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The Tentacle Who is Max Cleland? Kevin E. Dayhoff December 21, 2005

The Tentacle Who is Max Cleland? Kevin E. Dayhoff December 21, 2005

The Maryland Democratic Party’s election campaign website, otherwise known as Baltimore’s Sun (BS), ran a “news story” December 10 on Bo Harmon, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich’s selection to be his campaign manager.

In an attack ad that was offered as news, the BS cherry-picked convenient quotes to bestow partisan opinions upon unwitting readers – and to trash Governor Ehrlich. It is an old and tired trick in what the BS would like to pass as journalism.

The BS quickly promulgated the moon bat logic that Mr. Harmon is a craven campaign manager who ran “one of the most despicable campaigns in the history of Georgia, if not the nation," according to Georgia Democratic Party Chairman Bobby Kahn – “in the successful attempt to unseat Democrat Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia in 2002.”

Sounds like sour grapes more suitable for the National Enquirer or a partisan political newsletter, but hardly a news story.

Indeed, the article makes for an interesting study in the practice of political rhetoric. It has all the ingredients of a coherent political campaign. But, wait – isn’t the BS a newspaper that represents itself as adhering to the high journalistic standards of an impartial purveyor of the news?

[…]

Meanwhile, another coordinated attack by Michael Olesker was then conveniently published at the end of the first news cycle to reiterate the BS campaign platform planks promoted December 10.

The column reiterated what Rich Lowry referred to in a February 20, 2004, National Review article; as the “trumped-up mythology based on the idea that Republicans ‘questioned Cleland's patriotism’ in 2002.”

It all has to do with rehashing the 2002 senatorial election in conservative Georgia in which incumbent political moderate Senator Cleland, a disabled Vietnam veteran, lost to conservative U. S. Rep. Saxby Chambliss. Desperate Democrats claim Senator Cleland lost because Senator Chambliss’ campaign manager, Mr. Harmon, questioned Senator Cleland’s patriotism by lumping him together in an attack ad with the likes of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

Mr. Olesker continued: “We already knew Ehrlich gave us the Prince of Darkness, Joe Steffen, and we already knew Ehrlich's attacks on hate radio, and we already knew the history of dirty tricks secretly orchestrated against Ehrlich opponents in a series of political campaigns. But we didn't suspect the smiling governor of Maryland would bring in the likes of Harmon, who gave new meaning to the term ‘gutter politics’ when he went after Cleland…”

Ya da ya da ya da.

Then there is the matter of a few curious sentences – that looked familiar. Mr. Olesker wrote that Senator Cleland: “On one of his first trips out, an old girlfriend pushed his wheelchair around Washington. Near the White House, the wheelchair hit a curb. Cleland pitched forward and fell out, flopping around in dirt and cigarette butts in a gutter.”

Compare this to the following written by Peter Carlson in The Washington Post, on Thursday, July 3, 2003, on page C01: “On one of his first trips out, an old girlfriend pushed his wheelchair around Washington. Near the White House, the wheelchair hit a curb. Cleland pitched forward and fell out, flopping around in dirt and cigarette butts in a gutter.”

Hmmm. Okay. Who among us has not missed a proper citation?

Then Mr. Olesker wrote, after he forgot to properly cite words that were not his own: “It took Harmon to put him back in the gutter, three years ago.”

Oh! Pleeeze!

[…]

Read the entire column here: Who is Max Cleland?

http://thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=1395

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20051214 McDaniel students tackle bioterrorism scenario by Heidi Schroeder for The Westminster Eagle

20051214 McDaniel students tackle bioterrorism scenario by Heidi Schroeder for The Westminster Eagle

McDaniel students tackle bioterrorism scenario

12/14/05, By Heidi Schroeder

Members of the Carroll County emergency response team gathered at McDaniel College last week to discuss the release of an aerosol of plague at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore.

But not to worry - there were no patients flooding area hospitals, nor emergency notices being released to the public.

Instead, experts gathered at McDaniel for a bioterrorism exercise in a class, "National Security in a Changing World," hosted by Dr. Volker Franke.

The exercise is a cumulative project for the 14 upperclassmen enrolled in Franke's class this semester. In the scenario, each student is assigned the role of a member of the county's emergency response team.

Members of the Carroll County emergency response team, including emergency management coordinator Bill Martin, health officer Larry Leitch, HAZMAT team chair Jeff Kreimer, hospital infection control coordinator Brenda Kitchen, and Westminster police chief Jeff Spaulding and public works assistant director Jeff Glass, also took part in the project, as students took those roles in the class.

Each student was assigned a role on the response team, and interviewed their corresponding official in preparation for the Dec. 7 exercise.

For the drill, students were broken into two teams of seven and asked to prepare for a briefing to the mayor of Westminster. Former mayor Kevin Dayhoff reprised his role for the exercise - becoming mayor again for the night.

After an initial briefing, each team was given two updates on the scenario and five minutes to strategize solutions to each.

Over the course of two presentations, each team created a response to the possible spread of the plague.

In the mock scenario, nearly 3,000 guests of the Meyerhoff are "exposed" to the aerosol during a sold-out performance.

Students proposed everything from road blocks and quarantines to hiding emergency responders in an underground bunker to avoid media scrutiny.

At the end of the evening, the officials in attendance credited the student for their research and solutions.

"I truly believe that scenarios are more difficult to deal with than the real thing," Spaulding said, explaining that there are hard facts in a real incident - which are not always evident in an exercise.

Senior Alicia Feuillet played the role of Carroll County Hospital Center's infection control coordinator. She complimented the members of the county's emergency response team on hand - including Martin, Leitch, Spaulding, Kreimer and Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association liaison Leon Fleming - on the challenges of their jobs.

"We definitely learned to respect what you guys do," Feuillet said after her team's presentation.

Class after Sept. 11

After teaching national security classes at George Washington University and having prepared national security case exercises for Syracuse University for years, Franke first offered his national security course at McDaniel in the fall semester of 2001.

But before the semester was a month under way, four planes were hijacked in real life, and Franke's class changed - along with the rest of the world.

"Sept. 11 made me change the class and focus on terrorism," he said.

With this new focus, Franke contacted Westminster's then-mayor Dayhoff about participating in and helping to prepare an emergency response exercise at a local level.

"I wanted to show (the students) that terrorism is not just important when you live in New York City or Washington, D.C.," Franke said.

Franke credited Dayhoff with sharing information about who would be involved in an emergency response and for his continued participation in the class each year.

"Now, we actually have a following," Franke said.

One of those participants is Spaulding, who said afterward that he was impressed with students' responses, given that they had only their research to rely on.

"I think that they did their homework and they were very analytical in their approach," Spaulding said. "It's always good to hear other people's ideas.

This was the first year for Martin to fully participate in the exercise - in the past he had only participated in interviews, not in the actual briefings - but said he is already looking forward to next year.

"Exercise is becoming the norm," Martin said of the county's own attempts at emergency preparedness.

He said the students performed well both in research and under pressure.

"You're taking a bunch of young adults who have more than likely not been exposed to problems of that nature, particularly to that depth," Martin said. "I thought they did very well."

E-mail Heidi Schroeder at Heidi Schroeder@patuxent.com

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20051211 McDaniel students are tested on their studies by responding to a mock biological attack by Gina Davis for the Baltimore Sun

20051211 McDaniel students are tested on their studies by responding to a mock biological attack by Gina Davis for the Baltimore Sun

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A practical exam for disaster

McDaniel students are tested on their studies by responding to a mock biological attack

By Gina Davis, Sun Reporter, December 11, 2005

It's two days after a sold-out concert at the Joseph B. Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, where more than 2,000 music lovers were serenaded - and, unwittingly, poisoned at the hands of a bioterrorist who had covertly released an aerosol of plague.

Members of a Westminster emergency response team are huddled with the local mayor, cobbling together the city's strategy to deal with a possible outbreak of the pneumonic plague. They must put their heads together to present a solid plan to community officials and to reassure a near-panicked public.

For a group of McDaniel College students, the team effort is the culminating exercise of a class called National Security in a Changing World. It's their chance to put the book knowledge they have acquired during the past semester into practice.

"The goal is that students learn about national security and learn how to translate the classroom into a practical experience," says Volker Franke, a national security expert who has been teaching the course at McDaniel since 2001.

After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks - which occurred during the course's first semester - Franke included further discussion about government response to terrorism.

"We had talked about terrorism, but it used to be two or so lectures," says Franke, who is also a case director for the National Security Studies program at Syracuse University in New York. "I revised the course to address those issues. Terrorism has become a bigger part of the course."

He says that in 2002 he incorporated a bioterrorism exercise in the class, but it was an ungraded discussion. Since then, he has developed a simulation exercise for students that takes them out of the classroom and engages them with community officials as they research the roles they must assume for the project.

Franke says he discussed his idea with then-Westminster Mayor Kevin Dayhoff and came up with a list of roles for the students.

"I asked him, 'Who would your team be?" Franke says. "That's how we came up with the list of emergency responders. Then [Dayhoff] contacted other agencies within the county."

Dayhoff enlisted volunteers from various Carroll County offices, such as the health and public works departments.

The roles that Franke and Dayhoff decided would be critical to an emergency response team included: county emergency management coordinator, county health officer, city police chief, fire department spokesman, hazardous materials team chairman, city public works director and Carroll County Hospital Center's infection control coordinator.

This semester, the 14 students in Franke's class were divided into two teams and each participant was assigned one of seven roles on the emergency response team. During the course, they interviewed their real-life counterparts to gain an understanding of their roles and prepared descriptions of what they would bring to the situation.

"National security is not just about missiles, tanks and Marines," Franke says as the students arrived last week at a lecture room in Hill Hall for their mock disaster response planning drill, which counts for 15 percent of their grade.
"It starts at the local level," he says. "We have to bring it down to the level that pertains to them on a daily basis."

The exercise focuses on public officials' response to a bioterrorism attack in a command-center style arrangement. The students - in their roles as emergency responders - are seated at a semicircular table on one side of the room, while the real-life emergency responders are seated at an identical table across from them.

As part of the exercise, the real-life emergency responders listen as the students brief them on the status of the bioterror attack and the ensuing panic. The students then field a volley of questions from the experts.

"Mr. Incident Commander, you have thousands of people waiting for antibiotics and now you don't have enough. What's your plan?" Jeff Spaulding, Westminster's police chief, asks Mike Habegger, who has assumed the role of county health officer and director of the emergency response team.

"This is kind of unexpected," Habegger answers. "We will urge people to stay out of public places. It's very disturbing that people have not heeded our messages to stay home."

When one student suggests that local officials use a school as a quarantine site, the county's real health officer, Larry Leitch, questions that advice.

"Do you think it's wise to use a school building as a quarantine site?" Leitch asks. "Don't you think parents will be afraid to send their children back into that school?"

Students, undeterred, say they could use a large area, such as the gym, and install filters that would prevent bacteria from spreading to other parts of the building.
At two points in the exercise, students are given new information that they must quickly assess to reformulate their response plans.

In the end, the real-life emergency responders critique the students' response plans and their reactions to the evolving crisis. They tell the students how they would've responded had the exercise been real.

The students describe the exercise as eye-opening.

"With national security, you usually think, 'What can we do to prevent terrorism?' " says student Donnie Bell. "But there's really not much we can do other than try to stop it. What we have to do is figure out how to react."

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20051209 Is Curry ready to jump ship

Is Curry grinding an old ax or ready to jump ship?

Wayne Curry – 1971 Western Maryland College, now McDaniel College, graduate.

Friday, Dec. 9, 2005

Former Prince George’s county exec Wayne Curry has had a famously rocky relationship with Senate President Mike Miller.

The two have bloodied each another in the boxing ring that is Prince George’s County politics for more than a decade. Miller supported Curry’s opponent in 1994. Curry has recruited candidates to run against Miller.

Curry even told us during the redistricting debacle of 2000 that he wanted Miller out of the county altogether.

So when Curry took an on-the-record shot at Miller on Monday after a legislative breakfast hosted by Annapolis lobbying firm, Rifkin, Livingston, Levitan and Silver, it could be seen as not that big of a deal.

But Curry, a Dem, is being considered as a running mate for Gov. Bob Ehrlich, and when he decides to weigh in on Democratic Party politics or one of the party leaders like Miller, we take note.

Read the rest here: Is Curry grinding an old ax or ready to jump ship?

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20051212 Black Oak Associates wants center to help the environment

Black Oak Associates wants center to help the environment

Developer wants center to help the environment

Carroll County Times

By John G. Westerman, Times Staff Writer

Monday, December 12, 2005

Michael Trenery is a vice president for Black Oak Associates, an Owings Mills-based commercial developer that owns three shopping centers in Carroll County.

Black Oak Associates is managing the development of Main Street Eldersburg, an outdoor shopping center that is targeted to be built on the south side of Londontown Boulevard, east of Brevard Road in Eldersburg. The developer is EMS LLC.

Black Oak is seeking an environmentally friendly certification for the Main Street Eldersburg project. This certification, called silver LEED certification, is expected to cut operating expenses for the building by 30 percent and ease water usage by up to 40 percent.

Q: What do commercial developers like Black Oak do?

A: Black Oak Associates and Black Oak Management are a development management company. Black Oak Associates owns and manages five shopping centers in the greater Baltimore area. One of those shopping centers is in York, Pa. The others are in the Baltimore metro area and three are in Carroll County.

[…]

Q: Why are developers like Black Oak interested in putting projects in Carroll County?

A: If you look at the demographics, it is a growing population and it is a well-off community, and I think we recognize that.

[…] and it has very favorable demographics and is to an extent "understored" for certain categories. There are not a lot of stores in the market. There's not a lot of restaurants, there's not a lot of women's ready-to-wear and there's not a tremendous amount of specialty retailers.

Q: Can you explain the Eldersburg Main Street project?

A: That project is going to be about 83,000 square feet. It will be housed in eight separate buildings that are oriented toward a main street or a pedestrian corridor. No building will be larger than 20,000 feet. They range in size from 20,000 to about 5,000 feet. […]

Q: What is LEED certification?

A: There is an organization called the U.S. Green Building Council, and they have established a set of standards for designating buildings and different types of buildings as green buildings. In that broader category of green buildings, there are different levels, and to achieve those levels of certification within LEED, there is a score sheet that is tabulated, and there are certain requirements that you have to meet in order to obtain the points associated with that score sheet. They revolve principally around developing sites that are energy efficient, that minimize the use water that minimize the impact on the land, and in some cases are located adjacent to public transportation.

There are, I think, principally six categories that are looked at and they range from freight selection for the construction, and they evaluate methods of construction so that you minimize waste on site. And recycling. And it also looks at the recycled content and building materials, and this movement has come into its own in the last 10 years. Manufacturers are now responding, and they are making sure that they have product lines that have recycled content.

So, all of these items are evaluated through the use of this score sheet, and then if you successfully meet the category and the level that you are applying for, you are awarded the LEED designation. In this case, we're looking at a designation that is LEED silver certified for core and shell buildings. The reason we are doing that is because we are building essentially the exterior of the building. We're going to do the walls, roof, parking lots. We're going to do the mechanical systems and the electrical systems, but not including tenant-specific items.

[…] and we will be eligible for that provided we get the certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Q: How do you think developers like Black Oak envision Carroll County in another 10 to 20 years?

A: I think there will be an increase in commercial development as the county grows. Retail typically follows residential. Residential is the leading edge in the development. When people come to an area, after they've arrived in an area, they would like to see the types of products and services available to them within a reasonable drive for them. So, I think, over time you will see an increase.

Reach staff writer John Westerman at 410-857-7876 or westermanj@lcniofmd.com.

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20051207 Carroll Public Schools’ Extracurricular Activities teaches values

Carroll Public Schools’ Extracurricular Activities teaches values

December 7, 2005 by Kevin Dayhoff (680 words)

(Related – see: Sports in Carroll County Football Westminster High School, 20021019 Freestate Spectacular XVI Marching Band Competition)

Originally published in the Westminster Eagle

While researching last week’s column on the 1951 football game between City College and the Westminster High School Owls, I leafed through the 1951 and 1952 Owl yearbooks, graciously loaned to me by Dr. Dean Griffin. Each page rejoiced in wonderful extra-curricular school activities, a great community, wonderful teachers, school administrators and students who later assumed community leadership.

The same feelings occurred looking at my Westminster High School (WHS) yearbooks from 1969 to 1971, twenty years after 1951. Attending the game last Friday night brought back a flood of great memories of growing up in Carroll County in the 1950s and 60s. The more things change, the more they stay the same, only updated.

Last week was a great week for our community. The South Carroll Cavaliers and Westminster Owls advanced to the state football championships and the Westminster Christmas parade came back. These are all positive things that bring a community together – just as years ago.

School extra-curricular activities build citizens, leaders and community. These activities teach positive consequences for hard work and discipline, the value of teamwork and the pride and confidence that come with accomplishment or just knowing that you did your best.

My nieces play in a high school band. It is inspiring to go to band competition events and see hundreds of young adults proudly displaying the results of hours of practice, teamwork and discipline in finely choreographed routines.

In a recent long conversation, Superintendent of Carroll County Public Schools, Dr. Chuck Ecker agreed. He went on further to say that when he was growing up “near Uniontown… I came home [from school] and … had many other chores. Often today’s children don’t have many home responsibilities… [Extra-curricular activities] teach meaningful teamwork relationships with others. Today we have too many rights and not enough responsibilities. With school activities, students learn to have a responsibility for what is best for the team… And the consequences for not fulfilling those responsibilities come from their peers and not an authority figure. It’s more that just sports...” Dr. Ecker continued excitedly, mentioning school bands, music programs and theatre…

Caroline and I stopped at Harry’s after the Westminster Christmas Parade last Saturday for my routine “two with everything.” Two Harry’s hot dogs have been a “Dayhoff Nutritional Pyramid” staple since the 1960s.

As Kim Henn took our take-out order for dinner, she noticed our “Go Owls” buttons and shared her excitement about the football game against City. Ms. Henn, WHS Class of 2007, works at Harry’s, runs on the track team and maintains good grades. She explained that extra-curricular activities “have taught me time management skills… I realize the value of my time…” Ms. Henn is looking forward to a career in broadcast journalism. What she is learning by staying active will serve her well in her future professional life.

In my interviews with Dr. John Steers, Sr. and Dr. Griffin; the same words were repeated as to the values that extra-curricular activities taught them: inspiration, work ethic, overcoming difficulty, focus, tenacity and the adrenaline rush of hard work.

Dr. Griffin took the opportunity to reminisce about the careers of the 1951 Owl football team. Raymond Bankert went on to work many years at Westminster Bank and Trust Company. Allen Baugher continued the family restaurant business. Donald Copenhaver worked for Baltimore Gas and Electric in their Westminster office. Charles Barrick ran “Nubbins” on Washington Road. Charles Havens became a successful D.C. attorney and worked with the likes of Dean Rusk. Urban Bowman coached in the Canadian Football League. Dean Leppo worked with the county Sheriff’s Department.

All got their start in Carroll County Public Schools and learned to excel by participating in extra curricular activates.

Local attorney, classmate and teammate Bill Finch (WHS Class of 1972), says “extra curricular activities keep teenaged boys and girls occupied and tired… and this a good thing…” He mentioned sports and high school band. He cited that “various studies indicate that children involved in extra curricular activities have better academic performance.”

The grades are critical, but winning’s not bad either. Go Owls and Cavaliers.

Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster. E-mail him at: kdayhoff at carr dot.org

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20051201 I am a Republican because

I am a Republican because:

· I believe the strength of our nation lies with the individual and that each person’s dignity, freedom, ability and responsibility must be honored.

· I believe government must practice fiscal responsibility and allow individuals to keep more of the money they earn.

· I believe the proper role of government is to provide only those critical functions that cannot be performed by individuals or private organizations and that the best government is that which governs least.

· Finally, I believe the Republican Party is the best vehicle for translating these ideals into positive and successful principles of government.

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20051200 20061005 Kevin Dayhoff Brief Bio w Dates

Kevin E. Dayhoff

October 5th, 2006

Kevin, age 53, is a Westminster native who lives on Uniontown Road with his wife, Caroline Babylon. He has been a self-employed businessperson and artist; a free-lance journalist and columnist since 1974. He has been exhibiting art since 1981.

He has written a weekly political and history column for The Tentacle, an on-line columnist collective, since June 9, 2005. Since June 2, 2005, he has written a weekly community events and history column for the Westminster Eagle, a weekly newspaper publication of Patuxent Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Tribune. He has written an on-line column, the Winchester Report for the Westminster Eagle, since December 2005.

He has also authored an arts, history, community events and political blog, “Kevin Dayhoff” (formerly www.kevindayhoff.com) since December 2005. The blog was moved October 1, 2006 to blogspot’s platform: http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/.

On January 6^th, 2006, thanks to the Westminster Eagle and Patuxent Publishing Co, I may very well be the first blogger to be credentialed in Annapolis. I should mention that Patuxent Publishing Company is owned by Tribune, which also owns the Baltimore Sun.

Since June 30, 2006, he has been a member of the Maryland Bloggers’ Alliance, a consortium of Maryland political bloggers. [Pillage Idiot (Rockville); Soccer Dad (Baltimore); Maryland Conservatarian (Baltimore); The Baltimore Reporter (Baltimore); The Sun Lies (Baltimore Area); The Not So Free State (Woodlawn); monoblogue (Salisbury); Crablaw (Reisterstown); Kevin Dayhoff (Westminster); Free State Politics (Baltimore)]

From June 30, 2004 through October 21, 2005, he wrote a weekly column on Westminster and Carroll County community affairs and history for the Westminster Advocate, weekly newspaper published by the Carroll County Times, a Landmark Community Newspapers publication.

He is retired from being self-employed as a landscape designer, horticulturist and nursery stock farmer for 25 years (1974-1999). He was an elected official in the City of Westminster serving as a Common Council member and Mayor (1999-2005).

Kevin was appointed by Governor Ehrlich on September 7th, 2004, to the “Bay Restoration Fund Advisory Committee” (09/07/2004 – 06/30/2005) and was additionally assigned to the “Best Available Technologies” Workgroup and the OSDS Subcommittee.

The Carroll County Board of Commissioners (CCBOC) also appointed him to the Carroll County Environmental Advisory Council on September 23rd, 2004 (09/23/2004 – 07/05/2006). He served as Chair until December 14, 2005.

He was appointed to the Carroll County Right To Farm Agriculture Reconciliation Committee by the CCBOC on July 22nd, 2003 and elected Chair of the Committee on November 29th, 2004 (07/22/2003 – 05/16/2005).

On November 23rd, 2004, the CCBOC appointed Kevin to the Route 140 Blue Ribbon Panel – Westminster Bypass. (11/23/2004 – 06/16/2005)

He was first elected to the Westminster City Council in May of 1999 and served as the Mayor of Westminster from May 2001 until May 16th, 2005.

Kevin served on the Maryland Municipal League’s Legislative Committee in 1999-2000 and 2001-2002. He served as Secretary/Treasurer of the Carroll County Chapter of the Maryland Municipal League for five years (12/07/1999 – 05/16/2005).

Kevin served on the Maryland Municipal League Board of Directors annually for five consecutive years, from June 2000 to May 2005. He graduated from the University of Maryland Academy for Excellence in Local Government in June 2001.

Kevin attended Carroll County Public Schools from 1959 through graduation from Westminster Senior High School in 1971. He served in the United States Marine Corp Reserve (1971-1973). He has also taken classes at Elon College, NC 1971-1973, Towson University in 1980, and McDaniel College 1999-2001 without receiving a degree.

Kevin has taught design and horticulture classes for various institutions from 1979 through 1993, including C.E.T.A., Federated Garden Clubs, the University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service and as an Adjunct Faculty Member: Carroll Community College (Branch of Catonsville Community College) (1988 to 1991).

He was a guest horticultural expert for Stu Kerr's radio talk show, "The Garden Club", on WCBM several times in 1989 and 1990.

He has served on a number of state and county advisory boards including; the Carroll County Landscape Manual Committee (1987 – 1989), the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forestry Board (1988 – 1991), University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service Agriculture Advisory Committees (1980-1989) and the Carroll County Environmental Affairs Advisory Board (1994 – 1999). In 1997 he was asked by the CCBOC to participate in the Carroll County Department of Public Works’ development of Carroll County’s Ten-Year Solid Waste Management Plan.

Kevin served as an election judge for the Carroll County Board of Election Supervisors (1990-2000). He was a member of the Maryland Nurserymen's Association (1976 – 1989). He is a member of Grace Lutheran Church (10/25/1998), the Westminster Fire Department (01/05/2001), the Carroll County Chapter of the NAACP (01/2001), a volunteer with the 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program of Carroll County (1995), Carroll County Red Cross Disaster Action Team (11/2001) and serves on the Board of Junction (a community drug rehabilitation outreach facility) (10/05/2000), the Westminster Town Center Corporation (06/12/2001 – 05/16/2005), Historical Society of Carroll County (11/08/2001 – 11/13/2003) and the Westminster Cemetery Board (01/2000 – 05/16/2005). He is an Honorary Board Member of the Joanna M. Nicolay Melanoma Foundation (05/2004).

Please feel free to email him at kdayhoff AT carr.org or kevindayhoff AT gmail.com

His USPS address is: P. O. Box 1245, Westminster, MD 21158-1245

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Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster Maryland USA. E-mail him at: kdayhoff AT carr.org http://www.thetentacle.com/ Westminster Eagle Opinion and Winchester Report http://www.thewestminstereagle.com/ www.kevindayhoff.com has moved to http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/

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Kevin Dayhoff

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Kevin, age 53, is a Westminster native. Kevin has been a self-employed artist and businessman since 1974 and exhibiting art since 1981.

As a landscape, collage, mixed media assemblage, sculpture artist, writer and photographer; he has had a life-long pervasive interest in spatial relationships and the juxtapositioning of incongruent objects.

As a child, instead of playing sports outside or watching TV, Kevin could usually be found at the kitchen table reading, drawing and redesigning rooms of the house or the landscape.

His Mother would often give him assignments to draw. His artist mother would take ingredients of totally disparate, incongruous qualities and create finished projects in the form of cakes and breads that, to a small child, had no resemblance or relationship to its ingredients whatsoever.

His Father, who was also an artist, did the same thing with woodworking as he always spent every stolen moment possible creating art projects made of wood and practical projects such as furniture.

Kevin was, and remains to this day, in total awe of his parents and their art. Wanting to be as artistic as his Mom and Dad - he wanted to do projects like this too.

As he grew older, Kevin quickly put aside his drawings and collages and concentrated increasingly on writing and landscape designing where he could turn his art into a finished product that the greater community could more easily understand, and for which he was paid.

In 1974, Kevin started his own business as a landscape designer, contractor and nurseryman. As the business continued to get established, he found that he could spend more time on his first loves – art and writing.

In 1981 Kevin had his first art show at the Theatre Project in Baltimore.

Kevin owned and operated a business for himself as a landscape designer, horticulturist and nurseryperson from 1974 to 1999.

He quickly found that after spending hours doing an art project – he ended up with a storage problem – but if he spent the same amount of time drawing a landscape design, folks would pay him for the effort.

In recent years, he has enjoyed exploring and utilizing technology - digital photography, the scanner and the computer – as a creative process.

Kevin and his wife are members of the Carroll County Arts Council, where Kevin has had a number of art shows over the past two decades.

Kevin E. Dayhoff, P. O. Box 1245, Westminster, MD 21158-1245
mailto:kevindayhoff@gmailcom
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Kevin E. Dayhoff – June 10th, 2008

Kevin, age 54, is a Westminster native who lives on Uniontown Road with his wife, Caroline Babylon.

He has been a self-employed businessperson and artist; a free-lance journalist and columnist since 1971. He is retired from being self-employed as a landscape designer, horticulturist and nursery stock farmer for 25 years (1974-1999).

Currently:

Since June 9, 2005, he currently writes a weekly column for an on-line magazine. The Tentacle. The topics include politics, current events, agriculture, art and culture, and history column.

Since June 2, 2005, he has written a weekly, community events and history column, for the Westminster Eagle, a weekly newspaper publication of Patuxent Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Tribune. [Get Westminster Eagle RSS Feed]

Since October 28, 2007, he writes a history column for The Sunday Carroll Eagle – in the Sunday Carroll County section of the Baltimore Sun.

He has written an on-line column, the Winchester Report for the Westminster Eagle, since December 2005.

He was media-credentialed with Maryland State government on January 6, 2006.

From June 30, 2004 through October 21, 2005, he wrote a weekly column on Westminster, Carroll County community affairs, and history for the Westminster Advocate, weekly newspaper published by the Carroll County Times, a Landmark Community Newspapers publication.

He has also authored a web site (blog) with an emphasis on agricultural issues, art and culture, history, community events, and politics, “KevinDayhoff.net” – www.kevindayhoff.net, (formerly www.kevindayhoff.com) since December 2005.

The URL was moved October 1, 2006 to blogspot’s platform: http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/ or www.kevindayhoff.net – “Soundtrack Division of Old Silent Movies” – “Soundtrack.” Since June 30, 2006, he has been a member of the Maryland Blogger Alliance, a consortium of Maryland bloggers.

On September 15^th, 2006, the blog was recognized by George Washington University’s “Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet” as one of the top 12 Maryland and Virginia political blogs: “Who's Blogging the 2006 Maryland And Virginia Elections?”

“KevinDayhoff.net” was one of the blogs included in a feature-length article by Dan Gainor in the Baltimore Examiner on November 6, 2006.

Since October 30, 2006, he has appeared several times on the “Marc Steiner Show” on WYPR – 81.5 FM, as a political commentator.

Former elected official:

He is a former elected official in the City of Westminster. He was first elected to the Westminster City Council in May of 1999 and served as the Mayor of Westminster from May 2001 until May 16th, 2005.

Kevin served on the Maryland Municipal League’s Legislative Committee in 1999-2000 and 2001-2002. He served as Secretary/Treasurer of the Carroll County Chapter of the Maryland Municipal League for five years (12/07/1999 – 05/16/2005).

Kevin served on the Maryland Municipal League Board of Directors annually for five consecutive years, from June 2000 to May 2005.

He graduated from the University of Maryland Academy for Excellence in Local Government in June 2001.

Maryland state appointments:

Kevin was appointed by Governor Ehrlich on September 7th, 2004, to the “Bay Restoration Fund Advisory Committee” (09/07/2004 – 06/30/2005) to oversee the administration of a dedicated fund, financed by wastewater treatment plant users, to upgrade Maryland’s wastewater treatment plants with enhanced nutrient removal (ENR) technology. He was additionally assigned to the “Best Available Technologies” Workgroup and the On Site Disposal Systems Subcommittee.

He served on the Carroll Co Conservancy District Board (The Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forestry Board) from 10.88 - 07.91.

Carroll County appointments:

On November 23rd, 2004, the CCBOC appointed Kevin to the Route 140 Blue Ribbon Panel – Westminster Bypass. (11/23/2004 – 06/16/2005)

He has served on a number of state and county advisory boards including; the Carroll County Landscape Manual Committee (1987 – 1989) and the Carroll County Planning Commission "Carroll County Tree Preservation Committee" from 04.90 - 11.90.

He was appointed to the Carroll County Right To Farm Agriculture Reconciliation Committee by the CCBOC on July 22nd, 2003 and elected Chair of the Committee on November 29th, 2004 (07/22/2003 – 05/16/2005).

Teaching:

Kevin has taught design and horticulture classes for various institutions since 1979: including C.E.T.A., Federated Garden Clubs’ landscape design study course November 4^th, 1991, and various green industry classes for the University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service.

Kevin team-taught with Tom Ford and Steve Bogash, "Landscape Design Summer School" to green industry professionals with the Extension Service 07.01 - 08.05.93.

Kevin taught art, landscape design, and horticulture classes an Adjunct Faculty Member: Carroll Community College (Branch of Catonsville Community College,) 14 classes taught 03.88 - 02.91.

He participated on a panel luncheon on development of landscaping and horticultural classes for Carroll Community College chaired by Janet Nickels on 03.25.88.

Agriculture:

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forestry Board (1988 – 1991), and University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service Agriculture Advisory Committees (1980-1989.)

He served on the Cooperative Extension Service Maintenance Conference Planning Committee 1980, 1981, and 1989.

He was a participant in the University of Maryland's Vice Chancellor for Agricultural Affairs (Dr. Raymond J. Miller) panel luncheon on present and future challenges to Carroll and Frederick Counties agricultural community 04.13.89.

Environmentalism:

In 1997 he was asked by the CCBOC to participate in the Carroll County Department of Public Works’ development of Carroll County’s Ten-Year Solid Waste Management Plan.

He served on the Carroll County Environmental Affairs Advisory Board (1994 – 1999.)

The Carroll County Board of Commissioners (CCBOC) also appointed him to the Carroll County Environmental Advisory Council on September 23rd, 2004 (09/23/2004 – 07/05/2006). He served as Chair until December 14, 2005.

Business:

He is currently retired from being self-employed as a landscape designer, horticulturist and nursery stock farmer for 25 years (1974-1999.) Additionally, Kevin did property management consulting, farm consulting and landscape designs.

Kevin grew up in the 1960s in the “tree street” development just east of Westminster in between the Hoff family’s dairy farm and Westminster Nurseries. In the 1960s I established a “childhood business” doing yard and farm work, and mowing yards.

Kevin worked for Pasquale Donofrio at Carroll Gardens 1969 – 1970, and Tom Senseney Landscape Contractor from 1971 – 1973.

From 1979 to his retirement in 1999, he performed landscape and tree evaluations and appraisals, casualty loss evaluations, and he was an expert horticultural and design witness testimony in legal disputes.

Examples include: C. C. Board of Zoning Appeals (case #2873) Genstar Stone Products Co. Attorney Charles O. Fisher, Sr. changes in plant selection as proposed by client accepted 09.28.88.

Berman vs. The Pines at Deep Run. for the law firm of Kaplan, Heyman, Greenberg, Engelman, and Belgrad, P.A. Case settled in favor of my client - O'Hara. fall winter 1991.

He was a member of the Maryland Nurserymen's Association 1976 – 1989.

He was a guest horticultural expert for Stu Kerr's radio talk show, "The Garden Club,” on WCBM several times in 1989 and 1990.

Kevin has taken short courses, seminars, and classes too numerous to mention - by professional organizations, Longwood Gardens, Extension Service, government and colleges. He has taken numerous field trips, from KEW Gardens and Oxford Botanical and Research Gardens (where Darwin studied) in England; Estonia; to the Arnold Arboretum in Boston; to San Diego, California; Anchorage, Alaska; and the Virgin Islands National Park, Grand Cayman Islands and Mexico.

4-H:

Kevin has been active in 4-H since the 1960s. In recent years, he has served as judge for various 4-H and agriculture events, including public speaking, demonstration day. He is a volunteer with the 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program of Carroll County (1995.)

Art:

He has been exhibiting art – mixed media collages, drawings, and photography - since 1981.

He illustrated a tenant education handbook for "The Westminster Office of Housing and Community Development" and "Human Service Programs of C.C., Inc." in summer of 1990 "A Guide to Renting in C.C." was released 03.90

Photography:

His first photography art show was in 1983. Photography assignments have included: "Alternative High Density Development in Montgomery Co." 01.27.90; "Community Character Series" Carroll Co. Dept. of Planning summer 1990; Documentation of capital plant and equipment and operations for Jack Haden & Phoenix Recycling fall 1990 and numerous assignments documenting people for brochures and political materials....

Community Involvement:

Kevin donated time and materials as Piney Run Park and Hashawha were being developed in the 1970s.

He met regularly with an ad hoc citizens group on growth and development issues and concerns in the late 1980s - early 1990s.

He served on Committee for Charter Government 02.90 - 06.91.

He also participated in an effort to reestablish an arboretum and nature center at Greenway Gardens in 1993 and a successful effort to alter SHA's reconstruction plans for Westminster’s East Main Street with regards to saving existing old trees 09.90

Kevin served as an election judge for the Carroll County Board of Election Supervisors (1990-2000). He is a member of Grace Lutheran Church (10/25/1998), the Westminster Fire Department (01/05/2001), the Carroll County Chapter of the NAACP (01/2001 – became a “Life member” on 01/15/2008.)

He currently serves on Carroll County Red Cross Disaster Action Team (11/2001); and on the board of Junction (a community drug rehabilitation outreach facility) (10/05/2000), He is an Honorary Board Member of the Joanna M. Nicolay Melanoma Foundation (05/2004).

In the past he has served on the board of the Westminster Town Center Corporation (06/12/2001 – 05/16/2005), Historical Society of Carroll County (11/08/2001 – 11/13/2003) and the Westminster Cemetery Board (01/2000 – 05/16/2005).

Education:

Kevin attended Carroll County Public Schools from 1959 through graduation from Westminster Senior High School in 1971. He served in the United States Marine Corp Reserve (1971-1973). He has also taken classes at Elon College, NC 1971-1973, Towson University in 1980, and McDaniel College 1999-2001 without receiving a degree.

Please feel free to contact Kevin Dayhoff at kdayhoff@carr.org or kevindayhoff@gmail.com.

His USPS address is: P. O. Box 1245, Westminster, MD 21158-1245

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