By Kevin E. Dayhoff, February 17, 2014
... City, a vast collection of skyscrapers and a thriving
economic center that may be best described as the Hong Kong of Latin and South
America. If he is not showing pictures of his trip to Panama to friends
By Kevin Dayhoff February 12, 2014
... College: 621 employees • Carroll County Commissioners:
587 employees • Carroll Community College: 509 employees • Evapco: 440
employees When he is not counting the days until spring…
By Kevin Dayhoff, February 5, 2014
... received an imported breech-loading shotgun. Throughout
his career he gave away 5,000 guns representing sales of 5,000,000
cigars!" When he is not admiring the artwork on the old cigar labels…
... life were the parking meters the Westminster Common
Council had voted for in 1941. When he is not feeding the meters and shopping
in Westminster's historic — and well-defended downtown — Kevin Dayhoff may be
reached at .
By Kevin Dayhoff, December 2, 2013
... been too small for commercial success. It was at night,
on the other hand, that radio listening really picked up." When he is not
up late at night surfing the Internet looking for foreign radio stations, KevinDayhoff may
be reached at
... service, nothing can beat a locally owned store.
Westminster Mayor Kevin Utz agrees: "Getting a little stir crazy? If you
can safely ... not doing his Christmas shopping on Main Street in Westminster, Kevin
Dayhoff may be reached at
... Library. Sadly, for reasons not easily understood at
this time, the station was unceremoniously torn down in 1961 and turned into a
parking lot. When not watching the trains in historic downtown Westminster, Kevin
Dayhoff may be reached at
... assured of a horn, a rattler, or a whistle or whatever
the gift may be…" Merry Christmas. When he's not singing "I Want a
Hippopotamus for Christmas," and enjoying eating his Christmas oranges, KevinDayhoff
may be reached at
... to arrest and punishment. Last Sunday evening there were
crowds in front of both the Methodist Churches, and their conduct was
disturbing to the worshipers." When not spending time in church on
Sundays, Kevin Dayhoff may be reached at
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Related:
Panama Canal opened markets for Carroll farmers
The Panama Canal officially opened on Aug. 14, 1914, when
the SS Ancon sailed the newly constructed 48-mile waterway from the Caribbean
Sea to the Pacific Ocean. That path linking the two bodies of water on the
Isthmus of Panama is mentioned a number of times in Carroll County history.
Distinguished international journalist Sadie Kneller Miller,
who was born in Westminster, worked for many years for Leslie's Illustrated
Weekly. She covered the early years of the building of the canal around 1908,
according to research by Mary Ann Ashcraft for the Historical Society of
Carroll County.
The opening of the canal gave a much-needed boost to Carroll
County agriculture, as it shaved more than 7,000 miles off the trip by ship
around South America to markets on the west coast of the United States and Asia
for Carroll County corn, wheat, soybeans, canned goods and meat products.
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