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PINK PARTY! About 280 runners take off from the starting line in the inlet parking lot last Saturday during Ocean City’s second annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5k event. Shortly after, more than 1,000 walkers hit the Boardwalk. The participants helped raise approximately $150,000 for the resort’s Pink Ribbon Classic series, which donates funds annually to the American Cancer Society. (At right) Athletic instructors lead participants in a zumba exercise prior to the morning’s races. See Page 51 for more Pink Ribbon Classic information.

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Answer depends on age, investment market, philosophy and which think tank you ask

(Oct. 26 2012) Reading this paper’s multitude of interviews with City Council candidates – both this week and in weeks past – may cause one to wonder what exactly it is about the city’s retirement plan than makes it such rich fodder for political debate, or why exactly it seems that neither side of the city’s political

State-mandated insurance could put cap onOcean City’s seasonal rental operations

carry a level of insurance coverage that mimics the level of financial protection for motor(Oct. 26, 2012) Despite the cycles.

“Basically, the insurance rehubbub earlier this year regarding the town of Ocean City’s quirement for scooters is very scooter regulations, it seems simple,” said Ocean City Police that new state-level requirements Department Public Information may end up having more of an Officer Mike Levy. “They have impact on the growth of the to meet the minimum for a motorcycle.” scooter rental The changes, industry in the “It’s been a bit of an according to the resort, by hitting rental busi- adventure even finding state, are intended to ennesses not [insurance]. There are sure rider safety through the just a limited number and accountazoning code, but bility. But in the in the wallet. of companies that low-cost, highA bevy of legwill underwrite in turnover world islative revisions of rental scootpassed through Maryland on this ers, the insurthe Maryland scale.” ance requireGeneral Asment in particsembly this RON CROKER ular has put a spring edge the owner of Waterways Marina damper on the safety and legal on 54th Street, about new statewide fiscal viability of requirements scooter regulations the industry. for scooters and “It’s been a mopeds closer to those placed on motorcycles. bit of an adventure even finding Riders and passengers must [insurance],” said Ron Croker, now wear helmets and eye pro- owner of Waterways Marina on tection. Scooters and mopeds 54th Street. “There are just a limmust also display a title sticker, ited number of companies that which can be acquired through will underwrite in Maryland on the Motor Vehicle Administra- this scale.”

For an individual who owns tion and proves the origin and ownership of the machine. his own scooter, insurance is relScooters and mopeds must also See INSURANCE on Page 8 ZACK HOOPES ■ Staff Writer

ELECTION DEBATE: which pension plan is best?

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aisle can agree on exactly what fiscal conservatism is when it comes to long-term funding.

The devil is in the details – details that likely tie Ocean City closer to the national debate than does any other issue.

Over the next 20 years, Ocean City will be going through an admittedly difficult period, as it transitions from a defined-benefit (DB) retirement plan to a defined-contribution (DC) system.

Under a DB system – the traditional pension - employees contribute a certain amount of their paycheck each week to a group retirement investment fund. The city also matches this with its own contribution. Upon retirement, employees are then paid a pre-defined fraction of their salary until death, in order to support them after they stop working.

Since 1991, the city’s public safety employees have had a separate fund from the city’s general employees, due to the different See TRANSITION on Page 22

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Sayan running to represent Boardwalk businesses INTERVIEW WITH PHILIP SAYAN ZACK HOOPES ■ Staff Writer (Oct. 26, 2012) Boardwalk businessman Philip Sayan is one of six non-incumbent candidates in a tight City Council field for this November’s election. Sayan moved to Ocean City full-time six years ago, when he purchased Boardwalk Fries near North Division Street.

■ OCEAN CITY TODAY: Why do you want to get into local politics, especially now when it seems so galvanized?

■ PHILIP SAYAN: I have a shop on the Boardwalk and there’s a serious lack of representation of that. Frankly, the Boardwalk is still the hub of Ocean City. So for whatever reason, that spurred my incliPhilip Sayan nation to file for City Council.

There’s obviously other issues, but under that falls a lot of issues that you’d like to address as a business owner or even a resident.

■ OCT: Are there things specifically that you’d like done for the Boardwalk or that would be good in general for downtown.

■ SAYAN: Whatever you do on the Boardwalk, whether you sell food or T-shirts or trinkets or any-

thing, there’s certain times of year when we have events and things of that nature. When these vendors come in to sponsor the events, they bring food items or T-shirt items. Those things really take away from our business. When you bring in another vendor, that really hurts us. We’ve got 90 days to try to reel in our income, and those distractions make it very difficult.

■ OCT: It’s been said before that the city is kind of reaching a tipping point with special events. A lot of those are somewhat self-contained, bringing in their own food and concessions.

■ SAYAN: Even if you’re not a businessman, if you’re just a layperson, it’s got to strike you as being detrimental to the local businessperson. So Continued on Page 35

Knight stresses leadership, cooperation in re-election bid der of then-Council President Rick Meehan’s term after he assumed the mayor’s post. She was reelected in 2008. Knight is retired from a career with AT&T in Baltimore.

INTERVIEW WITH MARY KNIGHT ZACK HOOPES ■ Staff Writer (Oct. 26, 2012) Mary Knight is one of Ocean City’s four current incumbents for reelection to the City Council this November.

Knight, along with fellow incumbent Doug Cymek, is largely positioned as an opponent to the other two council incumbents – Jim Hall and Joe Hall – who have been part of the post-2010 voting majority whose moves have attracted the ire of Knight and others.

Knight joined the council in 2006, winning a two-year seat to serve the remain-

Mary Knight ■ OCEAN CITY TODAY: Why did you get into politics, and why do you want to stay in politics?

■ MARY KNIGHT: I ran first in 2004, when there was one opening. I was doing a lot of volunteer work, trying to figure out what I was going to do with the next part of my life, and I figured that with my background, my business background,

my knowledge of tourism and marketing, that this would be a good fit. I didn’t win in 2004, but I ran again in 2006 and here I am.

■ OCT: What do you think the core issues are right now? What’s the heart of the election?

■ KNIGHT: I think the heart of this election, unfortunately, has become something very different than I think it should be. I think the heart of the election should be that we’re in the second cycle in which we saw a decline of 18 percent in assessable tax base. We’re in the first of a threeyear run. That’s very crucial when you start to think about what you’re going to do these next two years to cut expenses so that we can maintain the tax rate at a reasonable level for the taxpayer.

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INTERVIEW WITH DOUG CYMEK

Cymek makespitch for second term on OceanCityCouncil ZACK HOOPES ■ Staff Writer (Oct. 26, 2012) Doug Cymek is one of two running incumbents – alongside Mary Knight – who are identified as a minority opposition to the council’s current majority, which also includes the race’s other two incumbents, Joe Hall and Council President Jim Hall.

Cymek has objected to Doug Cymek much of the council’s post-2010 direction, particularly in regards to funding levels and benefit obligations.

This will be Cymek’s first re-election bid after having won his seat for the first time in 2008.

■ OCEAN CITY TODAY: Why did you get into politics, and why do you want to stay there? What’s the point of being in it for you?

■ DOUG CYMEL: I come from a family – my dad ran for the House of Delegates years ago — to kind of follow in Dad’s footsteps.

When I came down here in the early ’90s, I decided that I’d like to get involved in local politics.

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Pines Yacht Club parking spaces to be narrower Gas conversion cost NANCY POWELL ■ Staff Writer (Oct. 26, 2012) The proposed Ocean Pines Yacht Club will be discussed during the Nov. 1 Worcester County Planning Commission meeting, but joint use parking is no longer an issue.

During an Oct. 9 hearing, Ed Tudor, director of the Department of Development Review and Permitting, acted in his position as administrative adjustment official, to grant a reduction in the required number of parking spaces.

Ocean Pines General Manager Bob Thompson and representatives of AWB, a Salisbury architectural and engineering firm, sought site plan approval for the 20,303-square-foot building that would replace the existing Yacht Club during the Planning Commission’s Oct. 4 meeting.

Five of the Planning Commission

members voted against the site plan because of the parking issue. The site plan as presented that day had 62 too few parking spaces even though customers would be able to park at the Yacht Club or at Mumford’s Landing pool. It was a proposed shared arrangement between the two Ocean Pines facilities.

During the Oct. 9 hearing, Thompson, OPA legal counsel Joe Moore and AWB representatives met with Tudor and Jennifer Burke, the county’s zoning administrator, to try to reach an agreement on the parking issue.

Tudor and Burke heard again that the main hours of use of the pools, the Yacht Club pool and Mumford’s Landing pool, do not conflict with the peak hours of operation of the Yacht Club restaurant.

Ocean Pines had sought a 20 percent reduction in the number of parking spaces, but Tudor suggested that the ap-

plicants amend the application because they would give him flexibility in approving parking spaces with narrower widths, which would make room for additional parking spaces.

Two residents of Osprey Point, the condominiums near Mumford’s Landing pool, voiced their approval of the parking request and the president of the Osprey Point Condominium Association had submitted a letter of support. No one spoke in opposition to the parking request.

Tudor then recommended the case be continued until a revised site plan showing the larger number of parking spaces, which would be slightly narrower, was submitted.

That plan was submitted Monday, Oct. 22, and it was determined that 22 additional parking spaces could be accommodated. Ocean Pines lowered its parking reduction request from 20 percent to 10.9 percent, which Tudor approved.

unknown at this time NANCY POWELL ■ Staff Writer (Oct. 26, 2012) Worcester County Commissioner Judy Boggs does not want residents to worry about the cost of preparing their homes for natural gas.

“I don’t want to see people get upset,” Boggs said Saturday during her quarterly town hall-style meeting at the Ocean Pines library. “We don’t know [what the cost will be].”

For several months, Eastern Shore Natural Gas, a subsidiary of Chesapeake Utilities, has been installing a pipeline from Millsboro, Del., to Worcester County and the line is now at Friendship Road near Berlin. Pipelines for the distribution of natural gas will hook up to that line, but that phase may not proceed, Boggs said, until the Public Service Commission approves Chesapeake Utilities’ application to purchase the operating assets of Eastern Shore Gas, the current provider of propane gas.

The two companies have an agreement regarding the sale, and the county commissioners sent a letter Sept. 20 to the Public Service Commission in support of Chesapeake Utilities’ request.

The Ocean Pines Association and The Parke, the over-55 community in Ocean Pines, also sent a letter.

Boggs said it is “way too early” to say what the cost for a homeowner would be to convert from propane gas to natural gas. Some appliances, such as water heaters, could need to be replaced while others could need only a different valve for the conversion.

HVAC contractors must check pipe size and each piece of equipment that uses gas in each residence.

“I cannot believe there won’t be companies wanting to bid to give us a low cost,” Boggs said.

The conversions would be easier in The Parke because there are very few models of houses and the appliances would be the same, she said. Some of the appliances in those houses came with conversion kits in the event natural gas became available.

Elsewhere in Ocean Pines, houses have been built during a span of 40some years by different builders using different appliances. Converting appliances in those houses will be more complicated than just using a conversion kit.

No area in Worcester County is now served by natural gas, so people in any area who will have the option to switch must also have their appliances checked for usage. Earlier this month during a meeting at their fire hall, residents in Bishopville were signing up to indicate their interest in natural gas.

Propane gas customers who do not want to switch fuels would have to have a propane tank on their property because the pipeline would be carrying natural gas, not propane, after the conversion.

Boggs said she plans to invite Stephen Thompson, senior vice president of Chesapeake Utilities, to her town hall meeting in February to answer questions from Ocean Pines residents about the conversion to natural gas.

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WORCESTER COUNTY BRIEFS NANCY POWELL ■ Staff Writer (Oct. 26, 2012) The Worcester County Commissioners discussed the following topics during their Oct. 16 meeting:

Computer hardware needed for compatibility The commissioners approved the request of George King, agency procurement specialist, to waive the formal bidding process to purchase computer hardware for the replacement of two computer file servers from CDWG in Illinois for $21,708.80.

The current servers are incompatible with a new version of software.

They are compatible with the other servers and will allow for automatic system recovery in the event of a hardware platform loss.

The servers are for the county Health Department.

Local Management Board to get funds The commissioners approved the Community Partnership Agreement between the Worcester County Local Management Board and the Governor’s Office for Children, the agency that funds the Local Management Boards.

After the Governor’s Office for Children executes the agreement, funding for fiscal year 2013 for the Local Management Board will be distributed.

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Noxious weeds control in closed landfills

The commissioners approved the request for proposals for the John Walter Smith playground replacement project.

The project includes the replacement of the existing playground at 6022 Public Landing Road, which had two play areas, one for children ages 2 to 5 and the other for children ages 5 to 12. Updated equipment will be installed.

Funds for the project, which will cost $69,151, comes from Program Open Space and is included with the county’s fiscal year 2013 budget.

The commissioners approved the expenditure of $18,990 to control noxious weeds such a woody brush, phragmites, Japanese bamboo, vines and other vegetation growing at the closed landfills in Berlin, Snow Hill and Pocomoke.

The Maryland Department of the Environment notified the county of the need to control those weeds to prevent roots and trees from growing into the cap of the close landfills.

Weed Pro of Parsonsburg will do the work.

Open Space funds support new park The commissioners approved the request for proposals for the Girdletree Playground Development Project at 5841 Box Iron Road.

The project includes the construction of two separate play areas, one for children ages 2 to 5 and the other for children 5 to 12, and a pavilion.

The project will cost $112,481 and the funds will come from Project Open Space.

The funds are included in the county’s fiscal year 2013 budget.

Recycling baler for Public Works Department The commissioners awarded the bid for one recycling baler to Sal-Tee Siping & Grooving, Inc. of Phoenix, Ariz., at a cost of $10,900, including freight. That company had the lowest bid.

The baler will be used by the Solid Waste and Recycling Division of the Department of Public Works.

service area maps, other than a consolidation and update to existing maps and diagrams.

Declines involvement in regulatory matters The commissioners declined the opportunity to join Dorchester County and other jurisdictions regarding matters relating to the Conowingo Dam and other regulatory and planning actions in the state.

Bob Mitchell, director of Environmental Programs, said the Maryland Association of Counties has addressed the issues in detail.

Because of that, Commissioner Judy Boggs said there was no need for the county to be involved.

Mitchell wrote in his memo to Gerry Mason, the county’s chief administrative officer, that the county Water and Sewer Committee discussed the issue and concluded that the “potential for expenditures, political capital and staff time are simply not worth any benefit that may arise from such an effort.”

Water and sewer plan amendment on agenda The commissioners scheduled a public hearing for Nov. 20, on the proposed amendment to the county water and sewer plan.

The town of Ocean City wants to revise water and sewer technical data in the plan.

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Citizens unhappy with property rezoning NANCY POWELL ■ Staff Writer (Oct. 26, 2012) Five residents filed suit this month asking for a judicial review of the Worcester County Commissioners’ decision to rezone property on Route 589 from agricultural to general commercial.

Developer Jack Burbage owns the land, approximately 30.9 acres, and has said he wants to build a medical complex of eight buildings there. Under county regulations, however, he is under no obligation to do that and he has said there is no guarantee that a medical complex would be built.

That is what concerns the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, because in addition to doctors’ offices, uses allowed in the general commercial district also include hotels and motels, bars and nightclubs, laundry businesses, veterinary clinics or kennels, including outside pens and runways, car washes, tattoo establishments, commercial parking lots and parking garages, funeral homes, contractors’ shops and self-storage centers.

The commissioners voted 4-3 on Aug. 7 to approve Burbage’s rezoning request.

Commissioners Madison Bunting, Bud Church, Merrill Lockfaw and James Purnell voted in favor and Commissioners Judy Boggs, Louise Gulyas and Virgil Shockley voted in opposition.

They approved the rezoning based on the Planning Commission’s finding that there had been a change in the character of the neighborhood plus other findings of the commission and some talked about the

jobs a medical complex would bring to the area. They made their approval with the condition that no access to the property would be provided to or from the site from King Richard Road in Ocean Pines.

Some King Richard Road residents and owners of nearby properties, however, were adamantly opposed to the proposed medical center because of the additional traffic that would be on their road.

The actual rezoning took place Sept. 4 when the commissioners again voted 4-3, with each commissioner voting the same way as previously, to approve the planning commission’s findings.

On Oct. 3, Walter (Macky) Stansell and his wife, Pam, of Gum Point Road in Taylorville and Jeannie Lynch of Azalea Road, also in Taylorville, and Ocean Pines residents, Paul Roger Bredehorst of Little John Court and Carole J. Schauer of Gatehouse Trail legally challenged the rezoning by having attorneys Raymond S. Smethurst and Robert B. Taylor, both of Adkins, Potts & Smethurst in Salisbury, file a petition asking for a judicial review.

Lynch said she is asking for the judicial review because she believes the commissioners who voted in favor of the rezoning ignored the county’s comprehensive plan, which does not call for more development on Route 589.

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The latest quote Croker has gotten was $700 per scooter per year. Given that Croker estimates each machine to bring in about $1,200 to $1,500 per season, the insurance could cut his margin by more than half.

“I don’t think [the state legislature] realized that it would be difficult for a rental company to make money with this,” Croker said. “At some point, the cost becomes prohibitive.”

Croker, along with several other scooter shop owners, was part of a push earlier this year at the municipal level to have the town of Ocean City begin enforcing its own requirements for safety and business practices. Most controversially, the city ordinances required rental shops to have a designated practice area for rider training, which in turn created a parking shortage that put many establishments’ business licenses in jeopardy via zoning restrictions.

The city ordinances, however, seem to have not put a damper on the low-investment, seasonal rental stores that many say are the driving force behind the number of scooter accidents on the island — something which the new insurance requirements may succeed in doing.

The scooter rental industry is naturally an economy of scale, given how cheap most scooters are — many businesses in Ocean City sell off their entire rental fleet

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“The intention was not to cut into [rentiers’] profit; the intention was to make these things accountable,” Levy said.

“Scooters are a really inexpensive piece of equipment. They themselves are not the issue; the medical coverage is really the issue. We have so many single-vehicle wrecks here. Who pays for that?”

Croker said he was also awaiting rates from the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund, the state-run company that provides insurance for those otherwise unable to get it.

Although in effect since Oct. 1, the fines for violation of the new requirements have been delayed until Nov. 1.

“When we approached this deadline, a number of the scooter folks — individuals and renters — said the insurance availability was not there, so we were able to work with the State Police and the MVA to extend the deadline 30 days,” said Sen. Jim Mathias.

Luckily, the new requirements have come into play early in the off-season, giving Ocean City’s scooter rental shops the most amount of time to plan for next season’s costs. But Croker predicted that the new insurance requirements would create a level of diminishing returns for many scooter businesses, as the increased insurance costs of a larger fleet began to outstrip any increase in revenue.

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Lowery hears grievances at MSEA conference Policy making fewer waves in Worcester County than elsewhere in Maryland ZACK HOOPES ■ Staff Writer (Oct. 26, 2012) Ocean City’s convention center hosted the annual meeting of the Maryland State Education Association last weekend, and despite the presence of delegates from across the state, many of the organization’s open sessions and meetings seemed to confirm that many of the fears voiced by Worcester County school officials are shared across the state.

Maryland’s teacher-in-chief, State Superintendent of Schools Dr. Lillian Lowery, took questions during Saturday morning’s delegate meeting from a convention hall packed with hundreds of teacher activists.

MSEA represents all of the teachers’ unions in the state, and has considerable political pulling power. MSEA directors noted Saturday that the percentage of members making contributions to the organization’s Political Action Committee, which had stood at 27 percent before the convention, was now at 62 percent.

The crux of the discussion was how exactly Lowery would be handling the massive changes in teacher evaluations

that the state will be rolling out in the coming years, many of which have teachers afraid that their schools’ performance — and their own job security — will be too closely linked to standardized tests and legislative funding mandates.

“We expect for the locals to be at the table [when these evaluations are devised],” Lowery assured the assembly.

Earlier this year, Worcester County approved its own revamped evaluation system, as required by the state. Despite teacher fears about their pay and advancement being tied to arbitrary rubrics, Assistant Superintendent for Instruction John Gaddis said he had been able to work with Worcester County Teachers’ Association President Helen Schoffstall to develop a method that allows teachers to set their own objectives for their own students.

“This gives the teachers a lot of flexibility and a lot of responsibility,” Gaddis said at the time.

“You’re going to be working with your principals to develop these evaluation goals … this is not a ‘gotcha’ like I feel it has been elsewhere,” Schoffstall said in August.

According to Gaddis, Worcester has been one of the few counties to successfully develop a cooperative system between its teachers’ union and school administration, with many other Maryland jurisdictions having to default to a state-crafted standard after reaching an

impasse with teachers.

Having student performance-based evaluations for teachers is largely a condition of the $250 million Maryland has received as part of the federal Race to the Top program, itself an initiative of the 2009 Obama administration economic stimulus package. The majority of those funds will go towards low performing schools in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. areas, with Worcester receiving only $1 million of that money.

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two things they are to consider.”

Stansell said he is optimistic.

“We think we have a pretty good case,” Stansell said Saturday during a meeting held at the Ocean Pines library by Commissioner Boggs. “This was worth challenging.”

Stansell said he saw no need for another medical facility because numerous office spaces along Route 589 are vacant. He also said developer Palmer Gillis plans to build a medical complex on Route 589 close to the North Gate of Ocean Pines and lot clearing is now taking place for that.

“I don’t know how they’re going to fill the existing ones right now,” Stansell said.

“I don’t know how it makes sense to have another medical facility.”

Stansell also talked about existing traffic conditions on Route 589 and said to drive from Gum Point Road to the 7-Eleven “is an absolute nightmare.”

He also brought up the possibility of developer Marvin Steen trying to get his property zoned for commercial uses. For several years, Steen has planned to build a 60-home development off Route 589. If the property is rezoned, Steen could build up to 250 houses there, Stansell said.

Boggs does not believe that would happen.

“Marvin Steen is pretty set on building his 60-home development,” Boggs said.

“He’s a man of his word.”

She also said, however, “The domino effect of commercial zoning is real.”

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Other counties appear to also be expressing unease at the poor ratio of policy mandate to funding. On Saturday, a Howard County teacher announced that he would be presenting a petition of 1,000 signatures to Gov. Martin O’Malley to demand a withdrawal from Race to the Top. He asked Lowery what her position would be “not if, but when” teachers ask for a complete elimination of rubrics based on standardized testing.

Lowery responded that she could not project that far ahead.

Her main goal, Lowery said, was to meet the state’s goal of reducing its dropout rate from 5 percent to 2.5 percent by 2016, and increasing its graduation rate from 82 percent to 88 percent by the same year.

Much of the state’s policy in this regard has been to impose stricter requirements on counties for student discipline and suspension procedures, to ensure that students continue to learn even if they present behavioral issues. Coordinators must now be ap-

pointed to oversee the academic work of students who are out of school on suspension.

But Lowery was questioned by the assembly as to how schools that are already strapped for staff are supposed to provide this.

“What the state board is asking … it should already be happening,” Lowery said. “If there’s a push-back on having that person, then we have work to do.

“The point is,” she said, “if the students aren’t in school or engaged in learning, they come back and cause the disruption again.”

Other teachers also questioned how funding was to be kept up for non-standardized fields such as arts and music, given the financial burden of keeping up with state programs such as the Common Core Curriculum for reading and math.

Ultimately, Lowery said, it was up to the counties to set their priorities.

“I’m not trying to shift the blame here — I have broad shoulders — but a lot of these decisions are being made at the local level,” she said.

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Mann to be honored for supporting BIT NANCY POWELL â&#x2013; Staff Writer (Oct. 26, 2012) Buck Mann will be honored tomorrow, Saturday, for his work in helping the Believe in Tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Foundation.

Mann is among 30 individuals and 30 companies to be recognized for their contributions and support to the foundation during its 30th Anniversary Benefit and Auction Buck Mann at M&T Bank Stadium. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very nice honor,â&#x20AC;?

Mann said Tuesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m humbled by it.â&#x20AC;?

The event is dedicated in memory of Patrick â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scunnyâ&#x20AC;? McCusker, a Baltimore restaurateur and a big supporter of the foundation who died of injuries suffered when his bicycle collided with a bus in Ocean City on Aug. 24.

In honor of McCusker being named the first Unsung Hero in 2005, the annual Unsung Hero Award will be permanently named the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Patrick â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Scunnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; McCusker Unsung Hero Award.â&#x20AC;? That award will be presented to Virginia Turner, a long-time volunteer for the foundation who traveled to each Believe in Tomorrow house in Ocean City, Fenwick Island, Bethany Beach, Deep Creek Lake and Pinnacle Falls, N.C., to clean them before they opened to make sure each one was ready for guests.

The foundation will present two 30-year Legacy Awards and then recognize 30 honorees, including Mann, for their support.

Mann, owner of a property management company and a former Ocean City councilman, was a long-time friend of McCusker and shared his enthusiasm for the Believe in Tomorrow Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Foundation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Years ago, when my son was alive, he became impressed with what they do at the Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House and volunteered his time,â&#x20AC;? Mann said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve carried on the tradition. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very worthwhile.â&#x20AC;?

Kosko recognized for performance (Oct. 26, 2012) Jennifer Kosko was named the 2012 Worcester County Telecommunicator of the Year by the Maryland Emergency Number Association on Sept. 11, for her outstanding performance during emergencies.

She was recognized for excellence for her role in handling two high priority incidents. Her efforts during an in-progress burglary resulted in the location and arrest of three suspects, all of whom were also wanted in another county for theft and selling stolen goods, by the Worcester County Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office.

Her efforts pertaining to a commercial fire involving chemical explosions, exposure to woods and other structures also helped the home fire agency and multiple company responders better respond to the event.

Kosko has also been recognized by the Worcester County Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office for her professional dispatch of a burglary in progress where the suspect was shot by an officer.

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Testimony pitting environmentalists against chicken farmers ends NANCY POWELL ■ Staff Writer (Oct. 26, 2012) After more than two weeks, testimony in the trial pitting a Worcester County farm family and poultry conglomerate Perdue against an environmental activist group concluded Wednesday morning.

The judge will rule after the closing arguments, which are tentatively scheduled for Nov. 30.

“Kristin and I are relieved that the trial is over so we can go back to the business of running our farm and raising our

children,” Alan Hudson said Wednesday.

“We are very grateful to the members of the community and the farmers from around the country who supported us during this ordeal. We look forward to the judge’s ruling so we will be able to put this nightmare completely behind us.”

The Waterkeeper Alliance filed the suit in federal court after Assateague Coastkeeper Kathy Phillips, who is also executive director of the Assateague Coastal Trust, saw what she and other environmentalists thought was a pile of chicken manure on the farm while look-

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ing through photographs taken of the farm while flying overhead in a helicopter. Phillips and the Waterkeeper Alliance alleged that runoff from the pile polluted water in a ditch that ultimately drains into the Pocomoke River and violated the Clean Water Act. They filed the suit in March 2010 against the Hudsons and Perdue Farms, alleging that the poultry company “is intimately involved in and controls each stage of the poultry growing process at its contract growers, including Hudson Farm.” Phillips was later dropped as a plaintiff in the lawsuit because of a technicality, but she testified at the trial last week in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.

It was determined that the pile seen on the farm was not chicken manure at all, but treated sludge from the Ocean City wastewater treatment plant. The environmentalists stuck to their guns, however, and alleged that pollutants from the chicken houses could have been blown to the ditch by fans or been carried there on the soles of shoes of people who had been in or near the chicken houses.

Some people familiar with the Hudson farm and the case said any pollution found in the ditch was more likely to come from the farm’s cows. During the trial, according to “The Daily Record,” Charles Hagedorn, a professor at Virginia Tech, testified Monday that any fecal matter detected at the farm was not from chickens, but from the 40 cows.

One cow, he said, could produce 60 to 80

pounds of manure per day and that 600 tons of manure a year could be deposited on the fields of the farm.

The lawsuit had no mention of any pollution caused by cows. It said the pollution was caused by the chickens.

After the lawsuit was filed, Lower Shore farmers and others, including organizations across the United States, rallied to the Hudsons’ side and contributed money to help pay their legal fees. In Worcester and Wicomico counties, chicken and dumpling dinners plus allyou-can-eat crab feasts were held to raise money to assist the family, whose farm is just outside Berlin. Many saw the lawsuit as a threat against family farms.

“All along we‘ve said that this lawsuit threatens family farms across the country, and the trial revealed the true agenda of the groups and of the individuals involved in the case – to use trumped up pollution charges to attack poultry farms,” said Andrew McLean of SaveFarmFamilies.org. “We believe it’s clear that the Waterkeeper Alliance, the Assateague Coastal Trust and the University of Maryland Environmental Law Clinic did not prove their case. They have continuously changed their story to find some reason to vilify a hardworking farm family just because they raise chickens.

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violation of the Clean Water Act. “Two of three lawyers at the plaintiff’s table the past three weeks have been Maryland state employees. The Waterkeepers’ use of the University of Maryland Environmental Law Clinic as a tool in its publicly announced “hard-nosed litigation” tactics against a Maryland citizen and Maryland corporation is, as Gov. O’Malley has already stated, an “injustice.”

“The farming community looks forward to a favorable ruling and an opportunity for the Hudson family to see their lives return to normal.”

Julie DeYoung, spokesperson for Perdue Farms said that after nearly three years, “this case came down to the proposition that any chicken house with a door or a fan is a source of pollution and therefore likely in violation of the Clean Water Act. To make this ridiculous argument, the Waterkeeper Alliance, Assateague Coastal Trust and University of Maryland Environmental Law Clinic put a farm family through hell, drove a wedge between farmers and environmentalists, and wasted tax-

payer resources.

“While we are prepared for any outcome, and thank Judge Nickerson for his hard work in conducting the trial, we don’t believe the plaintiffs’ proved their case on any front and we look forward to being vindicated by the judge’s ruling.

“We remain committed to responsible environmental stewardship and share that commitment with the farm families who raise our chickens. Perdue is an environmental leader and has a long history of investing millions of dollars in research, technologies, equipment upgrades, awareness and training to address environmental issues.”

Tom Jones, president of the Assateague Coastal Trust, also issued a statement about the case, which he said was about stopping water pollution. Assateague Coastal Trust initiated the lawsuit, he said, “to address the continuing

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Resort ‘Beach Bus’ winter schedule to begin next week (Oct. 26, 2012) Ocean City’s daily shuttle service to and from the Park and Ride facility and Tanger Outlets on Route 50 in West Ocean City has concluded for the season. The Greyhound ticketing office at the Park and Ride is also closed for the year.

Greyhound bus service to and from the Park and Ride will continue with Greyhound ticketing services available in Salisbury. Shore Transit will stop at the West Ocean City Park and Ride to pick up passengers going into Ocean City and will make return trips to the Park and Ride upon request, enabling passengers to catch outbound Greyhound service.

Coastal Highway “beach bus” winter schedule will begin Monday, Nov. 5.

Frequency of service Sunday through Thursday will be every 40 minutes, from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., and every 80 minutes, 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. On Fridays and Saturdays, frequency of service will be every 30 minutes, 7 a.m. to 7 a.m.

Passengers may ride Ocean City bus for $1 per-boarding or $3 for a ride-allday pass. Exact fare is required. Discount coupon books are available at a cost of $15 for 20 coupons. Discount coupon books are available on any Ocean City bus (exact cash amount required). With cash or credit card, visit City Hall on Third Street, the convention center box office on 40th Street, Ocean City Police Department on 65th Street or Northside Park Recreation Complex on 125th Street.

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pollution found coming off the Hudson’s farm in more than a dozen water samples taken over a seven-month period.

We also initiated it because we think poultry integrators have the duty to share the burden created by the massive amount of manure generated by the flocks they grow.”

Jones also said the Assateague Coastal Trust believes the Waterkeeper Alliance “has demonstrated a strong case in which the fact and the law support our allegations of pollution from poultry waste discharging to the Pocomoke River.”

Jones added that trial testimony brought up “several very troubling issues,” such as serious flaws in the Nutrient Management Plan and the new Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan. Hudson, he said, had no Nutrient Management Plan, but submitted re-

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“We would like to believe that most of the farmers in this state operate with a valid Nutrient Management Plan. Assateague Coastal Trust feels certain this trial is just the beginning of a new era of public discourse on the matter of poultry waste management in the state of Maryland.

“We all have a right to clean water, and our organization, Assateague Coastal Trust, will continue to defend that right. When the state won’t act to protect our waters, when the federal government won’t act, then we local citizens must. It doesn’t matter whether the polluter is a neighbor or some faceless, giant corporation, it’s our mission to take the action needed to stop the pollution and protect the families’ safety and health of our waters. That’s a contest worth having,” Jones said.

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Berlin Mayor Gee Williams talks about properties available in Berlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growth area during the first VIP Real Estate Tour on Sept.28.

County launches VIP Real Estate Tour (Oct. 26, 2012) Worcester County Economic Development launched the first in what is anticipated to become an annual VIP Real Estate Tour on Sept. 28.

WCED Director Bill Badger and other area business partners led interested investors on a chartered bus tour through the growth areas in northern Worcester County.

Throughout the tour, investors both saw and heard many compelling reasons why they should choose Worcester County as a premiere location to grow their businesses.

More than 25 properties currently available were featured on the tour. A handful of

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Strategic planning sets course for community One of the bright spots in city government, given all the political shenanigans going into the Nov. 6 elections, is that no matter who is elected to the council, its members will be operating according to a well-defined strategic plan.

The process of developing what amounts to a 300-some page navigational chart for elected officials began this week.

City Manager David Recor and consultant Lyle Sumek sat down with the mayor and current council members (any new members to the council will be interviewed also) to determine what they think Ocean City needs to be in the years ahead.

Sumek, a former academic with a doctorate in public administration, has been helping communities, large and small, set courses toward success for the past 33 years. The key to his approach is that officials, the citizenry and business people must define for themselves exactly what success is.

The modus operandi of Lyle Sumek Associates, which operates out of Florida, is to find the common ground between all participants, regardless of their personal philosophies, and then show them how to build an achievable plan on that common ground. The plan comes loaded with benchmarks so the public can follow along.

Just as a comprehensive zoning plan establishes objectives for the physical development of a jurisdiction by saying what should go where, a strategic plan sets out how every policy decision officials must make should be considered in the context of the overall direction that everyone has agreed to go.

If something doesn’t fit that scenario, the council has two choices: it can elect not to do it or adjust the plan to accommodate it.

Ocean City government has, of course, been through strategic planning before. But the approach being employed by Sumek and Recor is to make this effort a community project, rather than strictly a government exercise.

Certainly, local politicians, business people and residents disagree on many things these days, but as Sumek and Recor have already discovered, all sides in this discussion agree on more than they realize. Where they part ways is on how to achieve many of the same objectives.

That’s what this plan is about: finding out what people want, forging an agreement and then establishing the means to get it. It’s a good move that everyone should support.

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Participants sought for cancer study Efitor, What if we could personally participate in research that might help determine factors that cause or prevent cancer?

What if our involvement, and that research, ultimately leads to the elimination of cancer as a major health problem for this and future generations?

What if we could make it so just one family never has to hear the words, “you have cancer?”

Residents of our community have an unprecedented opportunity to participate in cancer research this year. Enrollment for the American Cancer Society’s third Cancer Prevention Study will be taking place Nov. 7-10, in Salisbury. You can see all the locations and times of enrollment by visiting www.cps3tricounty.org.

Individuals between the ages of 30 and 65 who have never been diagnosed with cancer and are willing to make a long-term commitment to the study are encouraged to sign up. Those who choose to enroll will simply fill out a comprehensive survey packet about health history, provide a small blood sample (to be collected by trained phlebotomists) and provide a waist measure. Participants will periodically be sent a followup questionnaire for the next 20 to 30 years.

If you aren’t eligible to participate, you can still make a difference by telling everyone you know about Cancer Prevention

Why we don’t publish endorsement letters With the approaching Ocean City municipal election, supporters of both sides in this clearly divided City Council race have written letters to the editor endorsing their favorite candidates, or criticizing those who aren’t. While citizen involvement in local government and politics is good, this newspaper’s policy — adopted reluctantly some years back — is not to accept letters of endorsement for publication.

Study-3. In this area, our goal is to have 450 participants.

CPS1 established the link between smoking and lung cancer.

CPS2 established the link between obesity and cancer.

Through CPS3, we will find out the next thing that is effecting our population in regard to cancer.

For anyone who has donated to the American Cancer Society, this is your donation at work through research.

I hope you will consider joining me and participating in this study as we work toward a cancer-free tomorrow.

Sen. James Mathias

Interesting perceptive on nationwide politics Editor, An ongoing and repetitive theme of the Republican Party during the presidential and con-

The paper’s intention is not to stifle public comment on political affairs, nor is it the result of a desire to avoid controversy, the appearance of favoritism or to prevent one side from getting more ink than the other.

Our policy is not in place to discourage public discussion, and we apologize to those who have gone to the trouble of sending us their letters of endorsement and then not seeing them published.

gressional campaigns has been to overhaul “Big Government.” I believe this issue is a disturbing and nationally destructive one, and recommend for serious consideration the following quotation found in the Library of Congress: “Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas.

Their number is negligible and they are stupid” … Presidential Library letter from President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nov. 8, 1954, to his brother, Edgar.

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By Stewart Dobson I have decided, now that certain of my facial features are beginning to resemble a broken-in catcher’s mitt, to go out and get a good slapping.

Face-slapping, after all, is the latest thing in California, where people are lining up for a good wrinkle-wallop, courtesy of a treatment brought here from Thailand. They say – “they” being the slap-happy proponents of a good whack upside various portions of the head – that this century-old Thai technique stimulates blood flow, which, in turn, stimulates collagen, which, in turn … yada, yada, yada.

I’m certainly no expert on this, since everything I know about face-slapping I learned in junior high school, but it would seem to me that the discovery of this process had to come about by accident.

I just think it’s unlikely that someone in Thailand said one day, “Hey, I bet if I slap your face you’ll look better.” More likely, it was, “You’re face is so ugly that my hand would refuse to slap it.”

Then one thing leads to another, until the slapper says to the slappee, “Say, you’re still ugly, but, wow, no wrinkles.”

This is hardly a miracle. It’s not that the wrinkles disappear, but that your face puffs up around them after being whacked. You could fix those droopy bags under your eyes with essentially the same approach.

“Hey buddy, I have droopy bags under my eyes. Incidentally, your momma is uglier than a zookeeper’s tennis shoe.”

Whap!

Voila! No more droopy eye bag.

I’m not kidding, because this faceslapping business is just one part of the approach. According to one California slapping salon owner, she’s going back to Thailand to learn the ancient art of “buttpunching” because it firms and shapes the posterior.

While there are those of us who would observe that you don’t have to go that far to get your butt kicked, particularly on a Saturday night in certain locales, the assumption is that you’d have to get it kicked, or punched, in just the right way so you wouldn’t, say, end up with both of your back pockets on the same side.

But if there’s face-slapping and buttpunching, can leg-pulling be far behind?

And what if someone came up to you and said, “Pull my finger?” You wouldn’t know whether they were merely being crude or were in actual need of a knucklewrinkle reduction.

As for me, I’ll take the cards I’m dealt, appearance-wise, rather than endure physical punishment in the pursuit of a more youthful countenance. Still, I guess this is what they mean when it’s said about the Far East that people there will go to great pains to save face.

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Transition to defined contribution has fiscal cost, liability benefit Continued from Page 1

retirement norms for public safety work.

General employees pay five percent of their salary each week into the pension fund, with an identical match from the city. After 30 years of service, they become fully vested, meaning they will receive the maximum post-retirement benefit of 50 percent of their salary. Retiring earlier provides a somewhat lower payout.

For public safety employees, the vesting term is 25 years, and the benefit is 60 percent of salary, but they must contribute 8 percent of their pay while they work.

Following a series of heated City Council debates from late 2010 through the spring of 2011, the pension fund was closed to new hires. While employees currently enrolled in the DB system will stay in the plan, all new hires after April of 2011 have a DC system of individualized 401(a) accounts.

For both the public safety and general worker sectors, employees must contribute five percent of each paycheck to the fund. They may also contribute up to an additional two percent. Any contribution will be matched by the city. When an employee leaves, he or she can take all of the money in the account that they have contributed, and a portion of the city’s contribution depending on how long they were employed. The portion increases 20 percent each year, until fully vested at five years.

The transition comes with a certain monetary cost, because DB plans are designed to be self-perpetuating. New, young employees will be paying into the pension fund, but will likely not be taking anything out of it for decades. Thus, their contributions are used to fund those employees currently retired. The fund is also invested, creating a return that can be continually

reinvested to grow the fund as retired employees use up assets.

If no new employees are paying into the fund, however, the city must contribute additional funds to close the gap – such differential payments are known as amortizations. With a closed plan, actuarial payments to the DB system are projected to be higher, to the tune of $900,000 by 2030, according to city Human Resources Director Wayne Evans.

The end benefit, however, will be that the city will be completely devoid of longterm liability, once the plan is closed and all of its participants are deceased. At that time, all employees will be responsible for their own 401(a) retirement accounts. The sustainability of these assets is not the problem of the city, but the responsibility of the employee.

“In terms of how the costs look over time, both plans work,” said city Finance

Administrator Martha Bennett. “The difference is that [in a DB plan] the risk goes to the employer, versus the risk being on the employee [in DC].”

How much the city will actually be on the line for in the next 20 years is a hot topic. Since closing the plan, the city has changed from basing its amortization from a level percentage of its retiree payroll to an even dollar amount.

“We made it an equal amount every year, like a mortgage … in the early years, you’re putting in more than you would otherwise,” Bennett said.

“The change in methodology resulted in a change of $353,000 more than what the old methodology would.”

Amortizations also fluctuate depending on relative gains or losses in the plan’s assets, or in its projected liabilities. The city has already, on many occasions, committed to benefit changes that have forced an amortization increase, such as in 2004 when the general employees plan was changed so that employees would contribute 5 percent of their pay, but receive 50 percent on retirement. Previously, the plan had been entirely city-funded, but gave out only 35 percent.

“That meant our funding ratio [of assets to future liability] immediately went down, but we immediately started funding it at a higher level,” Bennett said.

The actuary’s reports issued to the city in the spring of 2011 by the Mercer Group outlined similar projected costs and savings for the transition from DB to DC – the seriousness of which lies at the core of the current electoral debate. But the crux of the matter is that the predictions are not set in stone.

Mercer notes that a “smoothing” has been done to the DB plan’s projected investment gains and losses to its assets for valuation purposes.

“Due to the asset smoothing method used, the actuarial value of assets (AVA) used to determine the employer contribution rate in the 2010 valuations exceeds the market value of assets (MVA),” the report states. “Absent future gains to offset the investment losses being smoothed, future employer contributions would increase as past investment losses become recognized.”

Additionally, the level of return on investment over time may vary. Mercer provides two separate scenarios, one in which the return is seven percent and one in which it is four. The latter “will require much higher contributions than the Town currently makes.”

Given that a sizable portion of the town’s workforce is close to retirement, and the slow economic recovery, it is likely that the city will be funding a large number of liabilities with assets maturing at the lower rate, at least in the short term.

Also in flux is the forfeiture level – how many employees leave unanticipated money behind when they retire before full vestment – which the Mercer report admittedly ignores, although it states that “the value of the nonvested benefit for a participant leaving the employer remains in the plan assets, the reducing contribution requirements.”

This is compounded by the fact that the DC plan now has a variable contribution level of five to seven percent. According to Evans, the city’s 401(a) service has 58 par-

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Study shows nat’l debate on public debt philosophy ticipants, of which only 16 contribute more than the five percent minimum.

These uncertainties also mirror a national debate between economic policymakers who have also weighed the considerable public risk of DB pension systems against the considerable advantage inherent in such a large funding pool.

Right-leaning institutions, such as the American Enterprise Institute, have typically come out strongly in favor of major accounting reform for public sector pensions, and, in some cases, their complete elimination.

“GASB [Government Accounting Standards Board] rules cause U.S. public pensions both to vastly understate their true liabilities and to take excessive investment risk, putting in danger both government budgets and the economy as a whole,” writes AEI’s Andrew Biggs.

“Since riskier investments have higher expected returns, shifting to a riskier portfolio allows public pensions to use a higher discount rate, instantly improving their funding status.”

But more left-leaning groups say these risks are not exclusive to publicly ensured plans, and may become worse in the hands of individually invested plans such 401 accounts.

“Wide fluctuations in asset prices and returns make it hard for even wellinformed savers to select an affordable saving rate and an investment strategy guaranteed to produce a decent income in old age,” writes Gary Burtless of the Brookings Institution.

“Public pension systems partly insulate workers against economic and financial market risks by sharing these risks across workers, retirees, and taxpayers in multiple generations.”

What does it all mean? The Mercer report says that the variables in outcome mean that the choice between DB and DC boils down to principle.

“Neither design is necessarily better or worse,” the report states. “Instead, the appropriate model will depend on the employer’s philosophy and objectives for the retirement program.”

In a number of different scenarios for employees entering the workforce at different ages at different levels of return, Mercer outlines the resulting shift in employment patterns.

For an employee joining the town at age 25, with a starting salary of $25,000, a three-percent raise each year, and assuming a five percent contribution and a seven percent investment return, the DC plan is more advantageous if the employee either moves on early or retires late. The value of a DB plan in the same assumptions is greater only between ages 55 and 61.

But if the starting age of the employee is increased, or if the return on investment is lowered, the result is amplified. The DC plan is more valuable for a shorter period at the beginning, and become more valuable again even later in the employee’s life.

KIWANIS LEARNS ABOUT OUTREACH PROGRAMS The Kiwanis Club of Greater Ocean Pines-Ocean City recently heard from representatives of two local programs: The Shepherd’s Nook, a thrift shop at the Community Church at Ocean Pines, and Sarah's Pantry” a food bank at the same location. Both are open Wednesdays through Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.. Pictured, from left, are Kiwanis Speakers Chairman J. Graham Caldwell, Sarah's Pantry Director Charlene Mertz, The Shepherd’s Nook Director Judy Stineviser and Kiwanis President Barb Peletier.

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“Worcester County is committed to paving the way for new strategies and innovations that lead to job creation and investment in our economy,” Commission President James C. “Bud” Church said.

“This tour and other new initiatives are a part of the great strides Badger has been making, since joining Worcester County Government last year, to advance economic development locally. Over the last week, the Commissioners have been receiving outstanding feedback about the first Worcester County Economic Development Tour, as well as the public and private partnerships that are being created under his leadership.”

Badger and other tour narrators highlighted the wealth of properties and investment opportunities available in strategic growth areas in Ocean City, West Ocean City, Ocean Pines and Berlin. In addition to learning that Worcester County is a dynamic, pro-business marketplace abounding with new opportunities, the trip provided participants with an opportunity to network and develop valuable contacts now that could develop into thriving public and private partnerships in the future.

“I found it (the VIP tour) to be informative, and I made some potentially useful contacts as well,” Vista Design Marketing Director Michael Goldberg said. “This event helped to bring those of us in the local development community closer together, and I’m confident good things will result. I will look forward to the second

annual VIP Bus Tour.”

Throughout the tour, Badger highlighted the many advantages those doing business in Worcester County have that give them a leg up on competition located elsewhere. Some of these advantages include the additional resources that are available to businesses choosing to operate within any of Worcester County’s three enterprise zones, which are located in Berlin, Pocomoke and Snow Hill. Businesses locating in an enterprise zone may be eligible for income tax and real property tax credits in return for job creation and investments SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1.

Additionally, the entire county has been designated a Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Hubzone certification provides businesses with greater access to federal procurement opportunities.

“The first tour focused on the growth areas in northern Worcester County in the areas of Ocean City, West Ocean City, Ocean Pines and Berlin,” Badger said.

“Great things are also happening in Snow Hill and Pocomoke, and it is our hope that future tours will serve to continue to highlight the many great business opportunities that abound throughout our seaside county, where investors truly can have the best of both worlds.”

For more information, visit the Web site wwwchooseworcester.org or contact Badger at 410-632-3112 or bbadger@co. worcester.md.us.

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Free lunch comes with community services and helpful resources NANCY POWELL â&#x2013; Staff Writer (Oct. 26, 2012) The hall at Atlantic United Methodist Church in Ocean City offered information about helpful resources in addition to a free lunch last Friday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These events are successful when the people talk about their needs,â&#x20AC;? said Jessica Sexauer, services coordinator for the Worcester County Core Service Agency. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can look at advocacy and make sure we do the best we can to meet their needs and without their input, we couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do that.â&#x20AC;?

Present to help people with various needs were representatives of Atlantic General Hospital, the Worcester County Health Department, Priority Partners, H.O.P.E. (Help and Outreach Point of Entry) and others. They offered assistance with medication, food, housing, utilities, counseling, treatment, dental needs and more.

One woman, who preferred to remain anonymous, said she would apply for financial assistance with Atlantic General Hospital. She has had the assistance, which permits low-income people to pay less than the full amount of medical bills there, and hoped to get it again.

The woman said she goes to the free lunch each Friday at Atlantic United Methodist Church because she likes what she calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;the community luncheonâ&#x20AC;? and because she likes to socialize with the people there.

Formerly homeless, she and her husband now live in an apartment in downtown Ocean City. At one time, they lived on the streets and slept on the beach, even in cold weather.

She has worked as a customer service representative and hopes to fine work again. She took a Goodwill computer course to learn how to use Microsoft Word and plans to take courses at Wor-Wic Community College.

She thought the Commmunity Resource Day was worthwhile. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Doing this kind of outreach is a wonderful thing,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This area needs this kind of access.â&#x20AC;?

Mary Bolling of Pocomoke was there with her daughter and niece. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I come here for fellowship,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You walk in the feel the love. Everybody is no nice and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re welcome.â&#x20AC;?

Although she lives in Salisbury, she works at an Ocean City hotel and eats at the

Classics features sparring, weapons, among other events LISA CAPITELLI â&#x2013; Assistant Editor (Oct. 26, 2012) Martial arts students of varying skill levels can participate in open competition for youth and adults on Saturday at the resortâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s convention center during the 11th annual Ocean City Classics National Karate & Jiu Jitsu Championships.

More than 140 divisions will be offered.

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church each week.

Sodoria Wallop of Pocomoke worked at an Ocean City hotel until she was laid off.

She was picking up her last check that day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I was working, I came every week,â&#x20AC;? Wallop said.

Like the others, she enjoys the fellowship at the church and she might continue attending. She said she could take the bus from Pocomoke to Ocean City, just as she has been doing for work.

At least 85 people had lunch at the church last Friday and there was about 20 carry-outs. There was not a tabulation of the number of people who sought some type of assistance.

The next Community Resource Day is scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 5, at Stevenson United Methodist Church on Main Street in Berlin. The event will coincide with the free lunch provided by the Spirit Kitchen.

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They have eaten their lunches, but guests at Atlantic United Methodist Church, from left, Mary Bolling, her daughter, Mikel Corbin, 8, and her niece, Briana Howell, 17, continue to enjoy the fellowship last Friday.

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Largest seizure of heroin in recent history made in Pines NANCY POWELL ■ Staff Writer

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Police found 1,678 individually wrapped bags of heroin in a vehicle they stopped on Route 113 near Bishopville last week.

(Oct. 26, 2012) The largest seizure of heroin in recent history in Worcester County was made last Friday afternoon in Ocean Pines.

A 38-year-old Ocean Pines man, Leck McGlannan Lyons, had been under investigation by the Worcester County Criminal Enforcement Team after its members learned he was selling heroin. They obtained a search and seizure warrant.

On Oct. 19, Lyons was seen at the intersection of Route 113 and Bishopville Road. He and a passenger were arrested.

During a search of the vehicle, police found 1,678 individually wrapped bags of heroin, with an approximate street value of$41,950.

They also found $2,020.

Following that search, police executed a search and seizure warrant at Lyons’ resi-dence on Windjammer Road in Ocean Pines, where they seized seven bags of heroin.

Lyons was charged with possession of heroin, possession of heroin with the intent to distribute, possession of a large amount of heroin and importation of heroin.

Lyons was held in the Worcester County Jail on $100,000 bond.

Griffith was re-leased after posting $50,000 bond.

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Lyons’ preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 20, in District Court in Snow Hill.

He was also scheduled to be in District Court in Ocean City on Wednesday on a charge of possession of marijuana dating from last January.

The Worcester County Criminal Enforcement Team is made up of members of the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office, Maryland State Police, the Ocean City Police Department and the Pocomoke Police Department. The team, along with members of the Narcotics Unit of the Ocean City Police Department, has been conducting several joint investigations in the northern part of the county. One of those investigations led to the issuance of a search and seizure warrant for Lyons’ residence and vehicle.

During the execution of the search and seizure warrant, the Criminal Enforcement Team was assisted by the Ocean Pines Police Department, the Worcester County State’s Attorney’s Office and the D.E.A. Salisbury Post of Duty.

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Berlin fight Approximately 20 people were involved in a fight at the Multi-purpose Building on Flower Street on the morning of Oct. 14. Because of the number of people involved, officers of the Berlin Police Department and Natural Resources Police, troopers with Maryland State Police, deputies with the Worcester County Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office went to the scene.

Officers broke up the fight and people left the area. Shortly afterwards, police were called to a fight elsewhere on Flower Street.

There, officers again encountered a large number of people fighting outside one of the

Bradley fire victims to get money today; fundraising complete NANCY POWELL â&#x2013; Staff Writer (Oct. 26, 2012) Five of six families displaced by the Sept. 26 fire at the Bradley on the Bay condominium could receive donated funds today, Friday.

A fundraising effort spearheaded by Ocean City resident Monica Hanshaw raised $5,000. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I dealt with five families, so each will get $1,000,â&#x20AC;? Hanshaw said Wednesday.

Some of the victims of the 37th Street fire work at Fagerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Island, where Hanshaw is also employeed, but they work different shifts so she did not know them personally.

Hanshaw started a Facebook page, facebook.com/BradleyOnTheBayCondoFireReliefFund, later changed to facebook.com/OCMDANGELS, to publicize the need for donations of clothes, furnishings, toys and money and she also set up a bank account at the Bank of Ocean City.

Several businesses were used as drop-off locations for donations and the use of storage units was also donated for the benefit of the fire victims.

Hanshaw said Wednesday that items are no longer needed. All of the displaced residents have found housing and they accepted donated furniture as needed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone has gotten pretty much settled,â&#x20AC;? she said.

The remaining furniture will go to Diakonia, the crisis shelter in West Ocean City, to use or sell in its thrift store, Used to Be Mine, on Route 611.

Hanshaw also ceased asking for financial donations this week after collecting $5,000. She said she would go to the bank Thursday to sign the checks for the victims, who could then go to the bank to retrieve them.

The Ocean City Fire Marshalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office stated that the fire originated on the south balcony of a third-floor unit. The cause of the fire was classified as undetermined. The Fire Marshalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office also stated that improperly discarded smoking material and a possible electrical malfunction could not be ruled out as contributing factors.

apartments. They used pepper spray to stop that fight and to disperse the crowd.

Lavar J. Ayres, 33, of Berlin, was charged with disorderly conduct.

Heroin Two women were charged Oct. 16 with drug offenses after Ocean City police found heroin in a purse.

Police stopped a Toyota owned by Allison Lyn Levee, 25, of Street, Md., at 97th Street, after a vehicle check revealed a warrant for Levee for failure to appear in court. The warrant stated that Levee was known to abuse drugs.

Though the driver of the Toyota told police that Levee was not in the car, she and another woman were passengers in the vehicle.

Levee gave consent for police to search her car and they found a switchblade knife in her purse. In another purse, police found several empty glassine bags, a hollow plastic tube, a hypodermic syringe and a spoon with white residue.

The man in the front passenger seat told

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police that they were going to Fenwick, Del., to pick up his cousin, a cocaine and heroin user. The police did not believe that because there was no room in the car for an additional passenger.

Levee said one of the purses belonged to her. She and another passenger, Nikole Louise Glass, 33, of Lutherville, denied owning the other purse.

During the booking process, police found a hypodermic syringe in Leveeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s breast area.

Police charged Levee and Glass with possession of heroin, possession of equipment to administer heroin and possession of drug paraphernalia. They also charged Levee with possession of a concealed dangerous weapon.

Animal bite An 11-year-old boy was flown to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on Oct. 20, after being bitten by a dog.

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Worcester County Animal Control took possession of the animal.

Alleged assault Ocean City police charged Kenneth Edward Watts, 45, with disorderly conduct and second-degree assault after he was involved in an argument with a woman.

The woman told police that Watts threw a beer can at her and hit her in the back. She also said he pushed her, forcing her to the ground.

Both were yelling and refused to stop when police told them to be quiet.

Watts told officers to arrest him and lifted his arms in the air, which police stated was consistent with making an arrest easier.

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OBITUARIES Walter Leon Hall Sr. MILLSBORO, Del. — Walter Leon Hall Sr. of Millsboro, Del., passed away Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. He was 65 years old.

Mr. Hall began his journey on this earth on March 22, 1947, in Lewes, Del. He was the first born of twin sons (brother, Joseph) to Edna Hall Harmon and Joseph (Joby) Johnson.

He and his brother were raised by their maternal Walter Hall Sr. grandparents, Amos and Laura K. Hall.

Mr. Hall began his education at Harmon School and graduated from William C. Jason High School. He furthered his education by attending Delaware State University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. In addition, he served in the U.S. Army Artillery Division and completed a tour in Germany from 1966-1968; he was discharged honorably.

Mr. Hall’s work experience began with National Cash Register, as a purchasing agent, Townsends Inc, as a master machinist and as a federal employee with the U.S. Postal Service, from which he retired.

On Feb. 25, 1973, Mr. Hall was joined in holy matrimony to Betty Jane Johnson, whom he lovingly referred to as “Babe.”

From that union of 33 years were two children, Walter Jr. and Tanya. Mr. Hall and his wife raised her nephew, Kenneth Joynes, and was a foster parent to numerous others.

He had an easy-going, carefree spirit and was so easy to love.

Mr. Hall found great enjoyment traveling with his wife and spending time with his family members. He was very interested in his children and grandchildren’s plans, goals and achievements, and he loved them unconditionally. He also enjoyed various outdoor activities such as farming and hunting with his twin brother, Joseph and son, Walt Jr. Mr. Hall was also a member of the AllIn-One Hunting Club.

He was preceded in death by his loving wife of 33 years, Betty. He was a devoted husband, father and grandfather, and he leaves a loving and devoted family to cherish his precious memories: mother, Edna Hall Harmon of Millsboro, Del.; sons, Walter L. Hall Jr. (Serena) of Millsboro, Del., Deon

Brunskill (Brenda) and Raheim Brunskill of Laurel, Del., and Kenneth Joynes (Thayer) of Dover; and daughter, Tanya Gibbs (Kimwuan) of Lewes, Del. He had a special love for his grandchildren, Elisha, Jalen, Jonathan, K.J., Kristina, Jaslene and Allen.

Mr Hall also leaves his twin brother, Joseph Hall (Marilyn); sisters, Pamela Clark of Wilmington, Del., and Sherry McQuate of North Carolina; two sisters-in-laws, Juanita Mosley (Charles) of Dover, Del., and Linda Hodge (Eugene) of Hammond, La.; five brothers-in-law, Sidney L. Murray (Annie Mae) of Cambridge, Md., Willie Johnson Jr. and Theodore Johnson of Newark, N.J., and Chris Johnson of Salisbury; three goddaughters, Cynthia Spencer of Baltimore, LaToya Taylor of Millsboro, Del., and Megan Street of Atlanta; and a dedicated nurse, Gloria Brown, who provided care faithfully and became one of the family.

A funeral service was held Sunday, Oct. 21, at the Millsboro Seventh Day Adventist Church. Pastor Colby Matlock officiated.

Burial followed at the adjoining church cemetery.

Mattie Mae Mathews SNOW HILL — Mattie Mae Mathews, 91, of Fairfax, Va., died Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, at Harrison Senior Living. Born in Arkansas, she was the daughter of the late James McCullough and Minnie Mae Ricketts. She is survived by three sons, Stephen Mathews and his spouse, Deborah, James Mathews and his spouse, Cheryl, and Michael Mathews and spouse, Susan; six grandchildren, Travis, Degan, Nina, Justin, Macarthur and Cooper; as well as several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by brothers, James McCullough and Andrew Hazelwood, as well as a sister, Eunice Ryan.

Mrs. Mathews was married a week and a half before Pearl Harbor. She rapidly became a war bride who supported the country during World War II and soon found herself traveling the world as an Army wife.

Later in life, she loved RV traveling with her older sister. She was known as “Mom,” “Grandmom” and “Aunt Sis.” She was fiercely independent, was a constant storyteller, and loved to laugh. Most of all, she loved her family, her birds and her squirrels.

A funeral service was held Saturday, Oct. 20, at Snow Hill Christian Church in Snow Hill. Pastor Dale Jacobs officiated. Interment will be private at Arlington National

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Mildred D. “Millie” Brown SELBYVILLE, Del. — Mildred D. “Millie” Brown, 83, of Selbyville, Del., and formerly of Camp Springs, Md., died Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012 at home. Born in Washington, D.C., she was the daughter of the late Carl F. and Lillian (Thompson) Young.

Mrs. Brown had been a school bus driver for Prince Georges County Board of Education for 28 years. She was a member of St. Matthews By-The-Sea United Methodist Church in Fenwick Island, Women of the Keenwicks and the She Shells Club in Ocean City.

She is survived by her husband of 62 years, George V. Brown of Selbyville; two daughters, Pamela S. Brown of Arlington, Va., and Patricia “Trish” Brown (Joe) of Clinton, Md., as well as several nieces and nephews.

A funeral service will be held Oct. 18, at Hastings Funeral Home in Selbyville with the Rev. Jim Penuel officiating. Burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Suitland, Md. on Monday, Oct. 22.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Shriners Hospital for Children, 3551 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19140 or to St. Matthews By-The-Sea United Methodist Church, 1000 Coastal Highway, Fenwick Island, Del. 19944.

Gerald D. Long BERLIN — Gerald D. Long, 70, died Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, at his home in Berlin. Born in Frankford, Del., he was the son of the late Monroe William Long and Lottie Bunting Long. He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Patricia Wainwright Long, and a son, Dean M. Long of Berlin. Also surviving is a sister, Loretta Hitchens and her husband, Robert, of Millsboro, and their son, JD, along with a brother, Curt Long and his wife, Charlene, of Berlin and their son, Curtis Long Jr. of Milford, Del. Mr. Long had retired from the Maryland Department of Agriculture as a U.S. grader and supervisor for 27 years. He was a member of the Evergreen Masonic Lodge #153 AF & AM, Sons of the American Legion Post 123 in Berlin, past member of the Ocean City Golf and Yacht Club, and retired member of the Berlin Fire Department and the United States Trotting Association. He coached Berlin Little League and had been a coach for Worcester County Slow Pitch Softball.

A funeral service was held Saturday, Oct. 20, at Burbage Funeral Home in Berlin. The Rev. Linda Mariner officiated. Entombment

followed in Granite Memorial Mausoleum in Bishopville. In lieu of flowers, a donation in his memory may be made to Berlin Volunteer Fire Company, 214 N. Main St., Berlin, Md. 21811.

Anna Gemma Moschetto OCEAN PINES — Anna Gemma Moschetto, 91, died Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, of Alzheimer’s. Born in Newburg, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late Nicola Sallese and Anna Gracella Libertore Sallese. She was preceded in death by her husband, Louis Anthony Moschetto, in 1999. She was also preceded in death by her brothers, Mike Sallese, Don Sallese and Anthony Sallese, and her sisters, Mary Silverman and Elaine Sallese.

She is survived by her daughter, Victoria Wallace and her husband, Thomas, of Ocean Pines; and her sons, James Moschetto and his wife, Carolyn, of Azle, Texas, and Joseph Moschetto of Ocean Pines.

She will be missed by her four grandchildren, Nicole Wallace Donovan, Jennifer Johnson, Michael Anthony Mochetto and John Michael Wallace; and eight greatgrandchildren, Grace Johnson, Logan Johnson, Luke Moschetto, Marissa Moschetto, Alexis Denham, Fiona Wallace, Hope Donovan, Reid Thomas Donovan and Trevor Cummings.

Mrs. Moschetto was a graduate of Fairmont University in Fairmont, W.Va. She taught school in Garrett County, Md., before moving to Washington, D.C., to marry and raise her family. She was a wonderful homemaker, always making something delicious for someone. Relatives and friends came from all over the metropolitan Washington area to enjoy her home-cooked Italian dinners.

Later, she was a volunteer teacher at the Kennedy Institute in Washington, D.C., where she taught home economics. She continued her association with Kennedy Institute and Bethleham House throughout her life. She never forgot what they did for her son and other disabled children.

She was a member of St. John Neumann Catholic Church and had attended the Berlin Senior Center.

A Mass of Christian burial will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 26, at St. John Neumann Catholic Church on Route 589 and Beauchamp Road near Ocean Pines. Interment will be at Cheltanham Veterans Cemetery in Upper Marlboro, Md. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Bethlehem House, 1401 Lawrence St., N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017. Arrangements are in the care of Burbage Funeral Home.

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More than 130 athletes expected to compete in tournament Sat. Continued from Page 25

Athletes will compete for cash prizes, medals and title belts.

The Classics is open to children and adults of all belt levels and colors, including black belts. Competition divisions will be broken down by participant’s age and experience.

Those interested in competing may register the day of the tournament. The cost is $60 for the first event ($55 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) and $15 for each additional competition. Registration will begin at 7:30 a.m. at the 40th Street venue.

All weapons divisions will compete at 10 a.m., followed by Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at 10:30 a.m., adult black belt forms at 11 a.m. and self defense at 11:30 a.m.

Forms and sparring (under black belt) will kick off at noon, with black belt sparring at 2:30 p.m. Adult black belt Grand Champion run-off and youth forms and weapons run-off will take place at 3 p.m.

The grand champion finals will be on stage at 3:30 p.m.

All division winners will receive a trophy. Second- through fourth-place prizes will also be presented.

Title belts will be awarded to grand champions in the youth Black Belt Forms, Black Belt Weapons, Under Black Belt Forms and Under Black Belt Weapons divisions.

The adult overall Black Belt Grand

Champion in weapons and forms will win $200 each. The men’s and women’s sparring division black belt grand champion winners will receive $300.

The adult overall grand champion in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Gi and no Gi divisions will each take home $200 and a title belt.

The first-place winner in the Jiu Jitsu Takedown mini tournament will win $100 and a belt.

All competitors 12 and younger will receive a participation award.

Athletes from as young as 4 to adults in their late 50s and 60s have competed in the Classics in past years. Martial arts students from Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Washington, D.C., traditionally travel to Ocean City for the event.

Local martial arts students also compete in the tournament annually.

Last year 135 students participated and Tournament Director Kem Waters expects about the same, if not more athletes this year, based on the response, he said.

“It seems to get bigger and bigger each year. It’s just a great day of Martial Arts,” Waters said. “It’s a nationally rated event, so we’ll be getting a lot of nationally rated competitors.”

Tickets cost $15 for spectators. Children 5 and younger admitted free. For more information, call 410-430-1648 or visit www.oceancityclassics.com.

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INTERVIEW WITH MARY KNIGHT Continued from Page 3 That’s the core issue, along with keeping tourism up, because it is our only business.

Unfortunately, I think it has been degraded to “he-said, she-said,” mud slinging, things that really have nothing to do with the real issues. n OCT: If the core issue is the tax base, what do you think we need to do to compensate for declining property values? n KNIGHT: We’ve done a great job, at least since I was on the council in 2006 through 2010.

We’ve saved over $6 million by cutting, right-sizing, outsourcing; we’ve done a very, very good job. And it’s really important, that 2010 date, because that’s when all the cuts were made, that’s when we re-evaluated how we did business. So you have to continue to be very cautious that you do not cut too much, so that you’re still providing the right kind of service. On the other side, there are revenue producers. Last year, the room tax was up 6.25 percent, room tax was up a little over four percent. This year to date, we’re up in room tax by almost 7.5 percent, and food tax a little over nine percent. And that’s blacking out – because we had the hurricane in August – those four days, so that we’re comparing apples to apples. So some of the other things that I would like to look at to increase revenue is the parking, and not parking on private streets in peoples’ residential areas, but parking at the convention center. The east side of the lot on the weekend is basically beachgoers. At our 65th Street lot, there’s a lot of free parking there.

So those would be great revenue producers. n OCT: Do you think that - before you were on council, or even when you were first on it, before 2010 when you said those cuts really began – do you think that city government had gotten too big?

Do you think it was rising with the tide? n KNIGHT: No. You see all these things comparing the 1980s to 2012. In 1980, we had about 18,000 housing units. In 2011, we had 32,000.

Police calls in ’82, we had about 21,000. Now we have 70,000. Real estate tax, in 1978, was charging $1.60, versus today where the equivalent would be 64 cents, we’re at 39.5 cents. In ’78, the assessed real estate value was at $337 million; today we’re at $10 billion. Our debt percentage of the general fund in ’78 was 49 percent, today it’s 32 percent. So if you look at those comparisons, those numbers prove that we have not grown too big, that we’re keeping up with the times, that your budget has to get bigger. We have an increase in condo units since the ’80s of 5,000. In 1980 we had 5,000 people, today we have over 7,000, which is a 44 percent increase. So to be a healthy environment, of course your budget is going to increase. n OCT: I guess the sticking point is that, regardless of what happened in the ’80s or ‘90s, the ‘00s was really the big boom as far as city government goes and payroll. It went from $21 million on the payroll in 2000 to $43 million in 2008 or 2009.

Do you think personnel, specifically, is a different matter? n KNIGHT: No. What happened, in December of 2005, a group called the Hendricks study was brought in. In 2005, the results were presented to the mayor and council, which I was not on, in a closed session. In that session, Joe Hall made the motion to accept the findings of the Hendricks study. It was seconded by Nancy Howard. At that point, there was another motion made to fund these raises. It was approved by the entire council – which, again, I was not on. So then in January of 2006, those raises were put into place for many reasons. The number one was that the study found that the employees of Ocean City were not making par with other municipalities that were similar to ours. So from 2006 to 2008, employees got several raises. They have not received a raise now in four years. So they realized some benefit for a couple years, and then for four years they’ve been sitting on the same salary.

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You’ve got to look also – when I mentioned police calls – that when you go from 21,000 calls to 70,000, of course your police officers are going to increase. We had, back then, maybe 45 officers, and now we have 100. So those things happen.

The same happened with the fire department.

When you get more tourists, more people living here, those numbers increase. n OCT: I know I’ve talked to Doug (Cymek) about this, but maybe not you - you and he and Lloyd were the group that helped to hammer out the last FOP contract, correct? n KNIGHT: We went at the 11h hour. The way we used to negotiate – prior to the 2010 self-proclaimed majority – was that the president of the council, our financial officer, and our lawyer, used to negotiate as a team. It was much more personal. With this new 2010 council, when Mr. Ashley came aboard and things changed somewhat, with that they chose that all seven of us would negotiate. But we really didn’t negotiate. The lawyers would talk and then bring something back, there was no personal looking into your eyes and saying ‘I’ll do this if you do that.’ So because of that, they were at a stalemate, and at the 11th hour, the council voted – I didn’t vote for myself – for myself, Doug, and Lloyd to go meet with the FOP. We were able to accomplish no raises for two years, and basically no change in the contract. It was a very, very, good faith contract that we negotiated. n OCT: The FOP’s next negotiation will be coming up soon. Do you think that will be particularly tough? Do you think they’re due for the raises that they’ve been holding off on? n KNIGHT: You’d have to ask the FOP. I’d never want to speculate on what they might want or what the city might want, because I don’t want to jeopardize any negotiations. n OCT: The other night, at the debates, you said tourism was up six percent. Were you referring to the room tax? n KNIGHT: Yes. The problem, that a lot of people have articulated, is that there’s no true measurement, and all we can do is look at increase in room tax and food tax. So the logical thing is to say, if room tax has gone up, is it because more people are coming to town, or are we charging more money for a room? And the average room, in talking with Michael James and some other leaders in the industry, went up last summer maybe $1.80 per night. So I can’t attribute the increase to the cost. Recently, my husband and I were out west, and we stayed in a resort area of Wyoming. In the paper, they publish their tourism numbers – ‘”room tax up 20 percent, next week expect 15 percent.”

They had such a strong working relationship with the hotel industry, that the hotel was providing that kind of information. So I found that kind of refreshing, that they had that kind of relationship and that the hotel/motel industry was very open with their numbers. We’ve never had that luxury here, so the only thing we can really base it on is room tax. One of the things that I would like to see happen is new metrics. There’s got to be better things than Demoflush. With Demoflush, nobody ever took into account that a toilet now uses one fourth of the water that it did when the Demoflush figures began. That would be one of my initiatives. n OCT: We do have the Smith report now, at the request of the hotel/motel industry. n KNIGHT: But it only reflects around 10 percent. It’s only for chain hotels, and the Harrison Group, for instance, is not a chain hotel. We have such a small sampling, to extrapolate from that would be unfair also. n OCT: One of the things I’ve seen you promote is that you voted against closing the pension program, which I know has been a big topic. There’s an increased actuarial cost, because no one else new is paying into the plan, but then when it’s closed, the city will have no more pension liability.

What was your reasoning behind the decision? n KNIGHT: There are a lot of reasons. Right now, in 2030, it’s going to cost the taxpayer almost

$900,000. This year, it will cost the taxpayer an additional $300,000. The method that we were using with the plan was called smoothing, and we were paying a consistent amount every single year to make sure there as funding there. I think it’s very unfair when you have an older population, like we do, to make them be paying more now than they needed to. With that smoothing, you knew what to expect, you knew what you were going to pay.

That’s one reason I voted against it. The other reason is because the way I make decisions is with a lot of information. I don’t like a solution forced on me. I felt that those were forced without the actuarial studies, without any forethought, without any “what ifs”, without any “where are we going to be five years from now?” So it was based on the fact that it will cost us more money, and the decision was made very rapidly without thinking through the solution. n OCT: We did, this year, save a net from pension and benefits of $100,000. n KNIGHT: That’s not entirely correct. The $100,000 was budgeted, it was a budgeted figure that we thought we were going to have to pay $100,000, but because of things that we began doing. n OCT: The negotiations with CareFirst went better because we had less liability, right? n KNIGHT: These are all the things we did prior to 2010, where we expected that things would’ve gone up 8.5 percent, and they only went up 3.5 percent because of what we did. $100,000 was a budgeted item, so we didn’t save it, we just didn’t spend an additional $100,000. So there’s a difference in that. I know some of the council members are touting that we saved $100,000. It’s like if you budget so much for your gas bill. n OCT: And then suddenly the price of gas goes down, for whatever reason. It’s not like you actually used less gas. n KNIGHT: The average for anybody is 8.5 percent. That’s an industry trend. We came in at 3.5, because of everything we did prior to 2010. We did all these things that helped us be at that 3. 5 percent. n OCT: So the costs that we’re having from closing out the pension plan, what would you do then to mitigate those? n KNIGHT: We could re-open the plan. Someone like you comes in to work for the town, you’re young, you’re going to be paying a whole lot longer.

Versus my husband coming in at age 60 and has only 10 years [to pay into the plan]. I’m not proposing [reopening the plan]. I would like our actuarial to tell us if that would be a good idea. That was given to us as an option, and the majority voted that down, as I recall. That was an option that the mayor was looking at seriously. n OCT: The other fiscal issue was the tax rate, and I know you were strongly against lowering it.

Joe Mitrecic, when I spoke with him, characterized that as an artificial tax decrease. Do you think that the city will, in the future, be able to make real cuts instead of dipping into the fund balance? Can we still lower the tax rate from constant yield, or will we always have to have that rate? n KNIGHT: I think any municipality should be happy when they stay at the constant yield. That’s the goal, that’s what people expect. I don’t believe, like Mr. Mitrecic said, in artificially lowering the tax rate, because, as you know, it took it out of the reserve fund, which affects our bond rating, our ability to borrow money, if we have a hurricane. And I’ll tell you what happens if we have a hurricane, if it hits the whole East Cost. Ocean City goes to Home Depot and we say “we need lots and lots of lumber.” And we have $20 million dollars, and we can pay cash, and Hilton Head has no money, and they say they’ll get a bond for it. Guess who gets that lumber, who gets that help? When FEMA comes in, they look at who was able to take care of themselves. So the reserve fund is extremely important, and to take money out of it so that I can lower my tax rate is purely a political ploy. And I will argue

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that forever. We talked more about horse manure on the beach more than we talked about that.

And that’s been the whole problem these past two years. Once again, I was blindsided. n OCT: Do you think that there is a lack of discussion outside of the formal meetings? n KNIGHT: In a parliamentary procedure, prior to these last two years, if I had an idea about something like horseback riding on the beach, I would go to the council president and ask for it to be an agenda item. It would be in a work session; we’d all get background information, and have a discussion. If I had the idea to lower the tax rate by a penny, we would’ve had all those budgetary meetings, and it would’ve been, “Council president, let’s talk about lowering it.” That did not occur these past two years. There has been no regard to Robert’s Rules, how meetings are run, how you’re supposed to get information out. One of the things I’d like to talk to Kelly about is having a work session about Robert’s Rules again. How you run a meeting, and how, when a constituent, talks at the end of a meeting, you don’t challenge them, you take under advisement what they’re speaking about. n OCT: Do you think re-institution of the commissions would be a part of this? n KNIGHT: Without a doubt. I was chair of the tourism commission. I met with the business community to work things out. You want to know how the Dew Tour happened? It was after TAB was initiated, and for some reason I was invited. The Dew Tour came, they were in the room. He was from Chicago, and there was a horrible snowstorm in Chicago. They came and presented it, and everybody in the room is starting to talk. “I don’t know what to do with this, should we fill out a special event form? What do we do next?” I got up out of the room, got on the phone, called the mayor and the department heads and said, “These guys are leaving tomorrow at 2 o’clock, this is the biggest opportunity for Ocean City.” The mayor and then city manager put together a meeting, and we ended up with the Dew Tour. If I had not been at that meeting, I’m not sure what would’ve happened, but I know that I got the ball rolling, because they did not know the internal workings of the town. Commissions work. You take work, you delegate it to a smaller group, and they come up with a solution. It’s presented to the larger group with facts and findings, and then you move on. n OCT: Do you think TAB itself has been effective, since its institution? n KNIGHT: I think TAB has been effective, but I’d like to see council members on TAB. It’s that simple of an answer. n OCT: Back to the benefits, one of the other things debated is the changing of benefits for current employees versus future employees. When a lot of these changes first came in, was it your understanding that these were only for new hires? n KNIGHT: Without a work session, it was kind of hard to know what they wanted to do. I do know that they wanted to take a week away from the folks that had five weeks’ vacation, take them down to four weeks. They wanted to take away spousal insurance, the ICMA match of $200, and the tuition reimbursement. Those are four things that, from my notes and minutes, that I can actually substantiate. There was talk of pay decreases, which went absolutely nowhere, but I know for sure those four things were part of the benefits that they were trying to change.

And again, not having the luxury of getting all the information, I can’t read their minds. n OCT: The one potentially major change to current employees was the move to keep the retirement benefit for everyone, but to put a three percent cap on that for both current and future employees. n KNIGHT: That would be something that I would want the actuaries to look at again for us. The more I read, a lot of people are open to that, versus major cuts like what happened to the steel companies. So that would be good option to look at.

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INTERVIEW WITH MARY KNIGHT n OCT: Do you still think that was a good move? I know Joe Hall kind of crossed the aisle to vote with you and Doug and Lloyd on that one.

Knight: I would have to revisit that with actuarial studies to see where we would be. I don’t want to say yes or no, but I’m open to discussion on ways to protect our current employees, our future employees, and the taxpayer. n OCT: Do you think that a lot of the benefits issues and the cuts are a major factor behind the union push? You get a lot of different stories from a lot of different people on that. n KNIGHT: The union push is because they fired Dennis Dare. I was called on a Thursday morning, like nine o’clock, “Can you come to a four o’clock meeting?’ I had no idea what it was about.

I walked in, they fired Dennis Dare. There was no thought about it, there was no plan, there was no “Dennis, the four of us want you to do this, this, and this, let’s talk about it.” The union, in my mind – and they can spin it any way they want – is the firing of Dennis Dare. The fact that he walked out of here on Friday at five o’clock, and everybody in this building stayed an applauded him as he walked out. That’s when I saw morale go down.

If the referendum passes – and I would bet a lot of money on this – if the referendum passes, and the council complexion changes, for instance, if myself, and Joe Mitrecic, Dennis Dare, and Doug Cymek were elected, or any combination of those four, that 50 percent of the employees would not sign on to accept the union. Because that’s the next step. n OCT: Right, it has to have employee support. n KNIGHT: Right. Because they’ll be happy again. Because they’ll know they have a council that they can trust, is open-minded, that they can speak to. If the referendum passes, and, for example, Joe Hall, Jim Hall, Dennis Dare, and Doug

Cymek are the four, over 90 percent of the employees will sign to become part of the union. That’s my prediction.

Somebody tore me apart in the paper because I signed the petition [for unionization]. It was my responsibility to sign the petition. After I voted – it was a 7-0 vote to send it to referendum – if I believe in the process, I would’ve been hypocritical not to sign the petition, if I believe it should be the voters.

I haven’t told anybody [how I’m going to vote on the referendum], I haven’t even told my husband. I believe it is my responsibility to remain neutral, because whatever happens, if I’m fortunate enough to still be serving the public, I want to be unbiased, I don’t want anyone to think that I have a bias [against the union.] n OCT: Advertising is another of the hot issues as far as money we spend goes. The MGH contract kind of came down to a time issue, but do you think when it comes up again, do you think the city needs to make cuts or a change in direction in advertising? n KNIGHT: Advertising is funded, not by the taxpayers here, its funded by the half percent that’s on the room tax. So room tax is, I believe, 4.5 percent, so the half percent funds advertising. $12 million, the 4 percent we got last year, went to the general fund. The other $4.2 million came from that half percent. You wouldn’t cut that, because really our taxpayer isn’t paying for it, that’s why it’s a revenue source. n OCT: I guess, theoretically, that money could be put toward other things. n KNIGHT: You could be putting it into the general fund, but then you’d be hurting your own revenue stream, which is tourism. Atlantic City, last year, spent $20 million advertising. Their tourism is down 10 percent. The money that we spend is very worth it. Andy Malis is so on-board, that it’s only to his benefit for us to be successful. n OCT: We’ve really increased the advertising

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budget – it was $1 million in 2006, it’s $4 million now – do you think we’ve reached a tipping point as far as how much we spend? Where is the point of diminishing returns on that? n KNIGHT: That’s why we have to see some metrics. We have to be able to effectively say what our return on investment is. If you look at a special event, for example, the air show, what is the return on that investment? When you look at bike week, what is the return on that investment? Andy can prove how effective the advertising is, and I think it’s evidenced by last year’s room tax being up 6.25 percent. There are so many tourist destinations that would love to be in my seat right now and saying that tourism was up 6 percent and all that was spent – of not our money, but of the people coming into town – was almost $5 million. So to decrease advertising would be, in my mind, ludicrous. You’re decreasing your revenue source. It just doesn’t make sense. With MGH, they have so much buying power that we get so much free from them. n OCT: Anything else you want to add? n KNIGHT: Just what I said about parliamentary procedure, that’s very important to me to bring the quorum back to council. I don’t like being compared to the Salisbury council. I don’t like being called the ‘silly council.’ I don’t like an ad saying that I’m a bully, I don’t like them saying ‘Joe’s not a fashion model or social butterfly’ – they were pointing that at me. That’s not who I am. I am a professional; I’ve been in the business world for 28 years. My account base was $10 million. I had to look at CFOs in the eye and explain to them why they should choose me, AT&T, over my competitor, when I was higher priced. I have always prided myself in my professionalism. So for this kind of thing to come out - I don’t want that. n OCT: Do you think the personality issues make as much of a difference on policy as people seem to think? n KNIGHT: I don’t get it when Jim Hall says that

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You know how much money we make a year?

It’s like $10,000. I pay for every single event that I go to. Frankie [Knight’s daughter], my husband, and I were the only people down there today for the ribbon cutting for the carriage rides. You’ll see a picture of me in the paper and I’m the only person at the ribbon cutting. That’s the fun part of the job. I’ve never seen a sheet cake I don’t like, you know? So I don’t know what folks mean with personalities. That shouldn’t even be an issue. How well you make a decision, how prepared, how thoughtful you are, those things are what count.

Absentee ballots accepted The Ocean City municipal election will be held on Nov. 6, to coincide with the National Election Day. The polls, at the convention center, will open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m.

Residents who are unable to go to the polls on election day must apply for and submit municipal absentee ballots to the City Clerk’s Office by mail or by hand, no later than 5 p.m. on Nov. 5.

Early voting for the federal election will take place Oct. 27-Nov. 1. Ocean City residents who wish to vote early may go to Gull Greek (1 Meadow St., in Berlin) from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day during the early voting period, except Sunday, Nov. 28.

Ocean City employees will be stationed in the parking lot of the early polling center to hand out or to collect municipal absentee ballot applications from resort residents who do not intend to vote at the polls on election day. The early voting polls will be open from noon to 6 p.m.

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INTERVIEW WITH DOUG CYMEK Continued from Page 3 people. The first time I ran was 1996. I guess I had some grandiose ideas back then about downtown revitalization, but that was a little big before OCDC. I looked at the old fishing village and looked at the potential for revitalizing Ocean City, because that’s where all the visitors are attracted to. They may live or rent in midtown or uptown, but they visit downtown.

After the ’96 election, where I wasn’t elected, I got very active in my community, in the neighborhood association and what was back then the Grant a Wish Foundation, which is now Believe in Tomorrow. It finally evolved into wanting to run for office again, after a full 10 years in 2006.

As far as these last four years, I very much have enjoyed it. I look at 38 years now in business, where I had to make the financial decisions regarding my business and didn’t have anybody else, didn’t have a board of directors to go to. My business has survived, fed a lot of employees over the years.

I think I have some talents that are worthwhile to bring to the citizens of Ocean City.

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n OCT: As someone who was in business yourself and had to make a lot of tough decisions, how much do you think the city can do for businesses – because that’s the primary point here, the tourist industry – and how much do they need to do themselves? n CYMEK: I know some of my fellow council members disagree with the idea that the city should be involved in the tourism industry. But I think we are very much in a position of directing or channeling people to our resort. You’re quite right, that tourism is our primary business, it’s what makes this town go around, and without it our business would dry up, and very quickly things would slide and revenues with it, and very soon we’d have astronomical tax increases, which is something I don’t go along with. Prior councils over the years have done a good job with our tax rates. I kind of have a unique look or view of the council, being a member for the last four years in that this new self-professed majority took office in 2010, and I was elected in 2008. I’m very well positioned to analyze both sides of it and give an opinion as to what happened and what has gone wrong.

Being elected in October of 2008, one of the

very first meetings that I remember, we were talking about budget issues, and I think it was myself that made the motion to cut a car wash contract we had in town. It was about a $60,000 contract.

People referred to that as the low-hanging fruit. But I look at any unnecessary expense as something that needs to be cut. I would look at these line by line, which I’ve done every year since I was elected, and make cuts when necessary. In 2010, when Brent Ashley was elected and evidently a majority thinking came to the surface, what changed was, I guess, the lack of discussion. We’ve been taping meetings for a long time, and you can go back and watch the conversations of the council pre-October 2010 and see that government was very transparent, we did talk about things publicly, and all the council members chimed in. Both in closed session, and now in open session, that’s all gone. I truly feel that the self-proclaimed majority just doesn’t look at our opinions, don’t feel a need to get any input from us. The decisions are made and they move forward. n OCT: Does that involve everything that the city does? There are certain issues where there was a real stalemate. I know Jim (Hall) said some-

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thing to the effect of, “We had to put these ordinances out there and see what happened, because it wasn’t going to happen any other way.” n CYMEK: First of all, the ordinances that they developed and put out there, they had not done any homework whatsoever. There should’ve been some consultation with the insurance providers, the actuaries, before making these arbitrary decisions. I think with the mayor vetoing the majority of them – I think seven – there was a considerable savings, because we were about to go down a path where it would’ve cost us money. Right now, Jim Hall likes the idea, and Joe Hall and the other two, that on a Friday when they (the city employees) get their paychecks, all the liability for the town is taken care of. At what cost? We’ve had to accelerate the amortization of these pension programs in order to close them, at great cost to the taxpayer. They’re taking credit for a $100,000 savings in the health insurance rates. That’s not what generated that savings. What generated it is what’s known as an experience modification factor. Because of the amount of claims paid or not paid, we enjoyed a reduction in the cost. That’s not an action on their part. n OCT: Regardless of if those changes were handled properly, as far as the way they were presented, you think that they fundamentally just weren’t a good idea as far as the legislation itself? n CYMEK: Yes. I guess my nature is that I like to investigate things, explore them, and understand the options before I commit to something When you have four members of the council come in and say, “This is the way it’s going to be,” I guess anyone would be resistant to that. n OCT: The difference between the two, as I understand it, is basically paying more over the next 20 years or so in order to eliminate the level of risk and investment uncertainty the city has in being responsible for its own pension plan. Do you see that elimination of liability as something that is going to have to be done, do you think the city could save the money, as you proposed, and take care of or not take care of that issue in other ways? n CYMEK: The pension programs are all based on the performance of the investments.

We’re closing down one program that has the majority of our employees in it, and opening up a new one for all the new hires. The experts tell me that the money that the new hires would have put into the old plan would help it grow quicker. I have to rely on what the actuaries say. I’m just having a problem of basically taxing the current taxpayers for something that is going to come down the line. n OCT: I guess a lot of the city’s liability is going to be coming up fairly soon, given that our employee base is fairly old and going to retire, in a significant number of cases, in 3-5 years. How do you think the city is going to manage that? Because, regardless of the pension plan or unionization or any of these things, there is ultimately going to be a big change in the employee system simply because they’re going to retire. n CYMEK: If I’m correct, the current employees’ pension fund is funded somewhere in the area of 80 percent, or in the high 70s. The investments will take care of themselves. Sure, everyone would like to have everything funded 100 percent.

But just around the United States in any plan, you can find that that’s not the case. We’re well ahead of the curve. n OCT: You mentioned the city’s investment in tourism. Do you think our return on that has been good? n CYMEK: I think our advertising budget is probably up just a little over $5 million now. It’s difficult to analyze the return on investment because I think we have incomplete data. The Smith Travel information is not complete because only certain people contribute to that data. I don’t believe the Demoflush numbers are correct for a lot of reasons. I’ll tell you that, back in the early ’90s when the federal laws were changed and required people to put lower gallon-per-minute toilets in, we Continued on Page 36

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INTERVIEW WITH PHILIP SAYAN Continued from Page 3 what do you do? Is Ocean City changing, morphing from what was historically this family-oriented, “Hey, come spend a week” vacation spot, becoming this event-based town? Don’t get me wrong, so many events do well. We sponsor the soccer players, the teams – and those are great for business.

But then again, that is a family-oriented event.

Mom and dad are down, they have the kids. Kids always want something to eat, they want a T-shirt, invariably they need to buy a pair of socks, whatever. It’s really good for Boardwalk business, and those types of things do well for us. But there’s other events where they’re more commercial, and obviously they don’t do as well as we’d like them to, or if you bring in huge vendors, it’s problematic. n OCT: Of the current political climate in City Hall, how would you say you’d make a change? Are these Boardwalk issues just not being heard? n SAYAN: I think that, to an extent, they have been heard. Margaret Pillas had a store on the Boardwalk, and she did what she could. She’s a huge advocate, but she’s not there anymore on the Boardwalk, since she sold her store. So we don’t have the representation. And from there, if you don’t have representation, things are going to get swept under the rug. I know it’s a big spread, and there are a lot of bigger businessmen in town with a vested interest in the Boardwalk who have whatever political clout they have, but it’s not like having someone on the council. n OCT: What’s your take on how polarized it’s become here? n SAYAN: My approach is strictly business. I don’t’ know much about politics. But in the time that I’ve filed for City Council to now, it’s been quite an eye-opener. Ocean City is really this microcosm of how it exists on a larger scale in this country. It’s definitely polarized. You see this grudge match that exists – for a lack of better words – in City Council.

I’m not one to side, but eventually I think one side is going to try to suck you in. n OCT: Yeah, someone always tries to co-opt you eventually. n SAYAN: Right. So up until that point, I would like to stay as neutral as I can. The interesting thing is that I see perspectives on the arguments that obviously are prevailing on council and in Ocean City politics. And I see both sides of the argument.

That being said, both sides can’t be the solution.

Both sides argue that this is the way or this is the way. I’m not indifferent, I just don’t agree. n OCT: In a long-term sense, what do you think is the way? A lot of stuff gets thrown around about cutting the budget and expenses – do you think the city is on a good trajectory for that? n SAYAN: No. Like any businessperson – and I’m a pretty conservative person – I think they use this term “budget” loosely, and I think it’s important not to do that. I think we need to be fiscally conservative in Ocean City for the long term. I think we, as a country right now, are in the middle of an economic malaise. I don’t know that throwing money at the budget is going to help that. When you say, “Going on a current course,” I don’t see it as being a great thing. I think changes need to be made. If we tighten things up, we’ll have a better future.

I think sacrifices have to be made. And that’s the case anywhere. When things are bad, you can’t really go on spending, you have to be in some respects conservative to kind of watch your p’s and q’s, because before you know it you’re up to your neck in debt. Which is why I say that it’s not difficult to have this mirror between macrocosm and microcosm with politics in the country, because we don’t’ want that. We don’t want to have huge debt in Ocean City. We just don’t need it. n OCT: Do you think that plays into the marketing and advertising for the town? Do you think that’s done its part for the Boardwalk, with the city in the role that it’s in as the organization that mar-

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kets us far and wide across the Atlantic region? n SAYAN: I’ve heard a lot – recently, this year, because some people say business was good, some say it wasn’t so good. I don’t know exactly who they’re targeting. We see people from New York and New Jersey, and they’re advertising out there. For local advertising, Ocean City has a reputation, but are we doing a good enough job?

There’s always room for improvement. I ask people, because I work the counter at my store, “How’d you end up in Ocean City?’ And I’ve never had anybody say they saw it on TV, or heard it on the radio. “Hey, my friend was here last year,” or “I was down for bike week and I liked it,” or “I was down to watch the Blue Angels and I liked it so I came back.’ Or “I was down for a road trip and I came back.”

So if we’re advertising, where are we advertising? I see the billboards as you drive down (Route) 50, but by then, you’re here. n OCT: Has your own business been doing well? Did you take a hit with the economic downturn, and did you come back? n SAYAN: I would say yes. I know that I’ve always logged a lot of hours, because it’s a short season. But what I’ve seen is that nothing has gone down for me. Cost of food is up – it goes up every year. Cost of power goes up every year. And it seems to be that the income that we make stays consistent. So from a business perspective, that’s not the greatest. You can only raise prices so much. If things get too expensive here, if they get too out of control, people aren’t going to come back. And that’s a serious consideration – what happens if they don’t come back. This town is based on the tourist season.

Certainly, throwing money into the city in terms of the budget – which is going to ultimately put us as business owners spending more money – only adds to the problem. n OCT: Do you think that the situation here with your taxes and fees is a factor? Is the cost of business high here, comparable to other places? n SAYAN: It is. To an extent, you’re at the mercy of who we have to interact with. But that being said, its not that much higher, and you have to remember that it’s going to seem higher because we have 90 days to get things up and running, and that’s a cost. You get kids in here to get things running and you have those costs before you even start making money. It’s not like a business that you keep up year-round. n OCT: Do you think we’ve lost a lot of business to the West Ocean City and Ocean Pines area, with all the building going on out-of-town rather than redevelopment in-town? n SAYAN: I would say to an extent, yes. People like their chains, in terms of restaurants. Some of those places, when they seem them, they gravitate toward them. Is that good for us in Ocean City? No. On the other hand, some of those folks could never afford to do business in the city limits. It’s expensive, as we talked about before. And that’s kind of a Catch-22 for us. It’s good for Ocean City as a town. Clearly, in the years that I’ve been here, there are more people here in the off-season than there have ever been. n OCT: You think so? n SAYAN: I remember a time when you would get on 50 and you couldn’t see a car in February.

That’s not the case now. There are people everywhere. Maybe these businesses in West Ocean City are appealing to the people in the Pines or West Ocean City year-round. I have friends in West Ocean City, and during the season, they won’t come into Ocean City, just because of the traffic. n OCT: Do you think a stronger year-round population would help downtown? Does the Boardwalk get more year-round business now as well? n SAYAN: I go down there every day this time of year. I’ll go down there today to work and clean up. I’ll put my head out and see how many people are there. If I thought there were enough people to sustain business, I’d open up. This is my sixth year

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now, and I’d say that by the second week in October, it pretty much lays down. Now, I don’t know if that’s because, historically, that’s when everyone shuts down, and this time of year people say, “There’s nothing going on; we’re just not going to go.” But I think there are attempts made at making Ocean City 365 (days a year). And let’s say, and this is an argument that’s been made, that instead of having all these events in the summertime, couldn’t we refocus these events for the early spring or early fall? Because that’s when we typically don’t have so many people. We’re going to have them in the summer regardless. Do we need those events, or are they better served in the shoulder months? n OCT: As far as what the city provides, and the massive level of upkeep that this place necessitates, do you think any of that can be scaled back without hurting business? n SAYAN: I think that Ocean City does a good job in the summertime with the number of municipal workers. They keep things clean. I don’t’ think that is inherently the problem that we have. I think what could be scaled down is the number of people we carry in the winter, in the off-season. If we’re not generating revenue in the winter months, where’s the money coming from? It’s a pretty basic formula – if you don’t have income, you need to keep your expenditures down. We cannot afford as a town to carry the numbers of people that we currently do. It’s just another piece of the pie, tough, when we talk about Ocean City as a whole. n OCT: What are you thoughts on the union push, in that vein? n SAYAN: The union is a funny thing. Unions served to provide representation originally, I think, for people who didn’t have it. Historically speaking, if someone was in the workplace and they had their hand cut off, you’re out of luck – find a job where you need one hand. It was terrible. Unions

came in and changed all that. They gave a voice to people who needed representation. Is that so much the case now? I don’t think so. What I can tell you is that we need someone who polices the behavior of some people. It’s a dichotomy we’re faced with. It’s not that I disapprove of unions; they’ve helped many people, and particularly some of the people that serve us. Policemen, firemen, if they get hurt they need representation. In other cases, do we need it? Ocean City is a small town, and from what I’ve seen it’s fairly conservative as well, in some respects, so why can’t we police ourselves? Instead of having so many outside forces acting on us, why can’t we take care of our own?

Money comes from someplace, and it’s this trickle-down thing, where there’s more jobs, more money. Do we need the jobs? Where does it all end? And if we’re not careful, we find ourselves in this position where we’re overwhelmed with expenses and budgets, and we have priced ourselves out of the game. n OCT: Are the capital projects the city undertakes appropriate to help businesses like yours? n SAYAN: Everybody around you - whether you live here or in Annapolis or D.C. – everyone sees expenditures and they wonder if its frivolous or not.

Would I certainly like to see money spent on some things versus other things? Sure. Are parts of the Boardwalk in disarray, do they need to be replaced? Yeah. We have to do that.

But we need to get the budget in such a way that it’s cost-effective for a seasonal town. Because we’re still very much a seasonal town. What are we spending money on if we’re not bringing it in? There are businesses operating this time of year, but not to the scale that we need to perpetuate business. If we’re going to have any kind of longevity, we really need to buckle down and get on track with how we’re spending.

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INTERVIEW WITH DOUG CYMEK Continued from Page 34 used to have toilets here that would take 4-6 gallons for a flush, now they take 1.6. But nothing [in Demoflush] was ever changed. So I don’t feel the numbers are correct. I think if you look at the changes in the number of people that were here, the number of police calls … our census in 1980 was around 5,000 and in 2010 we’re over 7,000, which is a 44 percent increase. Our real property accounts were 18,800 back in 1980 and now we have over 32,400. There’ s obvious growth. Our police calls for service, back in 1982 were 21,000, and this year we’re at 70,000 with three months left to go. n OCT: I guess the question is if the increase in the city’s size matches the increase in the budget. n CYMEK: The water and wastewater departments weren’t around years ago. There are all kinds of numbers being thrown around out there about our operating budget. The general fund operating budget is about $76.5 million. There are individuals telling people that it’s $121 or $141 million. What that relates to are the proprietary fiduciary funds.

As long as the enterprise funds perform properly with the revenues they create, there’s no need to dip into the general fund. They should be self-sufficient.

The pensions, we hope that the investments perform to the benchmark of 7.5 percent that they’re shooting for. As long as they do that, we don’t’ have to dig in and subsidize that. n OCT: The real boost in city government – regardless of what happened in the ’80s and ’90s, because you can’t really argue there wasn’t huge growth then – was after the year 2000. For example, in 2006, MGH’s contract was $1 million, last year it was $4 million. n CYMEK: But when you say it went from $1 to $4 million dollars, that’s inclusive of the ads they run. Their actual annual contract is in the area of $275,000. n OCT: Right, that’s what they actually profit.

But that’s what we’re spending on outside marketing, as a net. n CYMEK: I think it’s actually more than that, I think we’re spending upwards to $5 million now. n OCT: Yes, if you add in all the things that the city doesn’t handle through MGH, some of the other things that we handle ourselves. But regardless of that, the point is that the room tax in the same period went from $9.7 to $11.9 million, which is an increase, but nowhere near 400 percent. n CYMEK: Understood. I think we’ve gone through a period of recession. If you look at the Smith Travel reports and you look at the other resorts, the next closest one to us is Virginia Beach.

They’re very much on a parallel to us, pretty much every month they have the same numbers within a fraction of a point. So we’re vying for discretionary dollars with them as well. Atlantic City is growing, they’re coming up behind us and they’re pushing hard for those dollars too. What I’m getting at is that the commitment of the advertising is what’s kept us where we are. n OCT: You think we would be much worse off if we hadn’t done it? n CYMEK: Absolutely. Some people have accused the town of not having a real marketing plan in place to handle the advertising, and that’s really the furthest from the truth. They have just layers and layers of checks and balances to make sure we’re putting our dollars in the right place. So for someone to come out, who’s not familiar with the programs that we have, to say something like that is just throwing the public off. I’ve been very happy with the performance of MGH and our town staff and what they’ve done. We constantly hear from various places that maybe our lifeguard promotion has run its course and that we need to go in a different direction with our advertising. That may be the case. But it was decided by TAB that they felt it was on course for another year. We had all the commercials put together. There were four or five of them that had been done, and we could go back to the first year and cycle them back. Rodney is a very well recognized individual who brings a lot of attention to Ocean City. I’m not saying there’s not another promotion that would do well, but I think it’s done well for us. n OCT: Do you think we’ve gotten a good return as well on special events? I know that we’ve really ratcheted those up and the schedule is really tight. n CYMEK: Next June is going to be a crowded month. I think that musical event – the Founders’ Festival – is going to be a major draw for Ocean City, evidently a very large-scale event. The Dew Tour’s done a great deal for our economy. After all those

Ocean City Today major events, the following week I try to talk to as many businesspeople as I can, to get their feel if it was worthwhile. All those events do good things for the town. n OCT: Do you think the city and our tourism base can survive outside of those special events? n CYMEK: No, I do not. I think they’re very key to the survivability of Ocean City. n OCT: Going back to the size of government – the union question is on the ballot, and the next FOP contract is coming up. Where do you think that we’re going as far as having a sustainable employee base? n CYMEK: The last contract that the FOP had with the town came to a point where they were at an impasse. The full mayor and council asked us – us meaning myself, Lloyd Martin, and Mary Knight – if we would sit down with their executive board and see if we could negotiate a one-year contract. We met, and I would have to say in the period of an hour and a half, we were able to talk through all the issues and get them to agree to a two-year, no- increase contract. I’m not going to say it was any shrewd negotiating on our part by any means, but it was a group of people, both parties, that trusted each other. You had the FOP – I have to commend them for forgoing contractual increases that they were entitled to in order to help the town and keep it on track during a recessionary period. We were able to do that for two years, and we’ll be having negotiations again with them shortly. I hope everything goes well. Do I think there are going to be some increases to that contract? I would be surprised if they didn’t ask for them. Many employees, not just the FOP, have gone five years without any kind of increase. n OCT: Do you think that the change to the benefits system – which I know the FOP has said is hurting their ability to attract and retain people – is a serious issue, not just with the FOP but anywhere?

Do changes have to be made for that? n CYMEK: I do. And it’s not just the FOP, although it’s probably more apparent with them.

Young people these days are very attuned to investments and retirement and starting out early getting themselves headed in the right direction. We have to be competitive with other jurisdictions, or if we’re going to hire these people, they’ll be here a short period of time and use us as a stepping stone to go onto the next agency and work for them. There are many people who are poised over the last couple years, to get their five years in and, if nothing changes, they’re going to head off. n OCT: Is that something that’s avoidable. I mean – for me, for example, in the newspaper industry – going somewhere to work and get experience and then moving on is just how it works. That’s how it is in most private industries. n CYMEK: No disrespect to you, but with a police officer or paramedic where you’re spending thousands of town dollars to train and outfit is a little different situation. We spend tens of thousands in putting people through academies and basic training, so to speak, to serve us. I wrote a letter to the editor back in the ’90s kind of equating these employees, the new hires, as a jewel in the rough. How we find them and polish them and turn them into a gem, only for them to leave our employment. That’s the part that concerns me. Then we start to cycle again, we hire another person to replace that person, and everything that we spend on them all has to start over again. n OCT: Do you think, though, that in terms of what Ocean City can offer, we’re the kind of place that has to attract and retain a certain level of people? Because even with the police, in a practical sense, there’s only a certain level of the market that you’re competing with. Obviously our police here are very good at what they do, but it’s not like we’re competing with Brooklyn South Narcotics to retain officers. n CYMEK: Well, I would have to disagree. All our departments, within the Ocean City Police Department, I hold to be very professional, well trained and experienced. Our narcotics people – you mentioned Brooklyn South – I would hold them up there with them. Maybe they don’t’ have the number of cases, but there’s not a week that goes by that you don’t see the return on investment in training those people. One thing I’m very excited about is the forfeiture funds that they’ve been able to capture, seize, etc. with some of these crimes. We’ve taken and turned that money around and put it to work for the citizens of Ocean City. We’ve bought all kinds of things, just to make this a safer place.

I think all these things that we’re talking about come back to the citizens and make this a safer place. Do you want to have good quality cops that

are well trained protecting you and your property?

Does a cop on the beat want to have a good quality, well-trained person backing them up at a traffic stop or going through a building? Sure they do. We’re not out of line with what other jurisdictions are paying.

In fact, Salisbury just came to the realization that they were out of line and raised their people, I think, a little over $4,000 a year, and now they’re right up there with us. n OCT: Are those pay increases that we’ve had over the years – not just in police but with everyone – are appropriate? They’ve really clustered, I guess, after 2000. Do you think the city’s employee base is sustainable in that way? Because we’ve already had some salary freezes and reductions. Where are we on that front? n CYMEK: Yes, we still have the employee hiring freeze on. We’re only replacing key people as we go.

I’ve intentionally resisted any of the mud-slinging that’s going on in the newspaper ads surrounding this election, but I find it really ironic that certain council members are talking about others being big spenders. It was Jim Hall himself – I remember being in the room when the Hendricks Study was presented at the convention center – that made the motion to accept that study and the recommendations, which brought the wave of increases. It looked at the cops, the cops had done a study of agencies with which they compare themselves. They were all of comparable size in number of officers. Jim made the motion. Now, here we’re a week or two before the election and he disavows any knowledge.

Well, back to 2008, when I was elected, I told the public that I was going to go line by line and cut.

I remember in one of those first meetings when Dennis Dare had told us about asking the employees – what a better way to cut than to ask the employees, because they know where the waste is.

With those recommendations – and I remember there being over 200 of them, many of which we used – those really led to that $5 million that was saved between 2008 and 2011 when Dennis was discharged. Not any actions of a majority one way or the other. These were suggestions brought forward and we said, “Sounds good, let’s do it.” n OCT: What do you think, then, is behind the unionization and behind any alleged employee dissatisfaction, if they were willing to suggest those reductions back them? n CYMEK: I feel that since the general employees have acquired the signatures for the referendum question, that’s something that the voters need to decide, and whatever their decision may be, I’m prepared to work either way and make it happen. How did it come about? It came about from distrust of some council members, and the way that they did it without forethought. They can deny it all they want, but those initial 11 ordinances that they proposed would have impacted those employees. There were discussions about taking 8 percent off the Hendricks recommendation, moving people back. We even had conversations in the council about making that 8 percent across the board, or are we going to weight it towards people making more than $100,000. So there was intent to go after all employees and their salaries. Now there are certain members who deny that. But I’ve answered publicly in the AARP forum that I am not in favor necessarily of a union, but do I understand why they want it? Sure I do. I think anybody who’s watched the videos and knows what has been said in some of these meetings that it’s very obvious why they want it. As I said a few minutes ago, it’s a distrust. We have to work towards restoring that. n OCT: As far as the effects on current employees versus new employees, on the of the big compromises was to keep the retiree health coverage open but to go with the 3 percent cap for everyone, which was an unusual 4-3 vote because Joe Hall sided with you and Mary and Lloyd on that. Do you think that was a good move as well? Because that will cut, potentially, from current employees, but it’s one that isn’t talked about as much. n CYMEK: I stand by my vote on that. I felt at the time that the 3 percent was sufficient to take care of the needs of the employees and try to keep the lid on costs. But again, that was one of the topics that we had a little conversation about, that we talked about publicly. I’m going to keep coming back to the word that’s commonly thrown out there, and that’s transparency. One of those first meetings in November of 2010, when the commissions and boards were – as Joe Hall referred to at the time – pulled back in and everything went before the full mayor and council, I think that was just wrong. We had a lot of good people participating in these boards and commission offering their input. Think-

OCTOBER 26, 2012 ing back on the last four years about the number of times any of these groups have come before us and talked … since the tourism commission was eliminated, TABs been there a few times, we went through extensive conversations about the organization part, how we’re going to get this thing started.

It was tough discussion; it was going nowhere.

[There was] a lot of dissention within their own group about what’s right and what’s wrong. If there was an opportunity to restore the tourism commission, I think I would probably vote for that, because what worse thing can you do to a group of people who volunteer their time to better Ocean City than to, when they bring a recommendation to you, to ignore them. And that just recently happened with the MGH contract. One of the main reasons I had a problem with cancelling that contract was– and I made this part of my motion – the notice period. I just don’t think, unless you knew before that that you were going to have a problem and you had your RFP read to go, I just don’t think 120 days is enough time to put that out there, advertise it, get your bids, analyze them, and sit down with the groups and listen to their pitches.

Actually, to finish on the union – do I hope that the general employees wouldn’t need a union? Absolutely. Do I think there’s a way to avoid that? Yes. I think just talking, sitting down and just talking with those employees and renewing that trust, I think it could be avoided. n OCT: So you think that the employees won’t move to accept the union if that trust is regained? n CYMEK: I’ve asked the general employees, if they are successful at the polls, to let the new council sit down and talk to them before they begin that effort. They still have to have 50 percent of their members approve and ratify it before they move forward. Many, many years ago, I had some dispute resolution training, and I managed disputes between homebuyers and builders. They can get pretty heated. I really benefitted from that, and a major manufacturer that I represented in the service business also expanded my knowledge in that area, and it’s given me a lot of tools to deal with these things. I feel that I could help in that situation, as I did in the FOP impasse, and I truly believe the city employees trust me, and I would work to try to avoid the union at all costs. n OCT: Do you think that the city’s tax rate could be lowered beyond the constant yield? Because that seems to be the accepted standard for what we actually pull out of the available property value [in terms of real dollars]. n CYMEK: If you compare our municipality to others throughout the state, we’re one of the lowest tiers. Not that there aren’t people lower than us, but they aren’t the size we are either. Taxpayers and citizens have to be cognizant and think about the services you receive for what you pay. Tax bills nowadays are confusing. You’ve got the municipal rate, the county rate, and the state rate. Look at your bill, think of what you’re paying, and think of what you get. I’m very happy. Would I try to continue to lower the rate? Absolutely. Every time we find something that is not needed and can be cut out? Absolutely. n OCT: One of the other things that some of the employees have said was a problem was that management within the departments was inconsistent.

Do you think that’s something that the city can ferret out, or that you can as a council to help the employees with that dissatisfaction? n CYMEK: The only thing I’ve picked up on was the gentleman that spoke at the last council meeting – Mr. Moxley. He talked about the way different employee regulations are administered differently in different departments. That’s the first time I’ve ever heard that. But generally speaking, up until the last two years, we had a happy group of employees.

I would be happy to sit on a panel and try to work through any employee issues. I think we have a wellequipped city manager who has those abilities and has dealt with those situations before. I have tremendous respect for his ability. For the record, I disagreed with the circumstances that he was hired under. On June 11, when he started working here, I went in and wanted to make sure that it was not him the person I had a problem with – because, quite candidly, Mr. Recor was very high on my list – I just think that a certain council member tainted the process. Integrity is very important to me, and I felt that he compromised it. Unfortunately, Mr. Recor could’ve become a victim or casualty of that process. But just to take it a step further, I’m very happy with his performance. The department heads find him very analytical, quick to offer input on how to resolve issues, and I think he’s going to be a big part in working through the general em-

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INTERVIEW WITH DOUG CYMEK ployee issue. n OCT: Anything else you’d like to discuss? n CYMEK: I’d like talk about the $863,000 we took out of the reserve fund to give money back to the taxpayers, that one cent. The reason I voted against that was that I didn’t feel our reserve fund level was appropriate. Depending on who you talk to, accounting wise, they’ll tell you anywhere from 10-12 percent is what you should have on hand, but it depends on the municipality. We do have an exposure. We need those funds for emergency situations, and once presented itself last year with Irene.

I did a little research, and this is what was concerning. That cost to what I call “suit up and show up” for all our people was $648,000. Probably a little known number is that everyone thinks the (federal) government is going to give you all that back. Well, they gave us $105,000. n OCT: Yeah, FEMA isn’t exactly the fastest. n CYMEK: Right, so we’re down $543,000. And the other consideration is the room tax that we lost that weekend, which was another $150,000. So there was $693,000 that was unreimbursed for what was basically a non-event. If we had an actual strike or a tragedy, we would’ve had issues. One of the things I learned when I went to the hurricane conference in Florida my first year – that was the only council meeting I’ve ever missed, but we did it by conference call, we had some issues to deal with and the mayor and I were on the phone, but I’ve had perfect attendance otherwise. But we learned that FEMA is not always so quick, one, to reimburse, and two, that what you think you’ll get back and what you may get back are two different things. And they made the point that you do have to have cash reserves; you have to have money to front your recovery. Maybe some of the other members haven’t attended that, but that’s what I was thinking about.

I don’t think there’s a taxpayer who could tell you that he noticed that one cent in his tax bill. With what the average person got back, you couldn’t have gone to a local buffet and bought a dinner. n OCT: Right, although there’s the theory that certain levels of giving back, even a small amount, helps to stimulate the economy. The IRS gives back – I don’t know what the average April reimbursement is. n CYMEK: It’s definitely more than 20 bucks. n OCT: Certainly, but that even affects us on a national scale as far as retail sales right after the cash. Where would you draw the line as far as what is significant and what is insignificant? n CYMEK: I’m going to call a spade a spade. I think the one cent was done for political purposes, it’s an election year, it looks good. I hope that they’re not asking for that money back next year. It started us off in the hole. These things pop up from time to time that we need our reserve fund, and that money could’ve been used for something else. On one hand, one of the council members talks about accelerating the paving program. I think we’re in the fourth year of a 10-year program. Though we have increased it from where it started, there’s more to be done. There’s a lot of things like St. Louis Avenue – I remember that Joe Hall was really concerned about getting the lighting reworked and the wiring underground, so it was decided that they would take money to at least get the conduit in place so we could do that at a future date. But that’s what you use the reserve fund for, when these things pop up. n OCT: As I recall, the other big hit to the reserve fund that people argued about was the $1,000 bonus to employees. Do you think that that had a very different impact from the tax cut? n CYMEK: You may remember, it was myself that came in behind them – I think they had initially suggested $500 – and I was the one who suggested $1,000. What I was thinking at that point was that many of these employees have gone five years without anything, no COLAs, no nothing, but costs continue to climb. I just thought it was a good idea. I also, at the time, didn’t want to do it all in one fell swoop, I recommended that we do it in two installments or push it off until the end of the year.

But I felt that they were entitled to that. My own personal businesses, my employees enjoyed annually in my success by being given bonuses or additional vacation time. I hold them very high on my list.

They’re the backbone of your business, and if they’re non-productive, they cost you money. If they’re highly skilled and can get in and do things quick and efficiently, they save you money. I’m for doing anything I can to keep my employees happy and compensated fairly.

Joe Hall, back in October of 2008 did an interview with your paper. On the cost-of-living increase, he said, “Our employees deserve to make a living wage. We must help as much as we can to not let them fall behind.” I agree with that. So what has changed, since this statement was made? He doesn’t feel like that anymore. n OCT: Do you think that our employees have fallen behind? n CYMEK: For the general employees, I couldn’t answer that. I think we’d have to do a comparative with other jurisdictions to see if that’s the case. With all this conversation that’s taken place, I can’t believe that we haven’t done that. But maybe everyone’s afraid to find out what the real answer is.

What if they are behind? What will that do? n OCT: Do you think the scale currently is weighted too heavily toward the top, financially? I know the last time a study was done for comparative purposes… n CYMEK: When the Hendricks Study was done, there’s no doubt that that group, dollar for dollar, benefitted greater than the lower rank. No question about it. In just looking at the organization that Mr. Recor belongs to, the ICMA (the International City/County Management Association) which advertises for people in those positions all the time, I routinely look at those ads and I find that what our police chief and our public works director and our

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engineer are making are comparable to what other jurisdictions get. In this day and age, you tell someone who started out making $20,000 a year that you’re paying someone $150,000 – I can remember my first job where I just barely making $20,000. Now we have people graduating college with degrees in computer science, and they start out in the private sector at $80,000 or $90,000. Things have changed with time. You also have to remember that some of these department heads have been here for an extended period of time. Our public works director is just one that comes to mind. Here’s a guy who’s felt by some that he was city manager quality, and I would tend to agree. I didn’t’ agree with the way that he was approached, because as I do in all cases, including the chief of police issue that’s currently here, that we should do a national search to make sure that we get the very, very best person. It’s interesting that when these proposals come in, we give people a range of salaries, and you might get a real bargain. You don’t know until you sit them down in the final counting and find out what they’ll come to work for when you make the job offer. n OCT: How would we decide, then – and it would be a very tough decision – how much is too much. This was way before I was here, and maybe before you were on council, but I know Hal was offered a job with the county as essentially their public works head for $10,000 more than he was making.

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Fateful fourth quarter costs Decatur game

2012 ESIAC CHAMPIONSHIP

Mallards bring home sixth title, set school record

LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Oct. 26, 2012) Seventeen unanswered points in the fourth quarter cost the Stephen Decatur football team the lead, and ultimately the game, on the road last Thursday against the North Caroline Bulldogs.

Leading 12-7 at the close of the Decatur Coach third quarter, Decatur fell Bob Knox lackluster in the final 12 minutes. The Bulldogs, on the other hand, picked up momentum and went on to earn a 24-12 comefrom-behind victory in Ridgely, Md. “We had five turnovers and they had one, and we dropped at least four touchdown passes.

You can’t do that and win against a decent team,” said Decatur Coach Bob Knox. “We just made too many mistakes in the game.”

North Caroline intercepted a pass by Decatur senior quarterback Collin Macomber and scored with about five minutes left in the first quarter.

On the Seahawks’ next possession, junior Andrew Borradaile ran the ball four yards into the end zone to cut the Bulldogs’ lead to one.

The visiting team pulled ahead 12-7 late in the third quarter, when Macomber scored.

The Bulldogs’ 17-0 run in the final 12 minutes put them over the top by 12 points.

“We pass protected really well and at times we ran the ball decently and we stopped them a number of times, but we didn’t tackle very well,” Knox said.

Borradaile led the Decatur offense, running the ball six times for 53 yards. As a team, Decatur tallied 116 yards on 28 carries. Macomber was 11-for28, throwing for 128 yards.

Knox said junior Chase Sams played his best game of the season; he made 19 tackles.

Borradaile recorded 11 tackles.

After three games on the road, the Seahawks will compete at home today against the Wi-Hi Indians at 6 p.m.

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Worcester Prep freshman Julia D’Antonio (18) gains control of a high ball during Monday’s game against Sts. Peter & Paul in Berlin. After double overtime, 100 minutes of soccer, the game ended in a 1-1 tie.

(Below) Sophomore Sophie Brennan (8) dribbles the ball out of the defensive end.

MALLARDS’LASTHIGH-PRESSURE BATTLE WITHSABRESENDSINTIE Teams form habit of settling heated match-ups in overtime LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Oct. 26, 2012) After 80 minutes of grueling competition, the Sts. Peter & Paul Sabres and the Worcester Prep Lady Mallards girls’ soccer teams on Sept. 10 had scored just one goal apiece.

Tired, but hungry for a win, the two headed into overtime, where the Sabres scored with nearly a minute remaining in the first of two 10-minute overtime periods; the home team held on for the victory.

During the rivals’ second match-up on Monday in Berlin, the competition again headed into overtime, but this time neither team scored

in the extra periods, so the game ended in a 1-1 tie.

About 10 minutes into the first half of Monday’s contest, the visiting Sabres deflected a Mallard clear out of the defensive end into the goal.

“I thought we played well in the first half. Our passing was better than in the second half and we got the runs we needed to get,” said Prep Coach Carol Hartnett. “In the second half, we looked a little better as a group.”

With about 10 minutes remaining in the game, Hartnett said, there was a sense of urgency on the field for her team. The Mallards pressured the Sabres’ goal and had several opportunities to score.

They were finally successful with just about 40 seconds left. Junior Lilly DiNardo dribbled the ball on a fast break down the right sideline, crossed it to freshSee LADY on Page 44

(Oct. 26, 2012) The Worcester Prep golf team not only won its sixth consecutive Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference championship trophy last week, but the Mallards shot a program record 152 during the three-school tournament held Oct. 16, at the Ocean City Golf Club.

“They say you Prep Coach always want to be playing your Kevin Gates best at the end of the season, and with a new school record, I guess we did that,” said Prep Coach Kevin Gates. “That was a great way to finish.”

Senior Scott Gee carded a 34, the lowest score of the day. Gee earned medalist honors and was named tournament MVP. Also contributing to the Mallards’ victory was senior Patrick Dowling, who tallied a 38, and freshman Jason Cook and senior Matt Middleton, who both shot 40s.

“To have one kid shoot a 34 and the highest score we use was a 40, that’s pretty awesome,” Gates said.

Prep junior Billy Brittingham and sophomore Rylie Doyle also competed in tournament and recorded scores of 41 and 61 respectively.

Gee, Dowling, Cook, Middleton and Brittingham were named to the All-Tournament Team.

Worcester’s team score of 152 was three strokes lower than the school’s previous record of 155, carded last season.

Salisbury Christian finished in second place during the Oct. 16 tournament with a 225, and Salisbury School took third, shooting a 240.

Coaches took players’ scores from each ESIAC match this season and added them up, counting last week’s tournament scores twice, then they divided the totals by the number of competitions to determine golfers’ overall averages. The eight players with the lowest averages received All-Conference honors.

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SDHS tops Bennett by one in overtime to advance to title game LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Oct. 26, 2012) The Stephen Decatur boys’ soccer team had hoped to repeat as Bayside Conference champions. Unfortunately, the Queen Anne’s Lions looked to squash that dream.

“It just wasn’t our night. We didn’t play well. We were flat and we didn’t have any fight in us for the first 30 minutes,” Decatur Coach Jamie Greenwood said following the Seahawks’ 2-0 loss Tuesday at Wicomico Stadium in Salisbury. “They won every 50/50 ball … and they Decatur Coach packed the box. We had opportunities to score, J. Greenwood but they weren’t quality opportunities.”

The Lions scored about seven minutes into the title match-up; they tallied a second goal seven minutes later.

“The one good thing to come out of this was that I put some kids in new positions and I saw things I really liked,” Greenwood said. “We needed to be humbled. Hopefully, this [loss] will rejuvenate them and ignite a fire for playoffs.”

Decatur advanced to the Bayside championship game last Thursday after winning 2-1 in overtime over the James M. Bennett Clippers.

Bennett scored about 17 minutes into the game in Salisbury and went into the halftime break ahead 1-0.

“There were a lot of things we weren’t doing and we were making dumb fouls. In the first half we had three, four, five opportunities in front of the goal,” Greenwood said. “We picked it up some in the second half. We knew we needed to get on the board.”

With just over three minutes remaining in the game, junior Nick White crossed the ball to the edge of the 6-yard box and sophomore Corey Gwin scored. The Seahawks had two opportunities to put the game away in the final minutes, but to no avail.

Before overtime, Greenwood told his players, “We only have one option to come out of here that’s favorable to us, and that’s to win.”

“If we wanted to play in the Bayside game, we had to win the game,” he said.

About three minutes into the overtime period, senior Andrew Ternahan crossed the ball and senior Bobby Thompson deflected it into the goal to give Decatur a 21 victory.

“We came out hard and we controlled the pace of overtime and we moved the ball really well,” Greenwood said.

Decatur finished the regular season with a 10-2 record and earned the No. 2 seed in the 3A East Regional tournament bracket and a first-round bye.

On Tuesday, the Seahawks will host the winner of today’s (Oct. 26) game between No. 7 River Hill and No. 10 Wilde Lake.

“We’re looking good at the end of the season,” Greenwood said. “We’re jelling and we’re doing a lot of the little things we’ve been working on all year long.”

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Worcester golfers earned six of the eight spots.

Doyle finished in seventh place with a 53-stroke average. Middleton was fifth (41.75), Cook took the fourth spot (41.25) and Brittingham earned third-place with a 41stroke average. Dowling was second with a 38.5 average.

ESIAC Player of the Year accolades went to Gee, for his 37.5stroke average.

Gates had experience on his roster this year, as seven of the 10 players competed in 2011. Four of the five seniors have been members of the team since they were freshmen.

Worcester won all of its conference matches this year. Against the public schools of the Bayside Conference, where Worcester faces its toughest competition each year, the Mallards finished third in the two match-ups.

“Overall, it was a good year. We finished really strong,” Gates said.

Five seniors — half the team — will graduate in May. Gates will count on the returning players and incoming freshmen to step up next season and fill in the spots.

“Losing five seniors will be tough. I’m going to miss this senior class,” he said. “Hopefully, everyone practices over the summer and comes back ready to play.”

Bunting: we seem to be jelling at right time LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor

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Senior Brittney Calandra scored four goals Oct. 18, “Senior Night” for the Lady Seahawks. Tori Whigham, also a senior, and junior Rebecca Haskell each tallied one goal.

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“This is the strongest we’ve been in some time. We have momentum with us and the girls are confident going into the playoffs,” Bunting said. “The girls are excited and focused and we seem to be jelling at the right time.

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Prep coach proud of young players’ accomplishments LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor

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Stephen Decatur golfers gather for a photo with Coach Jim Krall, left, and Assistant Coach Don Furbay, before the semifinal round of the 3A/4A state championship Monday at the University of Maryland-College Park course. Seahawks pictured from left, senior Joe Iacona, juniors Matt Ruggiere, Andrew Urban and Audrey Affelder and sophomore Delaney Iacona.

Seahawk team advances to championship round LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Oct. 26, 2012) Four of the five Stephen Decatur golfers competing in the state championship scored low enough on Day 1 to advance to the final round.

On Monday, 21 4A/3A schools took to the University of Maryland-College Park course for competition. Senior Joe Iacona, juniors Andrew Urban and Matt Ruggiere and sophomore Delaney Iacona had advanced to the state championship as a team because of their 320 score during the Oct. 11 District VIII tournament, which they won.

Decatur junior Audrey Affelder’s 91 at districts qualified her for states as an individual.

Urban, the Iaconas and Affelder all have experience playing at the state level.

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dividuals (male and female) and teams, moved on to Wednesday’s state championship round.

Joe Iacona and Ruggiere both shot 77s on Monday, Urban carded a 78 and Delaney Iacona an 89, for a team score of 321. The foursome’s total put them in seventh place out of the 21 teams entered and qualified the group for the final round.

The top eight teams advanced.

Affelder struggled with her putting, Krall said. She shot a 116 and missed the cutoff to compete as an individual.

“It’s the first time in school history since moving to 3A that the whole team qualified for finals. We’re on ‘Cloud 9’ right now. This team continues to impress Coach [Don] Furbay and I,” said Decatur Coach Jim Krall after Monday’s competition. Decatur competed in the 1A/2A classification until moving up to 3A/4A in 2007. “It’s a very proud moment. It’s a big

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Krall was impressed by his players’ scores as they were reported to him throughout the day. The boys — Iacona, Urban and Ruggiere, who Krall calls “The Three Amigos” — played extremely well, he said.

“They stayed steady the whole time,” he said. “They rose to the occasion.”

Krall said Delaney Iacona started off “on fire,” but struggled on the back nine holes.

Golfers representing 2A/1A schools had their semifinal round Tuesday. The 3A/4A and 2A/1A players who advanced to the championship round competed Wednesday. Decatur was 15 strokes behind the leader, Wootton High School, heading into the final round.

(Oct. 26, 2012) Tied for fourth place in the Peninsula Athletic Christian Conference, the Worcester Prep and Chesapeake Christian volleyball teams battled it out last Tuesday for the chance to advance to the Oct. 19 championship tournament.

The visiting CruPrep Coach saders won the first game 25-20. The MalHerb Simon lards battled back in the second for a 25-23 win, but Chesapeake Christian took the third game 25-23.

The home team controlled the fourth game, scoring a 25-12 victory.

The Mallards held the momentum and won the fifth game 15-8.

“We were serving well, we were playing very aggressive and we were moving and picking up balls,” Prep Coach Herb Simon said of his team’s performance in the final two games.

“All of a sudden, we started playing at a level I haven’t seen them play at. We’re really starting to find ourselves. I just wish we had a month longer to play.”

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man Laura Issel, who buried it in the back of the net to even the score at 1all and force the game into overtime.

Before the start of the two 10minute overtime periods, Hartnett told her players, “We need to keep the pace we had the last 10 minutes.”

The Mallards suffered a loss early in the first overtime period when junior sweeper Alissa Talbert, who controlled the backfield throughout much game, was sidelined with a twisted ankle.

After 20 minutes of overtime and no goals, the game ended in a 1-1 tie.

“We played well in overtime. We high-pressured the ball everywhere,” Hartnett said. “I was happy [Sts. Peter & Paul] didn’t go home with a win.

There was so much emotion and the girls gave it there all and they were exhausted after the game.

“I told the kids to ‘do something special today’ and they did,” she said.

On Wednesday, Worcester hosted the Salisbury School Dragons for the Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference tournament semifinals.

The Mallards won 4-1.

Worcester is set to take on the Sts. Peter & Paul Sabres today, Friday, in Easton for the championship title.

(Oct. 26, 2012) Although the Worcester Prep field hockey team lost 1-0 in its final regular-season match to the Sts. Peter & Paul Sabres last Friday in Easton, the Lady Mallards finished in first place in the Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference standings.

“Since we beat Sts. Peter & Paul earlier in the season 2-0 and they only beat us 10, we took first place in our conference,” Prep Coach Jenny Frostrom said this

week. “My team really wanted the win Friday to keep us undefeated in our conference, but it didn’t happen. They are proud of what they have accomplished. Worcester Prep Coach Prep has never in [proJenny Frostrom gram] history won conference champs — lots of runners up — so this is huge for them.”

The Sabres scored in the second half off a corner. The Mallards had several opportunities to even the score, but weren’t

able to come through.

Frostrom said senior goalie Claire Brown had some “amazing” saves and kept the Mallards in the game. She stopped seven Sabres’ shots.

“We played an amazing game with a lot of heart,” Frostrom said.

The Holly Grove Eagles traveled to Berlin on Wednesday for the semifinal round of the ESIAC tournament.

Worcester won the game 2-0 and will compete against the Sts. Peter & Paul Sabres for the conference championship today, Friday, at 3:30 p.m. in Berlin.

Worcester coach: I’m really excited about this team Continued from Page 43

Sophomore Mattie Maull had 14 kills.

Junior Claire Stickler scored 29 service points and tallied four kills.

Worcester competed against the Salisbury Christian Jaguars in the semifinal round of the PACC four-school tournament played at Holly Grove High School in Westover last Friday.

Worcester led 15-11 in the first game, forcing the Jags to call a timeout. Things then began to fall apart for the Mallards, Simon said, and Salisbury Christian came back to win 25-18.

Salisbury took the second game 25-7.

The Mallards were ahead 15-13 in the third game, but the Jaguars scored 15 unanswered points to win 25-13.

“We were playing so good in the third game. We were digging, passing, setting and getting spikes, but then we just couldn’t return the serve,” Simon said.

Maull was named to the All-Tournament Team.

This is just the second year the volleyball program is being offered at the

school. The girls have improved immensely since last season and the team will only lose two players to graduation.

“I’ve gotten so many comments how the team’s improved. I’m proud of what they’ve accomplished,” Simon said. “I’m really excited about this team … We should have a pretty good team next year.”

BANK RECOGNIZES WEEK 8 DECATUR MVP The Bank of Ocean City sponsors the broadcast of the Stephen Decatur High School football games each week on WQMR 101.1 FM. Following each game, a most valuable player is chosen and, as part of its annual $500 pledge, the bank makes a donation to the Stephen Decatur High School Athletic Boosters in that player’s name. Week 8 winner is Chase Sams. On hand for the recent presentation, from left, are SDHS Coach Bob Knox, Sams and Earl Conley of the Bank of Ocean City.

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Mallards impressive against stellar rivals LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Oct. 26, 2012) Despite a 4-0 loss last Friday to Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Essex), Worcester Prep boys’ soccer Coach Terry Underkoffler was pleased with how well his athletes performed against such tough competition.

“They’re a very good team with a lot of club players who have soccer in their blood,” Underkoffler said. “We had some good chances to score. We played with a high level team and gave them a game.

It was a much closer game then the score would indicate. For me,

it was preparation for playoffs.”

Prep senior goalie Zander Farr made nine saves during the Berlin match-up. Freshman Charlie Pritchard came in late in the second half and stopped one shot.

The next day, the Mallards traveled to Easton to play Sts. Peter & Paul. The home team scored with about 12 minutes remaining in the game when a shot ricocheted off the crossbar and into the goal.

Though the Mallards fell 1-0 to the Sabres, Underkoffler said, “We made a few adjustments defensively and we played even better than the day before.”

Farr recorded five saves and Pritchard stopped three shots.

Holly Grove traveled to Berlin on Wednesday to take on Worcester in the semifinal round of the Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference tournament.

“We lost a few players to injuries so we’ve had to make some adjustments. We’re going to give it our best,” Underkoffler said Tuesday.

Worcester won Wednesday’s game 3-0 and has advanced to today’s (Oct. 26) championship game. The Mallards will battle the Salisbury Christian Jaguars in Salisbury for the title.

Lady Seahawks prevail over Trojans in three games LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Oct. 26, 2012) After a twoand-a-half hour bus ride to Worton, Stephen Decatur Volleyball Coach Sarah Zimmer noticed the Lady Seahawks looked sluggish, and their passing was off-target, once they hit the court for warmups Tuesday.

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Junior Taylor Black had six aces and seven kills. Senior setter Ashley Trice recorded six assists and senior defensive specialist Alexis Martinek dug 10 Kent County hits. Casey Ortiz, a senior, had eight assists and 14 digs.

Decatur’s final regular-season match was Oct. 25. The draw for 3A East Regional tournament bracket seeding is Monday. First-round action will begin Nov. 1 or 2.

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REAL ESTATE REPORT

Consider these options when buying a condo

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RESTAURANT WEEK WRAPS SUNDAY Twenty establishments participating in promotion

LAUREN BUNTING ■ Contributing Writer (Oct. 26, 2012) Purchasing a condominium differs from buying a single-family home in more ways than the obvious. Of course, condo ownership offers buyers the convenience of maintenance-free living since they don’t have to worry about cutting the grass or shoveling snow. But when looking into purchasing a condo, it’s important to consider more than just price, size and view.

■ Association’s Stability: Buyers should always receive what’s called a “Resale Packet.”

The Maryland Condominium Act protects buyers where a condo association is involved by requiring numerous items to be provided to a buyer prior to settlement, including declaration, bylaws, rules and regulations, as well as a current operating budget, among other things. Buyers also have an unconditional seven-day right of rescission after receiving this packet of information.

Buyers should review this packet closely, looking at the total amount of outstanding debt owed to the association and the percentage of owners who are not paying their dues, as well as the amount of reserve funds the association has set aside for large repair projects such as roof replacement.

■ Building’s Insurance: Insurance coverage is another important factor condo buyers shouldn’t overlook. Condo owners are typically responsible for insuring just a portion of their property on their own and the building carries a master policy. However, rules differ from building to building, and it’s important that buyers ask the right questions to know how much coverage is needed as the condo unit owner, as well as how much that will cost annually.

Buyers should ask to review a copy of the building’s master See CONSIDER on Page 47

LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Oct. 26, 2012) This is the final weekend to take advantage of the Ocean City fall Restaurant Week promotion, which kicked off Oct. 14 and ends Sunday.

“In addition to spurring the local economy, the promotion is to entice diners to try new places. I have had reports of participants capturing new diners,” said Susan Jones, executive director of the Hotel-MotelRestaurant Association.

“This seems like a good time of year for the promotion as things are starting to slow down.”

Last year, organizers adjusted the campaign a bit and the new format was well received by both diners and restaurateurs.

Before the changes in 2011, resort restaurants featured two- and three-course lunch and dinner menus for $20 and $30, respectively, for one week in the fall. Last year, at the request of diners, the fall promotion ran for two weeks. They felt one week was not enough time to visit participating restaurants.

Along with giving diners another week to check out additional establishments, the 2011 event, held Oct. 216, provided them with more choices. Different price points — $10, $20, $30 and $40 — were created in order to include some of the HMRA’s smaller restaurants that do not offer “fine” dining.

This year Restaurant Week is taking place later in October.

“I feel it was scheduled perfectly this year. With the great weather, it really did extend the season, nicely,” said Tammy Patrick-Cebula, owner of Galaxy 66 Bar & Grille on 66th Street. “I enjoy Restaurant Week. I think it is becoming more and more popular each season. It’s been a great promotion for Galaxy 66.”

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Papa Johns ribbon cutting Oct. 29 On Monday, Oct. 29, the Berlin Chamber of Commerce will hold a ribbon cutting for Papa Johns of Berlin at noon. Papa Johns will have refreshments such as pizza, bread sticks, Cinnapie and sodas for attendees.

Papa Johns is located at 10132 Old Ocean City Blvd. Morad Ramadan, a 2001 graduate of Stephen Decatur High School, owns and operates the franchise that opened June 1, 2011. It offers carryout and delivery service, or customers may order online at www.papajohns.com.

Papa Johns of Berlin delivers to Berlin, Ocean Pines, West Ocean City and parts of Newark. Its hours of operation are from Sunday through Thursday, 10:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to midnight. For information, call 410-641-3434.

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PHOTO COURTESY JILL LAYTON

Chef Ryan McIntire prepares Layton’s Bananas Foster French Toast at the 92nd Street restaurant Wednesday morning. The dish is one of several $10 breakfast and lunch items available on the eatery’s Restaurant Week menu.

Twenty restaurants are participating in the 2012 promotion. A majority of the establishments feature one or two price points.

“Bonus Bites & Beverages” allows participants to include something extra for guests. Three restaurants offer the additional promotion.

Layton’s restaurant on 92nd Street is participating in the fall promotion for the second time.

“We like that it is a wonderful promotion to bring in new customers during our shoulder season. Restaurant Week also gives us a chance to flex our creative cooking muscles,” said Jill Layton, owner of the restaurant with her husband, Terry. “Our

customers have truly been enjoying our Bananas Foster French Toast and Shrimp, Crab and Seafood Scramble.

They get excited about the different specials. We are loving the $10 price point.

It’s a great fit for our restaurant.”

Lauren Taylor, owner of Captain’s Table restaurant, located on the third floor of the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel on 15th Street, between the Boardwalk and Baltimore Avenue, said Restaurant Week has been very successful.

“We have had a combination of new customers and regulars who are trying items not on the standard menu. Each person has the See MAIL-IN on Page 47

Shamrock Realty Group has announaced the installation of Pam Wadler as president of the Coastal Association of REALTORS®. The association, based in Berlin, supports more than 900 member Realtors from Worcester, Wicomico and Somerset counties on Maryland’s lower Eastern Pam Wadler Shore.

Wadler’s 12-month term began Oct. 3, during the CAR general membership meeting. The installation of officers was conducted by Carlton Boujai, president of the Maryland Association of Realtors.

Prior to becoming president, Wadler had held the office of president-elect for the past year, and previously had served as vice president, treasurer, and member of the CAR board of directors. In 2010, Wadler completed a 10-month professional development program at the M.A.R. Leadership Academy in Annapolis.

She was recognized as Realtor of the Year in 2008 by the Women’s Council of Realtors Delmarva Chapter.

Wadler has been a real estate professional for more than 12 years.

She holds real estate licenses in Maryland and Delaware. In 2006, she joined with broker/owner Gary James to start Shamrock Realty Group, Inc., a locally owned and operated real estate brokerage in Berlin. In addition to being a cofounder, she is the sales manager, designated Realtor, and associate broker at the company.

Before beginning her real estate career, Wadler held a series of managerial and executive positions in the telecommunications industry, specializing in customer financial services. She lives in Ocean Pines with her husband and their two dogs.

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Mail-in receipts to win $100 gift card to participating restaurants Continued from Page 46

option of ordering from either menu so there is a fun mixture of choices,” she said. “I’m enjoying chef creations that are too time consuming or hard to source for the busier times but are possible in the offseason. I have had our baby clams casino almost every day.”

Horizons Oceanfront Restaurant, inside the Clarion Resort Hotel on 101st Street, has participated in the event since its inception five years ago.

Manager Richard Heubeck said new guests as well as frequent diners have taken advantage of the promotion.

“I think Restaurant Week gets better each year. Our guests say they do their homework first: check the Web site, look at the menus, and decide where and when to eat. That is exactly how it is suppose to work,” he said.

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Consider more than price, size and view when purchasing Continued from Page 46

insurance policy and have their own insurance agent review the coverage. Also important to note, insufficient master policy coverage can also make units ineligible for financing. n Percentage of Investors versus Owner Occupants: Just as the borrower must qualify for a loan, in the case of condos, so must the condo association qualify for a loan — and the percentage of units owned by investors versus owner occupants is a crucial factor. Lenders follow guidelines from the Federal Housing Administration, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for condo mortgages. Among Fannie Mae’s requirements are that more than half of the condo units must be owner-occupied; no owner may own more than 10 percent of the units; and no more than 15 percent of owners can be delinquent on condo dues to name a few of the lending requirements.

— Lauren Bunting is a member of the Coastal Association of Realtors and a licensed REALTOR® with Bunting Realty, Inc. in Berlin.

“We have a clientele who is looking for something a little less traditional, yet reflective of the area. We like to use local produce, which adds the Eastern Shore spirit to the dishes that [chef] Shawn [Reese] creates. It has been very successful for us.”

To view a list of participating restaurants and their promotion menus, visit www.OceanCityRestaurantWeek.com. The restaurants’ regular menus will be available, as well.

Reservations are not required, but are encouraged.

Diners who visit at least two participating restaurants can mail receipts (include e-mail address and phone number) to Ocean City Today, 8200 Coastal Highway, Ocean City, Md. 21842 for the chance to win a $100 gift certificate to one of the participating establishments of their choice. Entries must be postmarked by Nov. 9. The winner will be drawn on Nov. 12 and contacted by e-mail or phone.

PHOTO COURTESY JILL LAYTON

Bananas Foster French Toast is among several breakfast and lunch items to choose from on Layton’s Restaurant Week menu. The 92nd Street establishment is one of 20 participating in Ocean City’s fall Restaurant Week promotion.

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When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers ...

’TIS NEAR HALLOWEEN Costume contests, parties and festivals for adults, children and even pets on tap

For the little kids... For the big kids...

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LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor

(Oct. 26, 2012) Celebrate Halloween this weekend and again on Wednesday, Oct. 31, by participating in activities for the entire family, as well as one for pets, in Ocean City, West Ocean City, Ocean Pines, Berlin, Fenwick Island and Salisbury.

(Oct. 26, 2012) Residents and visitors will have the opportunity to celebrate Halloween more than once at resort-area bars and restaurants. Patrons should dress in costume, as many of the establishments will offer cash and prizes for the best attire.

Here are a few of the events on tap:

OCEAN CITY ■ The annual Ocean City Recreation & Parks Department’s Halloween “Spook-Out” party, at Northside Park on 125th Street, will be held from 1-3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28. There is no charge for admission, although families are asked to take one bag of individually wrapped candy per child attending.

This year’s “Spook-Out” will feature carnival games, arts and crafts, face painting and hayrides around the park. Children and adults should come dressed in costumes, as there will be contests throughout the day.

Food and drinks will also be available. For information, call the recreation department at 410-250-0125.

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FRIDAY ■ 19th Hole Bar & Grille, Route 611, West Ocean City: Party starts at 6 p.m. Johnny Mojo will provide the musical entertainment. Food and drink specials include $2 domestic bottles and $1 shooters for those in costume.

Prizes for best attire.

■ The Life Crisis Center will host a Halloween Luau at Seacrets on 49th

Street in Ocean City tonight to benefit the organization, which helps local victims of domestic violence child abuse and rape. Life Crisis Center operates the only domestic violence Safe House on the Lower Shore, provides counseling, legal and medical advocacy and many other victim support services.

Tickets cost $75 per person or $150 per couple, and may be purchased at the door. The event begins at 6 p.m.

There will be a buffet, drinks and entertainment by On The Edge. There will also be silent and live auctions and costume contest. A panel of judges will be roaming around the event and their score will count for 50 percent. The other 50 percent will come from attendees. The cost is a $1 donation per vote.

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ENGAGEMENT: PARKER-MORRIS Aug. 17, 2013 — Cristi and Steve Graham of Bishopville, and Mark and Lori Parker of York, Pa., announce the engagement of their daughter, Katelyn Marie Parker, to Richard Allen Morris of Red Lion, son of Charles Wilmore Morris and James and Linda Dawson.

The bride-to-be is a 2010 graduate of Stephen Decatur High School and a graduate of Yorktowne Business Institute. She is currently working as a pastry chef at the Regents Glen Country Club in York, Pa. The prospective groom is a 2004 graduate of Red Lion High School. He served four years in the Army’s 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and fought in Iraq. He is now attending school at Harrisburg Area Community College – York Campus.

Wedding date is Aug. 17, 2013, at Lakeview Farms in Dover, Pa.

Spaghetti fundraiser supports OCPS The Ocean City Power Squadron, with help from restaurant owners Bob and Kelly Beck, held its annual spaghetti dinner Oct 21, at Denovo’s Trattoria in Ocean Pines.

Fundraiser committee chairman and Past Comdr. Jim Bergold led a team of 30 volunteers who worked more than Jim Bergold 130 combined hours to organize and promote the event, as well as to serve the dinners to attendees. The funds will be used to help subsidize boating safety education.

The Ocean City Power Squadron is a volunteer organization interested in promoting skillful boating and fun through educational programs.

For more information about the OCPS, visit www.ocpowersquadron.org.

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Pink Ribbon Classic wraps up with Jammin’ Out Cancer Party LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor

Raffle tickets are available for this Sea Wind lavender Electra Beach Cruiser. Tickets cost $5 each and proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society. The winning ticket will be drawn Nov. 2.

(Oct. 26, 2012) Each October, recognized nationally as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Ocean City’s Pink Ribbon Classic Series provides a handful of local activities designed to raise awareness, while garnering money for the American Cancer Society.

Just one event and a big raffle remain.

The annual Jammin’ Out Cancer party will be held at Seacrets on 49th Street from 5-9 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 2. The cost is $20 and includes a “Taste of Ocean City” with food donated by area restaurants and one complimentary glass of house wine or draft beer. There will be a silent auction and 50/50 raffle. Live music provided by Nate Clendenen, an award-winning bluegrass flat picker who plays rock, blues, country, bluegrass and reggae, followed by Funk-OLicious (who played at last year’s event as Groovement), a predominately Eastern Shore-based cover band that plays dance hits from the ’70s through current Top 40 tunes. Music selections range from disco to R&B, Motown to pop.

“Most of the Pink Ribbon Classic events are sporting and game events,” said event Chairwoman Amy Katz. “However, Jammin’ is one that offers something for everyone.

“With all of the other charity organizations bringing their fundraisers to Ocean City, the Pink Ribbon Classic is grateful for the continuous support from the commu-

nity in the fight against breast cancer,” she said. “Since the beginning of the Classic 16 years ago, we have brought in over $1 million in donations to the American Cancer Society that are earmarked specificially for breast cancer programs of development and research, an amazing amount to raise in our quaint little beach town. It is truly gratifying to be a part of such a generous community and to contribute in such a significant way to something that is way bigger than ourselves.”

Raffle tickets are available for a Sea Wind lavender Electra Beach Cruiser.

Tickets cost $5 each and proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society. The winning ticket will be drawn during the Jammin’ Out Cancer event.

For more information, contact Amy Katz at amy-katz@hotmail.com.

For 15 years, Carol Withers, owner of A Perfect Face Day Spa, has organized an October fundraiser in honor of her mother, Elizabeth Chaney, who lost her battle against breast cancer. Tickets for the Pamper Yourself for Charity raffle cost $5 each (six for $25) and are available at the spa, 12638 Ocean Gateway Village in West Ocean City.

This year’s raffle includes a $150 gift card and a selection of spa products from A Perfect Face; two-night stay at Howard Johnson Hotel, 12th Street; three-hour limousine service, Lovin’ Life Limos; $50 gift card, Galaxy 66; $150 gift card, Fresco’s on the Bay; $150 gift card and two

bottles of wine, The Palette Restaurant; hooded sweatshirt, doggie bandana and glassware, Macky’s Bar & Grill; $50 gift card, DeNovo’s Restaurant; $50 gift card, The Globe; $50 gift card, The Rice House; “Hope” wine, Barley Hops & Grapes; “George’s” Bloody Mary Mix (Theda, Alex and Greg); $100 gift card, Bethany Resort Furnishings; T-shirt, flip-flops, portable grill, beach accessories and boogie board, Endless Summer Surf Shop; goodie basket for pet, Paws & Claws; Clarisonic Mia 2 and Pink Sonic Skin Cleansing System ($150 value); Big Buddha handbag; Violight Sonic toothbrush; and Eminence Skin Care products.

The raffle drawing will take place Nov. 1. For more information, call 410-2139883 or visit www.aperfectface.com. All of the money raised will be donated to the American Cancer Society.

Nancy Dofflemyer, Judy Schoellkopf and members of the Executive Women’s Golf Association established the Classic in 1996. Since its inception, the series has raised nearly $1.2 million for the cause.

While some of the money will be earmarked for national breast cancer research, the remainder will stay on the Eastern Shore, where it will be used for education projects, patient programs and services.

For more information about the Pink Ribbon Classic, visit www.facebook.com/ pinkribbonclassic. To learn more about the American Cancer Society, visit www.cancer.org, call 1-800-ACS-2345.

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HOROSCOPE ARIES (MARCH 21 TO APRIL 19) Your honesty continues to impress everyone who needs reassurance about a project. But be careful you don’t lose patience with those who are still not ready to act.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Pushing others too hard to do things your way could cause resentment and raise more doubts. Instead, take more time to explain why your methods will work.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Be more considerate of those close to you before making a decision that could have a serious effect on their lives. Explain your intentions and ask for their advice.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) You might have to defend a workplace decision you plan to make. Colleagues might back you up on this, but it’s the facts that will ultimately win the day for you. Good luck.

LEO (July 23 to August 22) The Big Cat’s co-workers might not be doing enough to help get that project finished. Your roars might stir things up, but gentle purrr-suasion will prove to be more effective.

VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Someone you care for needs help with a problem. Give it lovingly and without judging the situation. Whatever you feel you should know will be revealed later.

LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) While you’re to be admired for how you handled recent workplace problems, be careful not to react the same way to a new situation until all the facts are in.

SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Rely on your keen instincts as well as the facts at hand when dealing with a troubling situation. Be patient.

Take things one step at a time as you work through it.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Your curiosity leads you to ask questions. However, the answers might not be what you hoped to hear. Don’t reject them without checking them out.

CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Be careful not to tackle a problem without sufficient facts. Even sure-footed Goats need to know where they’ll land before leaping off a mountain path.

AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Appearances can be deceiving.

You need to do more investigating before investing your time, let alone your money, in something that might have some hidden flaws.

PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Your recent stand on an issue could make you the focus of more attention than you would like. But you’ll regain your privacy, as well as more time with loved ones by week’s end.

BORN THIS WEEK: You’re a good friend and a trusted confidante. You would be a wonderful teacher or a respected member of the clergy.

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O.C.toberfest Beach Maze, Pumpkin Race this wknd LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Oct. 26, 2012) The first weekend of the inaugural O.C.toberfest was a hit, as thousands of people participated in the free events.

More than 5,000 guests walked through the “Halloween Beach Maze” on the beach near North Division Street last Saturday and Sunday, according to Meredith Herbert of Special Event Productions.

To show their appreciation to resort visitors, the mayor and City Council, Department of Tourism and the Tourism Advisory Board teamed up with Special Event Productions Inc./T.E.A.M. Productions, LLC, to present the first O.C.toberfest.

“It went very well,” Herbert said.

The maze, which features wicked witches, pirates of the sand, scary scarecrows, ghouls in the graveyard and zombies, among other characters, will be open again this Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The activity is for all ages.

More than 50 dogs, joined by their owners, donned costumes last Saturday on the Boardwalk near North Dorchester Street during the first-ever “HowlO-Ween Pet Parade.” Dozens of others gathered to watch the event.

“For a first-year event, we had no idea how many to expect, so we were pleased,” Herbert said.

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More than 50 dogs in costume are joined by their owners last Saturday on the Boardwalk near North Dorchester Street during the firstever “Howl-O-Ween Pet Parade,” a part of the inaugural O.C.toberfest free activities. There was no cost to enter the contest, however, participants were asked to bring donations of food, blankets, toys, treats or any other pet-related item for the Worcester County Humane Society. (Right) Six-year-old Grace Short walks Brandy, dresses as a Joker.

Prizes and trophies were awarded to the Cutest Pet, Most Ocean City Fun and Most TEAM Spirit.

Children in costume competed for the Best Non-Four-Legged award.

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ROCK BOTTOM Fager’s Island: Friday, Oct. 26

APPEARING LIVE 19TH HOLE BAR & GRILL 9636 Stephen Decatur Highway West Ocean City 410-213-9204 Oct. 26: Johnny Mojo, 6-10 p.m.

Oct. 27: Louis Wright, 6-10 p.m.

Oct. 28: Louis Wright, 9 a.m. to noon ADOLFO’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT 13th Street and the Boardwalk in the Beach Plaza Hotel 410-289-4001 Oct. 26: Rhonda Apple and Dale Britt (dinner hours) BJ’S ON THE WATER 75th Street and the bay 410-524-7575 Oct. 26: Mood Swingers, 9 p.m.

Oct. 27: Ginger, 9 p.m.

Oct. 31: Happy Hour Party w/Teenage Rust, 5-8 p.m.

COTTAGE CAFÉ Route 1, Bethany Beach, Del. 302-539-8710 Every Friday: DJ Bump, 5-8 p.m.

Every Tuesday: Pub Party Trivia w/DJ Bump, 6-9 p.m.

Oct. 27: DJ Zman, 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.

FAGER’S ISLAND 60th Street and the bay 410-524-5500 Oct. 26: DJ Hook, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.; Rock Bottom (Kiss Tribute) Oct. 27: Kevin Poole, 5 p.m.; DJ Groove, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.; Animal House, 10 p.m.

Oct. 28: Jazz Brunch w/Everett Spells, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Oct. 31: Euro Night w/ DJ Rob Cee, 11 p.m.

GALAXY 66 66th Street, bayside

410-723-6762 Oct. 26: Philly George Project, 7 p.m.

410-524-3535 Oct. 26-27: Power Play, 9:30 p.m.

HARBORSIDE BAR & GRILL 12841 S. Harbor Road West Ocean City 410-213-1846 Oct. 26: Red Solo Cup Night w/DJ Billy T, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Oct. 27: Simple Truth, 2-6 p.m.; DJ Jeremy, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Oct. 28: Opposite Directions, 2-6 p.m.; DJ Billy T/DJ Bigler, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Nov. 1: Opposite Directions, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

SEACRETS 49th Street and the bay 410-524-4900 Oct. 26: The Benderz, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.; DJ Tuff, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.; Melodime, 5-9 p.m.

Oct. 27: Full Circle, 5-9 p.m.; DJ Tuff, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.; Jon Maurer Band, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.; Total Whiteout, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.; Halloween Costume Contest

HIGH STAKES Route 54, Fenwick Island, Del. 302-537-6971 Oct. 27: Chris Button & Joe Mama, 9 p.m.; DJ Rupe, 9 p.m.

HOUSE OF WELSH 1106 Coastal Highway, Fenwick Island, Del. 888-666-0728 302-541-0728 Every Friday: DJ Norm, 3-6 p.m.; Tony Vega, 6-10 p.m.

Every Saturday: Tony Vega, 6-10 p.m.

Every Sunday: Tony Vega, 6-10 p.m.

Every Monday: DJ Norm, 6-9 p.m.

Every Wednesday: DJ Norm, 6-9 p.m.

SMITTY MCGEE’S Route 54 West Fenwick Island, Del. 302-436-4716 Every Tuesday: Let’s Do Trivia, 7 p.m.

Every Thursday: Randy Lee Ashcraft, 8 p.m.

Every Friday: Randy Lee Ashcraft and the Saltwater Cowboys, 8 p.m.

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Sara Hambury and her children, Opal, 1, and Hayden, 4, dress as punk rockers during the inaugural “HowlO-Ween Pet Parade,” part of the O.C.toberfest free activities. Since they didn’t have a dog there to show off, the family walked in the parade as there was an award for best dressed Non-Four-Legged participant. (Left) Ten-year-old Kahle Reed, left, dresses her dog, Bunky, as Frankenstein, while 12year-old Kayla Baumgartner’s pooch, Buster, wears a pumpkin costume last Saturday during parade.

JOHNNY’S PIZZA & PUB 56th Street, bayside 410-524-7499 Oct. 26: Chris Button & Joe Mama, 9 p.m.

Oct. 27: One Night Stand, 9 p.m.

Nov. 1: Simple Truth, 5 p.m.

OCEAN CLUB NIGHTCLUB In the Horizons Restaurant In the Clarion Fontainebleau Hotel 101st Street and the ocean

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The group sporting storybook character costumes such as Captain Hook and Tinkerbell were the winners of best decorated car/participant during the second annual Vintage Ocean City License Plate Rally on the Boardwalk last Saturday, sponsored by the Ocean City Downtown Association and the town of Ocean City.

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The “Hey Hon” Team Elva May from Delmar, Md., participates in last Saturday’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event in honor of their mother/grandmother. (Left) Providing information about the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study-3 during the Making Strides event are Audrey Allen, CPS-3 Maryland event manager, left, and Ann Tyndall, ACS community manager. Enrollment for the CPS-3 will take place in Salisbury, Nov. 7-10. Individuals between the ages of 30 and 65 who have never been diagnosed with cancer and are willing to make a long-term commitment to the study are encouraged to sign up. For locations and times, visit www.cps3tricounty.org.

(Far left) The Berlin Seahawks Junior Pee Wee Cheerleaders, from left, Ashlynn Elliott, Amaya Dischinger, Sarah Stephan, Jocelyn Berzonski, Samantha Stephan and Hailey Ehatt cheer for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5k runners and walkers last Saturday.

(Left) Sporting pink wigs in the inlet parking lot before the event, from left are, Anne McBride, Beverly Arcos, Regina Ashcraft and Debi Burnett. About 280 runners and more than 1,000 walkers participated, helping to raise approximately $150,000 for the American Cancer Society.

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The OC 104 crew, at right, was on hand for the second annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5k run and walk on the Ocean City Boardwalk last Saturday.

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Sen. Jim Mathias, at left, gives his daughter, Lauren, a kiss while walking the Boardwalk last Saturday during the second annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event.

About 280 runners and more than 1,000 walkers participated, helping to raise approximately $150,000 for the American Cancer Society. (Far left) The “Moonwalkers” team representing the Eastern Shore Women’s Golf Association gather for a photo before the Oct. 20 event.

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11:30 p.m. for costume contest. First-place prize is $300, second is $150 and third is dinner for two at the restaurant. Additional prizes and giveaways. Karaoke with Donnie Berkey. n Greene Turtle, 116th Street, Ocean City: Costume party with DJ Jeremy starts at 10 p.m. First-place prize is $300, second, $200 and third, $100.

Bombs cost $5.

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n Seacrets, 49th Street, Ocean City: First-place winner of the costume contest in Morley Hall will be awarded a trip for two to Jamaica (four days/three nights). Second place wins $300 and the third-best costume, $200. Entertainment

by DJ Tuff and Total Whiteout begins at 10 p.m. n Fager’s Island, 60th Street, Ocean City: Prizes awarded for best costumes. DJ Groove on the deck at 9 p.m.

Animal House on the inside stage at 10 p.m. n Clarion Hotel, 101st Street, Ocean City: Register by 10 p.m. for the costume contests as an individual, group or couple. Best costume will win $500.

Second place, $100 and third place, $50.

Music provided by Power Play. n 115 Bayside Bar & Grill, Gold Coast Mall, 115th Street Ocean City: Halloween Toga Party starts at 8 p.m. with pig roast, contest, games and music. Prizes for best costume, couple, sexiest and most

Trey Eversman, dressed as a giant Transformer, complete with stilts and robotic accessories, won first place —and four-day trip for two to Jamaica — during Seacrets’ 2011 costume contest.

creative. Celebration on Wednesday, as well, with live entertainment, 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. n Hawaiian Crab, Route 54, Fenwick Island, Del.: Scary-Okie Halloween party starts at 9 p.m. Wear a costume, sing a little karaoke.

SUNDAY n “George’s Bloody Halloween for a Bloody Good Cause” party will take place from 2-6 p.m. at the Greene

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Turtle on 116th Street. The event benefits the American Cancer Society. Majority of the proceeds will be donated to Greene Turtle’s North Worcester County Relay for Life team. Drink specials include $5 George’s Bloody Mary, Boo-Nana, Wolfman’s Frozen Dead, Red Eye Bull and $1 Bloody Hawaiian Punch. A basket with an assortment of prizes will be raffled off.

TUESDAY n High Stakes Bar & Grille, Route 54, Fenwick Island: Kevin Poole and Joe Mama will take the stage at 9 p.m. Gift cards for best costumes. Specials include $2 bottles (domestic, import and craft), Washington apples, Southern Comfort and other selected shots.

WEDNESDAY n Seacrets, 49th Street, Ocean City: Locals’ Halloween party with costume contest at the Tiki Bar. Winner will get a two-night stay at the Seacrets’ Hotel.

Second place, $50 gift certificate to Seacrets and third place, $25 gift certificate. n BJ’s on the Water, 75th Street, Ocean City: Eighth annual Halloween Happy Hour Party begins at 4 p.m. Entertainment by Teenage Rust & the Fabulous Rustettes. All proceeds of the group’s current CD will benefit the American Cancer Society. Drink and food specials. n Smitty McGee’s, Route 54, Fenwick Island, Del.: More than $750 in cash and prizes awarded for top costumes.

Party starts at 9 p.m. with DJ Wax.

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Circus Freakshow at 10 p.m. Music by DJ Wood. Raffles and silent auction.

Shivan Shah, left, is dressed as “Dr. Acula,” and Ross Jones as “Dr. Zombie” for last year’s Halloween festivities at Seacrets.

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Lorraine Heidrich and her dog, Maggie, are decked out for the annual Halloween event at in Paws & Claws in West Ocean City. This year’s canine celebration will take place Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The pet parade will start promptly at noon.

A free Harvest Fair will take place Sunday at SonRise Church on Route 575)

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n A children’s Halloween party, with crafts, costume contest, games and refreshments, will take place at 10:30 a.m.

Saturday, at the Ocean City library on 100th Street. Parents are invited to dress up, as well. For more information, call 410-524-1818. n Children can trick-or-treat at the White Marlin Mall, located on Route 50 in West Ocean City, from 4-6 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 31. Treats will be available to children in costume. This is the 25th annual Halloween event at the mall.

Some shops will also offer special sales that day for shoppers.

n The Ocean Pines Fall Halloween Celebration is scheduled from 1-4 p.m. Saturday at White Horse Park. Children can participate in carnival games to win prizes and candy, have their faces painted, create festive crafts, make scarecrows and jump around in a moon bounce.

There will also be costume contests for children, and food and drinks will be available.

Admission is free. Individually wrapped candy donations will be accepted. For more information, call the Ocean Pines Recreation and Parks Department at 410641-7052.

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BERLIN n Frontier Town’s “Haunted Halloween Trail” through the Western theme park, located off Route 611, is open to the public. The trail will open at 7 p.m. on Saturday. The cost to walk through “FrontFear Town” is $5 per person. The walk is free for campers staying at Frontier Town. Refreshments will be sold.

For more information, call 1-800228-5590. n Berlin-area churches will sponsor a free Harvest Fair on Sunday, from 5-8 p.m., at SonRise Church, located at 10959 Old Worcester Highway (Route 575). The annual event will feature games for children, candy, food, hayrides, music, pony rides, obstacle course and face painting. Children may come dressed in costume, though scary attire is discouraged. Door prizes will be awarded. For more information, call 410-641-3325 n The Berlin Library welcomes families at 5 p.m. on Wednesday. A movie will also be shown. For more information, call 410-641-0650. n Trick-or-treating hours throughout the town of Berlin will be from 5-7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 31. The Berlin Police Department will be available to scan candy at Town Hall, located at 10 William St., during those hours.

WEST OCEAN CITY n Paws & Claws’ annual Halloween Pawrade/Party will take place on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Parade will start promptly at noon. Pet owners can dress up their four-legged friends as well as themselves.

For more information, call 410-213– 7490. Prizes will be awarded. Paws and Claws is located in the Ocean Gateway Shopping Center behind SherwinWilliams on Route 50.

FENWICK ISLAND, DEL. n Bayside Chapel will present its annual Trunk or Treat event today (Friday), from 6-8 p.m. There is no cost to attend.

Children can safely trick or treat from trunk to trunk followed by a costume parade. There will also be face painting, pumpkin painting, coloring contest, snacks and prizes.

Bayside Chapel is located two miles west of Harris Teeters, on Route 54. For more information, call 302-436-7585.

SALISBURY n The Halloween event at the Salisbury Zoo, located on South Park Drive, from 1-4 p.m. on Saturday, is geared toward children 10 and younger. Children can trick-or-treat throughout the zoo, participate in games and compete in a costume contest. Food will be available for purchase.

Tickets cost $5 for children and $2 for adults, though there may be an additional cost for some games. Children must be accompanied by an adult. For more information, call 410-546-3440.

Parents and children wait for the start of the Halloween costume contest at the Ocean Pines Community Center last year. Inclement weather forced the event inside.

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Winter Specials Start Nov. 7th Friday Evenings Around The Piano Bar with Rhonda Apple & Dale Britt Dine Alfresco With A Fabulous Ocean View!

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■ 32 PALM, 32nd Street, in the Hilton Suites, Ocean City 410-289-2525 / www.ocmdrestaurants. com / $$ / V-MC-AEDIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Western Caribbean cuisine, Eastern Shore favorites, gourmet and tasty liquid desserts.

■ ADOLFO’S, 13th Street, on the Boardwalk, Ocean City 410-289-4001 / www.ocadolfos.com / $$ / V-MC-AE / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Northern and southern Italian dishes, prepared fresh daily. Quiet, intimate atmosphere for couples, room for large families or choose to enjoy our outside seating with views of the ocean.

■ BJ’S ON THE WATER, 75th Street, Ocean City 410-524-7575 / www.bjsonthewater.com / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Open year-round. Entire dining menu served 11 a.m. to 1:30 a.m., seven days a week. Daily specials, daily duck feeding. Entertainment every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. No cover.

Available for parties and banquets. Indoor and outdoor dining.

■ BLUE FISH JAPANESE & CHINESE RESTAURANT AND SUSHI BAR, 94th Street, Ocean City 410-524-3983 / www.bluefishoc.com / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Full bar / Japanese and Chinese restaurant and sushi bar with beer, wine and cocktails. Dine in, take out and delivery available. Open Monday-Friday, 11:30 a.m.; Saturday and Sunday, noon.

■ CAPTAIN’S TABLE RESTAURANT, 15th Street and the Boardwalk, Ocean City 410289-7192 / www.captainstableoc.com / $$$$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Family-owned, serving fine seafood, steaks and poultry on the third floor of the Courtyard by Marriott.

Open 7 days a week, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner.

■ DEVITO’S ITALIAN DELI AND SUB SHOP, 143rd Street, Ocean City 410-250-1122 / $ / V-MC / No reservations required / Italian cold cuts pizza, sandwiches and subs for lunch and dinner.

■ DUFFY’S TAVERN, 130th Street, Montego Bay Shopping Center, Ocean City 410250-1449 / $ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Unique Irish tavern serving the best steaks, seafood and over-stuffed sandwiches. A local’s favorite with authentic Irish specialities, including shepard’s pie and corned beef and cabbage. Outdoor seating available. Open for lunch and dinner.

■ FAGER’S ISLAND RESTAURANT & BAR, 60th Street on the bay, Ocean City 410524-5500 / www.fagers.com / $$-$$$ / VMC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted in the dining room only / Children’s menu / Full bar

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/ Upscale restaurant on the bay. Casual fine dining, fresh fish, prime rib and seafood.

Lighter fare menu served on our decks or inside.

■ FRESCO’S, 82nd Street, Ocean City 410524-8202 / www.ocfrescos.com / $$-$$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / On the bay, serving seafood, steaks and pasta in an intimate atmosphere. Reservations highly recommended.

■ GALAXY 66 BAR & GRILLE, 66th Street, Ocean City 410-723-6762 / $$-$$$ / V-MAE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Full bar / Contemporary restaurant offering light fare and full entrees. Award- winning wine list, signature drinks and cocktails.

■ GIUSEPPE O’LEARY, Sunset Avenue, West Ocean City 410-213-2868 / www.submarinaoc.com / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Full bar / Featuring homemade Italian cuisine in a cozy atmosphere. Open year-round. Happy hour food and drink specials Monday-Friday, 4-7 p.m.

■ GREENE TURTLE NORTH, 116th Street, Ocean City 410-723-2120 / www.thegreeneturtle.com / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / The Turtle, est. 1976, is an Ocean City tradition with a friendly staff, great food and something for everyone! Menu favorites are homemade crab cakes, kids’ menu, salads, burgers, wings and more! Featuring weekday lunch specials and happy hour, 50 high-def flat screen TVs, game room, gift shop, carry out, party trays, nightly drink specials, Keno, MD lottery, DJs with dance floor. Open 11 a.m. to 2 a.m., year-round.

■ HALL’S SEAFOOD & STEAK, 60th Street, Ocean City 410-524-5008 / www.HallsOC.com / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Serving Ocean City’s finest breakfast buffet and all-you-can-eat sea-food buffet. Open 7 days a week, all summer. New menu serving old favorites and new treats.

■ HARBORSIDE BAR & GRILL, 12841 S. Harbor Road, West Ocean City 410-2131846 / www.ocharborside.com / $$ / V-MCAE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Open seven days a week, 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Casual waterfront dining serving seafood, steaks, sandwiches, salads, wraps and pasta. Home of the “Original Orange Crush.” Entertainment Thursday through Sunday.

■ HARPOON HANNA’S RESTAURANT & BAR, Route 54 and the bay, Fenwick Island, Del. www.harpoonhannasrestaurant.com / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Casual waterfront restaurant serving lunch, dinner. Fresh fish, seafood, steaks, sandwiches and all-you-caneat Alaskan crab legs. Open year-round.

■ HEMINGWAY’S AT THE CORAL REEF, 17th Street, in the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites, Ocean City 410-289-2612 / www.ocmdrestaurants.com / $$$ / V-MC-AEDIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Elegant dining room, Floridian/island-style cuisine. Sea-food, tropical salsas, grilled steaks, pork chops, grilled pineapple, banana fritters, entree salads.

■ HIGH STAKES BAR & GRILL, Route 54, Fenwick Island, Del. 302-537-6971 / $-$$ / V-M-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Carry-out available / Full bar / Casual dining, daily happy hour and daily food specials. Live

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■ HOOTERS, three Ocean City locations: 123rd Street, Ocean City 410-250-7081, Fifth Street, on the Boardwalk, Ocean City 410-289-2690 and Route 50, West Ocean City 410-213-1841 / www.hootersofoc.com / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS. Fresh new menu items include ground chuck burgers, green salads, world famous chicken wings with 11 flavorful sauces, healthy choice sandwiches and seafood. Fun children’s menu. Relaxed beach atmosphere. Full bar. Large flat screen TVs, attentive service by delightful Hooters girls. Wingfest: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3-6 p.m., featuring 50-cent wings and awesome drink specials. Like us on Facebook. This is why we say Hooters makes you happy.

■ HORIZONS OCEANFRONT RESTAURANT, 101st Street, Ocean City 410-524-3535 / www.clarionoc.com / $-$$ ($20-45) / V-MCAE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Open tables / Children’s menu / Full bar / Proud to have Chef Shawn Reese creating beach-inspired dishes in both oceanfront restaurants, Horizons and Breaker’s Pub. New all-day menu, available 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., features many favorites, as well as exciting new creations with a local flare. Deluxe Sunday breakfast buffet open year-round and AUCE prime rib, crab legs and seafood buffet available most weekends.

■ HOUSE OF WELSH, 1106 Coastal Highway, Fenwick Island, Del. 1-800-311-2707 / www.houseofwelsh.net / $, $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Specializing in steaks and seafood.

Open daily. Happy hour all day and night. Entertainment Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Casual attire.

■ JOHNNY’S PIZZA PUB, 56th Street, Ocean City 410-524-7499 / www.johnnys56.com / $ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Pizza, subs, wings, salads, beer, live music, high definition TVs, surf, movies, BlueRay. ■ JR’S THE ORIGINAL PLACE FOR RIBS, 61st and 131st streets, Ocean City 410250-3100, 410-524-7427 / www.jrsribs.com / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / The place for ribs since 1981. Family-friendly dining. Angus steaks, jumbo lump crab cakes, prime rib, seafood, chicken. Early bird.

■ JULES FINE DINING, 118th Street, Ocean City 410-524-3396 / www.ocjules.com / $$, $$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Local fare, global flair. Fresh seafood year-round, fresh local produce.

■ OCEAN PINES YACHT CLUB, 1 Mumfords Landing Road, Ocean Pines 410-641-7501 / www.oceanpines.org, www.theclubsofoceanpines.com / $$ / V-MC-AE / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Ocean Pines Yacht Club and Marina is open to the public for casual waterfront dining.

Fresh local menu, on-site catering and Sunday brunch.

■ P.G.N. CRABHOUSE, 29th Street, Ocean City 410-289-8380 / $ / V-MC-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Beer, wine / The Kaouris family has been serving the finest crabs, seafood, steaks and chicken to Ocean City locals and visitors since 1969.

■ PHILLIPS CRAB HOUSE, 20th Street, Ocean City 410-289-6821 / www.phillipsseafood.com / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS

/ No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / The original Phillips, serving the finest seafood since 1956. Complete with allyou-can-eat seafood buffet, a la carte menu and carryout counter. Daily early bird specials and plenty of free parking.

■ PHILLIPS SEAFOOD HOUSE, 141st Street, Ocean City 410-250-1200 / www.phillipsseafood.com / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Just minutes to the Delaware line.

All-you-can-eat seafood buffet, a la carte menu and carryout counter. Daily early bird specials and plenty of free parking.

■ PONZETTI’S PIZZA, 144th Street, Ocean City www.ponzettispizza.com / $ / MC / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Italian dinners, subs and homemade pizza. Happy hour Monday through Friday, 3-6 p.m. Sports bar, live music on weekends. Light fare served till 1 a.m. Carry out available.

■ REFLECTIONS RESTAURANT, 67th Street, in the Holiday Inn Oceanfront, Ocean City 410-524-5252 / www.ocmdrestaurants.com / $$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Tableside flambé dining. Casually elegant, cuisine prepared tableside in the European tradition. Private dining rooms. Eclectic chef’s specials accompanied by an award-winning wine list.

■ SEACRETS, 49th Street, Ocean City 410524-4900 / www.seacrets.com / $$ / V-MCAE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Island atmosphere. Soups, salads, Jamaican jerk chicken, appetizers, sandwiches, paninis, pizza and fresh seafood.

■ SMITTY McGEE’S, 37234 Lighthouse Road, West Fenwick Island, Del. 302-4364716 / www.smittymcgees.com / $$ / V-MCAE-DIS / No reservations required / No children’s menu / Full bar / Casual. Big menu, including hot wings and drinks.

■ THE COTTAGE CAFE, Route 1 (across from Sea Colony), Bethany Beach, Del. 302-539-8710 / www.cottagecafe.com / $, $$ / V-MC-AE / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Seafood, kids’ menu, happy hour specials. Lunch and dinner daily. Breakfast buffet on weekends.

■ THE STERLING SEAFOOD GRILL & OYSTER BAR, 67th Street, in the Holiday Inn Oceanfront, Ocean City 410-524-5252 / www.ocmdrestaurants.com / $$ / V-MC-AEDIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Fabulous raw bar serving the freshest raw oysters and clams, steamed shrimp, crab legs, mussels and oyster stew, made to order. “Fresh off the grill” items include rockfish, tuna, mahi mahi and salmon.

Happy hour specials daily, 4-6 p.m.

■ WHISKERS PUB, 120th Street, OC Square, Ocean City 410-524-2609 / www.whiskerspub.com / $ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Old World saloon-type feel, Whisker’s is famous for its Certified Angus® burgers and delicious casual fare, as well as its entertaining atmosphere and photo lined walls of famous and infamous “whiskers.”

Enjoy flat screen TVs to watch your favorite sports. Open year-round, 11:30 a.m. to 2 a.m., serving lunch and dinner daily. Happy hour every day 4-7 p.m. Nightly food specials.

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Writer’sobsession with chocolate FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Walker finds it hard to say ‘no’ to creamy, dark treat DEBORAH LEE WALKER ■ Contributing Writer (Oct. 26, 2012) Confessions come in many degrees and I am about to profess my biggest weakness. I adore chocolate and my appetite for the creamy, dark treat takes me down a path of no return. I try to say “no,” but a feeling deep down inside tells me to partake in the sinful delight.

For those who understand the meaning of being “powerless,” compassion is bittersweet. The heavenly treat stimulates my taste buds and waves of salivation begin. I am obsessed and the only way to distance myself is to fully indulge and teach one the art of cooking with chocolate. This might sound contradictory, but in it is my salvation.

Understanding the sweet proverbial will help kinder my desire. Satisfaction comes in many flavors and I am willing to expand my repertoire to forgo the past. Goodbye my darling, digestion is no longer the path to my heart. Inches around my waist are proof of my passion and undivided loyalty.

Do not be sad, for my journey will keep you near. It is because I cherish you that I am willing to share you with others so that they might understand my true bliss.

I am redirecting my fidelity from eating to cooking with chocolate. If I cannot have you, the very least is I can do is to share you with others. Your delicate coating should never be melted directly over heat. Instead, thou should be melted in a double boiler or in a heatproof container over a saucepan of water. Protection from the tiniest drop of water is mandatory.

Your silkiness is luscious indeed. Culinary experts say conching is the reason for thee. It might not sound poetic, but the final step determines the flavor and texture of your divine moment to be. You need to be kneaded and massaged to evenly distribute cocoa butter.

Your magical appeal emanates shininess. It is said that tempering governs the effervescence in your composite. In essence, it breaks down crystals of cocoa butter to the perfect size. Left to their own devices, the crystals cool into irregular shapes, which in turn would hinder your velvety complexion.

It has been delightful, but the time has come to say goodbye.

There is no doubt you are the epitome of America’s favorite dessert. You can be temperamental, but certainly worth the fuss.

Halloween is upon us and chocolate is the most popular choice. The addition of salty components raises the level of taste.

As always, homemade gifts are greatly appreciated and stand out in the bags of goodies. Halloween candy bark is easy to make and the recipe is easily adaptable to please one’s palate. It is a perfect gift for the monsters, ghosts and witches that adorn one’s front porch. Simply place broken candy bark in clear, plastic bags and tie with orange and black ribbons.

HALLOWEEN CANDY BARK 1 pounnd bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped 1/2 cup broken pieces of pretzels 1/2 cup candy corn 3 toffee candy bars, roughly chopped 1//4 cup honey roasted peanuts 3 ounces M&Ms, coarsely chopped 3 ounces quality white chocolate, finely chopped 1. Line a baking sheet with foil. Place the chopped chocolate in a heatproof bowl over simmering water. Heat, stirring occasionally until the chocolate is completely melted and smooth. Make sure no water gets into the chocolate.

2. Pour chocolate over the foil and smooth into a thin layer using a spatula.

3. Sprinkle the candy evenly over the melted chocolate. Gently press the candy into the chocolate.

4. Transfer to the refrigerator and chill for 30 minutes.

5. Melt the white chocolate using the same process for the bittersweet chocolate.

Drizzle over chilled candy bark.

6. Return to the refrigerator and chill until the white chocolate is set.

7. Peel the sheet of chocolate away from the foil and break up into pieces.

8. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator until ready to serve.

SECRET INGREDIENT: Chivalry. “The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one” …

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Shoes to promote health, fitness (Oct. 26, 2012) Ocean City Recreation and Parks is working with Vernon Powell Shoes to offer multiple chances to win pairs of athletic shoes valued up to $125. There will be four drawings starting Oct. 31, and the last drawing will be in late spring.

Ocean City Recreation and Parks has numerous fitness programs that promote health. In addition to aerobics classes, zumba and yoga is the new Walking Club.

This club takes scenic walks throughout Ocean City along the Boardwalk, Northside Park and Caine Woods. Mileage records will be maintained by club coordinator Kim Kinsey, and each participant will receive a T-shirt and pedometer. During the winter months, the program is held at

indoor facilities in Ocean City.

“We have participants of all ages and participants enjoy the exercise as well as the camaraderie,” Kinsey said.

Participants in the Walking Club, as well as zumba, aerobics, yoga and water aerobics classes, are entered in the drawing each time they participate in a class. Once a number is drawn, the winner will be given the opportunity to be fitted for a pair of athletic shoes with a value of up to $125 at the Salisbury or Rehoboth Vernon Powell locations.

For additional information about the fitness programs offered at Ocean City Recreation and Parks, visit www.oceancitymd.gov or stop by Northside Park to pick up a copy of Splash! Magazine.

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Design and construct racecar from single pumpkin for event Continued from Page 52

There was no cost to enter the contest, however, participants were asked to donate food, blankets, toys, treats or any other pet-related item for the Worcester County Humane Society. More than $500 and donations were collected.

“We were very pleased with everyone’s generosity,” Herbert said.

The final O.C.toberfest event will take place on Saturday. Registration for “The Great Pumpkin Race” will begin at 1 p.m. on the Boardwalk at North Division Street. The races will kick off at 2 p.m.

The competition will feature tricked out pumpkin race cars. Families, friends, groups and individuals can design and construct their own racecar

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More than 5,000 guests walked through the “Halloween Beach Maze” on the beach near North Division Street last Saturday and Sunday. The maze, which features wicked witches, pirates of the sand, scary scarecrows, ghouls in the graveyard and zombies, among other characters, will be open again this Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The free activity, a part of the inaugural O.C.toberfest, is for all ages.

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The festival includes activities such as a petting zoo, cakewalk, moon bounce and bake sale, as well as fire truck and hayrides and carnival-like games.

Raffle drawings will be held for gift packages, which include rounds of golf, water park tickets and restaurant gift certificates. Tickets cost $5 for a book of six and can be purchased before or on the day of the festival.

Proceeds from the festival will be used

by Showell Elementary School’s PTA to help pay for school-sponsored activities or needs such as field trips, student agendas and visiting authors.

Dress is casual, although costumes may be worn as well.

Showell Elementary is located at 13318 Showell School Road and Route 589. For more information, call 410-632-5350.

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from a single pumpkin in any shape and size. Pumpkins will race side-by-side. A complete list of pumpkin racecar rules can be found online www.octoberfestmd.com.

“It’s a spinoff of a soapbox derby,” Herbert said. “We encourage families to build their own racecars and decorate them however they want. It’s essentially a pumpkin with wheels.”

Prizes will be awarded. Rain date is Sunday.

For more information, call 410-7986304 or visit www.octoberfestmd.com.

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(Oct. 26, 2012) Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic School will host its annual Family Fall Festival from 3:30-6:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26, at the school, located at 11242 Racetrack Road near Ocean Pines.

Presented by the Home School Association, this family-friendly event will feature something for everyone, including hot food and baked sale items, arts and crafts, face painting, a cake walk, inflatable bounce houses, a giant double slide and a Chinese auction for children, among other activities Games, rides and some other activities require tickets. Cost is $1 per ticket or $20 for 30 tickets, available the day of the festival. The festival also offers plenty of free parking.

For vendor information, or questions about the festival, contact Colleen Rutzler at rutzler.macsmom@gmail.com or Jody Hallman at jody.hallman@colemannatural.com.

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Solar-powered broom coming in handy with gas prices on rise SENIOR SLANT

Ride is few straws short of complete broom, but works IRISH KEMP ■ Contributing Writer (Oct. 26, 2012) Halloween: A spooky time of the year, right? If the price of gas weren’t so high I wouldn’t need my snatched broom. Wouldn’t you know, it being an election year, the culprits thought they were cool asking for 10 eyes of newts. How gross! Not to worry, I’ve had a solar-powered broom stashed away in the closet for years. A couple of straws short of a full broom, but it works for me.

Enough of this skull duggery. Am I the only one discombobulated about those orange, green and blue lines popping up on Caine Woods’ sidewalks? Is Hal Adkins messing with this old broad’s mind or is there an ongoing underground beautification project in progress? Totally discombobulated neighbors, hung up on that “steppin’ on a crack” phobia wanna know.

Lots of fun things going on around town. No doubt in my mind dis’ is de’ place to be when it comes to being home for the holidays. Places to celebrate any

holiday a bodaciously humongous amount of times are everywhere. How convenient that Halloween landed on Wednesday, Oct. 31, the day that local seniors party hardy from 3-6 p.m., 52 weeks a year, at Harpoon Hanna’s. A great opportunity to be all or anything you ever wanted to be at this event. A prize for the most innovative costume, of course. Come early for ringside seats.

Think gifts for the folks that have everything. Invite friends and family to come down for events featuring food, frolic and fun. Coming up at St. Andrew’s Center, a block off Coastal Highway at 144th Street, is a Holiday Bazaar on Saturday, Nov. 10, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

New in town and wanna’ be found?

Our town is all about givin’ and livin’.

Our nonprofit clubs do a great job of keepin’ the town on the cusp of fun things to do. Here are a few to check out: the Delmarva Irish-American Club, 410289-0791, and the Polish Club, 410-7232639.

A real door opener, the town of Ocean City’s Thursday afternoon senior bowling league. For info, drop by Northside Park See IT’S on Page 68

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Those at an increased risk for influenza related complications: n persons 65 years and older n nursing home residents and other chronic care facilities n adults and children with chronic disorders of the pulmonary or cardiovascular systems, including children with asthma n people with metabolic diseases such as diabetes n those with blood diseases like sickle cell anemia, or impaired immunity Children and teenagers on long-term aspirin therapy and anyone working or living with someone in a high-risk category should get a flu shot every year.

The vaccine is usually given before the flu season. Individuals can receive the vaccine from their health care providers or at one of the free immunization clinics offered provided by Atlantic General Hospital and the Atlantic General Health System.

Since flu viruses mutate often, vaccines should be repeated each year. The vaccine is made from eggs. Those allergic to eggs should consult with his or her health care provider.

Atlantic General Hospital/Health System is offering free flu shot clinics to the community. Individuals must be at least 13 years old to receive the vaccine in Berlin, at the hospital outpatient services lobby. The clinics will be offered from 2-6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 7 and 14.

Hospital officials urge visitors to schedule an appointment with their primary care provider to receive a flu shot.

The flu vaccine, including the high dose vaccine for those 65 and older, became available at all Atlantic General Health System physician offices Sept. 24.

For more information on the Atlantic General Hospital Free Flu Shot Clinics, contact Atlantic General Hospital at 410-641-9FLU (9358).

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Holiday Shopper’s Fair returns to OC next month

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COMMUNITY BRIEFS Continued from Page 49

(Oct. 26, 2012) The whole family will enjoy a visit to the Roland E. Powell Convention Center in Ocean City, Friday through Sunday, Nov. 23-25, for the 30th annual Holiday Shopper’s Fair.

A visit to this annual shopping extravaganza is sure to put everyone in the holiday spirit. This year’s fair features unique gifts for everyone on the shopping list, including art and craft items, hand painted furniture, quilted handbags, ornaments, candles, jewelry, florals and other specialty gift items. Guests will also find toys, pet items and sports-related memorabilia, nautical items, stained glass, country woodcrafts, lighted baskets and ceramics.

Vendors will also offer honey-roasted almonds, homemade fudge and chocolates, dip mixes, assorted cakes and cookies for gift giving.

Nonprofit organizations will also be on hand, including Delmarva Cat Connection with cat/kitten adoptions and art and craft items, and Town Cats with adoptions, puzzles and other gift items for sale.

Believe in Tomorrow will sell raffle tickets, and Ocean City Aviation Association will offer T-shirts and aviation items.

Special programs have been organized for children’s entertainment to celebrate the season. More hands-on crafts will be offered this year for children and these activities are included in the price of admission to the show. Back by popular demand is Lady J with arts and crafts, face painting, “balloonatics” and new games.

Jean LaBelle of the Magical Puppets Theater will be performing three puppet theater performances on Friday and Saturday, and two on Sunday. Santa will make daily appearances from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday.

Door prize drawings will be held every hour on the half hour (must be present to win). And for non-shoppers, a television room will be open showing football games.

The Holiday Shopper’s Fair was started in 1983 as a part of the effort to bring visitors to the resort in the shoulder season. The first show attracted 2,000 people with 66 vendors displaying gifts, arts and crafts and more. This year’s show will feature more than 200 vendors with an estimated 10,000 people visiting the three-day tradition.

Show hours are Friday and Saturday, Nov. 23-24, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, Nov. 25, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission costs $3 for the weekend. Children 13 and younger are admitted free. For more information, call 1-800-OC-OCEAN or 410289-2800.

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Knights offering Nativity scenes

The 30th annual Holiday Shopper’s Fair, set for Nov. 23-25, in Ocean City, will feature art and craft items, hand painted furniture, quilted handbags, ornaments, candles, jewelry, florals and other specialty gift items.

The Knights of Columbus Pope John Paul II Assembly #2454, Ocean City, will be making replicas of the silhouette Nativity scene as displayed outside St Luke’s last Christmas season.

Twenty-five replicas will be made, each approximately 4 feet high and 4 feet wide. The price is $55. To place an order, call David Hill at 410-6415114 or Bruce Coons at 302-4360245, by Dec. 1.

Scenes will be ready for pickup by Dec. 1, at the Knights of Columbus council home, 9901 Coastal Highway in Ocean City.

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‘Starving Artists’ dinner kicks off holiday exhibit (Oct. 26, 2012) The Art League of Ocean City will hold its annual Starving Artists Dinner on Friday, Nov. 2. The event will serve as the opening reception for the holiday show, which will showcase original works of art by ALOC members.

The exhibit will remain on display until Dec. 16.

The dinner, from 5-7 p.m., is open to the public and will feature many varieties of homemade soups, salads, breads, wine and desserts. The cost is $12 per person.

In addition to food and artwork, the event will feature a 50/50 raffle. Funds from the raffle will support the non-profit programs of the Art League of Ocean City, including education, exhibits, community art projects as well as funding for the new Ocean City Center for the Arts.

This event has been a popular part of the ALOC’s schedule for the past 20 years.

For more information, call 410-5249433. The Art League is temporarily located on 94th Street in the Ocean Plaza Shopping Center.

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Purnell Museum to offer free admission and cake for birthday (Oct. 26, 2012) The Julia A. Purnell Museum will offer free admission on Saturday, Oct. 27, to commemorate the birthday of the museum’s namesake.

Julia Purnell was born on Oct. 27, 1843, and lived in Snow Hill until her death at 100 years of age.

From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on that day, guests will receive free admission along with birthday cake.

The award-winning needle art of Julia Purnell will be on display, along with the annual Delmarva Needle Art Show and Competition. The ribbons will be awarded to the winners of the competition at the celebration. Julia Purnell’s Birthday Party is also an opportunity to view the 2012 exhibits before the museum closes for the season on Nov. 1. This includes the temporary exhibit of Negro League Baseball Memorabilia.

For those who have never visited the Julia A. Purnell Museum — or just haven’t visited recently — this event is a chance to see our permanent exhibits, learn more about Worcester County history, and find out about the museum’s many programs. The museum features exhibits about Native American culture in the Pocomoke River area, Snow Hill’s Mason’s Opera house, a 19th century general store, a Victorian bedchamber, dressed fleas among other things.

For more information about this event or the Julia A. Purnell Museum, call 410-632-0515 or visit o www.purnellmuseum.com. Friend the museum on Facebook to receive updates on museum programs.

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OP CHAMBER NAMES CITIZEN, BUSINESS OF THE YEAR The Ocean Pines Chamber of Commerce held its annual Awards Banquet on Oct. 19, at the Ocean Pines Yacht Club. Dr. Rick Handelman, owner of The Woodlands & Catered Living, was recognized that evening at the organization’s “Citizen of the Year,” and Chip Bertino, publisher /editor of The Courier newspaper, accepted the award for “Business of the Year.” The theme of this year’s banquet was “Hats off, a Night in Wonderland,” and guests were encouraged to wear their best “mad” hat to the event. Pictured, from left, are chamber President Imad Elali, Sen. Jim Mathias, Bertino, Worcester County Commissioner Judy Boggs, Handelman and Delegate Mike McDermott.

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Eastern Shore IMBA sponsoring family costumed bike ride (Oct. 26, 2012) A costumed bike ride will be held at the Lower Shore YMCA on Sunday, Oct. 28.

The Eastern Shore International Mountain Biking Association invites children and parents to dress up and bicycle around a scenic lake. The organization will also celebrate the completion of its newest trail with a ribbon cuttine.

Registration begins at noon and the event continues until 3 p.m. A donation to the YMCA of $5 per bike is suggested. Participants are welcome to use the indoor pool and locker room at the YMCA after the bike ride with their donation. The Lower Shore YMCA is located at 1900 Worcester Highway in Pocomoke.

All bicyclists may pedal on a paved road as well as open trails. Children with more experience and even children without much experience are invited to ride of the five miles of natural surface single-track trails. The trails are smooth packed dirt with two loops for the novice. Four additional trails are for more experienced riders.

Participants must wear a helmet. All children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. People in need of a bike or a helmet should contact Tres Denk prior to the bike ride. All participants should take water and are encouraged to pack lunch.

The Eastern Shore IMBA will raffle off two bikes. Tickets are $2 each and proceeds support ESIMBA. More detailed information about Joining ESIMBA, local bike trails and family bike events may be found online at www.esimba.org. Contact Denk at 410430-4992 or tres@esimba.org to volunteer or for additional information.

The Eastern Shore International Mountain Bicycling Association (ESIMBA) is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit educational association whose mission is to create, enhance and preserve great mountain biking experiences. ESIMBA also holds Fun Races at the YMCA for children and adults.

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I woulda’ told you about the Irish Club’s pizza party meeting, held Thursday, Oct. 25, at St. Andrews Center, but I’d be a day late and a dollar short. Just ask Mary Pantos.

I’m sure that many folks think that my witch and leprechaun tales are figments of my imagination. Not true. I’m a Pisces; we never lie. With the exception of God, what I see with my very own Irish eyes is what I believe.

Speaking of weird things happening this month. Would you believe my attachment clip last week picked up a scrambled array of disjointed statements in lieu of my sum-up paragraph? My apologies to the editing staff. Many of my readers thought I had fallen off my rocker. Some had actually muddled thru it and assumed they were losing it. Hang in there, kids, many of those so called figments will be heading back to Salem for the elections. They’re voting to pass a no campaign fundraising bill. All money raised will be put toward our nation’s deficiency fund.

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FRIDAY, OCT. 26 BINGO — Knights of Columbus, 9901 Coastal Highway (rear of St. Luke’s Church) in Ocean City. Doors open at 5 p.m. and games begin at 6:30 p.m. Refreshments for sale. Info: 410-5247994.

FAMILY FALL FESTIVAL — Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic School, 11242 Racetrack Road, Berlin, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Hot food and bake sale items, arts and crafts tables, face painting, cake walk, inflatable bounce houses, a giant double slide and children’s Chinese auction.

Games, rides and other activities require tickets. Cost is $1 per ticket or $20 for 30 tickets, available day of festival. General and vendor info: Colleen Rutzler, rutzler.macsmom@gmail.com or Jody Hallman, jody.hallman@colemannatural.com.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR SCHOOL’S OUT, ART’S IN — Worcester County Arts Council will offer an Art Day for students in grades 3-8 on Monday, Nov. 5, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Participants will create hands-on projects inspired by professional artwork and explore works of art by local artists featured in Arts Council’s gallery. Registration free is $45 and includes cost of supplies. Students should take their own lunch and beverage. Register: 410641-0809 by Oct. 26.

www.oceancitytoday.net TRUNK OR TREAT — Bayside Chapel, 38288 London Ave., Selbyville, Del., 6-8 p.m. No cost to attend. Children can safely trick or treat from trunk to trunk, followed by a costume parade.

Inside will be face painting, pumpkin painting, coloring contest, snacks and door prizes. Info: 302-436-7585.

SATURDAY, OCT. 27 HALLOWEEN BEACH MAZE — Ocean City beach near North Division Street, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Giant beach maze with Halloween displays, wicked witches, pirates of the sand, scary scarecrows, ghouls in the graveyard, zombies and more. Free for the whole family. Info: 410798-6304 or www.OCtoberfestmd.com.

THE GREAT PUMPKIN RACE — Registration begins at 1 p.m. on the Ocean City Boardwalk at North Division Street. Race begins at 2 p.m.

Rain date is Oct. 28. Side-by-side race featuring wild and tricked out pumpkin racecars. Join the free fun by creating pumpkin racecar. Prizes awarded for creativity and winner of the race.

Rules: www.octoberfestmd.com. Info: 410-7986304.

OCEAN CITY COIN & CURRENCY SHOW Ocean City convention center, 4001 Coastal Highway, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Professional coin and currency dealers will buy and sell U.S. and

world coins and currency. Free appraisals, free admission. Info: Carl Ostiguy, 443-623-7025, www.coinshows.com or ceocoins@comcast.net.

SEASIDE 10 — Ten-mile and 5k races, both starting at the Ocean City inlet, 9 a.m., rain or shine. Registration fees for participants, www.octrirunning.com. Info: 443-497-4324.

OC CLASSICS KARATE TOURNAMENT Ocean City convention center, 4001 Coastal Highway. Karate and Jiu Jitsu championships.

Admission for spectators. Registration fee for participants. Info: www.OceanCityClassics.com.

OC SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT — Northside Park, 200 125th St., in Ocean City. Facility usage: ball fields 1, 2 and 3, Northside Park.

Info: 410-250-0125.

HALLOWEEN FALL FESTIVAL — White Horse Park, 239 Ocean Parkway in Ocean Pines, 1-4 p.m. Costume contests, carnival games, face painting, scarecrow making, arts and crafts, pony rides, moon bounces, haunted trail, refreshments and goodies. Free admission. Small fee for some activities. Volunteers needed. Donations of individually wrapped candy accepted at Recreation Department. Info: 410-641-7052.

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FLEA MARKET — Knights of Columbus, 9901 Coastal Highway (rear of St. Luke’s Church) in Ocean City, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Table rentals costs are $15 for first table and $10 for additional tables. Food available. RSVP: 410-524-7994, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

SHOREBILLY SHOOTOUT — Sinepuxent Rod and Gun Club, 7909 Purnell Crossing Road, Berlin. Registration and practice begins at 11 a.m., competition begins at noon. Rain date is Oct. 28. Skeet shooting competition. Silent and Chinese auctions, bake sale, 50/50 and basket of cheer raffles. Draft beer, sodas, water and a shorebilly cookout provided after the shoot. Entertainment by DJ Bigler. Cost per five-man team is $350 ($70 per person). Benefits Ravens Roost #58 charities. Info: Danny, 443497-2040; Maria, 443-944-4763; ravensroost58@gmail.com; or pearseryan@comcast. net.

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OUT&ABOUT Continued from Page 69 Zoo’s gift shop or education center, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Additional charges for food and some games. Info: 410-546-3440.

LUNCHEON — Bowen United Methodist Church, 8421 Newark Road, Newark, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Featuring oyster sandwiches, vegetable beef soup, chili, sweet potato biscuits, chicken salad, clam chowder, navy bean soup, beverages and bake table.

CAKE, FREE ADMISSION TO MUSEUM — Julia A. Purnell Museum, 208 W. Market St., Snow Hill, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. To commemorate the birthday of museum’s namesake, Julia Purnell, who was born Oct. 27, 1843 and lived in Snow Hill until her death at 100 years of age. Attendees will receive free admission and birthday cake. Award-winning needle art of Julia Purnell will be on display, along with the annual Delmarva Needle Art Show and Competition. Also view Negro League Baseball exhibit. Info: 410632-0515 or www.purnellmuseum.com.

PANCAKE BREAKFAST — VFW, Post 8296, 104 66th St., bayside in Ocean City, 8-11 a.m. A $5 donation for all-you-can-eat pancakes or 2-22, two eggs, two pancakes and two bacon, includes coffee and juice. Bloody Marys cost $3.

Info: 410-524-8196.

FALL FESTIVAL — Showell Elementary School, 13318 Showell School Road, Berlin, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Petting zoo, cake walk, moon bounce, bake sale, fire truck and hayrides. Carnival-like games include Frankenstein football toss, sack races, milk bottle toss and lollipop tree. Tickets

sold on site for activities, rides, games and a raffle. Raffle tickets cost $5 for a book of six, and can be purchased prior to or on the day of the festival. Need not be present to win. Costumes optional. Info: 410-632-5350. Proceeds benefit the school’s PTA.

HALLOWEEN SPOOK-OUT PARTY — Northside Park gym, 200 125th St., in Ocean City. Carnival games, arts and crafts, hayrides, snacks and more costume contests scheduled throughout the event. Info: Kim Kinsey, 410-250-0125 or www.oceancitymd.gov.

TRI-COUNTY BIRD CLUB FIELD TRIP — Meet at Ward Museum parking lot at corner of Beaglin Drive and South Schumaker Drive in Salisbury at 7:30 a.m., or meet at Chincoteague NWR visitors’ center at 9 a.m. Club will visit Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge to search for migrating shorebirds, waterfowl and raptors. Take lunch, drinks, snacks and binoculars. Dress for the weather. Info: 410-208-4269.

ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT BREAKFAST BUFFET Knights of Columbus, 9901 Coastal Highway (rear of St. Luke’s Church) in Ocean City, 9 a.m. to noon. With coffee and juice. Cost is $8 for adults, children 11 years and younger eat at half price. Info: 410-524-7994.

SUNDAY, OCT. 28 HALLOWEEN BEACH MAZE — Ocean City beach near North Division Street, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Giant beach maze with Halloween displays, wicked witches, pirates of the sand, scary scarecrows, ghouls in the graveyard, zombies and more. Free for whole family. Info: 410-7986304 or www.OCtoberfestmd.com.

OCEAN CITY COIN & CURRENCY SHOW Ocean City convention center, 4001 Coastal Highway, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Professional coin and currency dealers will buy and sell U.S. and world coins and currency. Free appraisals, free admission. Info: Carl Ostiguy, 443-623-7025, www.coinshows.com or ceocoins@comcast.net.

OC SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT — Northside Park, 200 125th St., in Ocean City. Facility usage: ball fields 1, 2 and 3, Northside Park.

Info: 410-250-0125.

HARVEST FAIR — SonRise Church property, 10959 Worcester Highway, Berlin, 5-8 p.m.

Food, live music, games, prizes, candy, pony rides, hayrides, inflatables, obstacle course and face painting. Please, no scary costumes. Adult supervision required. No cost to enter. Info: 410641-3325 or www.BerlinChuches.com.

BULL AND OYSTER ROAST — Greene Turtle West, 9616 Stephen Decatur Highway, West Ocean City. Tickets cost $25 in advance or $30 at the door, and includes food and draft beer.

Silent auction and 50/50. Tickets available at Greene Turtle West. Info: 410-213-1500.

FAMILY COSTUMED BIKE RIDE EVENT Lower Shore YMCA, 1900 Worcester Highway, Pocomoke City. Registration begins at noon and the event lasts until 3 p.m. Suggested donation of $5 per bike to contribute to the YMCA. Participants welcome to use indoor pool and locker room after ride, with donation. Bicyclists may follow paved road and open trails. Must wear helmet. All children 11 and younger must be accompanied by adult. For those in need of a bike or helmet or who want to volunteer, contact Tres

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Take a water bottle and pack a lunch. Two bikes will be raffled off. Tickets cost $2 each, proceeds support ESIMBA. Info: www.esimba.org or “like” Eastern Shore IMBA on Facebook.

MONDAY, OCT. 29 NAME THAT GHOST — Berlin library, 220 N. Main St., 2 p.m. Historian Mike Dixon shares techniques he uses to probe occurrences from the past. Generally his archives-based studies involve digging through dusty, long untouched records such as coroner’s inquests, death notices, police and criminal records, obituaries and yellowing newspaper accounts of crimes. Dixon will share some case studies of how he helped paranormal investigators leverage stories from the past. Free and open to the public. Info: 410-641-0650.

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY MEETING Berlin group No. 169, Atlantic General Hospital, conference room 3, 9733 Healthway Drive in Berlin, 5-6:30 p.m. TOPS is a support and educational group promoting weight loss and healthy lifestyle. It meets weekly. Info: Edna Berkey, 410-251-2083.

DELMARVA SWEET ADELINE CHORUS MEETS WEEKLY — The Delmarva Sweet Adeline Chorus, under the direction of Carol Ludwig, meets each Monday from 7-9 p.m., at the Ocean Pines Community Center, 239 Ocean Parkway, White Horse Park. Women interested in learning and singing in a barbershop format are welcome.

Info: 410-208-4171.

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OUT&ABOUT Continued from Page 71 al Highway, Fenwick, Del. Free lessons from 6-7 p.m., open dancing 7-10 p.m. No cover charge.

Info: DC Hand Dance Club, 302-541-0728.

TUESDAY, OCT. 30 STORY TIME FOR CHILDREN AGES 3-5 YEARS Berlin library, 220 N. Main St., 10:30 a.m. Stories, rhymes, finger plays, music and crafts.

Info: 410-641-0650.

LAP TIME FOR CHILDREN 2 YEARS AND YOUNGER — Ocean Pines library, 11107 Cathell Road, 10:30 a.m. Children introduced to songs, games, finger plays and movement activities. Parents and caregivers learn new and fun ways to communicate with their toddlers. Registration is necessary by calling 410-208-4014.

FUN WITH SCIENCE Ocean City Elementary fourth-graders Daniel Juarez and Melis Unal work together to discover properties of magnetic fields with iron fillings and magnets in Dr. Melanie Biscoe’s science class.

YOGA — James G. Barrett Medical Office Building, rotunda, 10231 Old Ocean City Boulevard,

Berlin, 5:30-6:45 p.m. All levels welcome. Cost is $72 for eight sessions or $10 drop-in fee for first time. Info: Georgette Rhoads, 410-6419734 or grhoads@atlanticgeneral.org.

SIMPLE SUPPER — Knights of Columbus, 9901 Coastal Highway (rear of St. Luke’s Church) in Ocean City, 5-7 p.m. Cost is $5 for adults and $2 for children 11 and younger.

Reservations: 410-524-7994.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 31 HALLOWEEN FAMILY FLICK NIGHT — Berlin library, 220 N. Main St., 5 p.m. Drop in for treats and a movie for the whole family. Free and open to the public. Info: 410-641-0650.

TRICK OR TREATING AT THE MALL — White Marlin Mall, corner of routes 50 and 611, West Ocean City, 4-6 p.m. Mall offers safe, family-oriented location for trick or treaters. Children must be in costume when they visit participating merchants to receive treats. Many shops will

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OUT&ABOUT offer special sales during Halloween celebration. Preview activities at www.whitemarlinmall.com/events.asp.

STORY TIME FOR CHILDREN AGES 3-5 YEARS Ocean City library, 10003 Coastal Highway, 10:30 a.m. Stories, rhymes, finger plays, music and crafts. Info: 410-524-1818.

BINGO — Every Wednesday at Ocean City Elks Lodge 2645, 138th Street across from Fenwick Inn. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., games start 6:30 p.m. A $1,000 jackpot available, food, snacks and non-alcoholic beverages. No one under 18 years allowed in the hall during bingo. Info: 410250-2645.

DELMARVA HAND DANCING CLUB — Meets every Wednesday at Skyline Bar & Grille at The Fenwick Inn, 138th Street and Coastal Highway in Ocean City. Beginner and intermediate lessons, 5:30-6:30 p.m., followed by dancing until 9 p.m. Jitterbug, swing, cha-cha to the sounds of the ’50s, ’60s and Carolina beach music. All are welcome. Discounted food and drink prices.

Info: 302-337-3638.

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY MEETING Ocean City library, 10003 Coastal Highway, Wednesdays, 4:45-6 p.m. TOPS is a support and educational group promoting weight loss and healthy lifestyle. It meets weekly. Info: 302436-3682.

THURSDAY, NOV. 1 DECOY CARVING DEMONSTRATION — Berlin li-

brary, 220 N. Main St., 2 p.m. A resident carver of the Ward Museum demonstrates the skill and art of decoy carving. Free and open to the public. Info: 410-641-0650.

ANNUAL HOLIDAY AUCTION — Ocean Pines Community Center, Assateague Room, 239 Ocean Parkway, 10 a.m. Baskets, baked goods, raffles, and new or like-new gift items will be available for sale or auction. Benefits Women’s Club of Ocean Pines’ college scholarship program and community donations. Donations of new items accepted. Donations and info: 443465-2400 or 410-208-0171.

BEACH SINGLES — Every Thursday, Beach Singles 45-Plus meets for happy hour at Lighthouse Sound, 12723 St. Martins Neck Road, Bishopville, 4 p.m. Info: Arlene, 302-436-957 or Kate, 410-524-0649.

BINGO — American Legion Post 166, 2308 Philadelphia Ave., in Ocean City, every Thursday, year round. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., games start at 7 p.m. Food available. Open to the public. Info: 410-289-3166.

ONGOING EVENTS HORSE & CARRIAGE RIDES IN DOWNTOWN OC — Horse and carriage rides offered 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, through April 14, 2013 (depending on weather and ridership). General route begins at inlet lot and travels along Baltimore Avenue, Dorchester Street to Boardwalk going south around pier and back to the inlet lot. Cost is $10 per person for adults, free to children 3 and younger. AddiContinued on Page 74

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OUT&ABOUT Continued from Page 73 tional special Christmas route, Nov. 24-Dec. 16, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 5-8 p.m. Santa will drive the carriage starting at Sunset Park located on South Philadelphia Avenue, south to S. First Street, north on Baltimore Avenue to Somerset Street, south on Philadelphia Avenue back to Sunset Park. Cost is $5 per person for adults and free to those 3 and younger. Info: www.downtownassociation.net, 410-289-1413 or 443-783-1409.

LIGHT UP DOWNTOWN CELEBRATION — Sunset Park, South Philadelphia Avenue, Fridays and Saturdays, Nov. 24-Dec. 15, 5:30 p.m. Holiday music and dance performances. Lighting ceremony Nov. 24. Info: www.downtownassoication.net, 410-289-1413 or 443-783-1409.

HORSEBACK RIDING ON THE BEACH — Ocean City now offers horseback riding on the beach from 27th Street extending south to the Inlet jetty between 6 a.m. and 5 p.m., Nov. 1 through March 30. Cost is $20 for a single-day permit and $50 for a seasonal permit. Permit applications: City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 301 Baltimore Ave., Ocean City or online at www.oceancitymd.gov.

WINTERFEST OF LIGHTS — Northside Park, 200 125th St. in Ocean City, Nov. 15-Jan. 1, 2013, Sundays through Thursdays, 5:30-9:30 p.m. and Fridays and Saturdays, 5:30-10:30 p.m. Take a ride through an animated wonderland on the Winterfest Express. Visit the Winterfest Village, located inside a festive, heated pavilion. Buy a cup of hot chocolate at The OC

SCHOOL VISIT Justin Udzielak, a kindergarten student in Sheri Brueckner’s class at Ocean City Elementary School, was happy that both Mom and Grandmom joined him for lunch during School Lunch Week, Oct. 15-18.

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Also drive along the Avenue of Trees on Baltimore Avenue from 15th to 32nd streets.

3RD ANNUAL LOCAL’S WEEK — Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum, located at the south end of the Boardwalk, 813 S. Atlantic Ave., Ocean City, Oct. 24-31. Free admission for all who think of Ocean City as their home: residents, vacationers, time-share owners, day trippers. Daily activities and a scavenger hunt.

Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Info: 410-289-4991 or www.ocmuseum.org/index.php/site/events/.

DIFFERENT STROKES FOR FAMOUS FOLKS! CHILDREN’S ART WORKSHOPS — Sponsored by the Worcester County Arts Council, Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Children, ages 4 years and older, will be introduced to various different artists throughout the history by exploring the dominating stylistic techniques present in their work. Children will learn and experiment with unique techniques in each mini-master piece.

Cost is $25 for each class, supplies included.

Pre-registration required: 410-641-0809.

THE SHEPHERD’S NOOK THRIFT SHOP Community Church at Ocean Pines, 11227 Racetrack Road. Open Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Accepting donations of gently worn clothes and small household items.

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OC Winter Rental - 2BR/2BA Condo - Avail. Now! 3 blks. to boardwalk. Next to 9th St. pier. $600/mo. No smoking/pets/ groups. Refs. _ sec. deposit req’d. 410-544-6424

Winter Rental or Year Round2BR/2BA 142nd Street Winter Rental-3BR/2BA-28th Street-$700. Call 443-880-0510

YR WOC, 4BR/4.5BA Penthouse, unfurnished, 3BR/2BA Oceanfront Condo, furnished, 1BR/1.5BA Oceanfront Condo, furnished. Available now! Income verification req’d. Call 443-521-3202.

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Now hiring Stay at Home Moms, Senior Citizens or anyone who wants to work F/T or P/T, setting your own hours in your area & surrounding areas.

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Call your Avon Representative Christine @ 443-880-8397 Visit www.startavon.com.Use reference code: cbrown2272 to sign up online or email snowhillavon@comcast.net PT Office Manager - $15,000/ yr. Ocean City church seeks office manager, (18 hr. per week) for busy church office. Computer/data entry, people oriented and organizational skills necessary. Send resume to St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, 10301 Coastal Highway, Ocean City, MD 21842-2501 or fax 410-524-6009

Legal Secretary: Busy Ocean City and Ocean Pines law firm has an immediate opening for a motivated and experienced legal secretary. Experience in Estate Planning, Wills and Corporate matters and prior experience in preparation of Real Estate Settlements is preferred. Proficiency in word processing, written and oral communication skills necessary. Please send resume to: P.O. Box 739, Ocean City, MD 21843.

Now hiring sales reps and promo models for weekend work. Paid travel, $100 a day + bonuses. J-1 welcome. Experienced sales managers for travel also needed for PT/FT salaried position. Please call 443-2917651

DE & MD COMMERCIAL SALES REPS • Sell highly unique cleaning service • Strong, competitive spirit • Previous business-to-business sales experience a plus • Must be a self-starter • Enjoy working in a growing, fast-paced organization

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Robin Walter Day Spa is now hiring a Hair Stylist, P/T or F/T Massage Therapist & P/T Receptionist. For confidential interview call Laurie 410-2082576.

Winter Rental - 2BR/2BA $700/mo. Now thru May 5th.

Call Bill 301-537-5391 Berlin - 4BR/2BA - Remodeled Rancher, hardwood floors.

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Winter or Monthly • NOC, 3BR/2BA, furnished, nice, $800. • West OC, 2BR/1BA, nice, furnished $600. 410-2138090 Yr … Tiburon, 139th St. 3BR/ 2BA w/cntrl. H&AC. Includes CATV, WiFi. Pool, tennis, freshly painted, furn. or unfurn. $1250. 410-213-8090

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YR or Winter Rental - 28th St. 2BR/1BA Condo - DW, W/D, $950/mo.-$1100/mo. + utils. + 1 mo. sec. dep. No pets. Call Mary 484-955-9976.

WR - Direct Bayfront, 26th St. - Furn., 2BR/2BA, W/D, pets allowed. $900/mo. + utils. Oct. thru May. 443-783-6383 YR South Ocean Pines 4BR/2BA - All appliances. No pets/smoking. $1195/Mo. + utils. + sec. dep. Call Barry, broker/owner 302-275-9412 WR - 1BR Condo - Off 28th St. - Furnished, $650/mo. includes cable & utilities w/limits. Available now. No smoking/pets.

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YR - 3BR/2BA - NOC - Furnished, 1800 sq. ft., house.

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Lost Kitten taken from Oasis parking lot in Whaleyville on Sept. 30th. Between 3-7pm.

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Legal Notices SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY KNOWN AS NO. 607 OSPREY ROAD, UNIT 2 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 CASE NUMBER 23-C-12-001144 Covahey, Boozer, Devan, and Dore, P.A. 11350 McCormick Road, Executive Plaza III, Suite 200 Hunt Valley, MD 21031 (443) 541-8600 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from Cynthia J. Michaud recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 4933, folio 239, and re-recorded in Liber 4986, folio 383, and Declaration of Substitution of Trustees recorded among the aforementioned Land Records substituting Thomas P. Dore, Mark S. Devan, Gerard F. Miles, Jr., Shannon Menapace, Erin Gloth, and Christine Drexel as Substituted Trustees, the Substituted Trustees will offer for sale at public auction, at the Courthouse Door, Snow Hill, Maryland on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 11:00 AM: All that lot of ground and the improvements thereon situate in Worcester County, State of Maryland, as described in the Deed of Trust recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County, in Liber 4933, folio 239, and re-recorded in Liber 4986, folio 383, also being further described in a Deed recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 4933, folio 236. The improvements thereon consist of a dwelling. The property will be sold in “AS IS” condition, subject to any existing building violations, restrictions and agreements of record. Neither the Substituted Trustees nor their respective agents, successors or assigns make any representations or warranties, either expressed or implied with respect to the property. The Substituted Trustees shall convey insurable title.

TERMS OF THE SALE: A deposit in a form acceptable to the Substituted Trustee in the amount of $20,000.00 will be required of the purchaser, other than the Holder of the Note or its assigns, at the time and place of sale. Unless the purchaser is the Holder of the Note or its assigns, the balance of the purchase price shall be paid immediately with available funds within twenty (20) days of the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Worcester County. Time is of the essence. The purchaser, other than the Holder of the Note or its assigns, shall pay interest at the rate of 10.12500% per annum on the unpaid portion of the purchase price from the date of sale to date of settlement. Real property taxes and assessments shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser.

Ground rent, water and/or sewer charges public or private, if any, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser.

Cost of all documentary stamps and transfer taxes shall be paid by the purchaser. Purchaser shall have the responsibility of obtaining possession of the property. In the event settlement is delayed for any reason, there shall be no abatement of interest. If the purchaser defaults, the entire deposit is forfeited. The Substituted Trustees shall resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser.

The defaulting purchaser shall be liable for the payment of any deficiency in the purchase price, all costs and expenses of both sales, attorney fees, all other charges due, and incidental and

consequential damages. In the event the Substituted Trustees do not convey title for any reason, purchaser’s sole remedy is return of the deposit. The Substituted Trustees shall have the right to terminate this contract in the event the Holder or its Servicer has entered into any agreement with, or accepted funds from, the mortgagor.

Upon termination of the contract, Purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of the deposit. Thomas P. Dore, Mark S. Devan, Gerard F. Miles, Jr., Shannon Menapace, Erin Gloth, and Christine Drexel, Substituted Trustees Tidewater Auctions, LLC (410) 825-2900 www.tidewaterauctions.com A4317397 10/25/2012, 11/01/2012, 11/08/2012 OCD-10/25/3t ___________________________________ BWW Law Group, LLC 4520 East West Highway, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 961-6555

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 10237 BENT CREEK RD. OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Luigi A. Mollichelli and Giselle Leite dated May 24, 2005 and recorded in Liber 4445, Folio 180 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, with an original principal balance of $328,000.00 and an original interest rate of 5.750% default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, Snow Hill, on NOVEMBER 14, 2012 AT 2:00 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon situated in Worcester Co., MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust.

The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.

Terms of Sale: A deposit of $33,000 in cash, cashiers check or certified check is required at time of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of current real property taxes will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. All past due property taxes paid by the purchaser. All other public and/or private charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale to be paid by the purchaser. All transfer taxes shall be paid by the Purchaser. Purchaser shall pay all appli-

cable agricultural tax, if any. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within 10 days of ratification, the Sub. Trustees may file a motion to resell the property. If Purchaser defaults under these terms, deposit shall be forfeited. The Sub. Trustees may then resell the property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. The defaulted purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. If Sub. Trustees are unable to convey either insurable or marketable title, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of the deposit without interest.

Howard N. Bierman, Jacob Geesing, Carrie M. Ward, David W. Simpson, Jr., Substitute Trustees OCD-10/25/3t ___________________________________ BWW Law Group, LLC 4520 East West Highway, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 961-6555

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 106 120TH ST., UNIT #404 A/R/T/A 106 EDWARD TAYLOR RD., UNIT #404 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Daryll L. Grabek dated May 17, 2007 and recorded in Liber 4932, Folio 626 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, with an original principal balance of $245,000.00 and an original interest rate of 6.375% default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, Snow Hill, on NOVEMBER 14, 2012 AT 2:10 PM

money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of current real property taxes will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. All past due property taxes paid by the purchaser. All other public and/or private charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale to be paid by the purchaser. All transfer taxes shall be paid by the Purchaser. Purchaser shall pay all applicable agricultural tax, if any.

Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within 10 days of ratification, the Sub. Trustees may file a motion to resell the property. If Purchaser defaults under these terms, deposit shall be forfeited. The Sub. Trustees may then resell the property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. The defaulted purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. If Sub. Trustees are unable to convey either insurable or marketable title, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of the deposit without interest.

Howard N. Bierman, Jacob Geesing, Carrie M. Ward, David W. Simpson, Jr., Substitute Trustees OCD-10/25/3t ___________________________________ Morris/Hardwick/Schneider 9409 Philadelphia Road Baltimore, MD 21237 410-284-9600

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY

ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon situated in Worcester Co., MD and described as Unit No. 404, Phase I, in the Marlin Cove Condominium and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust.

The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.

Terms of Sale: A deposit of $26,000 in cash, cashiers check or certified check is required at time of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase

504 ROBIN DR., UNIT #67 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Cathryn G. Pena, dated August 31, 2006 and recorded in Liber 4852, folio 522 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, Snow Hill, on NOVEMBER 13, 2012 AT 12:45 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF

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Legal Notices GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON situated in Worcester Co., MD and described as Unit No. 67, in the “Bayshore Condominium” and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property is improved by a dwelling.

The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.

Terms of Sale: A deposit of $14,000 by cash or certified check. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within 10 days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Worcester Co. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. If the purchaser fails to settle within the aforesaid ten (10) days of ratification, the purchaser relinquishes their deposit and the SubTrustees may file an appropriate motion with the court to resell the property. Purchaser waives personal service of any paper filed with the Court in connection with such motion and any Show Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees to accept service of any such paper or Order by certified mail and regular mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser and as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that actual receipt of the certified mail is not required for service to be effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the deposit shall be forfeited to the SubTrustees and all expenses of this sale (including attorney fees and full commission on the gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged against and paid from the forfeited deposit. In the event of resale the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of the property regardless of any improvements made to the real property.

Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate of 7.375% per annum from the date of sale to the date the funds are received in the office of the Sub-Trustees. Taxes, ground rent, water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. Purchaser shall be responsible for physical possession of the property.

Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the date of sale forward. The sale is subject to post sale audit by the Noteholder to determine whether the borrower entered into any repayment/forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid off prior to the sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees that upon notification by the SubTrustees of such event the sale is null and void and of no legal effect and the deposit returned without interest. If the Sub-Trustees are unable to convey either insurable or good and marketable title, or the sale is not ratified for any reason by the Circuit Court including errors made by the SubTrustees, the purchaser’s sole remedy at law or in equity shall be limited to a

refund of the deposit without any interest.

Mark H. Wittstadt, Gerard Wm. Wittstadt, Jr., Deborah A. Hill, Sub. Trustees ALEX COOPER AUCTS., INC. 908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204 410-828-4838 OCD-10/25/3t ___________________________________ BWW Law Group, LLC 4520 East West Highway, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 961-6555

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 309 BAY SHORE DR., UNIT #6 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Rebecca F. Rotman dated January 4, 2005 and recorded in Liber 4623, Folio 333 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, with an original principal balance of $144,000.00 and an original interest rate of 7.0000% default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, Snow Hill, on NOVEMBER 14, 2012 AT 2:20 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon situated in Worcester Co., MD and described as Condominium Unit Number 6 in the “Bell Claire Condominium” and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust.

The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.

Terms of Sale: A deposit of $18,000 in cash, cashiers check or certified check is required at time of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of current real property taxes will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. All past due property taxes paid by the purchaser. All other public and/or private charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale to be paid by the purchaser. All transfer taxes shall be paid by the Purchaser. Purchaser shall pay all applicable agricultural tax, if any.

Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower

entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within 10 days of ratification, the Sub. Trustees may file a motion to resell the property. If Purchaser defaults under these terms, deposit shall be forfeited. The Sub. Trustees may then resell the property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. The defaulted purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. If Sub. Trustees are unable to convey either insurable or marketable title, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of the deposit without interest.

Howard N. Bierman, Jacob Geesing, Carrie M. Ward, David W. Simpson, Jr., Substitute Trustees OCD-10/25/3t ___________________________________ BWW Law Group, LLC 4520 East West Highway, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 961-6555

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 11700 COASTAL HWY., UNIT #909 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Richard S. Lynard and Sheila L. Lynard dated November 24, 2004 and recorded in Liber 4310, Folio 384 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, with an original principal balance of $356,000.00 and an original interest rate of 3.500% default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, Snow Hill, on NOVEMBER 7, 2012 AT 2:00 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon situated in Worcester Co., MD and described as Unit No. T-909 in the Carousel Center Condominium and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust.

The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.

Terms of Sale: A deposit of $37,000 in cash, cashiers check or certified check is required at time of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE

FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of current real property taxes will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. All past due property taxes paid by the purchaser. All other public and/or private charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale to be paid by the purchaser. All transfer taxes shall be paid by the Purchaser. Purchaser shall pay all applicable agricultural tax, if any.

Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within 10 days of ratification, the Sub. Trustees may file a motion to resell the property. If Purchaser defaults under these terms, deposit shall be forfeited. The Sub. Trustees may then resell the property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. The defaulted purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. If Sub. Trustees are unable to convey either insurable or marketable title, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of the deposit without interest.

Howard N. Bierman, Jacob Geesing, Carrie M. Ward, David W. Simpson, Jr., Substitute Trustees OCD-10/18/3t ___________________________________ BWW Law Group, LLC 4520 East West Highway, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 961-6555

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 16 DECATUR ST. BERLIN, MD 21811 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Shireen Ramadan dated August 5, 2003 and recorded in Liber 3828, Folio 566 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, with an original principal balance of $111,500.00 and an original interest rate of 5.000% default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, Snow Hill, on NOVEMBER 7, 2012 AT 2:10 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon situated in Worcester Co., MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust.

The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, re-

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Terms of Sale: A deposit of $7,000 in cash, cashiers check or certified check is required at time of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of current real property taxes will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. All past due property taxes paid by the purchaser. All other public and/or private charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale to be paid by the purchaser. All transfer taxes shall be paid by the Purchaser. Purchaser shall pay all applicable agricultural tax, if any.

Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within 10 days of ratification, the Sub. Trustees may file a motion to resell the property. If Purchaser defaults under these terms, deposit shall be forfeited. The Sub. Trustees may then resell the property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. The defaulted purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. If Sub. Trustees are unable to convey either insurable or marketable title, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of the deposit without interest.

Howard N. Bierman, Jacob Geesing, Carrie M. Ward, David W. Simpson, Jr., Substitute Trustees OCD-10/18/3t ___________________________________ McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC 312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800 Laurel, Maryland 20707 www.mwc-law.com

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 10330 HARRISON RD. BERLIN, MD 21811 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Matthew J. Schiftic and Robin Schiftic, dated December 28, 2007 and recorded in Liber 5042, folio 712 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, default

having occurred under the terms thereof and at the request of the parties secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, Snow Hill, on

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ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON situated in Worcester Co., Maryland and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property is improved by a dwelling.

The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions, easements, encumbrances and agreements of record affecting the subject property, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.

Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier’s or certified check, or in such other form as the Substitute Trustees may determine, at their sole discretion, for $18,000 at the time of sale. If the noteholder and/or servicer is the successful bidder, the deposit requirement is waived. Balance of the purchase price is to be paid within fifteen (15) days of the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase price at the rate of 8% per annum from date of sale to the date the funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased by an entity other than the noteholder and/or servicer. If payment of the balance does not occur within fifteen days of ratification, the deposit will be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event settlement is delayed for any reason. Taxes, ground rent, water rent, and all other public charges and assessments payable on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges to be adjusted for the current year to the date of sale, and assumed thereafter by the purchaser.

Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground rent escrow, if required. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes, and all settlement charges shall be borne by the purchaser. If the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of the deposit to the purchaser. Upon refund of the deposit, the sale shall be void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the Substitute Trustees. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. The purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for the property immediately after the sale. (Matter #2012-24041) Laura H. G. O’Sullivan, Erin M. Brady, Diana C. Theologou, Laura L. Latta, Jonathan Elefant, Laura T. Curry, Benjamin Smith, Chasity Brown, Substitute Trustees ALEX COOPER AUCTS., INC. 908 YORK ROAD, TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 410-828-4838 OCD-10/11/3t ___________________________________

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE 101 DAVIS CT. BERLIN, MD 21811 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Lizabeth C. Lind and Gordon P. Harrington dated March 26, 2008 and recorded in Liber 5082, Folio 621 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, with an original principal balance of $308,000.00 and an original interest rate of 5.37500% default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, Snow Hill, on OCTOBER 31, 2012 AT 2:00 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon situated in Worcester Co., MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust.

The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.

Terms of Sale: A deposit of $33,000 in cash, cashiers check or certified check is required at time of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of current real property taxes will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. All past due property taxes paid by the purchaser. All other public and/or private charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale to be paid by the purchaser. All transfer taxes shall be paid by the Purchaser. Purchaser shall pay all applicable agricultural tax, if any.

Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within 10 days of ratification, the Sub. Trustees may file a motion to resell the property. If Purchaser defaults under these terms, deposit shall be forfeited. The Sub. Trustees may then re-

sell the property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. The defaulted purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. If Sub. Trustees are unable to convey either insurable or marketable title, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of the deposit without interest.

Howard N. Bierman, Jacob Geesing, Carrie M. Ward, David W. Simpson, Jr., Substitute Trustees OCD-10/11/3t ___________________________________ BWW Law Group, LLC 4520 East West Highway, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 961-6555

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 13 71ST ST., UNIT #B OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Jacqueline Marie Cipriano dated November 28, 2006 and recorded in Liber 4833, Folio 438 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, with an original principal balance of $585,000.00 and an original interest rate of 4.11% default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, Snow Hill, on OCTOBER 31, 2012 AT 2:10 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon situated in Worcester Co., MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust.

The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.

Terms of Sale: A deposit of $65,000 in cash, cashiers check or certified check is required at time of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of current real property taxes will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. All past due property taxes paid by the purchaser. All other public and/or private charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale to be paid by the purchaser. All transfer taxes shall be paid by the Purchaser. Purchaser shall pay all applicable agricultural tax, if any.

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Howard N. Bierman, Jacob Geesing, Carrie M. Ward, David W. Simpson, Jr., Substitute Trustees OCD-10/11/3t ___________________________________

PUBLIC NOTICE THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF OCEAN CITY WILL HOLD A GENERAL ELECTION ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2012. AT THAT ELECTION THERE WILL BE PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED FOR DETERMINATION BY THE VOTERS. A FAIR SUMMARY OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS IS AS FOLLOWS: THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS AUTHORIZES THE COUNCIL TO ENGAGE IN COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WITH ALL TOWN DEPARTMENTS, IN ADDITION TO THOSE DEPARTMENTS CURRENTLY LISTED, AND WOULD ELIMINATE THE PROHIBITIONS AND PENALTIES FOR ENGAGING IN COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. NEW MATTER TO BE ADDED TO THE CHARTER IS PRINTED IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS AND IS UNDERSCORED. CURRENT MATTER TO BE DELETED IS ENCLOSED BY BOLD FACED DOUBLE PARENTHESES. To amend Article X, Section C-1003 of the town charter – Merit system authorized: right of certain employees to organize and bargain collectively, paragraph C, to include all Town Departments. C. The Council shall have the authority to recognize and engage in collective bargaining with one or more designed bargaining representatives of certain employees of the emergency

medical services division of the Ocean City Department of Emergency Services, ((and)) the Ocean City Fire Marshal’s Department, AND ALL OTHER TOWN DEPARTMENTS, and shall have the authority to enter into a binding collective bargaining agreement with said representatives, and shall further have the authority to enact by ordinance or amendment, a system of rules and regulations to govern this process, provided that the Council shall not have the authority to participate in binding interest arbitration with respect to these employees.

“Binding interest arbitration” shall be defined herein as the process through which parties negotiating a collective bargaining agreement reach impasse on one or more terms, and call upon a third party to resolve the impasse and set a term of the collective bargaining agreement to which the parties are bound. Binding interest arbitration includes the impasse panel process described in § C-1003.B. Additionally, to amend Article X, Section § C1005 of the town charter by deletion of paragraph B - Prohibitions and penalties. ((B. No union, association, club, etc., or other collective bargaining organization shall be recognized as a bargaining agent or representative of any city employee, group of city employees or all of the city employees. No dues check off or other withholding of a portion of an employee’s salary shall be permitted except to the extent same is mandatorily required by federal or state tax or social security provisions or other federal or state laws and except to the extent that a program of employee benefits sponsored by the city may allow voluntary withholdings.

The provisions of this subsection are not applicable to employees of the Ocean City Police Department, the Emergency Medical Services Division of the Ocean City Department of Emergency Services, and the Ocean City Fire Marshal’s Department, as determined by the Council.))

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NOTICE OF INTRODUCTION OF BILL 12-5 WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Take Notice that Bill 12-5 entitled AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE AND EMPOWER THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND TO BORROW ON ITS FULL FAITH AND CREDIT, AND TO ISSUE AND SELL ITS GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND ITS BOND ANTICIPATION NOTES THEREFOR, AT ONE TIME OR FROM TIME TO TIME WITHIN FOUR YEARS FROM THE DATE THIS BILL BECOMES EFFECTIVE, IN AN AMOUNT NOT EXCEEDING $6,200,000, TO FINANCE OR REFINANCE (1) THE PREPAYMENT OF ALL OR A PORTION OF THE COUNTY’S OUTSTANDING SPECIAL ACCRUED LIABILITY CONTRIBUTIONS RESULTING FROM THE TRANSFER OF THE CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS OF THE WORCESTER COUNTY JAIL TO THE CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS

RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND ON JULY 1, 2008, TOGETHER WITH ANY PREPAYMENT PREMIUMS AND/OR ACCRUED INTEREST, AND (2) THE REIMBURSEMENT TO THE COUNTY OF SPECIAL ACCRUED LIABILITY CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SUCH PLAN WHICH ARE PAYABLE

BY THE COUNTY AFTER THE DATE THIS BILL BECOMES EFFECTIVE; AND INCLUDING PAYMENT OF ALL RELATED COSTS AND COSTS OF ISSUANCE OF SUCH BONDS was introduced by Commissioners Boggs, Bunting, Church, Gulyas, Lockfaw, Purnell and Shockley on October 2, 2012.

A fair summary of the bill is as follows: APPENDIX "HH" BOND AUTHORIZATION TO FINANCE OR REFINANCE (1) THE PREPAYMENT OF ALL OR A PORTION OF THE COUNTY’S OUTSTANDING SPECIAL ACCRUED LIABILITY CONTRIBUTIONS RESULTING FROM THE TRANSFER OF THE CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS OF THE WORCESTER COUNTY JAIL TO THE CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND ON JULY 1, 2008, TOGETHER WITH ANY PREPAYMENT PREMIUMS AND/OR ACCRUED INTEREST, AND (2) THE REIMBURSEMENT TO THE COUNTY OF SPECIAL ACCRUED LIABILITY CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SUCH PLAN WHICH ARE PAYABLE BY THE COUNTY AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS LOCAL LAW. (a) Recites legal authorization for borrowing; recites Resolution No. 0810 of the Commissioners withdrawing the Correctional Officers of the Worcester County Jail from the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System Contributory Pension Plan and transferring said officers to the Correctional Officers Retirement System of the State of Maryland (CORS) on July 1, 2008 and referencing the unfunded actuarial accrued liability of $4,667,231 which resulted from the transfer and was to be paid with interest by level annual payments of $412,245 for a 25-year period, commencing December 31, 2008; and recites the determination of the Commissioners to borrow not more than $6,200,000 through general obligation bonds to finance or refinance (1) the prepayment of all or a portion of the County’s outstanding special accrued liability contributions resulting from the transfer of the Correctional Officers of the Worcester County Jail to the Correctional Officers Retirement System of the State of Maryland on July 1, 2008, together with any prepayment premiums and/or accrued interest, and (2) the reimbursement to the County of special accrued liability contributions for such plan which are payable by the County after the effective date of this Local Law. (b) Declares that the County is obligated to pay to the CORS the remaining 21 CORS special accrued liability contributions in the aggregate amount of $8,657,145; declares that the County’s financial advisor, Davenport & Company LLC, has advised that the County may be able to realize significant savings by issuing its general obligation bonds for the purposes of financing or refinancing the CORS

Prepayment and Reimbursement; declares that the funds to be borrowed can be provided at the lowest annual interest rate and cost of issuance by the issuance of general obligation bonds by the County; and declares that financing or refinancing the CORS Prepayment and Reimbursement is a proper public purpose which may be financed by the issuance of bonds. (c) Authorizes the County to borrow $6,200,000 by issuance of bonds. (d) Provides that the proceeds of the bonds shall be for the purpose of financing or refinancing the CORS Prepayment and Reimbursement, and related costs. (e) Provides that the County shall levy annual property taxes sufficient to pay the principal and interest on the bonds due each year. (f) Authorizes the issuance of Bond Anticipation Notes. (g) Provides that before the issuance of any bonds, the Commissioners shall adopt a Resolution which describes the amount, purpose and form of the bonds and other matters relating to the issuance of the bonds. (h) Provides that the bonds shall constitute a pledge of the full faith and credit of the County. (i) Provides that the bonds may be sold either at private sale or at public sale as determined by the County Commissioners. (j) Provides that the bonds shall be exempt from certain provisions of Article 31 of the Annotated Code of Maryland. (k) Provides that the County may enter into agreements to enhance the marketability of the bonds. (l) Provides that the signature of the officer that appears on the bonds shall be valid even if that officer ceases to be an officer before delivery of the bonds. (m) Provides that upon delivery of the bonds to the purchaser, payment shall be made to the Finance Officer of the County. (n) Authorizes the issuance of interim certificates or temporary bonds. (o) Provides that the authorities set forth in this law are supplemental to existing authorities. (p) Provides for severability provisions.

A Public Hearing will be held on Bill 12-5 at the Commissioners' Meeting Room, Room 1101 - Government Center, One West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland, on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 11:00 a.m.

This is only a fair summary of the bill. A full copy of the bill is posted on the Legislative Bulletin Board in the main hall of the Worcester County Government Center outside Room 1103, is available for public inspection in Room 1103 of the Worcester County Government Center and is available on the County Website at http://www.co.worcester.md.us/commissioners/legsltn.aspx .

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Legal Notices Estate No. 14842 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF PAULINE E. BABB Notice is given that Daniel Cathell, 10523 Woodlawn Road, Berlin, MD 21811 and Georgina Cathell, 10523 Woodlawn Road, Berlin, MD 21811, were on October 05, 2012 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Pauline E. Babb who died on July 9, 2012, with a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 5th day of April, 2013.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Daniel Cathell Georgina Cathell Personal Representatives True Test Copy Charlotte K. Cathell Register of Wills Worcester County Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of newspaper designated by personal representative: Ocean City Digest Date of publication: October 11, 2012 OCD-10/11/3t ___________________________________

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Estate No. 14873 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF JOSEPHINE A. LIEBERT Notice is given that Jacqueline Spitzer, 9507 Country Roads Lane, Manassas, VA 20112, was on October 05, 2012 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Josephine A. Liebert who died on September 4, 2012, with a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or

before the 5th day of April, 2013.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Jacqueline Spitzer Personal Representative True Test Copy Charlotte K. Cathell Register of Wills Worcester County Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of newspaper designated by personal representative: Ocean City Digest Date of publication: October 11, 2012 OCD-10/18/3t ___________________________________ Rosenberg & Associates, LLC 7910 Woodmont Avenue Suite 750 Bethesda, Maryland 20814 (301) 907-8000 Diane S. Rosenberg Mark D. Meyer John A. Ansell, III Stephanie Montgomery Kenneth Savitz 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 750 Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Substitute Trustees Plaintiff(s) v.

Shane L. Sales Amber L. Sales 3306 Johnson Road Pocomoke City, MD 21851 Defendant(s) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND Case No. 23C12000713

NOTICE Notice is hereby given this 11th day of October, 2012 by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, that the sale of 3306 Johnson Road, Pocomoke City, MD 21851, made and reported, will be ratified and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 12th day of November, 2012, provided a copy of this notice be inserted in a weekly newspaper printed in said County, once in each of three successive weeks before the 5th day of November, 2012.

The Report of Sale states the amount of the foreclosure sale price to be $93,500.00.

Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, MD True Copy Test: Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court

Worcester County, Md. OCD-10/18/3t ___________________________________ WORCESTER COUNTY SHORELINE COMMISSION

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS Pursuant to the provisions of Sections 3-101 and 3-102 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Worcester County, Maryland, notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be conducted by the Worcester County Shoreline Commission in the meeting room at the Ocean Pines Branch of the Worcester County Library, 11107 Cathell Road, Berlin, Maryland on Thursday, November 1, 2012. The Board members will convene at 1:30 p.m. to discuss administrative matters and may perform on-site viewing of all or some of the following cases. Thereafter, the members will reconvene at 2:00 p.m. at the library to hear the scheduled cases.

MAJOR CONSTRUCTION MAJOR 1 J. Stacey Hart and Associates, Inc. on behalf of Martin and Anna Cowan—Request No. 2012-73—Request to relocate existing PWC lift and existing boat lift, construct 6’ x 10’ pier extension and install four (4) mooring pilings not to exceed 23’ channelward.

This project is located at 18 N. Pintail Dr., also known as Tax Map 16, Parcel 50, Section 14A, Lot 80, Ocean Pines, Third Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland.

MAJOR 2 J. Stacey Hart and Associates, Inc. on behalf of Pines Point Marina—Request No. 2012-74—Request to install five (5) mooring pilings adjacent to existing dock not to exceed 17’ channelward from existing dock. The project is located at Pines Point Marina, also known as Tax Map 16, Parcel 113, Ocean Pines, Third Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland.

MAJOR 3 J. Stacey Hart and Associates, Inc. on behalf of Michael and Lois Manning –Request No. 2012-75 – Request to remove existing pier and replace with 6’ x 26’ pier with 6’ x 12’ “T” and install one (1) boatlift and associated pilings not to exceed 26’ channelward. This project is located at 33 Moonshell Dr., also known as Tax Map 16, Parcel 41, Section 4, Lot 157, Ocean Pines, Third Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland.

MAJOR 4 Hidden Oak Farm, LLC on behalf of Kurtis Miller –Request No. 2012-76 – Request to install two (2) PWC lifts with associated pilings along existing dock not to exceed 12’ channelward.

This project is located at 12401 Meadow Dr., also known as Tax Map 33, Parcel 346, Lot 35, Snug Harbor, Tenth Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland.

OCD-10/18/2t ___________________________________ Paul J. Schwab, III, Esp. Azrael, Franz, Schwab & Lipowitz, LLC 101 E. Chesapeake Avenue 5th Floor Baltimore, Maryland 21286

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE

ESTATE NO. 14881 NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Circuit Court of Sarasota County, Florida appointed Amy Coughlin, 706 Oakwood Avenue, Dayton, Ohio 45419 as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Diane H. Fritschle who died on June 30, 2012 domiciled in Florida, United States of America.

The Maryland resident agent for service of process is Paul J. Schwab, III whose address is 101 E. Chesapeake Avenue, 5th Floor, Baltimore, Maryland 21286.

At the time of death, the decedent owned real or leasehold property in the following Maryland counties: Worcester County.

All persons having claims against the decedent must file their claims with the Register of Wills for Worcester County with a copy to the foreign personal representative on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Two months after the foreign personal representative mails or delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claim within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. Claims filed after that date or after a date extended by law will be barred.

Amy Coughlin Foreign Personal Representative Charlotte K. Cathell Register of Wills Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of newspaper designated by personal representative: Ocean City Digest Date of first publication: 10-18-2012 OCD-10/18/3t ___________________________________ Morris/Hardwick/Schneider, LLC 9409 Philadelphia Road Baltimore, Maryland 21237 MARK H. WITTSTADT GERARD WM. WITTSTADT, JR. DEBORAH A. HILL Substitute Trustees 9409 Philadelphia Road Baltimore, Maryland 21237 V Urika V. Mumford 9703 Peerless Road Bishopville, Maryland 21813 Defendant IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY CASE # 23-C-12-000196

NOTICE ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County this 12th day of October, 2012, that the foreclosure sale of the real property know as 9703 Peerless Road, Bishopville, Maryland 21813, being the property mentioned in these proceedings, made and reported by Mark H. Wittstadt, Gerard Wm. Wittstadt, Jr., and Deborah A. Hill, Substitute Trustees, be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 12th day of November, 2012. Provided a copy of this Order is inserted in some weekly newspaper printed in Worcester County, once in

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The Report states the amount of the Foreclosure Sale to be $146,026.60.

Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court of Worcester County, Maryland True Copy Test: Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, Md. OCD-10/18/3t ___________________________________

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Design, Supply and Installation of Playground Equipment and Metal Pavilion at Girdletree Park Worcester County, Maryland The Worcester County Commissioners are currently accepting proposals for the design, supply and installation of playground equipment and a metal pavilion at Girdletree Park, 5841 Box Iron Road, Girdletree, Maryland 21863 for the Worcester County Recreation and Parks Department. Proposal specification packages and proposal forms are available from the Office of the County Commissioners, Room 1103 Worcester County Government Center, One West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland 21863, obtained online at www.co.worcester.md.us, or by calling the Commissionersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Office at 410-6321194 to request a package by mail.

While a formal pre-proposal meeting will not be held, it is strongly suggested that interested vendors visit the site prior to submitting their proposal.

Tours may be coordinated by contacting Bill Rodriguez, Parks Superintendent, at 410-632-3173. Sealed proposals will be accepted until 1:00 PM, Tuesday, November 13, 2012 in the Office of the County Commissioners at the above address, at which time they will be opened and publicly read aloud.

Envelopes shall be marked "Proposal for John Walter Smith Park Playground Equipment" in the lower lefthand corner. After opening, proposals will be forwarded to the Recreation and Parks Department for tabulation, review and recommendation to the County Commissioners for their consideration at a future meeting. In awarding the proposal, the Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all proposals, waive formalities, informalities and technicalities therein, and to take whatever proposal they determine to be in the best interest of the County considering lowest or best proposal, quality of goods and work, time of delivery or completion, responsibility of vendors being considered, previous experience of vendors with County contracts, or any other factors they deem appropriate. All inquiries shall be directed to Bill Rodriguez, Parks Superintendent, at 410-632-3173.

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Design, Supply and Installation of Playground Equipment at John Walter Smith Park Worcester County, Maryland The Worcester County Commissioners are currently accepting proposals for the design, supply and installation

of playground equipment at John Walter Smith Park, 6022 Public Landing Road, Snow Hill, Maryland 21863 for the Worcester County Recreation and Parks Department. Proposal specification packages and proposal forms are available from the Office of the County Commissioners, Room 1103 - Worcester County Government Center, One West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland 21863, obtained online at www.co.worcester.md.us, or by calling the Commissionersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Office at 410-6321194 to request a package by mail.

While a formal pre-proposal meeting will not be held, it is strongly suggested that interested vendors visit the site prior to submitting their proposal.

Tours may be coordinated by contacting Bill Rodriguez, Parks Superintendent, at 410-632-3173. Sealed proposals will be accepted until 1:00 PM, Tuesday, November 13, 2012 in the Office of the County Commissioners at the above address, at which time they will be opened and publicly read aloud.

Envelopes shall be marked "Proposal for John Walter Smith Park Playground Equipment" in the lower lefthand corner. After opening, proposals will be forwarded to the Recreation and Parks Department for tabulation, review and recommendation to the County Commissioners for their consideration at a future meeting. In awarding the proposal, the Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all proposals, waive formalities, informalities and technicalities therein, and to take whatever proposal they determine to be in the best interest of the County considering lowest or best proposal, quality of goods and work, time of delivery or completion, responsibility of vendors being considered, previous experience of vendors with County contracts, or any other factors they deem appropriate. All inquiries shall be directed to Bill Rodriguez, Parks Superintendent, at 410-632-3173.

OCD-10/25/1t ___________________________________ Morris/Hardwick/Schneider, LLC 9409 Philadelphia Road Baltimore, Maryland 21237 MARK H. WITTSTADT GERARD WM. WITTSTADT, JR. DEBORAH A. HOLLOWAY HILL Substitute Trustees 9409 Philadelphia Road Baltimore, Maryland 21237 V Deborah D. Everett Michael Everett 102 Washington Street Berlin, Maryland 21811 Defendant IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY CASE #23-C-12-000909

NOTICE ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County this 17th day of October, 2012, that the foreclosure sale of the real property known as 102 Washington Street, Berlin, Maryland 21811, being the property mentioned in these proceedings, made and reported by Mark H. Wittstadt, Gerard Wm. Wittstadt, Jr., and Deborah A. Holloway Hill, Substitute Trustees, be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 19th day of November, 2012. Provided a copy of this Order is inserted in some weekly newspaper printed in Worcester County, once in each of three succes-

sive weeks, before the 12th day of November, 2012.

The Report states the amount of the Foreclosure Sale to be $210,000.00.

Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court of Worcester County, Maryland True Copy Test: Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, Md. OCD-10/25/3t ___________________________________ JAMES E. CLUBB, JR., ESQ. 108 N. 8TH STREET OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND 21842 LIGHTHOUSE POINT VILLAS TIME-SHARE OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. c/o Paradise Properties, Inc. 12505 Coastal Highway, Suite 11 Ocean City, MD 21842 Plaintiff vs.

BENSON, JOHN T. et al.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY STATE OF MARYLAND CASE NO. 23-C-12-0981

NOTICE ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland this 17th day of October, 2012, that the foreclosure sale of the properties mentioned in these proceedings, made and reported by James E. Clubb, Jr., Trustee, be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 19th day of November, 2012 provided a copy of this order be inserted in some weekly newspaper printed in Worcester County, Maryland once in each of three successive weeks, before the 12th day of November, 2012.

The Report of Sale filed in the above case states the amount of the sales to be as indicated below for the referenced time-share intervals: Timeshare Price Wk 9, #2 $50.00 Wk 14, #2 $50.00 Wk 4, #5 $50.00 Wk 36, #5 $50.00 Wk 40, #5 $50.00 Wk 2, #6 $50.00 Wk 42, #7 $50.00 Wk 44, #10 $50.00 Wk 2, #12 $50.00 Stephen V. Hales Clerk True Copy Test: Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, Md. OCD-10/25/3t ___________________________________ JAMES E. CLUBB, JR., ESQ. 108 N. 8TH STREET OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND 21842 COUNCIL OF UNIT OWNERS OF OCEAN TIME CONDOMINIUM, INC. c/o Paradise Properties, Inc. 12505 Coastal Highway, Suite 11 Ocean City, MD 21842 Plaintiff v.

BEHRENS, HERBERT T. VIRGINIA S. et al.

Defendants IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY STATE OF MARYLAND CASE NO. 23-C-12-0980

NOTICE ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland this 18th day of October, 2012, that the foreclosure sale of the properties mentioned in these proceedings, made and reported by James E. Clubb, Jr., Trustee, be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 19th day of November, 2012 provided a copy of this order be inserted in some weekly newspaper printed in Worcester County, Maryland once in each of three successive weeks, before the 12th day of November, 2012.

The Report of Sale filed in the above case states the amount of the sales to be as indicated below for the referenced time-share intervals: Price Timeshare Wk 9, #201 $50.00 Wk 15, #201 $50.00 Wk 3, #203 $50.00 Wk 15, #206 $50.00 Wk 46, #206 $50.00 Wk 13, #301 $50.00 Wk 47, #301 $50.00 Wk 46, #303 $50.00 Wk 3, #304 $50.00 Wk 9, #401 $50.00 Wk 7, #402 $50.00 Wk 16, #402 $50.00 Wk 50, #402 $50.00 Wk 16, #403 $50.00 Wk 13, #406 $50.00 Wk 2, #501 $50.00 Wk 46, #501 $50.00 Stephen V. Hales Clerk True Copy Test: Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, Md. OCD-10/25/3t ___________________________________

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING WORCESTER COUNTY BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS AGENDA

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2012 Pursuant to the provisions of the Worcester County Zoning Ordinance, notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held before the Board of Zoning Appeals for Worcester County, in the Board Room (Room 1102) on the first floor of the Worcester County Government Center, One West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland.

6:30 p.m.

Case No. 12-42, on the application of Russell Hammond Surveying, LLC., on the lands of Triple D Rentals, LLC., requesting a special exception to create a minor subdivision within the RP District on a dual zoned parcel designated as A-1 Agricultural District and RP Resource Protection District, pursuant to Zoning Code Sections ZS 1-116(c)(3), ZS 1-201(b)(6), ZS 1-215(c)(3), ZS 1-305 and ZS 1-311, located at 10507 Hotel Road, approximately 1,800 feet east of the intersection of Bishopville Road (MD Route 367) and Hotel Road, Tax Map 9, Parcel 146, Proposed Lot 1, in the Fifth Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland.

6:35 p.m.

Case No. 12-43, on the application of Maximilian Kurz, on the lands of Jeri Kurz, requesting an after-the-fact variance to further reduce the rear yard setback from 19.1 feet to 17.09 feet (a further encroachment of 2.01 feet) associated with a screen porch

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6:40 p.m.

Case No. 12-41, on the application of Glen DiEleuterio, on behalf of Eastern Shore Natural Gas, on the lands of Gloria Nolan and Carol Fulginiti, requesting a special exception for use of land for a public utility property, requesting a variance to reduce the Ordinance prescribed easterly side yard setback from 30 feet to 5 feet (an encroachment of 25 feet) and requesting a variance to reduce the Ordinance prescribed northerly side yard setback from 30 feet to 10 feet (an encroachment of 20 feet) and requesting a variance to reduce the Ordinance prescribed lot width from 100 feet to 0 feet (a reduction of 100 feet) associated with a proposed gas meter and regulating station in an A-1 Agricultural District, pursuant to Zoning Code Sections ZS 1-116(c)(3), ZS 1-116(c)(4), ZS 1-201(c)(23), ZS 1-305, ZS 1-306(a)(7) and ZS 1-325, located on the westerly side of Friendship Road (MD Route 452), approximately 700 feet south of the intersection of Griffin Road and Friendship Road, Tax Map 25, Parcel 134, in the Third Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland.

ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS OCD-10/25/2t ___________________________________

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS BOARD OF PORT WARDENS Pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 106, “Waterways,” Article II – “Shoreline Development” of the Code of the Town of Ocean City, Maryland, hereinafter referred to as the Code, same being the Port Wardens Ordinance of Ocean City, Maryland, notice is hereby given that public hearings

will be conducted in the Council Chambers of City Hall located at 301 Baltimore Avenue, Ocean City, MD Thursday, November 8th, 2012 At 2:00 PM A request has been submitted remove existing 20’ ”T” pier, to install 41’ of replacement vinyl bulkhead 18”channelward of existing bulkhead, to install a 4’ x 20’ pier (to connect to existing pier), to install a 5’ x 14’ parallel dock with steps down to pier, and to install batter piles vs. tie rods. The site of the proposed construction is described as being located at 638 Gulfstream Drive Parcel # 8020A-1505B7A-0 -0117-194377 in the Town of Ocean City, MD Applicant: Ocean Services of DE, INC Owner: Ray Lioli PW12-093 A request has been submitted to install a 5’x12’ pier extension, 2 - 3 mooring piles and a boatlift. The site of the proposed construction is described as being located at 105 Newport Bay Drive Unit D Parcel # 3667A-D1-5-0 0116-131952 in the Town of Ocean City, MD Applicant: Ocean Services of DE, INC Owner: Michael Moyer PW12-094 A request has been submitted to remove decking, stringers, headers on existing 5’ wide dock (leaving piles in place), to install 49’ of replacement vinyl bulkhead 18” channelward of existing bulkhead, to install new stringers, headers, decking on exisitng dock piles to install a 5’x10’ pier extension on a 6’ x 12’ “L” dock attached to install new decking on existing 25’ pier, and to install steps at dock to access pier. The site of the proposed construction is described as being located at 615 Harbour DR Parcel # 8020A1549B-8B-0 -0117-315131 in the Town of Ocean City, MD Applicant: Ocean Services of DE, INC Owner: Frank Torsella PW12-095 A request has been submitted to widen an existing 22” finger pier within slip #264 to a width of 42” and a maximum of 29’ channelward. The two (2) new piles at 20” will be completely within slip #264. The site of the proposed construction is described as being located at 203 125th St, Slip 264D Hidden Harbour V, in the Town of Ocean City, MD. Applicant: J. Stacey Hart & Associates, Inc. Owner: Ronald Rinaldo PW12-096 A request has been submitted to install one (1) boatlift with associated

pilings. The site of the proposed construction is described as being located at 10600 Point Lookout RD Parcel # 1720A-45-0 -0116-108896 in the Town of Ocean City, MD Applicant: J. Stacey Hart & Associates Inc. Owner: Patti Leonard, Virginia Stingers, John McKeown PW12-097 A request has been submitted to redeck an existing 4’ x 38’ dock and install a 10k lb. boatlift with all associated pilings. The site of the proposed construction is described as being located at 704 139th ST Parcel # 9461A-2-40- 3-0 -0118-178185 in the Town of Ocean City, MD Applicant: Bayshore Marine Construction Owner: Brian Hartz PW12-098 A request has been submitted to demo the existing parallel dock, and install 142’ of new vinyl replacement bulkhead, a 6’ x 33’ parallel dock, a 6’ x 26’ pier with one (1) boatlift with all associated poles for a maximum channelward extension of 35’. The site of the proposed construction is described as being located at 216 Kingfish ST Parcel # 3332 -66-0 -0111-041716 in the Town of Ocean City, MD Applicant: Hidden Oak Farms LLC Owner: Jeffrey Elms PW12-099 A request has been submitted to install 40’ of new vinyl replacement bulkhead, re-deck the existing parallel dock, and install (2) two boatlifts and two (2) PWC lifts with all associated poles for a maximum channelward of 36’. The site of the proposed construction is described as being located at 732 Gulfstream DR Parcel # 8020A1527B- 8C-0 -0117-318246 in the Town of Ocean City, MD Applicant: Hidden Oak Farms LLC Owner: David Jones PW12-100 Board of Port Wardens Blake McGrath, Chairman Valerie Gaskill, Attorney OCD-10/25/2t ___________________________________

thereafter then awarded at a future meeting of the Mayor and City Council. The work to be performed under this contract includes, in general: Demolition of the existing concrete and masonry restroom located at Caroline Street and the Boardwalk. The CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be examined in, or obtained from, the office of the City Engineer, located in City Hall Room 105, 3rd Street & Baltimore Avenue, Ocean City, Maryland 21842.

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HISTORIC DISTRICT COMMISSION November 7, 2012 – 5:30 PM Berlin Town Hall – Council Chambers 1. Call to Order 2. Agenda Adoption 3. Approval of Minutes: October 3, 2012 Regular Meeting 4. Applications: Case #11-7-12-41 Buckingham Presbyterian Church Accessory storage structure Case #11-7-12-42 A Little Bit Sheepish, 2 S. Main Street Sidewalk sign Case # 10-3-12-33 Zenna Wellness Studio – 10 S. Main Street Sidewalk sign Case #10-3-12-36 Siculi’s Restaurant – 104 N Main Street Sidewalk Sign Case #10-3-12-37 Tex Mex and Beyond – 119 N Main Street Sidewalk Sign Case #10-3-12-38 Main Street Deli – 10S Main Street Wood Screen Door, Signage

NOTICE Sealed bids for the of CAROLINE STREET STATION DEMOLITION will be accepted by the Office of the City Engineer until NOVEMBER 2, 2012 - 4:00 PM. The bids will be opened and read aloud immediately

Case #10-3-12-40 The Globe – 12 Broad Street Accessory building construction 5. Comments from the Public 6. Comments from Staff 7. Comments from the Commissioners 8. Comments from the Chairman 9. Adjournment OCD-10/25/1t ___________________________________

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