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Saturday, November 28, 2009

Westminster MD Main Street Christmas Parade today

Westminster MD Main Street News Miracle on Main Street Christmas Parade today

Date: Saturday, November 28, 2009

Time: 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location: Main St-Westminster

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The “Miracle on Main Street” Holiday Event is Saturday, November 28th

Festivities will abound in Downtown Westminster on Saturday, November 28th. Stroll downtown early and try to figure out which decorated storefront will win this year’s Mayor’s Cup while grabbing a bite to eat.

Root for your favorite runner, as the Wishbone Mile takes to the streets of downtown. Sponsored by The Women’s Initiative Supporting Health (WISH) at the Carroll Hospital Center, this one mile fundraiser will occur at 4:45 p.m., just prior to the holiday parade.

And, what a parade it will be! Catch Westminster’s first ever Holiday Electric Light Parade at 5:00 p.m.

More than 50 themed floats with at least 2,000 lights on each will travel down Pennsylvania Avenue and Main Street to Longwell Avenue.

Immediately following the parade, the annual Tree Lighting Ceremony and awarding of The Mayor’s Cup will occur at the Locust Lane Stage.

Join Mayor Kevin Utz, Santa Claus and the Westminster Municipal Band, as they sing carols, award the Mayor’s Cup for the best decorated holiday storefront in Downtown Westminster and light the City Tree.

Santa’s Treat, a children’s event that includes children’s rides, games, prizes and, of course, Santa, will be held at the Westminster Family Fitness Center (Old Armory) following the Tree Lighting. Downtown shops will stay open until 10:00 p.m. that evening, as they hold their annual Starlight Shopping event.

Closing out the event will be the Grand Prize Drawings of the Holiday Giveaway at 9:00 p.m. More information on this great day will be forthcoming in the next issue of the Main Street News.

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Miracle on Main Street in Westminster MD

Miracle on Main Street in Westminster MD

Posted on http://www.explorecarroll.com/community/3647/miracle-main-street/ 11/22/09 http://tinyurl.com/yz6gq3m

Related – Be sure to read: That Holiday Glow, by Katie V. JonesPosted on http://www.explorecarroll.com/news/3643/glow/ 11/22/09 in Westminster Eagle - Westminster plugs into the season with first-ever Holiday Electric Parade

The Miracle on Main Street holiday event will be held throughout the day Saturday, Nov. 28, in Westminster.

Festivities begin with children carnival rides, 1-9 p.m. on the parking lot off Locust Street on the north side of Main Street.

At 2:30 p.m., the Carroll Arts Center, 91 W. Main St., will host a free Laurel & Hardy Film Festival. The films will conclude before 4:45 p.m. for the start of the Wishbone Mile benefit run, which benefits the Women's Initiative Supporting Health program.

Then, Santa will arrive during the Holiday Electric Parade at 5 p.m. The parade, which will follow Pennsylvania Avenue and Main Street to Longwell Avenue, includes 50 lighted floats, marching bands, horses, cars, marching units and Santa Claus.

Then, at Locust Lane Park after the parade, Mayor Kevin Utz, Santa and the crowd will light the city's Christmas tree while the Westminster Municipal Band will play holiday carols. Santa Claus will take up residence at his house on Distillery Drive after the tree-lighting ceremony.

Westminster's Recreation and Parks Department will host Santa's Treat in the gym at the Westminster Family Fitness Center (Old Armory), 11 Longwell Ave., at 6:30 p.m., with free games, crafts, activities and prizes.

And "Starlight Shopping" will be held 5-10 p.m. in many of downtown Westminster's shops and restaurants. At 9 p.m., a drawing for Holiday Shopping Spree winners will occur on the steps of the Family Fitness Center. People can register through Nov. 27 at participating stores.

The events are sponsored by the City of Westminster and the Greater Westminster Development Corporation's Main Street Committee.

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Thanksgiving in Color-Graphemic gustatory Synesthesia

“Color-Graphemic gustatory Synesthesia” by Kevin Dayhoff November 24, 2009

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The Thanksgiving holiday is always a mixed-up mashed-up confusion of words, colors, music, and taste. It’s an arrhythmic cacophony chromaticism of atonal colors…

The holiday started several days early as I devoured each word in Hindi at an Indian restaurant. I savored each morsel until they exploded into an arrhythmic cacophony chromaticism of atonal colors.

Vivid colors follow me everywhere – especially at Thanksgiving. I often try to photograph them. They are relatively easy to find.

At times, I feel stalked by them with a hurtling relentlessness. A regular paparazzi, if you will. But the sonorities of colors are my friends. Often they will phase-shift back into words that splash forth into music.

However, loud noises reduce everything into jarring spikes of stark gray tones, white noise and irrational cymbals - and I become worried. “I want the friendly colors back,” I plead.

Then again, on any given day, I rather enjoy reading the cross-eyed cartoons of Pablo Picasso and listening to the random dribbles of Jackson Pollock that drift in and out of my daily consciousness.

It is always fun to see and explore the relationship between abstract art, the daily colors, and music.

Old notes reveal that “Wassily Kandinsky once attended a performance of the grandfather of abstract music, composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951,) in 1911.

Monsieur Kandinsky later wrote to Monsieur Schoenberg and said:

“Please excuse me for simply writing to you without having the pleasure of knowing you personally. I have just heard your concert here and it has given me real pleasure. You do not know me, of course - that is, my works - since I do not exhibit much in general, and have exhibited in Vienna only briefly once and that was years ago.

“However, what we are striving for and our whole manner of thought and feeling have so much in common that I feel completely justified in expressing my empathy. In your works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music.”

We’ll explore more on that at another time.

Meanwhile, several days later I found myself traveling in the country to attend a family Thanksgiving dinner; an event which is always told in a southern gothic manner; full of fascinating family stories that often involve aspects of unexplained historical events, enigmatic dialogue, and inexplicable characters.

On the way I find myself at Paper Mill Road, MD Route 145, bridge crossing over the Gunpowder Falls at Loch Raven Reservoir. (Click here for a larger image of the bridges at Paper Mill Road: http://twitpic.com/r74zx or here: http://kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/post/259790373/paper-mill-rd-bridges-span-gunpowder-falls-loch http://tinyurl.com/yhhkb3n)

The new – December 2000 – steel arch bridge juxtaposed side-by-side with the historic old 1922 rare arch truss bridge is the perfect metaphor for the occasion, especially since a tragic family accident with a bridge in the mid-1940s, is part of the family folklore.

One published account relates that the 1922 bridge is “one of a limited number of examples of steel bridges modeled after the Hell’s Gate Arch in New York City…”

It always reminds me of forty years ago in the late summer of 1967 when we first learned from “Mama” that the nice young preacher, Brother Taylor “said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge. And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge.”

I first heard the song, “Ode to Billy Joe” by Bobbie Gentry on WCAO on the AM dial of the car radio. It was in this time period that I became firmly hooked on the existential - “Southern Gothic” genre of storytelling. To refresh your memory, the song can be found on the web at www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc.

Of course you remember “Ode to Billy Joe.” Who can forget: It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day… And mama hollered at the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet." And then she said she got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge. Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.”

Yes, the Paper Mill Bridge is located in Baltimore County, MD. Ms. Gentry’s tale took place in “Carroll County.”

Ms. Gentry has to this day remained circumspect about the haunting and mysterious tale of Mr. MacAllister, but one thing we have learned is that the “Carroll County” she is referring to in the song is “Carroll County Mississippi.” Come to find out, there are approximately 13 places in the United States called “Carroll County.”

Thanksgiving always make me think of southern gothic storytelling – and Jimi Hendrix, who was born on November 27, 1942.

Other examples of authors of the Southern gothic genre of writing include William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Eudora Welty, Truman Capote, and Harper Lee. Tennessee Williams is said to have described the genre as stories that reflect “an intuition of an underlying dreadfulness in modern experience.”

As for Thanksgiving itself; instead of reading a Thanksgiving story, you eat it and enjoy the colors.

Fortunately much of Thanksgiving is written by the American composer Aaron Copland (Nov. 14, 1900 – Dec. 2, 1990 and painted by Norman Rockwell (Feb. 3, 1894 —Nov. 8, 1978.)

It was Mr. Copeland who actually won a Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Appalachian Spring. Nothing says Thanksgiving dinner better than Mr. Copeland’s ballets Billy the Kid (1938), Rodeo (1942) and Appalachian Spring (1944, Fanfare for the Common Man (1943) and the music for the films Our Town (1940.)

Over the years, I have become much more enamored with Southern gothic storytelling, which is frequently more creative – and often more disturbing in the manner it which it peels away the layers of a community or society; yet does not tell a reader what to think, but causes them to think.

More often than not, the tale is told by way of dialogue as with “Ode to Billy Joe” where the story in the song creates many more questions than answers and this invites a ‘participation’ on the part of listener. Moreover, often you never get a firm grasp on the primary narrator.

Just as with Thanksgiving stories, the song’s plot makes known several themes. The first of which is obvious in that just like many popular Thanksgiving holiday stories, it reveals a snapshot of life in a particular period in history.

But it is the other prominent theme that is particularly disturbing as it peels away the layers of indifference that contemporary society shows towards our fellow human beings – or in the case of “Ode to Billy Joe,” the loss of life.

It is at this point that the narrator of this story from “Ode to Billy Joe” says: “Child, what's happened to your appetite? I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite,” and changes your channel back to the reality of the Thanksgiving dinner table.

You smile knowingly without giving away any of the plot and in the words of Jamie Kelly, “spare a thought for the millions of sweet potatoes, cut down in their prime.”

Over the years Thanksgiving has become synonymous with color-graphemic gustatory synesthesia. This piece is best read with the colors orange and beige and accompanied by the music of pumpkin pie with a whipped cream topping.

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A reprint of “Dwight Dingle, Sgt. Pepper, and a Bathtub”

Which appeared in the Westminster Eagle – http://www.explorecarroll.com/ June 6th, 2007 by Kevin Dayhoff

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Dwight Dingle will be greatly missed in the community.

He was a tireless community supporter and had a great sense of humor.

November 27, 2009 November 27, 2009 [20070606 Dwight Dingle and The Mamas and The Papas]

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Wayne Carter, writing for the Carroll County Times is reporting that “Longtime WTTR radio personality Dwight Dingle has died.” Read Mr. Carter’s article on the death of Mr. Dingle here: http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2009/11/28/news/local_news/3_dingle.txt http://tinyurl.com/yfrx9tb

“Dwight Dingle, Sgt. Pepper, and a Bathtub”

Westminster Eagle – http://www.explorecarroll.com/ June 6th, 2007 by Kevin Dayhoff

It was 40 years ago, last Saturday, June 2, 1967; when the Beatles released their eighth album, “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

Although musical taste can be fiercely debated; many music critics and publications consider this album to be one of the most influential of all time. “Rolling Stone” magazine lists it as the number 1 album in their 2003 list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.”

To put music in 1967 in context, the top songs that year were: "Kind of a Drag" by The Buckinghams; "Ruby Tuesday" by The Rolling Stones; "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" by The Supremes; "Penny Lane" by The Beatles and "Happy Together" by The Turtles.

In its rating deliberations, apparently Rolling Stone did not consult the Sam Greenholtz household. In a recent conversation with Mr. Greenholtz, a former Westminster City councilmember and now chair of the GWDC, he said that although “there were a couple of good songs, the album was for the most part - not appreciated.”

But his wife, Janice did not like the album at all. True to form, Mr. Greenholtz, a tireless downtown-Westminster cheerleader reminded me that in those days, Stu’s Music Shop on Main Street in Westminster carried all the Beatles’ albums and “forty-fives” and was “the center of our musical world.”

Vivian Laxton, Carroll County public information administrator, said she actually has a copy of the “Sgt. Pepper” album in her car’s CD player at the moment. But she promptly volunteered that she wasn’t even born when the album was released… Ms. Laxton, a French horn player, also called to my attention that the album begins with a French horn quartet.

Westminster councilwoman Suzanne Albert said she remembers the album well. She especially “appreciated the energy of the Beatles. Their music made people happy and brought a smile to their faces.”

Westminster Police Chief Jeff Spaulding, who shares my love of heavy metal volunteered, “The Beatles were a little mild for my taste. I was more a Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix fan.”

As far as the “Sgt. Pepper” album, Chief Spaulding said, “he appreciated the change from the pop orientation…to a more eclectic style of music.” Currently in his iPod is music that “runs the gamut from Nirvana to Extreme to Elton John to U2.”

Carroll County commissioners’ chief of staff, Steve Powell said “I listened to the Beatles growing up. And still have a moderately extensive collection of the Beatles on vinyl.” Currently in his CD player is “Four Seasons” by Vivaldi and The Silver Bullet Band but he “listens to all kinds of music, from country music, to “Meatloaf” to John Cougar Mellencamp.”

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

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

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

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

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

Have Dwight tell you the story…

Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster Maryland USA.

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Color-Graphemic gustatory Synesthesia

“Color-Graphemic gustatory Synesthesia” by Kevin Dayhoff November 24, 2009

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The Thanksgiving holiday is always a mixed-up mashed-up confusion of words, colors, music, and taste. It’s an arrhythmic cacophony chromaticism of atonal colors… The holiday started several days early as I devoured each word in Hindi … by Kevin Dayhoff November 24, 2009

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Dwight Dingle WTTR announcer has died

April 4, 2011 UPDATE:

On August 26, 2010, s.stein commented: “i wish, if not could find, WTTR history online. he was part of that.. back when WTTR was just some 'old backwoods' mistake. :D even wiki has NOTHING on WTTR. (not that i'm surprised.) 8/26/2010 11:34 PM”

And then on April 4, 2011, Brian Beddow said... “If you write one I would love to read it. I spent 7 years there 4/04/2011 4:37 PM”

Mr. Bedlow and s stein, I did write a piece or two on Mr. Dingle, but I do not see them on "Soundtrack http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/" For other articles I have pieces I have written about my good friend Mr. Dingle, please click here: http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/search/label/People%20Dingle%20Dwight

Meanwhile, go here, on the www.explorecarroll.com newspaper website: http://www.explorecarroll.com/search/?s=Dingle&action=GO to find what I wrote about Mr. Dingle for the Carroll Eagle, especially: http://www.explorecarroll.com/news/3689/dingle/

Thanks for being in touch.

Kevin Dayhoff

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Wayne Carter, writing for the Carroll County Times is reporting that “Longtime WTTR radio personality Dwight Dingle has died.”

For more on Dwight Dingle go here People Dingle Dwight and here: Media Radio WTTR

The news brief said to look to the Saturday paper for more.

Update: Read Mr. Carter’s article on the death of Mr. Dingle here: http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2009/11/28/news/local_news/3_dingle.txt http://tinyurl.com/yfrx9tb

For my friends on Facebook, please see my collage featuring Dwight here: http://www.facebook.com/kevindayhoff?ref=name#/photo.php?pid=223090&id=1040426835
Source: CARROLL: Local radio personality dies By S. Wayne Carter Jr., Times Staff Writer Friday, November 27, 2009

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2009/11/27/news/breaking_news/98dingle.txt

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Friday, November 27, 2009

The bridges at Paper Mill Road

The bridges at Paper Mill Road, MD Route 145, which span the Gunpowder Falls at Loch Raven Reservoir in Baltimore County, MD. The new – December 2000 – steel arch bridge juxtaposed side-by-side with the historic old 1922 rare arch truss bridge is the perfect metaphor.

November 26, 2009 by Kevin Dayhoff

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Tiger Woods injured in car crash

According to a St. Petersburg Times Staff report Posted: Nov 27, 2009 02:52 PM, “Professional golfer Tiger Woods was seriously injured in a car accident early this morning, the Orlando Sentinel reported, citing the Florida Highway Patrol.”

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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Dayhoff uses computer screen as easel by Lyndi McNulty

Dayhoff uses computer screen as easel

By Lyndi McNulty Eye for Art http://tinyurl.com/ygpfy7r

Published: Monday, November 16, 2009 1:24 PM EST

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Kevin Dayhoff greeted me with a quick smile and a familiar “How’s your behavior?” as he peered from behind his computer screen as I entered the Off Track Art gallery at 11 Liberty St. in downtown Westminster last week for an interview.

He was a collage artist at work. However, it was not the traditional cluttered scene of an artist’s studio. There was no easel, piles of images and collage materials, an array of glues or even a palette plate of paint daubs sitting on top of boxes of art supplies. His canvas was his computer screen, and he was trying to get an image to paste properly into a collage.

The gallery is wonderful display of the work of 14 other artists. They all belong in an artists’ cooperative, Off Track Art, situated alongside the railroad tracks in the center of town at Main and Liberty streets.

Dayhoff is a lifelong Carroll County artist. A native of Westminster, he has had a wide range of experience and interests. He has been a landscaper, artist, writer and even the local town mayor.

He inherited his art talent from his parents. His father was an artist-painter-cabinetmaker. His mother is a culinary artist. In 1958, his interest in art surfaced when he was only five years old. People took a special interest in his drawing. His mother encouraged him draw a pirate when he was 5 and entered it into a drawing contest.

All through Carroll County Public Schools, Dayhoff drew, created collages, and wrote short stories. He was the boy sports editor for the Westminster High School yearbook and collaged many of the photographs in the 1971 yearbook – the year he graduated. In addition, Dayhoff studied photography in the 1960s in 4-H. Later, as a landscape designer, he took photographs of the properties and expanded that into his artwork.

When asked about what it was like to grow up an artist in Carroll County, Dayhoff has nothing but praise.

“There is no better place to be an artist than Carroll County. I have rarely met disapproval, only encouragement,” he said.

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My Off Track Art work station on August 21, 2009

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Just in time for Thanksgiving

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The arrival of the spacecraft in Westminster

“The arrival of the spacecraft behind Willis Street in Westminster” by Kevin Dayhoff November 25, 2009

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It was the night before Thanksgiving in 2009 when it happened.

When the spacecraft first landed at the old Westminster Playground; no one, at first, quite knew what to do…

Crickey, folks were flummoxed.

This picture was captured by happenstance and shows homes along the otherwise quiet, tree-lined, and bucolic Willis Street in Westminster, to be silhouetted by the bright landing lights of the craft.

Was it an attack by Cylons? Or perhaps it was an invasion of intergalactic Velociraptors

Oh no…

Wait a minute. It’s. It’s. Holy @!@$%^$$%...

We’ve suspected all along that “they” are among us.

Various folks have had dreams of android cattle. Could this be the beginning of the attack of the chrome toasters?

Persons around town have appeared to have siren Cylon tendencies, in which it has been suspected that a Six copy has been downloaded into their bodies.

They are seductive and they look the part and have the correct vocabulary, but there is no there – there and the results are hollow.

They were first suspected to have landed sometime in May 2005. Some do a great job with press releases.

It was a sensational story but only maintained a fugacious claim on the public's attention; as if it happened on a pair of fast chucks.

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Was it an attack by Cylons? Or perhaps it was an invasion of intergalactic Velociraptors http://tinyurl.com/yln46do http://twitpic.com/qzb9f http://kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/post/257974600/was-it-an-attack-by-cylons-or-perhaps-it-was-an

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

“Changed” from June 23, 2008 by Kevin Dayhoff

I was just reminded of this in a FB conversation with Elizabeth Foster Cambass.

Turns out that it was relatively prescient, n’est pas?

November 25, 2009

Obama “Changed” from June 23, 2008 by Kevin Dayhoff http://tinyurl.com/ydro2yo

Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/qyazy

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20080623 Obama for change

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2008/06/20080623-obama-for-change.html

Barack Obama for change

Because that is all you will have left when he’s done.

June 24, 2008 - - The base idea for this image was passed on to me in an email from “CJ.”

I guess it resonated with me as the presumptive Democrat nominee for president’s conversation so far about economics and taxation is a major concern for me as I ponder the merits of his candidacy of the Oval Office.

At my advanced age I can easily recognize political silliness when I see it and I refuse to be distracted.

Barack Obama appears to be an honorable man who wants to be president and I admire him for his accomplishments.

My heart and prayers go out to him and his family when I hear or read the vicious personal attacks over drivel that ultimately I really don’t give a rat’s backside over. It’s all so boring and an unnecessary distraction of high chair food fight proportions.

I don’t really care what Rev. Wright has said or when he said it. I don’t care about what Senator Obama’s wife said or when she said it.

I’m not fooled by the recent marketing makeover with his appearance on People magazine or Mrs. Obama’s chattiness on “The View.” I have no interest in voting “for the friendly guy next door” to be president.

I care about issues such as who is going to protect us from foreign aggressors. I care about national defense.

I care about the economy. I care about the class warfare being promoted, disguised as taxation policy.

I care about the deleterious affects of our nation’s lack of a coherent energy independence policy.

I care about who has the experience necessary to be president.

I care about who is going to appoint the next several Supreme Court justices.

If I were to have a choice between “a third term for the Bush Administration” or “Jimmy Carter’s second”; I’ll take “Bush’s third term” in a nanosecond.

Although I realize that Republican presumptive presidential nominee John McCain is certainly no George W. Bush and I have not, as yet mistaken Senator Obama for President Jimmy Carter…

Anyway - I played with the base idea for the image; re-arranged it and added to it and voila.

Please cut and paste this image and distribute it widely…

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20080623 Obama for change

Posted by Kevin Dayhoff at 6/25/2008 01:33:00 AM

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Main Street businesses decry public safety isues

Westminster Eagle Westminster city council report:

Main Street businesses decry public safety issues

The use of surveillance cameras to be investigated

November 23, 2009 By Kevin Dayhoff

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2009/11/main-street-businesses-decry-public.html

The number one topic of recent discussions with downtown Westminster businesses was public safety, say Westminster officials.

The discussion and feedback come at a time when the flagging national economy continues to hurt local businesses and the city budget remains in dire straights.

Westminster Mayor Kevin Utz presented the Common Council with a number of recommendations that resulted from five Main Street roundtable discussions held by Westminster officials in the last two months.

The feedback from the Westminster Main Street businesses was the highlight the Westminster mayor and Common Council meeting last Monday.

“We have asked 35 businesses to attend five Main Street Roundtables over the past two months and I would like to summarize the discussions and put forth a series of recommendations for your consideration,” said Utz.

Utz then comprehensively reviewed a summary of the business roundtable findings and four recommendations.

A copy of the summary was given to the Westminster Eagle by Westminster city administrator Marge Wolf.

It reveals that the “business owners (have) requested more police presence, particularly when the stores are closing for the evening. The businesses owners would like to partner with the police department, reporting questionable activities and observations.”

“We need to have our residents and citizens feel comfortable being on Main Street,” said Utz as council members looked-on and nodded in approval.

As a result: “An officer has been assigned to patrol the Main Street area from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Additional officers will be assigned to patrol the area when businesses close.

“In addition, the (Westminster Police Department) will develop strategies to familiarize the merchants with both Command staff and patrol officers and will investigate the use of camera in strategic locations to assist the patrol officers,” Utz read from the report.

In a related problem, Utz noted that “The City of Westminster is also the County Seat for Carroll County and as such provides a wide range of social services in our town.

“This fact, coupled with the fact that the churches in the area are very magnanimous in providing additional services to this client group, results in groups of clients congregating in public areas.”

The recommendation offered at the meeting was that the “Mayor will convene a Roundtable with area church representatives to discuss possible solutions to this problem.”

Business owners also said at the roundtable discussions that many of the local shopkeepers “are not the property owners and, as group, they feel the landlords do not maintain the properties to even code standards.

“The rents are not affordable for most small businesses and the landlords are not willing to work with small businesses. Small businesses have special funding needs and need special assistance. The business owners supported the rental licensing of apartments as an avenue to improving properties to code standards.”

It was recommended that the city initiate “a revolving loan program … to provide low-interest loans to new businesses or businesses expanding in the Main Street area.”

The program would be undertaken by the Westminster Town Center Corporation, an organization developed a number of years ago to advance business interests in the city.

In addition it was recommended that city officials “Continue the work on the more stringent building maintenance code and maintain the timetable for implementation on July I, 2010.

“The Code Enforcement Officer will focus on the Main Street area in a concentrated effort to maintain not only the appearance but the health and safety standards in our Code.”

Marketing the downtown businesses was also the focus of concern: “The Roundtable participants offered a number of suggestions for increased activity on Main Street, including additional activities and events.

“The need for a solid marketing plan to promote the Westminster image was supported by a number of the participants.”

It was recommended that the city “Fund a marketing study for Main Street and consolidate our various promotional budget items into one line item to fund those marketing activities. Develop one brand and one coherent message to promote our downtown.”

It was not discussed at the meeting how the “marketing study” would be funded or whether or not the study would be done in-house or if an outside agency might be hired to do the job.

The final recommendation was that city officials “Continue the Main Street Roundtables on a monthly basis. Convene additional Roundtables with the property owners and church representatives to discuss various concerns expressed by the business owners.

“Continue to pursue the development of the Route 27 Corridor, former Westminster Inn, Stocksdale property and former Ain't that a Frame location to jumpstart the Main Street area and provide a destination for visitors and tourists.”

Look for updates to this and other stories about Westminster city government on our website, http://www.explorecarroll.com/.

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Toohey's departure stirs reactions By Bryan P. Sears

Under most circumstances, the changing of a government spokesman, even at a high profile agency like a police department, would barely register as a blip on the public awareness meter.

But reaction from both the public and media professionals to the announcement of the departure of Bill Toohey after 13 years as Baltimore County police spokesman was swift.

Read the entire article by Bryan Sears and Luke Broadwater here: Toohey's departure stirs reactions By Bryan P. Sears Posted 11/24/09

http://www.explorebaltimorecounty.com/news/103150/tooheys-departure-stirs-reactions/

Related:
Editorial: Bill Toohey, a class act, will be missed as face of police
Posted: 11/25/09 in Towson Times, Arbutus Times, Catonsville Times, North County News, Northeast Booster, Northeast Reporter, Owings Mills Times

Also see: http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2009/11/balto-co-police-spokesperson-bill.html http://tinyurl.com/yb55j2y http://twitpic.com/q2vtl

And: County police spokesman to be replaced by uniformed officer - Bill Toohey, in job for 13 years, 'surprised' at the news, By Luke Broadwater

20091124 Toohey departure stirs reactions By Bryan P Sears

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This week in The Tentacle

This week in The Tentacle

Goodbye, and Good Riddance Kevin E. Dayhoff Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Merry Christmas, weeks early. It’s a great day in American. Bill Moyers is leaving weekly television. http://tinyurl.com/yf5sgp2 See also: http://twitpic.com/qunnw

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3479 http://tinyurl.com/yf5sgp2

“The Hamster Wheel” by Kevin Dayhoff November 25, 2009 Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/quvww or here: http://kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/post/256785774/the-hamster-wheel-by-kevin-dayhoff-self-portrait

Gramps’ Special Black Friday Gifts
Tom McLaughlin
It has been a few years since Mom and Dad passed away but I remember the torture I went through to try and figure out what to get them for Christmas. Even now, the thought makes me shudder.

A Plus, A Minus, and Thanks
Derek Shackelford
Former Vice-Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin is currently on a cross county tour promoting her book, “Going Rogue.” She has recently made the rounds on many of the most popular television shows, The Oprah Winfrey Show, an interview with Barbara Walter, The Sean Hannity Show, and many of the morning news programs.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Childhood Holidays
Roy Meachum
With its rich tradition of Mardi Gras, I must report it was the only holiday publicly celebrated. In my New Orleans childhood, while there were balls in the weeks before Fat Tuesday, attendance was limited to Krewe (club) members. Things really came apart the weekend before Ash Wednesday when out-of-towners poured through the railroad stations; air travel was still in the future. But Thanksgiving couldn’t be celebrated in a more subdued manner.

The Pain of Taking a Break
Farrell Keough
I have been on hiatus. I would say sabbatical, but that involves payment during the absence and considering the vast sums we are paid here at TheTentacle.com, how could one possibly expect our esteemed editor to pay us when we are away?

Math-Test Taking: A Study Guide
Nick Diaz

Two weeks ago I listed the causes of math-test anxiety and the ways a student should deal with such a condition. In this column I’ll list some strategies that may lead a student to improve his math-test-taking skills.

Monday, November 23, 2009
Of Double-Dips and Bubbles
Steven R. Berryman
The corollary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s famous “We have nothing to fear but fear itself” is that economically, it’s the “not knowing” that can damage us even worse than a specific negative indicator of our progress in recovery.

To Grow or Not to Grow
Michael Kurtianyk
So, the current aldermen overrode a veto by Mayor Jeff Holtzinger on the city’s Comprehensive Plan. Specifically, the Board of Aldermen voted to approve it. Mayor Holtzinger vetoed the plan, citing the approximately 1,100 acres intended for development in the future may not have future water and sewer capacities. Thus, the mayor doesn’t want to mislead those property owners by having them think their parcels could be developed.

Friday, November 20, 2009
Commissioners’ Hypocrisy
Roy Meachum
Winchester Hall changed the rules again. Unable to keep the tax base invested in three properties Frederick agreed to annex, county commissioners voted 4-1 to bar development based on school spaces available. Charles Jenkins was the lone vote not to tinker with owners’ rights.

“Don’t give up; Don’t ever give up”
Joe Charlebois
Almost 17 years ago a retired basketball coach and sportscaster, Jim Valvano, passed away. He will be remembered always by his enthusiasm for life, his David versus Goliath victory – North Carolina State beating Georgetown to win the NCAA national championship – and seven words of ultimate encouragement: Don’t Give Up, Don’t Ever Give Up!

Thursday, November 19, 2009
Kicking the Winning Field Goal…
Joan McIntyre
I've had the honor of doing my best to help out a couple friends this past week. Randy McClement is the man of the moment; but I have to brag on his wife and business partner.

Just Shy of a Perfect 10…
Chris Cavey
Fresh on the heels of Election Day wins, just two weeks prior, the Maryland Republican Party cinched up their belts, and – with new determination – started their forward march toward Victory 2010 this past weekend. This re-birth has begun, as if by an omen, in dark blue Prince George’s County.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
A Fallen Hero Comes Home….
Kevin E. Dayhoff
As I surveyed the huge display of American flags and the mass of community that showed-up at the Union Bridge fire hall on Monday morning to pay their final respects to Marine Staff Sergeant Charles Isaac Cartwright; I could not help but think of the famous quote: “Where do we get such men?”

Different Country, Same Elections
Tom McLaughlin
Kuching, Malaysia – He who can stuff the most ballot boxes wins the election. I really can’t understand why the Western world cannot accept this obvious concept of democracy.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The First Amendment: Again
Roy Meachum
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Monday, November 16, 2009
Just Dithering About College
Steven R. Berryman
A quick overnight out toward Maryland’s Eastern Shore over the past weekend took yours truly and my oldest son Paul to Salisbury University for a pre-admissions visit.

Putting His Right Foot Forward
Michael Kurtianyk
I must say that I am impressed with the caliber of Mayor-Elect Randy McClement’s transition team. Beginning with Dale Driscoll, whom I admire greatly, and Alderman-Elect Karen Lewis Young, who will be co-chair with Mr. Driscoll.

20091125 sdosm This week in The Tentacle

This week in http://www.thetentacle.com/ #writing

“The Hamster Wheel” by Kevin Dayhoff November 25, 2009 Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/quvww or here: http://kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/post/256785774/the-hamster-wheel-by-kevin-dayhoff-self-portrait

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The many faces of Bill Moyers

The many faces of Bill Moyers http://tinyurl.com/yjdj2sa Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/qunnw

November 23, 2009 by Kevin Dayhoff

It’s a great day in American, “Bill Moyers is leaving weekly television.”

Yes, that’s right, Mr. Moyers, the liberal hypocritical smug Prince of thug-journalism who raised concepts such as situational ethics and moral relativism to a high art form, will be leaving public television on April 30, 2010, according to a recent item in the New York Times by Elizabeth Jensen in her “Media Decoder” column.

“Mr. Moyers said he had been planning for some time to retire the program on Dec. 25, but was asked by PBS to raise the funds to continue through April, which he did,” writes Ms. Jensen.

The “program” to which she is referring is “Bill Moyers Journal,” which began in April 2007. It is a weekly no-holds-barred advocacy program on the Public Broadcasting System for the liberal agenda in America.

According to Ms. Jensen, Mr. Moyers said, that his program has recently been having a “good run of it … so I feel it’s time.” He said he was not quitting television work, although he has no new projects planned.

No word as to whether or not he will be taking a position in the administration of Venezuelan President Hug Chavez, although Mr. Moyers is well qualified to work with heads of state.

Our younger readers may not be aware that Mr. Moyers, who was born on June 5, 1934, first distinguished himself on the national stage as the White House press secretary for President Lyndon Baines Johnson from 1965 to 1967.

Mr. Moyers and President Johnson shared a long history of working together. Mr. Moyers had interned for then-Senator Johnson. In addition to several positions as a print media journalist for several newspapers in Texas, he also worked in the mid-1950s at KTBC radio and television stations, which were owned by Lady Bird Johnson.

It is ironic to note that Mr. Moyers is an ordained minister; when one considers the course, blunt, if not profane behavior that historians have characterized President Johnson’s rise and maintenance of power.

Mr. Moyers first came to Washington to work in the administration of President Kennedy in various capacities in the newly formed Peace Corps.

In an April 3, 1966 article in the New York Times by Patrick Anderson, “No. 2 Texan in the White House,” Mr. Moyers explained his relationship with President Johnson as “I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.”

His quote from 1966 may have been the only hint at humanity he may have ever had in a career that has witnessed him, in his later years, become unbearably preachy, condescending, boorish, and blinded by his politically ideology, which has tarnished his conflicted and complicated legacy.

For every mean-spirited thing I have to say about Mr. Moyers, I have a half-dozen much nastier remarks for which I was held back by my shriveled but nevertheless functional sense of decency.

In a much-touted dust-up between Mr. Moyers and Fox News Channel personality, Bill O’Reilly in April 2007; Mr. O’Reilly may have said it best:

“I do know that Moyers has, for years, been heavily involved with people like George Soros and the far left. Yet PBS is paying him to produce documentaries that are purported to be "objective." Bill Moyers is not objective, has a problem with the truth, and should no longer be receiving taxpayer money. And that is the truth.”

This after Fox News aired a tape in which Mr. Moyers said: “The FOX News, the talk radio, The Weekly Standard have not only mongered for war along with the administration, not only embraced the administration's policies because they were "conservative", including going to war, but also mounted a slime machine to discredit any journalist who dared to stand against the official view of reality.”

Of course, since President Obama has taken office and has continued the war efforts, for which Mr. Moyers was so critical during the Bush Administration years – now Mr. Moyers seems to have forgotten that we remain at war.

This, in spite of campaign promises from President Obama that once in office, he would withdrawal American troops out of Iraq quickly and re-invent our efforts in Afghanistan.

Funny how that works.

On March 9, 2009, Bernie Goldberg said in an interview with Mr. O’Reilly about Mr. Goldberg’s book, “A Slobbering Love Affair,” that Mr. Moyers is among the top five “five worst offenders in the mainstream media.”

“No. 4 is Bill Moyers because he represents the most elite wing of the most liberal elite media. Bill Moyers is a true believer who these days is posing as a journalist. He's very civil and highbrow to an extent, but also despises conservatives.

“During the Bush administration, he said that the right-wing wrecking crews in government, right-wing wrecking crews were deliberately, intentionally, trying to destroy the United States of America. Really, Bill? I mean, right wing wrecking crews and the government are deliberately trying to destroy America? And he's on PBS.”

Fortunately for America, Mr. Moyers days on PBS are numbered.

Good riddance. Don’t let the door hit you on the behind as you are leaving.

Perhaps the only thing that might be as equally good for American would be if Katie Couric would also retire. We can only wish.

Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster. E-mail him at kevindayhoff AT gmail.com.