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Southern Calvert Everything Solomons, Lusby, Dowell, and St. Leonard

Southern Maryland Gangs on the Rise?

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Your Thoughts Have You Filed Your Tax Returns Yet, Or Are You a Procrastinator?

“No I have not. Is it April 15, is that the day? I have to do them this weekend,” said Jackie Anthony, of Lusby.

“Well I was going to do it earlier, but then I forgot.

I keep putting it off,” said she, adding that she typically waits until the last minute.

“Yeah. That’s how I do things. I like the pressure.”

“Not yet. I don’t have to, because I don’t have a job. I still live with my parents,” said Ashley Adams, of Lusby, holding her 11-month-old nephew George Gerlach.

When asked if she is looking forward to joining the tax-paying community, she said: “Oh yes. It’s what I’m looking forward to in life, filing taxes.

“I’m just waiting on my CPA, she’s had everything for about a month,” said Richard Blitch, owner of S.O.B. Blitch refrigeration of Lusby. “She’s got a lot of clients, and I’m just a little guy.”

Blitch said he typically gets his taxes done early.

“I’m in to just getting things done, and that goes for my jobs and everything. I like to get on them and get to the next one.”

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Partiers at the 2009 Tiki Bar opening take a break from sipping Mai Tais to pose for pictures. Solomons Island is preparing for the 30 annual opening of the nightclub on April 16. SEE PAGE 4

Patuxent Habitat for Humanity is getting ready for their next build in Calvert County, where they will be building a home for residents Chris and Crystal Jones and their two children. SEE PAGE 14

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Chan Claggett, left, owner of the new Laughing Buddha Restaurant in Solomons, with her father and sister, Thai and Christina Tran.

The new eatery brings West Coast style to Southern Maryland. SEE PAGE 5

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LOCAL NEWS As many as 30,000 people are expected to descend on Solomons Island on Friday, April 16, for the 30th annual opening of the Tiki Bar. Last year, the nightclub’s owners estimated 25,000 people came to the bar on opening weekend.

While most of the visitors on opening day come to party, many also eat, sleep and buy supplies nearby, which means a rush for local businesses.

With each year the Tiki Bar opening phenomenon gets more popular, and supporters

Tiki Bar Opening To Kick Off Tourism Season

say it’s a nationally known event, and possibly even beyond.

Catamaran’s owner Jim Seymour said Solomon’s Island and the Tiki Bar are known worldwide, which is a boon for the local economy.

“I’ve been all over the place and I’ve ran into people that know, ‘Oh Solomon’s, the Tiki Bar opening’,” Seymour said. “And a lot of the military guys they travel and talk about it with their friends.”

Seymour, who started Catamaran’s res-

taurant and bar in 1995, said the Tiki opening saves the island from the stagnant winter season.

“The wintertime is pretty much slow for us and we fall behind a little bit and then the opening gets us caught up and ready for summer. It’s a good thing for us,” Seymour said.

Pat Donovan, co-owner of the Tiki Bar said the opening, “symbolizes spring and sum-

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Mardi Gras Tops Attendance, Fundraising Records

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During the crowning ceremony for this year’s King & Queen, United Way President and CEO, Kelly Chambers credited the six candidates for raising a total of $135,000, which helped the organization surpass this year’s goal by a landslide.

Taking home the crown jewels as king Photo By Sean Rice and queen were Mark Frazer of North Beach Partiers at the annual Tiki Bar opening in 2009 night take a break from dancing and sipping Mai Tais to and Maria Welch of Huntingtown.

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“It kicks the island off, all the businesses kind of wait for us to open, because we’re the primary draw for the island,” co-owner Terry Clarke said.

“People have fun, and I think the island likes it,” Seymour said. “It’s getting bigger every year, so somebody likes it.” By Sean Rice

Co-Owner/Manager of Family Auto Care, Wendy Crawford hands over keys to raffle winner Toni Hoover Mrs. Also pictured from left is Family Auto technicians Robert Gill and Charlie Shaffer, Family Auto Co-Owner/Master Technician Dwayne Crawford and Kelly Chambers, CEO of Calvert County United Way.

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County to Conduct FullCycle Siren Test

Laughing Buddha Opens in Solomons

Chan Claggett, left, with her sister and father, Christina and Thai Tran, at Laughing Buddha.

The newest restaurant in Solomons, Laughing Buddha Restaurant and Bar, opened March 1 with a menu inspired by authentic West Coast Chinese cuisine.

“Our things are fresh made to order, we don’t fry things ahead of time. The only things that are made ahead of time are a couple of our appetizers,” said Chan Claggett, who owns the restaurant with husband Brad. “Our menu is very basic and our style is a little more West Coast, and it’s more authentic.”

Claggett said her first month of business has been pretty well, thanks to wordof-mouth advertising and her new sign.

The business is located at the site of the former Jethro’s Barbeque on Solomons Island Road.

“After me and my husband finished

serving in the military, we decided to homestead in Calvert because he was born and raised here,” Claggett said, adding that her husband grew up in Prince Frederick.

Both Chan and Brad served in the U.S. Air Force, as security police officers.

“My family just moved here from California in December, the economy was really bad down there,” Chan said. “This is our third restaurant, but this is my first time owning one.”

No restaurant nearby has egg rolls like Laughing Buddha, Chan said. These special recipe egg rolls require no additional duck sauce to enjoy. They also feature unique dishes like honey walnut shrimp and honey

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“Our style is just a little bit different, but a lot of our menu items will look familiar to customers,” she said. By Sean Rice (ScG) info@somdpublishing.net

The Calvert County Department of Public Safety, Emergency Management Division, will conduct a full-cycle test of the alert and notification sirens throughout southern Calvert and St. Mary’s counties on Monday, April 5, at 12 p.m. The siren test will consist of a three-minute activation. All citizens are asked to remember the scheduled testing and relay the information to friends, family and neighbors.

The testing is conducted to enhance siren operation and increase public awareness of the alert and notification siren system.

If the sirens sound at any other time, residents should tune to one of the local radio stations listed below for information and instructions. Contact the Calvert County Division of Emergency Management at 410-535-1600, ext. 2638 for additional emergency or disaster preparedness information.

Some of the Emergency Alert System stations include: WPTX 920 AM Lexington Park, WKIK 102.9 FM Mechanicsville, WAAI 100.9 FM Cambridge, WMDM 97.7 FM Lexington Park, WCEM 1240 AM Cambridge, WCMD 1560 AM La Plata and WSMD 98.3 FM Mechanicsville.

Police Forced To Pursue Driver And Passenger Calvert County Sheriff’s Dep. Christopher Waldron conducted a traffic stop on Skinners Turn Road in Owings at 6:23 p.m. March 21. The driver pulled into a driveway and jumped out of the drivers’ seat, running across Md. Rt. 2 toward the wooded area of Mt. Harmony Lane.

A female passenger in the vehicle jumped into the driver’s seat and then exited the vehicle. Dep. Waldron advised the female to remain there and then gave chase on foot after the driver.

Dep. Aundrea Lawton arrived to assist and the officers observed the suspect lying in the dirt in the woods and approached him. The subject advised

that he was not driving the vehicle.

Identified as Corey Cornell Contee, 39 of Lusby, he was arrested and charged with making a false statement to a law enforcement officer, fleeing and eluding and various traffic citations.

A lookout was given for the female and vehicle, which was later seen on Md. Rt. 4 and Md. Rt. 231 in Prince Frederick by DFC David Denton who stopped it. The female, identified as Cheryl M. Harmon, 21 of Port Republic, was arrested and charged with making a false statement to a law enforcement officer and obstruction of justice as well as fleeing and eluding.

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Mike’s Place Offer’s a Personal Touch

Patuxent Wine and Spirits in Lusby isn’t the only liquor store in town, but owner Mike Hart said his shop is going to continue being the brightest, most welcoming liquor store in town.

After opening on Dec. 12, Hart, of Cove Point, says he’s been lucky to have already developed a steady clientele that he’s getting to know by name.

“I understand, I think, the mindset of most consumers. We say hello. We help them walk them out to their cars,” Hart told the Southern Calvert Gazette.

“The object is, it’s a clean store that you feel comfortable in, that your wife, your daughter or your sister can feel comfortable in at 9 o’clock at night just the same as 9 o’clock in the morning.”

Hart spent 10 years in the beer business, working at three distributors at different times, but this is his first attempt at owning his own shop.

His father was stationed at Andrews Air Force Base, and the family arrived in Lusby 33 years ago when Mike was 8 years old.

“So I’m still a foreigner by Calvert standards … but I’m about as Lusby as it gets,” he said.

He chose to open his shop in the Lusby Commons Shopping center near Starbucks and Giant supermarket because he wants the store be the “perfect neighborhood store.”

“And that’s the goal. You want someone to know this not as Patuxent Wine and Spirits. This is Mike’s place,” he said.

He’s expanding his stock upon customer requests and so far his first few months have been going well.

“We’re trying to get there. I’d say 80 percent of the inventory here is from cus-

Photo By Sean Rice Mike Hart, owner of Patuxent Wine and Spirits, stands in front of his shop in Lusby.

tomers coming in and asking for stuff,” Hart said. “The past month has been a step in the right direction. But you’re never out of the woods, until you’re out of the woods.”

You won’t find 99-cent cans of beer or a lottery stand at Mike’s place, because it doesn’t fit with the kind of store he‘s trying to run.

“The liquor industry got the bad rap from the owners.

The owners are who makes a liquor store the eyesore of a community, and it didn’t used to be that way,” Hart said, adding that

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he doesn’t mess around with people without identification, criminals or any other questionable activities near the store.

“Every dollar that we have is tied up against this. Every single penny is in here,” he said. “I don’t care if you come in here to buy $10,000 worth of stock, it’s not worth losing it all.” By Sean riCe (SCG) info@somdpublishing.net

County Sets Strategic Planning Meeting The Calvert County Economic Development Commission (EDC) through the Department of Economic Development invites community and business leaders to the next strategic planning meeting on Wednesday, April 14, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

The event will be held in the Banquet Hall at the Calvert County Fairgrounds in Barstow on Rt. 231.

Economist Anirban Basu will be the guest speaker and provide an overview and analysis of local and national economic trends. Basu is chairman and CEO of Sage Policy Group, Inc., an economic and policy consulting firm in Baltimore, and he is one of the mid-Atlantic region’s most recognizable economists.

The EDC’s last Five-Year Strategic Plan (FY08 – FY12) was completed in 2007. The Five-Year Plan is the blueprint to achieve a balanced and sustainable community and represents the combined efforts of the EDC, the Tourism Advisory Commission, the Economic Development Authority, the Agriculture Commission, county businesses, citizens and public officials who help define approaches to improve the county’s economic climate. To measure success, the Plan is reviewed and revised on a yearly basis by the EDC. To review the current Five-Year Plan, visit www.ecalvert.com/content/aboutcced.

The meeting is free and open to the public. Space and seating are limited so contact the Calvert County Department of Economic Development for registration information at 410.535.4583, or email lovelets@co.cal. md.us.

Calvert Officials Decry Proposal To Shift Teacher Pensions Like most jurisdictions in the state, Calvert County elected officials are worried that the state might actually move the burden of funding teacher pensions down to the county government in order to balance the state’s budget and eliminate a $2 billion deficit.

While the proposal has approval in the Senate a House Committee has rejected the idea and relegated it to study, effectively stalling the plan for now.

Local officials said that if the proposal gets final legislative approval, though, it could be another big bite out of their bottom line.

“Ultimately it’s a bad idea,” said Commissioner President Jerry Clark (R-Lusby) “We’d be looking at every possible option.”

That option included potentially adjusting how much teachers receive for their pensions to make it burden more affordable for Calvert, Clark said.

“If they make us fund teacher pensions then the county should be able… to make the [pension] plans more efficient,” Clark said, adding that the state has taken much of the funding Calvert depends on to maintain its streets and roads.

“They state has already cut us on highway user fees. They just keep trying to put the burden down on us,” Clark said.

William Phalen, chair of the Calvert County Board of Education, said that the board could not even afford to increase teacher salaries in fiscal 2009 to the levels teachers and staff had asked.

They would be even more hard pressed now to take on teacher pension costs.

In fiscal 2009, Phalen said, teachers and staff wanted a 4.5 percent cost of living increase plus step increases.

Phalen said the school board could only manage a one-half of one percent increase with steps.

If they had agreed to the larger percentage increase, he said, they would have had to let dozens of teachers and staff go.

“We would’ve had to fire 80 people,” Phalen said. “That’s the situation we’re in.”

According to state figures the costs to Calvert or any other county for funding teacher pensions would not take affect until fiscal 2012 and then would cost the county close to $1.3 million.

In fiscal 2013 the cost would jump to $3.8 million and in fiscal 2014 and 2015 the costs are estimated to rise to $6.5 million and $6.8 million respectively.

Phalen said that the increase in fiscal 2012 alone would cause problems.

“Your talking about a big fluctuation, $1 million to us is big money,” Phalen said. “It would definitely hurt.”

Clark said that a state plan to shift the plan, if passed through the legislature, would backfire eventually.

“This money all comes from tax payers. It’s not like there’s a different source of revenue at the state level and the county level,” Clark said. “Just shedding the responsibility down to the counties isn’t going to work.” By Guy Leonard (CT) guyleonard@countytimes.net

In the Legislature It Can Be the Little Things That Matter

As of this date, the Maryland General Assembly is in the last two weeks of its annual legislative session. In these last two weeks of session the legislative tempo increases to a furious pace. Many pieces of legislation are facing uncertainty as they either become stalled by forces that are hard to pinpoint or they move forward by an inertial force over the desperate voices of their opponents. Lobbyists and citizen activists alike are working for and against issues before the legislature with unfettered abandon. Seemingly little things slip by in the glare of high profile issues.

Some of these legislative initiatives are profound in their impact and breadth of applicability. To date over 2700 bills have been introduced for formal consideration. Some are proposals to actually amend the Maryland state constitution. They are literally statewide matters of life and death, law and order, and freedom and responsibility. Others are of little consequence and are tailored to only apply to very narrow situations or even have an impact isolated to a minor local issue or individual situation. Most fall somewhere in between.

Most of the action on controversial legislation is predictable, not for whether it will pass or fail because that is often hard to divine until the last moment, but because most controversial items receive a fair amount of public scrutiny and vetting. Even for those high profile or controversial matters which face an uncertain future, they are usually well exposed in public discourse and in the press. Every once in a while a little bill comes along which defies the above convention. When it does, it usually takes me by complete surprise and is shocking in its ramifications.

This year one such “sleeper” bill came to the floor of the House of Delegates from the House Ways and Means committee on Saturday, March 27. The bill is HB-217 (2010) and it will allow children who attain the age of 16 years old the authorization to register to vote.

Although it does not change the voting age, the ramifications of such a bill are immense. The bill did not receive any attention in the press that I am aware of and even caught me by complete surprise at the moment it was moving favorably forward in the legislative process.

The bill allows for 16 year old minors to register to vote. There are no provisions to allow for parental consent. There are no provisions as to who may actually register these minors to vote. There are no provisions to protect

the voter registration data of these minors from public access, including their age and their address and possibly other identifying information from being added to publicly available voter registration databases. I believe this is a terrible exposure of our young people to pressures from partisan influences to register to vote in a certain way or with a certain political party, or subsequently change their voter registration. Our young people are very smart but they are very impressionable and sometimes easily influenced by peer pressure and other pressures beyond the family and the family values.

Many believe our young people are susceptible to political indoctrination in today’s highly accessible computer age and even in our public schools. With the advent of Tweeter, Face Book, MySpace, and other social networks and technology, our youngsters are exposed to all types of influence and sometimes harmful popular culture. Some leaders in our public schools nationwide have crossed the line of parental rights to influence their students on political matters.

We all saw shocking examples of this in the last presidential election right down to the elementary school level. This bill would expose high school sophomores, juniors and even seniors who are legally minors to be exposed to these political campaigns without even the notice of their parents or guardians.

Such pressures to register as members of political parties could have lifetime consequences.

Current law says 17 year olds who will be eligible to vote by their 18th birthday may register to vote. Fair enough, but this bill goes way beyond that, and in a disturbing manor in my opinion.

When I saw this bill appear on the House floor with a unanimous favorable recommendation, I was shocked. I slowed the movement of the bill so I could craft and offer two amendments to at least protect parental rights and protect the personal data of our minors.

The first amendment to the bill I offered was to require parental consent, so at least parents would have a notice and input into the process of registering their 16 year old children to vote.

The second amendment was to require the voter registration data of minors under the bill be held from public access so that information such as age, address, and party affiliation of these minors not be publicly available.

Unfortunately, both amendments I offered to protect our minors and to protect parental rights were defeated, mostly along party lines. This makes me shake my head in wonder and in fear of where our state and country are heading. Sometimes it is the little, seemingly innocuous things that have the potential to cause the most harm in the future.

As always, feel free to contact my local legislative office at (410) 326-0081 or email at anthony.odonnell@house.state.md.us with questions, comments or concerns regarding these items or other matters.

Incumbents Beware: Term Limits Resurrected by Disaffected WASHINGTON – Politicians are staying in Congress longer and longer, but in an election year with a noticeably anti-incumbent mood, some Washington outsiders are challenging the idea of making a career out of public service.

“We need folks coming in from the outside who have paid taxes and created jobs and lived under the regulations that these career politicians have created,” said Jim Rutledge, a Republican attorney running to unseat Maryland Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski, who has 33 years in Congress between the House and Senate.

Rutledge is typical of the outsiders running this year, who know statistics are not in their favor.

Between 1789 and 2002, 13.9 percent of House members and 21.9 percent of senators served 12 years or more, according to the Congressional Research Service.

In today’s Congress, 42.9 percent of House members and 45 percent of senators have been in office for 12 years or more, according to data compiled by the authors of the textbook “Congress and Its Members.”

Term limits supporters, who think 12 years in Congress is plenty, say those numbers have an easy explanation.

“The powers of incumbency in this country are so great that it is nearly impossible to unseat an incumbent, barring death, indictment, scandal or retirement,” said Philip Blumel, a Florida financial planner and president of the advocacy group U.S. Term Limits.

In 2008, 94 percent of incumbents were re-elected to the House and 83 percent were re-elected to the Senate, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Term-limits advocates argue that limiting lawmakers’ time in office would help clean up some of Washington’s worst practices and rejuvenate a democratic process gone stagnant with incumbency. The basic argument is this: Open seats draw the most attention, resources and debate, so why not build them into the system by forcing people to leave office after they’ve done their time?

Republican state Sen. Andy Harris is perhaps the most high-profile Maryland candidate speaking out on the term-limits issue.

“I believe that the American public should have a say on this issue through a constitutional amendment,” Harris said in an e-mail. “Congress has evolved into an insulated institution where power is wielded by a few to benefit themselves and their special interest friends. A discussion of congressional term limits is timely and would benefit the entire country.”

Harris is running against Rep. Frank Kratovil, D-Stevensville, the

only one of Maryland’s nine incumbents running for re-election this year with serious competition. The other incumbents, while never completely safe, face unknown novices and underfunded challengers.

However, longtime Maryland incumbents have lost their seats not so long ago.

Kratovil and Harris are battling in a district that just ousted an incumbent. Former Rep. Wayne Gilchrest was beaten by Harris in the 2008 GOP primary after holding the seat for almost 18 years.

Reps. Donna Edwards, D-Fort Washington, and Chris Van Hollen, DKensington, got into their respective offices by defeating longtime incumbents Albert Wynn, a Democrat, and Connie Morella, a Republican.

In Maryland, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Mechanicsville, and Mikulski draw most of the criticism from term-limits supporters. Like Mikulski, Hoyer has been in Congress for three decades.

Two of Hoyer’s Republican opponents, Charles Lollar and Collins Bailey, in southern Maryland’s 5th District, join Rutledge in their strong support for term-limits.

U.S. Term Limits’ Blumel said that some Republicans are embracing term limits simply because their party isn’t currently in control or they’re newcomers running for office for the first time, but popular support for the issue doesn’t fall along party lines.

“It’s really not so much a left-right issue as it is a people versus power issue,” said Blumel.

The Tea Party movement, made up of protest groups rooted in anti-Washington sentiment, has been quick to take up the term limits banner. At a recent rally outside Kratovil’s Bel Air office, signs calling for term limits mixed among the health care reform complaints.

“Once they get in there, they get in the system and all they think about is getting re-elected,” said Mike Trott, a Tea Party activist from Harford County.

While the emergence of the Tea Party movement has breathed new life into the issue, calls for term limits from the campaign trail aren’t new.

They were promised as part of Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America in 1994, but a law requiring them never gained traction and the issue eventually faded from national prominence. But in an election year already drawing parallels to 1994, Blumel is hoping that term limits might be coming back around.

“There’s a big interest in it right now. There’s a big anti-incumbent mood,” said Blumel. “If the Congress was truly representative, we’d already have this done.” By Graham Moomaw (Captial News Service)

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What’s In a Mission?

By Sherrod Sturrock Recent events have me musing about the museum’s mission. Of course we, like all good nonprofits, have a mission statement. It’s one of those rather stuffy and very long sentences full of words that don’t really convey what we’re about. But I’m talking about the real mission – our raison d’être. Another way of putting it is, if the Calvert Marine Museum were to vanish overnight, what would it matter? Would it affect your quality of life at all? If it is fulfilling its true mission, your answer would be: “Absolutely!”

So what is its true mission? I believe a museum should hold a unique place in its community. It should be a conservative place that values and preserves the past and makes it accessible to the present; an engaging place where the free exchange of ideas can take place; a vibrant place where people of all ages can explore, learn and grow; a dynamic place that actively encourages creative thought, research, and investigation; a safe place where you can stretch the limits and not be sanctioned for going out of bounds, but rather applauded for thinking out of the box.

How does our museum fulfill this mission? In hundreds of ways large and small. Many people visit, walk through the exhibits, think it’s all very nice and leave without even scratching the surface of what’s happening here every day. Others get interested, get invested, and get involved, becoming part of the excitement and discovery that is at our core. For example, right now in our paleo prep lab trained volunteers are painstakingly preparing fossils found nowhere else in the world.

These fossils help to show how and when ancient lineages of whales and dolphins evolved into the diverse cetacean community that exists today. In the library, staff sifts through original documents, photographs, papers ensuring that these “bread crumbs” to our past are properly

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catalogued for future research. Behind-the-scenes, aquarists make calculated adjustments to the jellyfish tank, trying to mimic nature in a controlled environment to cause the asexual reproduction process called strobilation, enabling us to keep jellyfish year round.

Visitors may not see this work, but it is core to our mission.

The programs we offer pull visitors deeper into the experience by learning to “see” what’s around them in new and different ways. A lighthouse tour that illuminates what it was like to live in a lighthouse, dependent on rain for water and boats for contact with the outside world, will alter your perception about your own life. A chat with the “guys” in the boat shop on a Saturday morning reveals a different world where passion smells like varnish and weathered wood. Learning about the horseshoe crab is a revelation of survival, perseverance, and adaptation.

There are so many worlds here, and all are infused with deeply held passions and beliefs, all reflecting one thing: Mission.

Mission is in our PEM Talks – lectures on Paleontology, the environment, or maritime history – that are designed to bring outstanding speakers to local audiences on a wide range of topics. They are c o n si s t e n t ly stimulating and thoughtprovoking, sparking lively question and answer responses between a highly educated and informed audience and the speaker. Mission is in our events: hosting a Tom Wisner Tribute concert, or the Annapolis Bluegrass Coalition free to our wildly enthusiastic First Free Friday crowd, creates a place where the community can come together to celebrate its heritage.

A museum’s mission is so much more than artifacts in a case. Its real mission is to be the thinking heart of its community. So, to paraphrase our former Governor William Donald Schaefer, “How’re we doing?”

Sherrod Sturrock is the Deputy Director of the Calvert Marine Museum. Send comments to: sturrosa@co.cal.md.us.

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Photo By Sean Rice Due to winter snowstorms and other minor setbacks, the opening of the new Our Lady Star of the Sea church in Solomons has been delayed slightly from the original target opening date of Easter weekend. Fr. Gardiner reports the church is expected to be occupied by the third or fourth week in April. The parish has collected more that $4.4 million in donations to help build the new church.

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Calvert County inherits that great legacy as it boasts over thirty miles of shoreline that stretches the eastern length of the county’s coast. Thousands upon thousands of visitors each year journey to our shores for relaxation, entertainment and communion with the sea.

But most importantly, thousands reside here for the sheer delight of spending each day of their life “in the land of pleasant living.”

Do we not owe it to our ancestors, our children’s future and to ourselves to care for this delicate space?

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The curriculum includes chemistry, model rocketry, properties of fluids, Newton’s laws of motion, engineering and design, and the physics of flight. Students build and launch model rockets, “fly” airplanes on flight simulator programs, perform science experiments, use CAD to engineer a lab module for a space station, and work in teams to save Eggbert from disaster.

Come join in the fun during one of the four summer sessions offered June 28-July 1, July 6-9, July 12-15, and July 19-22, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. All sessions are held at NAS Patuxent River in building 588, Room 102. Space is limited and slots fill quickly.

Dependents of Active Duty Military have priority placement until May 14,

Board of Ed Sets Last Day of School The Board of Education voted to waive three student school days as a result of inclement weather this past winter. The last day of school for students will now be Friday, June 18, 2010. The last work day for 10-month employees will be Tuesday, June 22, 2010.

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2010. After May 14, all applications will be processed in the order in which they were received with priority extended to dependents of Retired Military and DoD employees.

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By Shonda Sheppard

We are all in the same boat. Everyone agrees. These ARE hard times! Which makes one wary and weary of any public appeal for support - both I the petitioner and you the audience. Yet, I feel obligated to make such an appeal because not having the distinctive services of the local Boys Girls Clubs is too far-reaching and detrimental.

Last year, over 2,000 Southern Maryland youth were served in our out-of-school programs in Calvert and St. Mary’s Counties. Every school day, youth attend our after school program, are provided a snack, receive academic instruction by certified teachers, engage in at least one physical activity every day, and participate in an assortment of youth programs intended to develop character and leadership skills, explore career options, develop health and life skills and participate in various artistic endeavors.

Our programs promote the development of young people by instilling a sense of competence, usefulness, belonging, and power or influence in dedicated youth facilities that are staffed by youth development professionals.

We keep our services available and affordable to ALL youth, because so many of our these children are turning to streets, gangs, crimes and other irresponsible behaviors during the critical hours we provide out-of-school services; the same hours when many children would otherwise be unsupervised.

Though we consider ourselves a “youth development organization”, many families utilize us as childcare. With our flexible services, affordable rates, and successful, positive impact on youth, hundreds of families are able to find employment or continue to work.

Maybe this is you, or your neighbor, or your employee, coworker or family member. Either way, the fact remains, it is someone within your immediate community thus benefiting us all.

Businesses everywhere are experiencing critical shortages. We are no exception.

As a non-profit organization, we rely heavily on donations and grants, most of which are designated for specific costs like equipment, supplies, transportation and incentive costs.

Necessary expenses such as utilities, salaries,

and trainings often go un- or under-funded resulting in our operating at a deficit.

Two thousand youth! Hundreds of families! And, guess what? We would have served more. . .but two clubs closed earlier in the year due to insufficient community support. Community support has always been the key to Club success. If you once believed that Clubs were financially supported by grants and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, it usually takes a Club closing for the community to realize this is not accurate. And, to compound the issue, Government funding is reduced. Grants are more difficult to obtain. Foundation funds are limited. And many grants are dependent upon a level of community support.

Friends, we are in jeopardy of turning off the lights and closing more doors if we do not raise critical operating dollars and soon. By supporting your youth, you are investing in the future of Southern Maryland. You are helping us prepare the rising generation to be civically and socially responsible leaders of tomorrow and ensuring the continued success of future generations by preserving a local institution dedicated to serving young people.

Here are ways you can help us keep the lights on and doors open: • Make a tax-deductible donation of any size. No amount is too small - give what is comfortable.

• Does your employer have a donation program for community organizations? If so, let us know how we can help.

• Organize a community yard sale to benefit BGCSM. • Ask your pastor to take up a special offering at your congregation.

• For the person who has it all, designate BGCSM as the recipient of any gift giving for your next birthday, anniversary or significant life event.

• Go through your address book and identify acquaintances who have always been passionate about youth and ask them to help.

We thank you in advance for your support. For information on how to donate, visit www.bgcsm.net or call (410) 257-0007.

Shonda Sheppard is the Interim President and CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maryland, she can be reached at ssheppard@bgcsm.net

Public Negotiations with Teachers Begin Negotiation sessions in Calvert County to produce a new public schools teacher employment contract are now open to the public.

In the past, these negotiations were held behind closed doors.

The first open teacher contract negotiation session was held March 26, from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. at the Board of Education building in Prince Frederick. Members of the public are free to attend and observe future sessions.

The current teacher contract will expire on June 30. The negotiation teams will discuss and try to reach agreement on the terms of the next contract, including salaries, benefits, and other working conditions.

The school system has dedicated a section on its website to provide information about the negotiation proceedings. As a regular feature of the negotiations update, the school system will provide each team’s

proposals and counterproposals. The teams exchanged initial proposals on February 23.

These updated proposals are now posted on the Web site. Initial proposals are merely opening offers and do not represent final offers.

The negotiation teams will now work toward solving the difference between the initial proposals by presenting counter proposals. The goal is that the negotiation teams work collaboratively to come to agreement on a proposal that addresses the needs of the teachers and the school system.

Negotiations will proceed through the next few months as the teams find solutions to the differences in the proposals so that the interests of both groups are met.

More information is available on the school system website at www.calvertnet.k12. md.us/departments/hr/contracts/cea/ceaopennegotiations.asp

CMH Foundation Grateful for Community Support We would like to thank everyone who helped make our first Casino Night fundraiser such a success. Altogether, we raised over $11,000. The proceeds will be used to help upgrade equipment at Calvert Memorial Hospital for the early detection of colorectal cancer.

Early detection is especially important for colorectal cancer because often there are no warning symptoms until the disease is more advanced. The new technology is state-of-the-art and will aid in better diagnoses.

We would like to especially thank our top sponsor- the Harvest Ball Committee. In addition, The Curtis Group, J.W. Grainer, Southern Maryland Community Network and TSI Exterior Wall Systems. Also, Crothall Services Group, Fantasy World Entertainment, Metro Test & Balance, Inc. and the CMH Lab sponsored by Dr. Nancy Ulanowicz. Bank of America, Chesapeake Anesthesia Associates, PA, Emergency Medicine Associates, PA and Wilson and Parlett, Attorneys at Law. We’re also grateful to our table sponsors Atkinson Heating, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration, Calvert Internal Medicine Group, Dickinson Jewelers, Fantasy World Entertainment, First Republic Mortgage, Gentle Family Dentistry, Prince Frederick Ford and Rejuvenation. We would also like to express our appreciation to St. John Vianney Church for letting us host our event at the Family Life Center.

We would also like to recognize

the many local businesses that contributed to the event. Schrader Grady of Fantasy World Entertainment and Dave Benson of Maryland Country Caterers went above and beyond to make sure the event was a success. Sweet Sue’s Bake Shop’s cupcakes were a definite hit. Sign Central graciously donated the signs and Dunkirk Wine & Spirits, always extremely supportive of everything we do, sponsored the bar.

And a special thank you goes to the 185 attendees who turned out to support this very worthwhile cause. We believe this effort is so important we are committing the proceeds from our golf benefit on May 18 and our black-tie gala on Nov. 13 to ensure that our physicians have the tools they need to identify, treat and reduce the prevalence of this deadly disease in our community.

The cost to upgrade the equipment is estimated at $500,000 and will greatly improve the quality of care for our community for many years to come. If you believe in the importance of maintaining quality access to cancer prevention and treatment, we encourage you to support these upcoming fundraisers.

For more information, call Diane Tarhan at the Foundation office at 410-5358178 or 301-855-1012 or visit the hospital website at www.calverthospital.org.

Kathy Dickinson, President, Karen O’Brien, Vice President, Julie Cornellier, Secretary and Cindy Parlett, Board Member Calvert Memorial Hospital Foundation

Access to Health Care is a Basic Human Right As a resident of Congressional District 5, and as a volunteer with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, I’m thrilled that the Health Care Reform bill has finally become law! This law brings good news to cancer patients and their families.

First, there is a new emphasis on disease prevention, such as reducing or eliminating out-of-pocket costs for lifesaving cancer screenings.

Second, the law will ultimately ensure that all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care, regardless of any pre-existing health condition.

And third, a patient’s quality of life is enhanced – the law will ensure such things as access to treatment for pain.

Our thanks go out to Senator Barbara Mikulski, Senator Ben Cardin, and Congressman Steny Hoyer for their support and hard work on this issue.

Cancer strikes equally on both sides of the political aisle. Health care reform should be about patients, not about big

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industries or political theory. This new law represents a huge improvement over the previous status quo for people fighting life-threatening diseases.

Access to health care is a basic human right – it should not be driven solely by shareholders and profit.

Senator Mikulski, Senator Cardin, and Congressman Hoyer did what is right, not what is necessarily popular. Is it a perfect law? No. But the law represents our first steps toward taking care of those in need. Fighting cancer is hard. Finding help shouldn’t be.

Sue Lyddon-Hayes, Volunteer and District Media Chair, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Leonardtown, MD

I must say thank you for your recent letter entitled Bad Rhetoric. I found it quite enlightening although it once again supports the opposition view. You continually state that only you can take care of our roads and turning them over would never pay for itself.

Let’s look at the facts.

1. It is no secret that DPPOA wants to overturn the community covenants and institute mandatory fees by going to the legislature in Annapolis. Why, because you don’t have the support of the community.

2. You continue to misstate cost, for example, cost for road maintenance are not fixed and will increase with time because of increased repairs and inflation, but you imply they won’t go up if the community supports you.

3. You imply that that DPPOA set the STD fee at $50.00 per year when it was actually the commissioners. You wanted more even though there was still $600000.00 left in the kitty.

4. The statement that the county commissioners didn’t follow procedures by not giving you what you wanted just means that they were looking out for the property owner’s interest not the associations. You have the nerve to complain that the commissioners want the STD money spent on infrastructure!

It was meant to be spent on infrastructure.

5. Alleging that DPPOA misinterpreted the bylaws and misrepresents issues. That is not accurate, you usually ignore the bylaws and yes you do misrepresent the issues.

6. Road turn over cost, again I will use

your numbers, you claim 1,300 lots and a total cost for all roads would be $3,986,400 that equals $3066.46 per lot, not the $3,075 you said, which can be financed by a bond issued by Calvert county in accordance with the same law that lets them establish a STD. The bond could be 10 or 20 years in length, 10 year payment would be $306.65 that is .84 cents a day, 20 year 153.32 that is .42 cents a day plus a little for interest. This is the perfect time to do this, long term rates are very low. This would free us from any need of any STD or mandatory community fees. The cost would be fixed and have an end versus DPPOA’s plan, which is fees that will do nothing but have never ending increases with no end.

The community could save money by dissolving DPPOA selling its property, assets and applying any and all cash towards the turnover. This should be supported by the hard working volunteers if they really want to be free from their workload.

This would be good for all property owners and property values and .84 cents a day shouldn’t scare anybody.

All we need to know is will the county commit to the number DPPOA used and where can I send my check?

Arthur W. Dawson Drum Point

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In the wake of a shooting in Calvert County that police say was between two local criminal gangs, the issue of either small local criminal factions or even members of national gangs operating in the region could become a pressing problem.

Right now the situation is contained, local county sheriffs and detectives say, but that could change if smaller bands of local criminals and members of national gangs already here decide to

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expand their operation.

But defining whether the region has an actual gang problem is difficult, according to investigators.

Currently, the strict definition of a gang under Maryland law is narrow, says Dep. Jim O’Neill, who gathers intelligence on gang and other criminal activity in St. Mary’s County.

It must be a group of three people or more with a common name or signs that commit crimes in furtherance of the group, O’Neill said.

In Calvert County, police say a head on collision between two vehicles led to a shooting between two rival criminal factions. Investigators here say there are more gang members than in St. Mary’s County.

According to Lt. Steve Jones, commander of the Calvert sheriff’s Criminal Investigation Team, there are 73 validated gang members there of one kind or another spread across nine different groups.

“We’ve verified that there are some well known gangs and some local ones,” Jones said. “We take it very seriously, one gang is too much.”

So far the criminal activity from these groups has focused mostly on each other and not on citizens.

“We have some violence between them,” Jones said, who did want to release the names of gangs to deny giving them prestige. “But most of it is gang on gang.”

Chris Parsons, O’Neill’s Calvert County counterpart in the Southern Maryland Information Center (SMIC) which works to track gangs and cross-border criminal enterprises, said that for now gang violence is under control but Photo Illustration by Frank Marquart time could change that.

The recent shooting was a wake up call, too, he said.

“This is the first case of violence to that level,” Parsons said. “At this point we don’t have a gang problem but the potential is there.”

Law enforcement officers say that the creation of SMIC back in 2008 has helped keep them well informed of gang and criminal faction activity in the region.

Intelligence from SMIC was responsible for the quick arrest of suspects in the recent shooting at the Chesapeake Ranch Estates, Jones said.

“We’d be way behind if it weren’t for the intelligence we gathered,” Jones said, which includes residences, hangouts, alliances and conflicts of gang members.

“We knew where they slept if not where they lived,” Jones said of the latest suspect arrests. “They’re going to go where they think they can hide.”

But even gang members turn on each other once they’re in jail, Jones said, and that is often law enforcement’s best source of intelligence.

In St. Mary’s County, officers work in the local jail to extract the same information, and often it is not a difficult procedure.

“Everybody wants to talk,” O’Neill said.

“It’s a two-way street, it’s a conversation. We want to know about them and they want to know about us.

“They feel important at that point.”

That intelligence gathering, Cameron said, is what can keep law enforcement ahead of gang activity.

“When you know the players, you understand the criminality,” Cameron said.

Currently, O’Neill says there are 45 validated gang members in St. Mary’s County that have an affiliation with either a local criminal faction, as police prefer to think of them, or a national gang, O’Neill said.

“We’re in the process of validating 25

Three Lusby residents, Marquis Angelo Glover, 16, Aris Xavier Curtis, 19, and Trevon Nakeem Benjamin, 17, were arrested on charges of attempted first-degree murder, first degree assault and other weapons violations, after police say a gang-related shooting occurred in Chesapeake Ranch Estates.

more,” O’Neill said.

The key to nabbing suspected gang members, St. Mary’s County Sheriff Timothy K. Cameron said, and getting them enhanced penalties for their crimes, is to prove that they are committing crimes in furtherance of their organization.

So far there is little evidence of that, Cameron said.

“They’re members [of gangs] but the question is, is their criminality supporting the gang,” Cameron said.

The biggest concern, he said, was that gangs might organize and seek new members locally, either for membership in homegrown groups or national gangs.

“It’s alarming that we have a gang presence,” Cameron said. “And that’s our concern. Are they going to try and create a franchise?”

St. Mary’s criminal faction members can be found in groups like The Boom Squad and The Outsiders, Cameron said, but they cannot be labeled as gangs since the crimes allegedly committed by their members are not done to strengthen the overall group.

But that did not diminish their danger to the public.

Members of both groups were involved in a dispute that led to a trailer park shooting back in 2007 and individual members continue to be involved in low-level drug dealing,

Cameron said.

The two local factions have also taken part in numerous mutual assaults at local convenience stores and restaurants, Cameron said.

A suspect in a recent robbery of a fast food restaurant in Lexington Park is also a validated Bloods gang member, Cameron said, and other nationally recognized gang members in St. Mary’s include members of

the Crips gang as well as the Latin Kings.

MS-13 gang members often come to Point Lookout State Park for purported recreation, Cameron said, but they are not engaged in organized activity.

Members of two outlaw motorcycle gangs, the Phantoms and the Iron Horsemen, also reside here in the county, Cameron said.

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W omen at Work Patuxent Habitat for Humanity Kicks Off First Women Build

Patuxent Habitat for Humanity is getting ready for their next build in Calvert County, where they will be building a home for residents Chris and Crystal Jones and their two children. Part of this building effort though will be the heavy recruitment of females to volunteer on building crews, as the organization prepares to participate in the area’s first Women Build, which is to begin on May 8.

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At a kick-off meeting held last Wednesday at Patuxent Presbyterian Church in California for area business people and prospective volunteers, Dan Doherty, President of Patuxent Habitat for Humanity, explained the details of the Women Build, a national effort during the week leading up to Mother’s Day that seeks out a majority of female volunteers for all aspects of the building effort, the

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main point of which is to get more women involved with Habitat’s overall mission.

“I view us as a catalyst … we help bring the community together to help those families and those children who might not otherwise be able to be homeowners,” said Doherty, adding that the group has built 11 homes in the area since 2003, and bringing volunteers of all stripes together for the effort was essential.

“As I tell a lot of folks, you wouldn’t want to live in a house that I laid out for you, or did more than the walls for,” said Doherty, “so we need professional carpenters, professional electricians, professional plumbers, professional dry wallers, and volunteers from those areas.”

In 2009, 25,000 women built 253 homes for Habitat for Humanity, said Barbara Zeiller, Secretary for Patuxent Habitat, adding that, to date, the organization has built more than 1,400 houses worldwide.

“Our families and the people we serve are what makes this worthwhile. The women are the head of the household in the majority of the families that we serve here.

They’re single moms with children who are now able to live in a home where they can raise their families in a safe environment.”

Families applying for Habitat housing must reside in either Calvert or St. Mary’s County, they must have regular income and they must reside in inadequate housing, which can be classified in a number of different ways.

“Most of our families live in substandard conditions. They’re overcrowded, they’re poorly heated or cooled, they’re unsafe, they’re in disrepair, or they’re spending a disproportionate amount on their rent from their income,” said Zeiller, adding that good credit was another condition for eligibility, but that credit counseling and improvement programs were available for prospective families in the area.

“We’re here to describe to you a way to make a difference … women can help Habitat increase its capacity and serve more

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families,” said Zeiller, adding that a lack of construction experience shouldn’t discourage women from volunteering.

“When I first joined Habitat I didn’t have any skills in construction,” she said.

“But at each job site there are people there helping us … I never thought I could do that before and it was a fabulous experience. Just because you’ve never done it before, don’t be discouraged. You’ll find a way you can make a contribution and you’ll really have a good time.”

Though this build would focus on recruiting women, men shouldn’t feel left out, said Doherty.

“May 8 is a big day for us, and I want to mention that this is not about excluding men, but including women,” said Doherty.

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By Joyce Baki All Saints Episcopal Church is a beautiful, historic church in northern Calvert County. The church was built on an acre of ground donated by Thomas Hillary, known as “Kemp’s Desire.” The original log structure, built in 1693 just north of where the present church sits, was poorly constructed and the building required much repair.It was replaced with the present brick church that was completed in 1777.

The church is a Georgian structure of Flemish bond brick with random glazed headers. Sixty feet by fifty feet and twentysix feet high, the side walls hold two tiers of windows that retain their original clear glass and a gently sloping gable roof. The interior was remodeled in 1857 and restored in 1950.

As you walk through one of two entry doors on the east wall you see the pew boxes on the first level made of simple paneling. The north and south wall galleries are supported by five square piers which are accessed through small staircases.

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Older Than Many Nations - All Saints Episcopal Church church of the Province of Maryland. In 1692, through an Act of the General Assembly, the Church of England (also known as the Anglican Church) became the established church of the Province of Maryland. At that time, there were ten counties in the colony and those counties were divided into thirty parishes.

Calvert County parishes included All Saints, Christ Church and All Faiths. All Faiths, located in Mechanicsville, was part of Calvert County until 1695.

The Archives of Maryland contain documented material on the building and its construction between 1774 and 1777. The builders were Cleland and Heathman and it was built with county taxes while Thomas Claggett was the Rector. Claggett (1743-1816) would later become the first Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal faith to be consecrated in America. The Act of Assembly for the building was overseen

by Thomas Claggett, Edward Gantt, Charles Graham and William Ireland, commissioners appointed for this duty.

Father Claggett remained at All Saints until the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1776. During the war, the parish was ministered to very irregularly. Father Claggett returned in 1786 after conditions settled where

he continued until he was consecrated the first Bishop of Maryland in 1792. The sundial near the front door was given to the church by Claggett upon his consecration as bishop. According to history on the Church’s Web site, Claggett “wished to make sure his successor would begin services punctually.

The mortal remains of two former rectors, Thomas John Chew and Matthew Johnson, are buried under the old chancel. The chancel is the place where priests officiated and in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries it was considered an honor to be buried inside a church.

The stone baptismal font is said to have been brought from England in 1735 and was used in the parish church that preceded the present one.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, All Saints Church is still an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland.

The current rector is Rev. Ken Phelps, Jr.

All Saints Church will hold the 3rd Annual Calvert Wine & Arts Fest on Saturday, May 8, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The fest will be on the Church grounds and feature some of the best artisans in Calvert, St. Mary’s and Charles counties, as well as Calvert County’s five wineries. Musicians, dancers, children’s activities, baked goods and other great food will add to the festivities. Tours of the Church and its labyrinth will also be available. (http:// www.allsaints1692.org)

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Herbert “Bugs” Johnson, 74 Herbert Edward Johnson, 74, of Dowell, MD passed away on March 7, 2010 at his residence in Dowell, MD. Herbert Edward Johnson was born on October 20, 1935, at home with the assistance of a “Maid Mother,” to his parents Herbert “Pa” Verna Lavenia Foote-Johnson in Lusby, Maryland.

Affectionately known to many as “Bugs Bunny,” a nickname given at a very early age by his grandmother from what he remembers.

Bugs attended grade school in Lusby and his 12th grade class was the first to graduate from William Sampson High School in Prince Frederick, Maryland in 1953. Some of his favorite classes included Industrial Arts, French and

Geometry, under Mr. Warrick Hill.

Growing up, Bugs helped with farming alongside his father while going to school. After graduating from high school, he started in the construction field in the Laborers’ International Union Local 657, as a laborer.

Bugs enlisted into the U.S. Air Force which gave him the opportunity to travel to Europe and Africa. While stationed at Wheelers Air Force Base, in North Africa he traveled to Paris, France; Pisa, Italy; Athens, Greece; and Amsterdam, Holland. At that time, one dollar would take him to each location. While in the Air Force, he also attended Aircraft Mechanic School for Jet Mechanic and successfully completed “Air Training Command” specializing in “Aircraft Mechanic Jet One Engine Course” at Amarillo Airforce Base in Amarillo, Texas. After serving his country, Bugs returned home to construction work and helping “Pa” with the farming.

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In 1995, Herbert and Amanda were married and from this union, Bugs acquired eight children: Dinah, Pamela, John, Jeffery, Dennis, Faith, Stefon and Patricia. He had fifteen grandchildren, Tinita, Latrese, Terrell, John III, Vashona, Nicole, LaToya, LaKeshia, Brenna, Megan, Grace, Joy, Jacob, Kenneth and Victoria. He also had fifteen great grandchildren.

Bugs was preceded in death by both parents, daughters: Faith and Pamela, brothers: Amos, Thomas, and Archie; sister, Susie Porch; two uncles, Oliver and Archie Foote.

He leaves to cherish fond memories for his loving wife, Amanda and four sons and two daughters and their spouses, two uncles, Glen (Eliza) and Phillip (Ruth); aunt, Thelma Foote; brother inlaws: Rev. Bernis Dorsey, James Heard and Edward Porch; sister in-laws: Elnora Gethers, Catherine Dorsey, Betty Dorsey, Coreatha Broome, Juanetta Johnson, Shelia Johnson, and Regina Johnson.

Bugs had a host of nieces and nephews (41), great-nieces and nephews (48), and great-great nieces and nephews (10); one godson, Gary; one goddaughter, Aysia and two special friends, Peter and Jeremiah; special aunt, Collette; very special niece, Pinky and a host of family & friends far too many to name, but he loved them just the same.

Funeral service was held on Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 11:00 AM at St. John UM Church, Lusby, MD with Rev. Dr. Samson Y. Nortey officiating. The interment was at St. John UM Church Cemetery, Lusby.

The pallbearers were Robert Gray, Jr., Archie Johnson, Jr., Everette Johnson, Gregory Johnson, Louis Johnson, and Barry Porch. The honorary pallbearers were Asia Broome, Alexander Broome, Earl Dorsey, Glenn Foote, Phillip Foote, James Heard, Jeremiah Hutchins, Gerald Johnson, Vincent Johnson, Sr., and Peter Thompson.

Funeral arrangements provided by Sewell Funeral Home, Prince Frederick, MD.

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Charles Randall, 87, of Owings, MD passed away on the morning of March 11, 2010 at his residence.

G o d called one of his faithful servants

Charles Edward Randall, Sr. to his place of rest. Charles Edward Randall, Sr. was born on July 24, 1922 to the late Susie Randall and the late Charles Linsley Harvey in Paris, Maryland.

Charles was the only child of Susie Randall.

He was educated in the public schools of Calvert County, Maryland.

He lived in Calvert County most of his life, except for the years he spent in the military. He served his country during World War II in Europe and in the South Pacific Operations.

In 1949, Charles was united in Holy Matrimony to the late Laura Zenetta Long by the late Rev. Frank Chambers, who was the pastor of Ward’s Memorial Church. From this union they were blessed with three sons, Robert, Charles and Michael.

Charles became a member of Ward’s Methodist Church in 1953.

He served in many ministries of the church. He was a person who tried to make things better for those who came after him. Whatever was needed to be done, he was committed to doing anything he could to help the church move forward. Charles wanted others to see and feel the love of God and the many blessings God have for those who accept his son Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Laura, stepmother, Marion Harvey; sisters Josephine and Edith and brothers Ernest and Howard.

He leaves to cherish his memories, his children Robert, Charles Jr. (Catherine), and Michael (Pamela); many loving grandchildren and great grandchildren; one sister Shirley Gaither; sisters-in-law Sarah Contee and Mildred Harvey; devoted friends Brookie Reynolds, Spencer Stepney, Eugene Wilson and John Henry Gray; and a host of nieces nephew’s relatives and friends.

Funeral service was held on Friday, March 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM at Ward’s Memorial UM Church with Rev. Eloise Newman officiating. The interment was at Ward’s Memorial UM Church Cemetery, Owings, MD. The pallbearers were Careem Randall, Allen Posey, Russell Stewart, Stanley Stewart, Enoch Harvey, and Warren Harvey. The honorary pallbearers were Leroy Evans, Daniel Coates, Darrell Contee, Levi Evans, Marquis Baynes, and James Randall.

Funeral arrangements provided by Sewell Funeral Home, Prince Frederick, MD.

Ruth G. Reed, 86, of Prince Fr e d e rick, MD received her crown in glory on March 6, 2010 with her family at home.

Ruth Genieve (Rice) Reed was born on March 9, 1923 to the late Joseph Rice, Jr. and Josie Contee Rice in Calvert County, Maryland. She attended Calvert County Public Schools up until Grade 10 and was a fulltime housewife and a woman of many hats. Ruth was a mother, a wife, a sharecropper, a grandmother and opened her home to raised children who were not her own.

Ruth, also known as Grandma Alice by her great-grandchildren, joined and attended Mt. Hope United Methodist Church before transferring to St. Edmonds United Methodist Church where she attended faithfully. She actively participated on different committees in the church: The Flower Circle, United Methodist Women.

She took pride in raising her children and grandchildren and enjoyed hosting and attending family gatherings, church functions, outings, York and Frederick Fair trips and visiting other family members. She loved decorating for Christmas, caning fruits and vegetables, gardening, preparing the meat after the livestock was slaughtered to provide food for the family for the winter. This was one of the many opportunities for the whole family to gather and bond as we’ve done on so many occasions.

In 1942, Ruth and Aaron were united in Holy Matrimony and out of this union they were blessed with four children. Leaving to cherish her loving memories are: Aaron “Winfield” Reed Jr., Prince Frederick, MD and Josephine H. Reed, Lusby, MD. One adopted daughter: Phyllis Harrod, Chesapeake Beach, MD; one son-in-law, George W. Jones, Chesapeake Beach, MD. Preceding her in death: her husband, Aaron W. Reed and her daughters: Carolyn Reed Jones and Andrea R. Reed. She also leaves nine grandchildren: Melissa Reed Johnson (James) and Ray Harris Sr. of Lusby, MD,

Lionel Jones (Maryanne) of Lexington Park, MD; LaShawn Reed and Stephanie Reed Savoy of Lusby, MD, George A. Jones (Tiffany) of Lanham, MD Corey Reed, Casey Reed and Alicia Coates of Lusby, MD, and one grandchild preceded her in death, Monica Creek Wilson. Three adopted grandchildren: Lavina and April Harrod, North and Chesapeake Beach, MD and Crystal Alston (Jeff), Fort Washington, MD. Eighteen great-grandchildren: Nakeya West, Kalone Jones, RaShon Harris, Ray Harris Jr., Raekwon Savoy, Khaleel Thompson, Linnelra Jones, Amaya Wilson, Kayla Jones, Anthony Wilson Jr., Brandlynn Jones, Monique Savoy, Tymeesha Johnson, Carina Reed, Joshua Johnson, Dayonna Jones, Aaron Jones and Yolonda Evans. Adopted great-grandchildren: Jasmine Hawkins, Espree Cradle, Jaylin Hawkins, Quincy Alston, Jacaree Joseph and one adopted great-grandchild preceded her in death: Tashear Alston. Very close extended family: Mr. & Mrs. Curtis Gross, Lothian, MD and Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Pratt, Lusby, MD. Great nephew and nieces: Ellis (Alishia) Pratt, Clovette (Eric) Jones and Tiarra (Raphael) Proctor.

She also leaves her sister Inez Holland, Huntingtown, MD and one brother-in-law, Genest Reed, Chesapeake Beach, MD; six sister-in-laws: Eileen Rice, Shirley Rice, Lillian Reed Moore, Vernell Reed Hartwell (Aaron), Clarice Reed Hall and Corina Reid. She had three close friends: Arnella Stepney, Marthalene Holland and Helen Parran, and a host of other relatives, cousins and friends. Ruth has gone home to be with her five brothers and two sisters who preceded her in death: Savoy, Herbert, Bowen, John, Ralph, Dorothy Contee Richardson and Mary Rice Reed.

Funeral service was held on Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 11:00 AM at St. Edmonds UM Church, Chesapeake Beach, MD with Pastor Joan Jones officiating.

The interment was at Mt. Hope UM Church Cemetery, Sunderland, MD. The pallbearers were Ray Harris, Sr., George Jones, Lionel Jones, Ellis Pratt, Casey Reed, and Corey Reid. The honorary pallbearer was James Johnson.

Funeral arrangements provided by Sewell Funeral Home, Prince Frederick, MD.

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Richard Walter Smith, 81, of Dunkirk, M D passed away on Febr uar y 27, 2010 at South R i v e r Health & Rehabilitation Center, Edgewater, MD. Richard Walter Smith was born on May 16, 1928 to the late Eliza and Richard Smith.

Walter was happy when we would frequently get together for family cookouts, because he knew he would get to see all of us. To him, we were like his own children as he never married nor had any children of his own. “Walter” as we lovingly called him, was a kind and gentle person. Even if you looked high and low we doubt that you could ever find one person who did not like him.

He attended school in Dunkirk, MD on the site of his childhood church, Cooper’s United Methodist Church. During his earlier years, Walter was a farm worker. He later was employed by Southern States Association, a feed and supply company in Lothian, MD until he retired. After retirement, Walter worked with Howlin Construction Company until his illness began.

Even though he clearly suffered from arthritis and was sometimes in extreme pain, he never complained. He would always do his best to do whatever he could do to help anyone. He leaves to cherish his memory, one sister, Marie Proctor, 6 nephews, 8 nieces and a host of close family members and friends. He will be truly missed by all who knew him well.

Funeral service was held on Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 10:00 AM at Sewell Funeral Home, Prince Frederick, MD with Elder Herbert Singletary officiating. The interment was held at Moses 3 Cemetery in Lothian, MD. The pallbearers were Wayne Freeland, Darren Jones, Leon Jones, Oscar Jones, Augustus Prather, and George Stepney.

Becki L o u i s e W h i t n e y, 30, of Lusby, MD passed away suddenly on March 23, 2010 at Calvert Memor ial Hospital, Prince Frederick, MD. Becki was born on December 20th, 1979 in Prince George’s Hospital Center, Cheverly, MD to Pamela C. Lanham Belcher and Kevin L. Belcher.

Becki grew up in Calvert County; she graduated in 1998 from Calvert High School.

Becki is survived by her husband James A. Whitney, her beloved son Dillon James Whitney, her mother Pamela C. LaRue and her

husband Charles J. of Manteo, NC, her father Kevin L. Belcher, Sr. and his companion Barbara A. Holmberg of Mechanicsville, MD, her brother Kevin L. Belcher, Jr. and his companion Christine Whitehouse of Prince Frederick, MD, her sister Jennifer Lynn Lanham, nieces Kayla, Brooke and Lauren Whitney, Kyra Storm Belcher and Briana Riggleman, nephews Ryan, Brice, Colby, Drew, Austin and Riley Whitney, her mother and father-in-law Ruth and Fred Whitney of Atlantic Beach, NC and her brother-in-laws Freddie and his wife Catie, Billy and John Whitney.

The family received friends at Rausch Funeral Home, Lusby, on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 11:00 AM until the time of the funeral service at 12. Interment followed at Solomons United Methodist Church Cemetery, Solomons, MD.

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Patuxent High School Sports Schedule Thurs., Apr. 1 Baseball Patuxent at Chesapeake (Anne Arundel), 3:30 p.m.

Sat., Apr. 3 Baseball St. Mary’s Ryken at Patuxent, noon Softball Patuxent at Leonardtown tournament

Tues., Apr. 6 Boys’ Lacrosse Patuxent at Great Mills, 6:30 p.m.

Girls’ Lacrosse Great Mills at Patuxent, 6:30 p.m.

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Tennis Westlake at Patuxent, 4 p.m.

Mon., Apr. 12 Baseball Patuxent at Leonardtown, 4:30 p.m.

Softball Patuxent at Leonardtown, 4:30 p.m.

Tennis Lackey at Patuxent, 4 p.m.

Tues., Apr. 13 Boys’ Lacrosse Patuxent at Leonardtown, 7:30 p.m.

Track and Field Patuxent at Leonardtown, 4 p.m.

Tennis Huntingtown at Patuxent, 4 p.m.

Wed., Apr. 14

Softball Patuxent at Huntingtown, 4:30 p.m.

Baseball McDonough at Patuxent, 4:30 p.m.

Fri., Apr. 9

Softball McDonough at Patuxent, 4:30 p.m.

Girls’ Lacrosse Patuxent at Northern, 6:30 p.m.

MORGANZA – After Chopticon had played the Patuxent boys’ lacrosse team even for just about three quarters, senior midfielder Michael Adams led an eightgoal blitz to help the Panthers overtake the Braves 13-5 Thursday afternoon.

“Mike has really working his butt off in the weight room and it showed today on the field,” said Panthers head coach Cliff Hunsicker. “He’s going to carry a lot of the weight this year and I’m expecting a lot from him.”

Adams scored five goals and handed out two assists as Patuxent scored the last eight goals of the game after Chopticon tied it at 5 midway through the third quarter.

“We knew we had to turn it on the second half,” Adams said. “We couldn’t get anything going in the beginning, but we started to run our plays well and that got us back in the game.”

Adams assisted on Eric Spindler’s goal with 25 seconds remaining in the third for what turned out to be the game winner and scored four goals of his own in the fourth quarter to put the game away.

Chuckie Ragan added three goals and Zach Kane (two goals) Jacob Hayden and Eric Brauner and also scored goals for Patuxent, now 1-0 on the season and in Southern Maryland Athletic Conference play.

Hunsicker, in his fourth season as a coach, believes that senior leadership (there are 12 on the team) will be key if Patuxent (6-6 overall, 5-4 in SMAC last year) will make a move to the next level in the conference.

“It’s going to take hard work,” he said. “As long as they can keep the magic going, I think we can contend with any team in SMAC.”

Photo By Chris Stevens The Panthers’ Eric Brauner keeps the ball away from Chopticon’s Robert Reinhold in Thursday’s SMAC boys’ lacrosse match.

Adams agreed, noting that the team would need to be clicking on all cylinders if they hope to contend with conference powers – and county rivals – Huntingtown and Northern.

“We don’t see them until the end of the season, so we have time to put in the work,” he said. “We’re going to have to play close to perfect when we see them.” BY

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Wed., Mar. 24

Tennis Patuxent at McDonough, 4 p.m.

Softball Chopticon 8, Patuxent 2 Photo By Chris Stevens Kieran Kelly of Patuxent scoops up the ball during the Panthers 13-5 win over Chopticon Thursday afternoon.

Baseball Patuxent 3, Chopticon 2 Tennis Patuxent 6, Chopticon 3

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Out About Friday- Saturday, April 2 and 3

• Passion Play The 2nd annual Passion Play directed by Andy Rogers will take place at 7 p.m. on the lawn across from St. Paul United Methodist in Lusby. All are welcome.

Saturday April 3 • Go Fly a Kite Celebrate spring at the Calvert Marine Museum’s annual Solomons Island Kite Day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the field across from the museum. Visitors can hone their flying skills and learn fancy maneuvers from the expertise of the Wings Over Washington Kite Club. Expert kiters will give demonstrations on super kites, and offer flying lessons. Bring your own kite, or make one at the museum. Kite kits will be on sale for $5 each, cash only.

• Fossil Egg Hunt Discover hidden fossil eggs throughout the Calvert Marine Museum at 10 a.m. For children age 3 – 7. Please bring your own basket for collecting eggs. Participants are awarded a prize, and may keep the fossils! Admission required. See www. calvertmarinemuseum.com for more information.

Monday, April 5 • Otter Breakfast Learn about otter enrichment, habitat, and the mischief these mammals get into with their playful curiosity at the Calvert Marine Museum beginning at 9 a.m.. Go behind the scenes to talk with a keeper and observe a feeding. A continental breakfast will be provided. Children must be 8 years old and accompanied by an adult to par-

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Fee is $15 per person, $10 for members, and includes museum admission. Call 410-326-2042 ext. 41 to register.

Tuesday, April 13 • Farm Mediation Workshop The Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission (SMADC) will host a workshop on mediation for farms in Maryland. The workshop will be presented by the Maryland Department of Agriculture Conflict Resolution Service.

The goal of the workshop will be to help farmers and producers explore and understand various mediation options, with emphasis on MDA’s Agricultural Conflict Resolution Program (ACReS). The workshop will be held from 5-7 p.m. in the SMECO auditorium, Hughesville, MD. Please R.S.V.P. by April 6 to: Shelly Lancaster, SMADC, 301-274-1922 ext. 1 or Slancaster@tccsmd.org

Saturday, April 18 • 25th Annual Opening Day Celebration, Discovering Archaeology Jefferson Patterson Park, St. Leonard, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Join us as we celebrate our 25th season of activities and education at JPPM. Discover the where, what, and how of archaeology, as we highlight our new exhibit “The FAQ’s of Archaeology”. Tour the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory. Learn about archaeology through educational walks, activities, and demonstrations.

For additional information call 410-586-8501, or email jppm@mdp.state. md.us. Free admission.

Thursday, April-2010

Spring Has Sprung!

By Joyce Baki Happy Easter! Spring has sprung and it is time break away from the couch and enjoy the many things Calvert County has to offer.

The Calvert Marine Museum features its First FREE Friday program on Friday, April 2.

The museum is open free to the public from 5 – 8 p.m. with special entertainment and activities.

The Ocean Trio: Celtic Music for Ancient Moderns will perform at 5:30 p.m. in the auditorium.

Please visit the Web site for complete details. (www.calvertmarinemuseum.com) Discover hidden fossil eggs at the Calvert Marine Museum on Saturday, April 3. The Fossil Egg Hunt is designed for children ages 3-7. Eggs will be hidden throughout the museum so bring your own basket for collecting them. Participants will be awarded prizes and may keep the fossils they find! Admission fee is required. Be at the museum no later than 10 a.m. to participate.

Saturday, April 3 is Kite Day. Wings Over Washington returns to the Calvert Marine Museum to fly kites in Glascock Field, directly across the street from the museum from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Bring your own kite or purchase a kit for $5 (cash only). The event is cosponsored by the Autism-Asperger Association of Calvert County.

Visit www.calvertmarinemuseum.com for additional things to do during spring break.

Isaac’s Restaurant at the Holiday Inn Solomons dishes up their famous Easter Buffet Sunday, April 4. Entrée items include chilled jumbo steamed shrimp, chicken Cordon Bleu, carved leg of lamb, ham, roast beef, rockfish topped with lobster sauce, breakfast items and all the fixings – including their amazing crab macaroni & cheese. The buffet is served from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., $24.95 per person, $12.50 for children 512, children under 5 are free. Call for reservations at 410-326-6311, ext. 2181. (www.isaacsrestaurant.com) I love Basket Bingos! The Mutual Elementary PTA will sponsor a Family Basket Bingo Night at Mutual Elementary School Friday, April 9 from 5:30 – 9 p.m. There will be lots of great prizes, filled theme baskets, raffles and door prizes. The admission for twenty games is $20 for adults and $5 for students. For more information call 410-586-9445.

Saturday, April 10, North Beach residents hold their annual Town-Wide Yard Sale. Join town residents from 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. as they spring clean and turn out trash that could become your treasure. Literally the entire town will be one giant yard sale! (www.ci.north-beach.md.us) “All About the Benjamins” yard sales occur on Saturday, April 17 and May 15, at the Southern Community Center from 8 a.m. – Noon. De-

signed for children 2-17 years of age, kids can learn money skills and entrepreneurship while making a few extra dollars. Have them clean out the garage, toy boxes and closets and join the staff at the Community Center for a morning of wheeling and dealing. Tables are $8, or purchase a space (bring your own table) for $5. Pre-registration is required – 410-586-1101. (www.co.cal. md.us) Enjoy an adult evening of art, wine and live music on Saturday, April 10, from 6 – 9 p.m. at Annmarie After Hours: AAH! Explore the richness and subtleties of the pastel medium with their new exhibit, The Nature of Pastel, featuring artwork by the signature members of the Maryland Pastel Society. Annmarie After Hours will feature the rich, warm piano blues jazz of Fred Musengo, complimentary appetizers and tastings and special sales in the gift shop. This is a perfect stop before or after dinner. Check their Web site for more information - www.annmariegarden. org.

Get anchored to the Tiki Bar on its 30th Year Anniversary opening party, Friday, April 16. The seasonal opening is always the biggest party of the year, but this year they will be celebrating 30 years of tiki goodness. The Tiki Gods are planning it now and it will be a must-attend event.

The Tiki Gods also remind you to drink responsibly and have a designated driver! (www.tikibarsolomons.com) Ever wonder what archaeologists do? Join the staff at Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum Saturday, April 17, for their 2010 season opening, Discovering Archaeology Day. Discover the where, what and how of archaeology. The park will be open from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. with demonstrations, tours, displays and hands-on activities for all ages. (www.jefpat.org) On Monday, April 19, don your spiffy pirate duds and hit Breezy Point Beach to join Captain Jack for a real-life treasure hunt. There’s a pirate chest buried in the sand and it’s full of treasure.

What sort of treasure you say? Aye, that’s for you to find out, Mate! The admission is free, but you must register by April 16. It’s easy to register – walk into any Calvert County Parks and Recreation office, phone 410-535-1600, ext. 2225, fax 410-535-2233 or go online, https://webtrac.co.cal. md.us. The program number is 460400A. Looking for a fun way to stay fit? Breezy Point Beach has the sand, the ball and the net – all they need is you for beach volleyball. They are creating a summer league and if you are interested in keeping fit and having fun in the sun, call 410-535-0259 or e-mail the staff at brzystaff@ co.cal.md.us.

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On the

Water

The Time is Near to Catch a Monster Rockfish

By Capt. Dale Weems

Capt. Dale with Josh, the youngest member of the “Time Off Citation Club”

There are a few sure signs that spring is in the air.

The ospreys have come back and are rebuilding their nests.

The willow trees have leaves, the spring flowers and forsythias are blooming.

For the saltwater angler in Maryland it means opening day for the striped bass (Morone saxatilis, also called Atlantic striped bass, stripers, linesiders, rock, pimpfish or rockfish), and our home, Calvert County, sits right in the middle of one of the largest breeding areas the Chesapeake Bay, where populations from Chesapeake and Delaware Bays have intermingled.

As these fish start their migratory trip into the Bay to spawn, the fishing will begin. It is the best

time for someone to catch the fish of a lifetime. A 40 inch-plus fish is not uncommon during this season, which starts April 17 and runs through May 15.

Watching someone catch their first really big Rockfish from the Captain’s seat is as rewarding to me as doing it myself. I have watched it many times -- it starts with the look of disbelief, and then the smiles and the high fives and the cheers start.

You know at that point this will be a repeat customer. They are instant members of the “Time Off Citation Club”, where members receive discounts on future trips.

At Time Off, we always fill out the paperwork for the Maryland Sport Fishing Tournament, where the angler receives an award certificate and is automatically entered into the end of year tournament held at Sandy Point State Park.

The kids are the best – they not only get the certificate but they get the choice of keeping or releasing, and when they choose to release that fish you know the conservation speech worked, and they and maybe that same fish will be there again for the cheers and high fives.

It’s a great feeling from my position knowing that I am helping to create a generation that will hopefully treat this great natural resource with respect so it will be here for years to come. So pull those kids away from the computer games for a while and take them fishing.

Capt. Dale Weems is owner Time Off Charters (www.

Timeoffcharters.com)

Why Being Ernest is So Important Newtowne Players Present a Trivial Comedy for Serious People What is it about the name Ernest? A name literally meaning “serious” doesn’t seem all that enchanting – at least not by today’s standards – but perhaps the Victorian ladies in Oscar Wilde’s most famous play saw things differently back in the day.

After all, in a society obsessed with class and outward appearances, a serious name may have been required for serious relationships.

Such is one of the core conundrums of “The Importance of Being Ernest,” which is currently showing at Three Notch Theater in Lexington Park.

The question of what’s in a name, just as the ques-

Richard Milla (John Worthing) and Jennifer Meisinger (Gwendolyn Fairfax).

Angler Greg Hockman with Capt. Dale after five citation fish releases.

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tion of what’s in a person’s social standing, begs serious consideration, though as far as Victorian theater in concerned, there are few scripts that can answer the issue with as many laughs as this one.

The play follows the exploits of two gentlemen, Algernon Moncrieff and Ernest Worthing, as Algernon discovers that Ernest’s real name is John (or Jack), and his friend has been masquerading as Ernest whilst in the city, and keeping the name Jack while in the country to visit his ward, a young lady named Cecily.

Cecily has heard of Ernest, however, and knows him as Jack’s wild and estranged brother, a man she’s conveniently never met.

Meanwhile, Algernon is maintaining his own deception, using a fictional invalid friend named Bunbury to escape boring or dreadful social engagements (a practice he calls “going Bunburying”).

The hoax has been successful for these two, but things begin to unravel when Jack falls in love with a socialite named Gwendolyn, and her mother, Lady Bracknell, begins interrogating him to see if he’s of sufficient social standing to marry her daughter. Jack already has one strike against him, the fact that he was adopted after being discovered in a cloakroom near an unfashionable stop at Victoria Station. Also, Gwendolyn knows him only as Ernest, and she swears that his is the perfect name, and she could never love him if he were called anything else.

So Jack must find a way to become Ernest without arousing any suspicion from the people who know him by his real name. This is made even harder when Algernon decides to drop in unexpectedly on Jack’s ward, Cecily, masquerading as “uncle Ernest” in the flesh.

Wilde’s most enduring masterpiece is, of course, a serious statement on class division and Victorian hypocrisy, but director Valarie Green said she saw other issues at work in the play.

“People keep asking me if class issues can work today,” she said, commenting on which issues she thought were most relevant to modern audiences, “but there are other issues that pop up, like gender roles, and I think that that definitely is something we should work on today.”

Green said the thought of tackling one of her favorite scripts had caused concern when she first got involved with the production, since the script is so well known and the jokes are so decidedly British.

But the humor translates well with this cast.

Dawn Weber plays a hilarious Lady Bracknell, owning the role like a true Tory. And Richard Milla and Aaron Meisinger work well together as Jack and Algernon, each commanding their characters without the smarmy slapstick you might expect from Americans who are trying to act British.

And as for that age-old question of what’s in a name, it may just be easiest to say that any name, if properly invoked, can cause comedy, and there’s always music in the moniker.

“The Importance of Being Ernest” is showing at Three Notch Theater in Lexington Park until April 11. For show schedules and reservations, call 301-737-5447 or go to www.newtowneplayers.org.

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