New President and CEO of Woodsboro Bank

Stephen K. Heine has joined Woodsboro Bank as President and CEO, effective immediately, following the announcement of the retirement of C. Richard Miller, Jr. late last year. Mr. Heine has 35 years of banking experience, most recently as a Group Vice President for M&T Bank, where he was responsible for 96 branches in Central and Western Maryland, Washington DC and Virginia. Prior to M&T, he held various management positions that included Executive Vice-President of Farmers and Mechanics Bank in Frederick, MD and Executive Vice President of Consumer and Business Banking, Provident Bank, Baltimore, Maryland.

Mr. Heine, who resides in Frederick with his wife Carole and four children, is active

in the Frederick community where he serves as the YMCA of Frederick County, Chair-elect; St. Katherine Drexel Catholic Church, Corporator; and the Rotary Club of Carroll Creek. He is on the Alfred University Board of Trustees. His past board affiliations include Frederick County Chamber of Commerce; American Red Cross of Frederick County; and The Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD.

He holds a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Albany and a Bachelor of Science from Alfred University. He is a graduate of Leadership Frederick, Frederick, MD and Leadership Capital District, Albany, NY.

Natalie McSherry, Chair of the Board of Directors of Woodsboro Bank, said that the Board was

pleased with the number of highly qualified candidates who had indicated an interest in the position, and that the Bank was extremely pleased that Mr. Heine would be leading the Bank going forward.

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Heritage park improvementBy Sherry Greenfield

Walking and jogging around the Heritage

Farm Park in Walkersville will soon be easier since the town is planning to expand the walking paths.

The Walkersville Town Com-missioners, at their August 13

town meeting, unanimously ac-cepted a bid of $56,750 from Frederick County Paving to build 3,950 feet of new paths. Money for the project will come in part from the state’s Open Space Program. The town will contribute $23,135 toward the project, with much of that money coming from a reserve

fund for park development.“This project is definitely

needed,” Commissioner Debbie Zimmerman said. “This will complete the paths.”

Heritage Farm Park, located on Devilbiss Bridge Road across from Glade Elementary School, already has a 9-hole golf course, baseball fields, softball fields,

soccer fields, two covered pa-vilions, playground areas, and

walking paths.“I think extended paths will

be a wonderful addition to the park,” Commissioner Russell Winch said.

New playground coming

By Sherry Greenfield

The Woodsboro Regional Park will soon have a new

playground, thanks to a state grant of $129,356.

The Town of Woodsboro was awarded the Maryland Open Space Community Parks and Playgrounds Grant to use for the construction of a new, handicap accessible playground.

The playground structure is for children ages 5 to 12.

After soliciting design and pricing proposals from sev-eral recreation design compa-nies, town commissioners vot-ed unanimously at their Aug. 12 meeting to hire playground Specialists Inc., of Thurmont. The company will build the new playground on the south side of the Woodsboro Regional Park, east of Israel Creek.

“The whole purpose of put-ting together this proposal is that we want to start encour-aging usage at this end of the park,” said Commissioner Bill Rittelmeyer, who handled the bidding process.

The company has proposed designing and building the new playground for $126,272.75. They are proposing to use the remaining $3,083.25 to install

new barbecue grills, volleyball courts, and benches at the park - items the town had not origi-nally asked for.

“I asked them not to leave any money on the table,” Rit-telmeyer said.

The company has constructed playgrounds throughout Fred-erick County, including Wood-sboro, Liberty, North Frederick, Middletown Lincoln, Wolfs-ville and Emmitsburg elemen-tary schools. They have also built playgrounds for the towns of Thurmont and Emmitsburg, Fort Detrick, the Brunswick Crossing housing development, and the Middletown Valley Apartments.

Rittelmeyer said the new playground at the Woodsboro Regional Park will not have adult swings or a merry-go-round because of the wear and

tear on the rubber surface. A child swing suspended off the ground and pushed by an adult can be built.

“Swings where kids drag their feet will only tear the surface up and create a maintenance problem,” he said. “A merry-go-round where kids run in the same circle pushing it will wear and be a maintenance problem as well.”

Commissioner Ken Kellar said he was disappointed the playground will only have tod-dler swings. “My only regret is seeing those older swings go away,” he said. “To me it’s a loss of adult swings.”

Meanwhile, Rittelmeyer said nothing will be built until the town has the grant money in hand. “They won’t order a stick of equipment until we have the grant,” he said.

Trimmer praised Rittel-meyer for his work on the bid process.”I’d like to commend Bill for doing this,” he said. “He did an excellent job.”

Computer image of proposed playground

Parking problemsBy Sherry Greenfield

Relief could soon be coming to the residents living along

Frederick Street in Walkersville that are upset with people parking in front of their houses.

The Walkersville Town Com-missioners, at their Aug. 13 meeting, tentatively approved a plan to issue parking permits to those residents living across from the Glade Valley Nursing and Re-habilitation Center on Frederick Street. Issuing permits would al-low those residents to park on

the street in front of their hous-es. Each household would receive two permits.

“I think there does need to be a degree of restricted parking down there,” said Andy Dewese, the town’s code enforcement officer. “They live down there, so they should be able to park there.”

Parking signs are current-ly posted in front of the nurs-ing home restricting the number of hours a car can be parked. But the number of parked cars from nearby Walkersville High School and the nursing home has been

a frequent problem for residents.“There’s a lot of issues down

there now,” Dewese said. “It’s not a huge issue, but I think they should be able to park there.”

Commissioner Gary Baker said permitted parking should be for residents only. Restricted parking should continue in front of the businesses.

“I think the residents will be happy,” he said.

The council decided to take a formal vote on the permitted parking issue when Commission-er Chad Weddle is in attendance.

Weddle, who lives on Frederick Street, was not at the meeting.

On another note, Dewese said as the town’s code enforce-ment officer he has been busy this year investigating complaints from residents on issues rang-ing from tall grass to snow-cov-ered sidewalks. Dewese said so far this year, he has received 260 complaints from residents. That number is significantly higher than the 120 complaints he re-ceived last year.

Dewese, who blamed the win-ter’s bad weather for the rise in complaints, said the frustration comes when residents fail to no-tify their homeowner’s associa-tion first, before coming to him.

“They’re still coming in even if

they have a homeowner’s associa-tion,” he said. “If somebody has a complaint about a neighbor’s grass, go to the [homeowner’s as-sociation],” he said. “If they have [an association] that deals with it, and it doesn’t get done, I’ll take care of it.”

Failure to cut grass is a $100 fine from the town. The fine is posted on the homeowner’s wa-ter bill.

“We get our money,” Burgess Ralph Whitmore said.

Dewese said of the 260 com-plaints, all but two have been re-solved. The complaint process is unanimous.

“I’m not getting many dinner invitations,” he joked. “But it’s going good.”

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New President and CEO of Woodsboro Bank, Stephen K. Heine

Rest In Peace Barber Dan

New Town website for WoodsboroThe Town of Woodsboro has

engaged Alan Rugh of Firestride Media, based in Walkersville, to develop and maintain a new website for the Town. Commissioner Bill Rittelmeyer is making the arrangements.

During a February 27 Town workshop, Mr. Rittelmeyer recommended applying the full budgeted amount of $4000 to the effort. He explained that in

the past, the Town had volunteers perform web development and upkeep and as a consequence, the Town site has become out of date.

Commissioner Rittelmeyer poled the other commissioners regarding the functions the website should have. A near-term use is to post organizing and planning information to assist those working on the 2017 Woodsboro Days to be held October 21.

County rejects developer applicationMichele Kettner

The Frederick County Council voted against the Urbana rezoning application which would have added 75 townhouses to the Market District of Urbana.

In addition to the new houses, the application included an amendment to replace employment buildings with residential buildings in the Northern Town Center and a proposal to rezone 210 acres of the Southern employment development. The rezoning would lead to an age-restricted development of 700 houses. The council rejected the approval of the application in a 4-3 decision.

Some of the council members were concerned that the application was brought to them as one document instead of three separate pieces. “It’s not the applications and the merits of the application; it is the combining of all three of them under one umbrella that I am having a problem with,” said Vice President M.C. Keegan-Ayer. Councilwoman Jessica Fitzwater agreed with Keegan-Ayer, but added, “I do believe that [combining the applications] sets potential precedent.”

Councilmen Tony Chmelik and Kirby Delauter argued that the application should be approved since the land is contiguous. Delauter used the example of

Students discover asteroidsEarn rights to name them

Frederick County Public Schools reports:

Two students in this year’s Frederick County Public Schools’ Asteroid Hunters program discovered asteroids never before catalogued and earned rights to name them! The only other schools in the U.S. with students achieving this honor are in Hawaii and Texas. The FCPS students are 11th grader Susanna Chen from Walkersville High and 10th grader Kaitlyn Murray from Oakdale High.

“This is a REALLY big deal,” says Lisa Bruck, who co-directs the Earth and Space Science Lab (ESSL) with Jeff Grills. Asked what the students will name their asteroids, Ms. Bruck said she doesn’t know yet. “It’s likely to take

nearly six years for the students’ asteroid discoveries and names to meet required protocols through the Minor Planet Center, housed at Harvard University,” she explained.

Susanna and Kaitlyn were part of a group of 16 local students who participated in the program at the FCPS Earth and Space Science Lab. FCPS Natelli Telescope Operator Jerry Gunn led the FCPS Asteroid Hunters group.

Argentina, China, India, Poland, Portugal, and the Ukraine also had students who made first-time discoveries of asteroids for a total of only 17 discovered worldwide as part of a project called the International Astronomical Search Collaboration. Students used data from observatories around the world.

Water mystery continues but…

Ken Kellar

Walkersville Public Works Director, Robert DePaola, reported at the March 22 Town meeting that a citizen on 113 Bedrock Dr. reported another loss of water pressure on the previous Saturday.

In response to prior complaints, the Town purchased and installed several water-pressure monitoring devices to assist in troubleshooting several reports of water issues along Bedrock Dr. The devices were installed on the Town’s water pipes in the vicinity of the complaining households.

Mr. DePaola reported that the pressure monitors were operat-ing during the recent event and did not indicate a drop in pres-sure. This result, assuming the monitors were properly function-ing, tends to indicate the issue is on the homeowner’s property and not a Town issue. The problem re-mains unresolved.

Erratum: Last month we report-ed the Town was waiting for an-other pressure loss report to install the pressure monitors when in fact the Town had already installed the monitors so they would be in ser-vice to record any pressure loss events.

High speeds in neighborhoods reportedKen Kellar

A Walkersville citizen resid-ing on Challedon Dr. expressed traffic safety concerns at a recent Walkersville Town meeting. The citizen reported cars and a school bus (without passengers) regular-ly driving through the neighbor-hood at a high rate of speed on Challedon Dr. in the vicinity of Spring Dr. and Rt. 194 (Woods-boro Pike). The citizen noted the Town had recently deployed a ra-dar speed sign, which did appear to calm the traffic. But after the Town moved the radar sign to an-other location, the speeding re-turned to its previous severity.

Farewell Barber DanJohn D. Hubbard, Barber

Dan, 6-28-31 to 2-24-17 has had The Barber Shop in Wood-sboro, a one-chair shop for 60 years. Due to illness he barbered until January 3, 2017. In the 60 years cutting hair, he cut genera-tions in many families. His reg-ular customers enjoyed a good conversation while waiting on a haircut, they liked the entertain-ment. New people walk in and

see one chair, they can’t believe it, and he would say “welcome to redneck country.” Barbering has been passed down to daugh-ter Cindy Brashear and grand-daughter Charlotte Horman. Hours:

Mon- 8-6, Tues- 8-12 & 3-6, Wed- 8-12, Thurs- 8-12 & 3-6, Fri- 8-6, Sat- 8-12

Rest In Peace Barber Dan

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From the Editor

Senator Young and the next rape victim

Ken Kellar

ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS, HOS-PITALS, AND COURTHOUSES SHALL ESTABLISH AND PUBLISH POLICIES THAT LIMIT IMMIGRA-TION ENFORCEMENT ON THEIR PREMISES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT POSSIBLE…. THE AT-TORNEY GENERAL…WITH THE APPROPRIATE STAKEHOLDERS, SHALL DEVELOP AND ADOPT MODEL POLICIES TO ENSURE THAT ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, AND COURTHOUS-ES REMAIN SAFE AND ACCES-SIBLE TO ALL MARYLAND RES-IDENTS, REGARDLESS OF IMMIGRATION STATUS.

The preceding text is from Maryland Senate Bill 835 spon-sored by Senator Ron Young. Here is the official purpose of the Bill:

“For the purpose of expressing the intent of the General Assem-bly to restore community trust in Maryland law enforcement and government by clarifying the pa-rameters of local participation in federal immigration enforcement efforts; prohibiting a certain gov-ernment agent from taking cer-tain actions for certain purpos-es; prohibiting a law enforcement official from stopping, arresting, searching, or detaining an indi-vidual for the purpose of inves-tigating a suspected immigration violation….”

So it’s all about “community trust” in Maryland law enforce-ment. Notice how many times the word “prohibiting” shows up? It’s an anti-law that is supposed to make schools “safe.” Safe from im-

migration law enforcement? Sure. Safe from brutal rape or gang in-timidation and murder? No.

On March 16, a 14-year old girl was reported brutally raped in a Rockville High School bath-room in every imaginable way by two illegal aliens reported at the age of 18 and 17. The 18-year-old was in 9th grade. That’s not a misprint, 9th grade.

It appears Sanchez (Guate-mala) and Montano (El Salva-dor), the suspects under arrest, are Obama’s “Unaccompanied Minors” or “Dreamers” and may have been granted access under refugee status. The circumstances are a bit vague on that and not too many reporters are on the case. Had Sanchez and Montano been deported when they were caught and temporarily detained in Tex-as several months ago rather than left to roam while waiting depor-tation hearings, the Rockville girl would not have been raped.

Rockville officials and other sanctuary advocates claim that this brutality has nothing to do with il-legal immigration. They say, “bad things happen, get over it.”

The suspects went back to class following the rape. What made these (alleged) rapists think they could perform their atrocity and then safely return to class? Think about that. The young girl knew at least one of them. They raped her and then felt safe enough to return to class.

What culture did they come from? What parental guidance did they have? What culture/en-vironment existed in the Rock-

ville school to make them feel safe to perform their crime and return to class?

I have a friend with nieces and nephews attending Rockville public schools. They reported a nightmare of kids in gangs and others claiming they are in gangs in order to intimidate and manip-ulate the other students. Did the two “Dreamers” think the threat of retribution would keep them safe? Has it in the past?

One couple immediately pulled their daughter from the Rockville public school in response to the recent rape. They are searching out a private alternative in or-der to keep her safe. You see, the school officials are not providing assurances that they have learned anything or are willing to take any effective actions to prevent the next rape.

Young’s bill prohibits all Mary-land law enforcement from sup-porting Federal immigration agents yet requires the adoption of “model policies” that ensure all residents remain safe. It takes away the tools but keeps the ex-pectation of results.

Young and his colleagues have been building this nightmare for a long time. I found this news item from July 2014 at Breitbart.com:

“The Obama administration is preparing to dump illegal immi-grant juveniles in one of the na-tion’s most prominent sanctuary counties in Maryland just weeks after Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley (D) reportedly begged

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Walkersville Calls for ServiceJanuary 2017

Monthly Summary for Police Enforcement & Activities

Criminal & Miscellaneous Calls

Traffic Enforcement

Motor Vehicle Collisions

Alarm 5 Citation 52 Accident Report 1

Assault 0 Warning 75 Non-Reportable 6

Assist other Police 5 SERO 7 Total Collisions: 7

Burglary 3 DUI 0 Other Activities

CDS (narcotics) 1 Total Violations: 134Community

Policing1

Disorderly 3 Foot/Bike Patrol 0

Domestic 0 Patrol Check 25

Juvenile Complaint 1 AIRS 140

MDOP (malicious destruction) 0

Miscellaneous 13

Missing Person 2

Theft / Fraud 2

Trespass 0

Warrant / Summons 0

Total Calls for Service: 35

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Florida and California being contiguous since both states are a part of the contiguous United States. Members in favor of the application also noted that the plan for land in Urbana was to develop it from the middle out which would make the Northern and Southern developments contiguous.

When discussing the motion to deny the rezoning application, things got heated between council members. “I think it’s a sad day in Frederick County,” said councilman Billy Shreve.

He mentioned the council’s struggle to make big decisions for the county, noting their last decision that denied solar panels. Delauter, who stayed quiet for most of the discussion, called the council corrupt without offering an explanation. Councilman Jerry Donald then called out Delauter on his statement, explaining that the members who voted against the application were only following the rules at hand.

Chmelik took time during the discussion to apologize to Tom Natelli, CEO of Natelli

Communities and developer of Urbana. “I find it unfortunate what occurred here this evening,” said Chmelik. When President Bud Otis told Chmelik to keep his comments to the council, Chmelik responded, “If you’d like to tell me no, rule me out of order.”

In a 4-3 vote, the Urbana rezoning application was denied by the county council. Keegan-Ayer welcomed Natelli to bring back the rezoning application if it was separated into three different parts.

Emmitsburg learns a costly lessonKen Kellar

Editors Note: The April issue of the Emmitsburg News Journal (ENJ) is carrying a story about the Em-mitsburg Town leadership dab-bling in the energy market and ap-parently getting burned. I thought this might be a good tale of warn-ing for the municipalities of Wood-sboro and Walkersville when con-sidering future actions. The Editor

of the ENJ graciously granted the Times permission to run the ar-ticle. However, the ENJ version is quite lengthy. Since the Woodsboro Walkersville area readers are likely not so interested in the names and dates of the Emmitsburg events, with permission from the ENJ, I have written a condensed version of the ENJ story. The full story can be found at www.emmitsburg.com.

In 2013, in spite of the objec-tions of one Town Commission-er, the Emmitsburg Town Council voted to approve a contract to pro-vide land for a solar farm and to purchase all power produced by it for the next 20 years. In addition, the contract guaranteed the own-ers of the solar farm a rate increase of 2% each year over the initial rate of 7.9 cents/kwh.

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ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO

April 2, 1917President calls upon Congress

to meet the challenge of Germany. President Wilson in a solemn address to Congress tonight called upon that body to meet the German challenge by war. He demanded that immediate steps be taken to put the country in a state of defense—“to exert all its power and employ all resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and to end the war.”

In the same breath, he announced his purpose of cooperating with the purpose of the nations now at war with Germany--the extension to them of liberal credit. “War,” he continued, “will involve the mobilization of all material resources of the country to supply the materials for the conflict.”

He declared that the full equipment of the Navy with a view of combating the submarine menace was imperative and called for the immediate increase of the armed forces of the country to at least 500,000 men. The President recommends granting adequate credit to the Government, sustained by taxation. He came out fully and strongly for universal military service as the best means of training and raising the army.

President Wilson reminded Congress that adequate credit must be extended to the Government, “as far as may be sustained by the present generation,” indicating the necessity of a bond issue to meet the bulk of war expenditures.

April 5Pacifist clan is scarce here.

Pacifists in Frederick are as scarce as snowballs are in July. An unusual wave of patriotism has swept the country in the present crisis, and Frederick County is right in line with the rest of the nation. During every war, Maryland has always sent more than three times her quota of troops to defend the Stars and Stripes, but in the present situation, it looks as if Maryland will have as many men in service as can be equipped. Frederick County has a crack company in the First Regiment of the Maryland National Guards. These men have always responded voluntarily to the colors. The men of Company A are true patriots. So are the men of Fritchietown, in which the best company of the First Regiment is located.

April 10Cause of disaster is unknown;

bodies piled on street; shells scattered for many blocks. A terrific explosion at the great plant of the Eddystone Ammunitions Corporation, at Eddystone, PA, a mile from this city, is reported to have killed from 125 to 250 persons, and injured at least 300 more.

A railroad official asserts that nearly 300 were killed, but this estimate cannot be confirmed.

The greatest confusion prevails and no one is allowed to approach the plant in which the explosion occurred. The trolley line to

Eddystone is not running because its wires were destroyed.

Latest reports make the loss of life very heavy, between 125 and 300 being the last figures given. The little Chester morgue is filled with bodies, and they are piled upon the sidewalk outside the building.

It is stated the building in which the explosion occurred was used for making time fuses for shrapnel. The workers were mostly women and young girls.

April 12Stole money from U.S. mails;

held. Nabbed with money taken from the United States mails at the Woodsboro post office, Norman W. Phillips, 22, second assistant postmaster at the Woodsboro office, was on Saturday morning when tried before United States Commissioner Alexander R. Hagner, Hagerstown, held in $1,000 bond for this appearance before the grand jury in Baltimore. Bond was furnished by W. B. Cutshall.

Phillips was arrested at Woodsboro on Friday evening by United States District Deputy Marshall C. A. C. Ohler at the instance of Post Office Inspectors James B. Robinson, Everett Partridge, and J. S. Feeney.

It is alleged that for some time money has been missing from the mails at Woodsboro, resulting in a complaint being lodged with the post office department. Several days ago, Inspectors Robinson, Partridge, and Feeney were assigned to the case.

On Friday evening, one of the officials, it is alleged, placed a letter, containing money, in a mail pouch just before the train reached Woodsboro. The officials followed the sack into the office. Later application was made for the letter and it was missing. Phillips was then confronted. It is alleged that the accused declared he knew nothing of the letter. He was searched and, according to the officials, marked money was found in his pockets.

It is further reported that Philips confessed to his parents, telling of theft.

Phillips first went into the employment of the government under former Postmaster William B. Cutshall and has been in the office at Woodsboro during the term of the present official, Mr. Barrick, holding the position of second assistant postmaster.

April 17First naval clash between U.S.

and German craft occurs about 100 miles south of New York. The first shop of the war has been fired by Germany—and it missed.

An enemy submarine, braving the perils of the Atlantic early in the morning hours, attacked the U.S. torpedo-boat destroyer Smith, firing a torpedo across the bows. The torpedo cleared the warship by only 30 yards.

The submarine then disappeared, and all efforts to locate her have thus far failed.

Official confirmation of the first clash of the war was received by the Navy Department shortly after noon, after reports from the Charlestown Navy Yard had told of the attack.

Regarding this first clash in the war with Germany, the Navy Department this afternoon gave out the following statement:

“Reported from Fire Island lightship to naval station at Boston and at New York that about 3:30 a.m. on the 17th an enemy submarine was sighted by the U.S.S. Smith, running apparently submerged. The submarine fired a torpedo at the Smith, which missed her by 300 yards. Wake of torpedo plainly seen crossing the bow. Submarine disappeared.”

The Navy was in the dark about the clash until press reports brought word of it.

Immediately Lieutenant-Commander Belknap, navy censor, got the New York Navy Yard on long distance phone and asked details.

New York, too, was ignorant of the affair, but at once communicated with Fire Island lightship, from which the original report to Charlestown had been made.

A few minutes later, the flagship, 25 miles off Sandy Hook, flashed back the story to the New York yard, which at once notified Belknap.

April 19Flayer of horse fined; is then

reprimanded. Charged with cruelty to animals, Harry Goodsell was tried before Justice August T. Brust last night in Municipal Court and fined $5.91, which he paid. Evidence showed that last Sunday Goodsell hired a horse and buggy from the livery stable of Myers and McHenry. He took the team out on the Georgetown pike and got into a race with Nathan Bell. It happened that either the horse was not going fast enough or the Goodsell team was losing, and he struck the horse several times with the whip, drawing blood. Goodsell testified that he hit the horse but twice and the third time the whip broke. Following the race, he brought the team into Frederick and stopped at the Arlington Hotel, where he got someone to hold the horse while he went into the hotel. Word had gotten to the proprietors of the stable of the mistreatment of the horse, which was brought to the stable.

April 25Teacher saves child. Miss Ada

Knode, teacher of the rural school at Kearneysville, near Martinsburg, yesterday gave up her life that her little pupil, Juanita Whittington, eight years old, might live. During the noon hour, Miss Knode took her charges close to an abandoned quarry hole. The child fell over the brink. Unhesitatingly, although she could not swim, Miss Knode plunged after her. By superhuman efforts, the teacher brought her charge close to the shore, where other children could reach her.

Exhausted, the teacher could not struggle across the few inches

of water between her and safety, and went to her death. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Knode, of near Shepherdstown, W. VA. She was 21 years old, and had taught at the Kearneysville school for three years.

First U.S. shot sinks U-boat. The first shot fired by an American gunner since the United States declared war against the Imperial German government found its mark and has sank one of the dreaded Teuton under-sea craft. The officer who sighted the gun that sank the submarine was Lieut. Bruce Ware, U.S.N., a former Baltimore man, in charge of the gunners stationed on the American Steamship Mongolia.

Captain Rice of the Mongolia, which arrived in a British port today told that the great merchant steamship had fired the first shot of the war for the United States and had sunk a German U-boat. The submarine, Captain Edge said, was about to attack the steamer in British waters on April 19. He declared that there was absolutely no doubt that the U-boat was hit and that there was every reason to believe that it was destroyed.

The naval gunner on board of the steamer made a clean hit at 1000 yards. The periscope was seen to be shattered.

Lieut. Ware is the son-in-law of Dr. Denton Woods, of Baltimore County. His wife was: Miss Naomi Denton Harris who went to San Francisco in 1888 to wed him.

April 28To till all vacant lots. There

sprung into existence last night at a conference of representatives business and professional men a plan to jointly cultivate all vacant lots in Frederick and the immediate vicinity for the benefit of the war fund of the Fredrick County National Defense Association. On the heels of the decision of this body of men comes the call to patriotic property owners to turn over to this committee unused lots.

In the same breath, the commit-tee sounds the call for volunteers to

cultivate these vacant lots. Now all can “do their bit.” Some aren’t eli-gible for service at the front either in the Army or the Navy, but most men can wield a hoe and become a member of that force of men, which in reality shall be the coun-try’s first line of defense, those who furnished the food to feed this na-tion and its allies.

April 30England now chewing gum.

For a great many years, American chewing gum manufacturers have endeavored to teach foreign countries to appreciate their product. The stuff that wags the American jaw has been advertised assiduously in France, England, and Germany, but with small success. The non-American couldn’t understand it. He tried to swallow it, and when he couldn’t he gave it up as incomprehensible nonsense. Over in the London, where it was called “American Chewing Candy,” many shops called attention to it, but he Britishers passed it by and went on buying toffee and lollipops and Turkish delight.

Suddenly, and without warning, the situation has changed. Remarkable figures recently published appear to indicate that England has incontinently become a nation of gum chewers. Manufacturers report that within six months they have increased their monthly sales from 3,000,000 to 20,000,000 sticks. And the English newspapers cannot understand it.

The explanation seems simple. It is said that he largest amount of chewing gum is used in the army, and the next largest amount in the navy. During the last great advance, it was issued as an army ration. Somehow or other the soldiers discovered that it steadied their nerves to have something to chew on in time of stress and of course it has the effect of keeping the parched throat moist. It is more than probable that the Canadian soldier imparted this information to the English Tommies—and experience did the rest—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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GOVERNMENT

From the desk of County Councilman Kirby Delauter

The fairness doctrine

Recently I was contacted to meet a local group of landowners in the Emmitsburg area who were concerned about their property rights. Another case I was contacted about was a wood waste recycling business that has been in the same location outside of New Market for 27 years. In order to help you understand some issues I deal with at the county, I will give you a view of these two similar but different scenarios and what I consider “fair” treatment in these two situations.

The first scenario is where I was contacted by several Emmitsburg land owners who feel that a commercial venue that is being proposed in their neighborhood could cause issues with their pursuit of happiness. The commercial venue is not permitted in the current zoning and would be, according to these several neighbors, not a good fit for the neighborhood. I met with them, listened to their concerns and see many valid points to their argument. Do I see points to the other side of the argument? Yes, I do. Their main point is that they bought their land in a country state. They did not purchase the land knowing that a commercial venue could become their neighbor, a valid point. I gave them an example from many years ago in Thurmont where a local trucking company that hauls livestock, and has been in the same location for 40 years, was made to make amendments to their property because a person, in a new house that was built next door, didn’t like the

odors. I felt that was wrong since the trucking company was there first. The homeowner should have done their due diligence when purchasing the building lot. This situation is similar: we have open land sparsely developed with houses/farms in an area where a commercial venue moves in without proper zoning which could change the neighborhood from what it was prior to that venue. If we’re going to follow the logic of the trucking company issue in Thurmont, then the existing land owners in Emmitsburg have a valid point.

Now, let’s move on to wood waste recycling business in New Market. Now, you might ask, “Delauter, why are you worried about a business in New Market, that’s not your district?” My answer is simple, I ran for office to help people, so if someone contacts me and needs assistance in dealing with an overbearing County Executive, I will get involved. It may not seem important to you until you’re the one that is in her crosshairs, then it becomes the most important thing in your world, and you want help; I get it.

Similar to the two issues stated above, this mulch/recycling company has been in this current location for 27 years with no issues. They are partially in an Ag zoning which allows what they do in their business, and they are partially in General Commercial zoning, which does not. They are surrounded by Light Industrial zoning as well to give you a big picture of the neighborhood. Our County Executive has issued

a letter to this company to cease operations since they are not in the correct zoning. Now, keep in mind, this company has been in this location for 27 years. Now, over in Walkersville in a town zoning of “institutional,” the County recycles wood waste on this parcel, which by definition, is not allowable in an Institutional zoning. So for me, the fairness issue comes up in several ways. First, shouldn’t the county just grandfather the wood waste/recycling company in and let them continue to operate? They could go to the board of appeals and get a special exception to be grandfathered until they close their business at which time the special exception would be removed. Also, shouldn’t the county then practice what they preach? Shouldn’t they stop recycling wood waste in Walkersville since the zoning is not correct? I think both of my solutions here are fair. I think that is all anyone looks for, fairness.

So in summary, we have Emmitsburg landowners who were there first, they comply with their zoning, and there is a possibility of a commercial venue coming in and disturbing their pursuit of happiness. We have a wood waste/recycling company that was there for 27 years in the same location in New Market that is being told that part of their zoning is wrong and they can no longer operate, while the county does the exact same thing in a different location and all we hear are crickets.

You be the judge: what is fair?

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GOVERNMENT

From the desk of County Executive Jan Gardner

It’s spring, the time of year when we celebrate the promise of new life, with budding trees and blooming flowers. There are great things popping up all across Frederick County this spring. In the northern part of the county, we are building new parks, renovating a historic covered bridge, and constructing a larger library branch to serve a growing demand for these services.

This month, we will be holding a ribbon-cutting for the newly renovated Roddy Road Park and covered bridge. The park’s trails and parking lot are now paved with asphalt that allows rain to drain through to the ground. Upgrades include a new restroom, playground equipment, and sign and guardrail have been replaced. The neighboring covered bridge had to be rebuilt after an oversized vehicle drove through it last June. Insurance and a court-ordered payment covered more than 90% of the cost to fix the damage. A new over-height warning system is in the process of being installed. While the bridge has been closed for repairs, crews also replaced corroding steel beams and rotting wood. Join us for the bridge dedication and park re-opening on Monday, April 17 at 3:00 pm.

Last month we broke ground on the long-awaited new library in Walkersville. The 15,000-square-foot facility will be almost six times as big as the current Walkersville branch, and is scheduled to open in January 2018. The library will include meeting rooms so community groups in the Woodsboro and Walkersville area can gather. It will feature an early childhood literacy and learning play space funded through donations. Frederick County Public Libraries are very popular, with almost 100,000 residents visiting a library every month. Our libraries offer wonderful programs every day for people of all ages, as well as traditional books and other materials. Libraries truly build community.

We are planning for other major projects in the coming years, as well. The Capital Improvements Program Phase II of the Utica District Park. Construction will begin in August 2018 on three new fields, two of which will be synthetic turf. There will be shelters, trails, playgrounds and a restroom facility in the next section of the park, which should open in February 2020. Frederick County is fortunate to have beautifully maintained parks that connect people to nature and the outdoors. County parks welcome about 2 million visitors annually, which is pretty incredible!

The capital budget also includes support for our public safety divisions. Fire & Rescue radios are at the end of their lifespan. New radios will improve communications between first responders both inside Frederick County and with other jurisdictions and public safety

agencies. We are also planning for replacement fire trucks and ambulances, as well as for land to build a new station west of U.S. Route 15. At the Sheriff ’s Office’s request, the capital budget also includes a new surveillance van, enhanced security at the Law Enforcement Center, and design for a much-needed medical unit at the Adult Detention Center.

How are we going to fund all of these projects? Well, I am very excited to tell you that Frederick County is able to get the most bang for our buck thanks to our AAA bond rating. We learned in March that all three of the New York bond rating agencies had reaffirmed Frederick County’s AAA ratings. They are similar to a consumer’s credit score; the better our rating, the lower the interest we are charged when we borrow money saving taxpayers millions of dollars over time. Lower interest rates allow us to do more for the same amount of money. The County’s ratings show that this administration is focused on saving taxpayers money and managing our budget responsibly. Our economy is growing, we are adding jobs, and we have a reputation for spending conservatively. These ratings are proof that Charter is making us a stronger, more resilient county.

While the capital budget is largely in place, I am finalizing the operating budget during the upcoming week and will present it to the public on April 13. I can tell you that there will not be any increase in the County’s tax rate. I will ensure that the county lives within its means just like your household. Job growth is on a steady rise, and our economy is vibrant generating more revenue for the county budget. Competing for money in the operating budget is the second year phase-

in to the new teacher and school staff pay scale; requests in public safety for additional sheriff deputies, corrections officers, and 9-1-1 call takers to meet growing calls for service; and, requests for additional materials to maintain roads and parks, expanded branch library hours and materials, animal control, and technology.

I do plan to support requests from the towns of Thurmont and Emmitsburg to partner on sidewalk projects and support the Thurmont Senior Center. I am pleased to have a great working relationship with municipal officials. Stay tuned for the announcement of Community Partnership Grants which will provided support for non-profit human service agencies operating and serving people in north Frederick County.

This year, I am asking for your help and your opinions to shape the county budget. On the County’s website are two short surveys so you can tell me what you think should be priorities in next year’s budget. The surveys are both quick and easy – asking only one question each – and will help us to gather more input on what you, the residents of Frederick County, value most. You can find the surveys at: www.FrederickCountyMD.gov/BudgetSurveys. They will remain open through April 3 and we will publish the results.

Another way to stay engaged and informed is to subscribe to a new monthly newsletter, Executive Summary. It features breaking news, the latest initiatives, upcoming events, and ongoing projects. To subscribe, go to www.FrederickCountyMD.gov/executive and click on Executive Summary. Stay up to date on all the great things happening in Frederick County!

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COMMENTARY

It’s time to make changes in AnnapolisJustin M. Kiska

There are two topics that I was trying to choose between when deciding what to write this month, both having to do with our distinguished state legisla-ture, more precisely, with certain members of its leadership. In-stead of picking just one, because of their importance, I thought I would touch on both.

The first is the push to allow cameras into the House and Sen-ate chambers so that proceed-ings can be broadcast and people can see their legislators in action. It’s certainly not a new idea. Mu-nicipal governments broadcast their meetings. Congress is on C-SPAN. Streaming of legislative sessions is all done in the name of transparency.

So why do the Democratic leaders in Annapolis, specifical-ly House Speaker Michael Busch and Senate President Mike Mill-er, have such a problem with the idea? I’m not even going to be-gin to think there is some nefari-ous reason behind the two lead-ers’ opposition. I don’t think there’s any conspiracy here, but I just don’t understand why they don’t seem to even want to dis-cuss the issue, blaming everything on funding issues. Senator Mill-er was vehement in one interview on the topic.

In the current legislative ses-sion, two House members on po-

lar opposite sides of the politi-cal spectrum, Del. Kathy Szeliga (R-Baltimore County) and Del. David Moon (D-Montgomery County), even came together to sponsor a bill requiring the Gen-eral Assembly to live stream the legislature’s proceedings on the internet.

The argument can be made that if senators and delegates know they are being watched, they’ll go on and on and play to the cam-era to try and win points with the public. But I hate to say it, grand-standing will happen regardless of whether there is a camera there or not.

If transparency is the demand – the call that so many seem to be fighting for these days – why are Miller and Busch standing in the way?

These two gentlemen are also doing their best to prevent Gov-ernor Hogan’s plan to enact redis-tricting reform in the state.

Anyone who looks at Mary-land’s legislative and Congressio-nal districts knows how terribly gerrymandered they were under the previous governor. The last time the lines were redrawn, they didn’t even try to hide the fact of what they were doing. Which is why there is a current court case on the matter pending.

Gerrymandering isn’t new. Whoever’s in power always wants to stay in power. But is that what’s best?

Governor Hogan has proposed the creation of an independent, non-partisan redistricting com-mission to draw the district lines in the future. The vast majority of Marylanders, regardless of par-ty, support the idea. A poll earlier this year by Goucher College put that number at 75%. Unfortu-nately, Senator Miller and Speak-er Busch are not in that group.

Miller is on record as saying in-stead of looking at reform on the state level, he would rather dis-cuss national or multi-state op-tions. Seriously? If his concern, as some have said, is losing Demo-cratic members of Congress, then he needs to get over it and do what’s right, not political.

Those elected by the residents of Maryland to represent and serve the residents of Maryland should do what’s best for the resi-dents of Maryland, regardless of what other states are or are not doing.

How can anyone say an inde-pendent commission drawing district lines is not the fairest so-lution? They can’t. But that’s also not what they want.

Mike Miller and Michael Busch have been in Annapolis for a very long time. In addition to starting to broadcast legislative sessions and allowing a non-par-tisan commission to draw district lines, I can think of a couple more changes that should be made.

Family room

What goes up …

Chandra Bolton

Exploring 20th Century history with my teenage daughter, the boom-and-bust cycle has been the underlying theme. While the Great Depression that began in 1929 and continued until the Second World War is the most famous, there were several other economic depressions that were severe but just didn’t last as long. The war and peace cycle is another example of the cyclical nature of life.

All the way back in time to the beginnings of Maryland, this roller coaster of good times followed by a, more or less, steep slide into hardship stands out. The early explorers of the North American continent may have been looking for gold, but the settlers found their hope for the good life fueled by tobacco. In demand in Europe, tobacco provided the farmers a good living until the land began to wear out, when each year’s crop was less healthy than the last, causing the price to drop. Moving to newer farms on less suitable land produced lower quality crops, and the price dropped. Too many growers caused a glut on the market, and the price dropped. Then other countries began to

produce it cheaper, and the price dropped.

Fast forward to American farmers of the 1900’s. Ken Burns’s documentary about the Dust Bowl was an in depth study of the boom-bust cycle. People began farming the American Great Plains after the Civil War. Until then it had been called “the great American desert,” fit only for buffalo and the occasional rancher. After the war, those looking for land to make a fresh start turned to the Great Plains. There were good years and bad years, usually based on how much rain fell. But those were the normal hazards, and farmers could plan for those. With better plows, new machines for reaping, and innovative dry farming techniques to reach the water deep in the soil, the boom began. As World War I started, the need to feed the troops coincided with years of heavy rainfall. So much wheat was grown in what would become the center of the Dust Bowl that by 1930 prices began to drop from the glut on the market. Then the farming disaster struck, drought, years of drought. Wild rabbits, unable to find any other food, invaded the fields and gardens. Then the locust came. Any Maryland resident who has

lived through the 17-year cicadas can relate to the overwhelming invasion. On the Great Plains, not a green leaf was left anywhere.

Yet people survive. There are still farmers in Maryland. The Great Plains are now called the “bread basket of America.” So how did humans cope with this cycle? How do we survive the disaster to return to prosperity? The response in early Maryland was to plant a variety of crops. Driving up Route 15 N shows other solutions: crop rotation, letting ground cover grow to cut down on erosion, and plows that don’t result in a field of bare dirt that dries out and blows away in the wind. Some of this wisdom came from the Dust Bowl, as did a renewed push to educate farmers on new farming techniques. On the PBS show, Maryland Farm and Harvest, I learned about crop insurance for those occasional bad years.

The first Emergency Preparedness Advocate was named Joseph. A victim of extreme sibling rivalry, Joseph ended up as a slave in Egypt. His unique ability to understand people and foresee events brought him to the attention of the royal court. He counseled Pharaoh to put aside crops in the good years to

store against famine. This was so successful that Egypt was able to feed itself and to help its neighbors during the seven-year drought.

Not all schemes can claim such divine inspiration. My sons have shared their zombie apocalypse plans with me. They involve dried food and emergency medical supplies stored in my basement, a water filtration device, hunting equipment, and an ultra-light airplane (which has yet to appear!). During target practice with the compound bow, they debate how long you could survive on the number of squirrels found in my backyard. Once they decide which tree to build the watchtower in, I will be concerned.

An integral part of disaster avoidance is to have a plan. Lord Baltimore granted people land in the colony of Maryland depending on how many workers they brought with them. He also required that a certain amount of the land be set aside to grow food crops. Having seen from the “Starving Time” in Virginia and his father’s difficulties in his colony in Newfoundland that the New World could be a hostile place, and people don’t always behave well, he insisted on agreement to prudent laws for all of those sailing

to Maryland. Fair treatment for the Native Americans helped avoid the wars that Virginia and Massachusetts faced. Laws against intolerance kept the lid on open religious hostility, at least for a time. Even the best of plans is not always enough. The English Civil War, based in a large part on religion, spilled over into Lord Baltimore’s colony. Many of the original settlers fled the ensuing persecution and destruction, never to return.

But Lord Baltimore did not give up. He recognized that sometimes you have to wait out the disaster before trying again. And the growth of the Maryland colony after “The Plundering Time” is a testament to his perseverance. The same could be said about the Dust Bowl farmers. Many returned to farming after the drought was over, learning the new farming methods. Ken Burns captured the stories their children told of that time. One of them said that farmers are next-year people, always believing that next year will be better. That resilient attitude is the most important part of any disaster preparedness plan.

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COMMENTARY

This and that

Evolution, perspective, context, point of view

Mary Klotz

We try so hard to keep things the same, to preserve what we have, and yet do so much that makes things change.

What were you thinking as the snowflakes fell last month? May-be you grow peaches with the en-tire year’s crop (and income) at stake. Maybe you were out plow-ing the whole time. Maybe you got the day off. How you think about snow depends upon your situation and the point of view you take.

A botanist friend frets over ev-ery species in decline, plant or animal. Every invasive species is on her radar, particularly non-na-tives. Yet apples came from cen-tral Asia. Silkworms were smug-gled out of China. Humans transported them, intentionally. That has worked out pretty well, hasn’t it? Domestic chickens are descended from red jungle cocks (DNA testing has recently con-firmed Darwin’s suspicion).

How will the farming of Atlan-tic salmon off the coast of Chile play out? Some fish will escape to open ocean; will they cross breed and/or compete with Pa-cific salmon? Some are genetically modified so they can be fed corn, genetically modified corn; the corn itself modified to withstand glyphosate spraying; all patented by Monsanto. Each of these con-siderations is an iceberg of which we see only the tip. But that’s a different topic.

Some intentional species trans-fers haven’t worked out well: rab-bits and camels in Australia, for instance. Garden invasives in-

clude Bradford pears, imported from China by the US Depart-ment of Agriculture as an orna-mental (they thought it was ster-ile- Oops). They now bloom all along roadsides, displacing na-tive dogwoods, redbuds, and ma-ny others including hardwoods. They tend to revert to a thick-et-forming Callery pear ancestor with 4 inch thorns that require steel tracked dozers to remove. Wisteria and bamboo can get out of control in tended landscapes, and worse, may escape into the wild. Deer don’t eat invasives.

Kudzu was presented at the Centennial Exposition, Philadel-phia 1876, 100 years after the signing of the Declaration of In-dependence. Almost 10 million visitors were offered 30,000+ ex-hibits, including Bell’s Telephone, typewriters, Hires Root Beer, the arm and torch of the Statue of Liberty, and kudzu. Kudzu was expected to provide shade as an ornamental bush. Later it was promoted for erosion control, soil improvement, and animal feed. It was widely planted in the south with government funding. We brought it to Fiji and Vanuatu to serve as camouflage in WWII. It can grow 60 feet per season. Es-timates of its increasing spread range from 2,500 to 150,000 acres a year. It outcompetes na-tives. Oops.

Then the unintentional non-natives: zebra mussels in the Great Lakes came in the ballast water of ships from Eastern Eu-rope. Now in the waters of 29 US states, the mussels eat plank-ton that native fish need, attach to boats and pipes, reproduce as-

toundingly (700,000+ individ-uals in a square meter in some places), all in about thirty years. Hawaii used to be free of those noisy little frogs, nevermore. There are snakehead fish in the Potomac River. Our transporta-tion systems and cultural mobili-ty, and short-sighted cluelessness, have inadvertently accelerated and magnified the ability of spe-cies to move to new habitats (as we do ourselves).

Florida has special problems because its semitropical climate supports many non-native exotic species. Some are released by pet owners, some escape zoos, tourist attractions, and gardens. Thus, pythons, monkeys and macaques, capybaras, birds, fish, amphib-ians, melaleuca trees, air potato vines, and many more non-na-tives all have established popula-tions in Florida.

I asked my botanist friend: Is the US the source of inva-sives showing up elsewhere? She has observed our poison ivy and pokeweed in China.

But if a more expansive view is taken, it is clear that species tend to change and be replaced, even if humans aren’t there to fiddle with things. Long before humans were in the picture, organisms evolved, spread, competed, thrived for a time (or not). Some waned, were crowded out, and became ex-tinct. Descendants of others sur-vived. That all happened without us. Meteors and mega volcanoes spawned abrupt climate change. Ice ages crept across the conti-nents; then warmth spread, and the planet’s populations of plants and animals shifted, often with-

out prodding by climate change or intervention from humans.

In my own backyard, over on-ly thirty years, the small trees I’ve planted have grown to shade out my vegetable plot. The first set-tlers to the east coast of North America observed that a squirrel could go from the Atlantic coast

to the Mississippi River without ever touching ground. The influx of invasive people caused huge changes in a few centuries. Na-ture shifts and rebounds.

I ask my friend: Do you think there should still be dinosaurs?

the White House not to ship ille-gal immigrants to his state.

“According to NBC Washing-ton, “Montgomery County has been asked to house unaccompa-nied minors from Central Amer-ica in a state facility until foster families can be found for them.” Maryland is reportedly “looking to house up to 1,800 unaccompa-nied minors now in federal custo-dy after crossing the border,” and 25 of the illegal immigrant juve-niles will be sent to Montgomery County.

“Montgomery County is re-portedly home to “half of all the immigrants” in the state, accord-ing to a state official, and “more than 100 unaccompanied minors were enrolled in the county’s pub-lic school system last year.” They qualified for “English for Speak-ers of Other Languages (ESOL)” classes, and enrollment in those classes has been surging.

“As Judicial Watch noted, “Montgomery County has long

offered illegal aliens a variety of perks and protections” and came under “intense fire a few years ago over a series of high-profile mur-ders committed by illegal immi-grants who had been arrested by local police and released.” They were not deported due to “the county’s sanctuary policies, they were not reported to federal au-thorities for deportation despite their criminal histories.” In ad-dition, Montgomery County has ‘spent $100,000 in taxpayer funds to help illegal immigrants fill out paperwork to receive temporary amnesty under President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action plan that he unilaterally instituted.’

“The county, which was con-sidered the second-best place in the country for illegal immigrants to go, recently had a confirmed case of tuberculosis in one of its high schools.

“O’Malley, the state’s governor, has been all over the map on the issue. He said that all of the ille-

gal immigrant juveniles, 90% of whom are teenagers, should re-main in the United States instead of being sent back to “certain death” in Central America. He then begged federal officials not to dump illegal immigrants in the western part of his state, before saying he wanted to house illegal immigrants in foster homes and congregate housing in his state.”

Perhaps Sanchez and Monta-no are innocent. Perhaps they are the “Dreamers” Obama used to speak of in a dramatic whispering voice. Perhaps one or both are on the track to become valedictori-ans of the Rockville High School. Perhaps these two young men are exactly what this nation needs to maintain its technical and moral prowess as a shining beacon of in-spiration to the rest of the world.

Some say, “Diversity is our strength.” Others are saying, “The enemy is our own capacity for suicidal self-delusion.”

From the editor continued from page 2

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COMMENTARY

We love our chickensCharissa Roberson

A dusky calm fell across the lawn as I followed my friends down to the bottom of their sloping yard. There were four sisters; the youngest, Eva, ran ahead, jacket billowing out be-hind her. The three older sisters, Sarah, Grace, and Abi, strolled along beside me at a more mod-erate pace. The grass shushed about our feet, cold and damp with evening dew. Beyond the mountains, a glow of rose and orange marked where the sun was beginning to set.

“We’ll be able to see them be-fore they go in to roost,” Abi in-formed me as we crossed the final stretch of lawn at the bottom of the hill.

Eva, who had already complet-ed the trek, tugged open the door of a spacious, wooden coop and ducked inside. “Rosie!” we heard Eva calling out as we approached the coop. “Rosie, come here!”

Within the wire-fenced chick-en yard, a dozen beautiful chick-ens were fluttering and parading about, spreading their motley feathers in the dusty air.

“There’s so many different kinds,” I said in awe.

“We always pick out a variety of breeds when we get new chicks,” Abi explained. She pointed to a dark orange chicken in the corner of the coop. “That one is Amber, a New Hampshire Red.”

“The white chicken in the mid-dle is Cloudy,” Grace said. “She’s a White Leghorn. And the brown chicken next to her is Jade, a Plymouth Rock.”

Sarah gestured to a larger white chicken near the water bowl. “That’s Valdi, a White Rock. She’s one of my chickens.”

“And this is Rosie!” Eva emerged at the door of the coop, grinning and cradling a large, vel-vety black hen in her arms.

“She’s the oldest chicken we have,” Sarah told me.

“And she’s mine,” Eva said proudly, running a gentle hand over Rosie’s dark feathers.

Grace slipped around Eva and went inside the fence, deft-ly scooping up another of the chickens poking around the coop.

“This is Sapphire, but we call her Sassy,” Grace said, holding up the hen so I could stroke her sleek head. The chicken ruffled her feathers and clucked throat-ily, making all of us laugh.

“That’s how she got her nick-name,” Sarah said, crossing her arms with a small smile.

Abi stepped towards Grace and slid a finger under Sassy’s earlobe, which was a rust-red color. “You can tell what color of egg a hen will lay by the color of their ear-lobes. Sassy, because she has a red ear lobe, will lay brown eggs.”

“You can have a lot of differ-ent colored eggs,” Eva piped up. “There’s white and brown and blue and pink and even green ones. The hens that lay the multi-colored eggs are called Easter-eg-gers.”

“Here,” Sarah said, walking up to me and holding out her cupped hands. While we had been talk-ing, she had gone into the coop and collected a handful of eggs, smooth and pale, and each one a slightly different shade, shape, and texture. “Since it’s still a bit cold out, the hens are only laying five to six eggs a day,” she said.

“But when summer comes, we’ll get around ten,” Abi ex-plained.

With a rustle of feathers, Grace bent down and released Sassy back into the coop.

“Look, they’re heading in for the night,” Sarah said, pointing.

We watched as the chickens strutted, one by one, up the ramp and into the hutch, where they would roost and snuggle down, safe and warm, for the night.

“It looks like they have an ar-ranged order,” I mused.

“They do,” Abi told me. “The chickens go into the hutch based on pecking order. The dominant female is at the top, and the other chickens have their places under-neath.”

“And if a chicken gets out of place, they get pecked,” Grace added.

“So it’s a literal ‘pecking or-der,’” I said.

The four sisters laughed. “Yes, it is,” they replied.

As the last chicken disappeared into the hutch, Abi securely latched the coop.

“C’mon, let’s go see the chicks now,” Eva burst out excitedly. She dashed off towards the house, leaving the rest of us to follow ea-gerly in her wake.

After the crisp air of the out-doors, it was pleasant to step into the warm, golden kitchen back at the house. We took off our shoes and jackets and knelt on the hardwood floor next to a small bin with a heat lamp suspended over it.

Reaching into the bin, Abi scooped out a fuzzy, golden chick, with small bright eyes and a deli-cate pointed beak. I couldn’t sup-press a gasp of delight.

“Here, you can hold her,” Abi said, smiling at me.

“Thank you,” I breathed. Carefully, I took the chick from her, letting the baby nestle down in my hands. Abi and her sisters got out the rest of the chicks, five in total.

“We each have one,” Eva said, setting her chick on her lap. “Even my mom!”

“How old are they?” I asked, stroking my chick with one fin-ger.

“Just around a week,” Grace told me.

“When they’re about six months old, they’ll start laying and be called pullets,” Abi ex-plained. “Then at a year old, they’ll be full-grown.”

“When will they join the other chickens?” I asked.

“When it gets warmer out,” Sarah said. “Then we’ll let all the adult hens roam about the yard, and we’ll introduce the babies to them. Usually it goes very well.”

“Yeah,” Eva said, snuggling her chick to her face. “The older chickens are just curious.”

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COMMENTARY

I smiled around the little circle of girls, sitting on the floor in the quiet, warm kitchen with the pre-cious little birds resting in their hands. The four sisters wore con-tented smiles.

“Thank you for sharing your pets with me,” I said, smiling down at the chick still cuddled in my hand.

“Of course!” said Abi.“We love our chickens,” said

Sarah and Grace.Eva grinned enthusiastically.

“Chickens are the best pets ever!”

High speeds in neighborhoods reported continued from page 1

We love our chickens continued from page 8

Emmitsburg learns a costly lesson continued from page 2

The citizen suggested plac-ing a 3-way stop at the intersec-tion of Spring and Challedon Drives. Town Manager Gloria Rollins stated she would research the code regarding allowable road modifications. Commissioner Donald Schildt stated that speed-ing was a Town-wide problem and suggested the citizens call the school board regarding the speed-ing bus. Commissioner Gary

Baker asked if there were specif-ic times the speeding was occur-ring. The citizen stated the worst was around 5 to 8 pm with the exception of the school bus do-ing its zooming around 4pm. It was suggested that the new troop-er coverage could be used to en-force speed limits but as stated earlier, the Town-wide problem will likely spread the available law enforcement coverage.

In the financial world, what Mayor Briggs, the chief advocate for the solar farms did was place a one way ‘bet’ on the future cost of electricity.

Mayor Briggs predicted that the solar farm would save the residents of Emmitsburg over $1 million over the life of the contract. In an article authored by him for the April 2014 edition of the Emmitsburg News-Journal, Briggs defended his push for the solar farm saying it was “to save money to maintain service lev-el for residents.”

As the Council prepared to cast their vote, an objecting Commis-sioner noted that “current electri-cal rates were in fact going down 8% the following month, and ap-proving a contract that locked the town into guaranteed rate increas-es, while rates were in fact decreas-ing, made no sense and was a poor business decision.”

In 2015, once again at the re-quest of the Mayor, the town signed a second contract for pow-er from a second solar farm. The terms of the second contract were identical to the terms of the first solar farm contract with the excep-tion that the initial starting rate was 6.8 cents/kwh. The fact that in two years the selling price for so-lar electricity dropped from 7.9 to 6.8 cents/kwh indicates a bad deal to have locked in the 2013 elec-tricity price. Currently the com-bined cost of Emmitsburg’s solar electricity is about 7.66 cents/kwh and it will rise by 2% each year.

It appears the mayor was driv-en to seek energy price deal over his concern about Emmitsburg energy bills associated with a new wastewater treatment plant that was anticipated to generate very high energy bills

As it turns out, the drop in the cost of electricity over the last three years has proven the solar contract to be a bad deal. The ENJ calcu-lates that by the end of the 20-year contract, the difference between buying power ‘off the grid’ as op-posed to buying it from the solar farm will exceed $30,000/year, for a total ‘voluntary’ loss of over $500,000 to the town over the length of the contract.

In addition to paying a higher than market rate for the electric-ity the Town uses, the town is al-so incurring a loss from the sale of the excess electricity it is re-quired to purchase from the solar farms but does not use. In 2016 the town sold the electricity it purchased from the solar farm for $275,224 to the power company for just $231,200, for a net loss to the town of $44,024. The reason for the loss is that the Town has to buy the excess solar farm elec-tricity (beyond what the Town us-es) at the contract rate (currently 7.66 cents/kwh) but can only sell the electricity they bought back to the grid at the generator rate cur-rently 6.598 cents/kwh. So all ex-cess juice is sold at a loss. Worse, the generator rate is slated to drop 6.5% this year increasing the loss.

So here is a summary of the overall impact of the decision:

Emmitsburg entered into two contracts with solar energy de-velopers that require the Town to purchase all electricity produced from the solar farms. It turns out the Town is only consuming about half of the solar output. The Town thought they were locking in a deal at a lower than-current-mar-ket rate of electricity that could only grow at 2% per year.

The deal was flawed for two main reasons. Shortly after the deal was signed, the general cost of elec-tricity dropped below the contract rate. So the electricity Emmitsburg is using from the solar farm (7.66 cents/kwh) is costing them more than had they just continued to buy juice off the grid (7.043 cents/kwh).

A worse part of the deal is that although the wastewater treatment plant uses less electricity than antic-ipated, Emmitsburg is committed to buy all electricity from the so-lar farm. They are only using about half of the output. That means they have to buy the unused solar elec-tricity at the elevated solar contract rate (7.66 cents/kwh) and then turn around and sell it to the grid at the “generator” rate 6.598 cents/kwh) for a very big loss.

There is a third bad-deal factor. The Town granted use of Town property for the project for free. During the 20-year contract, the Town is denied use of that land. Is the developer obligated to clear the

land at the end of the contract? If not more harm will arise from the solar contract.

So, unless the cost of electricity reverses itself and starts to rise, in-stead of the 1 - 1.5 million dollar savings predicted by Briggs, the so-lar farms are on track to produce close to $1 million in losses to the town over the length of the con-tracts.

In contrast to the Emmitsburg fiasco, Mount Saint Mary’s Uni-versity had a huge solar farm in-stalled on their property. Their deal includes leasing the land used for the farm for a set fee. The Uni-versity gained risk-free land rent-al revenue while avoiding power market volatility issues.

Thinking about a solar deal? Caveat emptor!

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LIBRARY

A PAge from WAlkersville librAry57 West Frederick Street, Walkersville, MD (301) 845-8880

Get Tech-Savvy at the LibraryStaying on the cutting edge

of technology is easy at your local library. You may be familiar with the computers, printers, copiers, and WiFi found at the local library, but did you know it is also a community hub for learning how to use new technology, such as 3-D printers, robotics, and more? This spring, there are several “techy” programs for ages ranging from elementary school to adult to help familiarize our community with emerging technology.

In March, six adults attended a 3-D printing class and each created a cookie cutter that was printed on the branch’s 3-D printer. “This was wildly successful,” said Katie Thompson Hearn, adult librarian at the Walkersville Branch Library. “We

will continue to offer these classes to provide equal and free access to technology at the library.” April’s tech program line-up includes:

ChildrenLego We Do Explorations for grades K-5 Build, program, and experiment with Lego WeDo robots. Saturday, April 8 at 2 p.m. & Monday, April 10 at 4 p.m.

Intro to 3-D Printing for grades 3-5 (must register) Learn the basics of design in Tinkercad, create an object and have it printed. Wednesday, April 12 at 4 p.m.Teens Hour of Code Explore beginning coding skills while having fun with friends. April 13 at 3 p.m.

3-D Printing for Teens Learn about basic three dimensional printing by creating a unique item to be printed at the library and picked up at a later date. April 25 at 3 p.m.

AdultsEmail for Beginners Sign up for an email account, and learn how to compose, reply, and save a contact. April 12 at 11:30 a.m.

Local authors visit Walkersville Branch Library in April

April is Frederick Reads Month at Frederick County Public Libraries. What better way to celebrate than to stop by and listen to local authors discuss their books!

On April 6 at 2pm, local author Shawn Stout will visit the Walkersville Branch Library to discuss her newest book, A Tiny Piece of Sky. Set in 1939 Hagerstown, MD, a young girl, Frankie Baum, finds that the war is closer to home than previously thought, as townspeople accuse her father of being a German spy. Follow Frankie on her quest to clear her father’s name and discover what she learns along the way. Mrs. Stout is also author of the Penelope Crumb Series, Not-So-Ordinary Girl Series, and Fiona Finkelstein Series. Stop by the library and check one out today!

Also helping us celebrate Frederick Reads Month is local

award-winning author Stacy Einfalt.

On April 25 at 6:30pm, Mrs. Einfalt will be reading her children’s book, The Horse That Looked Different, a story of a horse who was not easily accepted into his new home by the other horses. Stacy’s passion in her books is to bring a positive message to her readers and to bring an awareness of bullying. Come and enjoy a positive message for all.

To see all of FCPL’s Frederick Reads events, visit FCPL.org.

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Thurmont Thespians set the stage at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church with Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming

It’s said that you can’t keep a good man down, and in this case, it’s a good show and cast. Performing the third and final sequel to Smoke on the Mountain, the Thurmont Thespian cast reunites as the gospel-singing Sanders Family for Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming.

The show takes place in October 1945. The war is over and America’s years of prosperity are just beginning. But there’s another kind of rite of passage at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, North Carolina, where Reverend Mervin Oglethorpe is giving his last service. He’s been called to preach in Texas, and he’s already bought a ten‑gallon hat and is preparing to ride into the sunset with his wife June, who is eight months pregnant. The next morning, young Dennis Sanders takes over as Mount Pleasant’s pastor. Join the Sanders Family

as they send Mervin and June off in style, with hilarious and touching stories and twenty‑five toe‑tapping Bluegrass Gospel favorites.

Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming is written by Connie Ray, conceived by Alan Bailey, with musical arrangements by Mike Craver. Thurmont Thespian cast members include Steve Hess as Burl, Anna Perry as Vera, Annabelle Perry as Denise, Josh Flanick as Dennis, Lori Hockley as June Oglethorpe, Travis Sanders as Pastor Oglethorpe, Harriette Matthews as Miss Myrtle, Kathy Jenkins as Miss Maude, and Bill Collins as Stanley Sanders. Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming is being directed by Kelli Donaghue, co-directed by Marrie Sanders, and produced by Beth Watson.

Performances will be held at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 15

N. Church Street, Thurmont, on Friday and Saturday April 28 & 29 and May 5 & 6 at 7:00 p.m., as well as Sunday, April 30 at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $15 with general admission seating. No

reservations accepted. Parking is available at the church as well as behind the fire station.

An additional performance will be held Sunday, May 7 at 2:00 p.m. at St. John’s

Evangelical Lutheran Church, 8619 Black’s Mill Road, Creagerstown. Tickets are “pay what you can.”

ARTS

The Fantasmagorical Chitty Chitty Bang BangComing to The Way Off

Broadway Dinner Theatre this spring is the area’s regional theatre premiere production of the high-flying musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The family friendly production, based on the classic film, was announced as part of the theatre’s 2017 Mainstage Season last year by producers. The musical will take flight at the area’s only year-round producing theatre beginning April 7th.

In the show, everyone’s favorite flying car comes to life on stage as an eccentric inventor, Caractacus Potts, sets about restoring an old race car from a scrap heap with the help of his children Jeremy and Jemima. They soon discover the car has magical properties including the ability to float and take flight. Trouble occurs when the evil Baron Bomburst desires the magic car for himself. The family joins forces with Truly Scrumptious and batty Grandpa

Potts to outwit the dastardly Baron and Baroness and their villainous henchman, the Childcatcher.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang runs from April 7 – June 3, 2017, with performances every Friday and Saturday evening, and matinees on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sunday of each month.

Tickets on a Friday evening or one of the Sunday matinees are $45, with Saturday evening tickets being $48. Tickets may be

purchased by contacting the Box Office at (301) 662-6600.

To learn more about the show, or any of Way Off Broadway’s productions, visit www.wayoffbroadway.com.

Following Chitty Chitty Bang Bang this summer will be Happy Days – The Musical, based on the popular 70’s television series by Garry Marshall.

TJStage brings life to award winning musicalCaylee WinpiglerFans of the bouffant hair

style, great tunes, and everything Baltimore, Governor Thomas Johnson (TJ) High School is bringing back the 1960s with TJStage’s production of the musical Hairspray.

For those unfamiliar with the musical, it is a blast from the past through intricate choreography, acting, and singing.

Senior Megan McGee, of Walkersville High School, is a member of the Advanced Theater Studies program, a part of the Academy of Fine Arts offered at TJ High School. McGee will play the lead role of Tracy Turnblad.

McGee explained that the musical “takes place in Baltimore, Maryland, revolving around Tracy Turnblad, an overweight teenager who is obsessed with the Corny Collins Show. After one of the stars of the show leaves, Corny holds

auditions to see who will be the next dancer on the show. With the help of her friend, Seaweed, Tracy auditions. That is when the many plot lines begin to emerge, most of which center around Tracy, whose good-natured personality helps her to persevere.“

The students participating in this award-winning production are especially excited to perform the musical and showcase the energetic numbers. “The audience should keep an eye on the performers during the Corny Collins Show,” recommends Middletown High School junior Owen Raynor, “Multiple [students] have danced competitively and the energy and skill level of this ensemble are simply captivating.”

Raynor is playing the part of Link Larkin, the unlikely love interest of McGee. “I’m absolutely dying to show off

these dance numbers and to play opposite Megan McGee who’s a very talented and great scene partner.”

Not only do the students have high hopes, but TJStage director Jason Hoffman has set his ambitions high for this musical, “TJStage has a strong reputation, while we may not sell out (a tough thing to do considering the auditorium holds 1,400 people), our audiences are rewarded with a quality show that they will not soon forget. I expect this show to be no different.” This year’s cast, crew, and orchestra have put in an abundant amount of time to ensure another high-quality performance.

Please come out and support TJ on any of their performance days: April 28, 29, May 4, 5 at 7:30 PM and 2pm on April 29 and May 6. Tickets available at tjstage.net or showtix4u.com.

Megan McGee playing Tracy Turnblad and Owen Raynor as Link Larkin.

The Thurmont Thespians set the stage with Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Thurmont. (l-r) Members of the Sanders Family: Annabelle Perry, Bill Collins, Steve Hess, Anna Perry, and Lori Hockley performing their Bluegrass Gospel music.

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COMMUNITY

How can the sandwich generation relieve financial stress?Don’t worry too much if you

haven’t heard, but April is Na-tional Stress Awareness Month. Of course, stress can present emo-tional and physical challenges to all of us, but if you belong to the “sandwich generation” – that is, you may be caring for aging par-ents while still supporting your own children – you may be fac-ing some financial stress as well. What can you do to relieve it?

For one thing, be aware that you’re certainly not alone. About one in seven middle-aged adults

is providing financial support to both an aging parent and a child, according to the Pew Research Center.

Still, knowing that you have plenty of company won’t provide you with solutions for your own situation. So consider the follow-ing:

Suggest “downsizing.” Are your parents still paying a cost-ly mortgage on a house that’s now too big for them? You might want to encourage them to think about downsizing. They

may be emotionally attached to their home, but they might ben-efit substantially if they moved someplace that’s less expensive.

Talk to parents about their in-come sources. Are your parents maximizing their Social Security payments? Are they following a sensible withdrawal strategy for their IRA, 401(k) or other retire-ment accounts? You may want to recommend that they work with a qualified financial professional.

Discuss all legal arrange-ments. Be aware of your parents’

estate plans and the status of important legal documents – will, living trust, power of at-torney, health care directive, and so on. When the time arises for any of these arrange-ments to take effect, you don’t want to face any unpleasant – and possibly costly – surprises.

Find out about health care. Try to learn about your parents’ health insurance coverage. And

have they done anything to pro-tect themselves from the potential-ly catastrophic costs of long-term care, such as an extended nursing home stay? You may not be able to do a great deal for them in these areas, but at the least, you may be able to get them to take some posi-tive action on their own behalf.

Don’t ignore your own retire-ment savings. Even if you can afford to provide some finan-cial support to your parents, don’t shortchange yourself when it comes to your own retirement savings. You don’t get a “do-over” when it comes to putting away money for retirement, so con-tribute as much as you can afford to your IRA and your 401(k) or other employer-sponsored retire-ment plan.

Prioritize your investment choices. If you would like to help your children go to college, you might want to consider a college savings vehicle. Still, you may

need to prioritize your invest-ments. After all, your children will likely have a variety of op-tions – such as loans and schol-arships – to help them pay for school, and they may also be able to reduce costs substantially by going to a community college their first two years. But you are basically “up against the clock” when it comes to saving for re-tirement, so you’ll want to take that into account when allocat-ing your investment dollars.

Belonging to the sandwich generation can certainly pro-duce feelings of anxiety. But by following the above suggestions, you may be able to reduce some of this stress. And by doing so, you can help your parents, your children – and yourself.

This article was written by Edward Jones for use by Laura Beall your local Edward Jones Financial Ad-visor.

Scout Ryan Fulmer and American Legion, Post 282, Commander Dwight Reynolds collaborated to properly retire our faded and worn Star-Spangled Banners.

Local Scout develops retirement programRyan Fulmer, a local Scout

from Troop 1011 in Woodsboro, MD, is giving back to the com-munity by building flag collec-tion boxes to collect worn out American flags so they can be re-tired properly. Troop 1011 and the American Legion Post 282 will work together to collect and properly retire the flags at an American Legion flag retirement ceremony held every June.

Ryan created the collection boxes as an Eagle Scout project to raise awareness of the proper way to dispose of unserviceable American flags. This is an impor-tant project to the community as it allows citizens to show their respect for their nation’s nation-al symbol of freedom by provid-ing a collection spot to drop off worn out flags ready for a proper retirement.

Ryan’s flag collection box-es can be found at the follow-ing locations: American Legion

Post 282, Trout’s Family Restau-rant, Trout’s Seafood and De-li Market, Woodsboro Bank (at the Woodsboro location), Walk-ersville Town Hall, Safeway (at the Walkersville location), and Walkersville Eyecare. For more information about the prop-er disposal of the American flag please visit this website: http://www.aflag.com/disposal.asp or how to learn how to properly fold an American flag, please vis-it this website: http://www.aflag.com/folding.asp

Editors Note: An excerpt from an American Legion National Con-vention resolution: WHEREAS, Our Flag which we love and cherish

WHEREAS, In a proper service of tribute and memory and love, our Flag becomes faded and worn and must be honorably retired from life; and

WHEREAS, Such retirement of Flags that have become unservice-able may be done in public with respectful and honorable rites: therefore be it

RESOLVED, That The Ameri-can Legion in convention assem-bled at Chicago, Illinois, Sep-tember 18-20, 1944, urge that the National Headquarters use all means to foster and promote through the proper channels, the greater use of the official American Legion Ceremony for the Disposal of Unserviceable Flags as outlined in the Manual of Ceremonies; and be it further

RESOLVED, That Flag Day, June 14, be recommended as the most appropriate day on which to annually hold this ceremony.

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Salon Allure

A fresh approach

Michele Kettner

It was at a young age when Amy Brandt knew she wanted to be a hair stylist.

“My mom owned a flower shop in a shopping center, so when I would go to work with her I would go down to the salon,” said Brandt.

Opening a salon was not always the plan for 33-year-old Brandt as she started her career as a styl-ist, but she would not have it any other way. After 12 years of expe-rience, Brandt opened Salon Al-lure in January 2013. While ma-ny people think there are some disadvantages to being a busi-ness owner, Brandt does not see it that way, “I work open to close, but love every minute of it.” Al-though owning her own business takes up a lot of time, Brandt’s passion shines through her sa-lon. “I’ve always had a fascination with the industry, which is why I chose the name Salon Allure,” said Brandt. “Allure meaning fas-cination, charm, and appeal.”

Stylists at Salon Allure al-so notice the difference between Brandt’s salon and chain salons. Junior stylist Madyson Fleming said, “Chains seem to be more about quantity and how many

clients. Small businesses give you a strong foundation and learning opportunities to benefit myself and my guests.” While national salons focus on money, Brandt opened her salon in Walkersville not only because that is where she lives, but because she wanted to support the community.

Since her business opened four years ago, Brandt has been able to build her own salon culture. “I wanted to create a salon with people who loved the industry as much as I do,” said Brandt. In ad-dition to creating her own atmo-sphere, Brandt is able to provide her guests with healthy options for their hair with Surface, a line of organic hair products.

While Salon Allure offers custom treatments with Sur-face products for hair and scalp challenges, the salon also pro-vides custom cuts, color, trend coloring, such as balayage, for-mal styles, perms, facial waxing, and smoothing treatments. Even though we are only four months into 2017, Brandt has already noticed trends starting to devel-op. “2017 is about healthy hair with movement,” said Brandt, “pastel and trend colors are in as well as color with a lot of dimen-sion.”

Along with services, Salon Al-lure hosts different events for their customers and new guests. Brandt explained, “We have open houses and ladies night out events where we launch new products as well as invite other local businesses to participate.” These events also al-low customers to try different ser-vices and products before they purchase.

With the start of April al-so comes the start of prom and wedding season for salons. Even though prom business has slowed down in the last few years with more teenagers doing their hair

at home, wedding appointments keep the salon busy. When it comes to different styles, trends definitely play a roll. “Braids are huge,” said Brandt. “I’m seeing a lot of bridal fashion focusing on low chignon styles.” This year, Brandt and the staff look to ex-pand their already busy wedding business.

Like many small business own-ers, Brandt has big plans for her salon and staff in the future. In 2016, she became a National Ed-ucator for Surface. This certifica-tion allows her to teach other styl-ists how to do treatments using

Surface’s new products. The cer-tification has also allowed Brandt to give her salon an edge when it comes to using Surface products. Senior stylist Stefanie Powell not-ed her favorite part of working at Salon Allure is “getting custom-ized training.” Brandt’s ultimate dream for the salon is to expand to a larger space so she can of-fer more services to her custom-ers. But for now, Brandt is happy with where her salon is, “I’m just happy to bring a fresh approach to salons in the town and love be-ing able to support the town I live in.”

COMMUNITY

Salon Allure provides an upscale and soothing atmosphere

You’re invitedA milestone is fast approaching

for Children’s Center of Walkers-ville as it celebrates its 30th an-niversary this year. Established in August 1987, it was founded by Jean Riley and the late Patricia Schwinger with a focus on Pre-school and Child Care for young children. It has since grown to a fully Accredited Maryland State Department of Education Pre-school Program and maintains a Level 5 Maryland Excels rating – the highest rating available to li-censed Centers. The owner, Gin-

ny Simoneau, has been with the Center since its opening.

The key to the Center’s suc-cess and longevity is its passion for each child’s social, emotional, physical, and cognitive growth, as well as a family-like atmosphere. The Center is proud to have nu-merous children from its earlier years now grown and having their own children attend.

Continuing to embrace the im-portance of children and families, Children’s Center of Walkersville, in partnership with several other

businesses, helps to sponsor the annual Children’s Festival and in-vites you to attend. On Saturday, April 29 from 10am-3pm, the Children’s Festival will be held in Baker Park near the gazebo and bell tower. The festival is a FREE event for children and their fam-ilies. Children can enjoy hands-on activities and entertainment while their parents learn more about local early childhood pro-grams and services. It is a “must be at” event in Frederick County!

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COMMUNITY

Pictured L. to R. Jim Corley Program Chairman, Abby Wambach First Place Winner and Dave Schrodel President

Pictured L. to R. Lion Vonnie Crum, Program Chairperson; Michael Lookingbill, Katie Turner Supervisor of SUCCESS program; Dave Schrodel, President

This year the Glade Valley Li-on Club sponsored the Ameri-can Heritage and Patriotism Essay Contest. Thanks to the leadership of Lion Jim Corley, students at Walkersville Middle School were encouraged to participate. The topic they needed to write on was “What have you learned from his-

tory that will help you in the fu-ture” First place winner was Abby Wambach and second place win-ner was Abby Albertson. Both girls are 6th grade students. Ab-by Wambach read her essay to the members at a recent Glade Valley Lions Club meeting.

Recently Ms. Katie Turner, Su-pervisor of the Frederick County Public Schools SUCCESS pro-gram spoke to the Glade Valley Lions Club. The SUCCESS pro-gram is for students to prepare

for gainful employment. Students spend half the day in a classroom setting learning life skills. They then go to work in a paid job. Stu-dents can stay in the program un-til age 21. Michael Lookingbill, a

student in the SUCCESS program shared with the members how the program has prepared him to be-come independent.

Walkersville Diner owners surprised by popularityKen Kellar

Walkersville Diner co-own-ers Russ Bilgic and Ali Karaturk planned a “soft opening” for March. A soft opening is when you ease into an operation giving the business a chance to ramp up in a controlled manner. What they got was a packed house from the start.

The Walkersville Diner is on the site of the old Burger King in the center of the Walkers-ville Shopping Center parking lot. The building had sat idle for years. After the Burger King shut down, the building was very briefly converted to a sushi restaurant, but that enterprise quickly failed.

Seeing large crowds at the new restaurant and hearing some good feedback from a family member, I tried out the place on Saturday evening, March 11.

Set apart from the rest of the shopping center, parking is plen-tiful. The exterior of the res-taurant appears to be upgraded and is very appealing. The doors open to a foyer. The second set of doors open to the diner with

a cashier counter where a hostess quickly greeted and seated us.

The interior is nicely decorated with a diner counter and plenty of tables. The acoustics of the place were pretty nice. While the place was very crowded, there didn’t ap-pear to be any echoes, important for my aging ears.

The newly printed plastic col-or menus contained a vast array of choices: appetizers, soups, salads, sandwiches, fish, wraps, break-fasts, Italian cuisine as well as ma-ny traditional American dishes such as pork chops and mashed potatoes.

Our young waitress promptly served us getting our drinks (no al-cohol by the way) and taking our orders.

While waiting for our food, we noticed some friends at nearby ta-bles. All were very happy to see a new restaurant in Walkersville. One couple were weekly regulars at the nearby Village Tavern, but they too where happy to have an-other dining option.

That first evening didn’t pass without some hiccups. Service was pretty slow and some meals showed up missing advertised

sides. That evening the ladies re-stroom was out of service inspir-ing some jokes about the recent transgender bathroom kerfuffle as women were offered access to the Men’s room.

Although there were some dis-appointments, everyone I talked with was willing to give the new venture the benefit of the doubt and give the place a chance to im-prove their game. All agreed that turning the large menu into hot food must be a massive challenge.

A few days after my visit, I met with Russ to ask how things were going. He said getting staff up to speed was his biggest challenge. He couldn’t find an experienced diner cook and is working with a staff of five new cooks, train-ing them on the job to develop an “A” game. Waitress staff too was light in experience so some service problems were no surprise. Russ explained even their signage has been an issue. He paid a hefty sum

expecting durable plastic signs and instead was delivered printed plas-tic sheeting which our recent win-ter winds shredded.

Russ expected a slow start, but the place has been packed since opening. He opened with what he estimated was a week of supplies but was out in 3 days. Since the opening, the co-owners have been working 15-hour days.

Russ told me he had run a diner in New Jersey. I couldn’t help but notice a rich accent as he spoke so I asked Russ where he hailed from. He and his business partner are originally from Turkey. Russ has been in the USA for 18 years.

I next inquired how he ended up here in Walkersville. He explained they were exploring Delaware for a new restaurant opportunity when they saw the Walkersville proper-ty in a real estate guide. Russ said they visited and loved the place.

He is signed into a 5-year lease so he is committed to making the

venture work. At the time of the interview, he was renting lodging in Walkersville with his family two and a half hours away in New Jer-sey, but he was planning to move them to Maryland soon.

We discussed the competition of the nearby Village Tavern. Russ said competition was good ex-plaining it would drive both res-taurants to keep their prices down and do their best work.

I told Russ that some were sur-prised by the extensive menu and asked if it was perhaps too large. Russ shrugged indicating perhaps. He said they were tracking orders and would likely adjust the menu in the future, but, for now, the menu is huge.

So it appears the Walkersville Diner staff is learning quickly with service improving daily. If you vis-ited in the first few days of oper-ations, you’ll be sure to notice a positive change when you return.

Melinda Griffee orders dinner at the new Walkersville Diner

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COMMUNITY

Lancaster Builders have commenced site preparation in Woodsboro

Delauter and Son, contracted by Lancaster Builders has commenced site preparations for the 7-lot development in Woodsboro off of Coppermine Road. Pictured, workers tie into the existing sewer system on Autumn Sky Terrace.

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BOOK OF DAYS

The wise fools of Gotham

On an eminence about a mile south of Gotham, a village in Nottinghamshire, stands a bush known as the ‘Cuckoo Bush,’ and with which the following strange legend is connected. The present bush is planted on the site of the original one, and serves as a me-morial of the disloyal event which has given the village its notoriety.

King John, as the story goes, was marching towards Notting-ham and intended to pass through Gotham meadow. The villag-ers believed that the ground over which a king passed became for ever afterwards a public road; and not being minded to part with their meadow so cheaply, by some means or other they prevented the king from passing that way. In-censed at their proceedings, he sent soon after to inquire the rea-son of their rudeness and incivil-ity, doubtless intending to punish them by fine or otherwise. When they heard of the approach of the messengers, they were as anxious to escape the consequences of the monarch’s displeasure as they had been to save their meadow.

What time they had for delib-eration, or what counsels they took, we are not told, but when the king’s servants arrived, they found some of the inhabitants en-deavouring to drown an eel in a pond; some dragging their carts and wagons to the top of a barn to shade a wood from the sun’s rays; some tumbling cheeses down a hill in the expectation that they would find their way to Notting-

ham Market, and some employed in hedging in a cuckoo which had perched upon an old bush!

In short, they were all employed in such a manner as convinced the king’s officers that they were a vil-lage of fools and consequently unworthy of his majesty’s notice. They, of course, having outwit-ted the king, imagined that they were wise. Hence arose the saying, ‘The wise fools of Gotham.’ Full-er says, alluding to this story and some others to which this gave rise, such as ‘The Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham,’ pub-lished in the time of Henry VIII, ‘Gotham doth breed as wise peo-ple as any which causelessly laugh at their simplicity.’

But they have other defenders besides Fuller. Some skeptical po-et, whose production has not im-mortalized his name, writes:

‘Tell me no more of Gotham fools,

Or of their eels, in little poolsWhich they, we’re told, were

drowning; Nor of their carts drawn up on

high When King John’s men were

standing by,To keep a wood from browning.Nor of their cheese shov’d down

the hill,Nor of the cuckoo sitting still While it they hedged round:Such tales of them have long

been told,By prating boobies young and

old, In drunken circles crowned.

The fools are those who thith-er go,

To see the cuckoo bush, I trow,The wood, the barn, and pools;For such are seen both here and

there, And passed by without a sneer,By all but errant fools.’Haydon the painter and Tom

ThumbIt is scarcely an exaggeration to

say that poor Haydon, the his-torical painter, was killed by Tom Thumb. The lucky dwarf was ‘the feather that broke the back’ of the unhappy artist. Of that small in-dividual it is not necessary here to say much. He was certainly, from his smallness, a great natural curi-osity; nor could it be denied that, with a happy audacity, surpris-ing in one so young, he exhibited some cleverness and a few rather extraordinary attainments.

Haydon had from boyhood en-tertained a noble estimate of the province of art and strove to rise to eminence in the highest form of painting, instead of descending to mere portraiture. The world, however, never gave him credit for such an amount of genius or abil-ity as he believed himself to pos-sess, although he was everywhere recognized as a remarkable and de-serving artist. He was one of those men who make enemies for them-selves. Conceited, obstinate, and irritable, he was always quarrel-ling—now with the Royal Acad-emy, now with individuals, and gradually relapsed into the convic-tion that he was an ill-understood and ill-used man. In 1820, he pro-duced a large picture, ‘Christ En-tering Jerusalem,’ and he gained a considerable sum of money by exhibiting it to shilling visitors in London and throughout the prov-inces. After this, however, his trou-bles began; his historical pictures were too large for private man-sions and failed to meet with pur-chasers.

Few diaries are more sad than that which Hayden kept and which accumulated at length to twenty-six large MS. volumes. Despondency marked nearly ev-ery page. At one time he mourn-ed over the absence of custom-ers for his pictures; at another, of some real or fancied slight he had received from other painters, while his entries made repeated reference to debts, creditors, in-solvencies, applications to friends for loans, and appeals to ministers for Government supply. One great and honourable ambition he had cherished—to illustrate the walls of the new Houses of Parliament with historical pictures; but this professional eminence was denied to him, as he believed, through unworthy favouritism.

Such was the mental condition of the unhappy painter in the ear-ly part of the year 1846, when the so-called General Tom Thumb came to England. Haydon had then just finished a large picture on which he had long been en-gaged, ‘The Banishment of Aris-tides.’ He hoped to redeem his

fallen fortunes and to relieve him-self of some of his debts by exhib-iting the picture. He engaged a room at the Egyptian Hall in Pic-cadilly, under the roof where the dwarf was attracting his crowds, and sent hundreds of invitations to distinguished persons and crit-ics to attend a private view. An en-try in his diary on April 4th was ‘the beginning of the end,’ shew-ing how acutely the poor man felt his comparative want of success:—’Opened; rain hard; only Jerrold, Baring, Fox Maule, and Hobhouse came. Rain would not have kept them away twenty-six years ago. Comparison:

1st day of 1820 “Christ Enter-ing Jerusalem,” £19 16 0

1st day of 1846 “Banishment of Aristides,” £1 1 6

I trust in God, Amen!’ Soon af-terwards he wrote, ‘They rush by thousands to see Tom Thumb. They push, they light, they scream, they faint, they cry, “Help I” and “Murder I.” They see my bills and caravan but do not read them; their eyes are on them, but their sense is gone. It is an insanity, a rabies furor, a dream, of which I would not have believed Eng-land could have been guilty.’ He had exhibited his ‘Aristides’ as an appeal to the public against the Commissioners for the Houses of Parliament, who had reported slightingly of his cartoons for a se-

ries of large pictures; and now the public gave hardly any response whatever to his appeal. About a fortnight after the opening of his exhibition, he recorded in his di-ary, with few but bitter words, the fact that in one week 12,000 per-sons had paid to see Tom Thumb while only 1332 (the fraction be-ing doubtless a child at half-price) paid to see the ‘Aristides.’ After five weeks’ struggle, he closed the Exhibition, with a positive loss of more than a hundred pounds; and thus, in the midst of poverty and misery, relieved only by a kind of pious tenderness which distin-guished him in his domestic rela-tions, he renewed work upon the fondly cherished series of pictures intended by him for the House of Lords. One piteous entry in his diary was to the effect: ‘Oh, God! Let it not be presumptuous in me to call for thy blessing on my six works!’ The end was not long de-layed. One morning in June, the hapless man was found in his painting room, prostrate in front of his picture of ‘Alfred the Great and the First British Jury.’ His di-ary, a small portrait of his wife, his prayer book, his watch, and let-ters to his wife and children, were all orderly arranged; but, for the rest—a pistol and a razor had end-ed his earthly troubles.

Next came fresh April, full of lustyhed,

And wanton as a kid whose horn new buds;

Upon a bull he rode, the same which led

Europa floating through th’ Argolick Floods:

His horns were gilden all with golden studs,

And garnished with garlands, goodly dight,

Of all the fairest flow’rs and freshest buds,

Which th’ earth brings forth; and wet he seem’d in sight

With waves, through which he waded for his love’s delight.

From The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser

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RELIGION

Getting refocused on the Lord (Isaiah 6:1-13)

The scene in this chapter opens upon Isaiah, the prophet of God. Isaiah is a broken, depressed individual due to the passing of a powerful king, Uzziah. II Chronicles 26 tells the story of this king of Judah. He started out as a godly man that God blessed in many ways. Uzziah caused Israel to grow strong under his leadership. However, when he was strong, the king became proud and decided to step over his God-given boundaries. This led him to attempt to offer incense in the Temple, which was forbidden for everyone except the priests. God’s men withstood the king, called out his sin, and appealed that he do right. Uzziah, as a result of his pride, became angry at them, at which point God smote him with leprosy until the day of his death.

Despite his failings, Uzziah was the best king that Isaiah had ever known (and the best Judah had seen for a long time). Therefore, when the king passed, the nation mourned for him. Apparently, however, the nation did more than mourn: they despaired, as if all hope was lost.

Imagine God’s prophet coming into the Temple in such a state! God decided to take the time to

refocus Isaiah’s eyes to where they needed to be looking. To do so, He revealed His glory to His prophet, and reproved his sin.

Scripture states that Isaiah saw the Lord seated upon His throne, high and lifted up, with his train filling the Temple (v.1). This tells us three things. First, that God is sovereign. He is not worried about today’s events or astounded when a person makes a poor decision. God is omniscient (all-knowing). He knows our thoughts before we even think them! Because of His knowledge, He is not pacing before the throne or perched thereon in anticipation: He knows exactly what mankind will do!

Second, we see Him high and lifted up. This means that He is the most powerful of all. The God of the Bible is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords (I Tim 6:14-15)! There is none higher than He! False gods such as Set, Allah, Apollo, Dagon, Satan, and others quake before His presence. He is the God that has all things under His feet (Eph 1:22)! He is the God that created all things, and, by Him, all things consist (Col 1:16-17)! He is the God that holds His children in His hand, and keeps them safe (John 10:28-29)! There

is none stronger or greater than He!

Third, we see His train filling the Temple. The authority of a king determined how long his royal train was to be. For, however many kingdoms that king ruled over, the longer the train. The God of the Bible has jurisdiction over all the heavens and earth, for He is their Creator (Gen 1:1). His train is limitless, as His jurisdiction is so!

Next, Isaiah saw the servants of God flying about in service to their King (v.2). These are angels called seraphim. They have six wings: each pair speaks of an aspect of service. Two wings covered their face: showing their humility in service. They could not look upon God, so they covered their eyes, so they would not be tempted to look elsewhere. Two other wings covered their feet: showing the holiness of their service. Any service done for the Lord is not trite, but holy, and to be done with reverence. Many people have forgotten this today, especially the crowds that seek to replace reverence with entertainment in the church houses. The church is not a place of entertainment, but a place where God’s people are

to worship their Creator in Spirit and Truth! The third set of wings allowed these angels to fly from place to place. This exhibits their bold zeal for their work. They did not grumble and complain, but were excited to do the work of their King!

Finally, Isaiah heard the message of these servants (v.3): “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory!” So powerful was the message that the very foundations of the Temple were shaken (v.4). Our words carry little power, but God’s Word carries much strength. So much so, that the worst of sinners will be convicted of sin, and bow to the Savior, seeking forgiveness (which is always available through Jesus Christ).

Isaiah saw the Lord: His omniscience, omnipotence, and holiness. He saw the servants of God serving Him with perfection. He saw the smoke also: the terror of the Lord against His sin, and foreboding of chastisement (v.4). All of these things caused Isaiah to quake with terror and declare his own unworthiness (v.5).

Beyond these things, what happens next is truly wonderful (v.6-13): God sends an angel to

declare to Isaiah that he is forgiven and restored. Then, he is given a new assignment from the King. It is wonderful that, when we fail Him, our God does not cast us aside, like so much garbage. Instead, He reaches out to us, hoping that we will respond and get back on the straight and narrow path.

Many believers have experienced God’s forgiveness and patience. How about you? Where do you stand with God? Have you accepted His Son Jesus Christ and His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins? Do you work to maintain a close walk with Him daily? If you desire help with these things, I would be happy to help.

James Bussard is the pastor of Calvary Bible Church that meets at 2447 Hampstead-Mexico Road in Westminster, MD. For questions or comments about this article, please call (410) 848-1848, or write him at CalvaryBibleMDPastor@Gmail.com. For service times and information about the church, please go to www.CalvaryBibleMD.com, or call (410) 848-1848.

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A note from Pastor SeanEaster will be here in just a

couple of weeks and what will it mean for us? For many people it is just another holiday with fam-ily gatherings, children eagerly seeking out the Easter eggs that the bunny has hidden and fill-ing themselves with chocolates and jelly beans. A feast of Easter ham or leg of lamb with all of the delicious side dishes. Some peo-ple will even attend church or a sunrise service on Easter morn-ing. But what does Easter mean in our everyday lives?

Even those who are not Chris-tians know that it is the day when Christians believe that Je-sus was resurrected from death and was brought into a new life with God for the sake of cleans-ing us of our sins so that we too can be brought into a new life with God. But I often won-der if we actually process what that means for us? It gives many Christians comfort to know that upon their death, or the death of a loved one, that their life may be over here on earth but that life anew has just begun with God. Considering myself a Christian I take comfort in that as well, but I also believe that it goes much deeper than this.

When Jesus was near death on the cross, he spoke these last words before his spirit left him, “it is finished” (John 19:30). Je-sus died to his old life, and three days later he arose into a new life. Jesus experienced an astounding transformation and was brought into an amazing new life that even those who were there to witness this event could have never have predicted.

Easter can do the same for us; we do not have to wait to physi-cally die to have a new life. We can transform our life beginning today and arise into an amaz-ing new life right here on earth. What can you say “it is finished” too and then start anew? What astounding transformation will Easter usher in for you? Is it that diet that you started when you made your New Year’s reso-lution only to have forgotten all about it a few weeks later? Maybe you will say to that diet “it is fin-ished” and transform your life by simply living a healthy lifestyle. Maybe it is that self-talk that says I’m not smart enough, or pretty enough, or young enough….. Maybe you will say to that nega-tive self-talk “it is finished” and begin to make positive affirma-tions and begin to transform

your self-esteem. Maybe it is de-ciding to say “it is finished” to an abusive relationship, or alcohol, or credit cards, or … you fill in the blank.”

When Jesus was very near death on the cross he said, “Fa-ther, into your hands I commend my spirit.” (Luke 23:46). Of-ten we can feel like we are near death, not physically, but spiritu-ally. We too can place our spirits into God’s hands and die to our old selves and live renewed in God. Easter is not simply about life after we leave this earth, but it is about new life right here on earth.

Join us on Sunday morning’s to hear more about God’s love and good news for us--worship is at 9:00 am at 8 North Second Street, Woodsboro. For infor-mation about our service or for other questions about what you read in this article or about St. John’s United Church of Christ, call the church phone at 301-845-7703 or email Pastor Sean at PastorDeLawder@aol.com. You may also visit us at Facebook – stjohnsuccwoodsboro – or at our website – www.stjohnsuccwood-sboro.org. We welcome you to share your thoughts.

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In memoriamElizabeth Helen Fry, 83, of New Market, passed on March 22, 2017. Born in Baltimore on March

30,1933 to the late James Oscar and Iva Elizabeth Orndorff (nee Topper). She was the wife of the late Walter Norman Fry, whom she married in 1957.

Helen attended St. Anthony’s Catholic Primary School and graduated from St. Joseph Catholic High School. She would go on to work for Mount St. Mary’s University, Fort Detrick, and National Geo-graphic Society, from where she retired.

She was a former parishioner of St. Anthony’s in Emmitsburg and was a longtime parishioner of St. John the Evangelist. She was also a member of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas.

Helen enjoyed gardening, traveling, and baking. She also loved her family deeply and enjoyed spend-ing time with her children, grandchildren, and her dogs. She volunteered her time with Frederick Me-morial Hospital, St. John’s, where she was part of Sister Margaret’s Dustbusters, and the Linganore Band Boosters.

Helen is survived by her children; Jim Fry (Peggy) of Columbia, MD, Mary Johnston (Sam) of New Market, MD, John Fry (Joanne) of St. Marys, GA, and Joel Fry (Jen) of Culpeper, VA; siblings Mary Wivell and Lillian Layman (Richard); 9 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.

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Nazi justice, a warning from the pastKen Kellar

Seventy-four years ago, on April 19, 1943, 14 German citizens received their sentences after being tried for treason and treasonous assistance in association with the anti-National Socialist group known as the White Rose.

Their act was the distribution of leaflets denouncing Hitler, the National Socialists (Nazis), and the war. The fliers mentioned Germany’s mathematically inevi-table defeat, the atrocities against the Poles and Jews, and the loss of liberty brought on by Nation-al Socialism. The leaflets recog-nized external military conquest was needed to end the current government, but it called for the German citizens to conduct sab-otage via passive resistance. It al-so directly insulted Hitler and his magnum opus, Mein Kampf.

Leaflets were set outside of college classrooms in Munich and mailed to randomly select-ed addresses. The White Rose founders, Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans, were observed by a Nazi janitor while they were distributing the sixth leaflet. They were quickly arrested. At the time of his arrest, Hans was carrying the hand written draft of the seventh leaflet penned by Christoph Probst. Hand writing analysis led to Probst’s arrest.

On February 22, 1943 the “People’s Court” tried, convict-ed and executed the three, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Chris-toph Probst, using a guillotine.

On April 19, 14 others associ-ated with the White Rose leaflets were tried and convicted.

I find the details of the sen-tencing of the 14 somewhat dis-turbing. You see, I was raised to believe the Nazis (National So-cialists) were inhuman beasts, nothing like you and I. With that perception, I expected 14 more execution sentences, but the sen-tencing was far from it.

Leniency consideration was given due to gender with a lighter sentence being given to a wom-

an merely due to her sex. Youth-ful lack of judgment was anoth-er mitigating factor. Some mercy was even shown based upon the defendant’s ignorance of the full extent of the crime in which he was involved.

The court’s National Socialists were too human for my comfort. How could a person that gives a young German kid a break due to his youth fully support the eradi-cation of the Jews? Seeing some compassionate reasoning from the Nazis is scary. Scary because maybe the Nazis were pretty nor-mal people, more like you and I than we would like to admit.

What follows is the “Partial transcript of the Sentence of Al-exander Schmorell, Kurt Huber, Wilhelm Graf, and others associ-ated with the White Rose, pursu-ant to the Trial held on April 19, 1943.

“In the Name of the German People in the action against

1. Alexander Schmorell, Munich, born on September 16, 1917, in Orenburg (Russia);

2. Kurt Huber, Munich, born October 24, 1893, in Chur (Swit-zerland);

3. Wilhelm Graf, Munich, born January 2, 1918, in Kuchenheim;

4. Hans Hirzel, Ulm, born on October 30, 1924, in Unterstein-bach (Stuttgart);

5. Susanne Hirzel, Stuttgart, born on August 7, 1921, in Unter-steinbach;

6. Franz Joseph Müller, Ulm, born on September 8, 1924, in Ulm;

7. Heinrich Guter, Ulm, born on January 11, 1925, in Ulm;

8. Eugen Grimminger, Stutt-gart, born on July 29, 1892, in Crailsheim;

9. Dr. Heinrich Philipp Bollinger, Freiburg, born on April 23, 1916, in Saarbrücken;

10. Helmut Karl Theodore Au-gust Bauer, Freiburg, born on June 19, 1919, in 000Saar-brücken;

11. Dr. Falk Erich Walter Har-nack, Chemnitz, born on March 2, 1913, in Stuttgart;

12. Gisela Scheriling, Munich, born on February 9, 1922, in Pössneck (Thüringen);

13. Katharina Schüddekopf, Mu-nich, born on February 8, 1916, in Magdeburg;

14. Traute Lafrenz, Munich, born on May 3, 1919, in Hamburg; “at present in investigative cus-tody, regarding rendering aid to the enemy, inter alia, the People’s Court, first Senate, pursuant to the trial held on April 19, 1943, in which the officers were:

President of the People’s Court Dr. Freisler, Presiding, Director of the Regional (Bavarian) Judi-ciary Stier, SS Group Leader and Lt. Gen. of the Waffen-SS Bre-ithaupt, SA Group Leader Bunge, SA Group Leader and State Secre-tary Köglmaier, and, representing the Reich Attorney General, First State’s Attorney Bischoff, find:

“That Alexander Schmorell, Kurt Huber, and Wilhelm Graf in time of war have promulgated leaflets calling for sabotage of the war effort and for the overthrow of the National Socialist way of life of our people; have propa-gated defeatist ideas, and have most vulgarly defamed the Füh-rer, thereby giving aid to the en-emy of the Reich and weakening the armed security of the nation.

“On this account they are to be punished by Death.

“Their honour and rights as citizens are forfeited for all time.

“Eugen Grimminger gave money to a person guilty of high treason in aid of the enemy. To be sure, he was not aware that by so doing he was aiding the ene-my of the Reich. However, he was aware that this person might use the money for the purpose of rob-bing our people of their Nation-al Socialist way of life. Because he gave support to high treason, he is sentenced to jail for a ten-year term, together with loss of hon-ourable estate for ten years.

“Heinrich Bollinger and Helmut Bauer had knowledge of treasonable conspiracy but failed to report it. In addition, the two listened to foreign radio news-casts dealing with the war and with events inside Germany. For this they are sentenced to jail for a term of seven years and loss of citizen’s honour for seven years.

“Hans Hirzel and Franz Müller - both immature boys misled by enemies of the state - gave sup-port to the spread of treasonous propaganda against National So-cialism. For this action they are sentenced to five years’ imprison-ment.

“Heinrich Guter had knowl-edge of propagandistic intentions of this sort but failed to report them. For this he is sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment.

“Gisela Schertling, Katharina Schüddekopf, and Traute Lafrenz committed the same crimes. As girls, they are sentenced to one year’s imprisonment.

“Susanne Hirzel assisted in the distribution of treasonous leaf-lets. To be sure, she was not aware of their treasonous nature, but she was guilty in that in her in-excusable credulousness and good faith she did not seek certainty concerning the matter. She is sen-tenced to six months’ imprison-ment.

“In the case of all the accused who have been sentenced to jail or imprisonment, the People’s Court will accept as part of the punishment the time already spent in police and investigative custody.

“Falk Harnack likewise failed to report his knowledge of trea-sonous activity. But such unique and special circumstances sur-round his case that we find our-selves unable to punish his deed of omission. He is accordingly set free.”

HISTORY

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Spread the News!Extra copies of the Times are available in Woodsboro at

Trout’s Market and in Walkersville at Salon Allure

and the library. Get there early each month.

UME Frederick County Master Gardener FREE 2017 spring seminars By Devra G. Boesch

University of Maryland Exten-sion Frederick County (UMEFC) Master Gardeners are volunteers who love gardening and have been specially trained to help other gar-deners. Our mission is to educate Maryland residents about safe, ef-fective, and sustainable horticul-tural practices that build healthy gardens, landscapes, and commu-nities. UMEFC Master Gardeners present the following FREE semi-nars for the general public, begin-ning and advanced gardeners alike.

All classes are taught at the UME Office, 330 Montevue Lane, (off Rosemont Avenue), Frederick, MD.

Register online using the links below; find links on our website (http://extension.umd.edu/freder-ick-county/home-gardening/mg-happenings); or call Lisa at 301-600-1595. Doors open 30 minutes prior to start times. Walk-ins are welcome if there is room.

Saturday, April 8, 10am - noon The ABCs of Creating a Cut Flower Bed We will walk through the steps of designing, preparing, selecting, planting, and harvesting flowers for a cut flower bed. Your cutting garden should produce enough flowers all summer to share the joy of your bounty with family and friends.

Register at: bit.ly/FCMG040817

Saturday, May 13, 10am - noon Planting the Home Vegetable GardenJoin us in the Demonstration Gar-den for a hands-on experience. We will demonstrate and discuss what a typical family plot includes, square-foot gardening, compan-ion planting, and basic IPM (in-tegrated pest management). Learn some tried and true techniques for a successful garden.

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Saturday, May 20, 10am - noon How to Garden in Containers and More!Find out what types of contain-ers and alternate growing medi-ums can be used for your plant-ings. We will cover selection of plants; sizing the container to the

plants; proper planting, care, and maintenance; and location of con-tainers to meet your plants’ needs. We will visit the Demo Garden for planting steps.

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June 3 - Ferns for the Woodland Garden

June 10 - Using Botanical Latin: Latin Lovers Make Better Gardeners

June 24 - Make and Take Mini-Garden

July 8 - Get Bay-Wise Certified

Nov. 11 - Attracting Native Birds

Nov. 18 - Using Plant Materials for Holiday Decor

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Backyard Gardner

Ken Kellar

The time has come to consider dealing with my idle garden. But actually it hasn’t been idle. Due to the mild winter, it is currently car-peted with those low weeds that have a pretty purple flower spik-ing up in the center. And by car-peted I mean carpeted. The pur-ple weed coverage is more uniform and filled in than I could have ever done if I had actively tried to plant those pesky weeds. In their current

state they are actually beautiful, forming a big purple rectangular carpet. It’s tempting to just let the things have the place for a season.

I tried to look up the name of the purple-flowered weed on line. While looking I came across ma-ny familiar visitors to my garden including: plantain, curly dock, crabgrass, clover, ragweed Caro-lina germanium, spotted spurge, beggar weed, common purslane, dandelion and thistle. This is just a partial list. I recognized more

images but got tired of typing. Some of those names are guesses but the pictures looked familiar.

I never did find the name of my purple weed. I’d like to think the purple weeds will crowd out all the other weeds, then die off leaving bare dirt ready for planting later this spring. However, I know all too well, the purple guys are the vanguard of battalions of weeds prepared to overpower any in-vading vegetables that might find their way into my little plot.

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2017 Master Gardener Plant Sale

The UME Frederick County Master Gardeners 2017 Plant Sale will be held Saturday, April 29, 9 am to 2 pm (rain or shine), at the Frederick News-Post Building, 351 Ballenger Center Drive, Frederick, MD. Checks, cash, and credit cards accepted (with valid driver’s license).

Shop hundreds of locally grown varieties of annuals and perennials, hard-to-find native plants and shrubs, herbs, heirloom and hybrid vegetables, small fruits and shrubs, and colorful hanging baskets. Find the right plant for the right place. View Master Gardeners Displays with handouts

on Garden Tips and Planting Ideas, Browse the Garden Flea-Market, and bring your kids to the free Children’s Craft & Activity Corner.

Special focus at Plant Sale on small fruits. The University of Maryland Extension has declared 2017 the Year of the Small Fruit. In addition to blueberries, we will offer strawberries (Spring/June bearing and everbearing), thornless raspberries, thornless blackberries, and some fruit bushes in smaller sizes suitable for containers or in-ground growing.

Flea Market offers garden-themed bargains. Our Flea

Market will feature many items for the yard and garden. Again this year we have a limited number of hypertufa containers hand-made by Master Gardeners—some planted with succulents.

For more information: Susan Trice, FCMG Coordinator, strice@umd.edu (preferred), University of Maryland Extension Office, 330 Montevue Lane, Frederick, MD 21702. Learn more at: http://extension.umd.edu/frederick-county/home-gardening/mg-happenings, or contact Lisa Strong at lstrong@umd.edu or 301-600-1595. EOE.

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MID-ATLANTIC WEATHER WATCH: Fair and mild (1,2) with showers and severe STORMS in the southern part of the region (3,4); fair and cool (5,6,7,8,9)with more showers (10,11,12). Fair, windy, and cool (13,14,15,16,17,18) followed by periods of STORMS, some severe (19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27); fair and mild (28,29,30).

TORNADO WATCH: The Hagerstown Town and Country Almanack says be on the lookout for possible tornadoes coming from the southeast up to the Mid-Atlantic Region.

FULL MOON: April’s FULL MOON will occur on Tuesday, April 11. It has been referred to by many Native American tribes as FISH MOON because the fishing starts to improve as the weather warms up. It has also been referred to as PINK MOON because of the many pretty flowers displaying their bright pink hues as they bloom throughout the month.

SECIAL NOTES: April Fools’ Day falls on Saturday, April 1. Watch out for pranks and practical jokes that may be coming your way! Taxes are due on April 18 so be sure to get your taxes filed on time to avoid any penalties (and that nasty interest, too!). If you are going to be late, file a request for an extension using the form found at www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4868.pdf. And never fear, if you cannot pay the full amount of taxes owed on the due date, you can request an installment plan to help spread the tax liability easily over several months. Go to http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f9465.pdf for an installment agreement request form and mail it in with your return. Earth Day is observed on Saturday, April 22. Call the Earth Day Network at (202)518-0044 or go to www.earthday.net for some interesting, fun, and easy activi-ties that you and your family can do that will help promote a healthier relationship with Mother Earth!

HOLIDAYS: Palm Sunday falls on April 9 in 2017. Good Friday follows on April 14 and Easter is cel-ebrated on Sunday, April 16.

THE GARDEN: Now is the time to do some serious spring “cleaning” in the garden. Trim back dead foliage and gather up winter’s detritus, such as small branches and excess leaves. Trees and shrubs, like azaleas, rhododendrons, spiraea, and viburnums, if planted now, will provide some beautiful late spring color. Set out annuals and other perennials now. Cool season vegetables, such as spinach, lettuce, peas, broccoli, cauliflower, and beets can be planted as soon as the soil can be worked. A good test of “soil readiness” is to take a handful of soil and squeeze it. If it remains in a ball, it’s too moist and should be allowed to dry further. If it crumbles, start planting!

GRUBER’S THOUGHT FOR TODAY’S LIVING

“A true friend offers a helping hand without expecting thanks in return.”

Farmers’ Almanac“Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see,

the world hath more fools in it than ever.“

Charles Lamb (1775–1834)

Snow Day – On March 14, Jenna Kellar spent some of her day off from school due to snow to care for her horse

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April 2017The Moon will be first quarter

on April 3. The waxing gibbous moon passes two degrees north of Jupiter on March 10. The Full Moon, the Paschal Moon following the Vernal Equinox, is on April 11, and sets the following Sunday as the date for Easter this year. On Easter morning, the waning gibbous moon is three degrees north of Saturn in the morning sky. The third quarter moon is April 19, and the waning crescent moon passes five degrees south of brilliant Venus in the dawn sky on April 23. The moon is new on April 26; only four more new moons until totality on August 21! The waxing crescent moon passes six degrees south of Mars on April 29.

While the naked eye, dark adapted by several minutes away from any bright lights, is a wonderful instrument to stare up into deep space, far beyond our own Milky Way, binoculars are better for spotting specific deep sky objects. For a detailed map of northern hemisphere skies, about March 30, visit the www.skymaps.com website and download the map for April 2017; it will have a more extensive calendar, and list of best objects for the naked eyes, binoculars, and scopes on the back of the map Also available is wonderful video exploring

the April sky, available from the Hubble Space Telescope website at: http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/tonights_sky/

Mercury is well placed for evening viewing as April begins, reaching greatest eastern elongation of 19 degrees east of the Sun on April 1. But by the next week, it retrogrades into the Sun’s glare. Venus passed between us and the Sun on March 25, and quickly emerges into the dawn sky in early April. It reaches greatest brilliancy in the dawn at month’s end. It appears as a very thin crescent in early April, but as it gets farther west of the Sun each morning, it shrinks in size but appears more fully lit. Mars is about to be lost in the Sun’s glare, setting earlier in the SW each evening.

April 2017 belongs to Jupiter. It reaches opposition on April 7, with the bright star Spica in Virgo to the lower left of it. With a small telescope, its four largest Galilean moons are visible in a row around its equator. This spectacular shot of the bright moon Europa coming onto Jupiter’s disk while its black shadow is about to leave the opposite limb is by EAAA member Don Mayer; he took it last May 26, 2016, and it is typical of the detail you can now get with smartphones at the eyepieces of many amateur scopes!

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Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA

The Glade Valley VITA center at the Glade Valley Food Bank, in the Walkersville Town Hall, began accepting appointments for FREE tax assistance for 2016 income taxes on Monday, January 23, 2017. Call 301-845-0042 for appointments, information on what to bring, limitations on services provided, and directions. Please call Monday through Friday between 9am and 5pm. Income for free assistance is capped at $53,000 for working adults and $62,000 for retirees and those receiving Social Security. The Glade Valley VITA center is open Tuesday and Wednesdays from 12pm to 6pm, and Fridays from 9am to 3pm, by appointment only. The first day for preparing taxes is Tuesday, February 7, 2017, and the last day is Friday, April 7, 2017. For the 8th year, taxes will be prepared by experienced IRS-certified volunteers.

April 1April Fools’ Day

April 4Walkersville 125th Anniversary Celebration Event - Reenactment of Charter signing at Town Hall with government officials and history presentation. 7:30 pm

April 11Gov’t – Woodsboro Town Meeting moved to April 19

April 12Gov’t – Walkersville Town Meeting at 7:30pm

April 16 Easter

April 18Tax Day

April 19Gov’t - Woodsboro Town Meeting at 7pmAgenda: Nominations will be taken for Burgess and two Commissioner positions

April 22Earth Day

April 24Gov’t – Woodsboro Town Workshop at 7pm

April 26Gov’t – Walkersville Town Meeting at 7:30pm

April 28, 29, 30 and May 5, 6Live Show – Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming. Performances will be held at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 15 N. Church Street, Thurmont, on Friday and Saturday April 28 & 29 and May 5 & 6 at 7:00 p.m., as well as Sunday, April 30 at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $15 with general admission seating. See ad and article on page 9.

April 28, 29 and May 4, 5School Show – Hairspray.

Please come out and support TJ on any of their performance days: April 28, 29, May 4, 5 at 7:30 PM and 2pm on April 29 and May 6. Tickets available at tjstage.net or showtix4u.com.

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