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Showing posts with label Westminster File. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Westminster File. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

20070828 MD School for the Blind sells Westminster Inn to YMCA

Maryland School for the Blind sells Westminster Inn to YMCA

Baltimore, MD-August 28, 2007:

The Maryland School for the Blind (MSB) has sold The Westminster Inn to The YMCA of Central Maryland for $1 million. The property was donated to the school in 2005. The proceeds from the sale will fund essential programs at the school.

The Maryland School for the Blind is a non-profit school that serves students across the state who are blind, visually impaired, or multiply disabled. MSB sought another mission-oriented, non-profit organization to negotiate the sale. John K. Holey, President and CEO of the YMCA Central Maryland states, "This opportunity became attractive to us because it allows us to provide programs and services, including health and wellness, and child care, in a location central and convenient to a larger percentage of Carroll County's families that we are currently serving".

We were delighted to negotiate a transaction where the Y is able to expand their services, and provide services to the residents of Carroll County> "> , said Steven Koren, board member of MSB Enterprises, LLC.

The property, located at 5 North Center St. in Westminster, MD, was formerly a full service inn, and also housed a restaurant and fitness facility. The sale was negotiated by MSB Properties and MSB Enterprises, LLC.

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Located in the northeast corner of Baltimore, The Maryland School for the Blind (MSB) is a private, nonprofit school dedicated to educating children and youth from infancy to age 21 who are blind, visually impaired, and multiply disabled. Each year, the school serves more than 800 students throughout the state. In addition to the traditional classroom education, MSB offers comprehensive services including; residential, braille and low-vision instruction, travel training, transition, health and therapy services, career education, and outreach.

MEDIA CONTACT

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The Maryland School for the Blind

Taiishap AT mdschblind.org

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www.marylandschoolfortheblind.org

Monday, June 11, 2007

20070611 Follow-up on "20070610 The Last Train to Clarksville”

Follow-up on "20070610 The Last Train to Clarksville

June 11th, 2007 2:30 AM

UPDATE: I wanted to call to your attention the comment that Mr. Burns left… on "20070610 The Last Train to Clarksville" (I wish I could figure out a way to highlight comments better…)

Before I get to Mr. Burns’ comment, I want to say again, how much I appreciated his post that brought back so many memories of a time and place from a long time ago. Thanks.

For those who are not aware of Mr. Burn’s web site – Please check it out. It has become part of my necessary reading everyday. Find it here: Maryland Politics Today.

As far as Dwight Dingle and WTTR – these folks are simply super. Dwight and I had a great deal of fun with my Westminster Eagle column on aspects of 1967 last Wednesday, June 6th, 2007: Dwight Dingle, 'Sgt. Pepper' and a bathtub band . (I may need to republish it on “Soundtrack” as I have received questions from many folks as to where they may find it.

Meanwhile – some insight into the column can be found here: 20070606 Dwight Dingle and The Mamas and The Papas.”

Of course, it was the topic of on-air discussion the day it came out, June 6th, 2007 and then the next evening, I talked about the column and other erratum on-air with Bruce Main…

Anyway:

P. Kenneth Burns has left a new comment on your post "20070610 The Last Train to Clarksville":

Believe me when I tell you this, it was more of a play on words than anything.

Little known fact, around the time when I was in the 2nd grade back in 198x, Nickelodeon and Nick and Nite picked up The Monkees television show. Then some years later, I come to find out that there is a Clarksville in Howard County.

As far as the Betamax reference, that was more irony than anything. If you are a regular YouTube user, feel free to look up user "videoholic2007," who was boasting about his Betamax collection.

BTW, Dwight Dingle and the folks at WTTR are a nice group. check out the pictures on my main site, www.kennyburns.com from my visit up there last year.

Thanks for the feedback. And oh, I saw The Monkees TV show when it was prime time TV… And Mr. Burns, the next time you are in town, please let me know. Lunch is on me.

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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

20070606 Dwight Dingle and The Mamas and the Papas

Dwight Dingle and The Mamas and the Papas

June 6th, 2007 by Kevin Dayhoff

I had been in contact with Dwight several times recently as he is included in my Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 Westminster Eagle column… (As I post this it is not online yet.)

In my column Dwight is credited with remarking:

“I reached Dwight Dingle, a radio personality with WTTR since 1974, on the phone last weekend, while he was in Ocean City with other station staff members, where WTTR was receiving five Associated Press awards.

He said that he was a “The Mamas & the Papas” fan. He was a student at Towson State College when the “Sgt. Pepper” album came out. However, he remembers well that his roommate, “Buck” Jones, the former principle of East Middle School and now the principle of Carroll Lutheran School, was a big Beatles Fan…

Mr. Dingle thought the album cover for “Sgt. Pepper” was fascinating but “it doesn’t compare with “The Mamas & the Papas” album cover with the all the members of the band in a bathtub…”

Hmmm. Perhaps someone may want to call Dwight up at WTTR and ask him “on-air” to explain his affection for that “The Mamas & the Papas” album cover…?

The album, “If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears” debuted in March 1966 and it has one of my all-time favorite songs on it – “California Dreamin’.” The first of ultimately three covers for the album, (now a valuable collector’s item) was banned in the United States “as indecent,” (for the silliest reasons – by today’s standards; and not because it contained errors in grammar.) Have Dwight tell you the story…

So just what is the explanation as to why Mr. Dwight Dingle is on The Mamas and the Papas” cover for the album, “If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears?

Perhaps you may wanna give him a call to find out…

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20070605 WTTR the “Voice of Carroll County” wins five awards

June 5th, 2007

(Paraphrased from information on the WTTR web site on June 5th, 2007)

WTTR wins five awards for news and sports from Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association:

The awards were presented by the Associated Press last weekend in Ocean City Maryland.

Mark Woodworth, Dwight Dingle, and Tom Burnett were cited for OUTSTANDING COVERAGE OF A CONTINUING STORY for November's "ELECTION NIGHT 2006."

Pat Sajak's "I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT..." took top honors for being the OUTSTANDING EDITORIAL OR COMMENTARY.

The best PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAM OR SERIES went to the "CARROLL COMMUNITY FORUM - MENTAL ILLNESS" show.

The WTTR news staff (delivers) 27 locally produced newscasts every weekday from a crew that has won hundreds of professional journalism awards and community honors over the past several decades.

In several phone conversations with Dwight over the last several days, he said more information will be forthcoming. I had been in contact with Dwight several times recently as he is included in my Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 Westminster Eagle column… (As I post this it is not online yet.)

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Friday, April 06, 2007

20070405 Sports Hall of Fame preps for 2007 class

Westminster Eagle

04/05/07

The Rotary Club of Westminster has announced the inductees for the class of 2007 Carroll County Sports Hall of Fame.

This year's members of the hall will be honored at the annual Sports Hall of Fame Banquet on Friday, April 13, at Carroll Community College, beginning at 6 p.m.

There are currently 54 persons honored in the hall of fame. The five inductees for 2007 are:

*Amber Clutter Hunter -- a soccer All-American, All-South Region, All-State and All-County player, Baltimore Metro Athlete of the Year and 12-letter winner at South Carroll High School;

*Tom Reese -- a football and wrestling standout at North Carroll High, All-County and All-Monocacy Valley League player in football, two-time county, regional and state champion and All-American in wrestling, three-time Atlantic Coast Conference champion and three-time NCAA qualifier in Division One.

*Charles Robert Barnhart -- the first quarterback on Westminster High School's inaugural football team. He also played basketball and played shortstop on one of Westminster's best baseball teams.

*Dwight Dingle -- has served many years as sports voice of WTTR-Radio. He has promoted and developed the station's Athlete of the Week Award, and covered nearly every sport played in Carroll County, following teams all over the region; and

*Paul "Pete" Widener -- played football, basketball and ran track at Westminster High, played football and lacrosse at Duke.

He was an All American, All-Conference and All-Metro player at Westminster. At the college level, he played football in the Cotton Bowl and the Blue-Gray Classic.

The unveiling ceremony of the plaques on the Sports Hall of Fame Wall will begin at 6 p.m., followed by the induction banquet in the college atrium.

Tickets for the evening are $30, and are available at The Boston Inn, 533 Baltimore Blvd., and branches of The New Windsor State Bank.

For more information, call 410-848-9095.

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Friday, December 29, 2006

20061228 Real Editor seems to have annoyed ScrappleFace Editor


“Real” Editor seems to have annoyed ScrappleFace Editor

ScrappleFace Editor Responds to Real Editor

December 28th, 2006

In what is tantamount to must-read Internet, a “real” editor, from of all places, the Utopian Republic of San Francisco, seems to have attempted to take to task ScrappleFace for a satire piece he wrote, “One Year Later, Some Katrina Victims Still Slow to Respond,” and ScrappleFace drops the palliative vehicle of humor and responds.

The result is a very real and serious manifesto that cuts right to the quick of the matter, for not only the media’s response to Katrina, but much of what is wrong with our country today.

Please find the time to read his entire post: “ScrappleFace Editor Responds to Real Editor.” It is more than worth every minute of your time.

Mr. Scott wrote in his ScrappleFace post:

“In the immediate aftermath of Katrina, journalists sought someone to blame. They, predictably, found President George Bush was the best scapegoat. But in lashing out, yet again, at their favorite source of all discontent, they missed a bigger target. If anyone “out there” is to be blamed, it is the large, remote, centralized federal government which has become a surrogate father to so many millions of Americans.”

[Meanwhile… I wrote several columns about the tragedy of Katrina in The Tentacle:

October 5, 2005 “Kurosawa's History of Hurricane Katrina” American Anthropologist Ernest Albert Hooten once said: "History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened." How will history record Hurricane Katrina?

September 14, 2005 “Katrina – Who Did What and When?” The intemperate criticism directed at the Hurricane Katrina response – the rescue and recover efforts – is more polluted than the floodwaters of New Orleans and contributes nothing to a noble American tradition of coming together at a difficult time and helping fellow Americans in a time of need.

And

September 9, 2005 “Shut up and call the cavalry” Compassion exceeds all else in importance on the Gulf Coast in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy. Only the truly heartless can be left untouched. Our hearts and prayers go out to the victims and the rescuers.]

Mr. Ott begins the post by saying”

“… since ScrappleFace began, my little satirical stories have reached millions of people. Those who read them on the website, for the most part, understand the satirical context. However, thanks to the magic of clip-and-paste, many stories have been ripped from their context and distributed … causing consternation and ill-will in some cases. Normally, the vast editorial staff at ScrappleFace when notified of such offenses, dutifully ignores them, preferring to let the work speak for itself.

We simply continue to ply the trade of creating “fake but accurate” news that we learned in journalism school, and at the feet of Dan Rather and The New York Times.”

With that, he isn’t even warmed-up yet. It gets better.

Apparently, Mary Ratcliff, the editor of the “San Francisco Bay View,” took offense at one of the pieces and has decided to climb upon the soapbox of moral authority and lecture Mr. Ott.

Right from the get-go, one can tell what is coming. Usually such folks – total strangers – in a manifestation of their total disdain for authority and their moral superiority begin with the condescending salutation of addressing you by your first name…

“Dear Scott,

I hope the story you wrote, “One Year Later, Some Katrina Victims Still Slow to Respond“, is satire and is not based on comments actually made by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. An excerpt from your story had been sent to me, and I forwarded it to this list…”

Usually such folks are total hysterics who feed off the tender morsels of found tidbits of a story and at that - - they draw broad-sweeping, self-adulating conclusions that are inaccurate at best, if not intellectually reprehensible.

The “tender morsels” are then extrapolated to the far reaches of reduction add absurdum.

Witness:

“If your story is satire, please tell that to the people on this list. As you can see, your story has caused them immeasurable pain. Think for a moment how it would feel to be condemned by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the person next in line to become president of the U.S. if something should happen to the president and vice president…”

This priceless. San Francisco representative Nancy Pelosi has not even been coroneted the Speaker of the House and here, in one mere sentence, Ms. Ratcliff has her speaking with the imprimatur of the president. Oy vey.

Having been the CEO of a local government with a larger than average share of morally superior secular progressives in our esteemed constituency; that believes that the job of government is solve every problem known to humankind; I’ve been there and got the t-shirt.

Such folks are insufferable. Usually such precious moments are full of breathless thespian pious pithy protestations and appeals involving, “Do the right thing…;” “it’s for the children;” or “everyone agrees…”

If the performance is in a public setting, usually the local newspaper will ignore 90% of the thoughtful comments and responses of well-intentioned citizens and report upon the small minority of folks who attempted to promote their miss-guided agenda by being unpleasant.

In 2005 I chaired a public meeting in which one of these actors began to launch into a soliloquy only to pause to look around the room and discover that the press was not there. At that point she lamented the lack of the press and fell silent.

It was profound. In other words, if she couldn’t grandstand for the local press, which loves her theatrics and words of wisdom, it was not worth her time to venture an opinion. (And no, insiders should be aware that in this example it was not the “RO Factor.”)

Mr. Scott warms up by writing:

“Your email address indicates you are an editor of something. Part of an editor’s job is to check sources before “going to press.” You clipped and pasted a bit forwarded to you from a satire website and sent it out as if it were something that Rep. Nancy Pelosi said. Now, you have asked me to write to this group of people (on a listserv) who have endured some of the harsh realities of life, that I might somehow atone for the confusion you have caused.”

He then continues later with:

“Over the decades, we have ceded power, authority and responsibility to the federal government far beyond anything envisioned or desired by our founders. As a result, instead relying on our own intelligence, resources and ability to work with others in our communities to solve problems, we have turned to Washington D.C..

This is not a matter of ‘blaming the victim’, because the victim has become so immersed in this twisted view of human life that he cannot see what has happened. The federal government’s dehumanizing effect has torn up neighborhoods, torn apart families and turned brave, capable people into compliant recipients of redistributed wealth.”

Mr. Scott at this point just gets better and better – and better.

Read the entire post here.

I hope Mr. Scott runs for president in 2008.

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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

20061127 Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose story by K Volkmann

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose –
story by K Volkmann in the Baltimore Examiner

November 28th, 2006

Kelsey Volkmann, who writes for the Baltimore Examiner has a fun story in the November 27th, 2006 edition of the paper, “
Extra syllable a common addition in Westminster,” about the common mispronunciation of the City of Westminster.

I have come to really like Ms. Volkmann’s brand of “community reporting” and it is little vignettes like this that make reading the Baltimore Examiner fun. What a welcome addition to the journalist pool in Carroll County.

After I talked with her on the phone, as usually happens, what I wished that I had also called to her attention is the piece written by Gertrude Stein, in 1913, “Sacred Emily.”

In that poem, Ms. Stein wrote, "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose."

Heckfire, whatever ya call it, Westminster is Westminster is Westminster, no matter how ya pronounce it. It sure is a great place to call home.

A few excerpts from
Ms. Volkmann’s article:

Local: Extra syllable a common addition in Westminster

http://www.examiner.com/a-421605~Extra_syllable_a_common_addition_in_Westminster.html

Kelsey Volkmann, The Examiner, Read more by Kelsey Volkmann, Nov 27, 2006 3:00 AM

Westminster - Natives blame newcomers, but even longtime residents of Carroll County don’t notice they add an extra syllable to the county seat’s name, calling it “West-min-IS-ter.”

[…]

But how did this linguistic phenomenon start?

Language is constantly changing, said Jasna Meyer, an expert in language and discourse at McDaniel College in Westminster.

[…]
Kevin Dayhoff, a former Westminster mayor and well-known blogger, blamed newbies to the county.

“You don’t hear us crusty old locals saying it,” he said.

[…]

kvolkmann@baltimoreexaminer.com

Read the rest here. What fun.

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