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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Peru Approves First Step Toward Extradition of Joran van der Sloot
Monday, April 23, 2012
MISSING....
Beauchamp Construction Gets A High Five !!
But the photos I take and display and all the newsy things I write are nothing compared to the authority and decisions that Pocomoke City Hall has and makes.
GREAT JOB Beauchamp Construction!!
All work inside the building has been done by Beauchamp Construction crews with the exception of twice. Those jobs were contracted out to other very local businesses.
So CONGRATULATIONS Tom Beauchamp, Darren (operations manager) and all of you that had a hand in turning this buiding into a masterpiece and something not only the Pocomoke City Police Department will be proud of but the people of Pocomoke City as well.......for many years.
SPCA Eastern Shore Needs Everyones Help
We know how many solicitations we all get, no matter what time of year. At the SPCA, since we can only count on your contributions and our fund raisers to help us care for our No-Kill shelter animals, we sometimes put off important projects until they are critical. We're facing one of those situations now.
We asked a roofer to try and help us identify why we were getting some leaks around the ventilation ducts. When he went up on the roof to check and repair these two leaks, he found the entire roof in bad shape. Nails are protruding through the shingles, the shingles are peeling and falling apart and some of the roofing plywood needs to be removed and replaced. In short, we need to spend approximately $18,000.00 to replace the roof, depending on the amount of substructure that need to be replaced. We have already received four bids.
Our question to our many supporters is, "Can you help us keep our shelter pets dry?"
Built in 1990, the SPCA Eastern Shore shelter is structurally sound but in need of some repairs and improvements. We have had some plumbing problems that have been fixed and we are working on fixing the heating and air conditioning which are all critical for our pets, staff and visitors. But we can't keep patching the roof beyond a certain point and that point has been reached.
We DON'T want to have to cut back on the number of pets we can shelter so we're asking for your help. We will replace the roof but we want to do it with the least interruption of services.
We ARE fortunate to have a matching funds donor that is offering us $5,000.00 if we can raise an additional $10,000.00 which would get us more than half way to our goal. If you can help, please do so by sending your donation to the SPCA Eastern Shore at:
26528 Lankford Hwy.
PO Box 164
Onley, VA 23418
OR:
Go to our web site: http://www.shorespca.com/ and donate through our secure paypal account. Under your shipping information there is a place to make a note, just add ROOF and you can rest assured your donation will go directly to the roofing fund.
OR:
Call us @ 757-787-7385 for more information.
Thank you for helping us to keep our shelter pets dry!
National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day
Saturday, April 28, 2012
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Americans that participated in the DEA’s third National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on October 29, 2011, turned in more than 377,086 pounds (188.5 tons) of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at the 5,327 take-back sites that were available in all 50 states and U.S. territories. When the results of the three prior Take-Back Days are combined, the DEA, and its state, local, and tribal law-enforcement and community partners have removed 995,185 pounds (498.5 tons) of medication from circulation in the past 13 months.
400 - A WALNUT STREET POCOMOKE CITY
WORCESTER COUNTY HEALTH DEPT.
6040 PUBLIC LANDING ROAD SNOW HILL
ACCOMACK COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
ACCOMACK COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
23301 WISE COURT ACCOMAC VA
NORTHAMPTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
NORTHAMPTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
5211 THE HORNES EASTVILLE VA
Collection Site Locator:
Infected PCs May Lose Internet In July
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Red Hills Fire ~ Sign Post, Virginia April 2012
TIME MACHINE ... "It exists only on paper and in the imagination of its founders."
(Reader-friendly viewing of newspaper archives material)
April, 1880
(The New York Times)
MARYLAND'S SEASIDE RESORT
THE RAPID GROWTH AND MANY ATTRACTIONS OF OCEAN CITY
Ocean City, Md., March 31.- On the morning of Dec. 29, 1874, THE TIMES was sent the first letter ever written for publication from this place. The first paragraph of that letter read: "I write from where the Ocean House is to be, and not from where it is. Atlantic Ocean City is purely an American city. It exists only on paper and in the imagination of its founders. It is situated on the Synapuxant Beach, (newspaper spelling) about 20 miles below Lewes, and is intended by its founders to be a sea-side summer resort for Baltimorians, and a Winter resort for gunners from New York and Philadelphia." The dream of the originators of that sea-side city has been fully realized, and what then was a barren waste of sand is now covered by many hotels and private cottages. The Ocean House, the largest and best appointed hotel on the beach, had, last year sleeping accommodations for upwards of 500 guests, and dining arrangements for as many more. This season's preparations are being rapidly pushed to a conclusion, and when that house is opened this Summer it will have sleeping accommodations for upward of 800 guests, and will have dining-room and kitchen capacity for furnishing upward of 400 meals an hour. The Massey House, which stands just across the street from the Ocean House, can readily accommodate several hundred people, while the "Lynch" and the "Ayers" are also large and well kept houses. Besides, there are several other very good hotels in Ocean City, while the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railway Company owns a very large and pretty excursion house, or pavilion, built by that company for the accommodation of excursion parties brought by the company during the season to this city. During the past season excursions to Ocean City from all parts of this peninsula became very popular, and it was estimated that on some days last year not less than 20,000 people visited this place on these excursion trains. On one particular day, (a day made memorable by the death, by drowning, of Senator Fords, of Queen Anne's County, who at the cost of his own life, saved a young lady from that death,) excursion trains were made up to run directly to this point at Washington, at Baltimore, at Wilmington, at Philadelphia, and from off the Kent County Railroad, the Maryland and Delaware Railroad, and from the Maryland Extension Railroad.
(Many more details about Ocean City in 1880 coming up in Part 2 of this article next week!)
June, 1955
Numerous correspondents from surrounding communities near Pocomoke City contributed news of interest from their respective areas to Pocomoke's local newspaper, The Worcester Democrat, and were recognized in a 1955 seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the paper:
Mappsville area... Mrs. Anna Roberts
Cokesbury area... Mrs. Mildred Beauchamp
Snow Hill area... Mrs. Flossie H. Richardson
Beaverdam area... Mrs. Margaret Holland (contributing her column for 40 years)
Wattsville area... Mrs. Hazel Collins
Chincoteague area... Mrs. Kay Connor
December, 1968
Pocomoke City residents were remembering Miss Mildred Schoolfield who passed away at age 65. Miss Schoolfield served as Pocomoke's town clerk for 30 years until her retirement six months earlier.
ACROSS THE USA
May, 1893
Iowa Postal Card(Newspaper)- Fayette, Iowa
Miss Susan B. Anthony declares that we are on the eve of an era of unmarried women. The grounds for her opinion are that under modern social conditions young women are becoming more and more self-dependent.
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Saturday, April 21, 2012
The Olive Lippoldt Tidal Wetland Garden ~ Cypress Park
The tidal garden was the idea of Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker some years ago.
This selected area may look like an unkept or forgotten about area in the park but the grasses and dead looking twigs are quite essecential to the birds, insects and water life that share our space.
The photo below was taken from a Delmarva Discovery Center newsletter http://delmarvadiscoverycenter.org/documents/August09-Email.pdf. in 2009. Students and workers at the DDC helped clean in and around the garden.
Encircling the tidal garden is a graveled path with reading stations along the way providing all the information you need to understand what occurs in tidal areas like this, what lives there and how important they are.
TIME MACHINE Preview ... "It exists only on paper and in the imagination of its founders."
Read about it this Sunday on The Pocomoke Public Eye!
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Increase in Rabies Cases On The Shore
All of these animals had contact with pet dogs, except the Chincoteague Raccoon which was witnessed fighting with a stray gray cat that escaped.
Children should be instructed to avoid contact with all wild animals, and stray or unknown pets.
Friday, April 20, 2012
At The Mar-Va Theater This Weekend- With Something Special AFTER The Show!
Take A Cruise On the Scenic Pocomoke River
when tours will be at 2pm
Tickets can also be purchased individually rather than as a package.Enjoy the Discovery Center for the day and a scenic cruise down the Pocomoke River on the Bay Queen.
Cal Ripken Helping Tornado Victims
A Baseball Hall of Fame member who set the record for consecutive games played is headed to Joplin to help with tornado recovery efforts.
Cal Ripken Jr. spent 21 years with the Baltimore Orioles and holds the Major League Baseball record with 2,632 consecutive games played.
He plans to help Habitat for Humanity volunteers rebuild two homes Wednesday morning in a Joplin neighborhood damaged by the deadly May 2011 tornado.
Ripken's visit to southwest Missouri is the first stop in a 13-city tour of Habitat volunteer projects. The trip is sponsored by Energizer Holdings Inc., a St. Louis-based battery manufacturer.
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
TIME MACHINE Preview ... "It exists only on paper and in the imagination of its founders."
Read about it this Sunday on The Pocomoke Public Eye!
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"HISTORY ON DISPLAY – POCOMOKE PAST & PRESENT"
Worcester County Honors Its Most Beautiful People
The two groups recognized included Instructional Volunteers for Outreach of the Veterans Memorial of Ocean Pines and the Community Church at Ocean Pines Choir
These outstanding individuals and organizations are among the 1.3 million Maryland volunteers whose combined volunteer hours represent a worth of $4 billion this past year.
"This collective group today serves countless hours throughout Worcester County providing needed services that enhance the lives of our residents,” said Howell. “Our human capital is our greatest resource here!”
Those in attendance during the county’s 2012 WCMBP ceremony represent only a small sample of the hundreds of volunteers whose efforts sustain vital programs that otherwise could not be made available in our area.
Worcester County Government is extremely grateful for each of the countless volunteers who dedicate their time, talent, and resources day in and day out to improve the lives of those around them. It is these individuals and groups, whose good works often go unnoticed by the general public, who make Worcester County such a wonderful place to call home.
For more information on volunteering in Worcester County, contact Cyndy Howell at (410) 632-0090.
Something About Dick Clark Locals My Not Remember
"In the late 1940's the parents of Dick Clark's girlfriend, Babrara Mallery, moved to Salisbury from Syracuse, NY. She attended Salisbury State College for a couple of years before transferring to another college. Clark was working at WFIL in Philadelphia at the time and made frequent trips to Salisbury to visit Barbara. As referenced in the book American Bandstand "...which necessitated what Clark described as seventeen-hour 'sheer suicide' motor trips in his heaterless '34 Ford convertible in the dead of winter." They married in 1952; divorced in 1961.
Dick Clark made a guest appearance as MC at a fund raising teen record hop at the Salisbury armory along with WBOC's George Hack (who hosted a weekly live TV dance show on Saturday afternoons). Clark also participated in Salisbury's Christmas parade one year."
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NEWS RELEASE: Downtown Pocomoke Revitalization - Grand Opening, Saturday 4/21
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Dick Clark Dies At 82
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BBQ CHICKEN FUNDRAISER ~ This Weekend
From Delegate Mike McDermott
NASA At Wallops Island: Antares Moves to Launch Pad
Chicken Salad Luncheon
COST: $7 per lunch (eat in or carry out) / $7 per pint / $2 per dozen biscuits
For more information: 410-957-0991
The best chicken salad you will ever eat!
NASA'S Discovery Shuttle Flies Over D.C.
“It’s never gonna fly again,” said 78-year-old Edith Murray, visiting the Mall from Rhode Island.
Outside National Airport, Kristen Mitchell, 26, of Springfield, was simultaneously excited and sad, having come of age just as the shuttle program waned. “And now I’m seeing the end of it,” she said.
But for today, the embattled agency got to show off its space hero one last time, a 27-year-old flier whose scorched and dingy siding visually describe her duties.
As Discovery banked around the west end of the Mall for a final pass, the battered white shuttle glowed in a shaft of sunlight, looking large and at ease — a bird with clipped wings just along for the ride.
Staff writers Rachel Karas, Jacqueline Trescott, Stefanie Dazio and Erin Williams contributed to this report.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Press Release ~ Worcester County Sheriff's Office
Lt. Edward C. Schreier
Worcester County Sheriff's Office