchy obediently observes.

TIME correctly noted that the, “Greatest single news event of 1938, took place on September 29,when four statesmen met at the Führerhaus, in Munich, to redraw the map of Europe.

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OBITUARIES HOWARD REX “BUD” HAMILTON Ocean Pines Howard “Bud” Hamilton, 75, passed away suddenly on Dec. 16, 2018 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center.

Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 9, 1943, he was the son of Charles and Dorothy Hamilton.

He graduated from Plymouth Whitemarsh High School, attended Temple University and served five years in the U.S. Air Force.

He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Ann Hamilton; his daughter, Jennifer Hamilton and her fiancé, David Blesh; sister-in-law, Jane Hamilton; niece, Laurie Hamilton; nephew, Jeffrey Hamilton; a great nephew, Beckett; and great niece, Lena Hamilton.

Bud was currently a member of Evergreen Masonic Lodge #153 in Berlin, Maryland, and was an active member in the Masons for 50 years.

He was a member of the Scottish Rite Masons of Maryland and was awarded the Honorary 33rd degree in 2009. He was an active member of Boumi Shrine where he had served as captain of the Drum and Bugle Corps for two years and as colonel of the Units for one year.

Bud retired from Banner Glass in 2011 and moved from the Baltimore area to Ocean Pines with his wife, Ann.

Ocean City Today After retiring, he served as treasurer of Ocean City Shrine Club, was Grand Tall Cedar of Evergreen Forest #49 Tall Cedars of Lebanon, as well as, supreme diBud Hamilton rector of Music for the Supreme Forest Tall Cedars of Lebanon.

On Dec. 20, Bud was made an honorary past master of the Wicomico, Worcester and Somerset counties Past Master Association along with Evergreen Lodge No. 153.

He joined the Atlantic General Hospital Auxiliary and volunteered in the hospital one day a week.

His love for history called him to become a docent at the Rackliffe House at Assateague Island.

In the past two years, Bud became a serious follower of the Lord Jesus Christ and was a faithful member of Berlin First Baptist Church, Berlin, Maryland.

A Celebration of Life will be held on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019, at 11 a.m. at Berlin First Baptist Church, 613 Williams St., Berlin, Maryland.

Donations in his honor may be made to: Boumi Shriners Transportation Fund, 5050 King Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21237, or Berlin First Baptist Church, 613 Williams Street, Berlin, Maryland 21811.

WORLD WAR II Continued from Page 62 The three visiting statesmen at that historic conference were Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain, Premier Eduoard Deladier of France, and Dictator Benito Mussolini of Italy. But by all odds, the dominating figure at Munich was the German host, Adolf Hitler.”

It was absolutely stunning! That this ill-educated man, who, before World War I, was, literally living on the streets of Vienna, could be in this position, was absolutely stunning!

After failing at everything he attempted in the old capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hitler had moved to Munich in 1912, where he was living at the time of the outbreak of The Great War. Rejected by his native country’s army, he enlisted in the Bavarian Army (part of the Imperial German Army), achieved the rank of corporal, won the Iron Cross, First Class, for bravery, was wounded once and gassed once, and was recovering from his gassing in a hospital, when the Armistice was declared on Nov. 11, 1918.

After his return to Bavaria, not having any way to support himself, he stayed in the army. The army made him an “intelligence” agent in July 1919 and ordered him to infiltrate the German Workers’ Party. This tiny party had been founded in Munich by Anton Drexler on Jan. 5, 1919. On

DECEMBER 28, 2018 Sept.12, 1919, Hitler attended his first meeting at the Sterneeckerbräu Brewery in Munich, where the party held weekly meetings in the first floor restaurant.

At the meeting, Drexler invited him to join the tiny party. With the permission of his army superiors, he became the 55th member. He gave his first speech a month later at the Hofbräukeller Restaurant. Within two years, he had become its leader.

The party’s name was changed to National Socialist German Labor Party(NAZI) on Feb. 24, 1920.

In 1923, the National Socialists attempted to take power by force – the “Munich Beer Hall Putsch” – which was an abject failure. Hitler was charged, tried, convicted, and sentenced to prison. While serving his time in Landsburg Prison, in Bavaria, he wrote the first volume of Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”).

In the 1928 National elections, the party received 809,000 votes.

Two years later, that had climbed to 6,401,016 votes. By 1932, the vote had increased to 13,732,779. Although not enough to claim a majority of the Reichstag, it was a plurality and allowed Hitler to form a government and be appointed chancellor.

On Jan. 30, 1933, with his appointment as chancellor, came concentration camps for, first, just his political enemies, then the Jews. But the full employment in construction projects and pride in a renewed Germany and a new air force and army allowed most to overlook these things, and the elimination of free press, free speech and free assembly.

Education was harnessed to inculcate German citizens with the tenets of National Socialism.

The Reichstag building was destroyed by fire on Feb. 27, 1933. Although the Nazis blamed the Communists, blame has never been firmly attached to anyone. But it provided an excuse for the suspension of civil rights. On July 14, 1933, der Führer’s party was declared the only legal party in Germany.

In 1938, Germany’s Chancellor delivered 96 public speeches, and sold 900,000 copies of “Mein Kampf” in Germany, alone. By then, the armed forces, now known as the “Wehrmacht” swore loyalty to Hitler, not the Fatherland.

Within nine months, TIME’s “Man-of-the-Year” would plunge the world into a war, the effects of which are still felt today, and which cost, at least, 55 million lives.

Next week: German Battle Cruiser Scharnhorst Commissioned Mr. Wimbrow writes from Ocean City, Maryland, where he practices law representing those persons accused of criminal and traffic offenses, and those persons who have suffered a personal injury through no fault of their own. He can be contacted at: wimbrowlaw@gmail.com.

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SPORTS YEAR IN REVIEW 2018

By Lisa Capitelli Managing Editor (Dec. 28, 2018) From records to stellar season performances, here are some of the top sports stories for 2018: • Beck school record: Kevin Beck not only placed fourth in the 800-meter run during the 3A indoor track state championship meet at the Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex in Landover at the end of February, but he also broke the Stephen Decatur High School record for the event.

“I was seeded ninth. I did better than expected,” Beck said. “I was hoping to finish top seven and beat the school record. That’s what I was going for.”

Josh Zobenica set the school record of 2:02 in 1998.

“It was a tough record to beat,” Decatur Coach Jody Stigler said. “Josh was a really good runner [and] threetime state champion.”

Before the state race, Beck said he was nervous, but excited to compete.

“I knew it was my last race of the year, so I wanted to go all out and do my best,” he said.

He crossed the finish line in 2:01.89, good for fourth place.

“They were all fast. They pushed me to go faster,” Beck said. “It was great to end the season on a high note.”

He added it was “cool to see all the fast runners in the state” competing.

“It was an honor to be part of that,” he said.

“I knew he had a good chance to place, but my goal was for him to run his best time, which he did by two seconds,” Stigler said. “His goal was to break the school record in the 800 for indoor and he did that as well, so I think we were definitely pleased with the performance. He was also the top-finishing underclassmen, so he has high expectations next year.”

Beck, as a junior, captured the Bayside Conference title in the 800meter race a few weeks earlier.

• Three-time champs: The Stephen Decatur boys’ basketball team finished the 2017-18 season with an 18-8 record and captured its third consecutive 3A East Region championship.

“I thought we had a great season. I feel like this team overachieved. The kids came together as a unit,” Coach BJ Johnson said. “It was a great run for our kids. To three-peat and for the seniors to be able to hang up a banner as regional champs is a great success.”

The Seahawks had hoped to bring home a 3A state championship title, but they came up a bit short of their goal, falling to Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, 63-46, in the tournament semifinals, in March at University of Maryland College Park Xfinity Center.

• Regional champs: After coming in second or third place during each of the past five years, the Stephen Decatur boys’ swim team finally brought a regional title back to Berlin in February.

“It was awesome. Almost all the times were faster than their seed times – relay and individual,” Decatur Coach Steve Deakyne said. “We had a number of firsts and if we weren’t first we were usually in the top three.”

Easton led after the first event of the 3A/2A/1A East Regional meet, but then Decatur took over and never looked back.

“It was relatively close for the most part, but the gap kept getting wider as the meet went on,” he said.

Decatur scored 364 points in the

Worcester Prep sophomore captain Vincent Petrera broke the school’s single-season scoring record during the ESIAC semifinals on Oct. 24 in Berlin. He finished the year with 39 goals and six assists.

Stephen Decatur then-junior Keven Beck took fourth in the 800-meter race during the 3A state championship meet at the end of February. He also broke the Stephen Decatur High School record for the event.

Members of the Stephen Decatur boys’ basketball team celebrate winning their third consecutive 3A East Region championship title after defeating Centennial, 60-51, in Berlin, in February.

victory. It was the first time the Seahawks have won a regional title since 2012. They won back-to-back championships in 2011 and 2012. Since then, the squad came in second place in 2013, 2015 and 2017, and third in 2014 and 2016.

“I’m proud of how everybody swam,” Deakyne said. “The majority had their best times, which shows

how hard they’ve been working lately.”

The boys’ squad finished the 201718 season with an 8-1 record. The group was undefeated against Maryland schools.

• Career wins list: Stephen Decatur senior captain Caleb Bourne finished the 2017-18 season with a 32-2 record and 101 ca-

reer wins overall. He is the 18th Decatur wrestler in program history to earn 100 wins.

Bourne also captured both Bayside Conference and regional titles. In addition, he became the first wrestler from the school since 2012 to win a War on the Shore – presented by Decatur – tournament title.

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Continued from Page 66 Bourne was 29-0 going into the state tournament in early March. He pinned his first two opponents. His second pin was extra special, as it earned Bourne his 100th career victory.

A number of his family members were in attendance to see him get his 100th win, which was also announced over the loud speaker.

“That was exciting. Everyone was going crazy,” he said. “It was fun.”

He finished in fourth place overall in the 220-pound weight class.

Despite not winning a state title, Bourne was happy to earn a medal.

He said he has come a long way since stepping on the mat as a freshman.

As a sophomore, Jagger Clapsadle came in second place in the 106pound weight class. Clapsadle finished his first season competing for Decatur with a 28-5 record. He won both Bayside Conference and 4A/3A East Region titles.

“My first season went really well.

There were some tough losses, but I think I peaked at the right time,” he said.

• Successful White Marlin Open A record $5.45 million was awarded to the winners of the 45th annual White Marlin Open, held Aug. 6-10, and about half of the purse was presented to the Weldor’s Ark crew for Pascual Jimenez’s 83-pound white marlin.

The Puerto Aventuras, Mexico angler landed the fish on Aug. 10, the final day of the tournament. The marlin actually tied with Gregory Giron’s (Virginia Beach), who boated his 83 pounder aboard Under Dog, the day before.

However, according to the White Marlin Open rules, “in the event of a tie in the weight of a white marlin, the fish that is not gaffed will be considered the winner of the two.”

This rule was implemented years ago to prevent fish from being needlessly killed and to conserve the

species, said Jim Motsko, White Marlin Open co-director and founder.

Giron’s marlin was brought on board with the assistance of a gaff – a pole or stick with a hook on the end used to stab the fish and lift it into the boat.

The Weldor’s Ark crew did not use a gaff and was presented $2,584,260 – a new tournament record. The Under Dog team won $129,784.

In addition, more than $1.3 million was awarded in the tuna division this year – a new record.

A total of 382 boats registered for this year’s tournament.

Overall, Motsko thought the tournament was “excellent.”

“We had great weather and that was the key to us getting a few more smaller boats. Marlin fishing wasn’t fantastic, but it was pretty good,” he said. “We had the biggest single winner this year, a record payout, no major incidents. I’m very happy with it.”

The 2019 tournament is scheduled for Aug. 5-9.

•Goal-scoring record: The Worcester Prep boys’ soccer team not only won its Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference semifinal game on Oct. 24, but sophomore captain Vincent Petrera also broke the school scoring record for a single season.

“He’s a special talent. You don’t find many players like this around here and, when you do, you want to step back and marvel at his skill level,” Prep Coach Terry Underkoffler said. “The speed, the technical level and his ability to score is outstanding.”

Going into the week, with three games remaining in the season, everyone thought Petrera needed nine goals to break Nate Merrill’s record of 35 goals set in 2004. Turns out, Underkoffler found out the day after the semifinals it was actually eight.

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SPORTS YEAR IN REVIEW 2018 Continued from Page 66 “I was focused on winning and getting into the finals and if I could get in there and score I would,” he said.

Petrera said netting the shot to break the school record “was just an important goal and one I’ll always remember.”

Two days later, the Mallards shut out the Salisbury School Dragons, 20, to win the Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference championship. Petrera scored both goals for Worcester.

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SPORTS YEAR IN REVIEW 2018 Continued from Page 67 ward. He’s hard to keep off the scoreboard,” Underkoffler said. “He is just a hard person to stop and our other players up top kept attacking, putting pressure on them. They kept giving us attacking options besides Vincent.”

Petrera was named Conference Player of the Year. He finished the year with 39 goals and six assists.

•Undefeated season: The Worcester Prep girls’ soccer team finished undefeated, 11-0, this season and captured the Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference championship title.

“We played tough. It was a battle and I knew it was going to be a battle,” Prep Coach Carol Hartnett said after the Lady Mallards’ 2-1 victory over the Salisbury School Dragons in the ESIAC finals on Oct. 26 in Berlin.

“Every minute was fought as hard as the last minute. There wasn’t any letdown on either side.”

The team scored 58 goals this year and only gave up one – in the championship game. Hartnett said to end the season undefeated is “huge.”

“It was a perfect season. It does not happen,” Hartnett said. “As I told them when we were taking a picture after the game, just savor this because these moments do not come often in life, just enjoy it and have a great weekend and think of all the hard work you’ve done since August to get here.”

Hartnett said she would sum up the season the way the Mallards started – “working hard, playing hard and succeeding together.”

“That’s what it’s been from the beginning,” she added. “When I talked to them the other day, I said ‘this is why we were out here in 90-degree weather, drilling and training and coming together as a team.’”

• Berlin Little League champs Vice President of Baseball Operations Ron Knerr in October praised players, staff and volunteers throughout the league, saying, “It doesn’t happen by chance that in one year the Town of Berlin – tiny little Berlin on the Eastern Shore – has two state champions … that is just a phenomenal fete.”

Berlin Little League Baseball All Stars receive plaques both for their play during state and regional tournaments, and for their sportsmanship, during a ceremony on Artisan’s Green in Berlin in October.

Stephen Decatur senior captain Caleb Bourne earned his 100th career win during the second round of the 4A/3A state wrestling tournament at Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, in March.

The Berlin Little League girls’ allstar softball team won District 8 locally and then captured the Maryland championship trophy, finally playing in Bristol, Connecticut during the Eastern Regional tournament.

It was the first state championship for a Berlin softball team, but the boys’ 11-12-year-old all-star baseball team stole many of the headlines, also winning District 8 and the state championship, and finishing as the

runner-up in the Eastern Regional tournament.

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SPORTS YEAR IN REVIEW 2018 Continued from Page 68 and that’s exactly what the Mid Island Little Leaguers from Staten Island, New York got from their starter during the Mid-Atlantic championship game on Sunday, Aug. 12.

Coach Cameron McDonough said the team “played their butts off” during the entire Mid-Atlantic Tournament.

“Every team we played up there was top notch, and the kids really competed well and really did a great job,” he said. “I was super, super happy with how we performed.”

Overall, it was the most successful season since 2014 for the boys’ program, when Berlin made it to the final game of the United States Little League World Series in Livermore, California.

Both the boys’ and girls’ teams were honored during a special ceremony in October in Berlin.

Pascual Jimenez caught this 83-pound white marlin while fishing on Weldor’s Ark, on Aug. 10, the final day of the 45th annual White Marlin Open. It tied for first place with Greg Giron’s marlin landed aboard Under Dog. Because Jimenez’s marlin was not gaffed, the crew took the top prize of $2,584,260.

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SURF REPORT

Dalkiewicz: surfers should make own board

By Dave Dalkiewicz Contributing Writer (Dec. 28, 2018) This is just my opinion, of course, but I think that every surfer should make their own surfboard at least once.

It’s a difficult thing to do and even more difficult to make a really good one.

The initial step would be to acquire a blank or core, be it polyurethane or EPS (expanded polystyrene), urethane or styrene. Now as much as a blank will look a lot like a surfboard, this blank has to be shaped.

It takes a long time and a lot of shaped blanks to really attain the experience to be able to get to where the shaped blank will look as you perceive it in your mind. This is the process of translating what is in your mind’s eye through your hands and into the blank.

The next step is a fiberglassing process which is comprised of multiple sub-steps, the first being a lami-

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Each side of the shaped blank, top and bottom, has to be done separately. A layer or layers of fiberglass cloth will be draped on the blank and trimmed with a strong pair of scissors.

A liquid, clear, paint-like resin will then be squeegeed into this fiberglass cloth and wrapped around the rails or perimeter of the blank. This is a laminating resin which always stays tacky and essentially glues the fiberglass cloth to the blank.

After these steps another layer of resin will be added, both top and bottom, in separate applications.

This resin will be a sanding resin, filling in and smoothing out any low spots in the lamination process.

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At this point, the entire board will be sanded with the idea being to return the board to its original shape.

This sanding process is only a surface type of step.

The fiberglassing process, ideally, only adds about an 1/8-inch of additional thickness throughout the entire board.

At this point a fin application would be performed. These days a removable fin system would most probably be used which can greatly add to the board’s versatility if desired.

At this juncture the board would be seaworthy although various finishes can be applied.

Acrylic sprayed layers are popular or another thin coat of resin can be added and then rubbed out and polished. This gloss and polish step is considered to be the highest form of finish and really seals and completes the entire job.

Color, pinline, and/or graphic artwork can be done at almost any step in the process. Although not necessary to make the board perform in the water, it can greatly enhance the aesthetics of the board and has become an actual craft of its own.

As you can see, making a surfboard becomes quite an undertaking.

The thought of having a surfer make one of his or her own becomes one of appreciation.

In this modern day of machinery, so much of what we use and consume is done with machines but there is still plenty of hand work that goes into the making of a surfboard.

Consider all of these steps the next time you really look at a surfboard.

Hopefully, you’ll have a better understanding and yes, an appreciation, of what goes into one.

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CLARION RESORT – FONTAINEBLEAU HOTEL The Finest Buffets in Ocean City, MD 10100 COASTAL HIGHWAY 410-524-3535 WWW.CLARIONOC.COM

DECEMBER 28, 2018

VOTED 2018

2018

WINNER of the Wine Spectator’s Award of Excellence for 14 Years and The Best of Excellence Award for 9 years!

OCEANFRONT DINING Open Daily | Breakfast 7am-Noon | Lunch 11am-2pm | Dinner 5-10pm

LIVE MUSIC 9:30pm-2am Friday, December 28 & Saturday, December 29

FIRST CLASS ON THE EDGE NEW CENSATION Sunday, December 30

Famous

SUNDAY 5-9PM

OPEN DAILY

9 HI-DEF TVs

2

2

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Happy Hour 4-7pm

REDUCED HAPPY HOUR DRINK PRICES

$ 30 Select Drafts $ 90

$ 85 Margaritas

Domestic Beers Rail Drinks House Wines

DURING NFL GAMES Happy Hour Drink Prices

& $5FOOD SPECIALS

Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, or 1 Lb. Chicken Wings

Top 12 Best Buffets in America

Prime Rib & Seafood Buffet

Featuring Certified Angus Beef Prime Rib Adults $34.95 • Children 4-12 $19.95 • 3 & Under FREE

with

Friday, January 4 & Saturday, January 5

Friday & Saturday: DJ DUSTY 9pm–2am

Winner of Top 5 Best Buffets in America

Alaskan Snow Crab Legs

Adults $48.95 • Children 4-12 $32.95 $ 00 Early Bird 5-6pm Adult Buffet

3 OFF

IT’S BACK 50% OFF!!!!

TUESDAY THRU THURSDAY

50% OFF Dinner Menu Entrées 5-7pm Holidays & Specials Excluded

NIGHTLY

$12.95 & $16.95 Dinner Specials 5-10pm Holidays Excluded

SATURDAY

BREAKFAST BUFFET DAILY HORIZONS & BREAKERS PUB Soup & Salad or Soup & Half Sandwich

STEAMER SPECIAL

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7am-10:30am $13.95 Adults • $10.95 Children • 3 & Under Free

SUNDAY

95 1 lb. Alaskan Crab Legs with an Ear of Corn 2 lbs. Alaskan Crab Legs with 2 Ears of Corn $

Plus Many Other Specials!

3595

Available All Day at Horizons & Breakers Pub Wed thru Sun 11am-10pm

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DELUXE BREAKFAST BUFFET 7am-1pm $15.95 Adults • $11.95 Children • 3 & Under Free

FRIDAY & SATURDAY

30% OFF Dinner Menu Entrées 5-7pm

2018 Gala New Year’s Eve Party Gourmet Dinner Buffet, Dancing, and Entertainment Monday, 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 - Power Play & On The Edge •

Reservations Required | Must be 21 Years of Age – Proper I.D. Required

$16.95 Dinner Specials 5-10pm

Holidays & Specials Excluded

THURSDAY

STEAK NIGHTS 5-10pm 50% OFF Steaks Holidays & Specials Excluded