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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
County Hires Cowger To Run Liquor Sales
Cowger, of Pocomoke City, has been in charge of managing the county's transition from a liquor board whose members are chosen by the governor to a system in which a county-controlled department manages retail and wholesale distribution of spirits.
Cowger has experience both as the former director of the LCB from 2001 through 2005. He is also a former Worcester County Commissioner who declined to run for re-election in 2010. He has also been an active member of the Pocomoke Volunteer Fire Company for more than 25 years, serving two terms as president.
As director of the Department of Liquor Control, Cowger's annual salary will be $85,000, a county spokeswoman said.
A campaign to disband the Worcester LCB, mounted by Ocean City business leaders who said the board gave some bars and restaurants better prices on liquor than others, led to a Maryland comptroller's investigation in 2010 that found problems in how the LCB managed and sold its inventory. A bill to end the LCB and give control over liquor sales to the county passed the legislature this spring and was signed by Gov. Martin O'Malley. It takes effect July 1.
Source; http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20110628/NEWS01/110628033/SNOW-HILL-Cowger-is-hired-by-county-to-run-liquor-sales?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Worcester County Times|s
Hundreds Of Virginia Laws Will Take Effect On Friday
The wide array of new laws ranges from an expansion of the availability of protection orders to new measurement standards for selling shelled oysters. Here are some of the highlights.
ABC
Booze towns: Residents of towns with a population of more than 1,000 will now be able to vote on whether their county should allow the sale of mixed drinks. Previously, town residents could not vote in such county referendums. The law is meant to address situations where a “dry” town is located in a “wet” county, or vice-versa.
Budget
Business
Civil law
Sexual abuse: Minors who are victims of sexual abuse will now have 20 years from the time of the incident to file a civil lawsuit. The previous statute of limitations was two years.
Criminal justice
Education
Environment and natural resources
Taxes
Transportation
Deceased voters: Even if an absentee voter dies before Election Day, the vote still will count so long as the voter was entitled to vote when he cast the ballot.
Powerball Price Will Double To Play - Odds To Win Improve
Lottery officials say starting Jan.15, the price of a Powerball ticket will go from $1 to $2.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Launch From NASA Cancelled Until Wednesday
18-Year-Old Arrested For Rape In Pocomoke
Reynolds was initially held on $75,000 bond. Court records show bond was lowered to $25,000 after a bond review hearing on June 23, and that Reynolds was subsequently released on bond.
A preliminary hearing in District Court is set for July 19.
Source; http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20110627/NEWS01/110627016/POCOMOKE-CITY-Police-say-18-year-old-raped-teen?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Worcester County Times|s
One-Armed National Guard Vet Catches Foul Ball
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBzQGm-Qmbk
Senator Ralph S. Northam Recognized by the Virginia Sheriffs' Association
August Execution Set For Virginia Inmate
Jerry Terrell Jackson, 29, is scheduled to be executed Aug. 18 for the murder of 88-year-old Ruth Phillips of Williamsburg.
A nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental forced many states to substitute pentobarbital, but some have questioned its use. Defense attorneys called for an investigation after a Georgia inmate executed last week using the new drug appeared to struggle during the lethal injection.
Courts have ruled that the change in drugs is not significant enough to postpone executions.
Attorneys for Jackson did not immediately respond to calls and emails seeking comment. They are likely to appeal Jackson's case to the U.S. Supreme Court and ask Gov. Bob McDonnell to commute his sentence to life in prison.
"Justice will finally be carried out for the commonwealth and the family of Mrs. Ruth Phillips," Attorney General's Office spokesman Brian Gottstein said.
"I think it's about time. I think it's really overdue," said Richard Phillips, Ruth Phillips' son, who found his mother dead after she failed to show up for church. "The law is the law, and if we don't respect the law and stand by the law, what have we got? Nothing?"
Phillips said he does not plan to witness the execution.
"There have been times where you want to have vengeance, but that's not my thing," he said.
Ruth Phillips, a widow for 30 years, followed her son to Virginia from New Hampshire in the late '90s. She worked as a seamstress making slip covers and draperies until her death, Richard Phillips said.
Phillips said Jackson's attorneys should not try to fight the execution. Once it has been determined that Jackson was guilty and that the conviction was appropriate, "that's the time to hang it up," he said. He encouraged them to be concerned not only with their client, but with the victims.
"If they were really thinking about compassion and justice, they would let it go," he said.
Source; http://hamptonroads.com/2011/06/execution-date-set-man-death-williamsburg-woman
FREEDOM FEST In Crisfield
Please Pray For Courtney
Courtney was taken from the nursing home, that she has been a patient for some time, to the ER at Shore Memorial yesterday afternoon. Yesterday evening she was transported to the Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters.
Please send prayers and more prayers for her speedy recovery.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Launch From NASA On Tuesday
ORS-1 is the Operationally Responsive Space Offices first operational satellite. Rapidly developing and fielding ORS-1 is an important step to demonstrate the capability to meet emerging and persistent war-fighter needs on operationally relevant timelines.
The Minotaur 1 rocket, integrated by Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC), is a four-stage vehicle, two stages being refurbished Minuteman II stages and the other two stages being OSC developed. The Minotaur is about 70 feet tall and 5 feet wide. The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Centers Space Development and Test Wing has overall mission management responsibility. This will be the fourth Minotaur 1 rocket launched from NASAs Wallops Flight Facility and the Spaceport since December 2006.
Based on the approved range schedule, the rocket is set for launch between 8:28 and 11:28 p.m. EDT. The backup launch days are June 29 July 10 . The launch may be visible, depending on cloud cover and ones viewing location, in the eastern United States from southern New York to North Carolina. It may be seen as far west from the Atlantic Coast as West Virginia and western Pennsylvania. Further information on the mission, including where to view the launch, is available on the internet at: www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/missions/ORS.html
Chicken BBQ This Weekend- Pocomoke City Vol. Fire Co. Is Cooking!!
Annual Chicken B-B-Q
Half BBQ Chicken <> Baked Beans <> Potato Salad <> Roll
Sunday sales while supply lasts
Happy Monday!
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Truck and Tractor Pull At the Pocomoke Fairgrounds
Modified Four Wheel Drive Trucks
Super Modified Tractors
Super Stock/Pro Stock Tractors
Blog Format Poll
The original format just got a little old and boring for us so we decided to make a change. Your opinion is valuable to us so your participation in the poll would be greatly appreciated. If you don't like the new format and have an idea of your own about how the blog should look let us know and we will run that by the readers and see if the majority agrees. If so we will make that change and run another poll on that format to see how it flies.
Thanks
PPE
TIME MACHINE ... December, 1924
(The Denton Journal)
Big Revival on the Peninsula
An old fashioned revival and anti-cussing movement is sweeping the Delmarva Peninsula, and swearing, bootlegging, unclean stories and the like are very unpopular, especially among the railroad men, says a dispatch in the Wilmington Evening News. The reason is that this old fashioned revival is spreading over the Peninsula like a prairie fire. The movement started at Pocomoke City the middle of September. Rev. George W. Cooke, the well known evangelist, heard of some bootlegging down that way, and made up his mind that all that was needed was an old fashioned revival, such as was known 50 years ago. He opened a meeting in the Methodist Episcopal Church, just opposite the spot where the Methodist parsonage had been burned be alleged bootleggers. It was not long until men all through the community were getting converted and changing their lives. The most popular subject, on the streets, in the stores and factories and homes, was the revival. One day the community was stirred by the conversion of one "hard case" and then another until the buildings were packed shortly after six o'clock to hear the evangelist.
There were no spectacular methods, just straight from the shoulder he-man sermons. Repeatedly Mr. Cooke would say: "This is no revival for a half-dozen old women and a few children- this is for men and for men who will pay 100 cents on the dollar and give 16 ounce to the pound. Go out and live the way you know a red-blooded Christian ought to live." Before the meetings were closed hundreds were converted, and money raised to replace the old parsonage with a new one, amounting to $10,000, and the new converts gave a large part of the money.
The work then spread to Delmar and the Evangelist Cooke was called to foster the work. He began to preach and the people began to come until it was impossible to get a seat in the Methodist Episcopal Church after 630 in the evening. Nightly the place was packed to suffocation and often they had to have "double headers" in one of the other churches. Two meetings were going on at once and the whole community was strangely stirred.
The community for miles around was singing: "I have the joy down in my heart," and people in stores and on trains and in the railroad shops and the banks were praying and changing their lives. Pool rooms were renovated, dark backrooms with liquids of more than 2.75 per cent were cleaned out , foul stories were discontinued and cussing on the streets became almost a criminal offense.
A Pennsylvania Railroad inspector, after making his tour of the peninsula, remarked, he had never known such an absense of cussing before among railroad men. From one end of the peninsula to the other the chief topic of conversation is religion, and hundreds are being converted, homes are being reunited, and feuds of long standing are being straightened out. A Jewish merchant remarked, "This is very wonderful, for they are paying me money that has been owing for years." He afterward made a subscription to the church as he said this religion had been good for him.
James M. Tunnel, prominent Sussex county attorney, and late candidate on the Democratic ticket in Delaware for United States Senator, remarked- "I don't know what has happened on the peninsula, but at least a dozen men have spoken to me about their changed lives, and about the revival in Delmar."
The revival is spreading like an oldtime conflagration and it is sweeping into the churches men who have never been touched before. The prayer meetings of a handful have increased into the hundreds in many places and it is hard to tell where it will stop. While the work continues at Pocomoke City and Delmar and other places, Evangelist Cooke is now at Seaford, to which place the work has spread.
Truck and Tractor Pull
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Missing Girl Sought In Ocean City
According to Baltimore County Police, Kirsten L. Ratliff, 16, of Perry Hall, was reported missing by her father shortly before 8 p.m. on June 9. Ratliff had apparently had a dispute with her father, with whom she was living, and ran away. When she did not return, he father reported her missing to Baltimore County Police and an investigation was undertaken, according to BCPD public information officer Lt. Robert McCullough.
“We were made aware of this shortly after she was reported missing in Baltimore County,” she said. “As far as I know, she has not been located. We are actively looking for her and her picture and information is distributed each day at roll call.”
Source; http://www.mdcoastdispatch.com/articles/2011/06/24/Top-Stories/Missing-Girl-Sought-in-Resort
The Fintastic Festival - Today
Local artist Sara Grangier will demonstrate painting techniques.
Sara did the artwork for the children’s book "Bob the Big Bad Bluefish"
Mrs. Coleen Mister will read children’s stories in the Beaver Lodge.
Bernadette Gesser, will be reading her book "Bob the Big Bad Bluefish" and talking about fishing with children.
1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Friday, June 24, 2011
New Businesses In Pocomoke...........
- Open 8 am to 8 pm Monday through Friday
- Open 8 am to 6 pm weekends
- No appointment needed
- Lab on site
- Xray on site
- Staffed by physicians
- Occupational Health Services
- Most Insurances Accepted
- Owned and operated by Board Certified Emergency Physicians
- Coming soon - in house pharmacy!
Servicing the Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Peninsula
For more info go to: http://www.yourdocsin.com/I've been told when this site (below) is finished this will be a fruit and vegetable business similar to the one on Route 13 North.
Possible job opportunities for some in the local area.
Have You Tried DEEP FRIED KOOL-AID Yet?
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Submarine Racing
They're submarines!!!!
Bounce This Along
Use them all the time when playing baseball and soccer. I use it when I am working outside.. It really works. The insects just veer around you.
All this time you've just been putting Bounce in the dryer!
1. It will chase ants away when you lay a sheet near them.. It also repels mice.
2. Spread sheets around foundation areas, or in trailers, or cars that are sitting and it keeps mice from entering your vehicle.
3. It takes the odor out of books and photo albums that don't get opened too often.
4. It repels mosquitoes. Tie a sheet of Bounce through a belt loop when outdoors during mosquito season.
5. Eliminate static electricity from your television (or computer) screen.
6. Since Bounce is designed to help eliminate static cling, wipe your television screen with a used sheet of Bounce to keep dust from resettling..
7. Dissolve soap scum from shower doors. Clean with a sheet of Bounce.
8. To freshen the air in your home - Place an individual sheet of Bounce in a drawer or hang in the closet.
9. Put Bounce sheet in vacuum cleaner.
10. Prevent thread from tangling. Run a threaded needle through a sheet of Bounce before beginning to sew.
11. Prevent musty suitcases. Place an individual sheet of Bounce inside empty luggage before storing.
12. To freshen the air in your car - Place a sheet of Bounce under the front seat.
13. Clean baked-on foods from a cooking pan. Put a sheet in a pan, fill with water, let sit overnight, and sponge clean. The anti-static agent apparently weakens the bond between the food and the pan..
14. Eliminate odors in wastebaskets. Place a sheet of Bounce at the bottom of the wastebasket.
15. Collect cat hair. Rubbing the area with a sheet of Bounce will magnetically attract all the loose hairs.
16. Eliminate static electricity from Venetian blinds.. Wipe the blinds with a sheet of Bounce to prevent dust from resettling
17. Wipe up sawdust from drilling or sand papering. A used sheet of Bounce will collect sawdust like a tack cloth.
18. Eliminate odors in dirty laundry. Place an individual sheet of Bounce at the bottom of a laundry bag or hamper.
19. Deodorize shoes or sneakers. Place a sheet of Bounce in your shoes or sneakers overnight.
20. Golfers put a Bounce sheet in their back pocket to keep the bees away.
21. Put a Bounce sheet in your sleeping bag and tent before folding and storing them. It will keep them smelling fresh.
22. Wet a Bounce sheet, hose down your car, and wipe love bugs off easily with the wet Bounce.