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This and That
August 9, 2010
Roaming around the web and stumbled upon this…
Westminster Mayors & Burgesses, Carroll County, Maryland L. Conaway 1989-1994 W. Benjamin Brown 1994-2001 Kenneth A. Yowan 2001-2005 Kevin E. Dayhoff 2005-2009 Thomas K. Ferguson 2009- Kevin R. Utz Maryland Constitutional Offices & ... http://www.msa.md.gov/...37mun/westminster/html/wmayors.html
jmnov2003.pmd "You see the intricacies of the machinery of the judiciary in motion." Westminster Mayor Kevin Dayhoff L-R: Prince George's County Councilman David Harrington, Prince George's ...http://www.msa.md.gov/...0/001213/unrestricted/20053480e.pdf
Latin Name 35' 48' 140 Walton Residence Prince George's Buxus sempervirens Boxwood 3' 0" 22' 18' 62 Kevin E. Dayhoff Carroll Carpinus caroliniana Musclewood 4' 2" 56' 45' 117 Howard Co Rec & ... http://www.msa.md.gov/...0/002156/unrestricted/20063010e.pdf
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http://query.mdarchives.state.md.us/texis/search/redir.html?query=Kevin+Dayhoff&pr=All&prox=page&rorder=500&rprox=500&rdfreq=500&rwfreq=500&rlead=500&rdepth=0&sufs=0&order=r&mode=&opts=adv&cq=&u=http%3A//www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5300/sc5339/000113/002000/002410/unrestricted/20063900e.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A//127.0.0.1/texis/search/pdfhi.txt%3Fquery%3DKevin%2BDayhoff%26pr%3Decpclio_coll%26prox%3Dpage%26rorder%3D500%26rprox%3D500%26rdfreq%3D500%26rwfreq%3D500%26rlead%3D500%26rdepth%3D0%26sufs%3D0%26order%3Dr%26mode%3D%26opts%3Dadv%26cq%3D%26sr%3D-1%26id%3D4a048033267 and bicycle friendly has been a priority for many years," said Westminster Mayor Kevin E. Dayhoff. "Traffic congestion is a problem everywhere and this trail will give ... http://www.msa.md.gov/...0/002410/unrestricted/20063900e.pdf
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Black History Month: Common Council hopeful’s family rooted in politics
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Common Council hopefuls family rooted in politics by Ashley Reams for the Westminster Advocate
Ashley Reams 21.FEB.07
Jeffery Dixon lost when ran for a seat on the Westminster Common Council in 2005, but he’s hoping for an opposite outcome in this year’s election.
Although
“I’ve had the last two years to engross myself in the city and really understand how it works,” he said.
He began attending city council meetings to get a better feel for the community, he said. He also became a member of the Charles Street Improvement Association, a group dedicated to addressing issues in their community.
[…]
He has also become a member of the Boys and Girls Club Advisory Council and will soon begin spending time with kids in the
If elected,
Politics run in
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After serving on two ships,
Read the entire article here: Common Council hopefuls family rooted in politics by Ashley Reams for the Westminster Advocate
20070221 Common Council hopefuls family rooted in politics by Ashley Reams for the Westminster Advocate
20051211 McDaniel students are tested on their studies by responding to a mock biological attack by Gina Davis for the Baltimore Sun
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/carroll/bal-ca.bioterror11dec11,1,4787835.story?coll=bal-local-carroll
A practical exam for disaster
McDaniel students are tested on their studies by responding to a mock biological attack
By Gina Davis, Sun Reporter, December 11, 2005
It's two days after a sold-out concert at the Joseph B. Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, where more than 2,000 music lovers were serenaded - and, unwittingly, poisoned at the hands of a bioterrorist who had covertly released an aerosol of plague.
Members of a Westminster emergency response team are huddled with the local mayor, cobbling together the city's strategy to deal with a possible outbreak of the pneumonic plague. They must put their heads together to present a solid plan to community officials and to reassure a near-panicked public.
For a group of McDaniel College students, the team effort is the culminating exercise of a class called National Security in a Changing World. It's their chance to put the book knowledge they have acquired during the past semester into practice.
"The goal is that students learn about national security and learn how to translate the classroom into a practical experience," says Volker Franke, a national security expert who has been teaching the course at McDaniel since 2001.
After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks - which occurred during the course's first semester - Franke included further discussion about government response to terrorism.
"We had talked about terrorism, but it used to be two or so lectures," says Franke, who is also a case director for the National Security Studies program at Syracuse University in New York. "I revised the course to address those issues. Terrorism has become a bigger part of the course."
He says that in 2002 he incorporated a bioterrorism exercise in the class, but it was an ungraded discussion. Since then, he has developed a simulation exercise for students that takes them out of the classroom and engages them with community officials as they research the roles they must assume for the project.
Franke says he discussed his idea with then-Westminster Mayor Kevin Dayhoff and came up with a list of roles for the students.
"I asked him, 'Who would your team be?" Franke says. "That's how we came up with the list of emergency responders. Then [Dayhoff] contacted other agencies within the county."
Dayhoff enlisted volunteers from various Carroll County offices, such as the health and public works departments.
The roles that Franke and Dayhoff decided would be critical to an emergency response team included: county emergency management coordinator, county health officer, city police chief, fire department spokesman, hazardous materials team chairman, city public works director and Carroll County Hospital Center's infection control coordinator.
This semester, the 14 students in Franke's class were divided into two teams and each participant was assigned one of seven roles on the emergency response team. During the course, they interviewed their real-life counterparts to gain an understanding of their roles and prepared descriptions of what they would bring to the situation.
"National security is not just about missiles, tanks and Marines," Franke says as the students arrived last week at a lecture room in Hill Hall for their mock disaster response planning drill, which counts for 15 percent of their grade.
"It starts at the local level," he says. "We have to bring it down to the level that pertains to them on a daily basis."
The exercise focuses on public officials' response to a bioterrorism attack in a command-center style arrangement. The students - in their roles as emergency responders - are seated at a semicircular table on one side of the room, while the real-life emergency responders are seated at an identical table across from them.
As part of the exercise, the real-life emergency responders listen as the students brief them on the status of the bioterror attack and the ensuing panic. The students then field a volley of questions from the experts.
"Mr. Incident Commander, you have thousands of people waiting for antibiotics and now you don't have enough. What's your plan?" Jeff Spaulding, Westminster's police chief, asks Mike Habegger, who has assumed the role of county health officer and director of the emergency response team.
"This is kind of unexpected," Habegger answers. "We will urge people to stay out of public places. It's very disturbing that people have not heeded our messages to stay home."
When one student suggests that local officials use a school as a quarantine site, the county's real health officer, Larry Leitch, questions that advice.
"Do you think it's wise to use a school building as a quarantine site?" Leitch asks. "Don't you think parents will be afraid to send their children back into that school?"
Students, undeterred, say they could use a large area, such as the gym, and install filters that would prevent bacteria from spreading to other parts of the building.
At two points in the exercise, students are given new information that they must quickly assess to reformulate their response plans.
In the end, the real-life emergency responders critique the students' response plans and their reactions to the evolving crisis. They tell the students how they would've responded had the exercise been real.
The students describe the exercise as eye-opening.
"With national security, you usually think, 'What can we do to prevent terrorism?' " says student Donnie Bell. "But there's really not much we can do other than try to stop it. What we have to do is figure out how to react."
gina.davis@baltsun.com
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Class projects puts McDaniel students on the front lines of a biological attack
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20031208 McDaniel College web site: Local leaders, political science students talk bioterrorism
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Loose pigs no longer terrorize Marston area
By
Carroll
Thursday, September 08, 2005
Residents in Marston say they haven't seen any loose pigs in their neighborhood since the
Elizabeth Cavey, of Bowersox Road, said she had seen the pigs last winter when they were running loose and tearing up people's lawns, but said she hasn't seen any since the reconciliation committee meetings. Cavey, who said she never believed the pigs were feral, thinks local landowners may have shot and killed all of the loose pigs.
Officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture visited the Marston area about six weeks ago in search of feral pigs, said Bill Powel, county ag preservation administrator and supervisor of the ag reconciliation committee. Four people searched the woods and farms in the area for several hours and were unable to find any pigs or recent evidence of pigs, he said.
The USDA officials have offered the county to search the area again later this fall to look for more evidence. Powel said the date of that investigation has not been set.
Powel said that he has not had any residents call him to report loose pigs or other livestock roaming through their yards. He said it's possible that between the Humane Society of
Richard Spriggs, a Marston Road resident, said he has lived in the area for more than 30 years and he had never heard of wild pigs living in Marston before this case came up last winter. Spriggs said that regardless of where the pigs came from, he hasn't seen any in a long time.
While Marston residents haven't reported any more problems with loose pigs or other livestock coming from the Schisler farm, the Schislers have still had problems with their neighbors. On Aug. 28, the Schislers reported to the
According to the police report with the Carroll County Sheriff's Office, Carroll Schisler Sr. said he was walking through his field at about 2:20 p.m. on Aug. 28 when he saw a calf standing near a Brahman cow that was lying on its side. Schisler told the police he approached the cow to investigate its health and saw that it had been shot in the head. He called the police to report the incident, which is still under investigation.
The Schislers could not be reached for comment regarding the incident, but Carroll Schisler Sr. did testify during the ag reconciliation meetings that he had had problems during the winter with neighbors shooting his livestock on his property.
Powel said he had not heard about the Schisler's cow being shot, and said he was sorry to hear that the incident had happened.
Anyone with information regarding the shooting is asked to call Deputy Sherri Martin at 410-386-2900.
Story so Far
More than a dozen residents gave testimony to the Right to Farm Agricultural Reconciliation Committee between January and March about loose pigs trespassing on their property, uprooting their grass with their snouts and chasing the homeowners and their children.
Residents testified that they believed the pigs were coming from Carroll Schisler Sr.'s farm in the 2500 block of
Agricultural experts from the University of Maryland Cooperative Extension testified that the pigs in the photographs provided by neighbors did not look like the quality of pig a farmer would raise to make money from, and said that the pigs possibly were feral, probably having escaped from a farm at some time and reverted to a wild state.
In addition, the two experts visited Schisler's farm and examined his pigpen. They determined that it was an adequate pen that should be able to contain his pigs.
The reconciliation committee decided that the pigs were likely feral pigs. However, regardless of whether the pigs belong to Schisler, the committee ordered the Schislers to repair their fence to the standards appropriate for the types of animals he pens - sheep, goats, horses and cattle - to the recommendations of the cooperative extension.