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NOVEMBER 13, 2015
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WINTERFEST OF LIGHTS Ocean City’s 23rd annual festival opens at Northside Park, Thursday, Nov. 19 – Page 37
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WORLD WAR II: A SHORE BOY WRITES HOME
As individuals, organizations and governments observed Veterans Day Wednesday with ceremonies, flags, salutes and remembrances, we publish a letter from a World War II Eastern Shore soldier who reflects on the nature of war from the GI's perspective. *** From Staff Sgt. Charles Williamson Jr. of Greensboro, Md. as printed in the Denton Journal, Jan. 26, 1945.
Somewhere in France 8 January 1945
To the Editor of the Denton Journal: Your kind invitation of November 20th came in the mail today. The mail, as you can see, is late these days. I'm sorry I missed the holiday issue. But as I sat huddled around our fire in the frosty air of winter in northern France, I thought I had a greeting for my friends and acquaintances of Denton. It isn't a Christmas greeting, I'm afraid. It's a greeting for any day of these troubled years. I'm not sure I could have written a Christmas greeting anyway, for Christmas greetings are joyful. These are bitter times for us on this side of the Atlantic. No, my greetings are not tinseled. They are sobered by nearly two years away from my home, sobered by the grim business of hating, and sobered by the utter reality of killing. I am not a be-medaled hero. No. Most of us aren't. It is not of that which I write. It's just that each of us over here in the ranks is a human being, just as much a human being as the newsboy on the corner, the man behind the See LET on Page 3
STEWART DOBSON/OCEAN CITY TODAY
POWER PROJECT A welder on First Street Wednesday afternoon assembles a pipe that will carry Delmarva Power lines under the bay. Reconstruction of the underwater crossing is the final phase of Delmarva Power’s upgrade of transmission infrastructure on the Route 50 corridor.
Wind farm site mostly empty Sea bed survey turns up little in way of marine life or archeological treasures
By Brian Gilliland Staff Writer (Nov. 13, 2015) After weeks of surveying the offshore area and mapping the sea floor, followed by months of interpreting data and polishing a formal report on the project, Paul Rich, director of project development at U.S. Wind, reports the Shearwater survey vessel didn’t find much of anything on the leased site of a proposed wind farm off the coast of Ocean City. The Shearwater, a 110-foot former Coast Guard cutter, was outfitted to
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serve as a geophysical acoustic survey vessel and spent weeks examining the site looking for evidence of archeological or biological importance this summer. According to Rich, the Shearwater found neither. “The sea bed … was found to be quite benign and basically featureless. Surface sediments in the area are composed of fine to coarse grained sand, with trace amounts of gravel,” Rich said in a release. “Small sand ripples are present throughout the area, with average wavelengths of less than one meter. Sub-surface sediments are dominated by sands, with occasional interlayers of clay and gravel. No natural or man-made haz-
ards were encountered, no shipwrecks were present and no archeological artifacts were found.” Shearwater discovered this by towing a magnetometer, a device used to locate ferrous metals, and a side-scan sonar to create images of the ocean floor. The two devices are about six feet in length and resemble action-movie torpedoes. They join side-mounted sensors attached to the Shearwater that can scan up to 200 meters on either side of the boat, but will be limited to about 50 to increase resolution. The Shearwater also carried a hydrophone array to listen for vocalizations of sea mammals, to begin the See SURVEY on Page 7
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