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newsmakers The Calvert County Chamber of Commerce puts on the Chocolate Lover’s Affair as its biggest fundraiser for their scholarship fund.

On The Cover Rev. Robert Hahn’s has been senior pastor for 20

years at the Chesapeake Church, which has grownto become one of the largest in Calvert County.

On Saturday, Calvert Career and Technology Academy teemed with activity from early inthe morning until late afternoon for the SkillsUSA Maryland Region 4 – Southern Maryland Championships.

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Adding provisions to allow the construction of huge box stores in the New Town district of PrinceFrederick continues to be debated by the CalvertCounty Planning Commission.

Randy Barrett of Bargo L.L.C. is seekingthe maximum square footage for box stores to bechanged from 120,000 square feet to 125,000 squarefeet, and add the New Town district as an allowablelocation. The New Town District is east of SolomonsIsland Road and north of Dares Beach Road.

Currently, the zoning ordinance allows build-ings from 75,000 square feet to 120,000 square feetto be conditionally permitted in the Entry and Vil-lage districts of Prince Frederick for use as HomeImprovement Centers, Retail Commercial Buildingand Retail Commercial Buildings with a Drive-UpFacilities.

Buildings between 25,000 and 75,000 square

feet are permitted uses in the same districts.The changes seek to add the New Town District

to the list of conditional and permitted uses, whileraising the maximum allowed square footage to125,000 square feet.

The planning commission raised questionsabout the actual size of the New Town district andthe effect the changes will have on the master plan.Planning Commission Chair Maurice T. Lusby IIIsaid the county shouldn’t have to pay for the studiesrequired to make the changes, and sees the changes being too complicated for a simple text amendment.

The matter was rst discussed in December, andZoning Planner Chris Finamore made a presentation

to the planning commission Jan. 25 about the opin-ions of local agencies that would be affected by thechange.

Finamore said the State Highway Administra-tion sees a potential problem with trafc ow. Therewere also suggestions to eliminate the proposed 1,000foot setback in Barrett’s amendment, seeing that as alimiting factor that doesn’t need to be included.

County public works ofcials are concernedabout Fox Run Boulevard and Chesapeake Bou-levard – planned roads that are not yet fully con-structed. The impact of the construction on the roadsis uncertain, as well as the impact on current trafc patterns should the larger buildings be installed be-fore the roads are completed.

The master plan for the New Town District cur-rently doesn’t include the proposed uses. Departmentof Planning and Zoning recommendations includeddenying the amendment or deferring the decision,

and either recommending the applicant “pursue acreative comprehensive design” or consider “initiat-ing a special area study for the town center.”

The Planning Commission compiled a list of questions and comments to be researched further,and plans to discuss the matter again at their Feb. 15meeting. The meeting is held at 7 p.m. in the court-house square building and is open for the public toattend.

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By Guy LeonardStaff Writer

In the fall of 2011, Calvert law ofcers were able to identify ahuman skull found off of Tate Road in Prince Frederick as that of Wesley Robert Kyser, 58, a homeless man who lived in the area,and just last week police identied the rest of his body, now onlyskeletal remains, after they had been found Feb. 1 by county high-way maintenance personnel, police said.

The preliminary cause of death was believed to be naturalcauses, but the skeletal remains were sent to the Chief MedicalExaminer’s Ofce in Baltimore for further investigation, CalvertInvestigative Team members stated.

The search for Kyser began in August last year when he wasreported missing; in September Keyser’s skull was found in thewoods near Tate Road. Grid searches using search dogs turned upno skeletal remains, however.

Kyser’s remains were found about 450 yards away from the

site where his skull was originally found, police said.Lt. Steve Jones, commander of the Calvert Investigative

Team, said the remains were probably dragged the nearly half-kilometer into the woods by animals were they were found.

“That’s what we believe at this time,” Jones said. “There’s noreason to believe foul play was involved.”

Kyser was known to frequent a known homeless enclave near Tate Road, Jones said, but when his skull was found, it proved thathe had been away from it for some time.

“He was kind of off on his own,” Jones said.

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In a break from the tradition of choos-ing the lowest qualied bidder for a proj-ect, the county commissioners voted tosupport a locally-based business and re-tain Performance Painting & Restorationfrom Port Republic for exterior painting,staining and power washing of county

buildings.The recommendation before the

commissioners was to award the contractto E.A.R.N. Contractors, Inc., from Gaith-ersburg, which entered a bid of $16.50 per hour.

The bid from Performance Painting& Restoration came in at $16.90 per hour,and Commissioner Evan K. Slaughen-

houpt, Jr., made the motion to break withtradition and go with the second-lowest

bid, saying it was a “matter of commonsense.”

“It won’t break the bank of countygovernment,” he said.

The rest of the commissioners votedwith Slaughenhoupt, making it a 5-0 voteto award the contract to PerformancePainting & Restoration.

Shaw reminded the commissionersthat it is county law to award the con-

tract to the lowest responsive, responsible bidder.

“Based on that criteria, I think wecan award that contract,” Shaw said, ex-

plaining that while Performance Paint-ing & Restoration wasn’t the lowest bid-der, the price difference wasn’t too muchand being locally based made the secondcompany more capable of being quicklyresponsive.

Slaughenhoupt said he hopes the de-cision sets a precedent to take more into ac-count than the quoted price, and take stepstoward supporting more local businesses.

The commissioners also discussedrevamping county laws in order to make iteasier to support locally-based businesses.

Commissioners also recognizedPhillip Waugh, son of Steve Waugh, who

pulled his father out of danger after an air - plane crash in the Chesapeake Ranch Es-tates on Nov. 20.

The men were on their nal approachafter a ight from Chicago, when the air -

plane clipped the tops of trees and crashlanded off the end of the runway. The com-missioners commended Phillip as a hero,and presented him with a proclamationoutlining his achievement.

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The Chesapeake Beach Wastewater Treatment Plant is entering its second and

third phases of a multi-year Enhanced Nu-trient Removal (ENR) upgrade.

Plant Supervisor Jon Castro said in to-tal, the upgrade would cost approximately$15 million. The project gets funding fromfour places – Calvert County, Anne Arun-del County, North Beach and ChesapeakeBeach.

The project is set to go to bid in Febru-ary, and construction is slated to begin inJune or July. The full upgrade should taketwo or three years, Castro said. The rst

phase of the project began in 2006.The upgrade is part of a statewide ini-

tiative to decrease the nutrients entering theChesapeake Bay, such as phosphorous andnitrogen.

The Maryland Department of theEnvironment is using the Bay Restoration

Fund to upgrade the 66 major wastewater treatment plants that discharge to the Ches-apeake Bay, with ENR technologies.

“Once upgraded, these plants are ex- pected to reduce nitrogen and phosphorusin the wastewater down to 3 mg/l total nitro-gen and 0.3 mg/l total phosphorus, achiev-ing approximately one-third of the neededreduction under the Chesapeake Bay 2000Agreement. Other pollutants will continueto be reduced by more than 90 percent,” ac-cording to www.mde.maryland.gov

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County governments may soon have anew funding problem to worry about – thecost of the teacher pensions could be shiftedfrom the state to the individual counties.

Senate President Thomas V. Mike Mill-er said he supports the change, saying “it’s

been a goal of many of us for a long time.”He said the state government has no say

in the salaries teachers are paid, but raises insalaries equate to raises in the amount need-ed to be paid into pensions. He said whoever sets the salaries “needs to set a true gure”and the plan is not to foist the payments ontothe county government, but “simply sharethe cost.”

The budget is not nalized yet, butMiller said in the proposed budget, the gov-ernor is making several cuts and reductions.There will still be hearings on the budget,and a chance for people to state their opin-ions and request changes. Once changes areaccepted and amendments made, legislatorswill have to determine how best to balancethe budget.

Commissioner Evan K. SlaughenhouptJr. doesn’t agree with Miller’s view of thesituation. He said if the cost of the pen-sions were to be shifted to the county level,it would be “horrible” and doesn’t x the

problem.

“They did a little Kabuki dance lasyear, pretending to x the system,” Slaughenhoupt said.

He said the problem is the structure othe pension system, and rather than xing itthe state is just moving the issue and “tryingto force it down our throats,” Slaughenhoupsaid.

County Commissioner Susan Shawsaid the change could potentially affect income taxes for employees in the county, potentially raising them with approval from thestate.

“That’s how they expect us to pay fothat,” she said during the Feb. 7 Board oCounty Commissioners.

At the current rate, Shaw said the cost o pensions have more than doubled in the pasve years, and could potentially re-doublein the next ve years. Like SlaughenhouptShaw said the problem is in the system itselfand simply shifting the pension paymentswill not solve the problem.

“Dumping the problem on county government is not enough of a solution,” saidCalvert County Schools Superintendent JackSmith.

He said the solution has to be sustainable and reasonable, something not accom

plished by simply shifting the payments tthe county level.

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Of the 230 Election Judges in CalvertCounty, more than 140 of them have beenworking the polls since before the last presi-dential election, if not longer.

Election judges are the men and wom-

en working at the polls during the primariesand elections.The judges have to go through a yearly

3-hour training class, said Board of Elec-tions Ofce Specialist Mary L. DePelteau.At minimum there are 10 election judges ateach voting location, ve Democrats andve Republicans, along with non-partisan

judges, all who have to go through the year-ly training.

DePelteau said the Board of Electionsrecently started this year’s round of train-ing, and they take names all year long for those interested being election judges, butthe amount they can take and train is lim-ited. She said the board has no trouble nd-ing volunteers to work as judges, somethingshe said is not as easy in other jurisdictions.

During presidential election years, De-Pelteau said there are more judges used, dueto the increased number of voters. Duringthe last presidential election, 79.59 percentof Calvert County voters came out to the

polls, as opposed to the 57.26 percent of vot-ers who showed up during the 2010 election.

“Elections are much more complicatedthan most people understand,” DePelteausaid.

The training includes being updatedon the voting machines used, which have

evolved from the Automated Voting Ma-chines, with levers and written ballots, tomodern touch screen voting machines.

Wanda Hassler, who has been workingas an election judge for 25 years, said theupgrades to the voting system have meantchanges for the judges too. She said therewas a time when the polls would close at 8

p.m., but the poll workers would be up allnight counting the votes and making surethe numbers match up before they couldeven pack up and go home.

Hassler is the Democratic Chief Judgeat St Leonard Elementary School voting lo -cation. Each location has two chief judges,one for Democrats and one for Republicans.

Hassler said she became an elec-tion judge because she loves workingwith people and she considers it her “civicresponsibility.”

Election season is the only time some judges see each other during the year, andwhen there is down time during the elec-tions they get to catch up. They even bringfood in to share.

In the past years, she said voter apa-thy has grown. She said people don’t seeelected ofcials representing the interests of the people, deciding instead to make deci-sions to further their political careers, andit makes people unwilling to vote becausethey feel they can’t change anything.

The public has a duty to go to the polls,Hassler said, because some elections have

been won by a handful of votes.

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The St. Mary’s County Board of Ap- peals is set to hold the second hearing to-night on the issue of building a mobile meat

processing facility in Mechanicsville thatfarmers say would help boost the SouthernMaryland market for livestock production.

At the crux of the case is farmer JohnnyKnott’s effort to have the processing facilityon a 30-acre piece of property where three tofour beef carcasses a week would be truckedin, aged and cut and packaged on the site af-ter having been dispatched off site.

Knott has said this facility would not be a slaughter facility, but residents who sur-round his property say despite the name itamounts to having many of the problems of aslaughterhouse — namely offal and gray wa-

ter from spraying down the carcasses.Bill Hammell, one of the lead oppo-nents to Knott’s proposed facility, said at thelast meeting in January that it really amount-ed to a mobile slaughterhouse.

“You’re actually transporting all the problems associated with the slaughterhouse back to the site,” Hammell argued. “The onlything you’re not doing is kill ing the cattle.”

Knott’s proposal has met with approvalfrom county staff in both the health depart-ment and the land use and growth manage-ment department as worthy of a conditional

permit for a major agricultural use and alloperations there would be under the over-sight of the U.S. Department of Agriculture(USDA).

There would be offal and gray water atthe facility but the approved plans call for a large storage tank to make storing suchwaste part of a closed system.

Hammell continued, however, by say-

ing that the county did little in the way of actually studying whether a use such as thiswould be detrimental to neighboring homevalues.

Hammell said that Knott cares little for such concerns.

“He obviously has no regard for the property values of his neighbors, and is onlyinterested in the industrial prot to be madefrom a slaughterhouse,” Knott wrote in his

presentation to the Board of Appeals.Farmers from across Southern Mary-

land have overwhelmingly supported theidea of having a USDA approved facility to

package locally raised meats as it would cutdown on their transportation costs.

Right now they must take their animalsto a facility as far away as Virginia to beslaughtered and processed.

Farmers have looked to livestock pro-duction as one of the best options to keep ag-riculture protable after the tobacco buyoutmore than a decade ago.

“This facility would greatly increaseour bottom line,” said Joe Wood, a member of the St. Mary’s County Farm Bureau direc-tor’s board.

Another farmer echoed a sentimentlong held by others in his local industry thatthe rapid growth of development has contin-ually forced farmers to adapt; he said othersshould learn to adapt to share the land withthem as well.

“If these people love the county asmuch as they do them they should learn toadapt to us trying to make a living,” said EarlLumpkins of Leonardtown.

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By Corrin M. HoweStaff Writer

On Saturday, CalvertCareer and TechnologyAcademy teemed with activ-ity from early in the morn-ing until late afternoon for the SkillsUSA Maryland Re-gion 4 – Southern MarylandChampionships.

Students from Cal-vert, Charles and St. Mary’scounties competed in 18skills competitions rangingfrom Advertising Design toWelding. While 150 indi-viduals registered, some of the students had to work inteams, according to ElaineBradley, Calvert’s SkillsU-

SA Lead Advisor andthis year’s regionalcoordinator.

According toits national web-site, SkillsUSA is anonproft organiza-tion and partnershipwhich exists to en-sure American has askilled workforce incareers in trade, tech-

nical and skilled occupationsincluding health occupations.

The frst, second andthird place winners of thievent head up to Universityof Maryland in May for thestate competition and out toKansas in June for the national competition. Every twoyears there is an internationacompetition.

The skills events startedThursday, Feb. 2 and lastedthrough Saturday and wereheld at Calvert Career andTechnology Academy, CalverHigh School, Huntingtown

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One of Their OwnBy Sarah Miller Staff Writer

Four years after her death, the scholarship foundationset up in memory of Kim Stone is still going, though therehave been some changes in the fundraising over the pastyear.

While the initial fundraiser for the scholarship fundwas a golf tournament, Huntingtown Elementary secondgrade teacher Nancy Wolf-Fisher said the attendance wasdropping and they needed to nd a new way to fund thescholarships, which started in Jan. 2008.

The Kim Stone Scholarships are $1,000 a piece andgo to four graduating seniors who plan to go into teaching.

Now, the committee is hosting monthly dinners atrestaurants throughout the county. The rst dinner washeld at Three Brothers Italian Restaurant in Prince Fred-erick, and the next will be at the Panera Bread location inPrince Frederick Feb. 13 from 6-9 p.m. During that time period, a percentage of the restaurant’s revenue will go tothe scholarship fund.

The rst night brought in $170, leaving the committeea long way from their $4,000 goal. Additional locations planned for the year include Applebee’s and Stoney’s.

For more information, and to be alerted when andwhere dinners are coming up, e-mail [email protected].

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Calvert Career and Technology Academy’s Camille Link placed frst in Cosmetology. She will head to state fnals in May.

Andrew Fenwick, Jennier Olson, and Sebastian Leonard-Reyes rom the Forrest Center had 20 minutes

to investigate a mock crime scene or the CSI skills. Their team fnished seven minutes early and placed second.

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When a baby fellout of a cart at Target,Angela Smith knew ex-actly what to do, thanksto CPR classes taught byJonathan Riffe and KimJones.

Riffe and Jones of-fer CPR classes at vari-ous businesses throughthe tri-county area, aswell as monthly ses-sions for individuals at

the Huntingtown Volun-teer Fire Department. Inthe past year, Jones saidthey held more than 50classes, averaging ve toseven classes per month.

“This is life saving training,” said Riffe,who is chief of the Huntingtown Volunteer Fire Department. “You have the potential tochange someone’s day and save their life.”

Everyone who goes through CPR andFirst Aid training is certied for two years,Riffe said. After two years, a refresher course is required for their re-certications.

Jones said the people going throughcertication classes vary. Some are baby-sitters or people starting a day care center,others are preparing to go into nursing pro-grams and others are getting certications

to be personal trainers.One man came in whosewife is a nurse and hewanted to be able to saveher life if he needed it.

“That was thesweetest thing I ever heard,” said Jones, whois a paramedic withCalvert Advanced LifeSupport.

Both use personalstories to explain howCPR and First Aidtraining has practicalapplications and its use

in real life situations,Jones said. She said theyhave taught classes inCalvert, Charles and St.Mary’s counties, andhave leads in Washing-

ton, D.C. and Virginia for groups wantingclasses.

Small group CPR classes are $60 andCPR and First Aid classes are $80, thoughRiffe said they work with larger groups for individual rates.

The next class will be Feb. 26 at theHuntingtown Volunteer Fire Departmentat 10 a.m. Pre-registration is recommend-ed. For more information, or to schedule aclass, www.somdcpr.com.

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Photo courtesy o Jonathan RifeKim Jones oversees while two studentspractice CPR.

In a special afternoonservice on Sunday, Jan. 29,

Saint Nicholas LutheranChurch in Huntingtown in-stalled their new pastor, theRev. Robert C. Lehman. Invit-ed clergy, friends and guests joined Church members for the ceremony. Preaching at theservice was The Rev. RichardGraham, presiding Bishop of the Metropolitan WashingtonD.C. Synod, Evangelical Lu-theran Church in America.Presiding at the installationwas The Rev. Wendy Deeben,dean of the Maryland-Dela-ware conference of the ELCAand former Associate Pastor of Saint Nicholas Lutheran

Church.

Photo courtesy o Bob MatthewsThe Rev. Richard Graham, Bishop, Metropolitan Washington DC

Synod, left, with The Rev. Robert C. Lehman, newly installed pastor at Saint Nicholas Lutheran Church in Huntingtown.




By Corrin M. Howe

Staff Writer

“To whom much is given much is required.”Rev. Robert Hahn’s life of community service started

24 years ago when a co-worker with the EnvironmentalProtection Agency invited Hahn and his wife, Jean, to a tentevent where the Chesapeake Church in Calvert County washaving a fundraising event.

The friend assured Hahn he wasn’t asking them to givemoney, but to just help make the tent look full.

That night, Hahn said he heard God speak to him. Heheard that he was to move to Calvert County and becomeinvolved in the church.

His wife wasn’t as easily convinced, until he talkedabout buying a piece of property and designing a house.“Now, I hear God talking,” he said his wife said. The tentevent was in November 1987 and they were in the county by April 1988.

Now 24 years later, Hahn has been senior pastor for

20 years at the church that has grown to become one of thelargest in Calvert County.

The congregation of over 1,100 serves such initiativesas End Hunger in Calvert County; monthly oil changes; l-ing taxes, emergency relief teams; counseling; three week-end worship services, and more. While they serve primarilyin the county, the church’s inuence stretches around theUnited States and the world sending ministry teams to NewOrleans, San Diego, Haiti, and Honduras. The church evenlets commuters park in the back of their parking lot dur-ing the week. The full parking lot indicates the communitytakes advantage of it.

“The church is God’s declaration of love to all people.

Chesapeake Church not only serves out of obedience to

God but to demonstrate to people, who are one heartbeataway from crisis, that Jesus loves them. Eventually peopleare caught off guard by unconditional love. That’s how Je-sus loves you,” said Hahn.

When Hahn started, he got involved with the youthministry, became a deacon and elder and started attendingseminary. The former pastor re-evaluated his life and de-cided to step down. During the two years without a senior pastor, Hahn helped ll the pulpit. Eventually the congrega-tion called him to be their senior pastor. “I never lled outan application.”

One of the rst things he did was to surround himself with excellent staff. As he spoke, his use of certain conceptsrevealed his familiarity with the principles discussed in“Good to Great,” by Jim Collins. Hahn said he and his staff did go through that book and another one similar whichused the same concepts to build “break out churches.”

Chesapeake Church has a simple mission statement,vision statement and three core values which drive every-

thing it does. “Because I can remember three things.”

Any ministry the church takes on must meet their corevalues, “especially excellence honors God,” Hahn said.

The congregation embraces Matthew 25: 35-40 whichsays:

“For I was hungry and you gave me somethingto eat, I was thirsty and you gave me somethingto drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and youcame to visit me.’ “Then the righteous will an-swer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungryand feed you, or thirsty and give you somethingto drink? When did we see you a stranger andinvite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?When did we see you sick or in prison and goto visit you?’ “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tellyou, whatever you did for one of the least of these

brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

Hahn said, “We try to embrace that in a real way. Ina way the culture speaks. We are a modern contemporaryformat with an ancient message.”

The success of the church is not because they fol-

low a formula, but because the church and its membersare blessed by God, because it pleases Him, according toHahn. Chesapeake Church doesn’t have a hidden agendato grow for the sake of numbers. Likewise, it doesn’t existto pull people from other churches. In fact, Hahn said if heknows that is the case, he will talk to the people and ask them to give their current church another chance.

Aware the congregation as a whole has consider-able nancial means makes them even more responsibleto serve the people of the county, according to Hahn, “Towhom much is given much is required.”

One of the reasons they are able to determine theneeds of the county is that the staff has a pastor dedicatedto community outreach and another to community life. Outof the congregation’s “owning the values of caring for people,” they support such ministries as the food pantry: llingin the gap and delivering meals to seniors on the weekendwhen Meals on Wheels doesn’t; and running a Christiancounseling center which is licensed by the state of Mary-land, said Hahn, who fur ther added that 95 percent of those

using the service are not members of Chesapeake Church.

“We don’t embrace every need. We can’t. We have a pretty good idea of what we are called to do,” he said.

Chesapeake Church has moved into a position of trying to unite other churches and service organizations tomobilize and meet community needs.

“It’s not just about building our corner off Route 4,”Hahn said.

The church building is Northbound Route 4 beforethe Route 2/4 split toward Annapolis behind the Morgan ERussell Excavating and Hauling.

End Hunger in Calvert County is one example of a program that started off with Chesapeake Church being themain sponsor, but now 25 other churches and 50 businessesare behind the initiative to feed those in the county who aregoing hungry.

Hahn proudly announced that his daughter, Jackie, ithe sole employee of End Hunger. He said she has Master’sdegree in Communication from Georgetown University.

“She’s way over qualied, but she came to the cause o

Christ to end hunger,” he said.Free tax help for those earning income unde

$57,000 is another ministry Chesapeake turned into acommunity supported program. Community supporterinclude the Northern High School Future Business Lead-ers of America, local service organizations like the Optimist Club and Rotary, and local business Keep It Simple – to name a few.

“We live in a generous county. It you show there is aneed and give them a mechanism to do it,” the residents businesses, churches, government agencies and service organizations will take it on,” he said.

The days that 800 people showed up to help harveslocal farms for End Hunger is another example of how notall the service comes f rom Chesapeake Church itself.

Recently, Rev. Hahn was named a nalist in the governor’s Compassionate Marylander contest, which, according to their website, recognizes “those citizens who impacthe lives of others and go above and beyond the call of duty

to ensure our neighbors in need are taken care of.”One of the components of the award was to solicit in

put through the social networks. An on-line vote was seup to select the top 10 semi-nalists. The ve nalists whowill receive a $5,000 award for their charity will be selected by review committee.

“We were caught off guard by surprise that we received votes from all over the world – Brazil, England,”said Hahn. By the end of the voting, Hahn received the sec-ond highest votes with a huge surge the last couple of days

The Rev. was pleased when both the county Democraand Republican parties sent out emails asking their mem bers to vote “for the cause.” Although everyone was askedto vote for “Reverend Robert Hahn,” he feels the vote ireally for End Hunger in Calvert, which will receive thenancial award. As of press time, the state had not announced the ve winners.

Despite all the good things the congregation andchurch does and all the hard work and long hours they

spend doing it, Hahn said they try to have fun along theway.

Chesapeake Church has adopted Honduras, and iworking on building a medical clinic and trying to solicimedical personal to go there to serve.

To nd out more about Chesapeake Church, go to theiwebsite www.chesapeakechurch.org or call 410-257-0700Chances are you will be able to talk to Rev. Hahn or hiswife, Jean, out in the community as they are involved ina number of community boards and organizations suchas Special Olympics, Chamber of Commerce, TeacheAwards, and much more.

Despite what Chesapeake Church has done in the pastis doing now, or what is planned for the future, when it is alsaid and done, the purpose of the church to spread the message of Jesus, that without a saving faith in Jesus Christ people will be lost forever, Hahn said.

“It is a harsh statement. What’s even harsher is iis true. And to be cavalier and do nothing about that” iswrong, he said.

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Chesapeake Church Continues to Expand Reach

Our Mission

“To reach unchurched people and help them grow intofully devoted followers of Jesus Christ”

Our Vision

“A growing Biblical community.”

Our Core Values

• All people matter to God.• Full devotion to Jesus Christ is normal.• Excellence honors God.

Photo By Sean RiceRev. Robert Hahn’s has been senior pastor for 20 years at the

Chesapeake Church, which has grown to become one of the larg-est in Calvert County.




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Chocolate Lover’s Afair

Canards Catering was one o several local caterers and restaurants serving ood at the Annual Chocolate Lover’s Aair. The Calvert County Chamber o Commerce puts onthe event as its biggest undraiser or their scholarship und. At press time, the sta wasstill working on determining fnal amount raised.

Chamber Board Member Laura Allison renews her previous relationship with Jack Sparrow. Allison said Sparrow had proposed to her at a prior event and remembered her when she walked into Chocolate Lover’s Aair.

Calvert Chamber o Commerce Board Member Vicky Karol and her husband,Gene, attended the reception prior to the

Annual Chocolate Lover’s Aair.




Joseph America, 91

Joseph America,91, of Prince Freder-ick, MD, passed away

at his residence onFriday, Feb. 3, 2012.Joe was born on Feb.24, 1920 in Washing-ton, DC.

He attendedMcKinley Tech HighSchool and was sta-tioned in Okinawa with the 1113th Engi-neer Construction Group during WorldWar II. After the war he settled with hisfamily in Prince Georges County, MD andwas a Master Tool and Die Maker at theBureau of Engraving and Printing. Hemoved with his family to Prince Frederick in 1977. He loved to spend time shing,crabbing and boating with his family andfriends. He was a devoted husband and

father. When his beloved wife Minniedied in 1974, he retired from his job andassumed the role of parenting the seven of his fourteen children that were still livingat home.

Survivors include his daughters Tru-dy Dean (Roy), Eileen Lynch (Robert),Evelyn English, Peggy Hampton (Rob-ert), Christine Real (Matthew), CatherineManley (Chuck), Carol Wheeler (Craig),Miriam Gholl (Robert), Mary Taylor (Jim)and sons Joseph America (Denise), Mar-tin America, John America and JamesAmerica (Ingrid). Joe leaves behind38 grandchildren and numerous greatgrandchildren.

He was predeceased by his wife Min-nie and his daughter, Joanne Pantuso.

The family received friends Sunday,Feb. 5, 2012 at Rausch Funeral Home,4405 Broomes Island Road, Port Republic,MD. A Mass of Christian Burial was cel-ebrated at St. John Vianney Church, 105Vianney Lane, Prince Frederick, MD onMonday, Feb. 6, 2012. Burial followed atFort Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, MD.

In lieu of owers, the family requestsdonations be made to Calvert Hospice, P.O.Box 838, Prince Frederick, MD 20678.

Arrangements provided by theRausch Funeral Home of Port Republic,MD.

Judith Bell, 66

Judith Ann “Judy”Bell, 66, of Lusby, MD,

passed away Dec. 27,2011 at Calvert Memo-rial Hospital in PrinceFrederick, MD.

Judy was bornFeb. 8, 1945 in Cleve-land, Ohio to MalcolmM. and Roxy (Jones)MacKenzie.

She lived in GlenBurnie, MD and graduated from Glen Bur-nie High School, class of 1964. She also livedin Cumberland, Baltimore, Riviera Beachand Annapolis, MD from 1964 to 1970, un-til moving to Calvert County in 1971. Judyattended the College of Southern Maryland,where she studied law enforcement. She wasemployed as a security ofcer at CalvertCliffs from the mid 1970’s until retiring in1987. She was a member of Waters MemorialChurch, Port Republic, MD. Judy enjoyed

living near the Chesapeake Bay, the beach,making jewelry, reading and watching mov-ies. She also enjoyed owers and was fond of her cats.

She is survived by daughters Heather D. Bell Roark of Prince Frederick, MD, Mi-chelle Y. “Shelly” Beale of St. Leonard, MDand a son Charles F. Bell III “Chuck” andwife Kerri of North Carolina. Also survivingare eleven grandchildren, three great grand-children, brothers Malcolm “Buddy” MacK-enzie of Fallston, MD and Norman MacK-enzie of Aberdeen, MD and sisters JoyceThomas of Arnold, MD and Elaine Hermanof Red Lion, PA, she was preceded in death

by a sister Merline Richardson.A memorial service and celebration of

Judy’s life was held Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012at Rausch Funeral Home, P.A., 8325 Mt.

Harmony Lane, Owings, MD. Interment fol-lowed at Asbury Cemetery in Prince Freder-ick, MD.

Brenn Carter, 18

Brenn MonetCarter, 18, of Hunting-town, MD passed awayon Jan. 22, 2012 at Cal-vert Memorial Hospi-tal, Prince Frederick,MD.

She was bornSeptember 11, 1993, to

Robert M. “Bud” and Crystal Carter.She grew up in Calvert County where

she attended Huntingtown ElementarySchool, and recently graduated from North-ern High School in May 2011. From the startit was clear to see she was a force to be reck-

oned with. Forthright, energetic, funny, andcreative, her charm went before her like atorch, illuminating those she was around with

joy. Her gregarious nature was infectious; her smile brilliant; her eagerness to explore fasci-nating. Her enthusiasm for life made it vivid-ly apparent that Brenn would leave an indel-ible imprint on those with whom she came incontact. Naturally artistic, Brenn possesseda distinct air for expression. Drawing washer passion, ambition her palate, audacity her

paint, life her canvas, and what remains is awork of art.

Some of Brenn’s favorite pastime wasspent drawing, getting her nails done, apply-ing make-up and changing her hair color andstyles. Her presence on this earth will contin-ue to live on; her inuence and her love will

burn brightly in the hearts of those who knew

her. Her spirit, laughter, and essence will nev-er be forgotten. Brenn will be sorely missedand forever loved by her family and fr iends.

She is survived by her parents, Robert“Bud” Carter, III and Crystal Carter; broth-er, Robert “L.B.” Carter, IV, sister, Brianna“Bebe” Carter; grandparents, Gary Mashino,Robert “Buddy” Carter, Jr. and Betty Carter;uncles, Michael Mashino, Garrett Mashino,John Graves, and Jeremy Updike; aunts,Dawn Graves, Bonita Carter, Barbara Cart-er, Briana Carter, and Bethany Carter; rstcousins, Daryl Smith, Jr., Talia Graves, Ty-ler Graves, and Trevor Graves; and a host of other dear aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.

She was preceded in death by her grand-mother, Virginia “Ginny” Mashino.

Funeral service was held on Saturday,Jan. 28, 2012 at Greater Mt. Zion Church,Prince Frederick, MD with Pastor Dante’King ofciating. The interment was at Ft.Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, MD.

The pallbearers were Michael Mashino,Marlin Peters, Jr., Charles “CJ” Ward, DavidHill, Joe Hance and Marlin Hill. The honor-ary pallbearers were Robert “LB” Carter IV,and Garrett Mashino.

Funeral arrangements provided bySewell Funeral Home, Prince Frederick, MD.

Pauline Chase, 51

Pauline DeniseChase, 51, of GreatMills, MD passedaway on Jan. 19, 2012at St. Mary’s Hospital,Leonardtown, MD.

Pauline was born onApril 16, 1960 in Cal-vert County, MD toCarolyn V. Chase andWilliam Chase, Sr.

She attended Calvert County PublicSchools. She was a member of Mount ZionChurch in Ridge. She worked at ChesapeakeShore as a nursing aide. She was married toJohnson “JB” Bright. She loved to play cardsand hang out with friends and family. Shealso loved cooking.

She leaves behind her son, Harold C.Garner, Jr. (Juanita); her grandchildren: Tar-hara, Shiann and Maliki; her sister MaryAnn(Tyrone); her brother, William E. Chase, Jr.;two nieces, Ebony and and Quantia (Bry-an (KB)); two nephews, Jerell and Shawn(Megie); great-nieces and great nephews:

Ja’miya, Carolyn, Malaysia, MaKayla, Bry-

ana, Bryan; and Chenelle’; her godchildrenSomore, T.J. Thomas and Ronnie; a speciafriend, Harold C. Garner, Sr.; good friendsBarbara and Mike Garrison, Mrs. Kathy anher sister Liz Taylor and Mr. and Mrs. Statesman and a host of cousins and friends.

Funeral service was held on TuesdayJan. 31, 2012, at Zion Hill Church of God inChrist, Lusby, MD with Elder Leroy Berryofciating. Interment was at Zion Hill Cemetery, Lusby, MD.

The pallbearers were family and friendand JB, Levi, Leroy, Moody and TJ.

Funeral arrangements provided bSewell Funeral Home, Prince Frederick, MD

Joan Davis, 78

Joan Lillian Da-vis, 78, died of naturalcauses on Feb. 1, 2012at her residence inFriendship, MD.

Mrs. Davis was

born in Worcester,Massachusetts andwas a graduate of HighSchool of Commercein 1952.

She married her husband of 40 yearsRobert Edward Davis, who was active dutyin the military, in 1954. She was a homemaker, mother of three daughters, a CamprGirl Troop leader, and a Red Cross volunteewho enjoyed spending time with her familySome of her hobbies included ceramics, sewing, and crossword and jigsaw puzzles. Inlater years, she enjoyed quilting and traveling to various countries. She enjoyed livinin Southern Maryland.

She was preceded in death by her hus band, Robert Edward Davis and a sister Bar bara Green of Worcester, Massachusetts.

She is survived by three daughtersBarbara Knowles of Huntingtown, JennifeGieser of Kapolei, Hawaii and JacquelinHeffner of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania; vgrandchildren and one great granddaughterand one brother, Walter E. Hutchinson oWorcester, Massachusetts.

Family and friends will be received Saturday Feb. 11 from 2-3 PM at Rausch FuneraHome, P.A., 8325 Mt. Harmony Lane, Owings, MD, where a Memorial Service ancelebration of Joan’s life will follow at 3PMInurnment at Arlington National Cemeterywill take place at a later date.

Expressions of sympathy in lieu of owers may be made to the American CanceSociety, Calvert County Unit, P.O. Box 752Prince Frederick, MD 20678.

For additional information visit wwwRauschFuneralHomes.com.

William Ewaski, Sr,CMSgt. Ret., 90

William Peter Ewaski, Sr, CMS-gt. Ret. – USAF, of Dunkirk, Maryland,died on Jan. 29, 2012 atthe age of 90.

William was bornon Jan. 31, 1921 on afarm in Colebrooke,Ohio, to Michael andFrances Ewaska.

He was one of 10 children. In June, 1950he married Helen Berry. In Dec., 1991, William lost the love of his life. William servein the United States Air Force, serving during

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World War II in the European Theater andalso served in Korea. In 1959, he retired fromthe Air Force.

William moved to the Calvert area tenyears ago. He enjoyed bowling, both Duck and 10 pin, played ping pong and was a mem-

ber of the Senior Olympics. He was a big sup-

porter of the New York Yankees and the Dal-las Cowboys. On beautiful days, he could befound out in his garden tending to his owersand vegetables. He loved spending time withhis family especially sporting events with hisgrandchildren.

He was a loving father of William P.Ewaski, Jr. and his wife, Mary and Joyce

Nurin and her husband, Larry. He was adevoted grandfather of Donna McCoy,George DeGrasse, Jr., Shannon Sharpe,Lori Walker and April Ewaski. He is alsosurvived by 11 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.

He is predeceased by his nine brothersand sisters.

A private interment will be held atMaryland Veterans Cemetery, Cheltenham,MD. Memorial contributions in Mr. Ewaski’s

memory may be made to the Arthritis Foun-dation, P. O. Box 96280, Washington, DC20077-7491.

Friends are welcome to visit the Lee Fu-neral Home Website at leefuneralhomes.comto sign Mr. Ewaski’s memorial register book under the obituary section of our home page.

Gordon Harris, 53

Gordon Lee Har-ris, 53, of Hyattsville,MD passed awayon Jan. 30, 2012 atGeorgetown Universi-ty Hospital, Washing-ton, DC.

He was the sec-

ond child born to HelenK. Harris. He was bornin North Brentwood, MD on Nov. 26, 1958.

He received his education in the P.G.County school system. He joined the U.S.Army in 1977 and served nine years. Heworked several jobs including, Moving Mas-ters and nally at Direct Mail as a Folder Op-erator; Cutter; and Pressman Helper.

In 2011, Gordon was baptized at Mt.Olive United Methodist Church. “Gordo” ashe was affectionately called, loved watchingWesterns, especially reruns of Bonanza. Hewas also an avid Redskins fan.

He leaves to mourn: his Mother; a Son,Jamie; a Brother, Bernard Sr. (Margo); a Sis-ter, Lavern; a Nephew, Bernard Jr. (Shatisha);a Niece, Helena; a Great Nephew, Zavion;two Great Nieces, Armani and Heaven; and ahost of Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, and Friends.

A Memorial service was held on Satur-day, Feb. 4, 2012 at Mt. Olive United Method-ist Church, Prince Frederick,MD with Rev.Patricia Berry ofciating. The interment was

private.Funeral arrangements provided by

Sewell Funeral Home, Prince Frederick, MD.

Beverly Harwood, 79

Beverly Ann Harwood, 79, of Annan-dale, VA passed away on Jan. 19, 2012 inPrince Frederick, MD surrounded by family.

Beverly was born on Feb. 8, 1932, inWofford, KY to Mary Evelyn (West) Jonesand Dale Jones. Her family moved to Wash-ington, DC to support the war effort when

she was 9. She attended Anacostia High

School and George Washington University.It was at GWU that she met her future hus-

band, William Robert Harwood, Jr. Theywere married for 52 years; he preceded her in death in 2005.

Beverly is survived by her daughter, Su-san H. Kissell, son-in-law Paul Thurman and

granddaughter Katrina Kissell, of Prince Fred-erick, MD. She is also survived by her sonRobert Dale Harwood of Falls Church, VA.

The family would like to thank Dr. PaulJani and the Hospice of Calvert County.

Interment will be private in Kentucky.Arrangements provided by the Rausch

Funeral Home, Port Republic, MD.

John Lloyd, 84

John Purdy “Jack”Lloyd, 84, of Dunkirk,MD, passed away Feb.2, 2012 at Anne Arun-del Medical Center inAnnapolis, MD.

Jack was born Au-

gust 24, 1927 in Wash-ington, D.C. to EllenRebecca (Purdy) andJohn Thomas Lloyd,and raised in Mitchellville, MD.

He attended Mitchellville Elementaryand Upper Marlboro High School. He servedin the U.S. Army from November 1945 to

November 1946 earning the WWII VictoryRibbon and Meritorious Unit Award. Hemarried Genevieve Norfolk on June 19, 1948and they lived in Melwood, MD and DistrictHeights, MD, and settled in Dunkirk in 1976.Jack was employed at the U.S. Census Bu-reau in Suitland, MD, and retired in April1981 as a printing specialist. He returned towork part-time at the Census Bureau after afour year hiatus, and retired permanently in1995 with nearly 50 years of service.

Jack was an active member of Mt. Har-mony United Methodist Church in Owingswhere he served as head usher for many yearsand was also a member of the church cem-etery committee. He was a former member of the Suitland Moose, and because of his loveof baseball organized Southern Marylandsandlot baseball teams. He enjoyed duckpin

bowling and had bowled for many years inthe Census Bureau Bowling League.

Jack is survived by wife Genevieve(Norfolk) Lloyd, a daughter Janice M. Lloyd,a granddaughter Deanna R. Brooke, andgreat-grandsons Bradley Lloyd and Patrick and Kyle Brooke, all of Dunkirk.

Friends and family were received onSunday, Feb. 5 at Rausch Funeral Home,Owings. Funeral services and a celebrationof Jack’s life were held Feb. 6, 2012 at Mt.Harmony United Methodist Church, Ow-ings, MD. Interment followed in the churchcemetery.

Memorial contributions in Jacks namemay be made to Mt. Harmony UMC Build-ing Fund, 155 East Mt. Harmony Road, Ow-ings, MD 20736. For additional informationvisit www.RauschFuneralHomes.com.

Clarence Parker, 91

Clarence Lyn-wood “Woody” Park-er, 91, of ChesapeakeBeach, MD passedaway Feb. 1, 2012 athis residence. He was

born Jan. 22, 1921 inBethesda, MD to Viola

Mae (Broadhurst) and

Clarence Isaiah Parker.He attended Bethesda Elementary, Le-

land Junior High and Bethesda Chevy ChaseHigh School. He worked as an automobilemechanic and in the mid 1940’s began hisown home building company known as Park-er and Parker. He married Marjorie Breeden

February 26, 1940, and they made their homeand raised their family in Bethesda. In addi-tion to being a homebuilder in the Washing-ton area, he also built homes near the water in Anne Arundel and Calvert Counties, andhad lived for the past six years in a home heremodeled in Chesapeake Beach, MD. Hewas a former member of the Bethesda UnitedMethodist Church where he served as a dea-con. In his leisure time Woody enjoyed boat-ing, shing, horses, and time with his familyand friends. He was also known as an accom-

plished “x-it” man, able to repair anything.Woody is survived by his wife of 71

years, Marjorie Lee Parker; a daughter Shir-ley M. Hallam and husband Bill of Hunting-town, sons Douglas W. Parker and wife Su-san of Tillamook, OR, and Donald G. Parker and wife Nicolene of Silver Spring, MD. He

is also survived by four grandchildren, TracyOley, Daniel Hallam and Johnny and Roger Byington, and three great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by two broth-ers, Glenwood and Elwood Parker.

A gathering for family and friends is planned for a later date.

Expressions of sympathy in Mr. Parker’sname may be made to Calvert Hospice, P.O.Box 838, Prince Frederick, MD 20678, on-line at www.CalvertHospice.org.

For additional information visit www.RauschFuneralHomes.com.

Gene Schwallenberg, Jr., 48

Gene PhillipSchwallenberg, Jr., 48,of Huntingtown, MD

passed away Jan. 27,

2012 at home.He was born

Oct. 5, 1963 in PrinceFrederick to Gene Pand Gail J. (Walton)Schwallenberg, Sr.

Gene received hiseducation in Calvert County Schools and waa 1981 graduate of Northern High School. Hwas a carpenter with Chesapeake Carpentryof St. Leonard until retiring due to ill healthin 2004. Gene enjoyed hunting, shing and

being out on the water. He treasured spending time with his family especially his nieceand nephews.

Surviving are his daughter Jamie LeeSchwallenberg of St. Mary’s, parents GeneP. and Gail J. Schwallenberg, Sr. of Huntingtown, Sisters Wanda May Rogers and he

husband Danny of Prince Frederick and Angela Lynn Marshall and her husband Steve oPort Republic and a brother William Russel“Rusty” Schwallenberg and his wife Margieof Lusby.

Gene was preceded in death by a sisteHolly Melissa Schwallenberg in 2008.

The family is conducting private services to celebrate Gene’s life.

Arrangements by Rausch FuneraHome, Owings.




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Showing That We Care

By Sherrod Sturrock

Sitting here in Southern Maryland, it iseasy to ip past the morning headlines andignore the War being waged on the other side of the world; easy to be indifferent towhat life is like for the American men and

women who are serving their country in Af -ghanistan. After all, what can we do aboutit?

When a Marine Museum staff member’s son was deployed to Afghanistanin 2009, Calvert Marine Museum volun-teer coordinator Sherry Reid wanted to dosomething. She single-handedly launchedthe Care Packages program. It has grownfrom a small individual gesture to a com -munity-wide statement.

“We started with John Carlson andPaul Pfeiffer and invited museum staff andvolunteers to donate items to put in care packages for them. When one of our boardmembers brought in a box loaded withitems to be sent overseas, I knew I couldn’tuse it quickly enough with just one or two packages. I sent an email to all of CalvertCounty Government asking for names andaddresses of family members that wereserving overseas. I ended up with seven sol-diers on our list. We mailed a total of nine packages to them in 2010. As some returnedand were taken off of the list, new nameshave been added. Two that we are sendingto now are on their second deployment andhave been on our list both times.”

PLEASE include these two boys that are part of my family that I would greatly ap-

preciate them being added to the list! Thank you very much in advance!!! HUGS!!!Thank you, thank you, thank YOU!!!!

The program continues to grow. In2011, Sherry and volunteers from the CMMfamily mailed a total of 60 packages - fromas few as two packages one month up to as

many as seven packages another month.Sherry received $155.40 from the CalvertCounty Employee Recognition Commit-tee to help pay postage for one package amonth, all other donations have been fromthe staff, volunteers, and board members atthe Calvert Marine Museum. Sherry solicitsdonations of candy, plastic razors, batteries, playing cards, DVDs, etc. for the packages,and uses nancial donations to purchaseadditional items and cover the very costlyshipping fees. The total cost of this pro-gram last year was $2,577. And so it goes.Today Sherry shipped off another ve box-es packed to the rim. She told me that thesupport grows every month, and everyonewants to help. I think all of us want to show

that we care, but it took someone to show ushow to do it.

Dear Sherry, Hi, my name is Christi, my husband

is Jason Spurlock. He is one of the soldier you have been sending packages to. Jason

and I would like to thank you so much fortaking the time to think of our soldiers and getting the packages together for them. Hetold me he just received one from the museum this week and was so excited. Mail isvery slow due to the weather and everythingthey get has to be helicoptered in. Getting packages is the one thing they can look for-ward to, so once again, thank you so much

The Spurlock Family

If you’d like to get involved, contactSherry at [email protected] .

Sherrod Sturrock is the Deputy Director of the Calvert Marine Museum

By Christopher B. Summers

There's a coordinated push by Gov. Martin O'Malley to raiseMaryland's gasoline tax by apply-ing the state's sales tax of 6 per -cent to fuel purchases.

That means that, at currentgas prices, the state tax would risefrom 23.5 cents per gallon to 44.5cents - an increase of 89 percent.This would make Maryland's gastax the ninth-highest in the nation.

Many in the business com-munity, mainly the MarylandChamber of Commerce andGreater Baltimore Committee, aremisguidedly supporting this taxhike.

Make no mistake about it, thistax hike will not help our state'seconomy and it won't address thereal problems facing Maryland'stransportation funding structure.

The governor and his alliesclaim we need this tax increase to pay for much-needed transporta-tion projects. This claim assumesthe new revenue will go to high-value transportation projects, butthere's little reason to think that

that will actually happen.Recent Maryland history of -fers plenty of examples of policy-makers using gas tax revenues to pay for non-transportation proj-ects, or else routing them to proj-ects that have great political value but do little to unclog Maryland'soverburdened roads.

Why think that state ofcialswill become more responsiblewith taxpayers' transportation dol-lars when more of those dollarsow into Annapolis?

Faulty reasoning on new jobsIn Fiscal Year 2010, for in-

stance, Annapolis took $370million from the state's Trans- portation Trust Fund to cover other spending needs. Though that

money supposedly was only "bor -rowed," it has yet to be returned.

FY2010 is not an outlier.Overall, some $1.1 billion that has been "borrowed" from the trustfund in recent years has yet to berepaid, and there currently are noserious plans for repayment.

This isn't the only problemwith advocates' arguments for thistax hike. Take their claim that thehigher taxes would lead to more jobs.

Yes, the tax revenue would -nance more state spending (which perhaps would be in transporta-tion, and perhaps not), and thatspending would lead to employ-ment. But the $491 million a year in additional tax revenue wouldcome from motorists who buygasoline.

Without the tax increase, thismoney would be spent by motor -ists on other goods and services,or else be saved by motorists, andthus lent out by their banks asinvestments.

Handing an additional $491million to the state means thatMaryland motorists will have$491 million less for themselves,and that means that jobs will also be lost because of the tax.

Gas tax as user fee Not only are the job creation

numbers of this tax hike over -hyped, but so, too, is the need for massive transportation repair inMaryland. According to the Fed-eral Highway Administration,Maryland is around the nationalaverage in infrastructure quality.

That's not great, but it's notthe dire emergency that somemake it out to be. And in termsof important areas like bridgesafety, Maryland performs aboveaverage.

I don't dispute that there are

some transportation maintenance

and building projects that needto be completed. We don't need agas tax hike to x those problems,however. Simply re-prioritizingcurrent funding would free up sig-nicant revenue.

Focusing the tax revenueMarylanders pay when fuelingtheir cars and trucks on projectsthat serve cars and trucks would be a good rst step.

In its ideal form, a gas tax isvery close to a user fee: those whouse roads pay for the building andupkeep of those roads. In Mary-land, however, those who useroads not only pay for the buildingand upkeep of the roads; they also pay for the building and upkeep of mass transit.

Roughly half of the total

money the state spendson highways and transitcombined goes to pay for transit, but transit accountsfor a mere 4 percent of thestatewide travel. Of the newrevenue the state has allo-cated for highway and tran-sit funding, transit has received 95 percent in the past decade.

And no, upgrading transitdoes not take enough cars off theroad to justify siphoning moneyaway from roads, nor does it yieldmuch environmental benet.

Another consideration weigh-ing against this tax is the burden itwill place on poorer Marylanders.The gas tax is a regressive tax thatforces people with lower incomesto pay a greater percentage of their

income than do the wealthy.The disproportionate impac

of this tax will hurt householdthat are least able to afford it.

Any transportation needs th

state has can largely be addressed by xing the fundamental aws inhow our state allocates transportation funding. Raising the gas tax ithe wrong answer to an overhyped problem.

Christopher B. Summers i president of the Maryland Publi Policy Institute.

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Every second Saturday at the American Legion Post206 in Chesapeake Beach a crowd gathers for countrydancing night.

American Legion Historian and unofcial hall rentalmanager Jim Hitchcock said between 150 and 200 peopleshow up, form all over the tri county area, and there iseven a group that comes from Virginia every month for the party. Dances include couples and line dancing, andother traditional country dances.

The evenings are open to the public, and Hitchcock said people don’t have to know how to dance to attend.Lessons are provided by Linda Bloyer. There is one hour of free lessons at 7 p.m., before the party starts. For the restof the evening, there is four hours of “dancing, beer, soda,chips and pretzels, all for $15,” Hitchcock said.

“It’s always a good time,” he said.The dances take place in the upper level ballroom.

Hitchcock said the dance oor is one of the biggest inSouthern Maryland. The evening also includes live mu-sic, often performed by the Southern Winds Band out of

Northern Virginia.

The country dances have been held for the past 15years, and perhaps longer, Hitchcock said. He and his wifehave been running the dances for the past year and a half.Allowing people to come to the American Legion for theevening also helps dispel some pre-conceived assump-tions some people have about the post by giving people an

understanding of who the American Legion is and whatthey do.

“We’re not just a bunch of old drunks sitting up at the bar,” Hitchcock said.

In addition to the Virginia group, regular attendeesinclude local government ofcials, like Commissioner Evan K. Slaughenhoupt Jr., who said he goes “to everyone I can” with his family. He said dancing is good exer-cise, and they have been attending for the past seven years.

“It’s a gathering of good people,” Slaughenhouptsaid.

Proceeds from the evening go toward youth-centeredcommunity events. The money keeps the lights on sothe American Legion can offer the use of the hall to girlscouts and boy scouts for meetings, free of charge, as wellas hosting holiday parties for kids to attend. There is anannual kids bazaar every year.

Other community events hosted by American Legion

Post 206 include breakfasts, dinners and even a bull andoyster roast.

The next country dance night is Feb. 11. In addition tothe monthly country dance, there is a hand dance, a typeof swing dance, being held Feb. 19 starting at 6:30 p.m. for $7 per person.

For more information, visit www.alpost206.org or call 301-855-6466.

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What the heck is winter shing? WhenI was younger and the winters were moreharsh than they have been in recent years, wecalled it ice shing. In 2012, conditions arequite a bit different. It isn’t cold like Canada,

but there are sh biting. Now is a good time to sh for crappie

in local lakes and tributaries where there’sfresh water. Yellow Perch are just begin-ning to start their spawning run in some lo-cally favored spots, although those catchingthem are fairly tight-lipped about their actuallocations. Because of the warm conditions,Maryland DNR is starting their trout stock-ing program early this year, so the “put and

take” ponds like the ones at Gilbert Run andMyrtle Grove should be stocked soon. Check their website for stocking schedules.

Another sh to try for is chain pickerel.The Coastal Conservation Association

of Maryland is sponsoring a catch and releasecontest through March 15th called The TidalPickerel Challenge. Local tackle shops inkey areas of the state are help-ing CCA MD with the event

by sponsoring “teams” tocompete for prizes. Our localshop, The Tackle Box, is one of thesponsors. Here’s how it works.

Local anglers register at The Tackle

Box and become part of its team in the chal-lenge. Awards are given for largest pickereland most net inches, and are presented to

both individuals and the winning tackle shopteam(s). Judging is done based on photos inthe catch and release event. The Tackle Boxteam will match up against stiff competition

from other tackle shops throughout the state.There is no limit to the number of anglers ona team, so the more the better. Fish at your leisure and then record and report your catchto contribute to your team’s success. Anglerscan obtain their ofcial ruler and contestrules at The Tackle Box, 22035 Three NotchRoad in Lexington Park.

Some of us are new to pickerel shing.To help us out, local light tackle guide, Capt.Brady Bounds, offers this advice.

“Any creek or stream that harbors yel-low perch should hold pickerel. The head of the creeks where they become feeder streamsare best. On the Patuxent, look in creeksabove Benedict and perhaps the main river above Wayson’s Corner. You may also ndthem near the headwaters of other creekssuch as Battle Creek, St. Leonard Creek,

Mill Creek, Cuckold Creek, St. ThomasCreek, Cat Creek, Washington Creek, TrentHall Creek and Indian Creek. On the Po-tomac side, consider the St Mary’s River

where it becomes marsh. Other likely placefor pickerel include Breton Bay where it becomes MacIntosh Run, the head of St Clements Bay in marsh up to Rte 234, WicomicoRiver up to Rte 234 at Chaptico Creek andAllen’s Fresh Run, Port Tobacco River inthe marsh and canals, Nanjemoy Creek, the

headwaters of Mattawoman Creek, and Piscataway Creek at Fort Washington. Fishingthe high tide is best in winter and also alongsunny shorelines in water that is three to sixfeet in depth.”

The helpful people at The Tackle Boxwill make sure you are well armed with thright tackle and bait.

The good news is that you won’t haveto chop a hole through the ice to nd sh thiwinter. At least I think that’s good news!

[email protected]. Keith has been a recreational angle

on the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries for over 50 years; he shes weekly from hi small boat during the season, and spendhis free time supporting local conservationorganizations.

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