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Restoration of Log Canoe Flying Cloud Complete The 1932 sailing log canoe Flying Cloud’s restoration is complegte, despite the COVID-19 pandemic halting work at Campbell’s Boatyards in Oxford over the spring months. The completion comes after the new Flying Cloud Log Canoe Preservation Trust met a $75,000 challenge grant from the Paul B. Prager family of St. Michaels by raising more than $95,000 from others towards the restoration of the historic sailing log canoe. Trust are members Ned Hennighausen, Allan Noble, Hon. John C. North II, Capt. Kenneth Reightler, Alexa Seip, and Langley Shook. Retired astronaut, U.S. Naval Academy’s Distinguished Chair in Space Science, and log canoe sailor Capt. Kenneth Reightler, Jr. was named skipper of the log canoe. Flying Cloud was built on Tilghman Island by the legendary boat builder John B. Harrison—who is also Reightler’s great grandfather—and is now recognized on the National Register of Historic Places. Flying Cloud races under the No. 22, and is the second-largest racing log canoe in existence today. Cloud measures less than a foot smaller than her sister ship Jay Dee, which was built by Harrison in 1931, and requires as many as 18 crew to campaign her.

ANNUAL FASHION SHOW TO BENEFIT COMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE Estate Treasures will host their annual Fashion Show to benefit Compass Regional Hospice. The event will be held on October 5th at Prospect Bay Country Club starting at 11 a.m. and includes a seated lunch, a cash bar, boutique, and silent and live auctions. Proceeds from the event will go towards patient care and grief support services offered by Compass Regional Hospice. The Fashion Show will have 16 models from various local businesses around Caroline, Kent, and Queen Anne’s counties featuring formal wear, casual wear, sportswear, and business casual. For more information or to purchase tickets call Kenda Leager at 443-262-4106 or email kleager@compassregionalhospice.org.

Do you have community or business news to publicize? Send What's Up? an email at editor@whatsupmag.com. DR. JOHN T. MOON NAMED MEDICAL DIRECTOR OF UM SHORE SURGERY

John T. Moon, MD joined University of Maryland Shore Medical Group–Surgery as medical director for the practice this past April. He joins William Bair, MD, Dabanjan Bandyopadhyay, DO, Edward DiNapoli, Jr., MD, and Amanda Hahn, MD, in providing surgical consultations, procedures and post-operative care. Dr. Moon came to UM SMG–Surgery after serving three years as a robotic and advanced laparoscopic minimally invasive general surgeon at AdventHealth Medical Group in Merriam, Kansas. He previously performed general and advanced laparoscopic surgery at Southern California Permanente Medical Group and Mission Surgical Clinic, Inc., and was a clinical associate professor at the University of California at Irvine. He also held general surgeon and trauma attending positions at Jersey City Medical Center in Jersey City, New Jersey and Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. “We are grateful to have Dr. Moon leading our surgical team,” says Timothy Shanahan, DO, medical director, UM Shore Medical Group. “His skill and talent, particularly with regard to laparascopic and robotic surgery is a great asset to our community.”