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Friday, November 22, 2013

Norn Covert - Former Fort Detrick spokesman enjoys Scout duties in retirement

'Very Boy Scoutish'

Former Fort Detrick spokesman enjoys Scout duties in retirement

By Courtney Mabeus News-Post Staff


An orange devil’s food cake sat on Norm Covert’s dining table waiting to be auctioned off.

Covert had spent part of a recent afternoon baking the cake to benefit his 10-year-old grandson Nicholas’ Cub Scout Pack 1055, of which he is associate Scoutmaster.

The cake — intended to look like a pumpkin — looked more like a curling stone or maybe a bomb, Covert joked. He used marshmallows to help shore up a hole in the top around a banana that he’d used as the cake’s stem.

“That’s very Boy Scoutish,” Covert said of his handiwork.

Covert, 70, directed public affairs and worked as a historian on Fort Detrick for 23 years before he retired in 1999. While no longer on post daily, he spends his days about a mile away from the base, working in his home office on his volunteer duties.

“I’m probably working as long hours now as I was when I was working,” Covert said.

A stroke in January set him back, but Covert is beginning to get back to writing. He runs a blog, the Covert Letter, and is a contributor to The Tentacle, a Frederick commentary site.

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2013/11/norn-covert-former-fort-detrick.html

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Saturday, January 07, 2012

NEW YEAR’S NOTIONS & NUMBERS

NEW YEAR’S NOTIONS & NUMBERS: "By NORMAN M. COVERT

http://blog.thecovertletter.com/2012/01/new-years-notions-numbers/

Looking back on events of 2011 is a notion that Leroy (Satchell) Paige said we should avoid. Chances are, he said, “the Devil may be gaining on you!” The late, great professional baseball pitcher knew from which he spoke. I, therefore, am forging into 2012 with optimism.

A retrospective does give pause that something good can happen with me and mine – and you and yours – these next 12 months. " Read more: http://blog.thecovertletter.com/2012/01/new-years-notions-numbers/

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Thursday, February 05, 2009

The Tentacle: WTE Derangement by Norman M. Covert February 5, 2009



Here’s a shout-out to Commissioner Kai J. Hagen, who needs a kind word from someone, anyone. His “noogies” have been few since objecting to the $323 million Waste-to-Energy (WTE) plant proposed for Frederick County. Mr. Hagen should declare victory and admit he was “for it” before he was against it.

The Honorable Mr. Hagen took a roundhouse blow from The Gazette two editions ago in a story, yet to be reported by the local Daily Blather. The affable Mr. Hagen was guilty, reporter Sherry Greenfield recounted, of using his MacIntosh™ computer to scold his colleagues by email regarding the WTE.

Mr. Hagen wrote to colleagues and bantered with private citizens saying that county staff and a professional consultant had given them information regarding the WTE that amounted to “scientific fraud.”

Huge words for a rookie politician, who may not understand that words have meaning. When you write them down and hand them out, as in an email, they last forever. They are the ultimate example of recycling gone bad. Before you hit, “Send,” stew over it a bit.

It was a miscalculation by Mr. Hagen, whose winning electoral base may have disappeared, leaving him a minority constituency of “Groans.” His opposition campaign, including a cyber chat room, has yielded little information of substance other than a falling sky, like the fabled Chicken Little claimed.

Commissioner President Jan H. Gardner has gone the extra mile with her colleague, even to the point of accompanying him and Commissioner David Gray on a “fact-finding” trip to Boulder, CO, in June 2008. President Jan even dragged along Michael G. Marschner, director of the county Division of Utilities and Solid Waste Management.


Read the entire column here: WTE Derangement by Norman M. Covert February 5, 2009

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=2999

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