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Are you satisfied with the FY 2010 budget recently
passed by the county commissioners?
Did the county do enough to address economic conditions
in terms of spending cuts and tax cuts?
Do you support Commissioner Jarboes idea (not
supported by the other commissioners) of consolidating
some county departments and eliminating some
department heads to save money?
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Victory Baptist in 1st
St. Marys Bryantown in 4th
St. Johns in 2nd
Father Andrew White in 3rd
Immaculate Conception in 5th
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Victory Baptist Academy 6767.64
St. Johns Church and School 5727.36
Father Andrew White School 4696.22
St. Marys Bryantown 3654.19
Immaculate Conception Church 3562.51
St. Marys County Library 2278.83
Mt. Zion United Methodist Church 2180.83
Benjamin Banneker Elementary PTA 1720.42
The Kings Christian Academy 1348.23
Chopticon High School 1318.99
Mother Catherine Spalding School 1297.59
White Marsh Elementary 1279.56
St. Marys Ryken 1231.08
Carver Elementary School 1201.77
Holy Angels Sacred Heart School 1026.56
T.C. Martin Elementary 1009.45
Hughesville V.F.D. Ladies Auxiliary 986.61
Hughesville Baptist Church 911.95
All Faith Church 668.92
St. Marys Home for the Elderly 647.12
Mechanicsville Elementary 536.64
Hollywood United Methodist Church 523.05
Special Olympics St. Marys County 516.12
Grace Brethern Christian School 506.00
Chopticon Band 501.28
Hospice of St. Marys 499.82
Dynard Elementary School 484.69
St. Pauls Lutheran Church 473.89
Hollywood Elementary School 453.94
Historic Sotterley Inc. 451.80
Little Flower School 438.87
Daughters of the American Revolution 431.15
Leonardtown Elementary School PTA 425.55
The Calverton School 416.53
Immaculate Heart Of Mary 415.12
Tri-County Animal Shelter 405.22
Leonardtown High 399.82
Chamber Orchestra of So. Md. 369.60
St. Dominics Sodality 357.12
Margaret Brent Middle School 350.48
Chaptico Chargers 4-H Club 349.96
Hollywood Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc. 343.95
LVRS 321.92
Benedict Ladies Auxiliary 319.00
Lucky Ones Inc. 306.86
Care Net Pregnancy Center of Southern MD 287.03
The Seven Thirty Club at Immaculate Conception 272.55
St. Annes Anglican Church 257.08
Walden Sierra 249.72
Chesapeake Charter School Alliance 247.42
Spring Ridge Middle School 241.60
American Red Cross So MD Chapter 241.46
Golden Retriever Rescue of SoMD 219.50
Wild Things 4-H Club 212.08
Leonard Hall Jr Navel Academy 209.48
Ducks Unlimited St. Marys Co. Chapter 178.33
Lexington Park Elementary 177.18
All Saints Episcopal Church 151.81
Southern Maryland Food Bank-Catholic Charities 147.85
St. Michaels School 146.48
Patuxent Habitat for Humanity 141.68
Trinity Episcopal Parish-Newport 141.16
Margaret Brent High School Alumni Assoc 138.41
Milton Somers Middle School 132.51
First Saints Community Church 132.48
Christmas in April - St. Marys 128.02
TRICO Corporation 118.30
St. Marys Animal Welfare League-SMAWL 114.92
March of Dimes - Southern Maryland 111.69
St. Marys County Public Schools 105.09
Oakville Elem School PTA 102.54
Southern Maryland Center for Independent Living 100.03
Summerseat Farm 100.02
Town Creek Elementary School 99.94
United Way of Charles County 98.99
United Way of St. Marys County 86.69
Greenview Knolls Elementary 80.82
Three Oaks Center 74.26
The Lexington Park Church of the Good Samaritan 73.77
Greenwell Foundation 71.13
The Center for Life Enrichment 69.27
St. Georges Episcopal Church 66.54
St. Marys Helping Hands Inc 65.08
University of Maryland 9-99218 FSNE 59.71
Alternatives for Youth and Families 46.08
Greyt Expectations Greyhound Rescue 41.91
Pastoral Counseling Center of St Marys Inc 41.11
Oldfelds Chapel St. Agnes Guild 38.87
League of Women Voters of Maryland Education
Fund 24.43
Roots of Mankind Corp. 13.04
Our Lady of the Wayside Church 12.77
United Cerebral Palsy of Southern Maryland 12.67
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Calvert High School 10.00
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The grass is always greener on
the other side, so the saying goes, but
this summer residents could notice that
the grass is a lot longer all over since
the State Highway Administration an-
nounced that its road crews wont be
mowing as much.
The mowing reduction program, as
the state has so named it, would ensure
that about 8,500 acres statewide would
either be mowed less frequently, not as
deeply or perhaps not at all in the sum-
mer months to come.
That number of acres comes out to
be a 10 percent reduction in the mowing
of highway medians and road shoulders,
a state highway press release stated.
The same release cites the need
to tighten spending in lean economic
times as a prime mover of the new policy
move, but it also states that the environ-
ment will beneft.
In support of the ongoing com-
mitment to environmental stewardship,
[SHA] is making Maryland roadsides
greener through a mowing reduction
program, the release reads. This initia-
tive restores natural meadows allow-
ing grasses to grow naturally; SHA will
also re-establish vegetation, forested ar-
eas and enhance the environment while
maintaining safety.
The state also posits that the pro-
gram, aside from saving money, will im-
prove water quality, air quality, wildlife
habitats and so on.
But one local offcial said that the
new decision to mow less along state
roads amounted to the state shirking
its duty of one of the most basic public
services.
Its gotten to the point where noth-
ing the state government does surprises
me, said Commissioner Lawrence D.
Jarboe (R-Golden Beach) The state
should be servicing the roadway.
SHA Secretary Neil J. Pedersen
said that mowers will ensure motorists
can see the traffc signs.
As always, SHA will remain fo-
cused on safety and ensure sight distance
at shoulders so that signs and other traf-
fc control devices remain visible, Ped-
ersen said in the statement.
In tough economic times, Jarboe
said, residents were taking to walking
where they could instead of using their
cars, and the lengthening grass set them
up for harder trips and exposure to ticks.
But, Jarboe said, the county
wouldnt seek to pick up the slack the
state left behind.
Thats not our job, Jarboe said.
State Cutting Back On
Mowing, Not Grass
By Guy Leonard
Staff Writer
Its been a turbulent few years for Gary Whipple,
a county employee who has been called out twice for
tours of duty with the U.S. Navy Re-
serve; but Tuesday he celebrated his
homecoming after what might be his
fnal mission.
Whipple was welcomed home by
county commissioners and employees
at the Department of Public Works
and Transportation after serving most
of the past year in Tampa, Fla., at the
U.S. militarys Central Command
Headquarters.
While there his team ensured that
overseas bases followed security pro-
tocols to protect troops.
In 2004, for his frst tour in Iraq
away from home, his job was more
perilous.
As a civil engi-
neer with a civil
affairs unit in
Fal l uj a h,
one of
the wars most dangerous combat zones, he did every-
thing from helping to keep the electricity running to
handing out soccer balls to children.
Whipple was there when insurgents lethally am-
bushed a convoy of contractors and hung their remains
from a bridge.
That happened the second week we were there,
Whipple remembered. We knew that was a bad sign.
He returned in 2005 to the Department of Public
Works and Transportation after having worked at St.
Marys College of Maryland before his stint in Iraq,
but just a few years later in 2008 he was right back
serving.
He praised the county for keeping his position
open for that long.
For the county to give up a year of my services,
to contribute to that [allowing reserve service], that is
signifcant, he said.
After about 20 years in the U.S. Navy, Whipple,
43, has reached the rank of commander and said that he
is looking to retire sometime next spring.
His being away from family for months at a time
has been tough on them and him, he said.
Its been a good ride,
Whipple said of his service.
But that chapter is coming to
a close.
County Employee Welcomed Home After Reserve Service
By Guy Leonard
Staff Writer
An indoor tennis court that has been in use
for about three decades will be handed over to the
Chesapeake Charter School on Great Mills Road
after a renovation project this summer, says the
owner of the property where both sites operate.
Itll be a multi-use area, said Tom Watts
of Big Blue Investments, LLC. Were trying
to make arrangements so the tennis players can
come in and play when school is out.
A lot of times the players didnt come by
until after work at about 5, 6, 7 or 8 oclock at
night.
The tennis court, the last of what used to be
four courts, will operate as an indoor recreational
facility for the charter school, Watts said.
Currently the students at the school, which
has been in operation for just a little over two
years, have had to use their own cafeteria for re-
cess when the weather has been bad, he said.
Watts said the renovation to the court should
be completed by mid-August.
Itll be a great thing for the school, Watts
said.
The entire building that now houses the char-
ter school, a church, base contractors and a physi-
cians office was first built back in the mid-1970s
as a racquet ball and tennis club, according to the
buildings manager.
Were glad to have them [the charter school]
expanding there, said Don Megby, of Essex
South Management.
Jim Sandberg, of Bushwood, said he had been
playing there for about the past two years but that
others in his league had been playing tennis for
much longer at the aging facility.
Developers there say that the building was in
deteriorating condition before the charter school
came and Big Blue Investments, LLC decided to
make a major renovation there.
Sandberg was pleased to hear that he and his
league mates might still be able to play there after
all.
Thats good news to us, because all those
other offices you see there, they used to be rac-
quet ball courts, he said.
Tennis Court To Be Absorbed By
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By Guy Leonard
Staff Writer
Hunters hoping to get back the use of
land near the Elms Environmental Education
Center from which they had been barred for
several years might have their hopes dashed,
because offcials with the state Department
of Natural Resources appear ready to reject
managing the site.
Staff for John R. Griffn, secretary of the
department, revealed at a meeting last week
that they were advising him not to approve
a compromise between the county Board of
Education and Board of County Commis-
sioners that would take 85 acres of 476 acres
of county-leased land at the Elms site near
Dameron and have it managed for bow hunt-
ing of deer.
Griffn said that were still some ques-
tions over safety issues with hunters and chil-
dren in such close proximity to the school-
managed center as well as the cost of manag-
ing the hunts there.
After the meeting, Commissioner Thom-
as A. Mattingly (D-Leonardtown) said that
he and other county leaders tried to convince
Griffn that the agreement reached between
the school board, the county and hunters in
April provides for suffcient buffers to keep
visiting students safe and that the 85 acres
was well away from the education center.
He hasnt given us a defnite decision
yet, Mattingly said. His staff has recom-
mended that he not agree with the proposal.
We hope its a positive outcome, but we
really dont know.
For several years hunters have claimed
that the Elms Advisory Committee, which
oversees the county-leased parcel, and coun-
ty public schools system with the cooperation
of the state Department of Natural Resources
have expanded the safety boundaries around
the center to encompass the entire 476-acre
tract of land, effectively pushing hunters out.
County leaders have said that the bound-
aries were expanded without their knowledge
or consent and had the school system, coun-
ty staff and DNR representatives attempt a
compromise, which they did in late April.
Steve Riley, the sole member of the
Elms Advisory Committee to oppose hunt-
ers being pushed off the land, said that the
lease agreement with the county and DNR
requires the state agency oversee hunting at
the Elms as part of resource management
responsibilities.
He also said that concerns over safety
hazards to students had been proven to be a
canard.
There hasnt been an accident involving
a student for at least 25 or 30 years, and DNR
information documents that, Riley said.
Elms Hunting Plan Faces Axe
By Guy Leonard
Staff Writer
It used to be that Point Lookout State Park was a little
bit more open when it came to alcohol consumption but not
anymore, and local business owners are worried that their
bottom lines will suffer as a result.
This year the state Department of Natural Resources re-
stricted the use of alcohol to just prescheduled events at the
park already reserved, and starting later this year, alcohol
will be restricted to just drinking at the pavilions.
That means fewer local and out-of-county visitors will
want to come to the historic park, members of a South Coun-
ty business group claim, and that means fewer tourist dollars
to keep their shops open.
I believe that, said Donald Tennison, owner of Ridge
Hardware, about the results of alcohol restrictions.
Tennison and other business owners met with DNR Sec-
retary John Griffn May 29 about their issues surrounding
the park.
They also complained that more than fve years ago,
when the toll booth to the park was moved closer to the park
entrance, more people were driven away, even though they
could drive through the park for free on an honor system.
Making the park more open and accessible, they say,
would bring back customers they believe they lost.
Richard Pelz, owner of the Circle C Oyster Ranch in
Ridge, said that the perceived downturn in visitors had also
hurt state as well as local coffers.
If you did an economic study, I think youd
fnd out that the gate change had a negative
impact on the state, Pelz said.
Tennison said that the park management
should still charge out-of-county visitors to
use the park but that local residents should
be allowed to use its facilities for free.
Chris Bushman, deputy superintendent
of the Maryland Park Service, told busi-
ness owners that the recent alcohol
restrictions would likely bring
more visitors back to the park
seeking a family holiday free
of disruptions often caused
by alcohol.
Noise complaints are
absolutely alcohol related;
nobody complains when
someones radio is a little
loud, Bushman said of the
statewide policy change.
We were out of sync with
the standard we wanted
to maintain a family friend-
ly environment.
Still some business
owners believed that re-
stricting alcohol use punished all visitors for the misdeeds
of a few.
Kick em out, said one business owner. But dont
restrict whats not legal.
Griffn said that the number of violators when it came
to alcohol was more than a few people, but he said staff
would count the number of visitors this year and see if the
restrictions had a negative effect.
Lets see if theres people coming into Point Look-
out, Griffn said. Time will tell.
Proprietors Fear Alcohol, Access Ruel At Point Lookout
Lets see if theres people coming
into Point Lookout, Time will tell.
Private Paramedic Unit Sees Increase In Calls
By Guy Leonard
Staff Writer
The private paramedic unit the county government recently con-
tracted with to help bolster the ranks of overworked volunteer para-
medics is experiencing a steady stream of work on its own, and they
are only looking for it to grow, according to one of its members.
We get about 100 calls a month, and the volumes been going
up, said Dr. Eric McDonald, medical director for Patriot Medical
Transport, LLC based in Mechanicsville.
The private service has been operating since September of 2008,
says its chief operating offcer Vic DeMattia, who is also volunteer at
Mechanicsville Volunteer Rescue Squad.
The sheer volume of calls for service in Southern Maryland is
what prompted him to start a private service here, he said, that could
help take some of the strain off the 911 system and leave volunteers
available for emergency calls.
I saw a lot of the issues on the volume of calls, DeMattia said
Tuesday. I saw the need but it wasnt being satisfed in Southern
Maryland.
The prospect of getting paid to do what they received training for
as volunteers is attractive to many, DeMattia said.
There are people who want to go into the commercial side [of
emergency medical services] as a profession, DeMattia said. We
wanted to create jobs for some of the EMS trained people in the
area.
John Gatton Sr., who has spent nearly 50 years in service to both
Hollywood volunteer fre and rescue squads, said that call volume
that continues to grow for medical services could eventually lead the
county to a hybrid paid and volunteer system.
The infux of calls on the EMS side is overwhelming and with
daytime shortages, its hard to staff ambulances, Gatton told The
County Times. People abuse the system by using it as a taxi cab.
Faith Roache, 66, who still volunteers with the county ALS unit
and Mechanicsvilles rescue squad, now gets paid to run paramedic
calls for Patriot, but she doesnt plan on slowing down anytime soon.
Ill never stop running as a volunteer, Roache said, I love it.
Last week the county announced its contract with Patriot fol-
lowing a study that showed the ALS unit was stressed with too many
calls for service and too few volunteers. The contract allots $60,000
for Patriots services.
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By Guy Leonard
Staff Writer
For the past 14 years the Scott Verbic Golf
Tournament has helped ensure that local children
had enough money to participate in county-spon-
sored summer activities and programs that they
otherwise might not be able to afford.
Usually the tournament has depended on lo-
cal business sponsors to make it a success, said
Christina Bishop with the county Department of
Recreation and Parks, but in this tough economic
climate, sponsorship is down.
The teams for the tournament, to be
played Fri., June 12, at the Wicomico Mu-
nicipal Golf Course in Mechanicsville,
have already filled up, she said, but the
event is still looking for more local busi-
ness sponsorship.
Arizona Pizza in Leonardtown,
meanwhile, has already stepped up to
help fill the gap with plans for a fund-
raiser on Wed., June 10, to support the long-held
tournament.
We wanted to be involved with the commu-
nity, said franchise manager Mark Stokes. It
hopefully will help raise some awareness right
now its for the kids.
Stokes said that 10 percent of any sales made
June 10 at his restaurant, whether from dine-in
customers, carry-out or delivery, will go to sup-
port the scholarship program that has allowed
sometimes as many as 100 more children to at-
tend camps.
His [Scott Verbics] vision was to do some
kind of fundraiser, because it wasnt feasible for
these families to send up to six kids, said Terri
Verbic-Boggs, his widow. Every little bit helps.
Scott Verbic died suddenly 14 years ago at the
age of 38 while sitting as a member of the Recre-
ation and Parks Citizen Advisory Board.
He was a very strong advocate for
the youth community, Bishop told The
County Times. And the golf tournament
is very popular; its still reasonable to
play, and its a lot of fun.
Bishop said that in the past 14
years since its inception, the tourna-
ment has raised about $65,000.
Recreation and Parks officials will
announce the total take from the fund-
raiser June 12, the day of the tournament, Bishop
said.
For more about the Arizona Pizza fundraiser
or the golf tournament, call Bishop at 301-475-
4200, ext. 1802 or go to www.stmarysmd.com and
click on Recreation and Parks under the Services
box.
Arizona Pizza Raising Money For Charity Golf Tournament
By Guy Leonard
Staff Writer
U.S. District Court Judge Alexander
Williams Jr. sentenced Christopher Mi-
chael Holland, 32, of Leonardtown to 15
years in federal prison, with supervised
release for the rest of his life, for sexually
exploiting a 3-year-old child on at least
four occasions.
Holland had pleaded
guilty to the sexual exploi-
tation charges in March
when he admitted he took
sexually explicit photos of
a prepubescent girl.
Holland was frst ar-
rested in March of 2008
when a local police offce
detective observed Hol-
land viewing an image
of alleged animated child
pornography on a laptop
computer while seated in
his car.
Acting on the frst incident, detec-
tives got a search warrant and seized
Hollands laptop computer, where they
found other images of naked young girls
in sexually explicit positions.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
soon joined in on the case against Hol-
land and federal charges followed closely
after.
Federal investigators retrieved the
image implicating Holland in the exploi-
tation of the minor on April 30, 2008
After interviewing Holland, detec-
tives learned that he had allegedly ex-
ploited the minor victim in the case in
November and December of 2007 and
again in February and March of 2008, ac-
cording to local charging documents fled
at the time,
Holland told lo-
cal investigators that his
sexual preference was for
children between the ages
of 4 and 10 years old, ac-
cording to charging doc-
uments fled against him.
Charging docu-
ments also revealed that
Holland had had close
contact with the child.
According to infor-
mation from U.S. Attor-
ney Rod J. Rosensteins
offce the sentence Hol-
land received was the
minimum amount; the possible maxi-
mum sentence was 30 years in prison.
Locally Holland had faced a litany
of charges including sexual abuse of a
minor and fourth degree sex offense, to
which he pleaded not guilty, court records
show.
Those charges were not pros-
ecuted by the state in lieu of the federal
investigation.
Leonardtown Man Gets 15 Years
For Child Porn
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St. Marys Hospital will join hundreds of communities
throughout America on Sunday, June 7 to celebrate life
on National Cancer Survivors Day. Our annual Cancer
Survivors Picnic will be held on the hospital grounds that
day from 1 to 5 p.m.
This special day will be flled with smiles, tears, laughter
and plenty of hugs. Hamburgers and hot dogs will be
sizzling on the grill, and there
will be inspirational speakers,
along with a full afternoon of
entertainment.
A survivor is anyone living with
a history of cancer, from
the time of diagnosis through
the remainder of life. The good
news is that people with cancer
are surviving and living longer,
as people respond to the latest in prevention, early diag-
nosis and treatment. For more information on the picnic,
please call St. Marys Hospital Cancer Care and Infusion
Services at 240-434-7247.
25500 Point Lookout Road w Leonardtown, MD 20650
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Philip H. Dorsey III
Attorney at Law
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LEONARDTOWN: 301-475-5000
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By Guy Leonard
Staff Writer
Maryland tax returns fled by April 30 for
taxable income over $1 million dropped nearly
a third this year, according to a recent comp-
trollers report.
Elected offcials and commerce insiders
say that the downturn in the general economy
could be one reason that the number of mil-
lionaires fling in Maryland has dropped from
about 3,000 to around 2,000, but they suspect
something else is afoot.
Since the General Assembly passed a
measure in 2008 to tax millionaires to raise
funds to plug holes in the budget, they say they
have expected a backlash from Marylands
wealthiest citizens.
They fear that time has come.
Theres no way to explain [away] one
third of the high-end flers simply due to the
economy, said House Minority Leader Del.
Anthony ODonnell (R-Dist. 29C). Theyre
either shielding their income or leaving.
Comptroller Peter Franchot (D), in a May
13 letter to the legislative leadership, said that
by October, when the state would have a more
complete fscal picture taking into account ex-
tensions, things would not look much better.
It seems reasonable to assume, particu-
larly given the sharp drop in fnal payments,
that there will be a substantial decline in the
number of returns with taxable income over $1
million and a substantial decline in the income
reported on those returns when complete re-
sults are in, Franchot wrote.
The 2008 law that instituted the latest
top tax rate for millionaires, Senate Bill 46,
put those earning any more than $1 million in
a 6.25 percent tax bracket, while those at $1
million down to $500,001 pay at the previous
highest rate of 5.5 percent.
Though designed to increase revenue, the
latest fgures show that the law has so far has
not delivered, with fnal payments as of April
for income tax in general dropping by $331
million.
Overall general fund revenues as of April
sit at $1.57 billion, according to comptroller
fgures. Thats down 16.6 percent from the
same time last year.
The millionaire surcharge law will remain
in effect through 2010.
Del. John Wood (D-Dist. 29A) said that
millionaires have the means to move their resi-
dences to tax friendlier states.
Its only a few miles across the Potomac
River into Virginia or into Pennsylvania,
Wood said, adding that some people who are
not so wealthy but who have retired with a nest
egg have decided to establish primary resi-
dence in a state like Florida.
There are a lot of people who do it to avoid
the Maryland taxes, Wood said. Theyre just
everyday people.
Wood said that the legislature might pass
along expenses to the counties next year to
make up for the income tax shortfall.
Next year I have the gut feeling theyll
pass it on to the counties so the state wont have
to raise taxes, but the counties will, Wood
said. And thats not right; were passing the
buck.
Millionaires Leaving Maryland?
The County Times
To The Editor:
Editorial:
The second annual Local Flavor, Local Fare tasting event to be held Tues., June 23, on
the square in Leonardtown will not only beneft Patuxent Habitat for Humanity, it will also sup-
port local farmers and vintners and the fresh food and fne wines they produce.
From 5:30 to 7 p.m, you can enjoy a delicious sampling of dishes and wines, all prepared
from ingredients from area farms, waterways and vineyards presented by some of our favorite
local restaurants and wineries.
Participating will be Blue Wind Gourmet, Bollywood Masala, Caf des Artistes, Corbels,
Do Dah Deli, The Good Earth Natural Food Co., J.T. Daugherty Conference Center, Lindas
Caf, Perigeaux Winery and Vineyard, Quality Street Catering, Tides Restaurant, Solomons
Island Winery and the Wine Bar and Caf, with music provided by David Norris.
The proceeds will beneft Patuxent Habitat for Humanity, which directly helps local fami-
lies who would otherwise not realize the wonderful opportunity of home ownership. Patuxent
Habitat for Humanity partners with local volunteers and businesses to build homes with no
interest loans for qualifying families.
The tasting event in Leonardtown will be a prelude to Buy Local Week in July, a week-long
promotion by the Southern Maryland Agricultural Commission in Hughesville to encourage
consumption of locally grown products.
In todays struggling economy, keeping our local farmers in business is a major challenge.
By buying local, you will not only be eating fresher, more nutritious foods but also supporting
many of your friends and neighbors who rely on farming for a living.
The Buy Local Challenge will take place this year from July 18-26. Citizens will be asked
to pledge to eat at least one thing from a local farm every day during Buy Local Week.
The goal is to discover the benefts of buying from local farms, farmers markets, wineries
and grocers and markets that carry genuine local products, and dine at restaurants that serve
locally grown products and will continue buying local year round.
For more information on the Local Flavor, Local Fare call Patuxent Habitat for Human-
ity at 301-863-6227 or 410-326-9050. Tickets this year are $30 per person, available only in
advance at the Brewing Grounds, Caf des Artistes or PHH ReStore. Join us on June 23 to sup-
port two very worthwhile local causes.
For more information about the Buy Local Challenge in July, go to http://www.buy-local-
challenge.com.
Local Flavor, Local Fare
When you are a St. Marys County Com-
missioner, there are times when you are required
to make decisions that are complicated and con-
troversial. The FY 2010 budget has met this
description. I have been called a liar by Mr.
Hewitt, I have been called a cold-hearted, non-
caring person by Ms. Miller, and I have been
characterized as a failure by The Enterprise.
Because these comments were written in The
Enterprise for public review, I feel compelled to
respond in kind.
Mr. Hewitt, I do not lie, cheat or steal. Pe-
riod. When an individual contemplates writing
a public letter accusing people of lying, he
might consider the old saying, People who live
in a glass houses shouldnt throw stones. We
spoke many times over the phone in an attempt
to clarify the tax and budget situation, but evi-
dently I was unsuccessful.
Ms. Miller, I do care about the people of St.
Marys County. I know that paying taxes is dif-
fcult, especially if you are on a fxed income.
Striking the right balance between determin-
ing the amount of taxes that the citizens of St.
Marys County have to pay and the level of ser-
vices they receive is, by far, the most diffcult
task facing a county commissioner. And by the
way, Ms. Miller, the county commissioners do
not set water or sewer rates. Just ask Commis-
sioner Jarboe. You are still his campaign trea-
surer I presume?
Mr. Hewitt, I know that you are upset about
the amount of property taxes that you pay. If
I owned a million-dollar waterfront house, like
you do, a valuable commercial corner (Rt. 235
and Rt. 237 Sheetz), like you do, and if I oper-
ated a successful business, like you do, I would
be upset too.
Finally, I would have thought that he En-
terprise editorial writer would have spoken to
Mr. Babcock (the Enterprise writer who covers
the commissioner meeting every week) prior to
writing the May 29 editorial. Surely, Mr. Bab-
cock would have relayed the fact that the elimi-
nation of the energy tax ($1.5 million) was a pri-
ority for me. However, because the state gave
the county a $4 million hit this year, because
we are in a recession, and because the state will
probably hit the county even worse next year,
I just was not able to gather enough support to
eliminate this revenue source.
To the average taxpayer who does not like
negative political rhetoric, I apologize for the
tone of this letter. However, like the average
taxpayer, I can take only so many punches
before I react. The process for formulating the
FY 2011 budget will get underway in the next
few weeks: Lets hope it will be a less negative
experience.
Daniel H. Raley
Commissioner, District 4
Democrat, Great Mills
Enough Is Enough
I am writing in regards to the climate and
energy legislation being debated in Congress
this week. The bill, introduced by the chair
of the infuential House Energy & Commerce
Committee, Henry Waxman, is yet another ex-
ample of the power that corporate lobbyists have
over Washington, and an ironic one at that.
It started as a serious attempt to cut the fos-
sil fuel emissions that are dangerously warming
the planet and revitalize the economy by creat-
ing millions of jobs in the clean energy sector.
Then the deals were cut. Now we are left with
a plan that wont signifcantly reduce pollution
for another 10 years and gives billions in tax-
payer subsidies to oil and coal companies the
industries most responsible for causing global
warming in the frst place.
What happened? Well, the $80 million
these polluters spent lobbying in the past three
months surely helped. But none of our leaders
ever said enough is enough either, including
President Barack Obama.
As the debate continues, I hope the Presi-
dent and Congressional leaders remember that
in Washington, silence is complicity.
Tracy Wax
Greenpeace Field Organizer
Baltimore, Md.
Climate And Energy Bill Losing Steam
In these tough economic times a commis-
sioners job gets harder and harder. The choice
to cut services or increase taxes to provide the
money needed to operate St. Marys County is
tough.
I always look for a way to cut taxes paid
by the citizens of St. Marys County, as no one
likes paying more than their share. But this year,
cutting taxes was not an option in these current
economic times unless drastic cuts were made
to services that I felt are needed. They are ser-
vices that my constituents tell me they depend
on to keep them going; that is why I feel they
are needed.
I have been poked fun of as being the lis-
tening commissioner. If thats what people
want to say, then I will take that as a compli-
ment, because it is you, the constituent, that I
really like listening to. I try not make knee-jerk
decisions, because something that may be good
for myself may be twice as bad for you. Your
side of the story may be unknown to me at frst
until a time that I can hear how it may affect
you. When I stop listening to the people that
elected me to represent them, its time for me
to step down.
I am your ordinary citizen that happens
to be one of the fve commissioners elected to
make the tough decisions of the daily operations
of this great county. I depend on you providing
me with your input to help me speak for you. We
will not always agree on things, but you can bet
I have been listening. I listen to all and vote the
best way I feel to help the majority of my con-
stituents and citizens of St. Marys County.
As the warm summer time approaches us,
I want to wish you each a fun-flled, safe and
blessed summer and hope the economy still al-
lows you and your family to have that summer
vacation to promote the great sense of family
and friends being together. I am always avail-
able to listen to your concerns and comments
and will take each one with consideration and
understanding, so feel free to call me at any time
at 301-475-4200 ext. 1353.
Kenny Dement
Commissioner, District 1
R-Tall Timbers
Listening To Constituents
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IN THE MATTER OF Trinity LaNae Savoy
FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO Trinity LaNae Waul
BY AND THROUGH HER MOTHER
Cheyanna Romayne Waul
In the Circuit Court for St. Marys County, Maryland
Case No.:18-C-09-000537 NC

The above Petitioner has fled a Petition for Change of Name in which she seeks to
change her name from Trinity LaNae Savoy to Trinity LaNae Waul. The petitioner is seek-
ing a name change because:
Paternity was established when the child was younger but never had her last name
changed. Now the parents would like to have the childs last name changed from Savoy
to Waul, which is the last name of the biological mother and father, to carry on the family
name.
Any person may fle an objection to the Petition on or before the 26
th
day of June, 2009.
The objection must be supported by an affdavit and served upon the Petitioner in accordance
with Maryland Rule 1-321. Failure to fle an objection or affdavit within the time allowed
may result in a judgment by default or the granting of the relief sought.
A copy of this Notice shall be published one time in a newspaper of general circula-
tion in the county at least ffteen (15) days before the deadline to fle an objection.
JOAN W. WILLIAMS,
Clerk of the Circuit Court for
St. Marys County Maryland
06-04-09
As Cash for Clunkers legislation moves closer
to becoming law, the unintended negative conse-
quences of this radical bill should be of concern
to all Americans. The legislation, which in theory
is supposed to be environmentally friendly, would
actually increase the amount of pollution generated
for years to come.
Cash for Clunkers is touted as protecting the
environment by taking older vehicles off the road
and replacing them with new, more fuel-effcient
vehicles. The reality is that the trade-in vehicles
will be scrapped regardless of the amount of use-
ful life they have left. Its ironic that a proposal
designed to reduce pollution will actually further
damage the environment. While the true intention
of this legislation is not to protect the environment
but to fnancially stimulate the automobile industry
in the short term, the hidden costs of this bill could
cause environmental havoc indefnitely.
The Cash for Clunkers amendment, included
as part of the American Clean Energy and Security
Act of 2009 (HR 2454), states that For each eli-
gible trade-in vehicle the vehicle, including the
engine and drive train, will be crushed or shredded
within such period and in such manner as the Sec-
retary prescribes.
Cash for Clunkers is loaded with so many
potholes that the American people will be pay-
ing a steep bill both economically and envi-
ronmentally for a long time. In addition to the
wasteful nature of destroying perfectly good
vehicles, a tremendous amount of energy and
resources will be exhausted to build new ve-
hicles to replace the scrapped ones. Provid-
ing tax incentives to purchase new vehicles or
maintain current vehicles maintained for fuel
effciency would be a much better use of federal
money that would truly beneft the environment.
Interested parties can send an e-mail in opposi-
tion to the Cash for Clunkers program to the
Speaker of the House, the Senate Majority Lead-
er and their congressional representatives by vis-
iting www.fghtcashforclunkers.org and clicking
on Take Action.
Aaron Lowe
Vice President, Government Affairs
Automotive Aftermarket Industry
Association
Bethesda, Md.
Clunker of a Bill Would Increase Pollution
Corrections
A story about zoning changes to allow wineries in the May 28 edition of The County
Times incorrectly reported a vote by commissioners to amend the zoning ordinance. The vote
was 5-2.
A story about Capt. Andrew Macyko in the May 28 edition of The County Times con-
tained a misspelling of one of the areas he oversees as commanding offcer of the Naval Air
Station Patuxent River. The correct spelling is Bloodsworth Island.
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By Preston Pratt
Three summers ago, the riverfront Sea-
breeze Restaurant and Crab House in Me-
chanicsville was getting ready to open a new
outdoor Tiki bar when Hurricane Ernesto hit,
wiping out the landscaping and parking lot.
The new Tiki bar prevailed, howev-
er, thanks to an outpouring of community
support.
We had just a huge display of neighbors
and friends people were here before we
were, cleaning up, said Betty Ann Quade,
who co-owns the business with her husband
Jeff.
Since then, the outdoor Tiki bar, also
April, who has tended bar at Seabreeze for fve years, said she enjoys the people she works with, the customers
and the view of the Patuxent River. Where else can you go to work with a view like this! she said.
Seabreeze: Where Everybody Knows Your Name
known as Swampys, has developed a local
following, with many of the customers lining
the ceiling with one dollar bills that they have
signed.
Customers also keep coming back to the
main Seabreeze restaurant and bar, which over
the years has become a gathering place where
visitors quickly feel as though they belong.
When we hire employees, we tell ev-
erybody that the customers coming in arent
just customers, but theyre our neighbors, our
friends and our family, Betty Ann said.
Jeffs parents owned the restaurant for
about 20 years before retiring to Florida in
2006. Having already worked there 10 years,
Betty Ann and Jeff decided to buy it, believ-
ing they could carry on the family business
and perhaps add something to it. Betty Anns
in-laws still travel here each summer to lend
a hand.
With a panoramic view of the Patuxent
River, both the Tiki bar and main restaurant
are accessible by boat. Dock at the pier, walk
on in and enjoy a drink at the bar while watch-
ing a game.
In the mood for live entertainment? This
weekend head outside and enjoy live acoustic
guitar on Friday with Joe Parsons and live mu-
sic by Cloud Nine on Saturday, both playing
from 8 p.m. to midnight.
On Wednesdays, take advantage of the
all you can eat crab legs and shrimp special,
and on Thursdays, participate in karaoke at
8 p.m. You can also shoot some pool, play a
game of darts, check out internet jukebox or
try your luck at the Arcade Bowling game.
And dont forget to check out the Tiki bar
and order its specialty drink, Gator Juice, a
bright green tropical concoction. (Although
the complete list of ingredients is a well guard-
ed secret, The County Times was able to learn
that it contains fve liquors one of which is
Vodka and pineapple juice.)
During the off season, the Tiki bar space
is available to rent for private parties, wed-
dings and other events.
The Seabreeze is located at 27130 South
Sandgates Road. It opens at 11 a.m. Monday
through Friday, and 8 a.m. on Saturdays and
Sundays for breakfast. The Tiki bar opens at 5
p.m. Monday through Thursday, 2 p.m. on Fri-
days and 12 noon on Saturdays and Sundays.
Happy Hour is Monday through Thursday
from 3 to 6 p.m. and Friday from 3 to 7 p.m.
Draft is $1.25, can beer $1.50 and bottle just
$1.75.
For more information about live enter-
tainment, call the restaurant at 301-373-5217.
Bob Schaller
Director Economic and Com-
munity Development
St. Marys County
The unemployment rate in St. Marys
County fell to 5.1 percent in April, the third
lowest rate in the state just behind Howard
and Montgomery counties (see www.dllr.
state.md.us/lmi/laus).
Across the state Maryland counties im-
proved their employment situations. State un-
employment fell to 6.6 percent while national
unemployment climbed to 8.9 percent. (Mays
national unemployment numbers are due out
Friday.)
The gaps between our local unemploy-
ment rate and the state and certainly the na-
tional rates have never been wider in recent
times; our local economy remains strong with
steady employment. The fact that most of the
countys working population also lives here
helps stabilize things even more. In a time of
rising fuel prices and continued uncertainty,
the unique combination of living where you
work in a solid regional employment center
brings lots of advantages.
At the same time our unemployment
rate is still well above a year ago (2.9 percent
in April 2008) and the ranks of the countys
unemployed are up more than one thousand
compared with this time last year. There are
many challenges we continue to face, espe-
cially in the small-business sector where most
jobs are.
Yet there is a noticeable sense of improve-
ment in the confdence levels of consumers,
employers, developers, lenders and others.
Granted, everyone is more cautious than a
year ago. This mindset will help guide better
decisions in the coming months and couple
of years. Downturns make you stronger and
smarter.
Everything is relative. The April 09 un-
employment numbers are only one measure.
There are many more economic indicators
to consider. But an improving employment
picture is defnitely welcome news today and
adds more to our overall economic confdence
index.
Jobs and Confdence on the Rise
The IRS processes more than 2
billion pieces of paper each year.
Company Symbol Close Close Change
6/3/2009 12/31/2008
Wal-Mart WMT $50.88 $56.06 -9.24%
Harley Davidson HOG $18.28 $16.97 7.72%
Best Buy BBY $38.02 $28.11 35.25%
Lockheed Martn LMT $83.24 $84.08 -1.00%
BAE Systems BAESF $5.45 $5.41 0.74%
Computer Science Corp. CSC $43.14 $35.14 22.77%
Dyncorp Internatonal Inc. DCP $14.69 $15.17 -3.16%
General Dynamics Corp. GD $58.59 $57.59 1.74%
Mantech Internatonal Corp. MANT $38.84 $54.19 -28.33%
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The Civil Air Patrol recently awarded Ca-
det Lt. Col. Victor R. Traven the Brewer award,
which is given for outstanding aerospace
achievement or contributions to the aerospace
feld.
A senior at St. Marys Ryken High School,
Cadet Lt. Col. Traven he is a highly motivat-
ed cadet who has been extremely active in all
facets of the cadet program for more than six
years. He has been a very active leader in the
aerospace education mission of CAP. He has
coordinated cadet orientation fights and ar-
ranged for tours of unique aircraft and facili-
ties related to aerospace for members of the St
Marys squadron and Group III.
He helped his squadron host the Cub
Scouts, EAA Young Eagles, and cadets from
other squadrons in aerospace education activi-
ties. He personally escorted young people to
and from the fight line, and explained the vari-
ous instruments and controls of the aircraft and
gave brief descriptions of how an airplane fies.
Over the past few years, he has been responsible
for dozens of young people and cadets getting
their frst fight in an airplane. His leadership
resulted in a highly successful squadron cadet
orientation fight program.
Cadet Traven soloed at the CAP National
Flight Academy at Oshkosh, Wisc., in 2006,
where he accumulated 10.8 fight hours. He
has also fown extensively with his father at a
local fying club and in their Stinson Reliant
and Beech Baron. He is active in AE outside of
fying as well, with over 25 launches in model
rocketry. He was the range safety offcer for the
squadrons highly success-
ful model rocketry
program. This
r e c e nt l y
helped
six cadets earn
their model rocketry
badge. He is also working on
his private pilot license.
Cadet Lt.Col. Traven set up a visit to the
squadron by a retired Indian Air Force General.
The general briefed the cadets with a slide show
on the aircraft he had fown from the T-6 to the
MiG 25 Foxbat. He also conducted an extensive
question and answer session that was very well
received. Cadet Traven also
set up a brief on the
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Hornet. The
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air show demon-
stration pilot was the
speaker. Again, it was highly
successful.
He helped his dad restore their 1943 Stin-
son Reliant, where he learned how to rivet and
rebuild the cowling. They also repainted the
aircraft in authentic RAF markings. Cadet Lt.
Col. Travens name is even painted below the
canopy rail. He is probably the only CAP ca-
det with his name on a 1943 Stinson. He also
helped his dad rewire their Beech Baron.
Cadet Lt. Col. Traven recently stepped
down as the Cadet Commander of the St
Marys Composite Squadron. His performance
in that position was enhanced by his active in-
volvement in aerospace activities. He also at-
tended the 2006 Air Education and Training
Command Familiarization Course at Colum-
bus, MS; where he was named the heart and
soul of that national activity. In 2005, Cadet
Traven graduated from the Middle East Region
Cadet Leadership School at Seymour John-
son Air Force Base, N.C., and in 2004, he at-
tended the Maryland Wing Glider Academy.
He carries a 3.92 GPA and is a consistent high
honor roll student. Cadet Lt. Col. Traven is
employed as a co-op student with Coherent
Technical Services where he works on design
and test of Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles. Cadet
Major Traven plans to go to the U.S. Air Force
or U.S. Naval Academy, major in Mechanical
Engineering, and become a pilot.
He recently was nominated by the Civil
Air Patrol to the US Air Force Academy Prep
School. He has also been offered scholarships
by Air Force ROTC and Norwich University.
His presently a fnalist for the National Air
Force Association Civil Air Patrol Aerospace
Education Cadet of the Year.
Ryken Student Wins Civil Air Patrol Award
The Department of Defense and U.S.
Naval Air Systems Command announced
the offcial cancellation of the VH-71 Pres-
idential Helicopter program late Monday.
Lockheed Martin Systems Integration in
Owego, N.Y., was awarded the program in
January, 2005; it has delivered eight In-
crement One aircraft to the Navy. A ninth
is being fown by Lockheed for testing.
The decision to cancel the program, accord-
ing to a statement from NAVAIR resulted
from cost growth in the VH-71 program
that breached Nunn-McCurdy thresholds.
The Pentagons new acquisitions chief,
Ashton Carter, has asked the Navy to de-
velop options for a replacement helicop-
ter and present those to his offce. The
Presidents budget for fscal 2010 contains
funds for service life extension of the cur-
rent VH-60N/VH-3D feet. Termination
costs are unknown at this time, and Lock-
heed has a full year to submit a proposal
for a settlement.
Presidential Helicopter
Offcially Terminated
Representatives from the county, the Navy and the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum are
currently evaluating responses from 19 frms interested in designing a second museum building in
Lexington Park next to the existing one.
The plan is to pick four or fve frms for interviews based on qualifcations and then pick a
frm for fnal approval by the state by sometime in August, said George Erichsen, director of public
works and transportation for St. Marys County.
Once designed, construction of the building is expected to take about 18 months, with the
building to open in about two years, he said.
Planned is a one-story, 22,000-square-foot building that will be built on a vacant space be-
tween the existing museum and Route 235 north of the Naval Air Station Patuxent River.
The project, expected to cost about $5.6 million, is being paid for with a combination of gov-
ernment funds and money raised by the museum association.

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Helen Aitcheson Bergling, 85
Helen Aitcheson Bergling, 85, of
Lexington Park, Md., passed away on
May 17, 2009, at Chesapeake Shores.
Born Oct. 10, 1923, in Berwyn Heights,
Md., she was the daughter of the late Roy
and Blanche Burnette Longanecker.
Ms. Bergling was a telephone
operator for a cab company. She loved
Harleys, country music, the beach, and
she was a Dale Earnhardt fan. Helen of-
ten took her children to Myrtle Beach
and Florida where she would collect sea
shells, then paint them with nail polish
and make wind chimes. She was a de-
voted mother and grandmother.
Ms. Bergling is survived by her
children, Cindy Leadbetter Orazio of
Lexington Park, Md., Jerry Leadbetter
of Edenton, N.C., and Kenneth Preston
of Beltsville, Md.; one brother, Sonny
Longanecker, of Scottsdale, Ariz.; fve
grandchildren, Cheyenne Leadbetter,
Dakota Ryan, Jerry Leadbetter, Dena
and Kenny Preston; she is also survived
by fve great-grandchildren. In addition
to her parents Helen was preceded in
death by her daughter, Debra L. Ryan.
Family received friends for Hel-
ens Life Celebration on May 23, 2009,
in the Brinsfeld Funeral Home, with
Pastor Gordon Bacon offciating. In-
urnment followed in Charles Memorial
Gardens, Leonardtown, Md.
Arrangements provided by the
Brinsfeld Funeral Home, P.A., Leonar-
dtown, Md.
Condolences to the family may be
made at www.brinsfeldfuneral.com.
Clarence Kitten, Keetney
Joseph Butler, 52
Clarence Kitten, Keetney Jo-
seph Butler, 52, of Fort Washington,
Md., and formerly of Bushwood, Md.,
died May 26, 2009, at his residence.
Born Oct. 18, 1956, in Chaptico, Md.,
he was the son of the late Arthur Aloy-
sius and Grace H. Bowman Butler. He
is survived by his son Aaron Butler of
Capitol Heights, Md., and his godchild
Jankette Somerville of Washington,
D.C., as well as his siblings Aloysius
Wish Butler of Great Mills, Md., Ar-
thur Butler of Oxon Hill, Md., Ann But-
ler of Forestville, Md., Connie Willis of
Woodbridge, Va. and Grace Jones of
Lexington Park, Md. He was preceded
in death by his brother James Walter
Butler.
Clarence graduated from Chopti-
con High School, class of 1974, and was
a bus driver for Metro in Arlington, Va.
The family received friends on Sun.,
May 31, 2009, from 2 to 5 p.m. in the
Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home,
Leonardtown, Md., where prayers
were said at 3 p.m. A Mass of Christian
Burial was celebrated on Mon., June 1,
2009, at 10 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catho-
lic Church, Bushwood, Md., with Fr.
Francis Early offciating. Interment fol-
lowed in the church cemetery. Pallbear-
ers were John Tyer, Terry Bowman,
Paul Newman, Charles Butler, William
Bowman and Maurice Butler. Honor-
ary pallbearers were his coworkers and
family.
Condolences may be left to the
family at www.mgfh.com. Arrange-
ments provided by the Mattingley-Gar-
diner Funeral Home, P.A.
John Francis Carroll, 57
John Francis Carroll, 57, of Lex-
ington Park, Md., died May 30, 2009, at
his residence.
Born Jan. 6, 1952, in Leonard-
town, Md., he was the son of Charles
R. Britches Carroll and the late Pat
Saunders Carroll.
John was a graduate of Great Mills
High School and a veteran of the Unit-
ed States Air Force. He enjoyed hunt-
ing, was a life-long fshing enthusiast,
and a friend to everyone. John was a
retired aircraft manager for Northrup
Grumman.
In addition to his father, John is
survived by his wife, Rebecca Carroll;
his children, Nick Carroll (Michelle)
and Holly Adams (Eddie) of Lexing-
ton Park, Md.; grandchildren, Kayla
and Kassidy Adams and Haley Car-
roll; siblings; Jim (Sparky) Carroll of
Columbus, Ohio, Jane (Cookie) Carroll
Duncan of Hazelhurst, Miss., and Patty
Carroll Lettau of Lexington Park, Md.
A Memorial Service will be held
on Sat., June 6, 2009, at 4 p.m. at 49523
Carroll Road, Lexington Park, MD
20653.
Memorial contributions may be
made to Hospice of St. Marys, P.O. Box
625, Leonardtown, MD 20650; Ridge
Volunteer Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 456,
Ridge, MD 20680; or the Cancer Care
and Infusion Service, c/o St. Marys
Hospital, P.O. Box 527, Leonardtown,
MD 20650.
Arrangements by the Brinsfeld
Funeral Home, P.A., Leonardtown,
Md.
Steven Michael Campbell, 21
Steven Michael Campbell, 21,
of Lexington Park, Md., died May 31,
2009, from injures received in an auto
accident.
Born Aug. 17, 1987, in Leonard-
town, Md., he was the son of William
Carlton Campbell of Leonardtown,
Md., and Jill Michele Trossbach of Cali-
fornia, Md.
Steven was a graduate of Great
Mills High School in 2005. He was a
carpet cleaning technician with All
About Floors. He loved music, espe-
cially his guitar and saxophone.
He is survived by his father, Wil-
liam Carlton Campbell, and special
friend, Veronica Long; his mother, Jill
Michele Trossbach, and special friend,
Woodrow Norris, Jr.; one daughter,
Elissa Lily Reese Campbell, of Lexing-
ton Park, Md.; two sisters, Samantha L.
Campbell and Christina M. Campbell;
three brothers, Matthew J. Campbell,
Christopher J. Campbell and Michael
J. Campbell. He is also survived by his
girlfriend, Casey Lynn Richmond of
Lexington Park, Md., and her children,
Kyleigh Beach, Isabelle Beach and
McKinley Beach; his maternal grand-
parents, Mary Jo Comer of Hughesville,
Md., and the late Joseph E. Comer; his
paternal grandfather, Raymond McNeal,
and his late grandmother, Sue Pullin.
The family will receive friends for Ste-
vens Life Celebration on Thurs., June 4,
2009, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Brinsfeld
Funeral Home, 22955 Hollywood Road,
Leonardtown, Md., where funeral ser-
vices will be held on Fri., June 5, 2000,
at 10 a.m. with the Rev. Ann Strickler
of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church
offciating. Interment will follow in the
Mt. Zion United Methodist Cemetery.
made to the Elissa Lily Reese
Campbell College Fund c/o the
PNC Bank Branch of your choice.
Condolences to the family may be made
at www.brinsfeldfuneral.com.
Md.
George Francis Chase, 69

George Francis Chase, 69, of Lex-
ington Park, Md., was called home to be
with the Lord, Sun., May 24, 2009, after
a four-year battle with cancer (leuke-
mia). Francis, as we all knew him, was
born June 22, 1939, to the late George
Johnson of Baltimore Md., and Marie
Chase of Ridge, Md. He was raised
Catholic and received his education at
the Cardinal Gibbons Catholic School.
Around the tender age of fve, he lost his
biological parents and was raised by his
grandparents, Albert and Agnes Chase.
Francis believed in working for a
living and was always employed until
the last year of his life. In the early years
of his employment, he did what he loved
most: drive a 16 wheeler. He did this for
a short span, and then began working
for Milburn Roofng Co. As he got old-
er, Francis moved on to do what would
become his career: custodial services.
He was a custodian and was very good
at his job. He was employed with many
companies; to name a few, he worked at
Great Mills High School, P&P Brothers,
Young Janitorial Services, B&B Main-
tenance and Bayside Nursing Home.
His last place of employment was with
Little Flower Catholic School. He was
well loved and respected by the staff
at Little Flower. He often spoke of the
people at the school, in particular Ms.
Stewart. He could ask her for whatever
he needed, and she would do her best to
try to accommodate him.
Some of Francis favorite pastimes,
especially in the summer, were horse-
shoes. When he would get together with
a couple of his buddies or his relatives,
Fat Man, Budd, TI or Punky, get ready
cause It was on, and from what I hear,
Evrthing goes. If they didnt beat you
at the game, they would whip up on you
with all that smack talk. One was just
as bad as the other. Among other favor-
ites, he also loved shooting pool and
playing cards with family and friends.
(Oh you didnt have to be family
or friend for him to take your money.)
Playing cards was an all-season game,
be it Ducees or Tonk. As long as he was
among family and friends (the people
that he loved most) laughing, joning,
eating Stinks fried fsh, he was enjoy-
ing life and was a happy man.
Francis was in an auto accident
in September 2005. It was then that he
was diagnosed with cancer. Though
the battle seemed just a short while to
us, to him it seemed forever. He fought
long and hard, and sometimes was tired
in his body, but he never lost hope. His
doctors often commented how strong he
was and how good he looked. Francis
loved his two daughters. During his ill-
ness they were always there to take care
of him; making sure he got to and from
the hospitals, University of Maryland,
St. Marys, wherever he needed to be,
they were going to get him there. They
could always count on Sophie to contact
them and let them know how he was do-
ing. In the year 2006, Francis accepted
Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, as
he was affectionately led to the Lord by
his daughters.
Francis was preceded in death by
his son, the late James Matthew Chase
(deceased 1989).
Left behind to cherish his memo-
ries are his two daughters, Marie Butler
(John) of St. Inigoes, Md., and Francine
Clark (Rodney) of Randallstown, Md.;
a daughter he loved as his very own,
Brenda Carter of Lexington Park, Md.;
his grandchildren Latoya Gross, An-
thony Young, Ashley Chase, Candace
and Jontue Butler, Clarence, Khalil and
Kira Clark and Ebony Taylor. He also
leaves eight great-grandchildren and
countless relatives.
The family received friends on
Tues., June 2, from 9 to 11 a.m. at St.
Peter Claver Catholic Church in St. Ini-
goes, where funeral services were held
at 11 a.m. Interment followed in the St.
Peters Catholic Church Cemetery in
Waldorf.
Md.

John Herman Hank De-
Jong, 81
John Herman Hank DeJong, 81,
of St. Marys City, Md., slipped peace-
fully into heaven on Mon., May 25,
2009. Hank was born Jan. 8, 1928, in
Bronx, N.Y., to Margret and Jan Pieter
DeJong. As a frst-generation Ameri-
can, he came from very humble be-
ginnings. After graduating from high
school in 1947, Hank enlisted in the
U.S. Army, where he served in Japan
obtaining the rank of sergeant. Upon
honorable discharge, he entered Rho-
des Prep School and after graduation he
enrolled in Manhattan College. Hank
graduated from Manhattan College in
1954 with a bachelors degree in electri-
cal engineering.
In June of 1954, Hank was em-
ployed at the Naval Air Test Center,
Patuxent River, Md., as an electrical
engineer. From 1954 until 1978, he
remained in the Electrical Branch as
it transitioned through two Naval Air
Test Center reorganizations. During
this time Hank earned, with honors, a
bachelor of arts and science degree in
mathematics from the University of
Maryland, where he was a member of
Phi Kappa Phi honors society. Hank
also earned a master of science degree
in operations research from George
Washington University.
Early in his career Hank developed
a set of specifcations which resulted in
the procurement of the frst harmonic
wave analyzer capable of printing out
a complete vibration spectrum from
10 Hz to 2000 Hz. He also developed a
telemetry system for recording elevator
trim control switch data on the F2H-2
aircraft. As a project engineer, Hank
conducted electrical and electronic tri-
als on the FJ-3, T-34B, TF-1, OE-2, AD-
5W, WV-3, HSS-1, HOK-1, F9F-8P,
P2V-7, A3D-1, F11F-1, HR25-1, A-4,
F-4B, P-3A, H-3, and F/A-18 aircraft.
In 1978, Hank accepted a tempo-
rary assignment as a section head in the
Ground Support Systems Branch at the
Systems Engineering Test Directorate.
In 1979, he returned to the Electronic
Systems Branch of SETD as an electro-
magnetic specialist. From 1982 through
1986 Hank was the directorates Anten-
na and Avionics Section Head (SY80).
In 1986, Hank was appointed as the
Naval Air Test Centers Joint Tactical
Information Distribution System Pro-
gram Manager, the job he maintained
until he retired. Throughout his career,
Hank made many valuable contribu-
tions to testing and evaluating Navy
aircraft. Over the last 10 years of his
career, Hank established himself as an
expert in the communications systems
feld and had gained particular promi-
nence in the Joint Tactical Information
Distribution System program. Hank re-
tired from NATC on Jan. 7, 1991, after a
career that spanned four decades. Upon
his retirement, Hank began to teach real
estate certifcation classes until 2007.
Hank was an avid sports fan who
loved the New York Yankees, New York
Giants and the University of Maryland
Terrapins. He was a Maryland Terrapin
club member who held season tickets
to football games for the past 20 years
and enjoyed going to the games with his
wife, son and grandchildren. Hank was
a trivia buff who was always ready to
test with a good brain teaser. Hank was
very quick witted and had a wonderful
sense of humor. He was a fascinating
storyteller, and he kept his family and
friends on the edge of their seats with
stories about his life experiences. Hank
was a good, kind, Christian man, who
helped many people throughout his life.
His greatest loves were God, the church
and his family. He was a resident of St.
Marys County for over 50 years and he
attended mass at St. Cecilia Church in
St. Marys City, St. Michaels Church in
Ridge and Immaculate Heart of Mary
Church in Lexington Park.
Hank was the past president of
the United States Navy League Patux-
ent River chapter, a 17-year volunteer
with the American Cancer Society, a
life member of the Patuxent River Elks
Lodge, a member of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars Washington Branch, and
also a member of the American Legion,
the University of Maryland Terrapin
Club, the National Association of Re-
tired Federal Employers and both the
National and Southern Maryland Board
of Realtors.
Hank was preceded in death by his
parents, Margret and Jan Pieter DeJong.
He is survived by his loving wife of 47
years, Annie; his daughter Nancy Sim-
mons (Ron) and his sons Francis Stuart
Newton and Joseph Jackson (Beverly);
grandchildren David Simmons (Mar-
gie), Eddie Schatz (Lisa), Michelle Boy-
er (Mark), Christian Newton, Adrianne
Newton, Amanda Newton, Jonathan
Jackson and Sherry Jackson-Mehl (Eric
Baker); seven great-grandchildren; and
his sister, Rose Marie Johnson.
The family requests in lieu of
fowers that donations be made to Ridge
Volunteer Rescue Squad and/or St. Mi-
chaels Catholic School in memory of
John H. DeJong.
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Md.
Arthur L. Biggie Goode
Sr., 77
Arthur L. Biggie Goode Sr., 77,
of Coltons Point, Md., died May 26,
2009, at St. Marys Hospital.
Born Aug. 29, 1931, in Bushwood,
Md., he was the son of the late Walter B.
Goode and Mary J. (Hill) Goode.
Biggie served in the United States
Army and was a retired C&P Telephone
Company executive with 33 years of
service. He was one of the founding
members of the Seventh District Op-
timist Club as well as one of the past
presidents of the club. Biggie was very
active in the local St. Marys County
softball community as both a player
and a manager. He was inducted into
the Womens Hall of Fame in 1992. He
had a wide circle of friends and never
met a stranger.
Biggie is survived by his wife of
58 years, Aspasia C. Goode; two sons,
Artie Goode (Paula) of Bushwood, Md.,
and Walter Goode (Joanne) of Georgia;
three grandchildren, John, Addison
and Zackary Goode; one sister, Teresa
Miller of Chaptico, Md., and many
nieces and nephews.
Services will be private.
Md.
Aldine M. Netherton, 87
Aldine M. Netherton, 87, of Park
Hall, Md., died May 18, 2009.
Born June 8, 1921, in Duck, W.Va.,
she was the daughter of the late Lula
and Haymond Fulks.
Aldine was the devoted wife of
the late Sebren R. Netherton. She was
a wonderful mother and friend. She
enjoyed her family, friends, her home,
cooking, gardening and her church.
She is survived by her children,
Polly Voorhaar and her husband Ed
Voorhaar of La Plata, Md.; Sallie Hard-
ing and her husband Ray Harding of
Hollywood, Md., and Sandra Moore
and her husband Layton Moore of
Leonardtown, Md.; by her grandchil-
dren, Wendy Makrakis (Greg), Michele
Coleman (Joel), Julie Miles Lipoff (Jay),
and Heather Voorhaar; by seven great-
grandchildren; and by her sister Carrie
Meinhardt and her husband Alvin, her
sister Mary Hamilton, and her sister-in-
law Dorothy Fulks. She is also survived
by her sister-in-law Mildred Nether-
ton and her brother-in-law Jerry Lynn
Netherton and his wife Althea.
She was pre-deceased by her
grandson Brian Voorhaar and her sis-
ters and brothers Hazel McCoy, Clif-
ton Fulks, Hallie March, Zenna Grello,
Gale Fulks, Ariel Fulks, and Glenna
Cooksey.
The family received friends and
loved ones at the Brinsfeld Funeral
Home in Leonardtown, Md., on May
20, 2009. A Celebration of Life Service
was held for Aldine at the Lexington
Park United Methodist Church on May
21, 2009, offciated by the Rev. Dr. Ken-
neth Walker. Interment followed at Ev-
ergreen Memorial Gardens.
made to Lexington Park United Meth-
odist Church (Capital Expenditure
Fund), 21760 Great Mills Road, Lex-
ington Park, MD 20653.
Md.
Judy Miranda Perrine, 48
Judy Miranda Perrine, 48,
was called to eternal rest on Sat.,
May 23, 2009, at Doctors Community
Hospital.
Judy Miranda Perrine was born
July 10, 1960, in Leonardtown, Md., to
Albert E. Butler Jr. and Mary Catherine
Hickson. Judy graduated from Great
Mills High School in 1979 and earned
a Bachelor of Science in Business Man-
agement from Bowie State University
in May 2007.
Upon graduation from high school,
she worked as a secretary at a law frm
in Washington, D.C. Shortly after, she
was employed by the United States gov-
ernment at the General Services Ad-
ministration in Washington, D.C., as a
budget analyst for the past 23 years.
She enjoyed sewing, dancing,
exercising, traveling, and most of all,
spending quality time with family and
friends. She also enjoyed sports and
was an avid Red Skins fan, even when
they lost. One of her greatest aspirations
was to build and operate her own day
care center.
She leaves to cherish her memo-
ries her husband of 13 years, Albert Per-
rine Sr.; two children, Jaleesa and Jer-
maine; her parents, Albert E. Butler Jr.
(Brenda) of St. Inigoes, Md.; and Mary
Catherine Hickson (Harry) of Lexing-
ton Park, Md.; nine siblings, Eugene R.
Butler (Debra) of Mechanicsville, Md.;
Glenn A. Butler (Robert) of Newport
News, Va.; Donald H. Parker (Deborah)
of Accokeek, Md.; James D. Butler of
Baltimore, Md.; John O. Butler of Great
Mills, Md.; William K. Butler (Faye)
of Great Mills, Md.; Avis M. Butler of
Great Mills, Md.; Benita A. Butler of
Lexington Park, Md.; Norbert Patrick
Butler (Michelle) of Oxon Hill, Md.;
one sister-in-law, Eula Lee, of Brook-
lyn, N.Y.; and a host of aunts, uncles,
nieces, nephews, cousins, relatives and
friends.
She is predeceased by her brother,
Thomas A. Butler and sister, June L.
Butler.
Family received friends for Ju-
dys Life Celebration on Mon., June 1,
2009, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at St. Peter
Claver Catholic Church, where a Mass
of Christian Burial was celebrated at 11
a.m. with Father Scott Woods offciat-
ing. Interment followed in the church
cemetery.
Arrangements provided by the
Brinsfeld Funeral Home, P.A., Leonar-
dtown, Md.
Condolences may be made to the
family at www.brinsfeldfuneral.com.
Ann Vanessa Thomas, 46
Ann Vanessa Thomas, 46, of Me-
chanicsville, Md., known by family and
friends as Vanessa or V, died May 22,
2009, at St. Marys Nursing Center.
She was born Jan. 27, 1963, to George
Raymond Thomas Sr. (deceased) and
Cecelia Elizebeth Thomas in Leonard-
town, Md.
Vanessa was educated in St.
Marys County Schools. She attended
Oakville Elementary, Leonardtown
Middle and Leonardtown High School.
She relocated to Washington, D.C., in
1980 and graduated from Eastern High
School.
She enjoyed taking care of the sick
and spent the bulk of her adult life in the
health care feld. She was employed by
numerous health care facilities, ending
her career at St. Elizabeths Hospital in
Washington, D.C., as a nursing techni-
cian for psychiatric care. She received
numerous awards for her care and de-
voted service while working as a health
care professional. She had a loving
smile and a kind word for all that she
met. God gave her a special gift to reach
out and help anyone in need, and she
used that gift to the best of her ability,
without falter.
Vanessa loved holidays, especially
Christmas. She liked spending time
with family, cooking , preparing exotic
dishes and just being with family gave
her joy and comfort. She loved to eat
out and be served like royalty, explor-
ing different kinds of foods, but seafood
was her favorite. She loved to watch
movies of all sorts, playing cards with
friends, attending outdoor events, cook-
outs, barbecues and festivals. She also
loved decorating, and shopping for new
items for her home.
She was, in short, a perfectionist
and an interior designer from the heart.
Those left to cherish her memory
are her mother Cecelia (Betty) Thomas;
two sisters, Evaughn Lennon of Me-
chanicsville, Md., and Corbretta Anas-
tasia (Walter) of Hollywood, Md.; four
brothers, George Raymond Thomas
Jr. (Barbara) of Mechanicaville, Md.,
James Irvin Thomas (Clavetta) of Lou-
isville, Ky., Larry Matthew (Patricia) of
Lexington Park, Md.; Joseph Michael
(Karen) of Hollywood, Md.; two step-
brothers, Sheldon and Maurice Wills of
Columbia, Md.; nieces and nephews,
John Stevens, Duane Cooper, Lawann
Smith, Stephanie Clark, Jonathan and
Nekeisha Thomas, Eric, Terrence, Lar-
ry Jr., Donte, Carlos, Brandon, Brad-
ley, Taylor, Gabby, Corron and Tyonte
Thomas, Lakeisha Jester; one aunt,
Mary C. Medley of Leonardtown, Md.;
a devoted coworker and friend, Ms.
Carol Hogan, and many other family
members and friends.
Family received friends for Van-
essas Life Celebration on Fri., May
29, 2009, from 8:45 a.m. until 10 a.m.
in St. Josephs Catholic Church, 29119
Point Lookout Road, Morganza, MD
20660. A Mass of Christian Burial was
celebrated at 10 a.m. with the Rev. Keith
Woods as the celebrant. Interment fol-
lowed in Charles Memorial Gardens.
Condolences to the family can be
Funeral Home, P.A., Leonardtown, M
d.
Austin Lee Tulley, Five
Months
Austin Lee Tulley, fve months,
of Leonardtown, Md., died May 26,
2009, in California, Md. Born Dec. 25,
2008, in Leonardtown, Md., he was the
son of Nickolas B. and Brandy L. Lan-
gley Tulley. He is also survived by his
grandmother, Sandy Seek of Leonard-
town, Md.; grandparents Douglas and
Gayl Tulley of Julian, W.Va., and his
uncle Joshua Tulley and his wife Jodi of
Charleston, W.Va. The family received
friends on Fri., May 29, 2009, from 5
to 8 p.m. in the Mattingley-Gardiner
Funeral Home, Leonardtown, Md.,
where prayers were said at 7 p.m. A fu-
neral service was held on Sat., May 30,
2009, at 10 a.m. at First Saints Commu-
nity Church (formerly St. Pauls United
Methodist Church), Leonardtown, Md.,
with Pastor John Wunderlich offciating.
Interment followed in Charles Memo-
rial Gardens, Leonardtown, Md. Pall-
bearers were Charles Smith Jr., Joshua
Tulley, Sean Coogan Jr. and Benjamin
Wood. Condolences may be left to the
family at www.mgfh.com. Arrange-
ments provided by the Mattingley-Gar-
diner Funeral Home, P.A.
Brinsfield Funeral Home, P.A.
22955 Hollywood Road
Leonardtown, Maryland 20650
(301) 475-5588
Brinsfield-Echols Funeral Home, P.A.
30195 Three Notch Road
Charlotte Hall, Maryland 20650
(301) 472-4400
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Everyone will receive a 1.8 percent cost-
of-living increase for the year starting July 1, an
amount totaling about $1.9 million, said Brad Cle-
ments, chief operating offcer for the public school
system.
That compares to 4 percent for the 2008-09
year ending this June 30, 3.8 percent for 2007-08
and 3 percent for 2006-07, he said.
Teachers and staff, however, will not receive
step increases for years of service, a decision which
affects more than two thirds of the systems 2,300
employees and would have totaled more than $2.4
million.
The agreement includes a new fexible health
care plan that enables employees to take money
out of their paychecks before taxes to cover certain
health costs, thereby reducing their tax burdens.
The agreement also further defnes teacher
planning time and provides for specifc training
for special needs teachers and training for test
monitors.
Administrators were able to save some mon-
ey by not flling the position of director of student
services and distributing those duties among other
administrators, Clements said.
Parties also agreed to pursue legislation in the
General Assembly that will require those who do
not pay union dues to contribute something toward
costs.
The agreement, to become effective July 1,
was reached with the Education Association of
St. Marys County, which represents teachers and
supervisors, and the Collective Education As-
sociation of St. Marys County, which represents
bus drivers, maintenance and clerical workers, IT
workers and others.
Teachers Forgo Step Increases
Principal Elizabeth Servello, left, physical education teacher Melissa Warner and Assistant Principal Mary More-
land get together on the roof of the Greenview Knolls Elementary School in Great Mills.
Students Shannon
Bonnel, left, and
Hanna Dooley, each
received a $1,000
scholarship recently
from the GFWC
Womens Club of
St. Marys County,
presented by schol-
arship chairwoman
Sue Watters. Bon-
nel attends Leonar-
dtown High School
and Dooley is home
schooled.
Submitted photos
Administrators at Greenview Knolls
Elementray School recently spent a morn-
ing on the roof as part of a dare to raise
money for Jump Rope for Heart. Principal
Elizabeth Servello and Assistant Principal
Mary Moreland took umbrellas, newspa-
pers, chairs and water bottles, occasionally
visited by teachers and a parent, said Me-
lissa Warner, the physical education teach-
er who helped organize the event.
Students raised $5,000, and teachers
planned outdoor lessons around the event,
including counting the number of steps to
circumnavigate the school and measuring
the perimeter of the building rulers to test
their math skills.
It was kind of bizarre, so they were
supposed to be creative and use their imag-
inations, Warner said.
Volunteers with the Bay District Vol-
unteer Fire Department eventually came to
the rescue to the delight of students.
Up On The Roof
It has been estimated that the fear of the number 13
costs Americans more than $1 billion per year!
By Virginia Terhune
Staff Writer
The public school system plans to install ad-
ditional portable classroom units at three schools
by fall, according to offcials.
The three schools are Dynard Elementary
in Chaptico and Lettie Dent Elementary in Me-
chanicsville and Spring Ridge Middle in Lex-
ington Park.
The county Board of Appeals approved the
requests at its May 28 meeting.
The additional space at the two elementary
schools will be used to provide a home for foat-
ing music and art programs; they are not being
installed because of rising enrollments, said
Brad Clements, chief operating offcer for the
school system.
The move will also help maintain student/
teacher ratios, he said.
The system is installing them now because
of the opening of the new Evergreen Elementary
School, which is freeing up the use of some relo-
catables that the school already owns, he said.
Dynard and Lettie Dent will each receive
two units each, with relocation, installation and
utility hookup costs expected to total $164,000.
The system will buy the new unit for Spring
Ridge, which is double the usual size, for about
$160,000, including installation costs, to house
a STEM science and math program.
Portable Classrooms Slated
For Three Schools
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By Guy Leonard
Staff Writer
Detectives with the St. Marys
County Bureau of Criminal Investiga-
tions are looking into the case of a woman
passenger who apparently jumped from a
vehicle driving along northbound Route
235 on June 1.
According to charging documents
fled by Trooper J.T. Hardesty, the suspect
in the case, Maynor Fernardo Garcia, 27,
did not have a valid drivers license when
he was behind the wheel of his green 1999
Hyundai Elantra near the intersection of
Maple Road and Three Notch Road.
Sometime during the trip, charging
documents show, the victim, Kimberly
Leighanne Figgins, somehow left the ve-
hicle while it was still in motion and was
found in the roadway by Hardesty.
Information from the Bureau of
Criminal Investigations stated that Fig-
gins, who sustained life-threatening inju-
ries, rolled for about 75 to 100 feet after
leaping from the vehicle.
She was transported to Prince
Georges Hospitals shock trauma center
for treatment via Trooper 7.
Capt. Rick Burris, commander of
the criminal investigations unit, said that
Figgins is now in stable condition.
Shes upset over some issues in her
life, Burris said as a possible reason for
her jumping from the moving vehicle.
In charging documents, Hardesty
stated that when he spoke to several wit-
nesses on the scene that they were unsure
whether Figgins, 20, of Mechanicsville,
was struck in the roadway or had fallen
from the vehicle.
One witness said they saw Garcias
vehicle leave the scene of the incident,
charging documents reveal, and was
able to follow it and report a full vehicle
description.
Police were on the lookout for the
vehicle when Garcia called into the coun-
tys Emergency Communications Center
and said he was returning to the scene but
was stuck in traffc.
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arrest for driving without a license and
was also charged with leaving the scene
of an accident.
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On Nov. 13, 2008, Judge C. Clark Raley issued a protective order, ordering
no contact by any means between the petitioner/victim and Jeremiah J. Watson.
On May 29, 2009, Watson, 32, currently incarcerated in the St. Marys County
Detention Center on frst degree murder and attempted frst degree murder
charges, allegedly attempted to contact the victims daughter by having a rela-
tive send a message via MySpace in violation of the protective order. Watson
was charged with violating a protective order.
Second Degree Assault
Dfc K. Meyer was investigating a noise/domestic complaint on Hilton
Drive in Lexington Park when he met Gokhan Donald Illhan Oztas, 25, of
Hollywood and noticed Oztas had a prescription bottle in his possession that
did not have a label. Oztas appeared to be intoxicated and began cursing loudly
at Meyer, which drew the attention of others in the area. Oztas was told he was
under arrest for disorderly conduct and possession of a prescription without a
label. Oztas refused to comply with the arrest and allegedly resisted. Zehra
Senel Oztas, 22, of Hollywood, and John Raymond Milburn III, 29, of Lex-
ington Park, allegedly hindered Meyers arrest of Gokhan Oztas. Zehra Oztas
and Milburn were arrested and charged with hindering and disorderly conduct.
As the deputies were arresting Zehra Oztas and John Milburn, Gokhan Oztas
attempted to run away from the deputies custody. After a short chase Gokhan
Oztas was stopped and was also charged with attempted escape.
Man Charged With Fleeing Accident After
Woman Leaps From Car
By Guy Leonard
Staff Writer
Five years after the robbery of the Cedar Point Feder-
al Credit Union in Leonardtown, local investigators have
arrested a third suspect in the heist.
Detectives with the St. Marys County Bureau of
Criminal Investigations arrested Martha Thompson, 25,
of Lexington Park on June 2 and charged her with being
an accessory to the armed robbery of the credit union be-
fore and after the incident.
Detectives allege that Thompson was working at the
bank during the robbery and provided inside information
that the alleged robbers put to use.
The two men accused of executing the bank robbery,
Cornelius Chase and Derrick Green, have both been ar-
rested and are awaiting trial.
Capt. Rick Burris, commander of the criminal inves-
tigations unit, said that they are still looking for at least
one more suspect who entered the bank to commit the
robbery.
Green, he said, is believed to be the getaway driver.
Were still looking at other people who may have
been involved, so there may be other arrests, Burris told
The County Times.
Chases case has been mov-
ing through the court system for
about two years, as his competency
to stand trial was in question, even
though he is currently incarcerated
for other violent crimes for which he
was convicted in 2006 after the Ce-
dar Point robbery.
Chase currently faces charges
of armed robbery, frst-degree as-
sault and the use of a handgun in the
commission of a felony in connec-
tion with the Cedar Point heist.
In December of 2008 a Circuit
Court judge ruled that Chase was
competent to stand trial, for which
he is scheduled to stand this month.
Green, 27, of Lexington Park,
was arrested last month as part of
the ongoing criminal investigation
of the armed robbery.
Charged with robbery, he re-
mains incarcerated at the county
detention center.
Charging documents allege that
Thompson was the one who provid-
ed inside information regarding the
normal bank operations, number of
employees present, the banks layout
and amount of money at the credit
union.
Charging documents state that
Thompson admitted to passing
along the information to Green and
identifed both he and Chase as the
suspects in the case.
She also admitted to receiv-
ing two cash payments from Green
to conceal their identities in the
robbery.
Thompson was held in lieu
of a $100,000 bond after a District
Court bail review on Wednesday
and remains at the county detention
center.
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By Andrea Shiell
Staff Writer
The sun and heat warped the air above
the lower Potomac as Dick Gass, president of
the St. Clements Hundred sped toward St. Cle-
ments Island with his colleagues Samuel Bo
Bailey, James Jim Banagan and Frank Roys.
During the trip he began explaining one of the
islands highlights, the reconstructed Blacki-
stone Lighthouse which was opened to the
public in June 2008.
This weekend marks the beginning of this
years visiting season, when visitors may again
visit the lighthouse via boat tours staffed by
volunteers.
What visitors may not realize is that be-
hind the recreation of this sturdy structure was
a virtual army of advocates and volunteers
working for years to plan and implement the
project, and as Richard and his cohorts cele-
brate Marylands 375
th
birthday, the light may
be shining brighter on the group than the struc-
ture itself.
The building came about as a result of a
family called the McWilliams family, and most
notably in that family, who owned the island
for a number of years, there was a lady light
keeper appointed, and her name was Josephine
McWilliams Freeman, said Gass.
Freeman was one of the few women al-
lowed to serve as a lighthouse keeper in her
day in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Many
years later in the 1990s, her granddaughter,
Josephine Mattingly, approached the St. Cle-
ments Hundred about erecting a monument to
honor her grandmothers memory. (The mis-
sion of the nonproft St. Clements Hundred
group is to preserve the history and beauty of
the island.)
At frst we thought of something small,
and we actually started with the idea of maybe
a silhouette or a frame and it continued to sort
of grow with the story, said Gass, referring to
the islands early history.
The frst settlers in Maryland came to St.
Clements Island after veering off-course to
avoid the Piscataway warriors who were wait-
ing along the banks of the Chesapeake for them
to land. From there the island became a part of
the holdings of the Blackistone family, who set
up residence and used the property as a dowry
for their daughter in her marriage to Nehemiah
Blackistone in 1669.
The lighthouse bearing their namesake
was constructed by John Donahoo in 1851 for
$5,537, and stayed in use until 1932, when so-
phisticated land transportation made the light-
house obsolete and it was decommissioned by
the federal government. The lighthouse stood
until it was destroyed by a fre in 1956.
What started with a $5,000 bequest from
Josephine Mattingly and an idea to build a
simple monument to honor her grandmother
eventually blossomed into an ambitious project
to reconstruct the beacon that acted as the GPS
system of its time for the lower Potomac.
According to Gass, what made the proj-
ect both unique and frustrating for the group
was the fact that it was a true reconstruction, in
most cases using materials identical to the ones
available to the builders who constructed the
original in 1851.
We copied the actual proposal that was
put out by the federal government and pub-
lished in what was then called the Alexandria
Gazette in 1850, and by just reading that and
looking at the drawings we could tell every de-
tail down to the type of nail, the type of mate-
rial, everything about the building, he said.
The second biggest challenge to us was
getting the materials here, said Gass. Its
very easy when you hire a contractor: He calls
the cement company and the truck comes
down the street and puts the foundation in. Its
not so easy when youre a half mile offshore,
he said.
We were trying to fnd somebody to haul
the whole building over, you know the mor-
tar, the bricks, the lumber, and it was almost
impossible. One guy wanted like $10,000 an
hour, said Banagan, who became instrumen-
tal in getting the help and support of Maryland
Rock, a company out of Breton Bay that do-
nated materials and labor to the project.
All these materials had to be ordered be-
fore the building started, and I think they did a
really good job of getting it all over here and
they had to have a boat come back and forth
every day to bring the help, said Bailey, add-
ing that the numbers of volunteers would vary
from day to day. Sometimes wed have a lot of
people, other times we had no one, he said.
The group drew from a funding pool
of state grants, donations from the St.
Marys county commissioners and more
than $400,000 from local fundraising ef-
forts, some of which was raised by selling
prints of a drawing of the original light-
house done by a local artist.
My job mainly was that we had a
young local artist, George McWilliams
was his name, and we commissioned him
to draw a picture of the lighthouse and
he made 500 prints of the original paint-
ing he made for us to sell, said Frank
Roys, adding that there were still some
prints available.
Gass said that the project cost more
than $800,000, a number that could have
easily doubled had it not been for the nu-
merous companies supplying materials at
cost, and more than 100 individuals vol-
unteering on weekends and holidays to
complete the building.
The result, however, may be one of
the sturdiest monuments ever erected
to honor a single person, supported by
one of the sturdiest volunteer groups in
the area, which has been charged by the
state of Maryland with the responsibil-
ity of preserving the building for future
generations.
Fortunately for this group, which signed a
50-year lease with the state for the structure, its
membership has skyrocketed since the light-
house opened last year.
Weve seen our membership increase
tenfold, said Gass, adding that the group has
also formed a foundation to support the sites
maintenance in future years.
As for the tedium and turmoil of the sites
yearlong construction, these men maintain that
the lighthouse is only a focal point for their
efforts to maintain the island, which include
planting trees and felds of native fowers and
shrubs, and maintaining a seawall to halt ero-
sion. And it has always been a labor of love.
If you cant do it right and build it the
way it was supposed to be built, then dont do it
at all, said Gass, laughing.
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Tours to Lighthouse
Blackistone Lighthouse will be open
this season for guided tours provided by the
Blackistone Lighthouse Foundation on the
following dates:
Sat. June 6
Sat. July 11; Sun. July 12
Sat. July 25
Sat. Aug. 1; Sun. Aug. 2
Sat. Sept. 5; Sun. Sep. 6
Sat. Sept. 19; Sun. Sept. 20
A water taxi from the St. Clements Is-
land Museum on the mainland in Coltons
Point will offer roundtrip rides to the light-
house on St. Clements Island for $7 per per-
son, which includes the cost of admission to
the museum.
Because severe weather may cause tour
cancellations, visitors are encouraged to call
St. Clements Island Museum at 301-769-2222
to confrm touring schedules and hours of de-
parture. For more information, go to www.
co.saintmarys.md.us/recreate/museums/
watertaxitours.asp.
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Bo Bailey
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1851.
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great time to start living a more environ-
mentally conscious lifestyle. And many
of these lifestyle adjustments are easy
to make, especially during the warmer
months of the year.
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Clothes dryers need substantial amounts
of energy to operate. Homeowners can
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however, by choosing to dry their clothes
outdoors on a clothesline during summer
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taking a dip in the backyard pool. While
pools are not typically seen as environ-
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light bulbs inside the house can make your
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* Change your barbecue routine.
Backyard barbecues are a staple of sum-
mertime for families across the country.
However, these gatherings can often
prove unfriendly to the environment.
Rather than using paper plates or napkins
at your next backyard barbecue, use reus-
able plastic plates and cloth napkins. This
is far less wasteful and can make a very
positive impact on the environment.
* Dont be so quick to turn on the
air conditioning. Air conditioners use
substantial amounts of energy. In lieu of
turning the air on at the rst sign of a heat
wave, consider installing ceiling fans
or simply opening the windows. Many
families dont spend much time at home
during the daytime hours when tempera-
tures are at their peak anyway, which
should make it easier to get through
summer without relying so heavily on
costly and environmentally unfriendly
air conditioning.
Something as simple as drying clothes outside on a clothesline is one way to make a positive impact on the environ-
ment during the warmer summer months.
Summer a Great Time to Go Green
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A House is
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With millions of students headed to college this fall, chances are you may know a member of the graduating
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When students think of bloodsuckers, they may
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that feast on blood may be turning up in students
bedrooms and dorm rooms.
College campuses can be the perfect setting for
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for a bedbug problem to occur is for one bedbug to
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Bedbugs are nocturnal
creatures who hide in the
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blood meal at night. While
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they can leave welts and itchy
rashes on some people.
A recent public survey
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that 1 in every 6 people in
this city alone has had a run-
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Since they dine late at night,
people may never realize they
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tice the bites, which could re-
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bites, but also to avoid transporting the parasites home
when they visit on school breaks. While schools may
have the budget and the means to eradicate bedbugs,
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North American real estate showed signs
of recovery in the rst quarter -- and even with
a global recession lingering on, environmental-
ly responsible options and upgrades are still in
demand.
Last year, according to the most recent data,
the nations green residential building market
was estimated to be 6 to 10 percent of the conven-
tional residential market, an 8 percent increase
over the year before. By 2012, these numbers are
expected to double to reach 12 to 20 percent mar-
ket share, all of which represents a green build-
ing industry worth from $40 to $70 billion.
These days, however, the green motive may
be less to do with cleaning up the planet, as it is
to immediately reduce ones cost of living.
Americans do see the correlation between
conservation and cost-cutting, says Todd Blyth
at Nudura, manufacturer of the innovative, Insu-
lated Concrete Form system. High performance
and sustainable building components pay off im-
mediately with reduced energy and maintenance
costs -- and as importantly, green upgraded ma-
terials deliver a sound return-on-investment as
the resale value compounds.
Nudura, well known for its concrete wall
system to replace traditional building methods,
has recently won four of the prestigious ICF
Builder Awards, most notably for the multi-
storey West Village student dorm in Hamilton,
Ontario. West Village is also a platinum-rated
project by Leadership in Energy and Environmen-
tal Design (LEED). Due to its third-party certica-
tion program, LEED has created an international
benchmark to encourage the construction and op-
eration of high performance sustainable buildings
-- and the platinum rating is as good as it gets.
West Village builders, for example, opted for
Nudura walls, a method that entails interlocking
forms with two layers of polystyrene, steel rein-
forced, and lled with concrete.
Concrete, instead of traditional building
methods, for public buildings and homes is far
stronger, more efcient, and healthier -- and it does
not deplete our forests of natural resources, Blyth
explains. This greener method builds the walls to
the roof with a form that has two layers of poly-
styrene and is then steel reinforced and lled with
concrete. It cuts down construction time signi-
cantly, creates less waste material, and it virtually
eliminates mould, mildew, and other toxic emis-
sions that are associated with traditional building
methods. The homeowner saves immediately, due
to durability and energy efciency and with a po-
tential to reduce energy costs by up to 70 percent.
Better still, the entire structure is reported to be
up to nine times stronger, with far more re pro-
tection, far more sound insulation, all of which
leads to very promising equity growth for resale.
Green construction options pay off swiftly and
permanently.
Construction News:
Recession spurs requests for green materials
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By Linda Reno
Contributing Writer
Are you a fan of blueberry mufns? Dont
you just love that cranberry sauce with the holi-
day turkey? If youre like most Americans, the
answer would be yes. If youre wondering what
the connection is to St. Marys County, wait no
longer.
Lt. Col. Athanasius Fenwick, only child of
Capt. James Fenwick and Catherine Ford, was
born here in 1780. The family was wealthy,
prominent and had good political connections.
Athanasius was sent to Europe to be educated.
Upon his return he studied law, but it appears
that he was more interested in agriculture,
writing and lecturing on such things as the ef-
fects of salt water which prevent the
operation of plaster of Paris on soil.
To Correspondents. The Address
of Col. Athanasius Fenwick to the Ag-
ricultural Society of St. Marys Coun-
ty, communicated by said society for
publication in the American Farm-
er, will receive early and respectful
attention, as it highly deserves. We
should have inserted it in this number,
but that we wished to conclude the
publication of the learned, philosoph-
ical, and, as it relates to the latter part
of it, we may say, practical Address
of Mr. Madison. (American Farmer,
Sept. 3, 1819).
On Oct. 30, 1817, at the age of 37,
Athanasius married Susanna Susan
Howell in Philadelphia and brought
her to his home Cherry Fields in
St. Marys County. The following
year their rst child, James Athana-
sius Fenwick (called Thane) was born. The
couple then had two daughters, Margaret (born
1820) and Susan Emeline (born 1822), neither
of whom married and lived with their brother
during their lives.
On Aug. 7, 1824, Susan (Howell) Fenwick
died in Philadelphia. Why she was in Philadel-
phia and why she died we will probably never
know. It certainly begs the question as to the
cause of death of Athanasius Fenwick here just
less than two months later on Sept. 29.
The children, now aged 7, 4, and 2, were
placed under the guardianship of Benjamin
Jones (husband of Susans sister, Mary Howell)
of Philadelphia where they went to live. Wal-
ter Moore Jones, son of this Benjamin Jones
lived here at least from April 1, 1818, when he
married Ann Maria Catherine Holton, daugh-
ter of William and Mary Holton of Mulberry
Fields until his death in 1823.
About 1843, shortly before his marriage
to Mary Cashell, Thane Fenwick bought ex-
tensive acreage in Burlington County, N.J,
naming his property Fenwick Manor. He be-
came a very successful farmer. Then in 1857
he expanded his horizons and bought an
additional 490 acres of property along a
run and began cultivating cranberries.
In this he was again very successful
and began a cranberry boom. The
land surrounding his, previously
thought to be worthless, was found
capable of producing large quantities
of cranberries in demand in the U.S.
and Europe.
Thane had two children James
Athanasius Fenwick Jr. (born 1844)
and Mary Anne Fenwick (born 1847).
In 1869, Mary Anne Fenwick married Jo-
seph Josiah White. Joseph White and Thane
Fenwick would join forces in the cranberry
business, and Mr. White would later become
the founding father of what we know today as
the Ocean Spray Cranberry Cooperative.
Thane had never forgotten his father even
though he was only seven when he lost him. In
1874 he decided to remove his fathers remains
to New Jersey so that at his death (which oc-
curred in 1882) he would be with him again, if
not in life, at least in death. They lie together at
St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Mt. Holly,
N.J. The tombstone of Athanasius Fenwick
reads:
Col. Athanasius Fenwick, A Soldier of
the War of 1812, Born in Saint Marys County,
Md., A.D. 1780. Died A.D. 1824. These re-
mains were removed from Cherryelds, St.
Marys Co., Md., their original burial place, by
his surviving children, A.D. 1874.
Around the turn of the century, Elizabeth
White (daughter of Joseph White and Mary
Anne Fenwick) became interested in the pos-
sibility of cultivating blueberries, previously
thought impossible. Blueberries then grew wild
and only in North America. In 1911 Elizabeth
convinced her father to support the research
of Dr. Frederick Coville in blueberry cultiva-
tion. By 1916, they had achieved their goal and
would soon have over 90 acres of blueberries
under cultivation. In 1927 Elizabeth helped or-
ganize the New Jersey Blueberry Cooperative
Association. She was also the rst woman to
become a member of the American Cranberry
Association. She died in 1954.
While the manor house at Fenwick Manor
is used as the administrative ofces of the New
Jersey Pinelands Commission, the surrounding
property has been retained by Thane Fenwicks
descendants. Katherine Darlington Thompson,
a great-granddaughter, is the owner and man-
ager of Fenwick Manor Farm where they now
raise alpacas.
There is much more to be told about Lt.
Col. Athanasius Fenwick, but that will have to
wait for a future article.
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Columnist Linda Reno
is a historian and genealogist
specializing in Southern
Maryland history. Mrs. Reno is a
member of the St. Marys County
Historical Society, St. Marys County
Genealogical Society, Charles County
Genealogical Society, Maryland Historical
Society and the Maryland Genealogical
Society. She has authored many books
and articles on local history. We
hope you will enjoy these articles
and welcome your comments
and suggestions for
future subjects.
A Journey Through Time A Journey Through Time
The Chronicle
Photo Courtesy of Thomas Darlington
Thane Fenwick and his children.
The County Times
By Andrea Shiell
Staff Writer
Sheryl-Marie Dunaway may not have expected
to see an entire ballet unfold from one trip to the mu-
seum, but that is exactly what inspired her latest story
ballet, The Art of Dancing, which will be performed
by Ballet Caliente on June 5 and 6 at Great Mills High
School.
The story unfolds much like a modern fairy tale.
Set in Paris, a group of 12 students venture with their
teacher, Sister Benedicte, played by Rachel Murree, on
an outing to the Musee dOrsay.
Ive always viewed art, whether its paintings or
dance or music or sculpture to be about communication.
Theres always a message that the artist is trying to get
across, said Dunaway, adding that Sister Benedicte tells
her own students the same thing in the ballet, where the
heroine, Dominique, played by Rebekah Brand (Friday)
and Callista Brown (Saturday), comes across Degas
bronze statue of La Petite Danseuse played by Colleen
Daly.
Because of Dominiques vivid imagination and
love of dance, the statue and paintings come alive and
dance. Many masters works are represented through
dance in the program, which includes featured soloists
Ashley Springer in Van Goughs Starry Starry Night,
Shannon Slaughter in Hughes Fairy Kisses, Natasha
Barlow in Waterhouses Lady of Shalott, Jessica Spring-
er in Dufys Eiffel Tower and Lara Chubb, Margaret
Daly, and Carolina Heisler in Carnation, Lilly, Lilly,
Rose by Sargent.
Of course, there are perils when Dominique runs
across a statue of Meduse by Dhuermer, played by
Jesseca Smalt, whose gaze
turns onlookers to stone, and
she must rely on her imagina-
tion to keep her from danger.
Dunaway cheerfully explained that
she was inspired to write the ballet after
visiting the National Gallery of art with
a friend.
The whole thing started with a
friend of mine whos an artist. Her name
is Lauri Bruce, and she took me to the
National Gallery of Art, and when I
was there I saw a lot of children on eld
trips, she said, adding that she had
seen so many personalities in each of
the paintings that the idea almost wrote
itself.
It was very easy to nd lots of
different paintings that represented the
characters, she said, because I have
such great students and I could just
imagine them in a particular setting.
With a blend of music played by
guest musicians Mortin Gould and Jeffery Silberschlogg
of the River Concert Series, and an eclectic soundtrack
of everything from Tchaikovsky to Slightly Stoopid,
Dunaway described it as a treat for all
tastes.
Its hard to estimate how
many dancers we have in the
program, said Dunaway.
I think its somewhere
around 280 but like
you manage anything
you break it into piec-
es, she said.
Dunaway has been
teaching and choreo-
graphing for over 30 years
and says she enjoys writ-
ing and choreographing story
ballets in particular. Stressing
to her students the importance
of the dancing Ds, discipline,
determination, devotion and
dedication, she said the spirit
of her latest production remains very much in line with
her own ideas as both a teacher and artist.
In todays world children are very used to the very
fast paced life we live and instant gratication, she said.
When youre studying an art it goes slowly, because it
takes time to perfect it. It doesnt happen overnight. The
longer they study the better they get at it, and I think
thats an important lesson for them.
Ballet Caliente will perform The Art of Dancing
at 7 p.m. on June 5 and 6 at Great Mills High School.
Tickets are $15, and are available online at www.ballet-
caliente.com or at the door. For more information, call
301-862-0038.
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Land of
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By Christie Lemire
AP Movie Critic
A surprise winner of this years for-
eign-language Oscar, beating out front-
runners Waltz With Bashir and The
Class, the Japanese dramedy Depar-
tures has its moments but is ultimately
overlong and too melodramatic.
Director Yojiro Takita and writer
Kundo Koyama begin with an intriguing
premise, though: After the symphony or-
chestra he plays for disbands, cellist Dai-
go Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki) leaves
Tokyo and returns to his hometown with
his sunny, supportive wife, Mika (Ryoko Hirosue). There, he an-
swers a help-wanted ad he thinks is from a travel agency, but in
this case, the word departures pertains to the dead. (The long,
wooden boxes in the ofce should have given him a clue.)
But Daigo needs the money, and even though he has zero ex-
perience in this area, he trains with the companys crusty owner,
Sasaki (Tsutomu Yamazaki), in the ritual of encofnation. This
is the washing, clothing and placing of the deceased into a cofn
while family members watch and grieve.
Daigo is disgusted at rst but he struggles to maintain his
typical dignity, which provides the lms early comedy. You could
very easily imagine an English-language remake of Depar-
tures; the awkward situations are built right in, and such a
juxtaposition of death and dark humor already has been ex-
plored this spring in the charming Sunshine Cleaning.
But in time, Daigo comes to appreciate the beauty
of the act, the care that goes into it and the closure it
provides for the loved ones left behind. Its a lovely and
moving process, and Takita treats it with due delicacy
and respect but because it is a process, he shows it to
us repeatedly in its entirety, which makes Departures
way longer than it needs to be. And too often, Daigos
interaction with the families turns maudlin, which is un-
necessary: The state in which were seeing them is clearly
emotional enough on its own.
As a subplot, Daigo has neglected to tell his wife the true
nature of his work because theres a social stigma attached to it.
She thinks hes some sort of tour guide, and in a way he is lead-
ing people to their nal destination. But the lie he tells her leads
to a predictable rift and eventual reconciliation. The resolution to
his longtime estrangement from his father also comes with some
predictable and rather shameless tear-jerking. (Similarly, Daigos
return to the cello with majestic, snowcapped mountains loom-
ing in the background feels a bit forced.)
Departures ends up being most effective in the details: the
inappropriate outbursts and confrontations among the bereaved,
the manner in which Daigo carefully folds the richly detailed ma-
terial around the bodies, even the bleak, snowy landscape as he
drives to an assignment at a particularly low point in his own life.
Although the lm is about the huge and universal topic of death,
these smaller moments provide it with some life.
(Regent Releasing; Japanese with English subtitles; Not
Rated, contains some nudity; Run Time 131 minutes; Two and a
half stars out of four.)
Movie Review:
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Rain or Shine. Covered Seating Available
ST. MARYS COUNTY
CRABS AT THEIR BEST
For all there is to see and do
and for great places to stay,
call 800-327-9023 or visit
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Sponsored by
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Gate Admission:
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Children Under 12 FREE.
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CRAB RACES
ST. MARYS COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS
2 miles South of Leonardtown, MD, on MD Rte. 5
Legend
Cryers Back Road Inn (Leonardtown) 9 p.m.
Minus-One
Sails Restaurant and Lounge (Newburg) 9 p.m.
Bent Nickel
Andersons Bar (Clements) 9 p.m.
Sunday, June 7
All You Can Eat Breakfast
At the Bay District Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment, Lexington Park. Cost is $8 adults, $5
kids 5-12, kids 4 and under free. From 8 a.m. to
12 p.m. Menu includes scrambled eggs, home
fries pancakes, sausage, bacon, French toast
sticks, biscuits and gravy. For more informa-
tion, call Melissa Gould at 240-298-3305.
Second Hope Rescue
Second Hope Rescue and the Humane Society
of Calvert County invite you to join us for a
Pity Party and Whine Time from noon until 4
p.m. at Peppers Pet Pantry, 13858 Solomons
Island Road, Solomons. Bring your fam-
ily and meet our wonderful pit bulls and pit
bull mixes that are looking for their furever
homes. Wine and wine accessory baskets
will be available to bid on in a Chinese auc-
tion starting on Fri., May 29. Proceeds will
benet both organizations. For more infor-
mation or to sponsor a wine basket, please call
240-925-0628.
NFB 24
th
Annual Childrens Day
Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum 11
a.m.
Celebrating Life at Annual Cancer Survi-
vors Picnic
If you or a loved one has survived can-
cer and you want to join the celebration, St.
Marys Hospital is hosting a National Cancer
Survivors Day picnic from 1 to 5 p.m.
Although a cancer diagnosis is a scary
thought, it is not always a death sentence. In
fact, about 65 percent of people nationwide
diagnosed with cancer in the United States
are expected to live at least ve years upon di-
agnosis, according to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
The event will be held in the St. Marys
Hospital parking lot in Leonardtown and will
feature lunch and speakers, including Dr. Mi-
chael Mahaffey, the hospitals Cancer Com-
mittee chairman; MaryLou Watson, hospital
vice president for nursing; and Joan Popielski,
director of the St. Marys Hospital Cancer
Care and Infusion Services. Jennifer Drury,
clinical health educator at Health Connec-
tions, will provide a lesson on the benets of
exercise during chemotherapy.
The National Cancer Survivors Day
Foundation denes a survivor as anyone liv-
ing with a history of cancer from the moment
of diagnosis through the remainder of life.
For information on the National Cancer
Survivors Day picnic or to register for the pro-
grams for cancer patients, call 301-475-6070.
Texas HoldEm The BIG GAME
Izaak Walton Hall (Hughesville)
2 p.m.
Original One-Act Plays
Three Notch Theatre (Lexington Park)
3:30 p.m.
Billy Breslin
Port Tobacco 4 p.m.
Karaoke
St. Marys Landing 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, June 4
BBQ Night
VFW Post 2632 (California) 5:30 p.m.
Drop-in Salsa
House of Dance (Hollywood) 6 p.m.
Music For Life (Benet Concert)
Lexington Park Elementary School 6:30
p.m.
Ladies Night
Fat Boys Country Store (Leonardtown) 7
p.m.
Ladies Night @ Spicers
1232 E. Mount Harmony Road (Owings)
7 p.m.
Three Notch Theatre (Lexington Park) 8
p.m.
DJ Jamie
Cadillac Jacks (Lexington Park) 9 p.m.
Friday, June 5
First Friday
Leonardtown Square 5 p.m.
Montgomery Gentry in concert
St. Leonard VFD 5 p.m.
Furnishings on Display
Creek Side Gallery will feature the custom
designed ne furniture and home furnish-
ings and gourd art created by Whiskey
Creek Wood Works owners Dave and Mar-
ta Kelsey for the month of June. Located
in the Maryland Antiques Center in Leon-
ardtown, the gallery will host an opening
reception from 5 to 8 p.m. as part of Mary-
land Antique Centers regular First Friday
celebration. Works by other local artists,
including watercolors by Sue Stevenson
and guest jewelers, painters and photogra-
phers ,will also be on display. For informa-
tion call the Maryland Antiques Center at
301-475-1960.
Ballet Calliente The Art of Dancing
Great Mills High School 7 p.m.
Idle Americans Open Blues Jam
Fat Boys Country Store (Leonardtown)
8 p.m.
DJ Harry
Big Dogs Paradise (Mechanicsville)
8 p.m.
Three Notch Theatre (Lexington Park)
8 p.m.
Karaoke
Cadillac Jacks (Lexington Park)
9 p.m.
Karaoke
911 Bar (Mechanicsville) 9 p.m.
DJ Red Dog Karaoke
Cryers Back Road Inn (Leonardtown)
9 p.m.
Saturday, June 6
Mega Indoor Flea Market
St. Marys County Fair Association is hav-
ing a Mega Indoor Flea Market at the Fair-
grounds from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. All vendors
are welcome. This is the last ea market un-
til October. An 8 x 10 space may be rented
for $15. For information or to reserve a
space, you must call 301-475-9543.
CHS Band Boosters Yard Sale
Yard sale sponsored by CHS Band Boosters
will be held in the parking lot next to Ritas
in Charlotte Hall. Space is available for
rent by calling Mary Ann or Geoff at 301-
884-2655 or 301-884-5467. We will also be
having a car wash, so come out and browse
while your car gets clean.
CPR and AED Awareness Week
Celebrate the American Heart Associations
National CPR and AED Awareness Week
by taking advantage of a free opportunity
to learn CPR skills. Be one of the one mil-
lion people the American Heart Associa-
tion has set as a goal to train in CPR skills.
The class is from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at
the Lexington Park Library. Call 301-475-
6019 to register. Only 30 slots are available.
Clean out your attic, basement and closets
The Hollywood Volunteer Rescue Squad
Auxiliary will be sponsoring a yard sale
from 7 to 11 a.m. at the Rescue Squad
building on Route 235. Food will be avail-
able. Table rental is $10. Call 301-373-3833
to rent a table.
Class Reunion
Class Reunion for Chopticon High School
Class of 68, 69, 70. For more infor-
mation, call Charlene Davis Tsirigotis at
301-994-0079.
Father Andrew White Yard Sale
From 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Rent a table for $25.
Give items to FAW to sell with 100 percent
of the prot going to the school (no clothes
please). Come and shop, shop and shop! For
more information, e-mail Devon OBrien at
DOBRIEN@SMRHS.ORG or go to www.
fatherandrewwhite.org.
No Limit Texas HoldEm Bounty
Tournament
St. Marys County Elks Lodge 3 p.m.
12
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Annual Relay for Life
Leonardtown High School Track 5:30
p.m.
Sellar Kart, Esterlyn, & Under Command
7:30 Club (Mechanicsville) 7:30 p.m.
Karaoke
Navy Rec Center (Solomons) 8 p.m.
Fais Do Do at Do Dah Deli to Benet
Greenwell Foundation
8 to 11:30 p.m. at the Do Dah Deli in Leon-
ardtown. Tickets: $35. Call 301-373-9775.
Three Notch Theatre (Lexington Park) 8 p.m.
DJ Jamie
Cadillac Jacks (Lexington Park) 9 p.m.
The County Times
Cuisine
& More
Cuisine
By J.M. HIRSCH
AP Food Editor
This shrimp and prosciutto dish is an
easy-to-make rethinking of a classic starter
from the Marche region of Italy, a small,
lesser known area wedged between Tus-
cany, Umbria and the Adriatic Sea.
In traditional versions, shrimp are
wrapped in thinly sliced strips of cured
ham, then pan fried. The dish is nished
by deglazing the skillet with a dry white
wine.
This recipe keeps most of that. But
rather than serve the shrimp as a starter,
they are reserved for topping a fresh fet-
tuccini tossed with goat cheese. The warm,
creamy cheese is the perfect foil for the
salty, crispy shrimp and prosciutto.
If youd rather stick with a starter,
consider turning the dish into crostini.
Lightly toast rounds of baguette, rub them
with a raw garlic clove, then spread a thin
layer of goat cheese over them and top with
a shrimp.
For a less costly version of this dish
with the same great taste, use an equal
amount of chopped smaller shrimp and
about 4 ounces of diced prosciutto. Saute
both, but leave them in the pan when add-
ing the goat cheese and pasta.
On The Menu
On The Vine
A Sip of the Past as
Classic Cocktails Come Back
By CARYN BROOKS
For The Associated
Press
On the American
cocktail scene, newer, faster
and cheaper is giving way to
older, slower and its worth it.
Pre-Prohibition era cocktails
sort of the barkeeps equivalent of the
horse and buggy have begun elbowing
their way onto big city bar scenes and into
numerous cookbooks and magazines.
Theres a trend in general toward
classics and Ive denitely noticed more
classics on menus throughout the city,
said Alyssa Shepherd, a member of the
Boston chapter of Ladies United for the
Preservation of Endangered Cocktails.
Its worth bringing these drinks
back because theyre about balance and
avor, she said.
Founded in Pittsburgh in 2007 now
with branches around the country Shep-
herds group describes itself as a classic
cocktail society dedicated to breeding,
raising and releasing nearly extinct drinks
into the wild.
Its a popular mission but a tough
trend to measure.
I ndi cat or s
include spikes in
sales of old-time
liquors, such
as rye whiskey,
which jumped
30 percent from
2007 to 2008.
The entire
spirits industry
on average sees
an increase of
6 percent per
year, said Dani-
elle Eddy of the
Distilled Spirits
Council of the
United States.
Rye, a key in-
gredient in many
old-fangled cocktails, hasnt been popular
since the Great Depression.
For any particular spirit to see as
great of an increase as 30 percent, you
know that theres a lot of interest behind
that.
Much of the credit for the rise for of
the classic cocktail goes to David Won-
drich, author of Imbibe! The book fol-
lows the adventures of one of Americas
pioneering men of mixology, Jerry Thom-
as, who wrote the nations rst bartending
guide.
Written in 1862, the guide has be-
come a lodestar for old-school cocktail
fans across the country.
Drinks back then were like Italian
food, Wondrich said. Italian food uses
a few basic ingredients and a few simple
preparations. But the ingredients have to
be the best and then the simple prepara-
tions work.
Classics are drinks whose formu-
las were concocted before Prohibition or
just after. Famous ones include Manhat-
tans, Tom Collins and Juleps, with lesser
known ones brought out of retirement
from old recipe books. Bars sticking to
the original plans use only fresh ingredi-
ents as they did in the old days, some go-
ing as far as making their own bitters and
grenadine.
Wondrich has become one of the
scenes most prominent experts. Requests
for him to speak have increased so much
during the past ve years he has to turn
down more than he accepts.
Its a revolution, Wondrich said
recently at The Clover Club, a throwback
bar in Brooklyn where the cocktail menu
has paragraph-deep descriptions of drink
types.
And like most revolutions it moves
in cells at rst, he said.
In this case, those cells are the pas-
sionate young bartenders who turn fellow
workers and customers on to the advan-
tages of these kinds of drinks.
Back then, drinks were formulated
so that imbibers actually tasted the alco-
hol in the beverage; during Prohibition the
quality of available alcohol diminished
and people found ways to hide the taste.
That trend continued past Prohibition and
continues in many modern bars today. A
return to the classics celebrates and mar-
quees the taste of good quality liquor.
At The Clover Club, guests pick
drinks under headings such as Sours &
Daisies, Collins & Fizzes, Old Fash-
ioned, Flips & Sangarees and Royales.
For the uninitiated, ips are made with a
whole egg and royales are doused with
Champagne or sparkling wine.
Want to catch one of these activ-
ist bartenders promoting an old-school
agenda in action? Head to Alembic in
San Francisco where bar manager Daniel
Hyatt has split the cocktail menu into two
camps: The Canon and The New School.
From The Canon you can get a simple
bourbon Old-fashioned, here described as
Nothing more than a slug of good whis-
key on the rocks, with a couple of dashes
of bitters, a little sugar, and a twist of lem-
on peel to take the edge off.
Hyatt said that most of his customers
appreciate Alembics differences.
Theres always going to be people
who come in and say, Oh my God, it
takes forever to get a drink here. But the
really exciting thing is when people pop
in and dont know where theyre coming,
and they say, Wow, Ive never seen any-
one put so much care into a drink.
One way Hyatt shares the old-school
playbook with his customers is a popular
monthly Stomping Through The Savoy
night co-hosted by Bar Area blogger Erik
Ellestad. Ellestad is in the midst of an al-
most three year (and counting) project to
make every cocktail in the Savoy Cock-
tail Book, which he documents on his
blog, www.underhill-lounge.com.
Savoy night at Alembic consists of
customers leang through the hundreds
of recipes in the book and picking one for
the bar to make at their own risk. While
some things were denitely better back
then, its not a hard and fast rule.
There are some drinks in there that
call for absinthe as either a sweetener or
as a bittering agent that are pretty disgust-
ing, Hyatt said. Ill tell you if Ive made
it before and its disgusting but if you in-
sist on it, its yours.
Prosciutto with Shrimp for
Pasta Dish with Punch
Today in
St. Marys County
we have many
wonderful options for
dining out. Each week we
will feature a local
restaurant and give our
readers an overview of what
they can enjoy on the menu
at each location.
Bon Apptit!
Recipe
PROSCIUTTO-WRAPPED
SHRIMP WITH FETTUCCINI
Start to nish: 20 minutes Servings: 4
12 ounces extra-large shrimp,
shells and tails removed
12 ounces thickly sliced prosciutto
1 tablespoon olive oil
12 ounces fresh fettuccini pasta
1/4 cup dry white wine
4-ounce log goat cheese
Salt and ground black pepper, to
taste
3 scallions, nely chopped
Heat the oven to 200 F. Bring
a large pot of salted water to a boil.
Tightly wrap each shrimp in a
slice of prosciutto.
In a large skillet over me-
dium-high, heat the oil. Add the
shrimp and cook, covered, for 2 to
3 minutes per side, or until the pro-
sciutto is browned and crisp and
the shrimp are pink and cooked through.
Transfer the shrimp to an oven-safe plate and place in the oven to keep
warm. Reserve the skillet; do not clean it.
Add the pasta to the water and cook according to package directions, then
drain and set aside.
Return the skillet to the stove over medium-high. Add the wine and heat
for 30 seconds, scraping up any bits from the bottom of the skillet. Whisk in
the goat cheese, then add the pasta and toss until well coated. Season with salt
and pepper.
Divide the pasta between serving plates, then top with the prosciutto-
wrapped shrimp and sprinkle with chopped scallions.
Nutrition information per serving (values are rounded to the nearest
whole number): 710 calories; 194 calories from fat; 22 g fat (8 g saturated; 0
g trans fats); 209 mg cholesterol; 66 g carbohydrate; 58 g protein; 2 g ber;
2,655 mg sodium.
The County Times
By Shelby Oppermann
Contributing Writer
He is not going to be buried in that blue
sport coat, stated his youngest son during the
last remaining hours of his fathers life. The
gathering of family members in those watch-
ful, waiting hours at a quiet Arlington hospice
understood and laughed. The next day began
the hunt for the perfect burial suit.
My brother-in-law John passed away
on a Sunday night one week short of his 67th
birthday. There were dreaded, but necessary,
tasks to do, because arrangements had to be
pre-planned earlier in the week. As a veteran,
arrangements had to be made for burial at
Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery, which has a
minimum ve-day wait. Anyone who has had
a very close relative die knows there are lots
of unwanted things to think about. Funeral di-
rectors try to make the process as smooth as
possible.
Six days after his last breath on earth,
mother and two sons, with loving family came
together at my stepdaughters home. There she
carefully compiled all the pictures and music
that would give friends and extended family
ve-second moving snapshots of a mans pro-
gression through life. Some of Johns favorite
songs were incorporated into the video as well.
I think this is such a great idea at prayers and
funerals to have a beautiful video tribute to
a persons life. Any sort of pictures are good
to have on the tables. Its always nice to hear
people talking about their fond remembrances
triggered by an old photo.
We had wonderful barbecued food and
salads poolside, with my stepdaughter running
in and out to work on the photos between din-
ner, kids and talking. The music was still being
added in, and the artist of one song had to be
remembered. Every once in a while someone
would ask if the video was ready yet, and she
would say at what point it was. I thought of this
night as a pre-wake, a night for tension release
before the upcoming ritual of two days at the
funeral parlor.
It was a beautiful almost summer evening
with the pool water as bright and cool as the
startling blue of Johns eyes, eyes which always
held a mischievous twinkle in the corners, but
could also seem to see right through you. I
could imagine when his sons were young that it
must have only taken one look from John to get
them to do chores or homework. His remain-
ing brother has those same eyes. He had a dry
sense of humor, and shot forth a line so quick
that it would take his listeners by surprise. On
this evening, Johns wife would sometimes
laugh and sometimes cry as different thoughts
or stories were brought up.
Everyone kept an eye on the clock, or
rather their cell-phone clocks, to wait for mid-
night and a tribute shot of Crown Royal to their
beloved husband, father, father-in-law, uncle or
brother-in-law. This is a family tradition. My
husband says now when he travels to Chelten-
ham to visit his fathers grave, he will have to
do two shots for his dad and now John. Some
of the shot is poured on the grave and the rest
is consumed. We took this idea to my fathers
grave but had to switch to Old Grand Dad. I
know my dad enjoyed his tribute shot too.
Near midnight, the subject of the blue
sport coat came up again. Laughter all around
as they all tried to remember how
many weddings, baptisms and
events John had worn it to.
My husband said he be-
lieved John had worn
it to his rst wed-
ding, and maybe to
ours as well. And
all who had been
married in the
group thought
he had worn it
to their wed-
dings. The
only excep-
tions being
his two sons
w e d d i n g s
where he was
required to
wear a rented
tux. After a
bit someone
said, Maybe
we should put it
in the casket with
him. His wife said,
It was kind of like
Linus security blan-
ket. That sounded really
nice taking a small bit of
comfort with you into the next
world. Placement was debated, but
it might go down by his feet.
It was announced that the video was ready
for viewing, with the music just about ready.
We all went inside and watched the pictures of
John as a baby, child, soldier in uniform, and
then on to his later years. Yes, the blue sport
coat was in the pictures, and amidst the tears
of love and sorrow, a burst of laughter could
be heard. We all sang along with the two songs
that had so far been added to the video, not yet
with their softening transitions added, so you
would be singing and all of a sudden the song
would abruptly stop before its real ending and
the next song would begin. This also brought
lots of laughter.
A few minutes before midnight, a bonre
was started, and the countdown began; 10, 9, 8
then shot glasses raised, the family raised
their voices in shouts of, Heres to J.C. or to
John or Dad. Every family has its own unique
way of handling the death of a loved one, but
this was a loving and relaxing way to honor the
man in the blue sport coat.
Heres to you, John.
Shelby
Please send comments or ideas to:
shelbys.wanderings@yahoo.com.
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Creature Feature
By Theresa Morr
Contributing Writer
What creature slithers and slides and
comes in lots of different sizes and colors?
You guessed it --- snakes! Some reptiles are
really small, like the tiny Threadsnake found
in the West Indies. This little guy could wiggle
its way through your pencil if the lead were re-
moved! But some snakes like the Green Ana-
condas are humongous by comparison. These
dudes are scary looking, too, with thick, dark
green bodies and black oval patches on their
backs that help them blend in with their habi-
tat, the South American jungles.
Green Anacondas are the largest and
most powerful snakes on earth. One of
the biggest on record was estimated
to weigh over 500 pounds, was
almost 28 feet long and about
44 inches in muscular girth
--- bigger around than most
grown men. But early Eu-
ropean explorers to these
jungles reported seeing
even larger snakes ---
giant anacondas of up
to 100 feet long. Thats
about one-third the
length of an average
football eld!
Open wide. Green
Anacondas are non-poi-
sonous and belong to
the boa constrictor fam-
ily, meaning they con-
strict or suffocate their
victims before swallow-
ing them whole. With jum-
bo jaws that unhinge and
ligaments that stretch like
rubber bands, these big fellas
can swallow prey much larger
than the diameter of their mouths.
So gulping down something bigger
than their heads is like you swallowing
a whole watermelon. Yikes!
Water wrigglers. Anacondas are
often called water boas because they love
hanging out in the slow moving waters that feed
into the Amazon and Orinoco rivers of South
A m e r i c a .
Like croco-
diles, these
super snakes
have eyes
and nostrils
perched atop
their heads
while the rest
of their bodies
are submerged
under water.
The snake pa-
tiently waits for its victim to glide by, then with
lightening speed, swallows the unfortunate
sh, water bird, turtle, small snakes or alliga-
tor, or other mammal. When not hunting for
prey in the water, these stealthy critters belly
along the ground in nearby swamps, marshes,
and brushes in search of a meal.
But Green Anacondas are not earth or wa-
ter bound. They slither up trees, dangle from
branches, and wait for small deer, wild pigs,
or other vulnerable creatures to pass beneath.
The snake grips the animal with its powerful
jaws, the coils its body around the victim until
it suffocates.
Sacking out. After eating, Green Ana-
condas are quiet and like to rest in sunny spots
along a riverbank so everything can digest,
which can take days or even weeks. In fact, the
snake may not eat again for months. Since this
reptile can live anywhere from 10 to 30 years
or more, that means the snake may eat just ve
times a year, or about 50 to 150 meals over a
lifespan.
Lucky for us humans, Green Anacondas
seldom attack people, although theyve been
reported to do so on occasion. Maybe were
just not that tasty!
And in case youre wondering, the Green
Anaconda has another family member slith-
ering around in South Americas rivers and
swamps, too. Its the Yellow Anaconda, but
this little fellow averages about 10 to 12 feet
in length, a baby compared to its enormous
green cousin.
To see a creepy animation of the anacon-
da on the prowl, go to www.extremescience.
com/BiggestSnake.htm. Send comments to Ki-
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By Andrea Shiell
Staff Writer
It was a typical lunchtime scene at Jump-
ing Jacks restaurant in Mechanicsville, with
their small dining room crowded with regulars,
gobbling down mammoth foot-long subs, bi-
son burgers, salads, crispy fries and ice cream
within the cool connes of the building. All
were looking outside at the trafc whizzing by
on Three Notch Road as the sun beat down and
the orders were announced, and no doubt look-
ing for their gracious host, Hasan Sarikaya, Mr.
Happy Happy himself (a nickname that comes
from his signature greetings and goodbyes).
For Hasan, who ambled through his
front doors donning a large grin and a cheer-
ful greeting to his customers, it was just an-
other business day spent between his shop in
Mechanicsville and his realty ofces at Long
& Foster in Charlotte Hall, where he said he
delights in nding vacation spots and helping
rst-time homebuyers in the area.
Im an international GI Joe, he exclaimed
as he sat down, but dont say anything. George
Bush told me dont tell nobody.
But later this month he will be offering
more than his cheerful smile and jokes to the
residents of Mechanicsville, as he will be do-
nating food and ice cream to the Mechanics-
ville Volunteer Fire Department for their an-
nual carnival.
This Turkish transplant settled in St.
Marys County with his shop six years ago,
and seems to have struck culinary gold with
his American-style eatery, which boasts a large
menu of even larger items, like his famous foot-
long hot dog.
I never knew these existed before, he
said, holding up a ridiculously long hot dog
smothered in chili and onions and smiling at
it affectionately. I had to come to America to
nd this.
Added to Hasans recent deal-
ings has been his work providing free
treats to local elementary school chil-
dren who bring in certicates from the
PTA for good grades, visiting local
schools, and donating time and prod-
ucts to the local re departments for
their fundraisers, the latest of which will have
him serving up his specialties for the third year
in a row at the Mechanicsville Volunteer Fire
Departments 48th annual carnival, which will
be held on June 18-21 and June 25-28.
For Hasan, the customers and the sur-
rounding community make for a sweet icing on
the cake. I have a lot of cool customers here,
he said, and they really make my job fun when
they come in. Some of them come here just to
talk to me, its great to touch peoples hearts
that way.
And while Happy Happy remains his
mantra, hell freely admit that Yummy Yum-
my is his codeword.
You have to say yummy yummy, or you
dont get dessert, he said, laughing.
Mechanicsville Business
Owner Bringing Happy
Happy to Fire Department
Jumping Jacks owner Hasan Sarikaya will be
donating ice cream and snacks to the Mechanic-
sville Volunteer Fire Department for their annual
carnival.
Photo By Andrea Shiell
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Question
Interview
Interviewing:
Sam Compton
Sam is an environmental ana-
lyst who works for a contrac-
tor in Lexington Park. He took
some time to talk to the County
Times about his work.
CT: Explain how environmen-
tal work has changed for you
over the years.
SC: It all depends on the proj-
ect. I write environmental im-
pact statements for a living,
but I think things used to be
harder for people in my eld
before, when the environment
wasnt such a hot topic. Now
everyones talking about it, so
in a sense, my job has gotten
easier because people see
a real need for people in my
eld. When I rst got into this
job though, I didnt even know
how to spell environment,
and Im sure a lot of other peo-
ple had the same problem.
CT: Whats the most challeng-
ing part of your job?
SC: Usually its other peo-
ple. When some people hear
youre working on a new de-
velopment, they have mixed
reactions, particularly when
its right next door to them,
and sometimes they can be
really annoyed or angry, or
they can protest your ndings,
or the fact that youre there at
all. Ive had to deal with people
getting in my face and telling
me that because Im working
with Uncle Sam, I have some
hidden evil agenda, so that
can be tough to deal with.
CT: With the new Obama ad-
ministration, do you think that
environmental concerns will
be easier to address?
SC: I hope so, really. Im hop-
ing more than anything that
the government decides to
push for more green energy
and green building projects,
because thatll translate into
a lot of work for contractors in
the area.
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McKays present check
Thomas McKay and Mari-
lyn McKay presented Di-
rector Kathleen Reif and
library board member Dan
Burris with a check totaling
$2,274.84. The library placed
sixth in this years McKays
Rewards program. The dona-
tion will be used for the Tech-
nology Fund bringing the
total raised to date to $25,000
with $5,000 yet to be raised
by July 1. To nd out how to
donate, contact Director Reif.
Free book for readers
Children can earn a free book
by completing the summer
reading program which runs
from June 8 through Aug. 8.
Babies from birth to age 2
can sign up for the Read-to-
Me Club and complete fun
activities with their parents
or caregivers; preschoolers
to fth graders maintain a
reading log for the Be Cre-
ative@your library Club.
Participants in both clubs re-
turn to the library every three
weeks for prizes. When the
activity sheets or reading logs
are completed, they receive
an age-appropriate book.
In addition to the book, teens
in the sixth grade and up can
earn a chance for a digital
video camera, IPod Shufe,
ITunes gift card, $25 movie
gift card or entertainment
chair by logging their reading
time and participating in the
Express Yourself Club. Teens
bring their reading logs in ev-
ery three weeks for a chance
to earn posters, T-shirts, and
Ritas Italian Ice coupons.

Computer game work-
shops Discover U Chil-
drens Museum is sponsoring
free workshops conducted by
Deb Daniel. A workshop for
kids ages 7-11 on how to cre-
ate their own computer game
using RPG is scheduled on
June 6 at 10:30 a.m. and June
15 at 6 p.m. at Charlotte Hall.
She is also holding two work-
shops for teens: how to make
a simple arcade game us-
ing Gamemaker on June 10
and using Scratch software
to create a computer game
on June 11, both starting at
2 p.m. at Lexington Park. A
digital art workshop on cre-
ating simple animation for
e-mail messages will be of-
fered on June 17 and 24 at
2:30 p.m. at Charlotte Hall.
Registration is required for all
workshops.

Free, PG-rated movie
showings Adventures of
Central Zoo animals stranded
in Africa, June 11, 5 p.m.,
Charlotte Hall. Adventure of
a mouse and his rat friend res-
cuing a princess and saving
an entire kingdom, June 17, 2
p.m, Lexington Park. Group
of kids who begin caring for
stray dogs in an abandoned ho-
tel, June 18, 2 p.m., Leonard-
town. Snacks will be provided.
Teens can watch a movie
about a couples chance meet-
ing which turns into a cru-
sade to nd a legendary rock
bands show and changes
their lives forever on June 16,
2 p.m., at Lexington Park. At
Leonardtown on June 17 at 2
p.m. they can watch two teen-
agers who nd themselves
in the middle of a battle in a
war between the Autobots
and Decepticons, June 17,
2 p.m., Leonardtown. Both
of these movies are PG-13
rated. Snacks are provided.

Wii Play game nights
Gamers of all ages can
challenge each other at the
free family Wii Play game
nights scheduled on June 18
at Charlotte Hall from 5:30
p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Also sched-
uled is a teen game session
on June 18 from 1:30 p.m. to
3:30 p.m. at Lexington Park.
Registration is requested.

L ibrary Items
By Col. Larry Trick
Civil Air Patrol
The St. Marys Composite Squadron recently set a unit re-
cord for cadet achievements.
Cadet/Lt. Col. Diane Mattingly recently completed all the
requirements for promotion to Cadet Lt. Col., becoming the
fourth of that rank in the squadron. Thats a record for the squad-
ron to have that number at one time; the previous record was
three set in the late 1980s.
Cadet Mattingly attends Carnegie Mellon University in
Pennsylvania where she has a 4.0 average in chemical engineer-
ing. She hopes to go on to a masters degree.
Other leaders in this record-setting group are:
Cadet/Lt. Col. Haley Blevins who attends Mount St.
Marys College in northern Maryland. She is a private pilot
working on her instrument rating; she was the National AFA
Aerospace Education Cadet of the Year in 2006.
Cadet/Lt. Col. David Trick who is headed to Penn State; he
was the AFA National Aerospace Education Cadet of the year in
2008 and the National Brewer Award winner in the Cadet Cat-
egory in 2007.
Cadet/Lt. Col. Victor Traven who plans to attend
Norwich.
All are former cadet commanders of the St. Marys
Squadron.
The squadron also has two more cadets headed to the U.S.
Air Force Academy, Cadet/2d Lt. Stephen Gast and Cadet/2d
Lt. Andrew Svecz. They will join two St. Marys cadets already
there, Cadet/Capt. Daniel Brand and former Cadet/2d Lt. An-
drew Miller. The squadron also has one former cadet at the Na-
val Academy, setting yet another record.
Cadet Brand recently had a chance to visit with US Airways
Capt. Chesley Sully Sullenberger, who recently ditched Flight
1549 safely into the Hudson River, when the captain visited the
Air Force Academy.
The cadets and senior members of the squadron were re-
cently the guest of Nalls Aviation, located at St. Marys Regional
Airport. During their visit, they were given a tour of the Nalls
hangar which houses the only civilian Harrier jump-jet in the
United States.
The St. Marys Composite Squadron meets Wednesday
evenings from 7-9 p.m. at the St. Marys County Regional Air-
port, in the Capt. Walter Francis Duke terminal building, 44200
Airport Road, in California. The squadron is commanded by
1st Lt. David Webster. For information, go to http://www.cap-
stmarys.com.
For information about Civil Air Patrol, Maryland, go to
http://mdcap.org.
Searching through the available online information
resources from your local library and nding what you
need just got a whole lot easier with the introduction of a
new search tool called WebFeat designed to nd library
information faster and more efciently.
The new tool makes it easy to search the many on-
line information sources the libraries offer, as well as the
catalog of library items.
WebFeat helps users search information from mul-
tiple locations and pulls them all together in one loca-
tion, said Sharan Marshall, executive director of the
Southern Maryland Regional Library Association.
The regional library provides dozens of online in-
formation resources to the public library systems in Cal-
vert, Charles and St. Marys counties, she said. Those
resources include live online tutoring for students, an an-
tiques reference guide, business plans, professional jour-
nals, encyclopedias, genealogy archives, health journals,
language learning, legal forms and much more.
With the addition of WebFeat, library users can now
search all information resources at one time (instead of
one at a time), Marshall said. WebFeat also simplies the
log-in process, requiring just one log-in instead of log-
ging into each resource separately. By searching both
the catalog and the online resources, WebFeat gives users
the convenience of being able to reserve a library item or
read the online resource right from their screen.
This is an easy and seamless way for public library
users in Calvert, Charles and St. Marys counties to take
advantage of all the information available to them right
from their home computer, said Marshall.
To access Webfeat, go to the COSMOS link on your
librarys Web site and then Online Databases. Calvert
Library (www.calvert.lib.md.us), 410-535-0291; Charles
County Public Library (www.ccplonline.org), 301-934-
9001; or St. Marys County Library (www.stmalib.org),
301-475-2846.
WebFeat Speeds
Library Searches
Mattingly Promotion Breaks
Record
St. Marys cadets visit the only civilian Harrier
The County Times
&
The Great Mills Swimming Pool
will open at 3 p.m. on Monday, June 8,
and will follow the normal hours of op-
eration until June 15 when the summer
hours take effect.
Until then, hours of operation are
Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and
Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.
The summer hours of operation are
Monday-Saturday, noon to 8 p.m., and
Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.
For more information, call the Great
Mills Swimming Pool at 21100 Great
Mills Road, 301-866-6560 or go w.co.
saint marys.md.us/recreate/facilities/
swimmingpool.asp.
Great
Mills Pool
Schedule
A draft concept plan for the Carver
Heights Community Park will be discussed
at the Recreation and Parks Citizen Advi-
sory Board meeting on Thursday, June 4,
starting at 5:30 p.m. in the public meeting
room of the Chesapeake Building, 41770
Baldridge Street, Leonardtown.
Last month the board hosted a meet-
ing to solicit public input, which has been
incorporated in the latest draft of the plan.
Items under consideration include an Af-
rican American USO Building memorial;
a childrens playground; picnic areas; na-
ture trails; a multi-purpose athletic eld;
pedestrian walkways; basketball court;
parking; and restroom facilities.
The county plans to move forward
with the construction of some of these
amenities in 2009. It is anticipated that the
Unied Committee on African American
Contributions military memorial, previ-
ously considered for the property, will be
located at another county park.
The meeting will be televised live on
County Government Channel 95 and it
can also be
viewed on the countys Web site at
www.stmarysmd.com (click on Ch. 95).
It will also be rebroadcast on Channel 95.
For more information, call the Department
of Recreation and Parks at 301-475-4200
ext.1811.
Carver Heights
Park Plan
Gretton Goalkeeping will offer its
7th Annual Summer Goalkeeper Soccer
Camp Series beginning the week of June
22nd through the week of August 17th.
Various locations offered in the Southern
Maryland Area. Camps run Mondays
through Thursdays each week at various
hours of the day. All ages and skill levels
welcome! Field player training offered
as well by separate eld player instruc-
tor. For questions or to reserve your spot,
please call 301.643.8992 or email gretton-
goalkeeping@gmail.com
Gretton
Goalkeeping
Summer
Camps
Recreation Parks
The County Times
Over 250,000 Southern Marylanders cant be wrong!
Skate Series Returns to St.
Marys County in August
The Mid-Atlantic Skating Series, now in its sev-
enth season of action, will return for its yearly meet in
St. Marys County on Sat., Aug. 22, when MASS takes
over Nicolet Park in Lexington Park. All age and skills
levels are welcome. For more information, go to http://
www.curtkimbel.com.
Ryken Seeks Head Coaches
For Tree Sports
St. Marys Ryken High School seeks qualied
applicants for the positions of head varsity girls soc-
cer coach, head girls tennis coach and head baseball
coach for the 2009-10 school year. These are part-time
positions but teaching positions are also available. If
interested, contact Mike Vosburgh, athletic director, at
301-373-4199 or Michael.vosburgh@smrhs.org.
Tennis Anyone?
Join us for social doubles, 5 p.m. Sundays at Leon-
ardtown High School and at 5 p.m. Tuesdays at Great
Mills High School. Social doubles are held twice week-
ly and consist of informal doubles matches put together
by the site coordinator based on that days attendance.
Anyone who shows up will get to play.
The league fee is $25 for the Leonardtown site,
which runs through August, and $30 for the Great
Mills site, which runs through September. All fees
include court costs and balls. No ofcial registration
is required. Just show up at the courts and enjoy the
evening.
By Doug Watson
BUDDS CREEK
Brian Maxey (Modied), Matt Hill (crate
late model) and Buddy Dunagan (Hornet) all
found victory lane last Friday night at the Po-
tomac speedway.
The wins for both Maxey and Hill were
their rst-ever divisional feature wins at Potomac
while Dunagans win was his second of the sea-
son for the defending track champion.
The limited late models took the center stage
as they were competing under the Steel-Block
Bandits Series banner with a 40-lap, $2,000-to-
win event.
Kyle Lear and Bruce Kane waged quite a
battle for the rst 15, caution-plagued laps of the
event. However, on the 15th lap rain moved into
the St. Marys county area wiping out the remain-
ing 25 laps of the race and also postponing the
16-lap street stock feature. Both races will be
made up at a date yet to be determined. Heats for
the 22-limited late models on hand went to Kyle
Lear, Bruce Kane and Walker Arthur.
The Southern Maryland Ospreys
16 and Under fast-pitch softball team
earned the runner-up spot in the Silver
Bracket of the Memorial Day Shootout
in Richmond, Va., last weekend.
The team picked up the trophy
with a hard-fought, 1-0 victory over the
Southern Breeze in the Silver Bracket
semi-nals on Sunday afternoon.
Sarah Thompson pitched tremen-
dously to get the win she hurled seven
shutout innings and only allowed one hit
throughout the game. She also picked
up the game-winning hit in the bottom
of the seventh inning as she singled
to drive home Great Mills Courtney
Stewart with the winning run.
Stewart also pitched very well dur-
ing the weekend. During the subsequent
Silver Bracket championship, Stewart
threw a gem as the Ospreys lost 2-1 to
the Virginia Classics. Stewart struck
out eight batters and scattered ve hits
as the Ospreys battled to the very end,
before the Classics broke the 1-1 tie in
the last inning.
During pool play on Saturday,
Stewart also pitched the Ospreys to a
victory in the rst game of their sum-
mer travel ball season. She shut out the
Manassas Blaze 6-0 and struck out eight
batters while allowing only three hits.
Stewarts dominant pitching in that
initial game was helped by some solid
Osprey hitting right from the start. The
Ospreys scored three runs in the rst
inning to jump out to an early lead.
After Michelle Lawrenson was hit by a
pitch and Dyana DeVore reached on a
bunt, Great Mills Lindsay Lague lined
a double to left center eld to drive in
two runs. After that, the Ospreys never
looked back as they added another run
in the rst inning, one in the third, and
two more in the fth.
Lague led the Ospreys offensive
attack during the weekend with six hits
and three RBIs. DeVore picked up ve
hits and Thompson had four. Lague
and Lizzie Shaw also doubled for the
Ospreys.
In addition to great pitching, the
Ospreys turned in some sterling de-
fensive performances. Shaw, a new
addition to the team, played very well
behind the plate. Leonardtown High
Schools Laura Welch and Chopticons
Jennifer Nagy posted excellent defen-
sive performances at second base, as
did Tiffany Kennedy, also of Chop-
ticon High School, at third base and
shortstop. Lague anchored third base,
shortstop, and rst base very well and
DeVore also showed her versatility with
excellent play at shortstop, rst base,
and second base.
Lawrenson took charge of the
outeld and demonstrated great range
as the teams starting centerelder. Sa-
mantha Joseph, Lauren Byrd of Leon-
ardtown, and Jessica Woods also played
well in the outeld.
Tree Winners,
Ten Rain
KOs Potomac
Limited Late
Model Feature
Modieds (20 Laps)
1. Brian Maxey 2. Josh Harris 3. Tony
Quade 4. James Marshall 5. Rich Marks 6. Rob-
bie Kramer 7. Brandon Galloway 8. Dan Arnold
Crate Late Models (15 Laps)
1. Matt Hill 2. Darrin Henderson 3. Mike
Williams 4. Eddie Drury20 5. John Imler
Local Softball Players
Shine In Virginia
Tournament
The County Times
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By Chris Stevens
Staff Writer
In a competitive and decent-
sized state like Maryland, its tough
to be competitive within your own
region and conference, no matter the
sport. However, the Leonardtown
High School girls soccer team (17-
0-1) not only dominated the South-
ern Maryland Athletic Conference
but also handled its Prince Georges
County competition rather well, de-
feating Bowie and Quince Orchard
in the state tournament to win its
second Class 4A title in three years.
The Raiders nished the 2008
campaign unbeaten, their lone blem-
ish (if you want to call it that) was a
1-1 tie with Huntingtown on Oct. 14.
Everyone contributed in some form
or fashion to the schools third girls
soccer title, from Teresa Paz scoring
the winner in the 4A East Regonal
nals with a serious knee injury,
to the great wall of Leonardtown,
Dana ONeill, allowing a grand total
of ve goals on the season.
Leonardtown wasnt the only
fall sports program to see state tour-
nament action. The Great Mills
eld hockey team made it to its sec-
ond straight Class 3A
Seminal, playing much better in a
2-0 loss to Atholton on Nov. 7. The
Hornets seemed to play a lot better
on articial turf then their previ-
ous state tournament appearance in
2007.
In football, a new program
emerged and a talented program just
missed out on post-season action.
The St. Marys Ryken football team
started its varsity life with a bang,
pounding Annapolis Area Christian
Academy 35-0 on Aug. 28. Injuries
curtailed the Knights season, but
with a few home games scheduled
for next season, the future
looks promising for
Ryken football.
The Chopticon Braves, mean-
while, just missed the 3A South
football playoffs by the skin of their
teeth, and the team that held them
out was the one that would eventual-
ly win the Class 3A title. Westlakes
42-33 win at Braves Stadium on Oct.
24 provided the Wolverines with
enough points to edge Chopticon out
for the last 3A South playoff spot.
The Braves nished with a record
of 7-3 including a sweep of county
rivals Great Mills and Leonardtown
for the second consecutive season.
Fall Review
Leonardtown Girls Title Kicks off Fall Headlines
The Leonardtown girls soccer team nished the 2008 season unbeaten and
with their second Class 4A State Championship in the previous three years.
Photo By Chris Stevens
It was all peaceful for the Great Mills eld hockey team, as they won their second straight 3A South championship in
November.
Michael Gilmartin races up eld for the Chopticon football team,
which won seven games this past season.
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By Ronald N. Guy Jr.
Contributing Writer
St. Marys Countys native son, Tubby
Smith, spent a decade coaching the storied
mens basketball team at the University of
Kentucky. Amidst curious-at-best and argu-
ably unfounded criticism over his failure to
consistently compete for titles and score big
on the recruiting trail, Smith resigned fol-
lowing the 2007 season. During his tenure,
Smith won a national championship, averaged
over 25 wins per season and never missed the
NCAA tournament. That level of accomplish-
ment would get the court or the arena named
after you at most schools, but not at Kentucky.
No, Kentucky sees itself correctly or incor-
rectly as the premier basketball program
in the nation. Historically, Kentuckys ac-
complishments support its healthy self-image
the school has won 7 championships and
employed such coaching giants as Adolph
Rupp and Rick Pitino. Still, Kentuckys ex-
pectations are skewed by nostalgia and/or an
unwillingness to accept the realities of the
game today.
With talent now scattered from sea to
shining sea as opposed to being concentrat-
ed at a few elite programs as it was during
Kentuckys hey-day, maintaining an expec-
tation of annual trips to the Final Four and
being a perennial title contender is unrealis-
tic and somewhat arrogant. Further, ve of
Kentuckys championships were won before
1979 and save for the Pitino and Smith era in
the late 90s to early 00s - when the school
won its 6th and 7th national championships -
recent vintage Kentucky basketball has been
as notorious as it has been successful. Prior
to Pitinos arrival in 1990, Kentucky was
plagued with NCAA violations and nearly
received the death penalty (a suspension of
all basketball activity). Upon Pitinos depar-
ture to the NBA, his one-time assistant Tubby
Smith took the reigns, won another title and
continued to run a clean, respectable and win-
ning program. Smith though didnt lead the
team to enough Final Fours to suit Kentuckys
fancy and satisfy its impossible expectations.
In Kentuckys haste to be everything it
thinks it is (or was), the classy, professional
and wildly successful (by any realistic mea-
sure) Smith was jettisoned in favor of Billy
Gillispie, a recruiting wiz who had built the
long-inconsequential Texas A&M program
into a NCAA tournament team.
This relationship lasted all of two sea-
sons, producing two lawsuits (Gillispie is su-
ing Kentucky and vice versatouch) and one
NCAA tournament appearance (Kentucky
lost in the rst round). If Smiths regular trips
to the NCAA tournament were unacceptable,
certainly Gillispies failure at least to secure a
bid would be too. And sure enough, Gillispie
was red and Kentucky poached John Cali-
pari from Memphis.
In hiring Calipari, Kentucky showed
its limitless desire to win, consequences
and reputation be damned. Unquestionably
Calipari is a great coach and a winner. Hes
smooth, basketball savvy and perhaps the
best recruiter in the business. His record
though, speaks for itself. His two previous
collegiate employers University of Massa-
chusetts and Memphis faced or are facing
an NCAA investigation into improper activi-
ties that occurred on Caliparis watch. Ulti-
mately violations caused UMass to forfeit its
1996 Final Four appearance. The same fate
may await Memphis and its 2008 runner-up
nish. Yet despite Caliparis renegade track
record, Kentucky willingly chose this dance
partner. Will Kentucky at some point dur-
ing Caliparis tenure face an NCAA inquiry?
Conversely, will Kentucky win under Calipa-
ri? To both questions, the magic 8-ball says,
Signs point to yes.
Criticizing Kentucky for selling its soul
would be nave and hypocritical; we sports
fans regularly choose wins over ethics and
integrity. However, these pursuits need not
be mutually exclusive see coaches like Roy
Williams, Mike Krzyzewski and Gary Wil-
liams. Time will tell if Kentucky is better
off with Calipari than it was with Smith. It
certainly wasnt with Gillispe. Smith is now
head coach at the University of Minnesota
who he recently guided to the NCAA tour-
nament (this while his former employer as-
sembled a legal defense team to deal with his
successor). Should Smiths and Caliparis
teams square off, I know whom Ill be root-
ing for and it will have nothing to do with a
shared County heritage. Ill be rooting for
the guy that does things the right way and not
the guy that leaves you wondering if hes us-
ing paid or ineligible players. Ill be rooting
for Tubby Smith.

Send your comments to rguyjoon@
yahoo.com
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A View From The
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Mens Over-40
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Hole-In-The-Wall vs.
Seabreeze at Tippets
Field
Hobos vs. Tri-County
Aire at Back Road Inn
Mom & Pops vs. Ander-
sons at Andersons Bar
Clements vs. Nation-
wide at Knight Life
Capt. Sams vs. Rita Bs
at Moose Lodge
Slow-Pitch League
VFW 2632 vs. Bombers
at Pax River, 6:30 p.m.
Eagles Nest vs. Bud-
weiser at Captain
Sams, 6:30 p.m.
Wentworth vs.
Chaneys at the Brass
Rail, 6:30 p.m.
Back Road Inn vs. Book-
keeping By Blanche at
Chancellors Run, 8 p.m.
Fri., June 5
Young Mens League
AC Moose vs. Team
Moose at Moose
Lodge, 6:30 p.m.
Liberty OS vs. Shockers
at Captain Sams,
6:30 p.m.
Big Dogs vs. Cryers at
Back Road Inn,
6:30 p.m.
Dew Drop Inn vs. Jeff
Rocks at Andersons
Bar, 6:30 p.m.
Sat., June 6
Young Mens League
Raleys Softball vs.
AC Moose at Moose
Lodge, 4 p.m.
Straight Cuts vs. Team
Moose at Moose
Lodge, 4 p.m.
Shockers vs. Knotts
Construction at Captain
Sams, 6 p.m.
Sun., June 7
Premier League
(All Games at Knight
Life)
Backstabbers vs. Boat-
man, noon
Elks vs. Raiders,
1:15 p.m.
Stars vs. Country Boyz,
2:30 p.m.
Budweisers vs. True
Players, 3:45 p.m.
Park Cougars vs.
G-Quest, 5 p.m.
Budweisers vs. Ballers,
6 p.m.
Slow-Pitch/Young
Mens Interleague
Play
Liberty OS vs. Went-
worth at The Brass Rail,
4 p.m.
Shockers vs. VFW 2632
at Chancellors Run,
4 p.m.
Eagles Nest vs. Knotts
Constuction at Captain
Sams, 4 p.m.
Bombers vs. Big Dogs
at Back Road Inn, 4 p.m.
Team Moose vs. Back
Road Inn at Back Road
Inn, 6 p.m.
AC Moose vs. Book-
keeping by Blanche at
Dew Drop Inn vs.
Budweiser at Captain
Sams, 6 p.m.
Raleys Softball vs.
Chaneys at The Brass
Rail, 6 p.m.
Mon., June 8
Womens League
Xtreme vs. Andersons
at Andersons Bar,
6:30 p.m.
Knockouts vs. Simms at
The Brass Rail, 6:30 p.m.
Moose Lodge vs.
Knight Life at Knight
Life, 6:30 p.m.
Coors Light vs. South-
ern at 7th District Park,
6:30 p.m.
Just Us vs. Captain
Sams at Captain Sams,
6:30 p.m.
Dew Drop Inn/Two
Point Construction/PJs
Autobody/Bryan Jones
Paint vs. Bud Light at
Chancellors Run,
6:30 p.m.
Dew Drop Inn/Two
Point Construction/PJs
Autobody/Bryan Jones
Paint vs. Simms at the
Brass Rail, 8 p.m.
Tues., June 9
Slow-Pitch/Young
Mens Interleague
Play
Wentworth vs. Team
Moose at Moose
Lodge, 6:30 p.m.
Jeff Rocks vs. Bombers
at Pax River, 6:30 p.m.
Budweiser vs. Knotts
Construction at Captain
Sams, 6:30 p.m.
AC Moose vs. Back
Road Inn at Back Road
Inn, 6:30 p.m.
Straight Cuts vs.
Chaneys at The Brass
Rail, 6:30 p.m.
Wed., June 10
Womens League
Coors Light vs. Chesa-
peake Custom Embroi-
dery at The Brass Rail,
6:30 p.m.
Bud Light vs. Captain
Sams at Captain Sams,
6:30 p.m.
Moose Lodge vs. Just
Us at Chancellors Run,
6:30 p.m.
Southern vs. Dew
Drop Inn/Two Point
Construction/PJs Au-
tobody/Bryan Jones
Paint at Knight Life,
6:30 p.m.
Southern vs. Just Us at
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Blue Crabs Split
Doubleheader with York
Atlantic Baseball
League Standings
(For games through Tues., June 2)
Southern Maryland entered Tuesday
nights double-header at Regency Furniture
Stadium looking to build off of Monday
nights exhilarating 7-4 come-from-behind
victory over the York Revolution. Unfortu-
nately for Southern Maryland, they could
not recapture Monday nights late-inning
magic until the second game, taking the
nightcap 11-0 after dropping the rst game
2-1.
In the rst of two seven-inning games,
the Blue Crabs (23-15) sent their undefeated
ace John Halama to the mound in front of
1,906 fans in Waldorf, MD. Halama, who
tied a season-high with three walks and set
a season-high with seven strikeouts, kept
the Blue Crabs in the game by surrendering
only a single run in the rst and the fourth
inning. Yorks runs were driven in by Matt
Padgett and Tom Collaro, respectively.
But unfortunately for Halama and the
Blue Crabs, York starter Bob Zimmermann
was even better. Zimmermann, who entered
the game with an 8.59 ERA, shut down the
Blue Crabs for ve innings, allowing only
one run and four hits. Relievers Jason Ker-
shner and Travis Hughes teamed up to pre-
serve the win for York.
After a 43-minute rain-delay, Southern
Maryland pounced on York (11-26) early in
the second game, scoring four runs in each
the second and third innings to build an in-
surmountable lead.
First baseman Eric Crozier led the of-
fensive assault for the Blue Crabs, racking
up two RBI on a double and an opposite-
eld homerun. Catcher Lance Burkhart,
shortstop Travis Garcia and left elder
James Shanks all also homered for South-
ern Maryland. The home run for Shanks ex-
tended his hitting streak to a team-leading
twelve games.
After lling in admirably for starter
Joe Gannon on May 29, the Blue Crabs Ed-
ward Rodriguez turned in another impres-
sive performance. In ve innings of work,
Rodriguez allowed only three singles, all of
which came in the fourth inning.
For York, former major leaguer Tim
Harikkala could not duplicate the success
of rst game starter Bob Zimmermann.
Harikkala was shelled for eight runs in 2.2
innings.
Southern Maryland returns to the ball-
park Wednesday, June 3, to nish off the
four-game series with York at 7:05 p.m.
Probable starters are RHP Daryl Harang (2-
3, 5.52) for York, and RHP Joe Gannon (2-5,
5.58) for Southern Maryland.
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Newark 20 17 .541 4.0 W 1 3- 7
Lancaster 17 20 .459 7.0 L 4 6- 4
York 11 26 .297 13.0 L 1 4- 6
The County Times
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By Chris Stevens
Staff Writer
If anyone wants to remem-
ber the winter and spring high
school sports seasons in St.
Marys County, just recite one
word almost.
Several teams reached the
doorstep of state tournament
success, but they were turned
away by teams from around the
state with just a little more in
the tank. A prime example was
the Great Mills girls basketball
team; Class 3A state seminal-
ists in 2008, but suffered through
an 0-3 start, including a 63-52
loss to St. Marys Ryken on Dec.
5. The Hornets pulled it together
and went 19-2 the rest of the way
before falling to Largo in the 3A
South championship
game.
On the boys
side, Chopticon won
19 games behind
senior guard and
the SMACs Most
Outstanding Player
Derrell Armstrong.
The 6-foot-1-inch
Armstrong averaged
more than 25 points per game and cracked
the 30-point barrier six times as the Braves
advanced to the 3A South seminals before
losing to a tough Lackey team.
Over at Leonardtown, popular head
coach Jake Heibel announced his intentions
to step aside, and the Raiders tried their best
to send him out with a bang, upsetting even-
tual 4A seminalist Thomas Stone in the
regular season nale and pasting Chesapeake
High 85-37 in the 4A East rst round before
falling to Old Mill in the quarternals.
One state champion to emerge from the
winter sports season was Leonardtown se-
nior swimmer Brittany Culpepper, who won
the Class 4A/3A 100-yard breaststroke title in February,
setting a state record (1:08.65) in the process.
In the spring, St. Marys Ryken made waves with
a dominant season on the softball eld and an unex-
pected run to the Washington Catholic Athletic Confer-
ence boys lacrosse nals. Coach John Sothoron freely
admitted that these Knights were not one of his more
talented teams, but somehow, Ryken worked its way to
the championship game, smacking OConnell 17-7 and
stunning Good Counsel 10-9 on their home eld, return-
ing the favor the Falcons dished out to the Knights the
previous spring.
Ryken began the WCAC title game with guns ablaze,
jumping out to a 3-0 lead against DeMatha, but the Stags
rallied for a 9-7 win, their 10th conference crown in 11
years. Ryken won the other one, also against DeMatha,
in 2007.
The Ryken softball team advanced to the WCAC
title game for the rst time in school history, but lost a
1-0 heartbreaker to Bishop OConnell the day after the
lacrosse team fell short in their championship game.
Shortstop Erin Leddy, headed for Mount St. Marys in
Emmittsburg, was named the WCAC player of the year.
In track and eld, Chopticon triple jumper Paul
Herbert brought home a state crown with a jump of 21
feet and 11 inches on May 23 in the state championship
meet at Morgan State University in Baltimore.
Close But no Cigar for
Winter, Spring Teams
Photo By Frank Marquart
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which helped the Braves win 12 games this season.
The Great Mills girls basketball team had another solid season, but fell just short of return-
ing to the state seminals.
Sophomore attackman Connor Cook was one of many reasons for
the St. Marys Ryken boys lacrosse teams improbable run to the
WCAC title game last month.
Winter/Spring Review
THURSDAY
June 4, 2009
Photos By Frank Marquart & Chris Stevens
Man Gets 15 Years
for Child Porn
Story Page 6
Pages 35 & 39
DNR May Dash Hunters
Hopes for Elms
Story Page 5
Charter School
Acquirng Tennis Court
Story Page 4
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