Pocomoke Area Chamber of Commerce Newsletter

 
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RSVP for Thursday
July 18 General Membership Luncheon
at the Upper Deck
 at noon with speakers Worcester County Commissioner Merrill Lockfaw and
Maryland State Delegate Mike McDermott.
 Please notice the date change from Wednesday to Thursday
Next month's lunch will return to the regular Wednesday schedule
Please RSVP pocomokechamber@gmail.com or 410-957-1919 with your menu
selection from below. Lunch is $12.
1. Chef salad
2. Crispy chicken Caesar wrap
3. Fried fish sandwich
Hope to see you there!

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 Free Yoga at the
Pocomoke Branch Library
Tuesdays, 5:30-6:30
RSVP required by 4:30 Tuesdays
Please email Shuli at torshuli@gmail.com
Pocomoke Branch Library
 Story Time
for 2 to 5 year old children
 Wed, July 17, 10:30am - 11:30am
Stories, Rhymes, Fingers Plays, Music and Crafts. A different theme each
session.
 Mike Rose: "Magic You Will Dig" at the Pocomoke Branch Library
 Thu, July 18, 2pm - 3pm
An action packed, hilarious magic show full of no-holds-barred comedy.
Suitable for the whole family.
 Worcester County 4-H ~Adventurers Club ~

Change Maryland Grows to 50,000 People

For Immediate Release

July 16, 2013

Contact: Steve Crim

(410) 353-3116

(410) 266-5100

 

ANNAPOLIS - Change Maryland, the state's largest and fastest-growing, independent, nonpartisan grassroots movement, has surged to 50,000 members, from every single county and jurisdiction in Maryland. Founded in 2011 by successful business leader and former Maryland Cabinet Secretary Larry Hogan, the organization's primary mission is to increase the state's economic performance and job growth. The group has built a dominating presence on social media with more people engaged online than the Maryland Democratic Party, the Maryland Republican Party and all of the potential statewide candidates of either party, added together. Change Maryland's Facebook page has a total weekly reach of over 341,153 people. No other citizen group in the state has ever accomplished what Change Maryland has, in just over two years.

Nearly half the organization's members are Democrats and Independents. "The only way to bring about real change in Maryland is to build a coalition of Republicans, Independents, and fiscally conservative and moderate Democrats to work together. That is exactly what Change Maryland has been doing so effectively. We are uniting people of all parties to work together to bring reform, fiscal responsibility, and common-sense to Annapolis. This isn't just another fight between Democrats and Republicans, it's more important than that. This is a fight for Maryland's economic future, and it's a fight worth fighting!", Hogan said.

Change Maryland gained national prominence with the production of numerous economic studies that have shown the impact of 40 consecutive O'Malley-Brown tax increases, that take an additional $3.1 billion annually out of the pockets of struggling Maryland families and small businesses. The group has highlighted the fact that Maryland is no longer competitive with other states in the region, that we have lost 6,500 businesses and that our unemployment rate has nearly doubled under the O'Malley-Brown Administration. A well-publicized taxpayer migration study by Change Maryland showed that the state had the largest mass exodus of any state in the region and that 31,000 taxpayers have fled the state, taking $1.7 billion per year out of Maryland's economy. Change Maryland hosted an Economic Summit on Improving Maryland's Economic Competitiveness, which brought together economists, think-tanks, Federal, State and local government officials, and over 400 top business leaders, to focus on finding solutions to the state's serious economic problems.

Change Maryland founder and Chairman Larry Hogan is also the founder, President and CEO of the Hogan Companies, leaders in economic development who have brought hundreds of companies and thousands of jobs to Maryland, and have done over $2 billion in business in the state. Hogan left his business for public service as a State Cabinet Secretary from 2003-2007, appointing over 7,000 people to all three branches of state government. In 2010, Hogan was the only serious challenger willing to take on O'Malley, and was considered by many to be the presumed Republican nominee for Governor, until former Governor Bob Ehrlich decided to enter the race. Bob Ehrlich called Hogan one of the only Republicans in the state with a chance to win. Maryland's most powerful Democrat, Steny Hoyer called Hogan the toughest opponent he has ever faced in his entire career.

David Craig Announces Lt. Governor Running Mate

Annapolis - Harford County Executive David Craig announced his Lt. Governor running mate today saying she is “capable of being Governor on day one.”

Jeannie Haddaway, who has served as a Delegate representing the Eastern Shore for nearly ten years, brings legislative leadership, committee experience and a wide-ranging policy background to the Craig ticket.   She started her own graphic design business in 2003 and held environmental policy positions in the government and non-profit sectors prior to holding elective office.   She is a longtime advocate for policies that protect women, children and families.

“The Lt. Governor is too important a position to tell them to go in a corner for eight years and dabble on public policy experiments and
come out to attend press conferences for the cameras," said Craig.  "I chose Jeannie because she will actually help me run the government."

Craig, who has extensive experience in local office, also chose Haddaway because she understands rural Maryland and the importance of county and municipal government in an era of unbridled state power affecting land use, public schools and transportation.   Characterizing the Eastern Shore as a region that represents a disproportionate amount of “forgotten Marylanders,” Craig has been pushing a theme of getting state government  aligned with the aspirations of the vast majority of Marylanders.

Craig will widen the portfolio of the Lt. Governor beyond that seen in any modern Administration, where Haddaway will help rejuvenate the state’s lackluster record on job growth, business retention and recruitment.

"Many have heard me criticize the O’Malley/Brown Administration," said Haddaway. "It is not criticism for the sake of being critical.  The
arrogance of power in Annapolis has cost us a great deal, but especially so when it comes to job creation.  We must do better."

Haddaway comes from an Eastern Shore family who made their living in agriculture and commercial fishing.  Her husband, Joe Riccio, is a real estate broker, and they reside in St. Michaels with their dog Max.

TIME MACHINE ... 1929, 1909, 1930, 1982, 1897

(Reader-friendly viewing of newspaper archives material)


August, 1929
(Denton Journal)

A Street Afire

The intense heat of summer is said to cause asphalt paved streets in some of our cities to expand for several inches, but it remained for Crisfield to furnish the first instance in the country's history where a highway actually caught fire. One day last week children playing with matches on "Paper Street," set off a lot of trash and paper which had been dumped there by the city garbage man and it required the local fire department to put the blaze out, as the flames were spreading desperately near to several large buildings. "Paper Street" runs parallel to Main Street and is a continuation of Broadway. It runs through the marsh and is being constructed of garbage and waste paper, collected by the city garbage man. In this way the city has found it inexpensive to build the street and at the same time to provide a dumping place for waste paper.

　

May, 1909  (Time Machine archive)
(Trenton Evening Times- Trenton, N.J.)

LAND WITHOUT AN OWNER

NEW CHURCH, VA., MAY 20 - There is a strip of land of considerable area lying between here and Pocomoke City, Md., that for more than a century truly has been called "No Man's Land." It is not within the recollection of the oldest resident of Accomac County, Va., or of Worcester County, Md., that anyone ever has laid claim to it, nor are there any records of it in the courts of either county. Even the question as to which of the two states the land belongs has been considered seriously.

Not a few of the older residents hold the opinion that the land does not even belong to the United States, some of them going so far as to say that, if it belongs to any country at all, it is England's as the mother country owned everything down this way before the Declaration of Independence changed ownerships, and they think it more than likely that, in dividing up, Maryland and Virginia overlooked "No Man's Land," leaving it out in the cold and making of it a miniature territory unto itself, without a ruler.

There are between 300 and 400 acres of virgin soil in the tract that could be made to produce bumper crops, but no one cultivates it, and, so far as is known today, there is no one who has any desire to do so. For some unaccountable reason it does not appeal strongly to the farmers and truckers of this section, and they always take good care to steer clear of the apparently hoodooed land. 　


　
November, 1930
(Cumberland Evening Times)

INDIAN BURIAL GROUND FOUND IN MARYLAND

Unearthed By Worcester Co. Roads Engineer Employees At St Martin's
Pocomoke City, Md., Nov. 22 (AP)- What is believed to be an ancient burying ground of the great tribe of Pocomoke Indians, that roamed the Eastern Shore 300 years ago, has been unearthed at St. Martin's by employees of the Worcester County roads engineer's office who are constructing an improved road in that vicinity. The relics disclosed have been found on the Noah Adkins farm and the excavation of several loads of sand from a nearby hill, for use on the road, unearthed arrow heads, tomahawk stones, pewter bowls and parts of skeletons. Since several hundred loads of sand remain to be taken from the hill engineers are interested in prospects of digging other relics of other days.


September, 1982

Pocomoke City Mayor J. Dawson Clarke was to be one of five Maryland mayors to be featured in the 1983 winter issue of Maryland Magazine according to The Maryland Municipal League bulletin. The other mayors featured would be from Baltimore, Frederick, Easton, and LaPlata. The bulletin stated "these mayors were selected for the article because of their innovative and creative approach in managing their city/town and also because of the variety in population, size, and geographic location. The Department Of Economic And Community Development published the quarterly magazine. 

　
March, 1897 

(Emmet County Republican- Estherville, Iowa)

William Moore, of Snow Hill, Md., on a wager of 5 cents, attempted to kiss a possum and is now mourning the loss of part of his nose.

　
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TIME MACHINE ... This Sunday's Preview.

　

1929.. Crisfield's "Paper Street;" 1909.. An Eastern Shore "No Man's Land," 1930.. Indian burial ground found in Worcester County, 1982.. Maryland Magazine feature includes Pocomoke City's Mayor Clarke, 1897.. Bad wager for Snow Hill man.
　 Although you may not find these items in a history book, they are a part of our local history and you can read more about it this Sunday right here at The Pocomoke Public Eye!


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POCOMOKE CITY PRESS RELEASE

 FRAUD ALERT/SCAM

 

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

July 9, 2013

FRAUD ALERT/SCAM

  The Pocomoke City Police Department is currently conducting an investigation in reference to citizens receiving phone calls from an unknown subject demanding money, stating that a family member was involved in an accident and has been kidnapped. The suspect may restrict their phone number to avoid detection and has personal information about a family member. The suspect tells the person that a family member has been involved in an accident and/or has been kidnapped and is being held hostage. The suspect then attempts to obtain bank account information or instructs them to wire money to a certain location. The suspect claims that once the money is received, the family member will no longer be in any danger.

Anyone receiving a phone call of this nature should make contact with their family member and confirm that they are not in any danger. Do not provide any personal information or send any money to the caller. Attempt to obtain information about the caller to include a phone number and notify the police immediately.

Anyone with information about these types of incidents should contact the Pocomoke City Police at (410) 957-1600.

Kelvin D. Sewell

Chief of Police  

TIME MACHINE ... 2005, 1920, 1909, 1963, 1933

(Reader-friendly viewing of newspaper archives material)

　
January, 2005
(The Sunday Capital- Annapolis, Md.)

Report: Md.-Va. ferry could profit

(Excerpts)

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP)- Despite a startup cost that could approach $47 million, a study suggests that a ferry across the Chesapeake Bay from Virginia's Northern Neck to the Eastern Shore could be profitable.

The draft study predicts that more than 200,00 cars and trucks a year would use a ferry between Reedville, Va., and Crisfield, Md., which are separated by 38 miles of water.

A ferry could make the crossing in about two hours, while the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel is a 220-mile, five-hour journey. By the Bay Bridge at Annapolis, the trip is about 270 miles and six hours.

Previous studies have concluded a ferry could help the rural economies of the two regions by improving cross-bay commerce, and enhancing tourism. The latest study reaffirms a previous conclusion that 20-knot, twin-hulled ferries may be too expensive for the run.

The study, however, suggests that two off-shore vessels be converted to ferries at a cost of about $3 million each. At 16.5 knots, a converted vessel would take about 20-minutes longer to make the run than a 20-knot boat.

Using converted service vessels might lower the capital costs of the entire system to $19 million. A Reedville terminal might cost between $5 million and $6 million, the Crisfield terminal about $1 million more, and a maintenance facility about $2 million, according to the study, the contents of which were released Saturday by The Free-Lance Star.

With fares in the $32 to $40 range, the study says the converted service boats should expect annual income of $8.7 million, expenses of $7.1 million, and profit of $1.6 million.

The ferry studies have been commissioned by a coalition of local governments and other interested parties on both sides of the bay, but neither Northumberland County nor Somerset County, Md., has committed funds to the enterprise.

The counties, however, should now back the proposal with money, the report says.
　
　
August, 1920
(The Washington Post)
Pocomoke City, Md., Aug.18- Francis F. Thomas, 21 years old, a brakeman in the employ of the New York, Philadelphia, and Norfolk railroad, had a miraculous escape from death yesterday at Pocomoke City when he fell from the top of a freight car to the tracks beneath the moving train, which was switching cars. Despite the fact that an engine and twenty loaded cars passed over his body, he escaped with slight injuries, no bones being broken.　


　
October, 1909
(The Washington Post)

Parksley Church In Ashes

Special To the Washington Post.

Parksley, Va., Oct 20- The Methodist Protestant Church here was destroyed by fire tonight, which originated from the heater in the cellar. Before discovered it had gained such headway it was beyond control. The parsonage and other dwellings close by were saved after a hard fight. Loss estimated at about $3,000.


　
January, 1963 (Time Machine archive)

New officers installed by the Pocomoke City Kiwanis Club were:

Robert Pike, President
Gene Lusby, Vice President
William Murdock, Secretary-Treasurer
Board Of Directors:
A.T. Harmon
Paul Ehrenwald
Woody Selby
Ben Cohen
Norris Outten
Elmer Pryor
William Buchanan (outgoing president)

Receiving perfect attendance pins were Mr. Cohen for nine years; Mr. Selby eight years; Mr.Pryor and Mr. Outten seven years; Reds Harmon four years; and Mr. Buchanan one year.　


November, 1933
(Reno Evening Gazette- Reno, Nevada)

Milk Trucks Carry Water To Fight Fire

Snow Hill, Md., Nov. 15- (AP)- When neighboring farmers and volunteer firemen couldn't put out the fire in the farm house of Walter Shockley, the milkmen did the job.

Shockley's electric pump broke down. The Snow Hill fire company ran out of chemicals. But a fleet of milk trucks was passing. The drivers drove to Snow Hill, filled their milk cans with water and rushed back to the farm to put out the flames.

　
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Coast Guard Medevacs Woman From Sailboat

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard medevaced an 66-year-old woman Friday from a 45-foot sailboat at the entrance of the Cape Fear River near Wilmington, N.C.

Crewmembers aboard the sailboat Valaudrey contacted Coast Guard Sector North Carolina watchstanders via VHF-FM channel 16 at approximately 5 p.m., reporting a woman had lost consciousness.

Watchstanders dispatched a Coast Guard Station Oak Island crew aboard a 47-foot Motor Life Boat to assist.

The crew arrived on scene, transferred the woman from the Valaudrey to the Coast Guard boat and took her to Station Oak Island, where she was met by awaiting Burnswick County emergency medical services personnel.

SUBMITTED:
U.S. Coast Guard

TIME MACHINE ... This Sunday's Preview

　
2005.. Positive study for across-the-bay ferry to Crisfield; 1920.. Miraculous escape on Pocomoke tracks; 1909.. Parksley church fire; 1963.. Pocomoke City Kiwanis Club's new officers; 1933.. Milk trucks put out fire near Snow Hill.

Although you may not find these items in a history book, they are a part of our local history and you can read more about it this Sunday right here at The Pocomoke Public Eye!


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Snow Hill V. F. C. Canoe Joust TODAY !

Come  TODAY  for the Joust!!!

Sign Up at 10.

 

 

Joust at noon!

During the joust food and drinks will be available.

After joust live music, food and drinks available.

Fireworks at dark. Then also live music after fireworks with bar available till mid night!

FIRST FRIDAY NIGHT PIZZA NIGHT

FIRST FRIDAY PIZZA NIGHT
 New Church Volunteer Fire Department

 

 

 

5 pm to 8 pm

 

LARGE

 Cheese or Pepperoni Pizza

 

 

 

All proceeds go to support the

 New Church Volunteer Fire Department.

 

PROTECT YOUR PETS EVEN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY

TIME MACHINE ... This Sunday's Preview

2005.. Positive study for across-the-bay ferry to Crisfield; 1920.. Miraculous escape on Pocomoke tracks; 1909.. Parksley church fire; 1963.. Pocomoke City Kiwanis Club's new officers; 1933.. Milk trucks put out fire near Snow Hill.

Although you may not find these items in a history book, they are a part of our local history and you can read more about it this Sunday right here at The Pocomoke Public Eye!


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July 3, 2013 - Convicted Arsonist- David Clifton Parks- Gets 20 Years

David Clifton Parks, 38, of Melfa, Virginia,　was sentenced today for his conviction in an April 11, 2012 arson

on Sheephouse Road in Pocomoke City, Worcester County, Maryland.　 Worcester County Circuit Court Judge Thomas C. Groton, III　sentenced Parks to 20 years for the Second Degree Arson conviction.　　Judge Groton suspended 8 years.　 Additionally Parks was sentenced to 5 years supervised probation with mandatory alcohol and mental health consoling with　GPS monitoring upon his parole.　 Parks was also ordered (to pay) restitution to the family in the amount of $2,900.　 During the sentencing today, Parks admitted to setting the fire and said he had "a problem with setting fires".　 During the procedures today, Parks' defense attorney stated he was a firefighter.　 Judge Groton quickly corrected the Defense and said, "He was a firefighter back in 2006 when he was convicted in Wicomico County of arson, he was not a firefighter in 2012."　　 Fire Marshal Jeff McMahon was asked to give a statement in which he stated, "With the conviction of two arsons it is clear Mr. Parks has a problem.　


Photo /Worcester Couty Fire Marsh Office

 Although the fire he (Parks) set was in an unoccupied structure, the hazards to the responding firefighter still exist.  These firefighters are volunteers and in addition to being placed in harms way during the supression of the fire, they also may be injured responding to and returning from the fires."  A family member also made a statement in which she expressed the stress on the family.

According to Worcester County Fire Marshal Jeff McMahon, after a lengthy investigation, Parks was arrested on August 14, 2012 and the trial was held in April 2013. Parks was found guilty on all four charges including Second Degree Arson, Malicious Burning, Malicious Destruction of Property and Reckless Enlargement. In 2006, Parks was charged with setting several fires in Salisbury, Maryland.  He was convicted of setting at least one of the fires in 2006 for which he served time in the Maryland Correctional System.

Scource:

Worcester County Sheriff’s Office Press Release

   

 In the afternoon of July 2, 2013 a Worcester County Sheriff’s Office Deputy responded to a residence on Jarvis Rd for a burglary.

   The home owner stated that an older gentleman, possibly in his 60`s, wearing sunglasses, a black shirt, khaki shorts, and light colored socks and shoes, and had dark colored hair that appeared to be balding, came onto the property and opened a storage shed. The suspect then looked into the residence before leaving the property. 
  
     The suspect was further described as tall with a skinny build.  The suspect was operating a newer model white Ford Super Duty with 4 doors and had a silver colored folding ladder in the bed.  The vehicle had unknown Delaware registration.
    
If anyone has information in regards to this incident please contact the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office 410-632-1111.

Car Wash / Bake Sale To Benefit Courtney Bloxom & Family on Saturday

 

 

 

Mar-Va Theater This Weeked !

 

Friday, July 5th at 7 PM

Saturday, July 6th at 7 PM

 

Tickets: $5

 

www.marvatheater.com

Annual Forth of July Fireworks Celebration / Chincoteague

The Town of Chincoteague will host its

 Annual Forth of July Fireworks Celebration

 

 

 7/4/2013

10 p.m.

 

 Carnival Grounds on Main Street

 

Free transportation to and from the Carnival Grounds is available via the Town Shuttle Buses with free parking available at Chincoteague High School on North Main Street.

REMEMBER THE
2013 CHINCOTEAGUE CARNIVAL

 

City Ordinance Violation Leads to Drug and Weapons Arrest

On June 30, 2012, at approximately 5:50 a.m. Ocean City Police officers observed a vehicle parked on 5^th Street that was occupied by three sleeping individuals. As officers approached and spoke with the occupants, officers could smell marijuana coming from inside the vehicle.
After requesting to do a search of the vehicle, officers recovered marijuana, paraphernalia, MDMA, a concealed knife and a loaded .38 Special revolver.

All three occupants of the vehicle were arrested and charged with the following:

Tyrone Winston Lee, 25, of Plymouth, PA

• Handgun in vehicle
• Possession of MDMA
• Possession of marijuana
• Possession of drug paraphernalia

Desmond James Matthews, 22, of Willingboro, NJ

• Handgun in vehicle
• Possession of MDMA
• Possession of marijuana
• Possession of drug paraphernalia

Malcolm LaKnight Bates, 22, of Plymouth, PA

• Handgun in vehicle
• Possession of a concealed deadly weapon
• Possession of marijuana
• Possession of MDMA

 

Lee, Matthews and Bates were seen by an Ocean City District Court Commissioner and released without bond.

 

Submitted:

Ocean City Police Dept.

David Craig Calls on General Assembly to Repeal 'Rain Tax'

David Craig Calls on General Assembly to Repeal 'Rain Tax'

 

 

Harford County Executive David Craig today called on the Maryland General Assembly to repeal the so-called rain tax in the next legislative session.   Craig, a candidate for Maryland governor, raised red flags about the measure last Fall asking at what point Marylanders will have had enough of tax increases.  Answering that question in a morning appearance on "the Sean and Frank Show" on WCBM today, Craig said that time is now.

"Stormwater-related costs necessary to comply with EPA mandates are projected to cost county taxpayers a staggering $6.3 billion through 2025," said Craig.  "If you wanted to open a business with a parking lot,  would you want to come to Maryland and figure out this new tax?" he asked.

The law, formally known as the Stormwater Management - Watershed Protection and Restoration Program, allows counties to diverge widely in what to charge businesses and homeowners. For example,  Baltimore City charges homeowners $144 for a certain size residential property while Frederick County charges a penny regardless of size.  Harford County will charge homeowners $12.50 in the first year of implementation, and it is capped at $125 when fully phased in.  Taxes also vary widely in businesses and other organizations in the ten counties affected under the law.

Craig said Maryland Governors need to engage the U.S. EPA on mandates like the one on which the state rain tax law is premised.

"There is no reason the Governor of Maryland should assume a subservient status when it comes to conforming with federal government wishes," said Craig.  "Maryland is not leading, we're following, which is a shame because we have more at stake in protecting the Bay than any other state."
In an op-ed that ran in the Gazette last September, Craig said that economic considerations must provide a reality check on the need to protect the Bay in order to achieve balanced approach.

The EPA mandate, however, does not prescribe a tax as the sole method of reducing pollution loads into the Bay, and Maryland has adopted the most pervasive revenue collection regime of any state in the watershed.

"In the rush to comply with the EPA mandate, our elected officials over-compensated and defaulted to raising taxes," said Craig.

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Background:

"When enough is enough" Gazette 9.21.12http://www.gazette.net/article/20120921/OPINION/709219670/0/gazette&template=gazette

Two Hour Tour On the Pocomoke River on the 4th

Pocomoke City Volunteer Fire Company Annual Chicken BBQ

PCVFC Annual 4th of July Chicken BBQ

Thursday, July 4, 2013

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Hole Cut In Side Of Crisfield Business- Two Arrested

Anthony Panzo

WMDT
CRISFIELD, Md. - Two Marion men are accused of cutting a hole in the side of a building, in order to rob a business. Crisfield Police say on Monday night, they were called to the Somers Cove Market, on Cove Street, where they found a hole large enough for a person to fit through, on the outside of the building, making the inside accessible.

According to the report, damages and property loss are estimated at $3,000. An investigation lead to the arrest of 32-year-old Anthony Panzo and 21-year-old Robert Brown Jr., both of Marion.

Robert Brown Jr.,

 During searches of their homes, Police say they found several items of evidence. 

Panzo and Brown were arrested, charged with 2nd and 4th degree burglary, and theft. Both are being held at the Somerset County Detention Center on $35,000 bond.

SOURCE

OCPD LOSES TWO DEDICATED AND COURAGEOUS OFFICERS

Joshua Dale Adickes

It is with great sadness that the Ocean City Police Department confirms that two of our police officers, Joshua Dale Adickes and Thomas James Geoghegan, Jr., were the victims in yesterday’s plane crash in Ocean City.

OFC Adickes, 27, of Berlin, is originally from Long Valley, NJ. He joined the Ocean City Police Department as a seasonal police officer in the summer of 2011 and was hired as a full time officer in 2012. He was currently assigned to the patrol division where he worked on the evening south shift.  He was fun-loving, charismatic and liked by all who knew him.  He loved the beach and loved being an Ocean City Police officer. 

OFC Geoghegan, 43, of Ocean City is originally from Annapolis. He began serving the department in 1991 as a seasonal officer and has served each summer since 2002. OFC Geoghegan served numerous tours as an undercover narcotics detective and was currently assigned to the patrol division where he worked on the evening south shift. Amongst many hobbies, he loved to fly airplanes and enjoyed taking his friends for airplane rides.

Thomas James Geoghegan, Jr.,

Both officers were dedicated and courageous both on and off duty. They had a true love of life, which they demonstrated in their professional and personal pursuits. They exemplified the finest character and their passing is a tremendous loss to the Ocean City Police Department family.

As we deal with this difficult time, we recall their joyful spirits and professional accomplishments. The Town of Ocean City and the Ocean City Police Department, is a better place because of their attributes, and that is how they will be remembered

Change Maryland Blasts July 1 Tax and Toll Hikes

Change Maryland founder Larry Hogan fired up a sold-out crowd of several hundred at a fundraiser last Thursday, "Your family trip to the beach just got a lot more expensive. Today, the second round of O'Malley toll increases took effect and the gas tax increase kicked in at the same time. While you are sitting in traffic at the Bay Bridge for the 4th of July weekend you can thank Governor O'Malley and the monopoly in Annapolis for the 140% increase in tolls, and for giving us the most expensive gas in the region."

Change Maryland, a non-partisan organization, is the largest and fastest growing grassroots movement in the state made up of more than 46,000 people from every jurisdiction in the state. Nearly half of them are Democrats and Independents. The group's Facebook page includes 10 times more people than Democrat gubernatorial candidate Anthony Brown, and 25 times more than Republican candidate David Craig. In fact, the Change Maryland page has more people engaged on-line than the Maryland Democrat and Republican Parties, and all the potential Democrat and Republican candidates for governor, combined. As of last week, Larry Hogan's organization actually surpassed that of his frequent sparring partner, Martin O'Malley, the former Baltimore Mayor, two term governor and candidate for President.

Hogan explained that the impact of the 30% increase in state spending and the 40 consecutive O'Malley-Brown tax increases was that the state has gone from 13 Fortune 500 companies down to 3, we lost 6,500 small businesses, the unemployment rate has nearly doubled and 31,000 taxpayers have fled the state. Hogan then fired up the standing room only crowd with: "Governor O'Malley says he's 'Moving Maryland Forward'. But if that's moving Maryland forward, I say maybe next year, we'll just have to take Maryland back!"

The bipartisan crowd at the Change Maryland event included many top Republican leaders, as well as a former Democratic Governor, a former Speaker of the House and a number of prominent Democrats from across the state. "This isn't just another fight between Democrats and Republicans. It's more important than that. This is a fight for Maryland's future, and it's a fight worth fighting", Hogan said.

In addition to being the founder and Chairman of Change Maryland, Hogan is a successful businessman, and a former state Cabinet Secretary. In 2010 he was the only serious candidate willing to challenge O'Malley, until former Governor Bob Ehrlich entered the race. Ehrlich called him "One of the only Republicans in Maryland who could win." Maryland's most powerful Democrat, Steny Hoyer called Hogan the toughest opponent he has ever faced in his entire career.


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When Less is More: The Power Of Limited Government

 

When Less is More: The Power Of Limited Government

by Delegate Mike McDermott

 

JULY 1, 2013

 

I have seen few applications in life where the phrase, “Less is more” could be applied accurately; but when it comes to government, I can make the connection. When the American people experience “less government” in their lives, the result is always “more” liberty; and what Americans have done with their freedom is the envy of the world.

 

Our Constitution was purposely crafted to “limit” the powers of government rather than limit the freedom of the people.   Big government remains expensive to operate, and every dollar sent to Uncle Sam is a dollar not utilized by the one who earned it in the first place. Government is a taker, not a producer. Some believe that government spending stimulates the economy despite all evidence to the contrary. Any short term gains are soon replaced with greater deficits, while there is convincing evidence that the private sector and consumer confidence are what move our country forward.

 

When he became President, Ronald Reagan restored our sense of liberty in America. His policies worked to limit the size and scope of government. Through tax cuts and streamlining, our country pulled itself out of the muck and mire. Conservatism was put on display and what followed was the greatest economic expansion in our nation’s history.

Our economy and American way of life has always been based upon risk versus reward. It holds us in check and makes us weigh our choices carefully. It makes us responsible for our own actions or lack thereof.

 

Liberty allows us to choose wisely, it does not protect us from failure. You want to stretch a double into a triple? You better be sure you can make it!

 

When consumers pick the winners, we all win. We all know what it is like when an umpire (government) becomes part of the game instead of a neutral arbiter.

 

Time is money in business.  Consider a chicken house up and running in 6-months versus 2-years (MD’s current rate). During the 18-month difference, a broiler operation could produce 9-10 flocks as opposed to zero.

 

That constitutes a family providing for itself while feeding the world. It means discretionary spending boosting our local economy and increased government revenues from Property and Income Taxes paid.  Over regulation costs time, and we begin to see that time is money for taxpayers as well.

 

The best stimulus for our economy is limited government.  Less money in taxes and fees results in more money in the pockets of taxpayers.

 

Historically, what do Americans do with more money in their pockets?

 

They invest, and they spend which fuels an economy like nothing else can. Again, this results in increased government revenue through an increasing tax base.

 

Our government is to protect us from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. It has been established to serve at our pleasure that we may,”… secure the blessings of liberty, to ourselves and our posterity.”  When we focus government on protecting and defending liberty, we narrow the scope and make it more effective.

 

 

"Marylanders Take Back Your State!"

Search for Victims Continues After Plane Crashes into Ocean

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OCEAN CITY, Md.- Authorities have resumed their search for the victims after a small plane crashed into the ocean off Ocean City.

After having to suspend search efforts Sunday evening because of darkness and unsafe conditions, dive teams picked up their efforts once again Monday at 9 a.m. The search was called off overnight due to dangerous conditions.

On Monday morning, wreckage of the plane was located on the ocean floor, according to Ocean City police and Maryland State Police.

State police said the plane went down at around 4 p.m. Sunday a half mile offshore at 133rd Street. Mayor Rick Meehan said witnesses told police that the aircraft spun out of control before crashing.

The U.S. Coast Guard said the single-engine CJ-6A took off from Ocean City Municipal Airport.

There is still no official word about the number of passengers on board the plane or their identities. However, the Maryland Coast Dispatch newspaper in Ocean City is reporting that two people were on board that plane and both were off-duty members of the Ocean City  Department.

Anyone who may have witnessed the crash, especially anyone who may have photos or video of the aircraft prior to or during its descent, is urged to contact the MSP Berlin Barrack at (410) 641-3101.

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TIME MACHINE ... 1935

(Reader-friendly viewing of newspaper archives material)

In 1935 a young man writes a letter to a newspaper near his Pennsylvania home about his life at a CCC (Civilan Conservation Corps) camp in Worcester County. Little did he realize that his letter would be read again by the public now, almost 80 years later, as he shares his interesting and informative comments about the CCC experience from that bygone era. (And is he offering some food for thought about a similar experience that some of today's young people might benefit from?) -tk

　(Wikipedia) The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 18–25. Robert Fechner was the head of the agency. A part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who provided unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state and local governments. The CCC was designed to provide jobs for young men, to relieve families who had difficulty finding jobs during the Great Depression in the United States while at the same time implementing a general natural resource conservation program in every state and territory. Maximum enrollment at any one time was 300,000; in nine years 3 million young men participated in the CCC, which provided them with shelter, clothing, and food, together with a small wage of $30 a month ($25 of which had to be sent home to their families).　



January, 1935
(The Titusville Herald- Titusville, Pa.)

LIFE IN CCC CAMP

Editor Of The Herald.

Dear Sir:- I am a CCC boy and my home is in Diamond, Pa. My folks and friends take The Titusville Herald and (I) would like to have you publish this letter. You may send me a copy of it.

My temporary home is now in the CCC Co. No. 1318 S-62 Snow Hill, Md.  I enlisted on October 8, 1934 for a period of six months, was sent to Fort Meade, Md., for a medical examination and a few simple army and camp instructions.

I was kept at Fort Meade for six weeks and later sent here to my temporary home.

This camp is located in amongst large pines of varying heights, 100 to 150 feet, and off the state highway about 1/2 mile, between Pocomoke City and Snow Hill, Md.

We have a good outfit here, the best in the third corps area, with 250 boys. Life here is different than on the outside. It builds up the boys physically and mentally. Every day is something different, so we get some experience here that was never done on the outside,- from dish washing down on the line to cutting trees in swamps and changing clothes after falling in a swamp hole. Therefore, we are being prepared for everything that gets in our way in the line of work and play.

I am in the CCC going on four months and like it quite well, except for dish washing which I get for Sunday K.P. about twice a month, which means standing over a big tub 3 x 3 x 4 feet, filled with water and soap, standing there for three solid hours except for about a half hour or so of gold bricking, washing 250 plates, knives, spoons, forks, cups and bowls, not to mention what other boys on K.P. have to do with greasy pots and pans. I mean its fun if you take it that way.

Although we get plenty to eat, some outsiders say that we are being fed too well, for some of the boys look like as if they were over fed. It isn't the eats, its the G.I. grease. It gives us strength and health, with lots of fresh air, which we need to cut down those pines which are of varying heights.

Our work here consists of cutting down defective trees, clearing away underbrush, and building fire trails.

One thousand acres of state forest land here have to be cleared and it will take the rest of our two months to put a kink in it. Most of the boys are excellent workers and are rated according to their work. Now, I mean when we work, it's work.

We ride to work on trucks and to see us coming resembles a funeral. Five stake body trucks and ten dump trucks, all loaded with men. We ride to work and back for we have 1 1/2 miles to go.

We work 40 hours a week, 8 hours a day, rain or shine. Saturday afternoon and Sunday we get off. Saturday morning until noon we have to work in camp. In camp- scrub barracks floor, wash clothes, clean windows, stoves and arrange our clothing for inspection. After dinner is dress inspection. We line up in front of the U.S. flag on the parade grounds, stand at attention until the captain O. K.'s our dress. Then we are free to roam anywhere until 6 a. m. Monday morning. We have to sign in the recreation hall on a book when we come back or leave camp, so as to keep tally on us. Anyone leaving camp without signing out gets extra duty of 72 hours in the kitchen as K. P.

Monday mornings we must all be in camp. Reveille is at 6:45 a.m. The sergeant in the barracks yells out , "crawl out, boys, and push on the mops." We have to mop the floor every morning besides Saturday, make our bunk, and eat chow at 7 a. m.  7:30 a. m. we polish up the camp area, pick up all match sticks, paper and cigarette stubs that have been thrown away carelessly over Saturday and Sunday. 8 a. m. call for work detail, line up and be on our way with axes and saws, to the wood, ready to do work and fill the woods with the ringing of the saws and and echoes of our axes, until 4 p. m., when the days work is done.

Hurrah for the CCC, for every boy is a man when he leaves.

Now friends, if you doubt what I've said come down to Co. No. 1318 S-62 CCC Snow Hill, Md., at your own expense and find out.

Your CCC friend,

Steve J. Brenner

　
　
Do you have a local memory to share with PPE readers.. such as a big snow storm, a favorite school teacher, a local happening, something of interest your parents or grandparents told you about? It can be just a line or two, or more if you wish. Send to tkforppe@yahoo.com and watch for it on a future TIME MACHINE posting!

Annual Independence Day Celebration TODAY

Annual Independence Day Celebration

New Church Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company

 

Sunday, June 30, 2013
4 p.m. until 9:30 p.m.
 New Church firehouse

 

 

ENJOY.....

good food

 rides

games

auction

  well-known local DJ

 and

 one of the best fireworks shows on the

 Eastern Shore

 

BRING YOUR LAWN CHAIR

 

 

Launch Postponed NASA's Wallops Flight Facility

Launch Update:

Since weather conditions do not look favorable there will be no launch today- Sunday. 

Next attempt will be Monday, July 1, 2013 with a launch window of 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.