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JULY 29, 2022
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OC will get $2 million for tourism Because it kept marketing during covid shutdown, resort rewarded by state
PHOTO COURTESY TONY AND PAT PRATT
Surfers paddled out beyond the waves off the shore on 36th Street to send adrift a wreath for Gavin Knupp during the memorial for the 14-year-old Saturday evening. Nearly 250 surfers participated.
Paddle out ceremony says aloha Surfers gather for memorial to bid farewell to friend, victim of hit-and-run By Jack Chavez Staff Writer (July 29, 2022) Worcester County’s coastal community showed
up big on Saturday for an Ocean Pines family whose lives were upended by the death of their 14-yearold son and brother in a hit-and-run on July 11. Around 250 surfers participated in a “paddle out” organized by the Ocean City Surf Club with another 400 or so in attendance on the beach
at 36th Street. The occasion included a memorial on the beach before the hundreds of surfers paddled out beyond the waves to send off Gavin Knupp, who had a passion for surfing according to those who knew him. There, hundreds of yards off the See FAREWELL Page 4
DEANGELUS, PARTNERS ISSUE STATEMENT TO OCEAN PINES ASSOCIATION — PAGE 4
By Mallory Panuska Staff Writer (July 29, 2022) When covid hit in 2020, many destination spots across the state postponed advertising as threats of the virus shut down the attractions people typically travel to see and experience. Ocean City took the opposite approach, and the aggressiveness paid of, as the resort will have ‘WELL-KNOWN’ significantly more state GOLF INDUSTRY money to REP COULD BE spend on tourism mar- AMBASSADOR keting in fiscal — PAGE 6 2023. Tom Perlozzo, the city’s director of tourism and business development, told members of the Tourism Commission last week that the state awarded Ocean City nearly $2 million this year in annual grant funds. He said the total was significantly more than the $450,000 grant received last year and is a direct result of officials’ proactive efforts to market the resort and its offerings during the pandemic. Perlozzo explained in an email this week that the state had more money to give this year with Gov. Larry Hogan increasing the grant pool to $8 million, as opposed to the typical $2.5 million, to be divvied out among the total 25 designated destination marketing organization, or DMOs, across Maryland. See OC MARKETING Page 6
