A conversation between a friendly old barn, the fields, and the clouds. They are all old friends.
Journalist @baltimoresun writer artist runner #amwriting Chaplain PIO #partylikeajournalist
Journalist @baltimoresun writer artist runner #amwriting Md Troopers Assoc #20 & Westminster Md Fire Dept Chaplain PIO #partylikeajournalist
Sunday, November 27, 2022
A friendly old barn
A conversation between a friendly old barn, the fields, and the clouds. They are all old friends.
Sunday, November 20, 2022
Caroline is delivering the message at St. Ben's
Caroline is delivering the message today at St. Ben's Lutheran Church in Westminster MD. My wife is a rock star. 20Nov2022 You can watch the service here: https://youtu.be/QV7l93em6GU
Caroline is delivering the message at St. Ben's
Caroline is delivering the message today at St. Ben's Lutheran Church in Westminster MD. My wife is a rock star. 20Nov2022 You can watch the service here: https://youtu.be/QV7l93em6GU
Caroline is delivering the message at St. Ben's
Caroline is delivering the message today at St. Ben's Lutheran Church in Westminster MD. My wife is a rock star. 20Nov2022 You can watch the service here: https://youtu.be/QV7l93em6GU
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Grand opening of Covalent Spirits Distillery
This afternoon Westminster Mayor Dr. Mona Becker officially welcomed Jennifer Yang Drew Cockley and Covalent Spirits Distillery to the Main Street Westminster family. The Westminster Common Council and much of the staff celebrated the official grand opening at the ribbon cutting on Thursday, November 17th, 2022 at 3:00 pm at their tasting room, located at 118 East Main Street, Westminster. With Daniel Hoff Ann Thomas Gilbert, Greg Pecoraro Tony Chiavacci, Kevin Earl Dayhoff Dayhoff Westminster
Thursday, November 03, 2022
Misty, Caroline, and George
Misty, Caroline, and George share a moment together in the Maryland autumn sunset. Thursday, 3Nov2022
Misty, Caroline, and George
Misty, Caroline, and George share a moment together in the Maryland autumn sunset. Thursday, 3Nov2022
Misty, Caroline, and George
Misty, Caroline, and George share a moment together in the Maryland autumn sunset. Thursday, 3Nov2022
Tuesday, November 01, 2022
Dr. Karin Bohleke, the director of the Fashion Archives and Museum at Shippensburg University
Our speaker today is Dr. Karin Bohleke, the director of the Fashion Archives and Museum at Shippensburg University. Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. At the Westminster Riding Club for the Historical Society Carroll Co annual meeting.
Dr. Karin Bohleke, the director of the Fashion Archives and Museum at Shippensburg University
Our speaker today is Dr. Karin Bohleke, the director of the Fashion Archives and Museum at Shippensburg University. Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. At the Westminster Riding Club for the Historical Society Carroll Co annual meeting.
Dr. Karin Bohleke, the director of the Fashion Archives and Museum at Shippensburg University
Our speaker today is Dr. Karin Bohleke, the director of the Fashion Archives and Museum at Shippensburg University. Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. At the Westminster Riding Club for the Historical Society Carroll Co annual meeting.
Monday, October 31, 2022
Carrots, eggs, and coffee
She Tells Her Grandma That She’s Just Been Cheated On So Grandma Tells Her To Do This
May 26, 2016 Presser Staff Editor Buzzworthy
This is a good lesson for all of us, no matter what stage of life you’re in. You’ll see what I mean.
A young woman went to her grandmother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her – her husband had cheated on her and she was devastated. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as soon as one problem was solved, a new one arose.
Her grandmother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil; without saying a word.
In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.
Turning to her granddaughter, she asked, ‘Tell me what you see.’
‘Carrots, eggs, and coffee,’ she replied.
Her grandmother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The grandmother then asked the granddaughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hardboiled egg.
Finally, the grandmother asked the granddaughter to sip the coffee. The granddaughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The granddaughter then asked, ‘What does it mean, grandmother?’
Her grandmother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.
“Which are you?” she asked her granddaughter. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?
Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity? Do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?
Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship, or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?
Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain.. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you. When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate yourself to another level?
How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can’t go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you’re the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
May we all be like the COFFEE?
Share this with your friends and family today.
https://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2022/10/carrots-eggs-and-coffee.html
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Kevin Dayhoff for Westminster Authority Caroline Babylon, Treasurer.
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Westminster Patch: https://patch.com/users/kevin-e-dayhoff
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Saturday, October 29, 2022
Westminster Fire Department Oct. 29, 2022
The training never stops at the Westminster Fire Department Oct. 29, 2022
Westminster Fire Department Oct. 29, 2022
The training never stops at the Westminster Fire Department Oct. 29, 2022
Westminster Fire Department Oct. 29, 2022
The training never stops at the Westminster Fire Department Oct. 29, 2022
Friday, October 21, 2022
Food Sunday held its 40th anniversary event
Food Sunday held its 40th anniversary event Wednesday evening October 19, 2022 at the Portico. It was a wonderful event with many friends.
One of the promotions for the event read: "Food Sunday Celebrates 40 Years of Service to Neighbors in Need
Carroll County Food Sunday, a 501(C)(3) organization headquartered in Westminster, MD, will celebrate its 40th anniversary on Wednesday, October 19, 2022, from 6 to 9 p.m., at the Portico of St. John Catholic Church in Westminster. The evening will honor the memory of Food Sunday founder Dominic Jollie, who is memorialized in a brief history of the organization that will be distributed to attendees that evening. At his death, on September 21, 2000, at age 75, the Carroll County Times headline read: "In Jollie, Carroll loses a social voice and true humanitarian."
Food Sunday held its 40th anniversary event
Food Sunday held its 40th anniversary event Wednesday evening October 19, 2022 at the Portico. It was a wonderful event with many friends.
One of the promotions for the event read: "Food Sunday Celebrates 40 Years of Service to Neighbors in Need
Carroll County Food Sunday, a 501(C)(3) organization headquartered in Westminster, MD, will celebrate its 40th anniversary on Wednesday, October 19, 2022, from 6 to 9 p.m., at the Portico of St. John Catholic Church in Westminster. The evening will honor the memory of Food Sunday founder Dominic Jollie, who is memorialized in a brief history of the organization that will be distributed to attendees that evening. At his death, on September 21, 2000, at age 75, the Carroll County Times headline read: "In Jollie, Carroll loses a social voice and true humanitarian."
Food Sunday held its 40th anniversary event
Food Sunday held its 40th anniversary event Wednesday evening October 19, 2022 at the Portico. It was a wonderful event with many friends.
One of the promotions for the event read: "Food Sunday Celebrates 40 Years of Service to Neighbors in Need
Carroll County Food Sunday, a 501(C)(3) organization headquartered in Westminster, MD, will celebrate its 40th anniversary on Wednesday, October 19, 2022, from 6 to 9 p.m., at the Portico of St. John Catholic Church in Westminster. The evening will honor the memory of Food Sunday founder Dominic Jollie, who is memorialized in a brief history of the organization that will be distributed to attendees that evening. At his death, on September 21, 2000, at age 75, the Carroll County Times headline read: "In Jollie, Carroll loses a social voice and true humanitarian."
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Sunday, October 09, 2022
American Legion magazine - Con Thien, Vietnam
Con Thien Vietnam: A well-written short story on Firebase Con Thein during the Vietnam War. I found it trying to catch-up on my reading this afternoon, while going through a stack of American Legion magazines. “Hill of Angels,” written by Leith Nightengale. FTA: “Con Thien, like all firebases, was a model of battlefield simplicity and complexity….” 
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Kevin Dayhoff for Westminster Authority Caroline Babylon, Treasurer.
Carroll County Times: www.tinyurl.com/KED-CCT
Baltimore Sun Carroll Eagle: http://tinyurl.com/KED-Sun
Westminster Patch: https://patch.com/users/kevin-e-dayhoff
Facebook Dayhoff for Westminster: https://www.facebook.com/DayhoffforWestminster/
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Dayhoff for Westminster: www.kevindayhoff.city
Dayhoff Soundtrack: www.kevindayhoff.net
Dayhoff Carroll: www.kevindayhoff.org
Dayhoff Art: http://www.kevindayhoff.com/
Kevin Dayhoff Time Flies: www.kevindayhoff.info | https://kevindayhoff.wordpress.com/
Monday, September 26, 2022
Taneytown's, Elected Officials Mayor & City Council of Taneytown, MD
Taneytown's, Elected Officials
Mayor & City Council of Taneytown, MD
Retrieved September 25, 2022 https://www.taneytown.org/city_officials/mayor_and_city_council/index.php
The Mayor and Council meet in the City Council Chambers at 7:30 P.M. on the second Monday of each month for their regular Council Meeting and on the Wednesday before the Council Meeting for their Workshop Meeting. The City of Taneytown is governed by a Mayor and five-member City Council who serve four-year terms. All members are elected at-large. Since the City of Taneytown is a chartered government, many of the laws and regulations are adopted by the Mayor and Council in accordance with state law. The City of Taneytown is a member of the Maryland Municipal League, an association of Maryland's Cities and Towns.
Mayor
Bradley Wantz 410-751-1100 bwantz@taneytown.org Go to The Mayor's Office Bradley was born in Taneytown to Daniel and Cynthia Wantz, as one of four children. He grew up playing Little League baseball for the city, and remains an avid baseball fan of the Baltimore Orioles. He enjoys life at home with his wife, Ashley, and three sons, Connor, Kelton, and Lucas. He has spent over 15 years in retail, and is a Certified Technology Specialist relating to integrated audio/ visual system design and engineering. He is a graduate of Francis Scott Key High School and AccuTech Business Institute. In his spare time, he enjoys web design and programming, graphic design, photography, and technical writing. He also performs consulting for retail, audio/ visual, and association industries. Bradley previously served on the Board of Zoning Appeals.
Mayor Pro Tem
Councilman Joe Vigliotti 410-751-1100 jvigliotti@taneytown.org Joe Vigliotti, a native of Long Island, New York, has been a resident of Taneytown since 1996, and is a second-term city councilman. He has worked in the home improvement field extensively, and currently works for himself as a freelance writer. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, and Joe is also the author of over a dozen novels. He is a 2008 graduate of Mount Saint Mary’s University, where he majored in history, and double minored in political science and philosophy. He is also a member of the Knight of Columbus.
Councilwoman Judith Fuller 410-751-1100 jfuller@taneytown.org Judy, raised in Silver Spring, moved to Taneytown in 2002 from Texas. She earned her AA degree while raising her three children; Tyler, Gabby and Shae. After getting married in 2016 to her husband Don, she added two step children; Travis and Dillon. She has been a member of the Planning Commission and has served on several committees over the past 8 years. Before having children, she was a Montgomery County Firefighter and has worked in construction and landscaping. She is currently self-employed and is focused on caring for her family, as well as concentrating on the city and its needs. Judy sees the potential for long term success in the city and wants to make that success viable through community involvement.
Councilwoman Diane Foster 410-751-1100 dfoster@taneytown.org Diane, a Baltimore native moved to Taneytown in November 2006. She has an AA degree in Human Services. She began working for the federal government at the Department of Defense at Fort Holabird in 1966 and transferred to the Social Security Administration (SSA) in 1971. She has worked on policy-making staffs and later moved to the Office of Public Affairs where she held different positions including Writer-Editor for the monthly publication, "OASIS" magazine, a publication for SSA employees nationwide and Editor of the Central Office Bulletin, a bi-weekly newsletter for Central Office employees at SSA. She successfully completed a Federal Government Leadership Program that led to her working as SSA's liaison to the Baltimore City Mayor's Office and the Maryland State Governor's Office. She served on various program regulation workgroups and interagency partnership councils and as liaison on a myriad of initiatives between SSA and other government agencies where she interacted with all levels of government up to and including the White House. She is presently serving on the Supervisory Committee of the Securityplus Federal Credit Union with $274,422,750 in assets and 35,303 members. She served 2 prior 3-year terms as a Director (1 term as Secretary). Her other volunteers efforts include: Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland, Pets on Wheels, Oriole Advocates Inc. (Charitable sub-division of the Baltimore Orioles), Board of Directors Carroll Vista Condominium I, Architectural Committee, Carroll Vista Condominiums, Parish Council, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Event Planning Committee for the Taneytown Economic Development Department. She is married to Samuel and has 4 adult children.
Councilman Daniel Haines 410-751-1100 dhaines@taneytown.org Daniel Haines is a life-long resident of Taneytown, and a first-term city councilman. After graduating from Francis Scott Key, and putting himself through community college, he enlisted in the Maryland Army National Guard. He currently serves as an intelligence analyst with the 1st Battalion, 175th Infantry Regiment. Daniel works across the DMV as a freelance sign-language interpreter and continues his education online through the University of Maryland, Global Campus. Prior to running for office Daniel served on several local committees and volunteered for a number of charitable groups and campaigns.
Councilman LeRoy Hand 410-751-1100 lhand@taneytown.org I grew up in a military family, with most of my school-aged years in Virginia Beach, close to Norfolk Naval Base. After attending undergraduate school in central VA, I came to MD and decided to commit to the education field, earning an MA from Hopkins. Integrity is of the uppermost importance to me. Heraclitus speaks to this when he stated, “Day by day, what you do is who you become.” I believe we need to talk and listen much more than we do now; we need to get out of our silos and endeavor to see the full human picture, not just perseverate on the opinions of a few. Thinking, problem solving, knowledge acquisition, and cooperation have permitted the common man and woman to have time to ponder and engage others – let us not squander our opportunities to engage others in a din of ignorance that lacks appropriate and objective research efforts.
I have a passion for understanding others’ views, both
historic and contemporary. I enjoy travel and learning about other cultures. To
quote Samuel Clemens, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and
narrow-mindedness…” After an outing, I perceive the world as a bit smaller than
before, and I see similarities of my wants and those I meet abroad, to live
well, do good work and deeds by my family and community, and enjoy the gift of
life.
My family and I moved to Taneytown in November of 2002. A third child joined
the Hand crew in 2005. My children, now 21, 19, and 16 have grown up in our
small community and I often think of Bruce Springsteen’s, My Hometown,
when I am out and about with my grown children – this is the town they know and
appreciate.
I became involved in Taneytown governance when I began serving on the Board of Zoning Appeals in 2004. I remember Daryl Hale’s generosity in sitting with me in the mid-2000s and discussing Taneytown history, growth, and citizen issues of concern. I have also supported Parks and Recreation as a volunteer for events such as our annual Fishing Derby.
Volunteering has always been a part of my life, whether assisting with Kennedy Krieger’s Festival of Trees in Baltimore, assisting with charitable food events, or planting (reforestation) efforts in multiple counties. Together, we make a better world.
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Kevin Dayhoff for Westminster Authority Caroline Babylon, Treasurer.
Carroll County Times: www.tinyurl.com/KED-CCT
Baltimore Sun Carroll Eagle: http://tinyurl.com/KED-Sun
Westminster Patch: https://patch.com/users/kevin-e-dayhoff
Facebook Dayhoff for Westminster: https://www.facebook.com/DayhoffforWestminster/
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Dayhoff for Westminster: www.kevindayhoff.city
Dayhoff Soundtrack: www.kevindayhoff.net
Dayhoff Carroll: www.kevindayhoff.org
Dayhoff Art: http://www.kevindayhoff.com/
Kevin Dayhoff Time Flies: www.kevindayhoff.info | https://kevindayhoff.wordpress.com/
Sunday, September 25, 2022
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