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Monday, September 14, 2015

Defense Day September 12, 1924 Parades to celebrate American power

Defense Day September 12, 1924 Parades to celebrate American power http://fw.to/2BbBA5l

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Designating a day to celebrate the nation's military power a source of conflict

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-ce-archives-defenders-0913-20150910-story.html

On Sept. 12, 1924, Westminster, along with communities across the nation, observed National Defense Day.

At the time, the event was billed as a nationwide drill to test the readiness of our nation's defenses in the event of an attack.

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Many local businesses, fire companies, schoolchildren, the Westminster Municipal Band and the Western Maryland College Football squad all took part in the parade.

The article also goes to great lengths to explain: "The members of Company H Machine Gun Company entertained the crowd with demonstrations in machine gun firing... Four machine guns were set up on the southern terrace of Hoffa field (at Western Maryland College — now known as McDaniel College) with four targets… The shooting was decidedly accurate.… Tracer bullets were used in the final shooting event. One target was a five gallon can of gasoline which was struck by the second shot. The can flamed in a mass when struck by the bullet."

Somehow, I simply cannot imagine such an occasion these days.

Read much more here: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-ce-archives-defenders-0913-20150910-story.html

WESTMINSTER

Designating a day to celebrate the nation's military power a source of conflict

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

On Sept. 12, 1924, Westminster, along with communities across the nation, observed National Defense Day.

WESTMINSTER

Finding clues for the first woman in law enforcement

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

On Sept. 6, 1973, the Carroll Record reported that, "The Maryland State Police will shortly have a new look — as a pilot program utilizing a limited number of females trained as Troopers gets underway. These women will have full police powers and will be assigned in specialized areas of law enforcement...

WESTMINSTER

Fire department's move was never cause for alarm

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

A story in the Aug. 31, 1895 edition of the American Sentinel, a Westminster newspaper, explained that the city's fire department had outgrown the building at 31 E. Main Street and was moving to a new location.

WESTMINSTER

Building rural ramps onto information superhighway in Carroll County [Eagle Archives]

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

In Carroll County, the underpinning of the local economy has always been agriculture and access to supplies and markets. The politics and economics involved with the maintenance of the roads, bringing the railroad to Carroll County and providing access to employment have also played prominent roles...

WESTMINSTER

Life in Carroll County midway through August meant riding shows and tractor pulls

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

On this date in years past, a tractor pull at the county fair, a horse show at the Westminster Riding Club, and the opening of the Carroll County Vocational Technical Center were all in the news.

WESTMINSTER

Official: Westminster fires intentionally set

MICHEL ELBEN

Two shed fires that occurred in close proximity and just a few hours apart early Thursday morning in Westminster were intentionally set, likely by the same person, according to a spokesman of the Office of the State Fire Marshal.

WESTMINSTER

Westminster mayors often had short terms in office

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

Though it had happened more than a week earlier, in early August of 1981, the greater Westminster and Carroll County community was still mourning the death of Joseph (Jack) Hamilton Hahn, Jr.

WESTMINSTER

Roots of a county fair in Carroll hard to follow before the Civil War

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

All last week, preparations were in full swing for this year's annual Carroll County 4-H and FFA Fair that set up at the Agriculture Center, just south of Westminster. This year's fair will continue to Saturday morning, Aug. 8.

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Fire damages vacant cabin in New Windsor

TIMES STAFF

A fire that burned late Tuesday night in the 1300 block Western Chapel Road in New Windsor damaged a vacant cabin that was being prepared for demolition according to a State Fire Marshal's office press release.

WESTMINSTER

Sheriff's Office took long road to leading role in Carroll County law enforcement

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

The idea to develop a Carroll County police force began as a whisper campaign in the mid-1960s. It would take a half a century of studies, commissions, elections, and acrimony to finally decide to make the county sheriff's department the lead police agency in the county.

WESTMINSTER

Memories of Henryton State hospital fading with buildings demolished

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

It was 30 years ago that Henryton State Hospital was closed by the state of Maryland. The sprawling facility included 19 buildings with a total footprint of 30 acres in Marriottsville, about seven miles from Sykesville in southern Carroll County.

WESTMINSTER

Annual commemoration brings home Carroll County connection to Civil War

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

By July 5, 1863, the horrific results of one of the most cataclysmic events of the American Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg, were really settling in on that small town in southern Pennsylvania.

WESTMINSTER

Remembering Carroll's statuesque and statue sculptor

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

Many would be surprised to learn that Blaze Starr, who passed away on June 15, is not the only creative statuesque figure with a Carroll County connection.

WESTMINSTER

Shrine in New Windsor honors site where Methodism got its start

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

On June 18, 1937, the Strawbridge Shrine Association was formed just outside of New Windsor, where many historians believe the origins of Methodism in America are located.

WESTMINSTER

Study of schools in Carroll provides an interesting education

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

The first weeks of June are a time when many young adults in Carroll County look forward to the end of the school year and graduation ceremonies.

WESTMINSTER

Memorial Day and memories of native son killed in Vietnam nearly 50 years ago

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

On May 25, the 148th Carroll County Memorial Day observances in Westminster were once again organized by Carroll Post 31 of the American Legion.

WESTMINSTER

Efforts in Carroll County to build harmony from diversity honored [Eagle Archives]

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF

Eagle Archives

WESTMINSTER

Carroll County pays last respects to emergency responder [Eagle Archives]

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF

Friends, family, colleagues and law enforcement officers from throughout the central-Maryland region filled Legacy Hall at the Sykesville Freedom District Volunteer Fire Department recently to pay their last respects to fellow firefighter and EMS provider Robin Flater Chenoweth.

WESTMINSTER

Westminster band in third century together

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF

Eagle Archives

WESTMINSTER

Center hosts annual event to celebrate farming in Carroll County [Eagle Archives]

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF

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Friday, September 11, 2015

Yvonne Wenger, Baltimore Sun reports: Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says she won't seek re-election

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says she won't seek re-election

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-rawlings-blake-20150911-story.html

By Yvonne Wenger, The Baltimore Sun

Elections Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Freddie Gray Baltimore Riots

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will not seek re-election in 2016.

Freddie Gray trials likely to cost the city millions

Catherine Pugh, Carl Stokes enter Baltimore mayor's race

Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has decided that she will not seek re-election to the office. (Baltimore Sun)

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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, beleaguered by the death of Freddie Gray and the protests and rioting that followed, announced Friday she won’t seek re-election.

She said she is stepping out of the race to focus on "work to move our city forward," and not out of any concern she might not win the race against a growing field of challengers.

"It was a very difficult decision, but I knew I needed to spend time, the remaining 15 months of my term, focused on the city's future and not my own," she said at a news conference at City Hall.

Rawlings-Blake, 45, has no plans to seek another office. She briefed her Cabinet and staff on the decision this morning.

She spent recent months ramping up her campaign by building a field organization in the city, hosting fundraisers and courting voters with events such as "Mondays with the Mayor" at local bars and restaurants. But sources familiar with her decision said she felt it would be inappropriate to ask donors for money while the city copes with the aftermath of the April riots.

City leaders and police have meanwhile been readying for the possibility or more unrest. The first trial in the Gray case is scheduled for Oct. 13, though that date could change, and a judge ruled Thursday the cases would move forward in Baltimore courts. The officers involved face charges ranging from second-degree murder to assault and misconduct in office.

The mayor's decision also comes days after her administration agreed to pay Gray's family $6.4 million in a settlement that accepted all civil liability in his death but did not acknowledge any wrongdoing by police.

The mayor abandons her re-election campaign as the field of Democratic challengers in the April primary grows, including former Mayor Sheila Dixon, state Sen. Catherine Pugh and City Councilman Carl Stokes.

Read much more here: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-rawlings-blake-20150911-story.html

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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

August 26, 1939 History.com First televised Major League baseball game

This Day in History

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On this day in 1939, the first televised Major League baseball game is broadcast on station W2XBS, the station that was to become WNBC-TV. Announcer Red Barber called the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York.

At the time, television was still in its infancy. Regular programming did not yet exist, and very few people owned television sets–there were only about 400 in the New York area. Not until 1946 did regular network broadcasting catch on in the United States, and only in the mid-1950s did television sets become more common in the American household. Read more:

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-televised-major-league-baseball-game August 26, 1939 History.com First televised Major League baseball game

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The Washington Post is reporting WDBJ-TV journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward shot and killed during a live interview in southwest-Virginia

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/08/26/tv-camera-crew-caught-in-active-shooter-situation-in-southwest-virginia/?wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-local%252Bnational

This is nuts.... Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and colleagues of Roanoke affiliate WDBJ-TV journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward who were shot and killed during a live interview on TV this morning in at Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta, which is located in Franklin County in southwest-Virginia.

According to an article in the Washington Post by By Dana Hedgpeth August 26 at 8:56 AM: “CBS News said in a Twitter message that a gunman killed a reporter and a videographer in a shooting while they were doing a live TV report in Southwest Virginia.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/08/26/tv-camera-crew-caught-in-active-shooter-situation-in-southwest-virginia/?wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-local%252Bnational

The Washington Post is reporting WDBJ-TV journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward shot and killed during a live interview in southwest-Virginia #WDBJTV http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2015/08/wdbj-tv-journalists-alison-parker-and.html

Washington Post reporting WDBJ-TV journalists Alison Parker & Adam Ward shot & killed #WDBJTV http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2015/08/wdbj-tv-journalists-alison-parker-and.html

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The Washington Post
News Alert
Wed., Aug. 26, 2015 12:09 p.m.
Suspect in death of TV news crew shoots self
Vester Lee Flanagan, the suspect in the fatal shooting of two television station reporters in Southwest Virginia, shot himself on Interstate 66 in Fauquier County. His condition wasn't immediately known.

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

I love visiting my friend Steve Allgeier, the county hoticultural University of Md extension agent.

I love visiting my friend Steve Allgeier, the county hoticultural University of Md extension agent. His office is awesome and Steve is always so much fun. I always learn something.

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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Famed Vietnam combat photographer Catherine Leroy was in Vietnam from Feb 1966 to March of 1969.

Kevin E. Dayhoff, August 18, 2015 www.kevindayhoff.net

I was recently reminded of the legendary combat photographer Catherine Leroy. I was not aware that she had died… She died unexpectedly July 8, 2006.

According to a tribute to her written by Jay Defoore and published in Popular Photography on December 19, 2008, “Leroy first arrived in Saigon in February of 1966 without ever having published a photo. She had in her possession a Leica M2 and a mere $100. Just 21 years of age, she had no formal photographic training and had never been more than a few hundred miles from Paris. Through pluck and luck, she would go on to become the most famous female war photographer of the Vietnam era.

The standard rate for a Vietnam photograph that moved on the wire in those days was $15.00 per photograph. She had many of her photos published in Look and Life.

She was the stuff of legend with Marines. She spent a great deal of time in theater with Marines.

According to her obituary by Phil Davidson that ran in The Independent on Monday, July 17, 2006, “She was the first newsperson, male or female, to parachute into combat with US forces, and the first to photograph the Vietcong behind their own lines after she was captured during the Tet offensive but charmed her way to freedom. When she was wounded by a mortar round, she believed it would have killed her had her sturdy Nikon F2 not stopped the biggest piece of shrapnel.

In that story, retold by Defoore, “Leroy's legend was only aided by her independent spirit and resilience. On May 19, 1967, Leroy was injured by a mortar while on patrol with a group of Marines. "We were being mortared again and again, and there was nowhere to hide," she recounted to American Photographer. ‘I remember lifting my camera up to take a picture when there was a huge bang and I went down in the grass. I was conscious but couldn't move, and I was completely covered with blood -- and terrified that nobody would see me because I was covered by grass.’

“A month after suffering the worst of the mortar round, Leroy was back to tackling some of the most dangerous stories imaginable. In January of the next year Leroy and fellow French journalist Francois Mazure were captured by the North Vietnamese and she photographed her captors for a cover story in Life magazine.”

Many of her photographs have iconographic of the war in Southeast Asia. First among equals was ““Corpsman in anguish,” in which Corpsman Vernon Wike, 2/3rd Marine, looks in anguish when he realizes that his buddy is dead. Battle for Hill 881. 1967

According to her obituary by Phil Davidson that ran in The Independent on Monday, July 17, 2006, “Her most famous pictures were three shot in quick succession, but without a motor-drive, showing a young US marine corpsman (medic), Vernon Wike, crouched in tall grass in 1967 during the battle for Hill 881 near Khe Sanh. He is cradling a comrade who had just been shot by a Vietcong guerrilla.

In the first frame, Wike, still smoking the cigarette he had lit before the shooting, has both hands on his buddy's chest, trying to staunch the wound. In the second, he is trying to detect a heartbeat. In the third, perhaps her most famous, image, known as Corpsman in Anguish, he has just realised his buddy is dead. Leroy later recalled that Wike then ran from cover, shooting and yelling, ‘I'm gonna kill them all!’ He survived.”

Leroy remained in Vietnam until March of 1969.

According to Defoore, “Leroy's sudden death -- many of her closest friends didn't even know she was sick -- has left many unanswered questions, such as what will become of her vast collection of negatives…”

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Sunday, August 16, 2015

Don Surber: Car idiot lights explained

Don Surber: Car idiot lights explained: Via Dave .

Car idiot lights explained - Hat Tip: Don Surber who credits “Dave.” Just saying

http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2015/08/car-idiot-lights-explained.html

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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

At Monday night's meeting of the Westminster Mayor and Common Council, Superintendent John Rawlings was recognized for 30 years of service. August 10, 2015

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Monday, August 10, 2015

Tom Canon shares some family reflections

Tom Canon shares some family reflections at the funeral service for Sylvia Canon for the many folks who have gathered at Grace Lutheran Church to say goodbye to a truly amazing person.

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Sunday, August 09, 2015

Commissioner Richard Weaver, Carroll Co. school board member Devon Rothschild, and Carroll Co. State's Attorney Brian DeLeonardo

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Friday, August 07, 2015

Cattails fascinate me...

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Up bright and early to help with the Troopers of Carroll Co Caring for Kids to raise money for Christmas for Kids

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Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Crabs for dinner with the Westminster Fire Department

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Tuesday, August 04, 2015

Mayor Utz, Councilman Chiavacci, Commissioner Frazier, and Chief Spaulding attended National Night Out in Westminster.

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National Night Out at Belle Grove Square with the Westminster Police Dept. was well attended and a great success.

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Worth repeating: November 02, 1990 The Obits and the News By Ernest B. Furgurson

Worth repeating: November 02, 1990 The Obits and the News By Ernest B. Furgurson http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/1990/11/november-02-1990-obits-and-news-by.html

November 02, 1990 The Obits and the News By Ernest B. Furgurson

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1990-11-02/news/1990306065_1_page-1-newsday-full-pages

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NEW YORK. — New York. - IN JANUARY 1928, they electrocuted Ruth Snyder, the first woman sent to the chair in New York. Most of Manhattan's newspapers ran columns of purple prose about it. Page 1 of the Daily News told the story in one word and one picture.

The word, in huge type, was DEAD! The blurred picture below it was of Snyder at the instant the shock hit her -- taken by photographer Tom Howard with a hidden camera strapped to his ankle.

That may have been the News' most famous front page, at least until the one in 1975 when the president refused to bail the city out of its financial crunch. The headline that day was was FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD.

The word ''dead'' has figured often in the 71-year-history of the News; the paper has specialized in crime reporting, and printed the best. But for the past week, since a long-feared strike began, some of its own employees have become actors instead of narrators in a running crime story.

Starting with the first editions after the strike began, competing papers have covered it as if the News itself were on its death bed, as it may be. There are three tabloids in New York, and the common wisdom is that not more than two can survive. If the strike and management's determination to break the unions does kill the News, one of those rivals might have the bad taste to run its own gleeful headline proclaiming the News DEAD!

That would be the Post, once stodgily liberal, now wackily conservative, catering to readers downscale from the News' hard-core blue-collar fans. The other, more upscale, is New York Newsday, the Manhattan sister of Long Island's Newsday (owned by Times-Mirror, which also owns the Baltimore Sun).

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1990-11-02/news/1990306065_1_page-1-newsday-full-pages

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Worth repeating - June 14, 1995 Ubiquitous 'mean streets' are journalists' freeways By MIKE ROYKO

Worth repeating - June 14, 1995 Ubiquitous 'mean streets' are journalists' freeways By MIKE ROYKO

June 14, 1995 Ubiquitous 'mean streets' are journalists' freeways By MIKE ROYKO http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-06-14/news/1995165177_1_streets-newsday-new-york

June 14, 1995|By MIKE ROYKO

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America's streets are in terrible shape. And I'm not talking about potholes, busted curbs or blinky street lights.

No, the problem is that so many of our streets are really mean. This meanness is sweeping the country and spreading to foreign lands.

I made this discovery recently after hearing a TV war correspondent refer to snipers shooting people on "the mean streets of Sarajevo."

It seemed to me that I had read or heard the phrase "mean streets" before.

Using a computer service, I searched for the words "mean streets" in dozens of newspapers.

The search covered only the first five months of this year. But the results were frightening. Here are just a few of the mean streets that were found.

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Monday, August 03, 2015

On August 3rd of 1944 at the Tuskegee Army Air Field

Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site

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On August 3rd of 1944 a group of twelve African American officers led by Captain Willard B. Ransom entered the west dining room of the Tuskegee Army Air Field (TAAF) Post Exchange restaurant. This restaurant had been reserved for white officers only. Capt. Ransom and the other officers sat down and asked to be served. When 2nd Lt. George D Frye the Assistant Exchange Officer, asked the black officers to go to the larger east dining room which was reserved for them, Captain Ransom showed Frye two War Department letters that noted service at base recreational facilities and post exchanges would not be denied to any personnel because of race.

With Col. Noel Parrish’s support, Lt. Frye agreed to let the black officers be served in the west dining room, effectively integrating the restaurant without violence. Unfortunately many white officers stopped eating at the facility. Also the elimination (wash out) rate for black cadets increased. Some white officers asked for transfers, however within two months, TAAF received its first black flight instructors. Col. Parrish assured the white leadership of nearby towns that integration of the base facilities would not affect areas outside the base.

Before WWII Capt. Ransom was a 1932 graduate of Crispus Attucks High School and he also graduated summa cum laude from Talladega College in 1936. Three years later he received his law degree from Harvard University and was admitted to the bar. In 1941, only two months into a four-year term as assistant attorney general, he was inducted into the service. After serving overseas in the Army, he returned to Indianapolis only to encounter prejudice at home.

As a result of this experience, Ransom reorganized the state chapter of the NAACP, encouraging people across the state to take direct action for civil rights. Ransom is credited with organizing local protests in Indianapolis in the late 1950s, before many of the sit-ins and marches in the South.

From 1947 to 1954, Ransom was the assistant manager of Madame C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company. During this time, he ran a private practice and played a major role in passing all significant civil rights legislation in Indiana. In addition to serving five terms as chairman of the state NAACP, he was legal counsel to many African Americans in the Indianapolis fire and police departments, he was also the director of the National City Bank of Indiana, and a board member of the Madame C. J. Walker Urban Life Center.

In 1970, he co-founded the Indiana Black Expo. He was also founding member of the Concerned Ministers of Indianapolis. Ransom also received the organization’s Thurgood Marshall Award in 1993 for his dedicated work in the civil rights movement.

Ransom died in Indianapolis on November 7, 1995, at the age of 79.

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Roy Rogers Quick Trigger Shooter Hat: Vintage Toy

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Sunday, August 02, 2015

The goats at the Carroll County 4-H FFA Fair asked me to invite you to come talk with them at the fair.

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Marc Fisher, realtor; and Bill Schrodel of Farm Credit staff a booth at the Carroll County 4-H FFA Fair.

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It is great day to be at the Carroll County 4-H FFA Fair in Westminster Md

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Sunday, August 2, 2015 at the Carroll County 4-H FFA Fair

This year the fair runs from Thursday, July 30, 2015 to Saturday, August 8, 2015

For more articles and pictures of the Carroll County Fair over the years, go here: http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/search/label/%23CCFair

For more information about this year’s fair go to: http://www.carrollcountyfair.com/

For my July 31, 2015 story in the Baltimore Sun about the early history of the Carroll Co. Fair, go here: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-ce-archives-county-fair-0802-20150731-story.html

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See also:

Marc Fisher, realtor; and Bill Schrodel of Farm Credit staff a booth at the Carroll County 4-H FFA Fair. http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/08/marc-fisher-realtor-and-bill-schodel-of.html

This year's Carroll County 4-H FFA Fair has a very nice salute to Vietnam Veterans in Shipley Arena.

The goats at the Carroll County 4-H FFA Fair asked me to invite you to come talk with them at the fair. http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-goats-at-carroll-county-4-h-ffa.html

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Stan Dabkowski’s food booth in the Shipley Arena at the Carroll County Md Fair.

Stan Dabkowski’s “Farmer Stan’s Plants and Produce” food booth in the Shipley Arena is always a favorite destination at the Carroll County Md Fair.

Stan is awesome. For years I always requested marinated asparagus spears - and one year he made them for me. Too funny.

Stop by and ask for marinated asparagus spears. Tell Stan, Kevin sent you.

For more information on Farmer Stan’s Plants and Produce, go to his website here: http://www.farmerstansplantsproduce.com/about-us.html

The food review at the fair is always important information for Jake Holmes. Just saying. This year I enjoyed the grilled cheese sandwich and french fries. Wow, I will have to run extra this week.

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http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/08/stan-dabkowskis-food-booth-in-shipley.html

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See also: Kevin Dayhoff Westminster Patch: Annual 4-H and FFA Fair: 140 Years of Carroll County Tradition from August 7, 2011… http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2011/08/kevin-dayhoff-westminster-patch-annual.html

Memphis police officer fatally shot during traffic stop

Memphis police officer fatally shot during traffic stop:

A Memphis police officer has been shot and killed while conducting a traffic stop on Saturday night.

At around 9 p.m. local time, a person inside the vehicle fired at the officer, who was taken to hospital in a critical condition where he later died, NBC reported... http://mashable.com/2015/08/02/memphis-police-officer-shot/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link

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