Journalist @baltimoresun writer artist runner #amwriting Chaplain PIO #partylikeajournalist

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, July 22, 2012

The Battle for Marjah




The Battle for Marjah is an HBO documentary, covering the efforts of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, in Operation Moshtarak.

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Crab mallets...

Art Deco Buildings: Crescent Hotel, Miami


Art Deco Buildings: Crescent Hotel, Miami: The Crescent Hotel on in Miami South Beach. Another masterpiece by Henry Hohauser built in 1938. And like all the hotels along Ocean Drive ...

“Off Track Art” is an artists’ co-op and gallery located in the historic Liberty Building at 11 Liberty Street – next to the railroad tracks, off of the Sentinel parking lot at the corner of West Main St and MD 27-Liberty St - in historic downtown Westminster, Carroll County Maryland. 


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Open: Wed-Fri. Noon to 6 PM , Sat. 10 AM - 5 PM. http://offtrackart.blogspot.com/ 
 For news and information on Off Track Art previous to December 15, 2011, you can go to http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/search/label/Art%20Off%20Track%20Art
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Keys Net - Weekly Newsletter for Saturday July 21, 2012




  • The Monroe County School Board on Monday is expected to decide whether to extend generous incentive pay to incoming Superintendent Mark Porter and, if so, what measures will trigger the performance pay.

    Porter, the former superintendent of South Washington County (Minn.) Public Schools, was selected in June to replace Jesus Jara, who starts Aug. 1 as deputy superintendent of Orange County Public Schools in Central Florida.
  • Monroe County again held the dubious position atop the state's roll of most dangerous counties for boating, with 93 significant accidents on the water in 2011.
  • Four Republican candidates vying to take over for retiring Clerk of the Court Danny Kolhage will square off in the Aug. 14 primary.
  • Fishing the areas of the Upper Keys and Islamorada area yielded wonderful results lately both offshore and in the backcountry.

    Offshore, mix-sized dolphin bit well again last week anywhere from the edge of the reef out to around 24 miles. Some were reported to weigh over 40 pounds, hopefully the action to continue in weeks to come. There were some swordfish caught and released and a couple kept last week for the dinner table.
  • Dolphin fishing remains hit or miss, with mostly small numbers of schoolie-size fish coming back to the docks. But although elusive, there are some gaffers and slammers to be had.

    However, blackfin tuna fishing at the humps is excellent right now, with anglers catching good-size fish in the 12- to 15-pound class, along with profuse numbers of smaller footballs. Butterfly jigging, trolling and fishing live baits are all productive techniques.
  • Summer is definitely here in the Upper Keys, and the signs are everywhere — from the mosquito trucks spraying residential neighborhoods in the evening to the daily afternoon thunderstorms.

    It may be hot in the afternoons, but quite comfortable as compared to many areas of our country experiencing triple digit temperatures. This means getting an early start to help avoid the afternoon heat, or venturing out during the evening hours to fish in more comfortable conditions.
  • Centennial Bank is doubling the size of its Islamorada branch with the acquisition of the former Bank of America building at mile marker 81.5 oceanside. Customers were notified of the impending move via letter earlier in July.
  • Beginning Thursday Key West will be home to not one but two Publix grocery stores about half a mile from each other on North Roosevelt Boulevard.
  • Verizon Wireless customers throughout the Florida Keys soon will have access to the nation's fastest 4G wireless network, when the company expands its network from Miami to Key West later this month.
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Yesterday Off Track Art artist Judy Goodyear changed-out gallery window display


Yesterday Off Track Art artist Judy Goodyear changed-out gallery window display

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Friday, July 20, 2012

Mary Louise has been invited to try out for the McDaniel College football team

Meet the parents at the McDaniel College Resource Fair

Don & Cindy & Mahlia at the McDaniel Parent Resource Fair

Westminster Fire Co table w Joe - McDaniel Tech at college Parent Resource Fair

Joe Steffen - Darkness Rising: Tawes to the Wall | Global Rhetoric

Joe Steffen - Darkness Rising: Tawes to the Wall | Global Rhetoric: “Are you going to Tawes?”


If I was asked that question once this year, I was asked it at least 10-15 times.


“No,” I answered every time.  In one of the conversations, I was advised that I “had” to go to Tawes.  When I asked why, the person said because “everyone goes to Tawes!”  Excuse me, but that’s not a valid reason.  But that person was right – people go to Tawes because it is expected of them to be there because everyone will be there.


“Tawes,” as most, if not all, of Maryland Politicos know is the “Crab Feast Gone Mild” under the name of Maryland’s 54th Governor, J. Millard Tawes. It takes place in the 3rd week of every July – just as it has been happening for the past 36 years. Held in Crisfield, Maryland, which is pretty much the farthest point from most anywhere else in the state, Tawes is considered to be the “Can’t Miss!” political event of the year.


I don’t see it." ... http://www.globalrhetoric.com/2012/07/18/tawes-to-the-wall-2/

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Thursday, July 19, 2012

40 Years In The Desert: CFPB Draws First Blood (From a Vampire Squid)


They just fined Capital One $210 million for misleading consumers on credit protection and protection monitoring programs:
Capital One Financial agreed to pay $210 million to resolve charges by banking regulators that its call-center representatives misled consumers into paying for extra credit card products.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/18/us-capitalone-cfpb-idUSBRE86H0SJ20120718 
 40 Years In The Desert: CFPB Draws First Blood (From a Vampire Squid)
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40 Years In The Desert: I am surrounded by legions of the living dead

40 Years In The Desert:
I am surrounded by legions of the living dead 19 July 2012 The DMV. I have to renew my driver's license.
http://40yrs.blogspot.com/2012/07/i-i-am-surrounded-by-legions-of-living.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+40_Years_In_The_Desert+%2840+Years+In+The+Desert%29

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Westminster Volunteer Fire Department will host a crab feed on Saturday, July 21


The Westminster Volunteer Fire Department will host a crab feed on Saturday, July 21 at the department’s John’s Street quarters attached to the firehouse at 28 John Street in Westminster.

The menu features steamed crabs, pit ham and beef, macaroni salad, coleslaw, baked beans, corn on the cob, Maryland crab soup, veggies, fruit dip, cheese, and desserts.

The tickets are priced at $40.00 per person and proceeds go to supporting the Westminster Volunteer Fire Department’s ambulance and firefighting services.

For more information on the crab feed to support the fire department, call 410-848-1800 or go to the department website at westminstervfd.org.

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Delmarva Daily Times: On-duty medic dies in Bloxom Virginia firetruck crash


Delmarva Daily Times

On-duty medic dies in Bloxom Virginia firetruck crash

Bloxom fire engine crashes into trees while headed to accident


BLOXOM -- A single-vehicle crash involving a Bloxom firetruck Monday morning fatally injured a volunteer firefighter.

David R. Chew Jr., 30, of Parksley, who worked as a medic with the Northampton County Department of Emergency Medical Services, died in the crash.

The accident occurred on Nelsonia Road, about a half-mile west of Route 13. The firefighters were responding to an accident on Route 13 in Gargatha.

The accident was reported at about 11:31 a.m. An investigation revealed that Chew, a passenger in the firetruck, was ejected, said Virginia State Police spokeswoman Michelle Anaya.

"Mr. Chew was not wearing his safety belt at the time of the accident and died on impact," Anaya said in a statement…

Chew, a United Methodist minister, served as chaplain of the Bloxom Volunteer Fire Company and was a rescue lieutenant and a member of the company's board of directors…
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Monday, July 16, 2012

McDaniel College new entrance progress pic 2 of 2

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McDaniel College stadium steps progress pic

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Grace Lutheran Church Sunday bulletin, Bible readings, prayers of intercession and weekly announcements for Sunday, July 15, 2012


July 15, 2012 Grace Lutheran Church Westminster Maryland Sunday bulletin

Grace Lutheran Church Sunday bulletin, Bible readings, prayers of intercession and weekly announcements for Sunday, July 15, 2012


Pastor Kevin Clementson and Pastor Martha Clementson

Grace Lutheran Church, 21 Carroll Street, Westminster, MD 21157


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Kevin Dayhoff The Tentacle: National Governors Association New Engines of Growth – Part 2


Kevin Dayhoff The Tentacle: The #art and culture of economic development part 2


Kevin E. Dayhoff July 12, 2012

Last Monday, after studying the report, New Engines of Growth: Five Roles for Arts, Culture, and Design, prepared by the National Governors Association, I found myself lost in thought about the role of the arts as an economic engine.

Later that day I met with a travel writer, Leonard M. Adkins of Richmond, VA, at the cooperative art gallery, Off Track Art, of which I am a founding member.

For three-years, the 10 artists in the cooperative have made a conscious effort to act as an arts and culture incubator for Carroll County as well as to promote the sale of our art.

Mr. Adkins, an outdoor and travel writer, photographer, and “The Habitual Hiker,” is touring Maryland through August 8 to update his book “Explorer’s Guide Maryland.” He visited Carroll County in 2001 when he first wrote the book and has been back several other times for updates.

It was exciting to talk with Mr. Adkins about the role of tourism, arts, and culture in Maryland. He has also written about theAppalachian Trail and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.

As fate would have it, my wife and I spent last Saturday bicycling from Brunswick to Harpers Ferry and back, where we had dinner at “Beans in the Belfry” on West Potomac Street near the offices of our good friends, Mayor Carroll Jones and City Administrator Richard Weldon at Brunswick City Hall.

Located in a 100-year-old restored historic church, Beans in the Belfry is an excellent example of an artistic approach to adaptive re-use, and arts and culture as an economic driver and jobs creator.

The National Governor Association’s “New Engines of Growth” report is a must-read for anyone involved in the development of public policy that affects the arts and economic development.

The National Governors Association website elaborates: “Globalization and the changing economy have affected individual states differently, but all are searching for ways to support high-growth industries, accelerate innovation, foster entrepreneurial activity, address unemployment, build human capital and revive distressed areas… http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5223


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The National Governors Association recently released a new report on the role that community arts, culture, and design play in job creation and economic growth.

The remarkably creative and thoughtful report, New Engines of Growth: Five Roles for Arts, Culture, and Design, was prepared by the group’s Center for Best Practices, in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies.

The 52-page report itself is an eye-catching and well-designed piece of artwork in its layout and design.

However, even more amazing is that, page-by-page, the report presents a compelling and persuasive case for encouraging community arts and cultural programs, businesses, shops and industry to create economy and jobs – in a manner surprisingly devoid of mind-numbing public policy wonk-speak.

The executive summary of the report states, in part … http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5218


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By Kevin Dayhoff

July 11, 2012

One of my passions for July, besides thoroughly enjoying the heat, is the Tour de France. This year, June 30 was one of my greatest days of summer…

That was the day that the 99th Tour de France began with the “prologue” event. What follows, until July 22, is a tour of France’s picturesque agriculturally dominated countryside, in 20 stages that will cover 3,497 kilometres.

By the time a cyclist finishes the Tour de France, he will have burned a total of 118,000 calories or the “equivalent to 26 Mars Bars per day,” according to the BBC.

The Tour de France has a little something for everyone – history, drama, intrigue, science, a mini geography tutorial of Europe, and all of the fanfare and spectacle of what is arguably, one of the most difficult sporting challenges in the world today...

And besides, so much of the humble – and insane – beginnings of the Tour de France were started by journalists and a newspaper.

The humble beginnings of the bicycle race were as a newspaper publicity event, brainstormed by Henri Desgrange in 1902, to promote the sports newspaper “l'Auto.”

According to the history section of the Le Tour de France website, “The line between insanity and genius is said to be a fine one, and in early 20thcentury France, anyone envisaging a near-2,500-km-long cycle race across the country would have been widely viewed as unhinged.

“But that didn’t stop Géo Lefèvre, a journalist with L’Auto magazine at the time, from proceeding with his inspired plan. His editor, Henri Desgrange, was bold enough to believe in the idea and to throw his backing behind the Tour de France. And so it was that, on 1 July 1903, sixty pioneers set out on their bicycles from Montgeron. After six mammoth stages (Nantes - Paris, 471 km!), only 21 “routiers,” led by Maurice Garin, arrived at the end of this first epic.”

Although the eyes of the world are on the Tour de France every July, did you know that there were several celebrated bicycle races, in the central-Maryland area, a number of years before the first Tour de France in 1903?

According to an American Sentinel newspaper article published on October 20, 1895: “The most remarkable cycling event … was a century run, undertaken by over three hundred riders, from Baltimore, on Sunday last.

“Mishaps reduced the number, by the time the cavalcade started, to two hundred and ninety-nine, among whom were several ladies.  The run was to Frederick and return.

“Two hundred and forty-six of the starters continued in the run to the finish and made the 100 miles… Messrs. George M. Parke and John H. Cunningham, of the Cycling Ramblers of Westminster, were in the run and completed the century.”

At the Corbit’s Charge encampment on Sunday, June 24, I was inspired by several conversations with local historians Tom LeGore and Ron Kuehne, known well for his historic interpretation of Westminster Mayor Michael Baughman; to revisit our local history at Harpers Ferry, Antietam, Washington DC, and Gettysburg.

All are comfortable family-friendly day trips for those of us who live in Carroll County. Well, by car that is…

So, in honor of the Tour de France, on Saturday, July my wife and I spent bicycling through history from Brunswick to Harpers Ferry and back on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath.

We had dinner at “Beans in the Belfry” on West Potomac Street, in Brunswick, near the offices of my good friends, Mayor Carroll Jones and City Administrator Richard Weldon at the Brunswick City Hall.

Located in a 100 year-old restored historic church, Beans in the Belfry is an excellent of an artistic approach to adaptive re-use, and arts and culture as an economic driver and jobs creator.

We loved the ambiance and atmosphere of Beans in the Belfry. Our food was wonderful and the service friendly and welcoming.

Next week - Saturday, July 14, 2012, we’ll try the Northern Central Railroad Trail, in Gunpowder Falls State Park in Baltimore County.


More than 100 years ago, "bicycle riders and racers, were filled with excitement over an event to take place at the Pleasure Park, a newly built horseracing track with grandstand one mile north of Westminster on the road to Littlestown."

That property is now known as Carroll County Regional Airport.

Thanks to research for the Historical Society of Carroll County by historian Mary Ann Ashcraft, we know that on June 25, 1898, the now-defunct American Sentinel wrote that "Thursday, the 30th day of June, will be the greatest day among cyclists in Carroll County that has ever occurred in its history.


One of my passions for July, besides thoroughly enjoying the heat, is the Tour de France. This year, June 30 was one of my greatest days of summer.
That was the day that the 99th Tour de France began with the "prologue" event. What follows, until July 22, is a tour of France's picturesque and agriculturally dominated countryside, in 20 stages that will cover 3,497 kilometers…http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0715-20120711,0,1917523.story
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Opinion: When it comes to new business, Carroll needs to stop thinking 'small'

Opinion: When it comes to new business, Carroll needs to stop thinking 'small'

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New Windsor sheep farm featured in 'Chefs Go Fresh' motorcycle tour

New Windsor sheep farm featured in 'Chefs Go Fresh' motorcycle tour

“Off Track Art” is an artists’ co-op and gallery located in the historic Liberty Building at 11 Liberty Street – next to the railroad tracks, off of the Sentinel parking lot at the corner of West Main St and MD 27-Liberty St - in historic downtown Westminster, Carroll County Maryland. 

Open: Wed-Fri. Noon to 6 PM , Sat. 10 AM - 5 PM. http://offtrackart.blogspot.com/ 
 For news and information on Off Track Art previous to December 15, 2011, you can go to http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/search/label/Art%20Off%20Track%20Art

Talkeetna Mayor is a Cat Named Stubbs

Talkeetna Mayor is a Cat Named Stubbs

http://www.ktuu.com/news/talkeetna-alaska-mayor-is-a-cat-named-stubbs-20120713,0,3624077.story

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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Eagle Archive: Saluting Carroll County's love of that dangerous 'foreign invention' ... the bicycle

Eagle Archive: Saluting Carroll County's love of that dangerous 'foreign invention' ... the bicycle

Baltimore Sun By Kevin Dayhoff July 14, 2012 2012 http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0715-20120711,0,1917523.story

More than 100 years ago, "bicycle riders and racers, were filled with excitement over an event to take place at the Pleasure Park, a newly built horseracing track with grandstand one mile north of Westminster on the road to Littlestown."

That property is now known as Carroll County Regional Airport.

Thanks to research for the Historical Society of Carroll County by historian Mary Ann Ashcraft, we know that on June 25, 1898, the now-defunct American Sentinel wrote that "Thursday, the 30th day of June, will be the greatest day among cyclists in Carroll County that has ever occurred in its history.


One of my passions for July, besides thoroughly enjoying the heat, is the Tour de France. This year, June 30 was one of my greatest days of summer.

That was the day that the 99th Tour de France began with the "prologue" event. What follows, until July 22, is a tour of France's picturesque and agriculturally dominated countryside, in 20 stages that will cover 3,497 kilometers… http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0715-20120711,0,1917523.story



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Poole & Babylon talk w McDaniel parents at Westminster Fire Dept booth

McDaniel College Gill Gym readies for the parent Resource Fair

McDaniel College annual Parent Preview Resource Fair

Engine bay at Westminster Fire Dept John St Westminster MD