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Monday, January 30, 2017

2017 Horse Fair Tack Sale to benefit the 4-H Therapeutic Riding March 26, 2017


2017 Horse Fair Tack Sale to benefit the 4-H Therapeutic Riding March 26, 2017  http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2017/01/2017-horse-fair-tack-sale-to-benefit-4.html

Join us at the 2017 Horse Fair Tack Sale to benefit the 4-H Therapeutic Riding
Program of Carroll County on March 26, 2017

When: March 26, 2017
Time: 9:00 AM- 2:00 PM
Where: Shipley Arena at the Carroll County Ag Center
What: Tack sale/swap

New and Used tack, equipment, clothes, and supplies, just in time for spring riding!

No Entry Fee Just come and shop!

Spaces are available for you or your organization to sell your horse related goods, services and supplies: 10x12 ft space is $30 for the first space, $20 for each additional space for more information or to reserve a space, email Karen at trp4h@comcast.net


Shots and Coggins Clinic: Make a reservation now to bring your horses and have shots done on the trailer ­ Contact Mary at mstheretreat99@gmail.com or call her at 443-465-7809.
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20070721 For more posts on Soundtrack about the 4H TRP

For more posts on the 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program of Carroll County on “Soundtrack”go here: http://tinyurl.com/qltzfn  The web site may be found here: http://www.trp4h.org/


Disclosure: I volunteer with the 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program of Carroll County








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2017 Horse Fair Tack Sale to benefit the 4-H Therapeutic Riding March 26, 2017


2017 Horse Fair Tack Sale to benefit the 4-H Therapeutic Riding March 26, 2017  http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2017/01/2017-horse-fair-tack-sale-to-benefit-4.html

Join us at the 2017 Horse Fair Tack Sale to benefit the 4-H Therapeutic Riding
Program of Carroll County on March 26, 2017

When: March 26, 2017
Time: 9:00 AM- 2:00 PM
Where: Shipley Arena at the Carroll County Ag Center
What: Tack sale/swap

New and Used tack, equipment, clothes, and supplies, just in time for spring riding!

No Entry Fee Just come and shop!

Spaces are available for you or your organization to sell your horse related goods, services and supplies: 10x12 ft space is $30 for the first space, $20 for each additional space for more information or to reserve a space, email Karen at trp4h@comcast.net


Shots and Coggins Clinic: Make a reservation now to bring your horses and have shots done on the trailer ­ Contact Mary at mstheretreat99@gmail.com or call her at 443-465-7809.
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20070721 For more posts on Soundtrack about the 4H TRP

For more posts on the 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program of Carroll County on “Soundtrack”go here: http://tinyurl.com/qltzfn  The web site may be found here: http://www.trp4h.org/


Disclosure: I volunteer with the 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program of Carroll County








Our community lost a number of distinguished community leaders in 2016


Our community lost a number of distinguished community leaders in 2016  http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2017/01/our-community-lost-number-of.html

Dayhoff: Carroll made great by many who have recently passed away

By Kevin Dayhoff January 27, 2017 Our community lost a number of distinguished community leaders in 2016. http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/columnists/features/history/ph-cc-dayhoff-012917-20170127-column.html

Recently, a number of us gathered to trade stories and pay our respects to Woody Swam at the Eckhardt Funeral Chapel in Manchester.

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“An old African proverb says, "When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground." This winter I have attended more funerals than I care to recall. Many of the folks were in their 80s or 90s. Community leaders, who by their sacrifice, hard work, and endeavor, helped make Carroll County what it is we enjoy today. In their passing, they take volumes of history with them…”

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Our community lost a number of distinguished community leaders in 2016. Folks such as T. Bryan McIntire, who passed away on Dec. 16 at age 86. McIntire served as the Carroll County state's attorney from 1962 to 1970.

Dave Schaeffer, 96, died on Dec. 20. After Schaeffer served in the Army during World War II, he started the Schaeffer Lumber Company in 1946 with his dad, and his brother.

“My Westminster High School class of 1971 classmates Bob Hyer and Doug Menchey died in 2016. Menchey worked for many folks in Carroll County with the Menchey Construction Company. Hyer was a 1975 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy…”

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Sunday, January 29, 2017

Pastor Martin Niemoeller, German clergyman (1892-1984)


"First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up."

Pastor Martin Niemoeller, German clergyman (1892-1984)

who opposed Nazism.


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We demand that the US government create a Lutheran registry

We demand that the US government create a Lutheran registry. Just saying.

I’ll just leave this right here:

"As Lutherans, many of our ancestors faced the pain of having to flee our homes and the joy of being welcomed in new communities across the United States. As we have done throughout history, I urge our elected officials to honor our biblical witness as well as the best of our nation’s traditions of refuge and stand firmly against any policies that result in scaling back the refugee resettlement program." - The Rev. Elisabeth A. Eaton, Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America – Retrieved Jan. 27, 2017


I am a Matthew chapter 25 chaplain to give voice to those often without a voice, to give form to my love of "other,” because I hate bullies and bullying, because God has called me as a chaplain to be welcoming and showing hospitality and mercy to all.

Leviticus 19:34: The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

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Washington Post: Judge halts deportations as refugee ban causes worldwide furor By Jerry Markon, Emma Brown and Katherine Shaver January 29 at 2:19 AM http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2017/01/washington-post-judge-halts.html

United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York Emergency Motion for Stay of Removal January 28, 2017


In New York, lawyers for two Iraqi men detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport — one of whom served the U.S. military mission in Iraq — filed a federal lawsuit challenging the order as unconstitutional.


Case 1:17-cv-00480 United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York Emergency Motion for Stay of Removal January 28, 2017

One of the men, Hameed Khalid Darweesh, was released Saturday afternoon without explanation from federal officials. “This is the humanity, this is the soul of America,’’ he told reporters. “This is what pushed me to move, to leave my country and come here … America is the land of freedom — the land of freedom, the land of the right.’’




"First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up."

Pastor Martin Niemoeller, German clergyman (1892-1984)

who opposed Nazism.
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Guy W Sholl, 86, passed away Friday, January 6th, 2017


Westminster High School Class of 1971 classmate Rebecca Melinda Sholl Cromwell’s father Guy W Sholl, 86, passed away Friday, January 6th, 2017.

Guy W Sholl, 86, passed away Friday, January 6th. Memorial services will be held at Harvest Church of God, 605 Westminster Pike, on Saturday, January 21st. Visitation from 2-4pm and 6pm with the service at 7pm. Guy was born in Hanover, MD in 1930 and resided in Owings Mills, MD. Guy is survived by his wife of 8 years, Lida, 6 daughters, 1 step-daughter, 19 grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren. He loved to sing and praise his Lord and is with him now. We will be reunited.
https://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2017/01/guy-w-sholl-86-passed-away-friday.html 
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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:
Baltimore Sun - Carroll County Times - The Carroll Eagle: www.explorecarroll.com: http://www.explorecarroll.com/search/?s=Dayhoff&action=GO

Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/

E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com

My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/


See also - Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art, artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists and journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maiorem Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson: “That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!” - See more at: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/#sthash.4HNLwtfd.dpuf
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Washington Post: Judge halts deportations as refugee ban causes worldwide furor

Washington Post: Judge halts deportations as refugee ban causes worldwide furor By Jerry Markon, Emma Brown and Katherine Shaver January 29 at 2:19 AM

In New York, lawyers for two Iraqi men detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport — one of whom served the U.S. military mission in Iraq — filed a federal lawsuit challenging the order as unconstitutional.


One of the men, Hameed Khalid Darweesh, was released Saturday afternoon without explanation from federal officials. “This is the humanity, this is the soul of America,’’ he told reporters. “This is what pushed me to move, to leave my country and come here … America is the land of freedom — the land of freedom, the land of the right.’’


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January 29, 2006: Move-in begins for Carroll County Nonprofit Center - By Mary Gail Hare, Sun reporter



This day in history: January 29, 2006: Move-in begins for nonprofits (at Carroll County Nonprofit Center) By Mary Gail Hare, Sun reporter

Twenty charitable agencies in the county will soon make their home in a new $6 million office building 

By Mary Gail Hare, Sun reporter

Originally published January 29, 2006 – Sadly, the link no longer works and I could not find the article when I searched for it on the The Sun website….. KED/Jan. 29, 2017

Instead of struggling to pay monthly rent for what was for many cramped quarters, 20 of Carroll County's benevolent organizations are moving into free office suites, tailored to their specific needs. 

The Carroll County Nonprofit Center, a nearly $6 million structure near downtown Westminster, will provide offices and conference and meeting areas, as well as furniture and equipment, to the Community Foundation, Head Start, the Literacy Council and the local branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Meals on Wheels and Habitat for Humanity, among others. 

"Because they won't have to pay rent, these organizations will have money to do more programs, buy more equipment and hire more staff," said Audrey Cimino, director of the Community Foundation. 

Dee Hines, coordinator for the Literacy Council, said the agency's new office will offer more space for clients and tutors. 

"The savings in rent will give us money for more books and materials," she said. "This is such a great gift to the community." 

Anverse Inc., a Georgia-based charity, broke ground on the three-story building last year after paying nearly $700,000 for the 3-acre lot in Westminster's Englar Business Park. The charity built the 40,000-square-foot center and is asking the tenants to pay only the utility costs. 
The building, which Anverse officials call "our guinea pig," includes a research library, small meeting rooms and kitchens, as well as the office suites. Its 1,900-square-foot conference room will be available to any nonprofit organization in the county. 

"Every space has been tailored to what the organization needs," said Mark Krider, project and building manager. "We asked them what they have now and what they need. Then, we made the space for them." 

Anverse is also building work stations and furnishing much of the building, with some help from the community. A department store provided toys to Head Start, the federally funded early-childhood program. Another Westminster company, when it relocated, offered the center 13 office suites. 

"They gave us every stick of furniture, all good stuff," said Cimino. "We have desks, conference tables, bookcases, all made out of wood." 

Anverse will continue to provide landscaping, maintenance and housekeeping services - an estimated $300,000 annual expense, company officials said. Every tenant will have access to the Internet and be interconnected by telephone. 

"Organizations will be neighbors, who will get to know each other," Cimino said. "The ripple effect will be incredible. We will all help each other just by our presence." 

The library will include information on thousands of grant resources that may help tenants find funding. 

"The whole concept is sharing resources," Krider said. "We even have break rooms, where people can collaborate on projects." 

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The building is the first of its kind in Maryland, said Krider, who added that he hopes other corporations emulate it. 


"This building is a totally unique opportunity for all of us," Cimino said. "We need to make the most of it so Anverse will do it someplace else."


This Day in History: January 29, 2006: Move-in begins for Carroll County Nonprofit Center - By Mary Gail Hare, Sun reporter https://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2017/01/january-29-2006-move-in-begins-for.html

Baltimore Sun Carroll Eagle: 
Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:
Baltimore Sun - Carroll County Times - The Carroll Eagle: www.explorecarroll.com: http://www.explorecarroll.com/search/?s=Dayhoff&action=GO

Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/

E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com

My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/


See also - Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art, artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists and journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maiorem Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson: “That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!” - See more at: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/#sthash.4HNLwtfd.dpuf
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Saturday, January 28, 2017

1962 in Ocean City: The Great March Storm of 1962

The next meeting “Carroll CAN” will take place at the Carroll County Public Library in Westminster on Feb. 12, 2017 2 p.m.



Updated pictures - Feb. 18, 2017 

The next meeting “Carroll CAN” will take place at the Carroll County Public Library in Westminster on Feb. 12, 2017 2 p.m.

At the January 26th, 2017 meeting of the Carroll County NAACP, Pam Zappardino reported that a grass roots organization has formed in Carroll to advocate for positive changes in the community.

The next meeting “Carroll CAN” - organized by “Together We Will,” will take place at the Carroll County Public Library in Westminster on Feb. 12, 2017 2 p.m. This will be about the 3rd meeting. More information may be found on the organization’s website here: https://carrollcan.org/

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The next meeting “Carroll CAN” will take place at the Carroll County Public Library in Westminster on Feb. 12, 2017 2 p.m.

According to recent information on the Carroll Can listserve:

“…Come to the Carroll CAN meeting at Westminster library at 2pm today! -AND/OR- If you are able to do so, please sign up to help with a committee that you may have an interest in or maybe even start your own if there is a need. We'd love to have some more people offer their knowledge on specific topics as well to add content to our website and keep the group informed.

“Some examples of the volunteer needs are: Writer of Weekly/Monthly newsletter and Representatives’ Calendars Liaison - report to communications/social media chairs when representatives will have town halls”


We began with a meeting in November 2016 at a Denny’s in Westminster. We used the time to feel empowered and encouraged that a group had formed (we were only 300 members on a Facebook group site at the time, but just that was so exciting at the time!). We shared our stories about why we had come, and there was a common theme of “I thought I was the only one.” The overwhelming feeling was one of relief to have found fellow Carroll County residents who shared the same values and concerns.

And then we hit the ground running!

We developed an organizational and leadership structure, which continues to grow as we find our groove.

We organized a bus to attend the Women’s March on Washington.  That wound up becoming 3 buses, with 136 passengers!  For many, it was their first march and their first moment of activism!  We had a volunteer design our green “March On” buttons that we now wear proudly.  After the march, a group of marchers went to a local restaurant for dinner, still in their pink hats, and they received applause and invited others to join our group!  

We programmed our representatives’ numbers into our phones, and faced our nervousness and discomfort by making calls to their offices.  We have now become comfortable with something that most of us had never done before 2017!

We met for monthly meetings, and the rooms were packed with energy and ideas.

We developed a list of local businesses to support due to our common values and interests.

We built a website, and received donations to host the site for the next year!

Some awesome stats: Our website has had 3,952 views in the last 30 days (as of 2/8/17).  

We made a public Carroll CAN Facebook page so people can find us and see our calls to action.

Some more awesome stats: In just the first eight days of February, we have had 696 visits! Our Carroll CAN public Facebook page grew at 14.5% last week, which is better than the Together We Will USA page and Pantsuit District page.  We engage more users than Indivisible, TWW-MD, and Pantsuit District!

We have a Call to Action team that verifies and disseminates an action item that we can do every day!  They post these calls to action on the websitefacebook page and twitter.

We increased communication by having an email liaison send the content of the facebook page to those who are not on facebook.

We developed a logo that signifies our awareness that we are stronger as a united team.   We once felt alone because of our values, and now we have both comfort and unified action because of our togetherness.

We had members who went to BWI to show support to refugees and immigrants on the day the bad went into effect.  We have members who gather on Main Street in Westminster on Saturdays with signs that have messages of inclusion, kindness, and support.
We have organized a Town Hall Meeting on 3/2/17 focused on the Affordable Care Act!  We have invited our representatives to attend, and we are hopeful they will.  

We organized small groups that meet at local restaurants for support and brainstorming.

We have amazing passion and motivation! People who have never been engaged in anything like this before have stepped up to lead a subcommittee!  People who made a suggestion wound up being willing to make that suggestion happen!  All it takes is that first thought of “Can I do ___?” and you will get a resounding and supportive, “Yes you CAN!”

We have managed to add activism and volunteering to our already full plates.  We have given our talents without expectation of recognition nor reimbursement.  We have learned new skills and been willing to go outside our comfort zones.


We are Carroll CAN—an action-focused, action-packed community network of kind, compassionate, and dedicated Carroll County residents. Together, we have, we will, and we CAN.
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Friday, January 27, 2017

Numerous reports indicate that Joseph F. Steffen, died unexpectedly this morning.


Very sad to learn that my colleague at the keyboard, political operative and author, Joseph F. Steffen, died unexpectedly this morning.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the Steffen family at this very difficult time.

What a legend. Joe earned the nickname, the Prince of Darkness, while doing oppositional political research during the administration of Maryland Governor Robert L. Ehrlich. Before and after his tenure with Representative – and then, Gov. Ehrlich, he ran a number of political campaigns. I enjoyed many conversations with Joe when I was a statehouse reporter. We did not always agree, but he was always a perfect gentleman and I always felt he was always straight with me. We will miss his take on everything from writing, to pop culture, to music, and of course, politics. https://darknessrevisited.wordpress.com/ Rest in Peace. 
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