Dinner of the Westminster Fire Company. 24March2019
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, March 24, 2019
24Mar2019 Annual 4H Therapeutic Riding Program Fair Tack Sale at the Ag Center
https://dayhoffwestminster.blogspot.com/2019/03/24mar2019-annual-4h-therapeutic-riding.html
Shop from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for all sorts of horse-related items. Purchase gifts for others, or for yourself and your horse or pony, at this huge tack sale. Look for Breyer models, horse books, buckets, treats, grooming tools, new and used tack, equipment, clothes, and supplies. The sale comes just in time for spring riding. There’s no entry fee to shop and you’ll find everything horse inside the double doors of the Shipley Arena.
Central Carroll: Horse Fair Tack Sale coming to Agriculture Center; bingo and more bingo March 12, 2019 Lois Szymanski Central Carroll Neighborhoods
https://www.carrollcountytimes.com/news/neighborhoods/cc-nh-central-carroll-031319-story.html
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Westminster Municipal election May 14, 2019
Authority Caroline Babylon, Treasurer.
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Career Firefighters Association of Frederick County, MD Local 3666
Career Firefighters Association of Frederick County, MD Local 3666
https://www.facebook.com/fredericklocal3666/ and here: http://www.iafflocal3666.org/
About Frederick County Local 3666
The Career Firefighters Association of Frederick County Maryland was chartered by the International Association of Firefighters in 1995 and currently represents over 400 men and women employed with the Frederick County Division of Fire and Rescue. The members of local 3666 respond to over 50,000 calls annually protecting approx. 667 square miles and serving more than 250,000 citizens. The current collective bargaining law was implemented in 2006.
Professional firefighters and paramedics in Frederick County provide coverage at 23 of Frederick Counties 29 Fire/Rescue stations. Local 3666 members staff fire and EMS units providing fire and rescue services as well as both basic and advanced life support services. In addition to these services are members staff several support services that provide training and education (Frederick County Training Center), communications (9-1-1 Center), fire investigations and inspections (Fire Marshal's Office).
This association is dedicated to ensuring members are provided with all the tools they require to ensure the citizens and visitors of Frederick County receive the highest level of emergency medical service and transportation, fire protection, hazardous material mitigation and technical rescue services. Like many metropolitan jurisdictions throughout the country, Frederick County established a paid fire department to meet the growing needs of the community. Today, most 9-1-1 calls in Frederick County are answered by career firefighters and paramedics employed by the Department of Fire and Rescue Services (DFRS).
https://www.facebook.com/fredericklocal3666/ and here: http://www.iafflocal3666.org/
About Frederick County Local 3666The Career Firefighters Association of Frederick County Maryland was chartered by the International Association of Firefighters in 1995 and currently represents over 400 men and women employed with the Frederick County Division of Fire and Rescue. The members of local 3666 respond to over 50,000 calls annually protecting approx. 667 square miles and serving more than 250,000 citizens. The current collective bargaining law was implemented in 2006.
Professional firefighters and paramedics in Frederick County provide coverage at 23 of Frederick Counties 29 Fire/Rescue stations. Local 3666 members staff fire and EMS units providing fire and rescue services as well as both basic and advanced life support services. In addition to these services are members staff several support services that provide training and education (Frederick County Training Center), communications (9-1-1 Center), fire investigations and inspections (Fire Marshal's Office).
This association is dedicated to ensuring members are provided with all the tools they require to ensure the citizens and visitors of Frederick County receive the highest level of emergency medical service and transportation, fire protection, hazardous material mitigation and technical rescue services. Like many metropolitan jurisdictions throughout the country, Frederick County established a paid fire department to meet the growing needs of the community. Today, most 9-1-1 calls in Frederick County are answered by career firefighters and paramedics employed by the Department of Fire and Rescue Services (DFRS).
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Kevin Dayhoff for Westminster Common Council
Westminster Municipal election May 14, 2019
Authority Caroline Babylon, Treasurer.
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Saturday, March 23, 2019
March 2004 Board of Commissioners begin community discussion session
March 2004 Board of Commissioners begin community discussion sessionMEDIA RELEASE: BOARD INITIATES COMMUNITY DISCUSSION
Beginning the month of March, 2004, the Carroll County Board of Commissioners will introduce an additional opportunity for the public to comment on current issues facing Carroll County. In an effort to further enhance their desire to make government more open to the community, the County Commissioners will provide this forum twice a month preceding their scheduled public agenda. The Commissioner Discussion time will begin at 9:30 AM on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month.
The Board encourages all residents to take advantage of this opportunity for public discussion on concerns and issues facing Carroll County. The meetings will be held for 30 minutes in room 300A of the County Office Building. Citizens will be requested to submit their questions in writing regarding their specific concerns. Any questions that are not addressed during this period will be forwarded to the appropriate County staff, and a response will be forwarded in a timely manner.
The first such session will be this coming Tuesday, March 23, 2004, at 9:30 a.m. in Room 300A of the County Office Building. The 30-minute time slot will be re-evaluated for future sessions as participation merits.
https://dayhoffwestminster.blogspot.com/2019/03/march-2004-board-of-commissioners-begin.html
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Kevin Dayhoff for Westminster Common Council
Westminster Municipal election May 14, 2019
Authority Caroline Babylon, Treasurer.
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2018 Md. Delaware and DC Press Assoc. journalism awards
2018 Md. Delaware and DC Press Assoc. journalism awards
Congratulations to the journalists at the Carroll County Times for being recognized as winners of the annual MDDC journalism awards.
March 22, 2019
Congratulations to the journalists at the Carroll County Times for being recognized as winners of the annual Maryland Delaware and DC Press Association writing and journalism awards.
https://dayhoffwestminster.blogspot.com/2019/03/2018-md-delaware-and-dc-press-assoc.html
According to information found in the MDDC “Friday Planner” newsletter, which announced the 2018 contest winners on the MDDC website here: http://www.mddcpress.com/news/2018-mddc-contest-winners: “These winners represent the best work of member publications in Maryland, Delaware and DC. Publications are divided into seven categories based on circulation, plus a special division for SPJ members. Entries are judged, in most cases, by a sister press association…
“The judges were very impressed with the caliber of writing in the contest and the competition was stiff! We will post all of the winning entries on our website after the event.
“The press association will celebrate all of the winners at the Editorial Awards Program, May 10, 2019 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. During that program, we will reveal the individual winners and their placements, the Best in Show category winners and News Media Organization of the Year. We will also recognize the James S. Keat FOI Award, the Michael S. Powell High School Journalist of the Year, Editorial Rookie of the Year, and our newest award, Courage in Journalism…”
This year the awards will be presented “at the Annual Conference, Local News Builds Communities, (on) Friday, May 10th at the Doubletree by Hilton in Annapolis…” This year’s keynote speaker is Major Garrett, CBS News’ chief Washington correspondent…”
The 2018 winners from Division C – Dailies under 20,000 - Carroll County Times: Carroll County Times Staff, Alex Mann, Catalina Righter, David Anderson, Wayne Carter, Dylan Slagle, Emily Chappell, Greg Nucifora, Heather Mongilio, Jay Judge, Jen Rynda, Jennifer Turiano, Jon Kelvey, Ken Koons, Megan Woodward, and Pat Stoetzer.
https://patch.com/maryland/westminster/2018-md-delaware-dc-press-assoc-journalism-awards
https://kevindayhoff.wordpress.com/2019/03/23/2018-md-delaware-and-dc-press-assoc-journalism-awards/
Congratulations to the journalists at the Carroll County Times for being recognized as winners of the annual MDDC journalism awards.March 22, 2019
Congratulations to the journalists at the Carroll County Times for being recognized as winners of the annual Maryland Delaware and DC Press Association writing and journalism awards.
https://dayhoffwestminster.blogspot.com/2019/03/2018-md-delaware-and-dc-press-assoc.html
According to information found in the MDDC “Friday Planner” newsletter, which announced the 2018 contest winners on the MDDC website here: http://www.mddcpress.com/news/2018-mddc-contest-winners: “These winners represent the best work of member publications in Maryland, Delaware and DC. Publications are divided into seven categories based on circulation, plus a special division for SPJ members. Entries are judged, in most cases, by a sister press association…
“The judges were very impressed with the caliber of writing in the contest and the competition was stiff! We will post all of the winning entries on our website after the event. “The press association will celebrate all of the winners at the Editorial Awards Program, May 10, 2019 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. During that program, we will reveal the individual winners and their placements, the Best in Show category winners and News Media Organization of the Year. We will also recognize the James S. Keat FOI Award, the Michael S. Powell High School Journalist of the Year, Editorial Rookie of the Year, and our newest award, Courage in Journalism…”
This year the awards will be presented “at the Annual Conference, Local News Builds Communities, (on) Friday, May 10th at the Doubletree by Hilton in Annapolis…” This year’s keynote speaker is Major Garrett, CBS News’ chief Washington correspondent…”
The 2018 winners from Division C – Dailies under 20,000 - Carroll County Times: Carroll County Times Staff, Alex Mann, Catalina Righter, David Anderson, Wayne Carter, Dylan Slagle, Emily Chappell, Greg Nucifora, Heather Mongilio, Jay Judge, Jen Rynda, Jennifer Turiano, Jon Kelvey, Ken Koons, Megan Woodward, and Pat Stoetzer.
https://patch.com/maryland/westminster/2018-md-delaware-dc-press-assoc-journalism-awards
https://kevindayhoff.wordpress.com/2019/03/23/2018-md-delaware-and-dc-press-assoc-journalism-awards/
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Kevin Dayhoff for Westminster Common Council
Westminster Municipal election May 14, 2019
Authority Caroline Babylon, Treasurer.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2019
At the Historical Society of Carroll County box lunch talk
At the Historical Society of Carroll County box lunch talk. Architectural historian Ken Short tis giving a talk on architecture. Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at Grace Lutheran Church on Carroll Street in Westminster.
Monday, March 18, 2019
Caroline leads a group of scouts in a class...
18Mar2019 Fire safety, Fire safety… Caroline leads a group of scouts in a class in fire safety... at the Westminster Fire Company. Disney's "Wild about Safety." Oxygen, Fuel, and heat. Get down, get out, stay out. Stop, drop, and roll.
Muslims celebrate holiday - Carroll County Times Jan. 21, 2005
Muslims
celebrate holiday - Carroll County Times Jan. 21, 2005
Muslims
celebrate holiday By Jaime Bloss, Times Staff Writer
Friday,
January 21, 2005 updated 15Mar2019 due to a link that no longer works…
BRENDAN
BUSH/STAFF PHOTO Muslims kneel in prayer as they meet for a community gathering
to commemorate the holiday of Eid al-Adha at the Best Western in Westminster.
About 50 Muslim men, women, and children assembled in Westminster
Thursday morning for the first community gathering for holiday prayers to
commemorate Eid al-Adha.
[…]
Westminster Mayor Kevin
Dayhoff spoke after the prayers Thursday morning.
"We all share a
common belief in our families, we all share a common belief in our community,
and we all share a common belief in God," Dayhoff said.
[…]
After removing
their shoes, attendees sat or knelt on sheets laid out on one side of the room.
The people sat in rows, with the men in front and women and children in the
back.
Before the start
of the holiday prayers, which were spoken in Arabic, some male attendees
focused on traditional holiday chants, said only twice a year.
Mohamed Esa, who
helped to organize the prayer event at the Best Western Catering and Conference
Center, addressed the group before the imam, or prayer leader, began the
prayers.
"We are
truly making history today .... Today, we are truly a Muslim community in the
making," Esa said.
Eid al-Adha, or
Festival of the Sacrifice, commemorates Abraham's willingness to sacrifice
Ishmael, his first son, as commanded by God, known as Allah in Arabic.
After seeing
Abraham's dedication to him, God sent a sheep to be sacrificed in Ishmael's
place.
The feast of
sacrifice is part of the annual pilgrimage, or hajj, to Mecca in Saudi Arabia,
where the prophet Mohammed first received the Quran holy book.
Muslims try to
this make this pilgrimage once in their lifetimes. During the hajj, the
pilgrims focus on prayer and meditation.
Eid al-Adha is
celebrated worldwide with the sacrifice of a sheep or goat, a portion of which
is given to the poor.
"In
addition to, or instead of, sacrificing an animal, this year, many Muslims
opted to donate money to the tsunami victims," Esa said.
Members of the
Carroll County Islamic community have donated more than $5,000 in the past two
weeks for tsunami relief in Sumatra and Sri Lanka, he said.
Westminster Mayor Kevin Dayhoff spoke after the prayers
Thursday morning.
"We all share a common belief in our families, we
all share a common belief in our community, and we all share a common belief in
God," Dayhoff said.
Some of those
gathered for the holiday prayers were meeting other Muslims in the area for the
first time, said Sohail Mahmood of Westminster, who attended with his wife and
children.
In previous
years, Muslims in Carroll had to travel to Washington, D.C., or the Baltimore
area to worship.
"We've
never had this before," said Mahmood. "We made history."
Waqar Ahmed, who
helped plan the event, hoped misunderstandings about their religion could be
cleared up through this event and similar events in the future.
"We are a
very peaceful, loving people," said Ahmed, of Westminster.
A group of
doctors in Westminster began gathering in one of their offices in August to
participate in prayers, according to Dr. Syed Hosain, an event organizer.
Other Muslims
found out about the gathering and began attending.
The group moved
from meeting in the offices to a room in a local hotel.
After outgrowing
that space, pastors at the Westminster Church of the Brethren agreed to let
them use the church's basement to gather, he said.
The church's
pastors have been supportive in allowing them to use the space, Hosain said.
"I think
we've been very blessed," Hosain said.
Now 25 to 30
people get together for Friday prayers in the basement of the Westminster
Church of the Brethren, he said.
"I never
realized there were so many Muslims in Westminster," Hosain said. "It
was wonderful to find out."
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Kevin Dayhoff for Westminster Common Council
Westminster Municipal election May 14, 2019
Authority Caroline Babylon, Treasurer.
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Sunday, March 17, 2019
CBS News article: Shocked by surprise medical bills?
CBS News article: Shocked by surprise medical bills?This is an interesting article that sheds some additional light on a difficult topic, but actually provides little practical advice.
Nevertheless, I am going to park it on my page and put a copy of it in my efiles. I used to write a good bit on health, medicine, the history of health and medicine, and public policy until the subject became too toxic and various advocates began to advocate for particular positions by being particularly unpleasant.
Locally, not a month goes by in which someone does not reach out for help negotiating unexpected excessive medical bills – and increasingly folks are coming up against incredibly poor customer service. It appears that too many healthcare and insurance providers have become far too big to manage.
Anyway – the article: CBS News – “Shocked by surprise medical bills? Here's what you can do” by Walecia Konrad - CBS News - Sunday, March 17, 2019
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/surprise-medical-bills-send-you-into-shock-how-to-avoid-getting-hit/
57 percent of Americans have been hit with a bill not covered by their insurance.
Seeing out-of-network medical professionals is the leading cause of surprise bills.
The problem is so bad that Congress may actually take bipartisan action to fix it.
Meantime, you can take several steps to avoid a surprise bill.
Surprise medical bills seem to getting more outrageous by the day. There's the Texas man who was billed $108,951 when he was taken to an out-of-network hospital following a heart attack. Or the Vermont skier who paid $18,442 in hospital bills after she broke her leg on the slopes. Then there's the almost $18,000 urine test from an out-of-network lab.
Surprise medical billing — when patients receive a bill not covered by insurance through no fault of their own — has affected 57 percent of American adults, according to a recent University of Chicago survey.
These unwelcome requests for payment most often come after patients are treated at hospitals and emergency rooms by physicians and other medical professionals who aren't part of their health insurance network.
Four out of 10 respondents to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll said they had an unexpected bill from a hospital, lab or doctor in the past year.
General outrage over outsized medical charges and efforts to publicize surprise medical bills by Kaiser News, CBS and other outlets may have encouraged Congress to engage in one of its few bipartisan efforts.
Read much more here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/surprise-medical-bills-send-you-into-shock-how-to-avoid-getting-hit/
Medicine Health, Medicine Health cost
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Kevin Dayhoff for Westminster Common Council
Westminster Municipal election May 14, 2019
Authority Caroline Babylon, Treasurer.
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Thursday, March 14, 2019
Carroll County’s latest air unit
Carroll County's latest air unit. Nothing tugs at the heart like watching a friend spend some special time with his little red wagon. 9Mar2019
Dayhoff photos fire service, Fire service, Humor fire service,
Sunday, March 10, 2019
Susan B. Anthony, “Cautious, careful people…”
Susan B. Anthony, “Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputations can never effect reform.”
https://dayhoffwestminster.blogspot.com/2019/03/susan-b-anthony-cautious-careful-people.html
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Kevin Dayhoff for Westminster Common Council
Westminster Municipal election May 14, 2019
Authority Caroline Babylon, Treasurer.
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A tribute to the passing of 4 great Carroll countians who made a difference: Haddad McDonald Schaeffer Law
A tribute to the passing of 4 Carroll countians
10Mar2019 by Kevin Dayhoff
https://www.facebook.com/kevindayhoff/posts/10215983059342901
Seems that my Sunday article in the Carroll County Times is not online. Makes me sad. The good news is that the paper printed the long version. The story may be accessed in the digital edition – find it here: http://tinyurl.com/4GR8CCians
The year 2019 has hardly begun and already the march of time has not been kind for a number of older, distinguished Carroll countians.
Among the folks who have made a difference in the community, whom we have lost in the first two months of the year are: • Richard Haddad, 77, who died Thursday, January 31, 2019. • David McDonald, 68, a former pharmaceutical representative and owner of Westminster Rare Coins who died Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019. Bobbye Schaeffer, 93, of the Schaeffer Lumber Company family in Westminster, died Friday, February 15, 2019 at Lorien Nursing and Rehab Center in Taneytown. • Dr. Alton Law, 85, of Westminster died Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from complications related to a rare neurological disease.
For now, until the story is posted online – you can read it in the digital edition: http://digitaledition.carrollcountytimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=71f79254-b725-40a7-9515-18ad93192e5b&fbclid=IwAR2Ei6OWXOJIr2U4oTbGC_spIxxuEguiDJfKVuORDewEzc64R9sz__AkgV4
The “Life&Times” section of the Carroll County Times may be found here: http://digitaledition.carrollcountytimes.com/html5/mobile/production/default.aspx?pubid=b45ee690-df4b-4d65-9c5f-583e98fcc731
https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/kevindayhoff.wordpress.com/1014
https://dayhoffwestminster.blogspot.com/2019/03/a-tribute-to-passing-of-4-great-carroll.html
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Kevin Dayhoff for Westminster Common Council
Westminster Municipal election May 14, 2019
Authority Caroline Babylon, Treasurer.
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John H. Cunningham was a charter member of the Md. State Fireman’s Assoc.
John H. Cunningham was a charter member of the Md. State Fireman’s
Assoc.
At the time of his death, Cunningham “was believed to be McDaniel - Western
Maryland College's oldest living alumnae… and the State's only living charter
member of the Maryland State Fireman's Association
When John Cunningham died, he was America's Oldest Banker in Years of
Continuous Service. He was a lifelong member of the Westminster Fire Engine and
Hose co. No. 1.
February
24, 2019 by Westminster
Fire Engine and Hose Co. No 1 Chaplain Kevin Dayhoff
It is only fitting and appropriate that from time to time we take a
moment to remember some of the many great Carroll Countians that have gone
before us.
On
December 31, 1965, John Cunningham passed away within a few hours of 99th
birthday. Local historian Jay Graybeal wrote of “his rich life, including his
interests in bicycling, walking and poker,” in a March 16, 1997 column in
the Carroll County Times.
An
earlier shorter version of this story appeared in the Carroll County Times on
January 13th, 2019. Please find the article here: https://www.carrollcountytimes.com/columnists/features/cc-lt-dayhoff-011319-story.html.
This version of a story about Mr. Cunningham is the long version with all the
edits restored.
Finding
a picture of Mr. Cunningham has been nearly impossible – except, I did finally
find a picture of him at the Westminster Fire Engine and Hose Co. No. 1 -
although the picture was damaged by the April 6, 1906 H. H. Harbaugh's Palace
Livery Stable fire. The livery stable and residence was located next to the
Fire House on East Main St in Westminster. The fire, which destroyed the huge
building, also burned a portion of the Westminster fire station and the
Westminster city offices that were located on the second floor of the station.
To
put 1965 and the mid-1960s into some perspective, our country was just
beginning a new phase of the Vietnam War; with the introduction of the first
combat troops on February 9, 1965. Before we had, “advisors” engaged in the
conflict. Later in the year, on November 14, the Battle of the Ia Drang began
in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. It was the first major engagement of the
war between regular American and North Vietnamese forces. Shortly afterwards,
the pentagon told President Lyndon Johnson that the number of troops needed to
be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
At
home, the Civil Rights movement was on the forefront of many as around 1965 was
the last year that restaurants and such were segregated in Westminster. Malcolm
X was assassinated in New York at the Audubon Ballroom on February 21.
Bloody
Sunday had occurred on March 7 as 600 civil rights marchers were attacked by
state and local police with billy clubs and tear gas. Led by Martin Luther
King, Jr. civil rights marchers were finally successful, after three attempts,
to walk from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama. On August 6, President Johnson signed
into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
It
was 1964 that Carroll County administrator George Grier went to New York to
begin negotiations with Random House to build a book distribution center in
Westminster. At that time in the negotiations, adequate supplies of water was a
sticking point, among many issues that were subsequently ironed out before the
facility opened on July 14, 1967, according to “From Our Front Porch,” a
history of Carroll County from 1900-1999, by Jim Lee.
And
oh in 1964 ice cream cost 89 cents per half gallon
Graybeal
shared with us Cunningham’s obituary, which appeared on January 1, 1966, in an
unidentified newspaper. The obituary began: "John H. Cunningham, believed
to have been the oldest banker in the United States, died yesterday at his
home… His wife, the former Mary Irwin, died in 1949… He was a past master of
the Masonic order and was a member of the Westminster Church of Christ.”
Cunningham
was born on New Year’s Day in 1867. According to his obit, “On January 1, 1885,
while a senior at Western Maryland College, Mr. Cunningham began his banking
career as a clerk with the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank, [at 105 E. Main
St. in Westminster] following the footsteps of his father William, who was a
clerk there.”
He
worked in the same office, with the same employer for his entire life – from
1885 until when he passed away in 1965. “Many days he walked the mile to work
from his home at 95 West Green Street.”
Graybeal
reported; “His long career in banking was recognized by a telegram from
President Kennedy in 1963.”
The
telegram said: "Congratulations on being named by your friends and
associates in Westminster and Carroll County as "America's Oldest Banker
in Years of Continuous Service." Your 77 years record as a banker is
certainly an impressive one and you deserve all the honors, which have been
given you…”
He was well-known for his punctuality and folklore attests
that “fellow employees reportedly set their watches by him,” as he would arrive
at his desk “every working day promptly at 9 a.m. and would not leave until 3
in the afternoon…” It was also noted “that Mr. Cunningham had not missed a town
meeting in Westminster since 1883, the year he became old enough to vote.
Cunningham
played poker every Tuesday night between 7 and 11 p.m. sharp, at “Thelma
Hoffman's restaurant at 216 E. Main Street [later known as Cockey’s Tavern] in
Westminster.” Among his partners were Ben Thomas, Paul Whitmore, Miller
Richardson, Ralph Bonsack, Frank Leidy, Theodore Brown and Norman Boyle.”
Cunningham
was also well known for his New Year’s Day tradition of an all day poker game,
“that began promptly at 11 a.m., broke for dinner at 5 p.m., then resumed until
11 p.m.”
At the time of his death, Cunningham “was believed to be
Western Maryland College's oldest living alumnae… and the State's only living charter
member of the Maryland State Fireman's Association.”
The January 1, 1966 obituary reported that: “Cunningham's
interest in politics was rewarded during the Coolidge Administration with his
appointment in 1923 as Surveyor of Customs at Baltimore, a post he held for
nine years. In 1911, Mr. Cunningham ran unsuccessfully for State Comptroller.”
“Beside politics and poker, Mr. Cunningham loved walking. On
weekends as late as 1964, he hiked along country roads, a white handkerchief
tied to his cane, for safety.”
When he was 97 years old, he explained in a November 1964
interview: "I only walk half as far and about half as fast as I used to…
It's a strain to walk more than 4 or 5 miles…"
“In his earlier days… [he] was a bicyclist of renown…
According to a banker's association bulletin, in 1898 he bicycled 200 miles
from Westminster to Atlantic City, N.J…” He waited to give up driving until he
was approximately 92 years old.
In full disclosure, I met Cunningham in the early 1960s upon
the occasion of one of his visits to City Hall to talk with City of Westminster
Mayor Joseph L. Mathias who served on the Westminster Common Council May 1927
to May 1937 and Mayor from May 18, 1942 to December 3, 1963. To the best of my
knowledge, I have only written about Cunningham a couple of times. Most
notably, a portion of this column was previously published in 2006.
Carroll County is fortunate to have many great community
leaders still with us. We should all take time to pause and thank them for
their service to our community – whether we agree with them or disagree.
Every one of them is working hard to meet today’s and
tomorrow’s challenges. In 2019, may we all work hard to rekindle a renewed
sense of civility and have as full and vigorous a life as Mr. John Cunningham –
playing poker, bicycling and walking many four or five miles is optional. God
Bless and Happy New Year.
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Slate: The Uncanceling of Chick-fil-A
Why did so many people forget to boycott the infamous chicken chain?
By RUTH GRAHAM MARCH 07, 2019 https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/03/chick-fil-a-boycott-liberals-forgot-chicken-too-good.html
It’s hard to stay mad at a ubiquitous and popular brand, especially when it does the bare minimum to stop pissing you off.
[…]
But over the years, the furor has faded, and many progressives have slunk back through the restaurant’s doors. “For several years, the only time you’d catch an LGBTQ person or an ally at Chick-fil-A was for a protest,” the editorial director of HuffPost Personal, Noah Michelson, wrote last year in an essay lamenting the slump in resolve. “For some strange reason I still don’t fully understand, some queer people and their friends and families began eating at Chick-fil-A again and are still eating there.” A Daily Beast columnist called for queer people to “forgive Chick-fil-A” in 2015, citing the Supreme Court decision that year that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. It’s legal, she argued, so who cares what Dan Cathy thinks? When Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted last June—Pride Month—about ordering from the restaurant, he later confessed that he “completely forgot about their background.”
How did Chick-fil-A gradually become uncanceled? For one, the chain has gotten harder for urban progressives to avoid. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in 2012 that the company’s values “are not Chicago values,” but there are now multiple Chick-fil-A outlets in Chicago, and they seem to be thriving. The first New York City Chick-fil-A opened in 2015, and the chain opened “the world’s largest Chick-fil-A” in downtown Manhattan a few years later. It is now planning its first outlets in Boston and Brooklyn. Anecdotally, many progressives still feel vaguely guilty about eating at Chick-fil-A—but they eat there anyway, citing factors like convenience, picky kids, and the universally acknowledged excellence of its food compared with fast-food competitors.
Read much more here: https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/03/chick-fil-a-boycott-liberals-forgot-chicken-too-good.html
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