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Friday, March 09, 2007

20070307 This week in the Westminster Eagle

20070307 This week in the Westminster Eagle

March 8th, 2007


Education Notes
03/07/07By Heidi Schroeder


Local News

Turtle soup for Meals on Wheels



Deborah Goff works with "turtles in training" in the McDaniel College Pool. Meals on Wheels is hoping residents adopt the turtles, at $5 each, with proceeds providing hot meals for program recipients
Feed the turtle.
No, that's not a campaign promoting University of Maryland basketball, but rather an effort to boost coffers for Carroll County Meals for Wheels.
On April 28, the pool at McDaniel College will go green as hundreds of rubber turtles "race" to the finish as part of Meals on Wheels' campaign. Between now and then, the organization is hoping residents grab onto the effort to "adopt" the turtles.
"I'm almost 100 percent positive there has never been a turtle race in Carroll County," said Deborah Goff, the volunteer event coordinator. "This is something everybody...[Read full story]





A sordid saga of communists, reservoirs, congressman, and pumpkins

By Kevin Dayhoff March 8th, 2007

Contrary to what is being circulated; the Union Mills reservoir project in Carroll County will add another layer of protection to the site of the “pumpkin papers,” and this national treasure is not threatened.
Recently the old Whittaker Chambers “pumpkin patch&...[Read full story]

Local News

Should city weigh in on smoking? Walk into a downtown Westminster bar on any night and you can be enveloped in a veil of smoke.
Yet a recent study by the U.S. Surgeon General states second-hand smoke is a dangerous health factor, and the Partnership for a Healthier Carroll County last week requested that the Westminster M...[Read full story]

Teens and seniors have a ball Dance party for all ages at Westminster Ridge
Lorrie West came prepared to last Tuesday's Winter Ball at Westminster Ridge Retirement Community. Waiting for the event to start, she sat in a downstairs hallway clutching a small plastic bag.
Inside the bag? Her "dancing socks."
"It'll be nice fo...[Read full story]

Spring forward; change batteries We're one step closer to spring as Daylight Saving Time returns this Sunday when clocks "spring" forward one hour this Sunday, March 11, at 2 a.m.
Meanwhile, the Volunteer Emergency Services Association is reminding residents that the switch is also a good time to change the batteries in home smok...[Read full story]

Recreation

North Carroll, South Carroll teams finish fifth in states High school wrestling
COLLEGE PARK -- The ultimate athletic success finally came to two Carroll County wrestlers on Saturday night at Cole Field House.
Liberty's Eddie Digman and Alex Grassi of Century were the only Carroll wrestlers to win state championships at the 38th annual Maryland State W...[Read full story]

Opinion

Trooper Workman's return to duty is cause for celebration Editorial
It's hard to fool a State Police trooper (and we don't recommend that you try), so it wasn't shocking that Maryland State Police Trooper First Class Eric Workman apparently sensed he was going to get a special greeting when he showed up for work on Monday.
Maybe it was the banner stret...[Read full story]

Doug... A Little Deeper

Time for 'Extreme Makeover, Presidential Edition'
It's hard to believe we're already talking about the presidential election of 2008, but with each passing election, the next one seems to start even earlier.
We barely had the Ehrlich and Steele signs down and people were already talking about McCain, Guiliani, Romney and others.
On the Democrat...[Read full story]

Kevin E. Dayhoff

History of slavery leaves many rivers yet to cross
A good portion of the present day quality of life in Carroll County was built through history on the backs of African-Americans in bondage.
It's about time we talked about that and recognize their work.
On March 12, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Board of Education Office Building, 125 N. Court St., We...[Read full story]

Wolf at the Door

Reading the hand signals, and the signs of party politics At the recent Person of the Year dinner hosted by our sister publication, The Eldersburg Eagle, honoree Patricia Greenwald hadn't gotten more than two or three sentences into her well-deserved acceptance speech when my wife leaned over and whispered, "She's been a teacher."
As Greenwald continued,...[Read full story]

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