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Middle Schools Start Year with Three Police Officers

Armed Officers Pulled from Other Duties

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that happens, he said the force would be at full complement.

Evans said the three new school resource officers received training from the five officers already assigned. Additionally, he said they would receive special training outside the department in the upcoming months.

When Calvert County Public Schools (CCPS) began a new year on Tuesday, students were greeted with new security measures in some of the schools.

For middle schoolers, they will be seeing new armed deputies in their schools.

Three deputies have been assigned to the middle schools, as part of Sheriff Mike Evans’ plan to beef up security. The sheriff chose three deputies who were already sworn in and were assigned previously to other duties.

Evans told The County Times that one of the deputies had filled in previously as a school resource officer. The other two had no previous experience in the schools.

Last school year four armed police officers were Calvert County Sheriff Mike Evans assigned each to a high school, plus there was a supervisor for The three new deputies are being paid the school resource officer program. The out of the sheriff’s budget in positions three new officers bring the total school approved by the Calvert County Board resource officer contingent to eight. of County Commissioners. The schools Evans said all three of the new offi- additionally have 15 unarmed school cers were chosen for their ability to in- safety officers employed by the school teract with young people. He said they system. would be “randomly” rotated among the The school safety officers’ duties insix middle schools and only the school clude prevention of disruptive behavadministration would have the schedule, ior and investigation of such incidents. so as not to give someone with nefarious There had been a call last year in the intent the upper hand. wake of the Great Mills High School The switching of the three officers shootings to arm the safety officers, but from other duties does leave a hole in the School Superintendent Dr. Daniel Curry sheriff’s department workforce. Evans and the majority of the school board resaid nine trainees are now in the police mained steadfast against that. academy and they are expected to be ready to be assigned in January. When dickmyers@countytimes.net

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Back to School with PAC Pride

The PAC staff entertained the children with dancing during their trip through Chesapeake Ranch Estates.

By Dick Myers Editor Normally pep rallies are scheduled before sporting events during the school year. Patuxent/Appeal Campus (PAC) held one before school even started.

The day before the Labor Day weekend and the day before the official start of school, the staff of the combined elementary schools in Lusby gathered with a purpose. Their mission was to deliver school supplies in Chesapeake Ranch Estates. A secondary mission was to rev

up school spirit, or as the tee-shirts worn by everybody said: “PAC Pride.”

Before going out on their deliveries, staff gathered in the library of Appeal to practice their dance steps to entertain the kids along the route. School Principal Karen Vogel then gathered everyone together for a group shot.

Although there were only a small number of kids along the route of the two buses filled with teachers, administrators and other staff, the mission was deemed a success for an inaugural effort. And the kids receiving the supplies

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showed their delight with smiles while joining the older folks dancing to the music from a boom box.

Vogel said the supply delivery was just one of what she hoped would be improved community outreach. And she is looking for ideas from the community on how to do that.

The PAC complex came under fire last year at several school board meetings with criticisms from parents and teachers about disruptive discipline problems from some of the students there. The school this year, according to Vogel, has some extra funding to hire an additional social worker and they also are retaining two counselors. Additional supplemental monies from the school system (almost a half-million for eight schools) will be used for instructional coaches.

Vogel said: “We are all educators.”

She observed they are great at adressing math and reading problems of the children that are their charges for part of the day, but they often fall short on the emotional and social needs. She said hopefully the additional monies will help address that problem.

One teacher who has been at the school for 40 years said it was a good school.

First-year teacher Tim Contee hands out school supplies.

“These are our people” she said of the children and the adults who showed up a Chesapeake Ranch Estates.

It was an especially exciting start of school for Tim Contee, who attended Appeal Elementary and now is back for his first year of teaching Head Start at the same school. He helped distribute the school supplies to the kids.

Vogel said the supplies were donated by a whole host of community supporters, most notably Verizon and Olivet United Methodist Church.

After the bus trip a contingent of PAC staff assembled out on HG Truman Road to wave at passing cars. It was a friendly gesture to the entire community. dickmyers@countytimes.net

Environmental Advocates Press For Transit Alternatives

By Guy Leonard Staff Writer Rapidly growing Southern Maryland has a transportation problem, say officials with the Patuxent Tidewater Land Trust and the local Sierra Club, and they want community input on finding alternatives to traffic congestion and proliferation of vehicle emissions.

Citizens got a chance to voice those concerns at a forum Aug. 29 at the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum.

“Things are getting crowded down here,” said Frank Allen, president of the land trust, which is seeking to preserve rural land throughout the region. “If you widen the Thomas Johnson Bridge to a four lane span, would that actually accomplish anything?”

Allen said Route 4, if left in its current state on either end of the bridge in St. Mary’s or Calvert, would only cause more traffic woes with a four-lane bridge.

And widening Route 4, he said, would mean eventual widening of other roads elsewhere pushing the region’s traffic capacity to its limit.

“You can only widen so many roads before you run out of places to widen,” said Allen. “Maybe we need to change the funding formula from funding heavily for highways to funding heavily for mass transit.”

Rosa Hance, president of the Southern Maryland Sierra Club chapter, said forum attendees were concerned with

reducing traffic congestion but said the region needed more and different infrastructure to make that happen.

“We asked people what they would need to be persuaded to have a lower carbon footprint,” Hance told The County Times. “They talked about things like hybrid cars and electrically powered vehicles but they needed it to be affordable.”

This included charging stations for such vehicles, but they also said the region needed better mass transit.

Allen said heavy mass transit such as a rail line was likely not feasible for St. Mary’s and Calvert counties, but a bus service could work well, especially with conveniently placed stations.

“Everybody wants to live near one of these stations because services spring up around them,” Allen said. “It automatically happens when you have mass transit.”

Mass transit that focused on a bus service, perhaps starting as a commuter bus, would leave “a lighter footprint,” he said.

The availability of mass transit became more pressing, he said, since the population of Southern Maryland was aging.

“Not everybody is going to be able to drive themselves,” Allen said. “We need public transportation.” guyleonard@countytimes.net

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Parents Drop Public Schools After Multiple Issues Family’s Children Moved to Private School

By Dick Myers Editor Katy and John Blevins moved to Calvert County because of what they had been told about the quality of its public schools. As school starts this week, they have moved all three of their children to Calverton School in Huntingtown. The St. Leonard couple is in a war against the Calvert County Public Schools over the treatment of their daughter at Southern Middle School and what they perceive is the lack of discipline there.

Because of their concerns, in May, Mr. and Mrs. Blevins filed a freedom of information request for records on their daughter and also for the school system’s financial records. They received, after more than two months, 10.11 inches of documents, a disk and a bill for $5,400.

They believe they didn’t receive all of their requests, some of the responses were duplicates and they were severely overcharged based on the quantity they received and the amount of time it should have taken. They filed this week two complaints with the Office of the Public Information Act Compliance Board within the Maryland Attorney General’s Office and are also considering a law suit.

“We wanted communications that pertained to how Sarah was treated at Southern Middle School. We believe there was direction from somewhere up at the superintendent’s level…to try to kick it back to Southern and make it go away,” Katy Blevins said during an interview with The County Times.

Mrs. Blevins added that they requested school system financial records, “because we believe there is such dishonesty and abuse that has been directed towards students, teachers, and administrators.”

“This situation felt so malicious and dishonest, we know they were going to be irresponsible in regard to the communication and treatment of our daughter, that if we could enact rapid change, the best way would be to expose mismanagement across the board,” Mrs. Blevins said in further explaining their request of financial records. The records received are being placed on a website they’ve established: http://www.calvertedudocs. com/ John Blevins is a senior consultant with Microsoft, which has a contract with the Calvert County Public Schools. He said the schools did 58 separate searches to comply with their request instead of the one that was necessary, adding 18 hours to a task that could have been done in minutes.

How did things deteriorate so badly from those earlier expectations about the school system? The problems began last year in their daughter Sarah’s Spanish 1 class. The timeline of those problems was detailed in a 12-page letter to the

The Blevins family, left to right, Michael (15-10th grade), Katy, Sarah (13-8th grade), John and Andrew (9 - 4th grade). Courtesy of the family.

school board dated April 14, 2018 and then given in synopsis in person, during the public comment portion of a board meeting by the couple and their daughter.

The year-long problems in Sarah’s Spanish class were exacerbated by the turnover of teachers, four in all during the school year. At one point during the year the teacher suggested students use ear plugs to block out the disruption.

In the letter to the school board, the Blevins couple wrote that the disruptive student’s behavior included but was not limited to: “blasting loud music, playing the phone/computer, running around and in/out of the classroom, blocking doors, physically charging and attacking teachers and administrators, throwing items including desks and chairs, yelling, cursing and hurling inappropriate, perverted and pejorative slurs and threats.” When the problems began, Sarah’s parents advised her to begin taking contemporaneous notes, which she did.

Of the Spanish 1 class she found herself in, Sarah said, “I have always been in the honors classes. Spanish classes have a lot of students who don’t care about their work and have a lot of behavior issues. I’ve never been in a class like that until this year.”

“I said this is crazy. Everyone else seems to be used to it.”

From the first day of class, when he showed up 30 minutes late, the student described in her parent’s letter was a problem. After two months the class got its first permanent Spanish teacher. “She knew Spanish but she didn’t know how to discipline.”.

At one stretch, the student was sent to e office multiple days in a row and on the final day he came back to class with a large candy bar. “He was rewarded

for doing all those awful things,” Sarah observed.

There was an autistic boy in her Spanish class who had no problems in other classes, but when the disruptive boy took over, the autistic child “would curl up in a fetal position because he couldn’t handle it,” Sarah said.

A fourth teacher arrived on the scene in Spanish 1 in the third quarter. Sarah said over time the teacher started transferring the one student’s misbehavior onto all of them, saying to them, “You guys have the worst behaviors I have ever seen.”

A group of eight or 10 students who had been most vocal about the problem were then accused of bullying by the disruptive student. “He was smart. He reported us to the office as bullying him.”

Sarah said the accusations were leveled against them by the school safety officer, who investigated and found no justification, according to Mrs. Blevins. But the incident shook the students.

One day the same group of her classmates and she went to talk about the situation with the vice principal. “We all wanted to clear our names because we all knew we hadn’t done anything.”

And Sarah reported that he responded, “Well, what can you guys do to make it better? How can you handle the situation? How can you help it get better?”

They were taken aback that the problem was being turned around on them.

The family requested a meeting with the principal after the incident with the vice principal and after they got no satisfaction they sent the letter to the school board and pulled Sarah out of school.

She continued to do her course work at home and did complete the grade. For their action, Mrs. Blevins said the su-

perintendent threatened the family with a truancy action, but never followed through.

Mrs. Blevins said they have never had any contact from school board members about their complaints. She is highly critical of the administration of Southern Middle School and especially School Superintendent Dr. Daniel Curry, whom she alleged has orchestrated the inadequate and overcharged response to their requests. “He controls communications.

He doesn’t try to be transparent.”

In their missives, Mr. and Mrs. Blevins have taken pains not to paint a broadbrush attack against Sothern Middle School and the school system. “Southern has a lot of good teaches who do a lot of good,” they wrote to the school board.

The criticisms from the Blevins family weren’t the only heard by the school board. Multiple speakers, parents and teachers complained along with representatives of the Calvert Education Association, about discipline and security problems.

Towards the end of the last school year the school board grappled with potential changes in the code of conduct. Several wondered if the pendulum hadn’t swung too far towards protecting the disruptive students. But in the end, they made no changes to the policy.

After she left school Sarah was accepted into the Junior National Honor Society but she won’t be able to transfer that to Calverton. A lot of her friends are back at Southern starting 8th Grade.

“Sarah was devastated for a long time,” said Mrs. Blevins. “But with the coverup, we don’t trust them. We don’t want our kids to be anywhere where they can get them.” dickmyers@countytimes.net

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The ‘Iron Man’ Visits Solomons

Sheriff Mike Evans with his grandson Mason, 9, meet with Cal Ripkin, Jr.

By Dick Myers Editor The “Iron Man” is probably the most well-known and beloved sports figure in Maryland history. Cal Ripken, Jr. earned the title by playing 2,632 games in his 21 seasons as a Baltimore Oriole. Accomplishments include 19 times an All Star, two Most Valuable Player awards and two Gold Gloves for his third-base fielding prowess.

Ripken’s work in the community since his retirement has added to his resume of accomplishments. Most notable has been the formation of the Cal Ripkin, Sr. Foun-

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dation, named after his father, that “for the last 17 years has worked tirelessly to implement youth development programs and create parks that directly address the problems facing at-risk youth in distressed communities across the country,” according to information provided in advance of Ripken’s Aug. 29 appearance in Solomons.

The Ripken Foundation earlier this year partnered with Roy Rogers Restaurants to help celebrate its 50th anniversary. “They are helping our foundation and looking to grow and I am excited to be a part of it,” Ripken said.

One-hundred tickets were handed

out to customers of the restaurant for a chance to meet Cal and have him sign whatever they brought with them, and take pictures. After that it was first-come, first served. The line formed early and around the building.

After greeting fans for more than an hour, Ripkin went outside to play ball with some Little Leaguers and then to hop on a stage to address his fans and answer a few questions.

Often asked if someone else can accomplish his Iron Man feat, he noted you would have to play 17 years and a lot of things would have to go right. But he said he looks at it differently. “I did it so

surely someone else can,” he said. But, he also observed that the game has changed and there no longer is the expectancy of a player being in the lineup every day.

He said that during his time as an Oriole there were players who aspired to play a full season of 162 games. Brady Anderson did it one year and that was his best year, when he hit 50 home runs. “B.J. Surhoff also played 162 and had the best year of his career,” he added.

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find it’s possible, then it’s just a matter of your work ethic and going out and doing it all the time. I didn’t set out to break that record. It wasn’t my goal in life.” But, he said his manager put him in every day and then “it became a source of pride and for my team.”

“One of my proudest moments is that my team could count on me each and every day.” Being part of a team and teamwork leads to success, he added.

What has changed now is the expectancy of players being rested occasionally, such as when they are in a slump. But he said some players, such as Eddie Murray with whom he played, brought an intangible every day that left a gaping hole if he weren’t in the lineup.

Ripkin credited his family, most notably his parents, for helping out during that record playing streak. He said the greats, the inductees into the Hall of Fame, all while finding it difficult to hold back tears, credit their parents, teachers and coaches Ripkin said during his career the Orioles and Yankees were big rivals. And, as to an individual player, he always was intimidated by Goose Gossage, who at the time had the fastest fast ball in baseball.

Then he met him in a social setting, “I found out he was a pretty good guy.” The next time he had four or five hits against him.

He said the All-Star Game was a good place to get to know his rivals the rest of the season.

A young fan asked him who his favorite player is today. He asked her if she played, and when she said she played T-ball, to her delight, he said, “Then you are my favorite player.” But he added that even though he now plays for the Dodgers, he admires Manny Machado. They first met when he came to Cal’s team in Aberdeen.

And he said when he was growing up, Brooks Robinson was his “childhood hero.”

One of the trends today, Ripkin said, was the take-over of data. “I always thought baseball was a thinking person’s game,” he said. So, he predicts that will swing back to “players taking advantage of their own knowledge of the game.”

Solomons franchisee Patience Barton appeared with Ripken on stage at the conclusion of his talk. Company owner Plamondon Companies, based in Frederick, owns 24 Roy Rogers restaurants and oversees 30 franchise locations throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.

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Cops & Courts

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Suspect Sought in Dunkirk Armed Robbery

Deputies of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office responded on Aug.31 at approximately 9:35pm. to the Fastop Convenience Store located at 9880 Southern Maryland Blvd in Dunkirk,for the report of an armed robbery of the establishment. The clerk reported to re-

sponding deputies that he was closing out the lottery register when a white male wearing a black mask ran into the store brandishing a handgun. The suspect jumped the counter and then grabbed the money

from the register drawer. The suspect jumped back over the counter and subsequently discharged his handgun in the direction of the wall behind the counter. The clerk was not hurt during the confrontation.

Detectives from the Calvert County Criminal Investigations Bureau arrived on the scene and assumed the investigation. The scene was processed and numerous items of evidence were recovered. A review of the surveillance footage revealed a description of the suspect.

The suspect is described as a thin, white male wearing tan cargo pants, grey New Balance sneakers, and a black tee shirt. The suspect was possibly between 18 and 30 years of age. The suspect wore a black mask covering half of his face and was not wearing gloves.

The suspect has a tattoo on his right forearm. It was confirmed that the suspect fled the area in a vehicle.

Calvert sheriff’s detectives are actively working this case. If anyone has any further information they are asked to contact Detective Mike Mudd at 410-535-1600 ext. 2469 or Michael.mudd@calvertcountymd.gov Press Release from CCS

Calvert County Sheriff Blotter During the week of August 20 - August 26 deputies of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office responded to 1,295 calls for service throughout the community.

Damaged Property: 18-44760 On August 20, 2018 Deputy Deleon responded to Mason Court, Prince Frederick for the report of destruction of property. The complainant advised an unknown suspect(s) threw a rock through their back window. The estimated value of the damaged property is $300.

Damaged Property: 18-45570 On August 25, 2018 Deputy Crum responded to the Sunderland 711 for the report of destruction of property. The complainant advised an unknown suspect(s) threw an unknown object at their vehicle in the parking lot. The estimated value of the damaged property is $150.

Damaged Property: 18-45920 On August 26, 2018 Deputy Lewis responded to Shore Acres Way, Prince Frederick for the report of destruction of property. The complainant advised an unknown suspect(s) damaged the paint to the door. The estimated value of the damaged property is $300.

Theft: 18-44751 On August 20, 2018 Deputy Lewis responded to Skipjack Road, Prince Frederick for the report of a theft. The complainant advised that sometime during the day the tag from her vehicle was unbolted and stolen. The estimated value

of the stolen property is $50.

Theft: 18-45119 On August 22, 2018 Deputy Freeland responded to Clay Hammond Road, Prince Frederick for the report of a theft.

The complainant advised her Maryland Driver’s License and bank card were stolen at her banking institution in Prince Frederick. The estimated value of the stolen property is $52.

Theft: 18-45696 On August 25, 2018 Deputy Burggraff responded to Clubhouse Drive, Lusby for the report of a theft. The complainant advised an unknown suspect(s) entered the residence during the daytime and stole an Xbox and a laptop. The estimated value of the stolen property is $439.

Theft: 18-45833 On August 26, 2018 Deputy Evans responded to Wentworth Nursery in Prince Frederick for the report of a theft.

The complainant advised sometime overnight an unknown suspect(s) stole a yellow garden cart. The estimated value of the stolen property is $114.

Theft: 18-45863 On August 26, 2018 Sgt. Phelps responded to 1st Street, North beach for the report of a theft. The complainant advised an unknown suspect(s) stole a lawn mower from the yard sometime within the last two days. The total estimated value of the stolen value is $300.

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Feature

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Dr. Thomas Miller of Che

Reaching Out to Tell Its Story At CBL, “Almost immediately when I arrived I was invited to work on crabs,” Miller said. “From a biological point of view, they are incredibly interesting. They challenge what I had been taught about growth, about survival. We think about fish actually growing continuously. Crabs don’t do that.” They grow, molt and then grow again.

Initially he worked on trying to develop guidelines for setting limits to crab harvesting. Which is just one example of the intersection of scientific research and public policy that the University of Maryland facilities such as CBL and Horn Point on the Eastern Shore, that make up the Center for Environmental Science, and public policy as hammered out by legislators and other elected officials.

Miller said, “You need two things. You need a government structure that’s willing to listen. and you need individuals in an institution that are willing to support and promote you providing that information.” He said many universities are hesitant for their faculties to get involved in public policy. End up on the wrong side of an issue and the institution’s budget could bear the brunt.

He said CBL is different. “From its founding in 1925, we have had as our mission statement this link between the science that we do and helping to inform public policy. He said the faculty has the flexibility to speak to policy makers about “interface of the science and the public policies that come about.”

“We don’t set public policy. We inform public policy,” he said, adding “We are willing to translate our science into information the public can digest.” He added, “Generations of faculty have been willing to play that role.”

Miller especially signaled out the assistance of now retired U.S Sen. Barbara Mikulski and her interest in the sci-

Aquaculture off the CBL pier.

By Dick Myers Editor Since its founding in 1925 in a small waterman’s shack

by Dr. Reginald V. Truitt, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) in Solomons has been an integral part of the Southern Maryland community. They employ 126 plus some part-timers and lots of volunteers; 100 are scientists/ researchers on nine acres in 21 buildings. Yet many people don’t know that it is there or what it does.

“We are possibly our own worst enemy in how we tell our story,” said CBL Director Dr. Tom Miller. “I would like people to know that CBL is a community of internationallyknown, respected scientists. We are committed to working with the local community.”

Miller, 58, came to the United States from London, England in 1982 to do graduate work at North Carolina State University. His original interest was insects that live in streams. “By the time I got to my PhD, the guy who was my advisor said, ‘You can ask exactly the same questions you are asking on stream insects about fish and people will care a lot more about the answers you found out. So, I switched

to fish during my PhD and went into marine biology from there.”

His interests doing his doctorate studies were in how different species live together – “multiple species doing different things and how they divide the pie.” That interest would carry over into his work at the Chesapeake Biological Lab and would be quire pertinent as head of the lab, a position he has held since 2011.

The job attracted him to cone to the lab, but he says the diversity of the Bay’s ecosystem is what keeps him there.

He came to the lab thinking he would do work on fish, but quickly he diversified into crabs and oysters.

Before coming to the lab in 1994, he worked in the Great Lakes region and on the decline of the cod fishery in Canada. He said, “It was a very seminal experience for me. If you grow up in a fishing community and their sons and daughters can’t be fishermen, that’s a really big deal. It’s not just a job, it defines who they are.”

The collapse of the cod fishery, he said, “Really did rip the heart our of many outposts” in that part of Canada, only reachable by boat. He likened that situation to the heart of Solomons a 100 years ago, which was the steamboat wharf.

Get ready to dress like a scientist! It is one of many fun activities yo Sept. 8. Photo courtesy of CBL.

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esapeake Biological Lab

y to the Community ence being performed at the lab. But, he also noted that Rep. Steny Hoyer is always by the side of Bernie Fowler during his Patuxent River wade-in, as is Dr. Miller.

Miller became director when his predecessor Margaret Palmer stepped down to head a new organization with a large amount of funding received by the University of Maryland. Unlike doing research, his new position was one of management and leadership. “You accept the position because you feel you can change the institution for the better.”

When he took the job, he agreed to a five-year initial appointment, followed by a review and then an additional five years if warranted. He expects to step down at the end of his current five-year appointment.

Although all of the directors haven’t been marine biologists, he feels it’s an advantage, because one of the responsibilities is “to guide the careers of young faculty,” he said.

Dr. Miller pointed out that Dr. Truitt, as a visionary back in the 1920’s, upon being asked why crabs and oysters were going down, responded, “If you wanted to understand the biology of the crabs and oysters, you need to understand the ecosystem in which they are meshed.”

“We have stayed true to that vison,” Dr. Miller said about what is being recognized today in work done at the lab – “the ecosystem approach to fishery.” For example, identifying the chemical signatures in fracking.

He said, “We want to be able to have some marker that says the materials that the companies are pumping into the wells are getting into our groundwater. There’s never been anyone able to do that. Our people can.”

True gaps of knowledge have been learned at the lab since Dr. Truitt, Dr. Miler said. “At the core, if you want to understand the Chesapeake Bay you can’t do it by just

ou can try at the Chesapeake Biological Lab’s Open House on

CBL Director Dr. Tom Miller

understanding the biology, or just understand the chemistry.

You have to understand all of those things and I think that has remained true.”

“You never step in the same river twice,” he said about the constant changes in the ecosystem that make the lab’s mission a never-ending one. We have blue catfish that we haven’t had before. Energy tankers are bringing in new species.”

“It’s a constantly changing canvas that we are trying to understand.”

Of the most pressing needs for the Bay, he said, “We still don’t truly understand how to manage the fisheries we have.”

And, he says secondly, “We are not at all prepared for the changes that climate changes are going to bring. The sea level rises and you think about the losses of marshes, the loss of natural protection. I don’t think we are anywhere close to doing the planning and understanding the science that will inform that planning” An example of the global warming is that crabs now have an extra two months in which they aren’t in their winter dormant state. He said by the end of this century they won’t be going into a dormant period at all.

The lab now has scientists studying climate change in the Artic so it will help increase the knowledge about the effects on the Chesapeake Bay. “You are seeing the effects of climate change sooner in the Artic than you will see it here,” he explained about that mission.

In addition to being a research facility, the lab is also an educational institution, with students from the University System of Maryland and in the summer from all over the world. “Mentoring and educating students is the most exciting part of what I have done here,” Dr. Miller said. “They challenge my understanding. They come up with really exciting, interesting questions because of the dogma banged into them. They move our science forward, in remarkable ways.”

Dr. Miller admitted they have too many white faculty to attract the underserved populations and not enough space

and faculty to take in all who want to enter. They are working with the College of Southern Maryland to reach those underserved students.

“These five years (of his tenure) my central goal is to reconnect CBL with the community,” Dr. Miller said. “I think we have a moral obligation to communicate our science to the community.” Part of that obligation is because CBL receives about 40 percent of its funding from the state. “We owe it to the taxpayers to tell them what investment they are getting.”

But that moral obligation is also because of the role that the Chesapeake Bay plays in the everyday lives of the people of Maryland.

Miller initiated a free annual open house for area residents to see for themselves what goes on inside those walls. This year’s open house is Saturday, September 8, 1-5 p.m. Planned exhibits and hands-on activities will include an aquatic animal touch tank, liquid nitrogen chemistry demonstrations, dockside tours of the research vessel the Rachel Carson, piloting an underwater robot, and a Scientist Selfie Station. Children attending the Open House receive a passport activity, which allows them to earn prizes by learning about science as they navigate through CBL›s different labs and experiments.

Lab scientists will present at the open house information about what they do in plain English. Miller said, they have been instructed to talk to the public “as if you were telling your mother.”

“We want people to be proud of having CBL as part of this community.” He said.

Marine biology is a career one gets into because they are passionate about it and not to make money. “I’ve been here 24 years and I can count the fingers on one hand the days I’ve gotten up and said why am I going to work.”

“I am extremely lucky to be in this position,” he added.

For more information about the lab go to their website: https://www.umces.edu/cbl dickmyers@countytimes.net

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In Our Community

The Calvert County Times

Thursday, September 6, 2018

Little Free Library Offers Bridging Gaps for Young Book Sharing System Children, Families

New Organization Formed in Southern Maryland

The Calvert County Office on Aging, in collaboration with the Calvert County Department of Parks & Recreation, will debut a new “Little Free Library” outside of the Southern Community Center and Southern Pines Senior Center co-located at 20 Appeal Lane in Lusby.

To kick off community use of the little library, a celebration will be held at the Southern Pines Senior Center Wednesday, Sept. 5, at 11 a.m.

The little library is a wooden box filled with shelves and books that provides citizens with a designated space to exchange books for free. It functions on an honor system, so when taking a book users are encouraged to contribute a book. Little libraries have the added benefit of bringing neighbors together and fostering a community of readers.

“It’s our hope that the Little Free Library will bring a little more joy, a little more connection and a whole lot more books to our community,” said Aging Service Program Assistant Anne Sledge,

who spearheaded the project. “We hope citizens are as enthusiastic to participate in the book program as we are to offer it.”

The national nonprofit organization Little Free Library provides technical guidance for communities and neighborhoods interested in installing and coordinating a little library. The organization has been honored by the Library of Congress, the National Book Foundation and the American Library Association. According to Little Free Library, there are more than 75,000 little libraries located around the world, sharing nearly 10 million books per year. They report that 73 percent of people say they’ve met more neighbors because of a little library. For more information about little libraries, visit online at the link provided below.

Press Release from Calvert County Government.

The Southern Maryland BRIDGE (Building Resiliency from Infancy through Development, Growth, and Empowerment) project launched a phone number and website today aimed at helping Southern Maryland’s parents who are worried about their child’s development or behavior, want to reduce family stress, or simply become the best caregivers they can be. The BRIDGE phone line is coordinated by a parent who has personally worked with the BRIDGE team of experts with her own child.

The phone coordinator will talk with parents about their child and family needs and then connect parents with a range of family and child-focused services in the community that are best suited to their individual needs. Caregivers can call or text 443.546.0617 for information or visit somdbridge.org. All information is free and confidential.

The Southern Maryland BRIDGE Project is a collaborative effort of community-based services and supports for young children with or who are at risk

for mental health or other challenges and their families. The goal of BRIDGE is to enhance and coordinate these services to help children function better at home, in school, in the community, and throughout life. Data illustrates that very few young children with behavioral health needs in Southern Maryland are receiving adequate care.

Partners on the BRIDGE project include Charles, Calvert, and St. Mary’s County Governments, Charles County Department of Health, Calvert County Health Department, the Institute for Innovation and Implementation at the University of Maryland School of Social Work, Center for Children, Maryland Family Network, Maryland Coalition of Families, and The Promise Resource Center. Funding is provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Press Release from BRIDGE

On a Small Island with a Big Mission

St. Leonard Native Supports Navy’s ‘Silent Service’ A 2011 Calvert High School graduate and St Leonard, Maryland, native is providing a critical maintenance capability to the U.S. Navy’s submarine force in the Pacific as part of a hybrid crew of sailors and civilian mariners working aboard the expeditionary submarine tender, USS Frank Cable.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Forrest Heinrich is a machinist’s mate aboard the Guam-based submarine tender, one of only two such ships in the U.S. Navy. The Frank Cable and its crew provides maintenance and resupply capabilities both in port and at sea.

A Navy machinist’s mate is responsible for radiological con “I enjoy working with my hands and I like building things and the physical aspects of my job,” said Heinrich. “I like being able to make water and the aspects of every day life that are applicable in the civilian sector.”

Heinrich credits success in the Navy to many of the lessons learned in St Leonard.

“My hometown has a nuclear power plant and there are many people in the area that know nothing about it or how it works,” said Heinrich. “Nothing ever clicked until now that I am working in the Navy. To be able to associate things I have seen and relate them to what I do now is amazing to me. I can understand what the local plant does as it compares to what we do on the submarines.”

Guam is also home to four Los Angeles-class attack submarines, Frank Cable’s primary clients, but the ship can also provide repair and logistic services to other Navy ships like cruisers and destroyers. The submarine tenders provide maintenance, temporary berthing services and logistical support to submarines and surface ships in the Pacific Ocean as well as the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, and parts of the Indian Ocean.

With a crew of more than 600, Frank Cable is 649 feet long and weighs approximately 23,493 tons.

According to officials at the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet headquarters in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the ships, submarines, aircraft and Navy personnel forwarddeployed to Guam are part of the world’s largest fleet command and serve in a region critical to U.S. national security. The U.S. Pacific Fleet encompasses 100 million square miles, nearly half the Earth’s surface, from Antarctica to the Arctic Circle and from the West Coast of the United States into the Indian Ocean. All told, there are more than 200 ships and submarines, nearly 1,200 aircraft, and more than 130,000 uniformed and civilian personnel serving in the Pacific.

The integrated crew of sailors and civilian mariners builds a strong fellowship while working alongside each other. The crews are highly motivated, and quickly adapt to changing conditions. It is a busy life of specialized work, watches and drills.

“Having a nuclear specialty, I chose the submarine force because of the close knit opportunities,” Heinrich said. “The family aspect is the best part of being on a sub. There is a real appreciation for each other. There’s camaraderie and trust within the sub.”

Though there are many ways for sailors to earn distinction in their command, community, and career, Heinrich is most proud of receiving a Navy and Marine Achievement Medal in 2015 for saving a person’s life.

Saving the person’s life was something I did because I thought it was the right thing to do,” said Heinrich.

“All the training I have had kicked in and I did not have to think about it. It just happened and I have a really good friend as a result.”

As a member of one of the U.S. Navy’s most relied upon assets, Heinrich and other sailors know they are

Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jackson Brown

part of a legacy that will last beyond their lifetimes, one that will provide a critical component of the Navy the nation needs.

“I love serving in the Navy because it’s given me the opportunity to see the world,” said Heinrich.

By Chief Mass Communication Specialist Erica R. Gardner, Navy Office of Community Outreach

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Camp Phoenix Makes A Chesapeake Charities Difference for Grieving Children Announces 2018 Honorees

A camper and her butterfly.

Camp Phoenix is three-day, day camp for grieving children and teens ages 7 to 15. This year, camp was held on July 11, 12, and 13 at Kings Landing Park in Huntingtown. Twenty-six children attended this year’s camp and enjoyed traditional camp activities as well as support group discussions, various activities to help them deal with the feelings and emotions that come with a loss, and a butterfly release in memory of their loved one. Campers were each gifted a free handmade blanket from the ladies of Project Linus, a keepsake that will keep the children warm and provide them comfort during difficult times.

Camp Phoenix made a positive impact on the children who attended. One parent remarked, “My daughter was able to see other kids that are grieving,” and an-

other said, “My children had a wonderful experience.”

Each camper was matched with an adult “Buddy” who spent the three days with them, providing support and friendship. The buddies often find the time just as rewarding and beneficial as the children do.

Calvert Hospice offers bereavement services for people of all ages, including individual counseling, support groups, and specialized programs held throughout the year. If you or a loved one is grieving and needs support, please don’t hesitate to call.

Calvert Hospice is always looking for volunteers to be camp buddies, work with other bereavement programs, sit with patients, help in our office, or serve at special events. For more information about volunteering with Calvert Hospice, contact Amanda Peterson at 410535-0892 x4003 or apeterson@calverthospice.org Should you have questions or want additional information about Camp Phoenix or other bereavement programs, please contact Tessa Washington at 410535-0892, ext. 2201 or twashington@ calverthospice.org.

By Amanda Peterson

Re-Designed Southern Maryland Meats Website Launched

A Dynamic Virtual Showcase For Locally Raised Farm Meats The Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission is excited to announce the launch of the redesigned and updated Southern Maryland Meats website.

The newly presented website at southernmarylandmeats.com is a dynamic ‘virtual’ display case featuring fortyeight regional livestock producers of locally raised quality meats. All producers represented on the website are participants in the Southern Maryland Meats (SMM) marketing and branding program, developed by SMADC to raise consumer awareness for the availability and the benefits of local farm-raised meats and increase potential for retail sales for Southern Maryland’s meat producing farms.

The website’s user friendly format allows consumers to easily search for farms in their area by county, type of meat, and also retail venues (stores and farm markets) that carry SMM products.

Vibrant photo-portraits by Lena McBean of Edwin Remsberg Photography (renowned for their agricultural photojournalism), illustrate each business description with an intimate view of the SMM farms, the faces and the families who own and operate them.

Farm profiles also provide contact information, hours of operation, direct

links to producer’s websites and Facebook pages plus a full disclosure of the farm’s raising practices, cuts offered, as well as processed meat products such as bacon, sausage, hams, jerky and more.

“By connecting the consumer and the retailers with their farmer, we can drive a positive economic impact and bring a whole new level of prosperity to the Southern Maryland meat industry”, commented Craig Sewell the SMM program Livestock and Marketing Specialist. “Southern Maryland residents are well-served by these local meat producers. Their products are worth a visit to the SMM website and the trip to the farm to buy them.”

Southern Maryland Meats’ product lines include beef, pork, poultry, lamb, goat, and rabbit. Producers raise, feed and finish their animals according to their preference, however, to participate in the SMM program, farmers agree to uphold strict SMM quality and raising standards to ensure the integrity of meat products marketed under the SMM brand. For more information on where to find participating SMM farms and full program details, visit southernmarylandmeats.com.

Press Release from SMADC

Willis Group Awarded Philanthropist of the Year

Chesapeake Charities announced the honorees to be recognized during their November 15 luncheon, “A Celebration of Charity” at the Chesapeake Bay Beach Club. This year’s event will highlight innovative approaches to breaking the cycle of poverty and Dr. Ben Carson, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development Secretary, is the invited guest of honor.

Linda Kohler, Chesapeake Charities Executive Director commented, “The luncheon is a way to raise awareness about issues and solutions that impact our lives and recognize the people and organizations making a real difference. The 2018 honorees are doing incredible work to end childhood hunger, prevent homelessness and provide basic human needs of food, clothing and shelter.”

Philanthropist of the Year will be awarded to The Wills Group, a familyowned company headquartered in La Plata, Maryland, for its community engagement efforts focused on eliminating childhood hunger and ensuring safe and healthy homes. The parent company of several retail, convenience, and home comfort business units, including Dash In Food Stores, Splash In Car Washes, SMO Motor Fuels, and SMO Energy, the Wills Group has donated more than $2.5 million to various nonprofit organizations since 2006, as well as countless volunteer hours and in-kind donations. In 2016, as part of its 90th anniversary celebration, The Wills Group increased their commitment and deepened their impact in the community through the establishment of the Blackie Wills Community Leadership Fund at Chesapeake Charities. At the inaugural Blackie Wills Golf Classic and Gala in 2017, The Wills Group raised more than $500,000 to carry on their commitment to community and civic engagement.

“The nominating committee was most impressed with the way in which The Wills Group leads by example, encouraging its business associates to join forces to eliminate childhood hunger in Southern Maryland,” said Kohler, “For The Wills Group, corporate responsibility isn’t just good business, it is at the heart of every decision they make.”

The Light House Homeless Prevention Support Center in Annapolis, Maryland will be honored as Nonprofit of the Year for their dedication to providing emergency shelter, transitional and supportive housing, and homelessness prevention services to empower people as they transition toward housing, employment and self-sufficiency. In 2017 they launched The Light House Bistro, a self-sustaining and revenue-generating social enterprise that supports the ongoing workforce development and housing programs at The Light House. The full-service restaurant in downtown Annapolis provides employment opportunities for graduates of

The Wills Group employee volunteers and Rebuilding Together Charles County team pictured with homeowner Mrs. Burton in Indian Head, Maryland. Photo credit: Ana Isabel Photography.

its Building Employment Success Training (“BEST”) program. BEST provides valuable employment skills which allow graduates to make a living wage so they can afford permanent housing. “Their vision is to be a national model for how a community cares for its neighbors experiencing homelessness,” said Chesapeake Charities board member Michael LaFortune, “The Light House strives to break the cycle of homelessness by providing a place of belonging and life-changing programs.”

Mark Freestate of Centreville, Maryland has been selected as Volunteer of the Year for his work with Saint Martin’s Ministries, whose mission is to provide a safety net to individuals and families living in poverty on the Eastern Shore. Saint Martin’s has a 33-year history of building trust and delivering needed services to a vulnerable segment of the population in Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot counties. As Board Chair, Freestate kept Saint Martin’s on course through challenging times and because of his vision, determination and leadership, the board, staff and donors of Saint Martin’s Ministries have a renewed focus and commitment. “Mark rolled up his sleeves and dug into the difficult task of redefining and diversifying Saint Martin’s Ministries’ revenue streams,” said Deborah Hudson Vornbrock, Saint Martin’s Executive Director.

Sponsorships for this event are available. For more information, visit chesapeakecharities.org/event or send an email to info@chesapeakecharities.org.

Located in Stevensville, Maryland, Chesapeake Charities is a community foundation that supports over 90 nonprofit funds that impact a range of charitable causes including animal welfare, arts, education, health and human services, and the environment. To date they have generated more than $25 million in investment and grant funding for charitable projects in eight counties: Anne Arundel, Calvert, Caroline, Charles, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s, and Talbot. For more information, contact Chesapeake Charities at (410) 643-4020 or info@chesapeakecharities.org, or visit www.chesapeakecharities.org. Chesapeake Charities is accredited by the National Standards for U.S. Community Foundations.

Press Release from Chesapeake Charities

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Sports

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Thursday, September 6, 2018

Spiggy Looks at the 2018 Washington Redskins

By Dave Spigler Contributing Writer Redskin fans, preseason is over and once more we are about to embark on another season wishing our beloved “Skins” will live up to all the hype and our great expectations! We pray the team’s management and coaching staff have taken the right steps to place a better and much improved team on the field this year. I have been asked my thoughts by many of my friends of how well I think they will do. Well let me take a few moments to collect my thoughts…

As a diehard fan for more than 65 years, the truth is I am very concerned, if not terribly worried about the 2018 edition of my favorite NFL football team. The four preseason games left me with more questions than answers.

I have always said “Preseason is much like kissing one’s sister – you do it because you have to!” I tried watching each game, but fell asleep by halftime for most of them! I know it is really an audition for the new rookies and veterans obtained in the off season. But for me, it is also an audition of the coaching staff and what they may provide to overcome last season’s horrendous 7-9 record and all the drama surrounding

QB Kirk Cousins.

So, with that in mind, I was anxious to see how 34-year-old Alex Smith would perform with the new team play book and a new mix of players. Our new QB arrived with much fanfare and hoopla, but unlike the Broncos, with no white horse! It’s funny he admitted he had no idea of what “HTTR” meant after arriving at Redskins Park. Unfortunately, Coach Jay Gruden only put Smith in for 14 plays which puzzles me as I really wanted to see how well he can run this new offense. I guess the coach wants to save that for the real season. One quick comment about the departed Cousins – I truely liked him and I believe he was slighted through no fault of his own.

Had Kirk a better offensive line to protect him, say like my beloved “Hogs” from our glory days, he would have had more time to really show what he can do. And, I feel Kirk suffered from poor play selection by his coach; I sure hope Coach Gruden abandons “the fade” when throwing into the end zone, especially when the defender is bigger than our receiver. I watched that play fail most times it was called.

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believable number of injuries suffered by our players! We lost 20 individuals over the course of the 16- game season to injuries, many which were of the crucial, season ending variety. A lot of how we will do this year depends on the ability of injury prone guys like Trent Williams, Morgan Moses, Jonathan Allen, and Jordan Reed to get back to their former strengths and play in every game. A favorite of mine, Maryland Terrapin great tight end Vernon Davis, a former team mate and target for Smith, is getting long in the tooth and needs to remain healthy as well. I have always been suspect of the adequacy of our team’s conditioning program and truly feel it’s at the root of all of our problems the past few years!

Okay, so what about our new additions and what will they bring to the game when given the chance? I watched our much-heralded draft pick, running back Derrius Guice have a tremendous first half in his debut in the first game with my wife Deborah’s NE Patriots only to damage his ACL and be lost for the entire season already! He gained 59 yards in just a handful of plays and looked like the best thing to happen for the Skins since Clinton Portis. I sure hope it is not an omen for things to come!

On a good note, the signing of veteran receiver Paul Richardson and running back Adrian Peterson gives me great hope that with a balanced offense combining a strong running and passing game, we may return to the glory days when our offense was one of the

most feared in the league!

Finally, I think much of our team’s success this year depends on our defense to do their job. We were dead last in the NFL in defense against the run and only 14th against the pass. Again, injuries in critical positions led to these poor stats. Hopefully, we “plugged” the holes. The addition of rookies Da’Ron Payne, Geron Christian, and Tim Settle hold great promise for our future success!

But no matter what, I believe we may be in for another long season and our ability to rise from the NFC East cellar and make the playoffs remains a big question mark! We have not won a playoff game in the past 13 years. Will we get there this year? I am unsure, but I know this, it will take every player doing their part, the coaches will have to step up their game plan, and our fans will have to unite behind these guys and root them on to victory! Oh, and a little bit of old fashion “luck” will go a long way! So, my advice is to strap in and prepare for a long, possibly bumpy ride once more. Go Skins! Beat Dallas!

“HTTR” Dave Spigler AKA “Spiggy Hogette” PS: Redskin great Ron “The Dancing Bear” McDole is scheduled to appear at this year’s Calvert County Fair On Saturday, September 29th along with other Redskins stars to be announced.

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TARGET DATE MUTUAL FUNDS FOR RETIREMENT

Forgotten Names, Remembered Stories A long time ago (i.e. “before kids”), mid-summer trips to ‘Skins training camp were an annual pilgrimage. These were simpler times for me and better times for Washington’s football team. Dan Snyder’s ownership, or reign of terror if you prefer (and appropriately so), was in its infancy. Washington’s football brand was still strong and the burgundy and gold could be worn with pride. Snyder’s wild spending and impatience was considered youthful exuberance and not the fatal flaw that it proved to be. And brass tacks: the questionable decency of his soul remained unexposed.

But most important for this story, Snyder had yet to corrupt training camp into the paid event it was at the team facility or the polished, structured, political and no doubt profitable endeavor it now is in Richmond, Virginia. The camps I speak of happened west and north of D.C. – in Frostburg, Maryland and across the Mason-Dixon line into south-central Pennsylvania and the quant little town of Carlisle. These far-off lands were technically within Darth Snyder’s empire, but they remained unspoiled or, to a use a modern term, “off the grid.”

The stories. Some are fit for print in this PG format, others I’d disclose only verbally after some liquid encouragement and with the express understanding that all of it would be denied if pressed. Protect your source, protect the innocent…and protect yourself. Splendid advice indeed.

Suffice to say late nights and spirited carousing were the norm. And why not? Constraints were minimal and it was good for the local economy.

Spread the money, spread the love. Least I could do, eh? The morning practices though, part one of the old brutal two-a-day sweat-fests, were a challenging bell to answer. I observed most from distant bleacher perches while humbly nursing hangovers in the muggy July morning air. This is when I first realized that professional football players are not from this planet – or are at least a unique human gene pool. I watched many players practice, and seemingly well, despite being out very, very late the previous night and consuming a whole lot of non-performance-enhancing beverages.

How were they doing this? A mere mortal, I could barely turn my head without feeling dizzy. Maybe superheroes are real?

There’s mercifully scant evidence from these excursions. I do have hats though, each filled with autographs. Even casual ‘Skins fans would recognize most of the names. Buy some are completely obscure, even unidentifiable. In this case, the unknown and forgotten are who matter.

There’s a “Rod S.” Number 51. Linebacker, I assume. Monte Coleman he was not. “Matt” something or other played quarterback and wore number 11. He wasn’t quite Mark Rypien 2.0. My favorite signature though is “Eric.” I think it is Eric Whitfield but can’t be sure. Nevertheless, the dude signed the hat right above the ‘Skins logo in big, bold cursive and ended with an emphatic “#36!”. He was announcing his presence with authority.

He was going to make hay in the NFL…until he didn’t. Eric Whitfield never played a down in the league.

This isn’t a knock on those players; it’s just the opposite. While their names have been lost to history, their against-all-odds stories still stick with me. I think of them every year as July turns to August and another NFL season approaches. Training camp and the NFL preseason are loathed by established players, coaches and fans. But for many NFL hopefuls – literally dozens per team – it is the ultimate opportunity, maybe the last opportunity, to realize their football dream. No matter the odds or the sacrifices, they have it all on the line. In late August, final roster cut-downs deliver a harsh and absolute judgment. Some make it; many do not. None are failures. To a man, they dared to take a chance on themselves and pursue a dream. They boldly stood on that thin line between NFL player and obscure autograph on a dusty old hat. And all these years later, it’s the “Rod’s”, “Matt’s” and “Eric’s”, not the more famous autographs acquired, that I’m writing about. It’s the “Rod’s”, “Matt’s” and “Eric’s” who have provided the lasting inspiration.

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We’ve discussed the importance of asset allocation to your success as an investor. Harry Moscowitz won a Nobel prize for inventing modern portfolio theory in 1954 based on the concept that if you allocate your assets across a broad enough spectrum of equity, fixed-income and other types of investments, and one of your investments declines in value, the others are likely to take up the slack and keep your investment returns on an even keel.

Pundits refer to asset allocation as the “Rule of 92” meaning 92% of your success as an investor is directly attributable to whether you allocate your assets or not.

Ok, now we know that allocation is the way to go. But, one big problem with asset allocation is, how does an ordinary investor select the proper allocation of stocks versus bonds? The big mutual fund companies like T. Rowe Price, Vanguard, BlackRock and others think they have it all figured out.

They do the allocation for you.

All you do is pick the date you think you are going to retire. For example, suppose you will turn sixty-five in 2020. You pick the 2020 Retirement Fund. You can buy the fund at any age and with a minimum investment, but the target date is what matters.

The big boost for target date funds came in 2006 when pension laws changed so that employers could choose investments for employees who had not designated investments for their 401(k) plans. Target date mutual funds because most popular investments for employers to offer and to use as a default if employees failed to designate anything else. Fidelity launched its target date funds in 1996; Vanguard in 2003 and T. Rowe Price in 2002— together, those three fund companies control about 75% of the market.

Target date funds allocate stock and bonds based on your age. For example, at a younger age your portfolio is heavily weighted towards equities (stocks) when you have plenty of work years left to make up any stock market downs. That portfolio might be 10% bonds and 90% equities. When you are older, the portfolio will allocate your assets in reverse—with more weight towards fixed-income bonds and less stocks. In spite of warnings about improper allocation, many investors tend to change their holdings little over time, often ending up with portfolios that are far too risky for their age. Target date mutual funds solve that problem by automatically reallocating your percentages of stocks and bonds based on your age.

In fact, you may already have a target date fund as part of your 401(k) plan. The design of many 401(k) plans automatically pushes you to pick target

date funds. According to many, by 2020, target date mutual funds could account for half of all retirement accounts. Other than making it simple, why are these funds becoming so popular?

Three things—low minimum investments allow you to get into a target date fund with a minimum amount of money; professionally managed portfolios give you some confidence that someone with expertise is looking out for you, and low maintenance means you do not have to do anything except “set it and forget it.”

The downside? One size fits all may not be for you. True, you will reach a certain age on a certain date and allocating assets to ages for retirement makes sense; but, what if you don’t fit the mold? Target date mutual funds may be more expensive if there is a fee for the underlying mutual funds and another fee for the management of the funds. Research is required to avoid the double fees. And, if your target date fund invests only in one family of funds (like Fidelity, Vanguard, etc.) this can lead to a similar investment styles across the underlying mutual funds. Target date mutual funds are not equal. You must spend time investigating which fund is right for you.

Leaving your wealth up to a target date fund manager is a crucial decision. How do you protect yourself?

Due diligence, of course. Investigate these funds, all of them, before you decide to invest. You must spend time researching what is available in target date funds. Some managers will advise holding a lot in equities for a long period of time; others say that poses too much risk. Some managers will engage in adding commodities to the target mix or using hedge fund strategies. Costs for these funds range from thin to expensive.

Clearly, investment expertise by a professional is preferred. However, if you do not have an expert to advise you on your investments, target date funds at least solve the problem of having to decide what allocation is right for you at any age.

Join Andrea Baddour and I for a free estate planning seminar on Wednesday September 19th at 11am in our office at 8906 Bay Avenue, North Beach. Call 301-855-2246 to reserve your spot. I’ll see you there Striegel & Baddour is a law firm focused on Estate and Business Planning located in NorthBeach with appointment locations in Hollywood and Annapolis. Nothing in the following article represents legal advice. Readers are urged to consult their legal counsel.

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In Remembrance Charlotte Louise Alderson

Thursday, September 6, 2018

The Calvert County Times runs complimentary obituaries as submitted by funeral homes and readers. We run them in the order we receive them. Any submissions that come to guyleonard@countytimes.net after noon on Mondays may run in the following week’s edition.

Raymond S. Smith, Sr.

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Professor Joseph Anthony Mihursky

Charlotte Louise Alderson, 83, of Shady Side passed away August 31, 2018 at her residence. She was born July 21, 1935 in Washington, D.C., to William P. and Ruth (Sherry) Frank. Charlotte was primarily a homemaker and babysitter, watching over 100 kids. She was a member of the Annapolis Moose Lodge Chapter 661, St. James’ Parish and 7th District Rescue Squad. She was also a den mother for the Boy Scouts. In her leisure time she enjoyed reading Amish books, yard work, lighthouses and camping at Indian Acres.

Charlotte was preceded in death by her husband Clyde William Alderson, Sr. and grandson Frank Alderson, Jr. She is survived by her sons Clyde W. “Billy” Alderson, Sr. of Millersville, Michael J. Alderson, Sr. and wife Sandy of Chester, MD, Frank Alderson, Sr. of Lothian and Mark Alderson, Sr. of Shady Side, 7 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, sister Peggy Catterton and brother Raymond Frank, both of Shady Side, and her beloved dog Rufus.

Visitation will ne Friday September 7, 2018, 2-4 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. at Rausch Funeral Home – Owings, 8325 Mount Harmony Lane, Owings MD 20736. Memorial service will follow at 7 p.m.

Burial will be at St. James’ Parish, 5757 Solomons Island Road, Lothian MD 20711 Memorial contributions may be made to St. James’ Parish, 5757 Solomons Island Road, Lothian MD 20711l Phone: 410-867-2838; website:http://stjameslothian. com/

Raymond S. Smith, Sr., 76, of Owings, MD passed away August 30, 2018 at his residence. He was born May 6, 1942 in Washington, D.C. to Guy T. and Hazel J. (Herndon) Smith. He was raised in Camp Springs and attended Surrattsville High School. He worked as a laborer with John R. Whitman Construction, and after learning the carpenter trade worked as a carpenter and assistant superintendent with Prohaska Construction. Raymond and his brother Tommy also owned and operated S & W Construction, specializing in custom residential trim and finish wood work, and retired at the age of 62.

Raymond married Patricia Ann Ellis December 7, 1963, and they lived and raised their family in Friendly and Temple Hills, MD, and moved to Owings in their retirement in 2007. In his leisure time Raymond enjoyed playing golf, watching PGA golf and “Wheel of Fortune”, playing daily MD Lottery numbers, and dining at Mexico, Thursdays and steakhouse restaurants.

He also enjoyed time with friends and family, especially his grandchildren.

Raymond was preceded in death by his wife Pat in 2012, and by a sister Joyce Eudy and her husband “Mip”. He is survived by sons Raymond S. Smith, Jr. and wife Janie, and Dennis L. Smith, all of Owings; grandchildren Meagan and Shannon Smith, Dillon, MaryGrace and Olivia Smith, and Megan Hermosillo and Lauren Harbison; a brother Thomas L. Smith and wife Trudy of Port Charlotte, FL, a sister-in-law Barbara Smith; brothers-inlaw Frederick Ellis and wife Debbie and Robert Winston (late wife Mary), and numerous nieces and Now Offering... nephews. <Read less Funeral service will P.A. be held Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 10 Calvert County’s a.m. at Rausch Funeral ONLY On-site Crematory Home – Owings, 8325 Mount Harmony Lane, Owings MD 20736, Where Heritage and Life are celebrated.

Interment will follow at Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Serving Calvert, Anne Arundel, St. Mary’s, and Prince George’s Counties 3401 Bladensburg Road, Brentwood MD 20722 Lusby Port Republic Owings Memorial contribu20 American Ln. 8325 Mount Harmony Ln. 4405 Broomes Island Rd. tions may be made to Cal410-326-9400 410-257-6181 410-586-0520 vert Hospice, P.O. Box 838, 238 Merrimac Court www.RauschFuneralHomes.com

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Professor Joseph Anthony Mihursky, age 85, died on the morning of 24 August, 2018 at his home on the cliffs overlooking the Chesapeake Bay he loved so dearly.

Joseph A. Mihursky received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from Lafayette College (1954), a Master’s of Science degree in Microbiology from Lehigh University (1957) and a PhD degree in Zoology/Ecology (1962), also from Lehigh University. In 1962, Dr. Mihursky joined the staff at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL), part of the University of Maryland’s Natural Resources Institute (later to become part of the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Science). He soon became Scientist-in-Charge of the Hallowing Point Field Station, a unit of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, and in this position set the early scientific standards for assembling teams of skilled researchers needed to address complex environmental problems. Dr. Mihursky and this group of scientists from CBL, US Geological Service, American University, Hood College, Lehigh University and other institutions became national leaders in studying and understanding the effects of electric power generation, testing ideas and quantifying environmental impacts with studies conducted on the Potomac and Patuxent Rivers and Chesapeake Bay. Mihursky was a strong and informed voice supporting the innovative and very successful Maryland Power Plant Siting Program. His work led to the State of Maryland passing legislation protecting these ecosystems by controlling the amount of heat a power plant could discharge into estuarine waters. During these and later years Mihursky and his research teams published over 200 scientific journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings and technical reports.

In addition to being a leading Chesapeake Bay scientist, Dr. Mihursky was also deeply involved with the education of graduate and post-doctoral students and staff at CBL and the University of Maryland throughout his long career. He was also intensely involved with keeping Local, State and National politicians and environmental leaders informed regarding a long list of Chesapeake Bay issues ranging from microbes to striped bass to land use issues. Professor Tom Miller, current director of CBL, observed that “Mihursky was committed to communicating science to policy makers in Annapolis and Washington to help form environmental policy. He

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stands as an example to all who follow him at CBL”.

Mihursky, early on, via CBL and Calvert County softball teams, first met Bernie Fowler, then a Calvert County Commissioner, who was becoming more and more concerned with the health of the Patuxent River and Chesapeake Bay. Mihursky was skilled at distilling complex ecological findings into terms readily understood by non-scientists and he became a source of information for Fowler and other political leaders for many years. His education of political leaders led to landmark court decisions regarding the management of the Patuxent River ecosystem. Later in his career Mihursky took a sabbatical leave from CBL and worked on Capitol Hill in the offices of United States Senator Mac Mathias of Maryland and there played a role in developing and sustaining the Local-State-Federal EPA Chesapeake Bay Program partnership, a partnership that thrives today and is largely responsible for the recent improvements in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. The strong ties and relationships between State and Federal environmental management agencies we often take for granted today had some of their earliest development during Mihursky’s active years.

Twice during his active research career Mihursky was tasked with being the interim head of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, once from 1975-1976 and again from 1982-1983. Following this administrative activity, Mihursky became the Director of the Chesapeake Research Consortium (CRC), a group composed of academic institutions from the Chesapeake region, where he provided valuable service in integrating and organizing these institutions to tackle large and complex environmental problems around the Bay and surrounding watershed. Professor Mihursky fully retired from CBL and the University of Maryland in 2002, Dr. Mihursky had a wife named Kay. They were married 33 years (together 37). He left a son Timothy and granddaughter Jenna Mihursky. He also had 2 stepsons Rob & Scott Custer. He had 7 grandchildren & 3 great grandchildren, 2 daughter’s-in-law Sandy & Shannon Custer. Joe loved them very much.

A memorial celebration will be organized at a future date. Joe requested no large fanfare but due to overwhelming response we will do our best to accommodate. He loved all his students & colleagues.

Donations may be made to Chesapeake Bay Foundation or American Chestnut Land Trust.

Charles William “Dickie” Pitcher

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Charles William “Dickie” Pitcher, Sr. 87 of Port Republic, MD and formerly of Island Creek, MD, passed away on August 29, 2018 at his residence.

Born December 8, 1930 in Island Creek, MD, he was the son of the late Elmer J. Pitcher and Isabel Emma (Wagner) Pitcher.

Dickie served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army from March 20, 1950 until March 28, 1953. He served in Germany in the 18th Infantry 1st Division and was awarded the Occupational Medal for service in Korea.

Dickie was a supervisor for C&P Telephone Company for thirty two years, retiring in 1985 and a Funeral Assistant for Rausch Funeral Home starting in 1985.

He was a founding charter member of the Optimist Club from 1968 until present, serving as President and Lt. Governor and was a member of the Beltel Retirees. Dickie was a member of the Democratic Central Committee from 1974 until 1986 and a member of the Governor’s Committee for Hiring the Handicapped. He served as Judge of the Orphans Court from 1986 until 1999. Mr. Pitcher was a lifelong member of Waters Memorial UMC. Dickie was preceded in death on January 30, 2006 by his wife, Rose Marie (Rawlings) Pitcher whom he married on April 23, 1955 in Prince Frederick, MD. He was also preceded in death by his siblings, Hazel Wertz, Mary Maude Pitcher, Elmer J. Pitcher, Jameson L. Pitcher, Marie A. Pitcher, James E. Pitcher and W. Ross Pitcher.

Dickie is survived by his children, Charles William Pitcher, Jr. (Tony Fiore) of Silver Spring, MD and Pamela Gale Matteson (Robert) of Port Republic, MD; five grandchildren; Dawn Keen (Clate), Skip Pitcher, Christina Colfer-Pitcher (Jason), Cortney Pitcher and Mike Matteson (Jessie); six great-grandchildren; and siblings, Violet Mae Weems of Glen Burnie, MD and Catherine Humphries of Port Republic, MD. Serving as pallbearers forte funeral service held Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at Waters Memorial United Methodist Church, 5400 Mackall Road, St. Leonard, MD 20685were Marty Pitcher, Bobby Pitcher, Stanley Pitcher, David Pitcher, Carl Pitcher, and Bill Wertz. Honorary pallbearers will be Eddie Bowen, Bobby Chaney and Sherwood Willoughby.

Memorial contributions may be made to Waters Memorial United Methodist Church, 5400 Mackall Road, St. Leonard, MD 20685.

Condolences to the family may be made at www. rauschfuneralhomes.com.

Helen C. Rickert

beach, and being the historian for her church. She was an avid genealogist.

Family will receive friends at Solomons United Methodist Church on Thursday, September 6, 2018 from 10:30 am until time of serviceHonor atthe11:30 am with memory of your cherished one by sharing the story of their life Rev. Dottie Yunger and Rev. Beverly officiating.

A Tribute to the Loved OneIrvin with friends, neighbors and associates Interment will be on Friday, September 7, here 2018 at 1:00 in the community.

Whose Memory Lives pm in National Memorial Park Cemetery, Falls For detailsChurch, and to place your notice of remembrance, VA. David Cram, Austin Cram, OnPallbearers Forever in will YourbeHeart call 301-373-4125 for assistance.

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In Lieu of flowers, please consider making a gift in Helen’s Name to Solomons United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 403, Solomons, MD 20688. Arrangements provided by Rausch Funeral Home, P.A., Lusby, MD.

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Calendar Pictures for 2019 We are accepting pictures for the Cheseapeake Beach calendar. Don’t wait until the end of the year. The pictures must be from Chesapeake Beach. Send your submissions (in the highest resolution possible and preferably in landscape format and as a .JPG) to info@chesapeakebeachmd.gov. Thank you!

Maritime Performance Series First show in the series. Back Porch Blues is an all-star down-home acoustic trio of guitar and vocals, blues harmonica, and percussion. 7:00, Sept. 14 at the Calvert Marine Museum. Sponsored in part by a Maryland State Arts Council Maryland Touring Grant. $20 online, $25 at the door and available at www.bit.ly//MaritimeConcerts. Doors open at 6:00.

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An Evening In The Vineyard Running Hare Vineyard, 150 Adelina Rd., Prince Frederick 6:00 - 10:00 PM The perfect place for a summertime soiree! Enjoy award-winning wines and.

Dance under the stars to the dynamic and entertaining NightLife Band. Cast your bids for silent auction items which feature artwork, jewelry and exciting travel packages. Proceeds benefit the Burnett Calvert Hospice House. Call 410-535-0892 for tickets or go online at www.calverthospice.org/events.

Friday, September 7

American Legion Post 206 Golf Tournament Oakcreek Golf Club, 600 Bowieville Manor Lane, Upper Marlboro 7:00 - 11:30 AM Benefit children and youth programs.

Banquet will follow at the Stallings-Williams Post at 3330 Chesapeake Beach Road East, on Rt. 260. Open to the Public. Questions? Ross Cramton (240367-6185), Al Landis (410-257-2635), or Pat Murphy (301-855-4099). www.ALPost206.org First FREE Friday Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons 5:00 – 8:00 PM The Museum and Drum Point Lighthouse are open and to the public with docents in every gallery. 30-minute cruises on the Tennison. Entertainment by the U.S. Navy Band Commodores jazz ensemble at 6:00 on the PNC Waterside Pavilion outdoor stage. The Museum Store will be open. 410-326-2042. www.calvertmarinemuseum.com Jack’s Baked Chicken American Legion Post 206, 3330 Chesapeake Beach Road E, Route 260 5:30 - 7:00 PM

An informal dinner hosted in the lowerlevel dining room. Includes all the trimmings, salad, and beverage for $12. Public cordially invited. Info 410-257-9878. www.ALpost206.org Farmers’ Market 5th Street & Bay Ave., North Beach 6:00 – 9:00 PM Farmers’ Market, Classic Car Cruisein and Art Fair along Bay Avenue. www. northbeachmd.org

Saturday, September 8

Lighthouse Adventure Cruise Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM See six lighthouses (Southern route) aboard a private charter vessel. The boat leaves from the Calvert Marine Museum dock. Cost $130; $120 CMM members.

Call 410-326-2042, ext. 41 to reserve your spot.

Yard Sale North Beach Volunteer Fire Dept., Rt. 261, Chesapeake Beach 8:00 AM – Noon Tables $15/ea. or 2/$25. Contact Diane, 410-231-1775 after 5:00. Sponsored by the NB VFD Auxiliary.

Health Fair Middleham and St. Peter’s Parish Hall, 10210 HG Trueman Rd., Lusby 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Community Life Center and the Parish Health Program 9th annual Health Fair. Guest speakers, free flu and pneumonia immunizations, blood pressure checks, cholesterol checks and much more. Info: 443-342-4156 or email: Commu n it yl i fe c ent e r. s c c@g m a i l. c om Pet Adoption Pepper’s Pet Pantry, Solomons Towne Center behind CVS 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM Pepper’s Pet Pantry host a dog and cat adoption event with local Saint Mary’s and Calvert County animal rescue groups from. More information call 410-326-4006.

Taste the Beaches Kellam’s Field, 3825 Gordon Stinnett Ave., Chesapeake Beach 1:00 - 5:00 PM A community block party vibe, showcasing the Towns of Chesapeake Beach and North Beach. Local Food, Food Trucks, Concessions, Beer, Wine and Sangria for purchase. Shopping with local vendors and artisans. Explore local venue and attraction vendors. Kids Zone will feature The Chesapeake Mermaid, The Phillips Wharf Fishmobile, Raptors eye – Live birds of prey, Photo Booth, face painters, balloon artist. Entertainment by event emcee, John Luskey, Kenneth Holmes and local musicians. Raffle

Prizes! Profit from ticket sales benefits Project Echo.

CBL Open House Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, 146 Williams St., Solomons 1:00 – 5:00 PM This free event provides a “behind-thescenes” view of CBL’s research activities.

The only time during the year the labs are open to the public. At 2:30 Dr. Helen Bailey will read the delightful children’s story she co-authored to raise awareness of critically endangered leatherback sea turtles. Info: Jeane Wharton, 410-3267240. jwharton@umces.edu. www.umces.edu/cbl Opening Reception calvART Gallery, Prince Frederick Shopping Center, 110 Solomons Island Road 5:00 – 8:00 PM EcLecTic: diversity of style features the artistic genius of Phyllis and Ray Noble, Mimi Little and Julia Musengo, each of whom brings a unique and original style. The show continues until October 8. Open Wednesday-Sunday 11:00-5:00.

410-535-9252. www.calvartgallery.org Motown Under Moonlight Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum, 10515 Mackall Road, St. Leonard 5:30 PM A great night of Motown classics performed live by the Masters of Soul. Tickets available at: friendsofjppm.org/live-at-jeff-patt The Fabulous Hubcaps Holiday Inn, Solomons 6:00 PM (doors open at 6:00) A fun filled evening of music and dancing for a great cause! Benefits The Humane Society of Calvert County (a no kill rescue) and Pilots N Paws ( a rescue group of pilots who fly dogs to forever homes from kill shelters) Light meal, raffles, silent auction, cash bar and more. Tickets, $50 available at: humanesocietyofcalvertcounty.org/products/the-fabuloushubcaps-tickets-saturday-sept-8-2018 Event info 410-353-7670.

Country Dance American Legion Stallings-Williams Post 206, Route 260, Chesapeake Beach 7:00 – 11:30 PM For a fun time, come to the upper level Ballroom.

Teachers give free instruction at 7:00 followed by dancing to the tunes of the Southern Winds Band. $15/person includes fountain soft drinks or draft beer, pretzels, and chips. Public Welcome. Info: 410-257-9878. Reservations: Lbloyer@verizon.net. www.ALpost206. org

Sunday, September 9

Breakfast at the Legion American Legion Post 206, Chesapeake Beach 8:00 – 11:00 AM The American Legion Auxiliary is putting its best foot forward with its cooks whipping up this All You Care to Eat Breakfast Buffet. Upper level Dining Room. Adults $10; kids 6-12 $5; kids under 6 free. Bloody Marys available for a nominal charge. Info, 410-257-9878.

Public warmly welcomed.

The Big Conversation Emmanuel Seventh Day Adventist Church, St. Leonard 4:00 – 6:30 PM An informative program on “Deepening the Discussion on Bias” will be followed by a dinner provided by Emmanuel Church. Time for table talk and discussion about the presentation during the dinner. All are welcome. RSVP to bigconmsp@gmail.com or 410-326-4948.

Monday, September 10

Walk with Ease North Beach Recreation Center, 9021 Dayton Ave., North Beach 10:00 AM The Calvert County Department of Parks & Recreation, in partnership with the Arthritis Foundation offer a six-week program designed to help citizens with arthritis pain begin safely incorporating exercise into everyday life. Info: 410-5351600, ext. 8211 or 8205.

Tue. & Thu., Sept. 11 & 13

Sea Squirts Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons 10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Theme is Terrific Turtles! Free dropin program for children 18-months to 3 years and their caregivers. Limited space available. 410-326-2042. www.calvertmarinemuseum.com

Tuesday, September 11

Mind and Mood in Dementia Springhill Suites, 75 Sherry Lane, Prince Frederick 1:00 - 2:30 PM Basic information about dementia and its common causes as well as how dementia impacts the mind, mood and behavior.

Free. Register, call Calvert Hospice at 410-535-0892 ext. 4011 or online at www. calverthospice.org/education-seminars.

Bingo North Beach Volunteer Fire Dept.

7:30 PM Doors open at 5:00. $8/person. Food and drink available for purchase. More info call 301-855-0520.

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Events

For more information & to register for events visit http://calvertlibrary.info

Friday, September 7

JobSource Mobile Career Center.

1:00-4:00pm. Stop by to visit the JobSource Mobile Career Center for your job search needs! Get job counseling and résumé help, search for jobs and connect with Southern Maryland JobSource.

No registration. Calvert Library Twin Beaches Branch, 3819 Harbor Road, Chesapeake Beach, 410-257-2411.

Saturday, September 8

Poets’ Circle. 9:00-11:00am. Beginner or big-time, confident or compulsive, stuck or star-lit! All are welcome. Expect a friendly session of discussion, editing and support. Bring 5 copies of what you want to work on or just yourself. Please register. Calvert Library Prince Frederick, 850 Costley Way, 410-535-0291 or 301-855-1862.

Garden Smarter: Invasive Plant ID for Professionals (CRB). 10:00-11:30am.

This “advanced” 3-hour workshop includes a presentation, hands-on exercise, followed by a grounds tour and is geared toward landscaping and natural resource professionals and volunteers. Limited to 20. Please register. Calvert Library Prince Frederick at Community Resources Building, 30 Duke Street, 410535-0291 or 301-855-1862.

Science Saturdays! 2:30-3:30pm. Join us for a STEM-based program series designed to get kids in K-3rd grade thinking like scientists. This month we’ll look to the sky to explore the Sun & Moon.

Some activites will be outside. Please register.

Calvert Library Fairview Branch, Rt. 4 and Chaneyville Road, Owings, 410-257-2101.

Sunday, September 9

Deepening the Discussion on Bias.

4-6:30pm. Big Conversation: Partners for Dismantling Racism & Privilege hosts their next event at Emmanuel Seventh Day Adventist Church in St. Leonard. The church will provide the meal and the presenter will be Chris Hall, a national expert and consultant in crosscultural and linguistic research, specifically at the intersection of bias and dialect. He will guide participants in recognizing our personal and systemic biases and how to address them. Register by emailing bigconmsp@gmail.com or calling 410-326-4948. Co-sponsored

by Middleham and St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Lusby, Emmanuel SDA Church of St. Leonard, Calvert NAACP, St. Mary’s NAACP, Calvert Library, the Community Mediation Centers of Calvert and St. Mary’s Counties, the Concerned Black Women of Calvert Co, HEB Scholars, and Patuxent Quaker Friends. Emmanuel Seventh Day Ad-

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Monday, September 10

Green Crafting. 2:00-4:00pm. Make crafts out of materials that would typically be thrown out. Crocheting, needlework, sewing, and simple tying techniques will be used. Calvert Library Southern Branch, 13920 H. G. Trueman Road, Solomons, 410-326-5289.

Board of Library Trustees meeting.

2:00-4:00pm. Calvert Library Board of Trustees monthly meeting. Calvert Library Prince Frederick, 850 Costley Way, 410-535-0291 or 301-855-1862.

Tuesday, September 11

Zine Scene Tween Event. 6:308:00pm. Activities, crafts, and fun for kids in grades 5-7 Please register. Calvert Library Prince Frederick, 850 Costley Way, 410-535-0291 or 301-855-1862.

Tuesday, September 11

Brain Games: Mahjongg, Scrabble & More. 10:00-1:00pm. Want to learn Mahjongg? Hope to make your Scrabble skills killer? Games are a great way to keep your brain sharp while having fun!

Join us! Please register. Calvert Library Prince Frederick, 850 Costley Way, 410535-0291 or 301-855-1862.

OMOB Memoirs & Creative Writing Workshop. 2:00-3:30pm. Join author and editor Elisavietta Ritchie as she encourages the art of creative memoir writing.

Bring 6 double-spaced copies of your work, 500-800 words, to discuss and share with the group. Writing to be inspired by the justice theme in the One Maryland, One Book title Bloodsworth

by Tim Junkin. Calvert Library Prince Frederick, 850 Costley Way, 410-5350291 or 301-855-1862.

Wednesday, September 12

Friends of the Library Board of Directors. 5:30-6:30pm. Friends of Library monthly meeting. No registration. Calvert Library Prince Frederick, 850 Costley Way, 410-535-0291 or 301-855-1862.

Thursday, September 13

OMOB Screening & Discussion of film Bloodsworth: An Innocent Man. 6:30-8:30pm. An innocent man convicted and sentenced to death for a crime he didn’t commit, Kirk Bloodsworth became the first death row inmate exonerated by DNA evidence. We’ll watch the 83 minute film and discuss. Please register. Calvert Library Prince Frederick, 850 Costley Way, 410-535-0291 or 301-855-1862.

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Living Well with Diabetes

Living Well with Diabetes classes will be offered at: North Beach Senior Center, Fridays, September 7 – October 12, 9 – 11:30 a.m. This free workshop is for those with preDiabetes or Diabetes. Register for the workshop through the Calvert County Health Department at 410535-5400, ext. 459.

AARP Driver Safety Class

Southern Pines Senior Center will be hosting the AARP Driver Safety Class, Monday, September 10, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. The fee for this class is $15/AARP members, $20/ non-members. Members must show AARP cards. Please call to pre-register, 410-586-2748.

Flu Shots

The Office on Aging is collaborating with the Calvert County Health Department and Calvert Health to provide high dose flu shots for persons aged 65-plus. Appointments are required. Medicare is accepted.

If you do not have Medicare there will be a $50 fee. Southern Pines; October 1, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.; North Beach, October 15, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.; Calvert Pines, October 22, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Shots will be administered in the Calvert Mobile Health Unit. Call your local senior center for an appointment.

Calvert Pines Senior Center

The Samaritan’s Purse Christmas Child Presentation will be Monday, September 10, 11 a.m. Find out how you can help children in need during the holiday season.

Join us for Lunch and a Movie, Wednesday, September 12, 11:15 a.m. Have lunch and enjoy Book Club on the big screen! Pre-registration required for lunch.

North Beach Senior Center

A Legal Aid representative will offer free legal services to seniors who are 60 years of age or older, Thursday, September 13 starting at 1 p.m. at North Beach Senior Center.

Must pre-register for appointments by calling 410-257-2549.

New Yoga Classes for Restorative Yoga and Seated Chair Yoga re now being offered Mondays, 10:45 a.m. & 1 p.m. Fee: $5 per session.

Southern Pines Senior Center

Discover new ideas using paper and your life experiences with our Book Making Class, Mondays, September 10, 17, 24, 1 p.m. This class will make 2 handmade books. Fee: $10/per class, plus supplies.

Bring your scrapbooking supplies and jump start your memory pages in the company of others with our Drop-in Scrapbooking, Wednesdays, September 12 & 26, 12:30 p.m.

Eating Together Menu Monday, September 10

Chicken Salad Sandwich w/Lettuce & Tomato, Tossed Salad w/Kidney Beans, 3-Bean Salad w/Green Peppers, Pineapple Chunks

Tuesday, September 11

Turkey, Gravy, Cranberry Sauce, Succotash, Kale, Dinner Roll, Pears

Wednesday, September 12

Chicken Divine over Rice, Tossed

Salad w/Kidney Beans, Broccoli, Dinner Roll, Bread Pudding w/ Vanilla Sauce

Thursday, September 13

Tuna Pasta Salad w/Green Peas on a Bed of Lettuce, Pickled Beets & Onions, Dinner Roll, Fresh Orange Slices

Friday, September 14

Sloppy Joes on a Bun, Coleslaw, Carrots, Chilled Pears

Lunches are served to seniors, aged 60-plus, and their spouses through Title IIIC of the Older Americans Act. Suggested donation is $3. To make or cancel a reservation call: Calvert Pines Senior Center at 410-535-4606, North Beach Senior Center at 410-257-2549, or Southern Pines Senior Center at 410-586-2748. Lunches are subject to change.

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