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Sunday, July 03, 2011

Carroll County Farm Museum Gears Up for an Old-Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration


Carroll County Farm Museum Gears Up for an Old-Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration - The Farm Museum fireworks, a Carroll County tradition, will kick off at 9:30 p.m.  By Kevin E. Dayhoff : http://t.co/OkPu  http://westminster.patch.com/articles/carroll-county-farm-museum-gears-up-for-an-old-fashioned-fourth-of-july-celebration  http://tinyurl.com/6hhf2xo

Carroll County Celebrates its Own History on the Fourth of July
By Kevin E. Dayhoff Jun 28, 2011The real meaning of Independence Day in Carroll County is steeped in history. http://westminster.patch.com/articles/carroll-county-celebrates-its-own-history-on-the-fourth-of-july#c

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http://www.thetentacle.com/ Wednesday, June 29, 2011 Against overwhelming odds Kevin E. Dayhoff Next Monday is Independence Day. For someone like me, who grew up in a small agriculture-based country town in the heartland of the birth of our great nation, the holiday has always had a special meaning. I have often wondered why.  http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4485

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Carroll County Maryland 4th of July Fireworks, Version 2 -- The patriotic music mix By Kevin Dayhoff July 4th, 2008

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Carroll County Maryland 4th of July Fireworks, Version 1 -- The Techno-electronica music mix By Kevin Dayhoff July 4th, 2008

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Blog: Never a Dull Moment at the Westminster Fire House

In the past week, the Westminster fire department saw its steady share of both house fire calls for service and motor vehicle accidents. Along with a few pictures, a sample of the calls are included.
Collage-illustration by Kevin Dayhoff
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Carroll County Celebrates its Own History on the Fourth of July

The real meaning of Independence Day in Carroll County is steeped in history.

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Fireworks at the old-Fashioned Fourth of July celebration the Carroll County Farm Museum in 2010.
NEWS

Carroll County Farm Museum Gears Up for an Old-Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration

The Farm Museum fireworks, a Carroll County tradition, will kick off at 9:30 p.m.

Welcome to the Blog for Westminster Fire Engine and Hose Co. No. 1

The volunteers of the Westminster fire department appreciate this opportunity to acquaint you with the vital work they do every single day of the year.
ISSUES

Accident scene responders face increasing dangers

Accident scene responders face increasing dangers as roadways are more congested with motorists who aren't always taking necessary precautions in moving past an accident scene.
HEALTH

Take this Time to Educate Yourself about the Dangers of Heat Exposure

As we begin to experience excessive periods of heat, the Westminster Fire Department, along with other health care partners, would like to remind the public of the dangers of prolonged heat exposure.
HISTORY

Blog: The first Carroll County Firemen’s Association Convention, May 15, 1924

Firefighters from across the county held the first-ever Carroll Co. Firemen’s Assoc. county convention on May 15, 1924 at the Westminster fire station located at 66 E. Main St. Westminster.
Illustration for Juneteenth created by local artist and author Kevin Dayhoff.
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Juneteenth Independence Day and Slavery's History in Carroll County

The holiday dates back to the end of the Civil War and celebrates freedom for more than 250,000 slaves.
After the 144th annual Westminster Memorial Day parade, folks walk past the entrance of the Westminster Cemetery just before the ceremonies began. Photo by Kevin Dayhoff on May 30, 2011
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Annual Westminster Memorial Day Parade Steeped in Tradition

  • May 30, 2011
By Kevin Dayhoff … The annual Carroll Post 31 American Legion Westminster Memorial Day Parade steps off at 10 a.m. today. The parade will begin at the west end of town at


    Some of the officers and members of the board of directors for 2011 for the Westminster Fire Department include, from left to right: Chaplain Kevin Dayhoff, Treasurer Robert Ruby, First Vice President Todd Whitson, Board member at large Jeff Ausherman, Second Vice President Kristen Boyer, President Robert Cumberland, and Chief James Bangerd III.
    POLICE & FIRE

    Westminster Fire Department Recognizes Top Responders

    Tyler, Captain James Falise, Jr., Marshall Michael Garber, Assistant Marshall Kenny Carlisle, Chaplain Kevin Dayhoff, Historian James Brown, and Assistant Historian James…
    NEWS

    Junction, Inc. the Latest Victim of Budget Cuts

    sources, especially for community outreach programs in the field of mental health and drug addiction," said KevinDayhoff, a Junction board member for the past 11 years. "It…
    NEWS

    Westminster Church Celebrates Diversity

    • Jun 24, 2011
    St. Paul’s United Church of Christ will host a two-day event focused on educating the community about issues related to diversity.

    Tell Your Neighbors About Patch

    ART & ENTERTAINMENT

    Off Track Art Exhibition with guest artist Kelly Heck

    May 6, 2011, 5:30pm–7:30pm
    11 Liberty St, Westminster, MD
    NEWS

    Junction Survives, Will Continue to Serve Community

    keep the organization operating. … Kevin Dayhoff, a Junction board member for the past 11 years, said he is happy that a resolution was found that allows Junction to continue
    ARTS

    "Lucky 13" by Off Track Art Showing at Birdie's Cafe

    artistic visions of its partners. “Lucky 13” By Off Track Art is featuring the work of Kevin Dayhoff, Mary E. Decker, Gail Elwell, Judy Goodyear, Phil Grout, Charlotte Laslo

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      Saturday, July 02, 2011

      Truthout: 14 Propaganda Techniques Fox News Uses to Brainwash Americans

      Truthout: 14 Propaganda Techniques Fox News Uses to Brainwash Americans

      Saturday 02 July 2011
      14 Propaganda Techniques Fox News Uses to Brainwash Americans
      Dr. Cynthia Boaz, Truthout: "It is ironic that in the era of 24-hour cable news networks and 'reality' programming, the fluff-to-news ratio and overall veracity of information has declined precipitously. Take the fact Americans now spend on average about 50 hours a week using various forms of media, while at the same time cultural literacy levels hover just above the gutter. "
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      The Super Rich Sabotage the Arab Revolutions
      Shamus Cooke, Truthout: "With revolutions sweeping the Arab world and bubbling up across Europe, aging tyrants or discredited governments are doing their best to cling to power. It's hard to overexaggerate the importance of these events: the global political and economic status quo is in deep crisis. If pro-democracy or anti-austerity movements emerge victorious, they'll have an immediate problem to solve - how to pay for their vision of a better world."
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      No End in Sight as Minnesotans Grapple With State Shutdown
      Monica Davey, The New York Times News Service: "Heading into a holiday weekend in a state that savors its summers outdoors, licenses for fishing, hunting, trapping, boats and ATVs were unavailable for purchase. And all around the State Capitol - the place where all the troubles began - the streets were eerily empty and official buildings locked, plastered with hand-taped signs that offered a gentle explanation: 'This building is closed until further notice due to the current state government service interruption.'"
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      Gaza Flotilla Move Sinks
      Pierre Klochendler, Inter Press Service: "The besieger is besieged, such is the forlorn fact emanating from the order by Greece to block the ships docked at its ports from setting sail to the Palestinian strip of land, and that fact seems to have sealed the Flotilla's fate."
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      Police Attack Peaceful Protesters in Morocco
      Sarah Lazare, Truthout: "With revolutions sweeping the Arab world and bubbling up across Europe, aging tyrants or discredited governments are doing their best to cling to power. It's hard to overexaggerate the importance of these events: the global political and economic status quo is in deep crisis. If pro-democracy or anti-austerity movements emerge victorious, they'll have an immediate problem to solve - how to pay for their vision of a better world."
      Read the Article

      Qaddafi Threatens Europe With Attacks
      Kareem Fahim, The New York Times News Service: "In the speech, delivered by telephone to thousands of people marching in Green Square in Tripoli, Colonel Qaddafi warned that Libyans would be able to take the battle 'to Europe, to target your homes, offices, families, which have become legitimate military targets, like you have targeted our homes.'"
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      Number of Mexico's Missing Swells, Families Call for Help
      Tim Johnson, McClatchy Newspapers: "As the numbers of missing and dead mount in Mexico, thousands of families suffer the same uncertainty. Mexico has no centralized system to track and identify those who disappear. Hundreds of bodies pulled from clandestine mass graves remain unidentified for the most part, nameless victims of Mexico's ongoing carnage."
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      From the Reservation to the Airwaves: Navajo Band Battles Injustice
      Martha Sorren, Truthout: "In 1979, Arizona Snowbowl proposed the addition of artificial snow created from reclaimed refuse water. The plan created an uproar among Native American communities, as well as with many other local citizens. Three decades later, the plan is being executed despite lawsuits filed by both the Hopi and Navajo tribes. The tribes argue that under freedom of religion, the mountain is a holy place and shouldn't be contaminated with reclaimed water."
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      We Must Stop the Building of a Plutonium Bomb Factory in Fire Country
      Subhankar Banerjee, Climate Storytellers: "The government is heavily monitoring the air in the area for toxic pollutants. They’re using dozens of monitors on the ground as well as a specially outfitted twin–engine plane with sensors that came from the Environmental Protection Agency. As of June 29, 'top lab officials and fire managers say there have been no releases of toxins.' Let us hope we’re getting the full truth."
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      BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
      The BuzzFlash at Truthout commentary will return on Monday.
      Neocons Want War and More War. What's New? Read the Article at Consortium News
      Segregation in the Land of Limousine Liberalism - Westchester County Fighting Court Ordered Desegregation?Read the Article at Salon
      Colbert's "SuperPAC" Pushes the Limits of Election LawRead the Article in The Atlantic
      US Disaster Capitalists Flocked to Haiti Post-Quake "Gold Rush" (WikiLeaks)Read the Article in The Nation
      Conservative Cash Crop, Bachmann StyleRead the Article in The New York Times
      What if You Held a Class War and No One Showed Up? GOP Treats Recent History Like a Dreamscape.Read the Article in Mother Jones
      The 10 Loudest Movies Ever!!!Read the Article at Salon


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      The Tentacle writers’ monthly breakfast meeting at the Barbara Fritchie

      The Tentacle writers’ monthly breakfast meeting at the Barbara Fritchie


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      Friday, July 01, 2011

      Carroll County Farm Museum Gears Up for an Old-Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration and more from Westminster Patch

      Carroll County Farm Museum Gears Up for an Old-Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration





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      Carroll County Farm Museum Gears Up for an Old-Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration

      Kevin E. Dayhoff | Jul 1, 2011 | 0 Comments

      imageThe Farm Museum fireworks, a Carroll County tradition, will kick off at 9:30 p.m.

      Something for Everyone at the Carroll Arts Council this Summer

      Kym Byrnes | Jul 1, 2011 | 0 Comments

      imagePatch has compiled a list of upcoming events at the Carroll Arts Center.

      Federal, Local Governments to Work Together to Clean Up Patapsco River

      Alexander Pyles | Jul 1, 2011 | 0 Comments

      imageA new federal pilot program selected the Patapsco River as one of seven urban waterways to be targeted.

      Budget Cuts Force Health Department to Make Changes

      Kym Byrnes | Jun 30, 2011 | 0 Comments

      imageThe Health Department announces changes to three Environmental Health programs effective July 1.

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      Union Mills Homestead and Grist Mill Guided Tours

      Union Mills Homestead served as the Shriver Family homestead for six generations. The homestead is now a museum of American culture …

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      Washington Examiner Political Digest: Nothing funny about government limits on political speech

      Nothing funny about government limits on political speech

      According to liberal dogma, last year's Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. FEC was the worst thing to happen to American democracy since Watergate. Hoping to prove that the ruling would allow "unlimited corporate money" to influence elections, Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert announced in March that he would form ColbertPAC, a political action committee. Yesterday, almost three months later, the Federal Election Commission narrowly granted him permission to do so. But that was far from the first obstacle on Colbert's march to undo the evils of the moneyed class in politics.

      Examiner Local Editorial: Fairfax's posh subsidized housing features pools, spas

      Fairfax County taxpayers are being forced to subsidize so-called "affordable housing" that includes luxurious amenities many of them cannot afford to provide their own families. That's the conclusion of an eye-opening new study by the Springfield-based Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, a nonpartisan research and education organization.

      What the Times didn't tell you about Ian Urbina

      You're Ian Urbina, a senior New York Times reporter. In February and March, you write that hydraulic fracturing, a method of natural gas extraction, is contaminating Pennsylvania drinking water. Your accusations are disproved by government tests. 

      A huge political storm is stirring over farm dust

      By: Ron Arnold 
      What is the doom of America? To borrow a mystical metaphor from an old Bob Dylan song, "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind." And what might that mighty answer be? Farm dust, everyday rural American farm dust. 

      Obama's stimulus road to nowhere

      Mired in excruciating negotiations over the budget and the debt ceiling, President Obama might reflect that things didn't have to turn out this way. The impasse grows mainly out of one major decision he made early on: pushing through a giant stimulus. 

      Madison on the Thames

      LONDON -- Big Labor looks the same wherever you go: petulant, irrational and wholly aggrieved beyond its means. I'm here on vacation with family as some 750,000 public-sector employees strike in protest over modest pension reform proposals. It's a taste of Wisconsin on the Thames. U.K. government teachers are just as shameless and entitlement-mongering as their American counterparts. More than half of England's schools shut down on Thursday as union members took to the streets. 

      President Richard M. Obama

      How many times have we heard awestruck references to Barack Obama's history as a law professor? Many came from the man himself, as when he told a crowd at a 2007 fundraiser, "I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president, I actually respect the Constitution." 

      What if President Obama had said this instead?

      What if -- instead of blaming Republicans, big oil, the "wealthy" and corporate jets -- President Obama had used his recent news conference to say the following? 


      Washington Examiner Political Digest: Nothing funny about government limits on political speech
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      Thursday, June 30, 2011

      Ann Coulter: Glenn Beck Vs. The Mob - HUMAN EVENTS

      Glenn Beck Vs. The Mob - HUMAN EVENTS

      Glenn Beck Vs. The Mob

      by Ann Coulter
      06/29/2011

      Of all the details surrounding the liberal mob attack on Glenn Beck and his family in New York's Bryant Park last Monday night, one element stands out. "No, it won't be like that, Dad," his daughter said when Beck questioned the wisdom of attending a free, outdoor movie showing in a New York park.

      People who have never been set upon by a mob of liberals have absolutely no idea what it's like to be a publicly recognizable conservative. Even your friends will constantly be telling you: "Oh, it will be fine. Don't worry. Nothing will happen. This place isn't like that."

      Liberals are not like most Americans...       http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=44553

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      Woman accused of robbing bank in nun habit - chicagotribune.com

      Woman accused of robbing bank in nun habit - chicagotribune.com

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      Explore Carroll: Municipal league convention is hot spot for meeting, and training, Carroll officials

      Explore Carroll: Municipal league convention is hot spot for meeting, and training, Carroll officials


      A seagull chattered away in the parking lot of the Roland E. Powell Convention Center in Ocean City (Md.) as, indoors, hundreds of elected officials gathered for the Maryland Municipal League annual meeting, June 26-29.

      Just inside, in the front lobby, Taneytown Mayor Jim McCarron and city administrator Henry Heine; Union Bridge Mayor Perry Jones; Hampstead Mayor Chris Nevin; and Westminster Mayor Kevin Utz and Councilmember Dennis Frazier gathered to compare notes after attending a roundtable forum with state cabinet secretaries.

      This year the MML, which represents 157 Maryland cities and towns, is celebrating its 75th anniversary and its annual meeting focused on classes, workshops, lectures, roundtable discussions and seminars that spanned four days, beginning as early as 7:30 a.m. and lasting until 10:30 p.m...       http://www.explorecarroll.com/news/5514/municipal-league-convention-hot-spot-meeting-training-carroll-officials/



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      Maryland Ranks 29 in Business - cbl - Citybizlist Baltimore

      Maryland Ranks 29 in Business - cbl - Citybizlist Baltimore

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      MediaHooker: Against Overwhelming Odds

      MediaHooker: Against Overwhelming Odds

      Against Overwhelming Odds


      [by my writer/blogger friend & colleague, KevinDayhoff! A prolific and quirky guy that writes with passion and is a former Mayor and artist/activist]

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      Against overwhelming odds

      Kevin E. Dayhoff

      from The Tentacle July 29th 2011

      Next Monday is Independence Day. For someone like me, who grew up in a small agriculture-based country town in the heartland of the birth of our great nation, the holiday has always had a special meaning. I have often wondered why.

      Perhaps it is because the Fourth of July is a part of our nation’s collective historic Zeitgeist, which commemorates the shared common experience of a great nation surviving against overwhelming odds.

      As I have grown older and my study of history has intensified, the holiday has only grown in stature and meaning.

      History is written by the winners and it is often sanitized and romanticized to an extent that the events portrayed by historical accounts, would be unrecognizable by the participants.

      This great experiment we call democracy, freedom and America, should have failed any number of times in history and yet we prevail.

      After the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress, which was only a revolutionary government in formation since September 5th, 1774, immediately set about the struggle to form a national government among states that did not get along, delegates that did not like each other, and regions of the colonies that had diametrically opposed interests.

      On July 3, 2005, George Will wrote that when General George Washington “arrived outside Boston in July 1775 to assume command of the American rebellion, he was aghast.

      “When he got a gander at his troops, mostly New Englanders, his reaction was akin to the Duke of Wellington's assessment of his troops, many of them the sweepings of Britain's slums, during the Peninsular War: ‘I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me.’

      “You think today's red state/blue state antagonism is unprecedented? Washington thought New Englanders ‘exceeding dirty and nasty.’”

      And so began the American War of Independence.

      The American colonists should have, by all measurable accounts, never ever won the Revolution. The war was not supported by a majority of the colonists.

      European historical accounts reflect that the English essentially gave up fighting because the English public and government was financially exhausted and public sentiment had turned against the war. Between 1775 and 1783, England’s national debt had almost doubled while fighting the war.

      After the Revolutionary War, the American colonies were essentially bankrupt and devastated. Immediately after the conflict, the only thing that kept the Continental Army from revolting in a military coup was the influence of George Washington.

      If it were not for Holland loaning us millions and millions of dollars, we may have never made it. The United States was in debt to the tune of $42 million by 1783; $8 million was owed to Holland, France and Spain.

      Hmmm… This is beginning to sound familiar! ...{Ctd on the link below} http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4485



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