Annual Fall Festival~ Vendor/Exhibitor Rules & Regulations & Form

Vendor/Exhibitor

Rules and Regulations

Pocomoke City Annual Fall Festival

October 6, 2012

The Downtown Pocomoke Association and the City of Pocomoke are hosting the Annual Downtown Fall Festival in Pocomoke City, Maryland.

Any obligations, releases, waivers or hold harmless items provided in this agreement with the Downtown Pocomoke Association and the City of Pocomoke City, shall be conclusively deemed to apply without exception to the City of Pocomoke, and/or any other agency or organization involved with the planning of this festival.

The success of the Annual Downtown Pocomoke Fall Festival depends on the parties fulfilling these rights, duties and obligations.

Dates/Time: October 6th, 2012, 10:00am – 3:00pm

Location: Downtown Pocomoke City. Your space will be assigned when you pay. You will likely be placed along Market Street or Clarke Street, between Second & Front Streets. These streets will be blocked off. You will be told to set up either in the street or on the sidewalk.

Exhibit Fees: Application is attached for a 10 X 10-ft. space. The fee for a 10ft X 10ft space is $15.00. (The fee for 10ft X 20ft is $30.00) Space/booth/table assignments will be made at Association’s sole discretion, based on availability and on the date each paid application is received.

You must bring your own canopy/tents, table and chairs

and whatever you feel you need.

Signage: Signage is the responsibility of the Vendor/Exhibitor and must comply with the specification as stated below. Vendor/Exhibitor will be permitted to display signs identifying the Vendor/Exhibitor and goods and/or services with prices that are being offered to the public. Vendor/Exhibitor will be permitted to distribute handouts, brochures, flyers, and other promotional materials within the confines of assigned exhibit space only. Signage can in no way conflict with or be contrary to the stated purpose of the Annual Downtown Pocomoke Fall Festival.

Restrictions:
Unless agreed to in advance of the event, vendor/exhibitor is not allowed to sell knives, guns, swords, poppers, silly string or any paraphernalia deemed by the Downtown Pocomoke Association or Pocomoke City Police Department to be unsuitable for this event.

Security: Neither the Downtown Pocomoke Association nor the City of Pocomoke shall be responsible for lost or stolen items. Each Vendor/Exhibitor is expected to secure their area and its contents at the end of each day.

The Exhibitor hereby agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Downtown Pocomoke Association and the City of Pocomoke for any loss that may occur through theft, vandalism, fire or acts of God.

Liability: The Vendor/Exhibitor is entirely responsible for the assigned booth/exhibit space and agrees to reimburse the City of Pocomoke for any damage to buildings and/or grounds, sustained within such space during the period of time the Vendor/Exhibitor has contracted for (including move-in and move-out).

Trash: Vendor/Exhibitor is expected to provide for trash collection in booth and to empty that trash into receptacles provided by the festival.

Payment: Payment is due with application no later than September 15, 2012, assuming space availability at that time.

Set-up
Removal: Move-in and set-up on Saturday, October 6th, between 8:00am and 9:30am. All booths must be fully set up and operational by 9:30am and remain open until 3:00pm.

Compliance: The Vendor/Exhibitor must comply with all Vendor/Exhibitor Rules and Regulations relating to the Annual Downtown Fall Festival. These Rules and Regulations are to be considered an integral part of the attached registration form.

We look forward to your participation at our

Annual Downtown Fall Festival!

Thank you!

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Non-Food Vendor Form

Pocomoke City Annual Fall Festival

October 6, 2012

Registration Deadline: September 15

Forthcoming Rules and Regulations will be considered an integral part of this Registration Form.

1. Contact Person: ______________________________________________

2. Company Name: _____________________________________________

3. Mailing Address: _____________________________________________

4. Telephone: __________________

5. Email: ______________________________________

7. Please include here a description of the items you will be selling or exhibiting:

____________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________

9. Please reserve space as follows: (include all that apply)

Fees: $15 deposit per vendor, for a 10ft x 10ft space ($30 for 10ft x 20ft)

Free for non-profit, 501(c)3 organizations.

Number of Spaces ___________Amount Enclosed $__________

Please make checks payable to: Downtown Pocomoke Association

Mail completed form and checks to:

Angela Manos, City Hall, 101 Clarke Avenue, Pocomoke City, Maryland · 21851

Questions? Call: 410.603.1178, or Email: downtownpocomoke@gmail.com

Payment in full due by September 28, 2011*

Signature of Authorized Representative: ____________________________

*Early registrants may benefit from being included in marketing materials for the event.

Fall Festival FOOD VENDOR/EXHIBITOR Rules and Regulation and Form

FOOD Vendor/Exhibitor

Rules and Regulations

Pocomoke City Annual Fall Festival

October 6, 2012

The Downtown Pocomoke Association and the City of Pocomoke are hosting the Annual Downtown Fall Festival in Pocomoke City, Maryland.

Any obligations, releases, waivers or hold harmless items provided in this agreement with the Downtown Pocomoke Association and the City of Pocomoke City, shall be conclusively deemed to apply without exception to the City of Pocomoke, and/or any other agency or organization involved with the planning of this festival.

The success of the Annual Downtown Pocomoke Fall Festival depends on the parties fulfilling these rights, duties and obligations.

Dates/Time: October 6th, 2012, 10:00am – 3:00pm

Location: Downtown Pocomoke City. Your space will be assigned when you pay. You will likely be placed along Market Street or Clarke Street, between Second & Front Streets. These streets will be blocked off. You will be told to set up either in the street or on the sidewalk.

Exhibit Fees: Application is attached for a 10 X 10-ft. space. The fee for a 10ft X 10ft space is $25.00. (The fee for 10ft X 20ft is $50.00)

Booth assignments will be made at Association’s sole discretion, based on availability and on the date each paid application is received.

Electric: Vendor/Exhibitor must provide own extension cord(s), three-way adaptor plug,

and additional lighting. There is a charge for those booths needing electric. (extra charge)

You must bring your own canopy/tents, table and chairs

and whatever you feel you need.

Signage: Signage is the responsibility of the Vendor/Exhibitor and must comply with the specification as stated below. Vendor/Exhibitor will be permitted to display signs identifying the Vendor/Exhibitor and goods and/or services with prices that are being offered to the public. Vendor/Exhibitor will be permitted to distribute handouts, brochures, flyers, and other promotional materials within the confines of assigned exhibit space only. Signage can in no way conflict with or be contrary to the stated purpose of the Annual Downtown Pocomoke Fall Festival.

Restrictions: Vendor/Exhibitor is not allowed to sell knives, guns, swords, poppers, silly string or any paraphernalia deemed by the Downtown Pocomoke Association or Police Department to be unsuitable for this event.

 Insurance: Before a Food Vendor is permitted to sell or display any item, the Vendor is required to provide a certificate of public liability insurance in a form acceptable to the Downtown Pocomoke Association and the City of Pocomoke, naming the Downtown Pocomoke Association and the City of Pocomoke as additional insured. Food Vendors must also fill out forms supplied by the Worcester County Health Department and have them returned by the date that the Worcester County Health Department has provided on such forms. Those that have not returned these forms on time will not be allowed to set up at the festival and money will not be returned. It is the vendor’s responsibility to have them sent in on time.

Food vendors must post their Worcester County Health Department permits during the festival.

Security: Neither the Downtown Pocomoke Association nor the City of Pocomoke shall be responsible for lost or stolen items. Each Vendor/Exhibitor is expected to secure their area and its contents at the end of each day.

The Exhibitor hereby agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Downtown Pocomoke Association and the City of Pocomoke for any loss that may occur through theft, vandalism, fire or acts of God.

Liability: The Vendor/Exhibitor is entirely responsible for the assigned booth/exhibit space and agrees to reimburse the City of Pocomoke for any damage to floors, walls, doors, buildings and/or grounds, sustained within such space during the period of time the Vendor/Exhibitor has contracted for (including move-in and move-out).

Trash: Vendor/Exhibitor is expected to provide for trash collection in booth and to empty that trash into receptacles provided by the festival.

Payment: Payment is due with application no later than September 15, 2012, assuming space availability at that time.

Set-up

Removal: Move-in and set-up on Saturday, October 6th, between 8:00am and 9:30am. All booths must be fully set up and operational by 9:45am and remain open until 3:00pm

Compliance: The Vendor/Exhibitor must comply with all Vendor/Exhibitor Rules and Regulations relating to the Annual Downtown Fall Festival. These Rules and Regulations are to be considered an integral part of the attached registration form.

We look forward to seeing you at the

Annual Downtown Fall Festival!

Thank you!

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Food Vendor Form

Pocomoke City Annual Fall Festival

October 6, 2012

Registration Deadline: September 15

Forthcoming Rules and Regulations will be considered an integral part of this Registration Form.

1. Contact Person: ______________________________________________

2. Company Name: _____________________________________________

3. Mailing Address: _____________________________________________

4. Telephone: __________________

5. Email: ______________________________________

7. List your complete menu proposed food. To preserve the integrity of each food vendor’s market, this menu will be screened and a final approved menu returned with your confirmation. Only items on the approved menu will be allowed for sale at the festival. There will be no duplication of food items.

____________________________________________________________

8. Please describe any electrical needs: ____________________________________________________________

9. Please reserve space as follows: (include all that apply)

Fees: $25 deposit per vendor, for a 10ft x 10ft space ($50 for 10ft x 20ft)

Free for non-profit, 501(c)3 organizations.

Number of Spaces ___________Amount Enclosed $__________

Please make checks payable to: Downtown Pocomoke Association

Mail completed form and checks to:

Angela Manos, City Hall, 101 Clarke Avenue, Pocomoke City, Maryland · 21851

Questions? Call: 410.603.1178, or Email: downtownpocomoke@gmail.com

Payment in full due by September 28, 2011*

Signature of Authorized Representative: ____________________________

*Early registrants may benefit from being included in marketing materials for the event.

Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson

This is amazing. There are two parts. Be sure to read the 2nd part (in RED).

Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started learning very early in life and never stopped.

At 5, began studying under his cousin's tutor.

At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.

At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages.

At 16, entered the College of William and Mary.

At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.

At 23, started his own law practice.

At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.

At 31, wrote the widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British America ” and retired from his law practice.

At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.

At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence .

At 33, took three years to revise Virginia ’s legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.

At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.

At 40, served in Congress for two years.

At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.

At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.

At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the American Philosophical Society.

At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican Party.

At 57, was elected the third president of the United States ..

At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation's size.

At 61, was elected to a second term as President.

At 65, retired to Monticello .

At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.

At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president.

At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams

Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government. He understood actual history, the nature of God, his laws and the nature of man. That happens to be way more than what most understand today. Jefferson really knew his stuff. A voice from the past to lead us in the future:

John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe ." -- Thomas Jefferson

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

-- Thomas Jefferson

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."

-- Thomas Jefferson

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." -- Thomas Jefferson

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." -- Thomas Jefferson

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

-- Thomas Jefferson

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson

"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

-- Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

Hat Tip; Eric

Donations Go To The Peregrine Fund

MONDAY SPECIALS ~ Riverside Grill

Riverside Grill

Monday,  September 10, 2012

SPECIALS

-Chili with a half turkey sandwich or side salad 5.99
-Taco Salad 6.99
-1 Chili Cheese dog with fries 4.99 or 2 dogs for 6.99
-Open Face Roast Beef with mashed potatoes and green beans 6.99

AppetizersCrab Pizza 9.99
Chili Nachos 5.99

HAPPY HOUR  4 TO 7PM

Monday night at 8 Pm

1/2 price appetizers and import bottles

Maryland State Trooper Sideswiped By Tractor-Trailer

I had to watch this video over and over and I still don't know exactly how this accendent had this outcome.



A new video released from an incident in June shows just how close Maryland State Trooper David Avila came to having a fatal traffic stop.


While standing on the shoulder of the road speaking to a driver he pulled over, a large tractor trailer came barreling down the right lane, side-swiping Avila's car and then clipping the officer himself. Avila can be seen trying to gather himself on the guard rail upon being hit before collapsing to the ground.

It's truly a miracle that he wasn't killed in the ordeal. If the trailer had been just a few more inches onto the shoulder, Avila probably would have experienced incredibly serious injuries or even death.

The officer is currently undergoing physical therapy in an effort to recover from injuries sustained to his back, shoulder and legs, but doctors have said that they aren't sure whether he'll be able to return to work, according to NBC Washington.

The tractor trailer driver was issued a fine for the offense.

TIME MACHINE ... 1915 Article Recalls Vanished Glory Of Eastern Shore Cooking

(Reader-friendly viewing of newspaper archives material)

August, 1915

(The Denton Journal)

In the Baltimore Sun of Saturday Dr. John F. Fulton heaves some deep sighs because of the vanished glory of the Eastern Shore cooking. Dr. Fulton knew the peninsula in the dear, dead days and he knows it now, very thoroughly. For the past two years his investigating work relative to health and sanitary conditions down there has kept him very constantly in its counties, so he speaks with real authority on the much mooted question:

"I have stopped constantly in hotels in Centerville, Cambridge, Salisbury, Easton, Chestertown, and Elkton," he said. "During those stops I have never been served a waffle, never a piece of Sally Lunn, never a single Maryland biscuit, and very seldom a piece of corn bread. Broiled chicken for breakfast? Never! The most usual breakfast is bacon and eggs, and fried potatoes."

"For dinner, at this time of year, fried chicken is often served at the hotels down there, but it is not the fine, crisp, fragrant fried chicken that used to be served on the tables of the Eastern Shoreman of 15 or 20 years ago. The sad part of it, too, is that it isn't just a matter of hotels. The Eastern Shore homes that have the famous old cooking that makes our mouths water just to think about are few and far between."

"How many families make their weekly batches of Maryland biscuits these days? How often does Sally Lunn appear on the tables down there? A number of dishes are almost lost in oblivion. I haven't seen a piece of milk-rising bread for years, and as for crackling bread, it's been years and years and years."

"Crackling bread used to be one of the most popular breads about hog killing times. It's made, you know, out of the abdominal fat of the hog after its cooked to a crisp. Mixed with flour and milk with a little soda and cream of tartar thrown in to make it light, it used to be put in a closed-top crock about a couple of inches thick and then placed on the coals of a Dutch oven to bake. It only took about 15 minutes. Then steaming hot, and all self-buttered, served with sausage, it was a dish fit for a king."

Dr. Fulton's eyes closed with delicious memories. But the memories evoked another plaintive question.

"And who ever sees tansy puddings these days?" he asked. "The present generation doesn't even know the tansy plant when they see it, I'll wager. All brown and fragrant, it was one of the most toothsome deserts. Then there's muskrats. They're not fashionable any longer, but a better dish one would hardly ask for."

"There's one thing about Eastern Shore tables, however, that's always been peculiar to it, and which still clings. It is the thinness with which they cut their steaks. When I was a boy I never saw a steak more than a half-inch in thickness. In those days they used to dip a steak in egg-water and flour and broil them, but they still have them thin and cooked so done they curl up at the edges. Eastern Shore beef is not good either, Most of it is locally killed, I believe."　

"But I have no complaint of the hotels in particular. Some of them are as good as the usual hotel anywhere, even though they haven't got those old dishes. That's not their fault. It's because the old-fashioned negro cook is disappearing. ( )..the one who takes her place is inefficient in comparison. The old cooks knew their art by instinct, and they leave no cookbooks to guide their successors."

　

December, 1925

The assistance by firemen from Pocomoke City and five other towns was credited with preventing a major fire in Ocean City from completely leveling the seaside resort. The fire started in The Eastern Shore Electric Light Plant and spread to the Atlantic and Seaside Hotels, the Ocean City pier, and several concessions. Ocean City firemen made an urgent call for help. A published report stated firemen traveled icy roads at high rates of speed to reach the scene. With no city water supply available, firemen chopped holes in the ice to draw water to fight the flames. In addition to the Pocomoke City firemen, assistance was sent from Berlin, Snow Hill, Princess Anne, Salisbury, and Laurel, De.

　

October, 1896

(The Landmark- Statesville, N.C.)

Hon. M.A. Cowles, ex member of the Virginia legislature from Northumberland County, was egged at New Church, Accomac County, while addressing a Republican mass meeting of about 200 people in front of the hotel.

　

January, 1986

Pocomoke City's mayor for 18 years, J. Dawson Clarke, passed away at age 80. The mayor had announced earlier in the year he wouldn't seek another term. A week earlier Curt Lippolt was elected to succeed him. Mayor Clarke was owner of the Marva Theater and for many years he operated WBOC's Pocomoke radio studio on Willow Street.　

　

　

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Sunday Specials ~ Riverside Grill

Sunday September 9, 2012

SPECIALS

Appetizers
Chili Nachos 5.99
Crab Pizza 9.99


Sandwiches/Entrees
Beef Brisket Sand. w/ pepper jack, fried onions and French fries 8.99
1 Chili dog with fries 4.99
2 Chili dogs with fries 6.99
Shrimp Basket 8.99
Seafood Platter: fried shrimp, clam strips, crab cake w/ fries, slaw 18.99

Drink Specials
~Happy hour all day~

$1.50 coors lt, bud lt, yuengling drafts
$5 bombs all day
$2.50 mimosas and bloody marys

 

Six People Arrested After Large Boardwalk Fight

On September 2, 2012, at approximately 6 p.m. Ocean City Police responded to the area of 709 South Atlantic Avenue in reference to a large fight, involving a subject with a knife.

Uniformed officers arrived at the scene and observed several persons actively fighting in the area directly outside of Davey Jones Locker Room restaurant. As officers began to break up the fight, several of the combatants fled into the Inlet parking lot. One suspect, later identified as Carl Ross Perry, 47, of Berlin, was wearing a t-shift indicating that he was an employee of Davey Jones Locker Room. Perry continued to actively fight, despite attempts by several employees of Davey Jones Locker Room to restrain him.

Uniformed officers at the scene attempted to have Perry stop fighting and ordered him to the ground, however, Perry did not comply and actively fought four officers until taken into custody.

Officers located five additional suspects involved in the altercation, who fled the scene in various locations in the Inlet parking lot.

The five other men who were actively fighting with Perry were identified as: Deve St. Fleur, 24, from Immokalee, FL, Jermaine Lacorey Phillips, 24, of Fort Meade, FL, William Sherman Freeman, 33, of Fort Meade, FL, Michael Fitzgerald Smith, 45, of Fort Meade, FL and Valen Joseph, 23, Legigh Acres, FL.

During the subsequent investigation, police recovered a backpack belonging to St. Fleur. The backpack was found to contain several baggies of suspected marijuana, as well as other evidence that indicated the marijuana was being sold. After the arrest of Carl Ross Perry, officers recovered an amount of Marijuana from his persons that was packaged identically to the items recovered from the backpack belonging to St. Fleur.

Witnesses told police that Perry was outside with the five suspects, but at one point went back into the restaurant and returned with an object that was later determined to be a knife. Perry threatened the suspect, at which time the fight began. The investigation concluded that the confrontation between Perry and the five additional suspects was as the result of a dispute during an illegal drug transaction involving Perry.

Based on the evidence, Ocean City Police charged the suspects as follows:

• Carl Ross Perry: common law affray, disorderly conduct, three counts of 2nd degree assault on three police officers, resisting arrest, possession of CDS (marijuana), possession of CDS paraphernalia, two counts of 2nd degree assault and two counts of reckless endangerment.
• Deve St. Fleur and Jermaine Lacorey Phillips: common law affray, disorderly conduct, possession of CDS (marijuana), possession of CDS paraphernalia, possession with the Intent to distribute CDS (marijuana).
• William Sherman Freeman: common law affray and disorderly conduct.
• Michael Fitzgerald Smith: common law affray, disorderly conduct and possession of CDS (marijuana).
• Valen Joseph: common law affray and disorderly conduct.

As a result of the altercation and arrests, three OCPD officers sustained injuries. Two officers were treated at the scene by OC EMS and one officer was transported to Atlantic General Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.

All six of the suspects were arrested and seen by an Ocean City District Court Commissioner. Perry was released after posting a $10,000 bond. Phillips and St. Fleur were both held on $10,000 bond and transferred to the Worcester County Jail. Freeman was held on $3,500 bond and transferred to the Worcester County Jail. Smith and Joseph were both released on their own recognizance.

Ocean City Police Department News Release

Accomack County's Most Popular Sport? Drag Racing??

Sunday after Sunday this occurs on one of the two most popular traveled roads in this part of  Accomack County.  Sadly, this afternoon event has been allowed to continue  over the past few years... And it isn't always motorcycles....sometimes there are cars.

Staging for the event on this Sunday took place on Saxis Road at around 3:00 in the afternoon.

Maybe what so many people fail to realize is the fact this type of gathering can cause great danger to anyone in the area at the time. 

Many of us that use this road pay taxes and that alone should assure us access to roads without delay- with the exception of emergencies and farming.  That's where it should STOP!

NO ONE should have to WAIT for this on a public road !!!

I'm not concerned about WHO these people are.....I'm concerned about those that drive this road in an attempt to GET somewhere. 

Families are still leaving churches at this time of day, some have errands to run.  And let's not forget that within a few miles from this point is a very popular camp ground that has hundred of visitors in the area trying to enjoy their vacations and trying to get to the highway to perhaps shop or visit many of the tourists attactions in the area.

  Traffic gets BLOCKED in both directions.

So be sure to use caution as you drive Horsey Road, Saxis Road - any  stretch of it.......

Calls to the Accomack County Sheriff's Office only gets  the racing canceled for the day...

TIME MACHINE Preview ... 1915 Article Recalls Vanished Glory Of Eastern Shore Cooking.

　
The year is 1915 and Dr. Fulton, who travels the peninsula, laments the fact that some old Eastern Shore cooking favorites are disappearing. "A number of dishes are almost lost in oblivion."
　
Read about it this Sunday on the Pocomoke Public Eye!
　

　
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CONGRATULATIONS !! ~Pocomoke Elementary School~

Written by
Brian Shane
Staff Writer
POCOMOKE CITY — Pocomoke Elementary School has been named a National Blue Ribbon School, the only school on Maryland’s Eastern Shore to receive the designation.

“We have been waiting for this exciting news,” Principal Michael Browne said Friday. “Our entire school family has worked so hard to prepare our students for success; they are phenomenal.”

The schools are recognized on the basis of rigorous state and national requirements for high achievement and dramatic improvement.

Tests showed 100 percent of Pocomoke Elementary’s third grade students were “proficient” in mathematics, with 78 percent deemed “advanced.” Also, 97.4 percent of third graders were “proficient” in reading, with 41 percent “advanced.”

In January, the school was named a Maryland Blue Ribbon School for having a track record of high student achievement, as measured by the Maryland School Assessment tests.

Shortly after receiving the state designation, the Maryland State Department of Education submitted Pocomoke Elementary School for national consideration.

“In order to earn the National Blue Ribbon School designation, a school must believe that every child can and will achieve and that every child can successfully rise to meet new challenges,” said Worcester Schools Superintendent Jerry Wilson.

Pocomoke was among six Maryland schools nominated to receive the honor, and all of them received the national award.

They include: Crofton Meadows Elementary (Anne Arundel County), Woodholme Elementary (Baltimore County), Ring Factory Elementary (Harford County), Rachel Carson Elementary (Montgomery County) and Whitehall Elementary (Prince George’s County).

“All six of these schools stand as shining examples of Maryland public education, and we’re proud to share their work with the rest of the nation,” said State Superintendent Lillian M. Lowery. “We congratulate the students, teachers, administrators, parents and community members of these outstanding schools.”

The winning schools next will be invited to Washington to be honored by national officials.

Past Worcester County recipients of the National Blue Ribbon award include Ocean City Elementary, Showell Elementary, Snow Hill Elementary and Stephen Decatur Middle School.

According to Worcester County Schools spokeswoman Barb Witherow, Pocomoke Elementary was honored in 2011 as a National Title I Distinguished School for sustained student achievement.

It’s also the only school in Maryland to be recognized as a Panasonic National School Change Award Winner, demonstrating exemplary growth in overall student academic achievement for 2010, Witherow said.
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Don't Miss This!! Hartley Hall FALL BENEFIT BASH !!

Help STOP Dogfighting !

Pocomoke City Mayor and Council Meeting

A G E N D A

POCOMOKE CITY MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEETING

7:30 p.m., Monday, September 10, 2012

City Hall

1. Call to Order, Prayer and Pledge of Allegiance.

2.  Review and approval of minutes from meeting of August 6, 2012.

3.  Review and approval of bills to be paid.

4.  Authorize Mayor to issue proclamation for American Legion Month in honor of the 80^th Anniversary of Post 93 in Pocomoke City.

5.  Second Reading of Ord. No. 410 regarding Ethics.

6.  Discuss recommendations from Planning and Zoning Commission:

1. Annexation of Hertrich Ford property on US Rt. 13 at Sheephouse Road
2. Site Plan for proposed improvements at Buchanan Subaru on Market Street Extended
3. Site Plan for Coastal Commodities project to construct new grain elevators on Quinn Avenue south of railroad tracks

7.  Res. No. 466 to authorize the City Manager to sign certain forms on behalf of the City regarding purchase of a new trash collection vehicle.

8.  Review proposal from Bozman Paving Co. for patching several street cuts and openings and for repaving at Cypress Park.

9.  City Manager and Water/Sewer Superintendent to recommend purchase of used generator.

10.  City Attorney to discuss proposed ordinance to regulate bulk item collections.

11.  Discuss letter from Major East requesting approval to hunt on City property on Dunn Swamp Road with bow and arrows.

12.  City Manager to discuss recently approved state grant for sidewalk repairs on Willow Street and Clarke Avenue.

Comments from the Audience.

Mayor and Council Items.

Adjourn.

AGENDAS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE UNTIL THE TIME OF CONVENING.

NASA's GLOBAL HAWK Mission To Begin.......

NASA Wallops Aircraft Office

The first of two NASA Global Hawk UAS arrived today to support the HS3 mission. The second UAS will arrive later in September. Mission flights are scheduled to begin next week studying hurricane formation and intensification in the Atlantic basin.

Global Hawk NASA 872
Photo/ NASA Wallops Aircraft Office



NASA'S Global Hawk Mission Begins With Flight
 to Hurricane Leslie

WASHINGTON -- NASA has begun its latest hurricane science field campaign by flying an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft over Hurricane Leslie in the Atlantic Ocean during a day-long flight from California to Virginia. With the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) mission, NASA for the first time will be flying Global Hawks from the U.S. East Coast.

The Global Hawk took off from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Thursday and landed at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va., today at 11:37 a.m. EDT after spending 10 hours collecting data on Hurricane Leslie. The month-long HS3 mission will help researchers and forecasters uncover information about how hurricanes and tropical storms form and intensify.

NASA will fly two Global Hawks from Wallops during the HS3 mission. The planes, which can stay in the air for as long as 28 hours and fly over hurricanes at altitudes greater than 60,000 feet, will be operated by pilots in ground control stations at Wallops and Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

The mission targets the processes that underlie hurricane formation and intensity change. The aircraft help scientists decipher the relative roles of the large-scale environment and internal storm processes that shape these systems. Studying hurricanes is a challenge for a field campaign like HS3 because of the small sample of storms available for study and the great variety of scenarios under which they form and evolve. HS3 flights will continue into early October of this year and be repeated from Wallops during the 2013 and 2014 hurricane seasons.

The first Global Hawk arrived Sept. 7 at Wallops carrying a payload of three instruments that will sample the environment around hurricanes. A second Global Hawk, scheduled to arrive in two weeks, will look inside hurricanes and developing storms with a different set of instruments. The pair will measure winds, temperature, water vapor, precipitation and aerosols from the surface to the lower stratosphere.

"The primary objective of the environmental Global Hawk is to describe the interaction of tropical disturbances and cyclones with the hot, dry and dusty air that moves westward off the Saharan desert and appears to affect the ability of storms to form and intensify," said Scott Braun, HS3 mission principal investigator and research meteorologist at NASA1s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

This Global Hawk will carry a laser system called the Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL), the Scanning High-resolution Interferometer Sounder (S-HIS), and the Advanced Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS).

The CPL will measure cloud structure and aerosols such as dust, sea salt and smoke particles. The S-HIS can remotely sense the temperature and water vapor vertical profile along with the sea surface temperature and cloud properties. The AVAPS dropsonde system will eject small sensors tied to parachutes that drift down through the storm, measuring winds, temperature and humidity.

"Instruments on the 'over-storm' Global Hawk will examine the role of deep thunderstorm systems in hurricane intensity change, particularly to detect changes in low-level wind fields in the vicinity of these thunderstorms," said Braun.

These instruments will measure eyewall and rainband winds and precipitation using a Doppler radar and other microwave sensors called the High-altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (HIWRAP), High-Altitude MMIC Sounding Radiometer (HAMSR) and Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD).

HIWRAP measures cloud structure and winds, providing a three-dimensional view of these conditions. HAMSR uses microwave wavelengths to measure temperature, water vapor, and precipitation from the top of the storm to the surface. HIRAD measures surface wind speeds and rain rates.

The HS3 mission is supported by several NASA centers including Wallops; Goddard; Dryden; Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.; Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.; and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. HS3 also has collaborations with partners from government agencies and academia.

HS3 is an Earth Venture mission funded by NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Earth Venture missions are managed by NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder Program at the agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. The HS3 mission is managed by the Earth Science Project Office at NASA's Ames Research Center.

For more about the HS3 mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/HS3

For more information about NASA's Airborne Science Program, visit:

http://airbornescience.nasa.gov

TWO BOARDWALK BUSINESSES CHARGED WITH DISTRIBUTION OF CDS PARAPHERNALIA

On August 24 and August 30, 2012, OCPD patrol officers discovered two different OceanCity boardwalk businesses selling smoking devices fashioned in a manner to smoke controlled dangerous substances.

At the time of the discovery the items were seized.  At the “Shore Side Shop” (106 South Atlantic Ave) on August 24^th the suspected CDS smoking devices were discovered by police in a box on the floor behind the counter.   On August 30^th, at the “NY Piercing” (409 Atlantic Ave) the suspected CDS smoking devices were observed in a large glass case.   At the time of this discovery, the suspected contraband was found in the proximity of various items that promoted the use of Marijuana such as: ash trays, t-shirts and statues all displaying Marijuana leaves.

The business owners are identified as: (Shore Side Shop owner) – Benjamin Darmony, 48, of Berlin, Maryland and (NY Piercing owner) – Claude Darmony, 23, of Ocean City.

During the investigation, Ocean City Police consulted with the Worcester County States Attorney and determined the items were in violation of the Maryland Criminal Law Article prohibiting the sale of such items of CDS Paraphernalia.

On August 30^th and 31^st, OCPD officers made application for charges for these two business owners with the Ocean City District Court Commissioner and received charges for possession and distribution of CDS Paraphernalia.

Ocean City Police had previously met with both men in June 2012, and furnished them with a 15-page packet containing the Maryland Criminal Law Article governing CDS Paraphernalia, with explanations and examples of what constituted CDS paraphernalia.

The Ocean City Police Department will continue its strict enforcement of all laws related to the illegal possession and distribution of controlled dangerous substance and associated paraphernalia.  Persons and or businesses involved in the use, sale or possession of these illegal substances, will be charged with these violations and prosecuted.

Ocean City Police Department New Release

Legislative Updates From Delegate Mike McDermott

Taking Back the Truth-"thoughts on the democrat convention"

Taking Back the Truth

by Delegate Michael A. McDermott

I always got a chuckle out of the “Honest Abe” commercial where Mrs. Lincoln asks her husband the age old question, “does this dress make me look fat?”  Fast forward to this past week when Governor O’Malley was asked, “Can you honestly say that Americans are better off today than they were 4-years ago?” O’Malley gave an Honest Abe response...”No, we’re not better off...”

The reaction by his party, and his subsequent efforts to take back those words, offer a revealing look at the Democratic leadership. When your man is the President and has not moved the country “forward” as promised, you have two options: lie, or take responsibility. Their choice is quite clear.

Ironically, within his party, the governor’s only sin was stating the truth. The governor would spend days walking back the truth to the satisfaction of those who wish to live in an alternate universe where good is evil an evil is good.

The president’s policies have not led us “forward”. On the night of his acceptance speech, our national debt passed $16 trillion. His own Dept. of Labor reports that we have only recovered 300 thousand  jobs during his term, not the 4.5 million with which the president seeks to cloak himself.

I listened to a speech that was to be pragmatic with direction and I heard a retreaded “Hope and Change”. The president said he had “changed” during the past 4-years, yet this is where he and Bill Clinton part company. Clinton accepted the winds which were afforded him and set his sail accordingly. Obama will not change his tack preferring to command the wind.

We all suffer from leadership that will not take responsibility (“The Buck Stops Here!). If you cannot accept that your policies have failed, you will not change direction and our countrymen will continue to suffer. When you cannot create your own wind, that’s when the whip and oars come out as you determine to tax and regulate your way “forward”. Marylanders know all too well how increased taxes and a punitive regulatory environment are not the pathway of prosperity.

Tears and emotional pleas will not fuel our economy. False narratives and fear mongering are a pitiful way to ask Americans to give you another 4-years “to get things right”.

Governor O’Malley had a brief moment of clarity, but it passed him by when he would not embrace it. When that moment comes for you, don’t be afraid to say, “The Emperor has no clothes”.

Pocomoke City Downtown Fall Festival ~ Vendors Welcome ~

~DOWNTOWN FALL FESTIVAL~

Both food & non-food vendors are still welcome for our Downtown Fall Festival.

Forms available from downtownpocomoke@gmail.com DEADLINE:  SEPTEMBER 15

**Market Street from Second Street to Front Street will be closed off!** 

Westover Moose Lodge #2431 ~ FUNDRAISER~

COMING SOON To The Delmarva Discovery Center

Worcester County Maryland Library ~ Pocomoke City Branch

Pocomoke Branch September Programs

Adult Knit/Crochet Group An informal monthly group for people who love to knit or crochet to gather and share ideas, patterns and projects.
Monday, September 17th @ 11:00 am

Family Game Day
 Grab the family and come to the library to play all of the old family classic board games
Saturday, September 22nd @ 9:00am

Movie & Craft: The Avengers
The movie that dominated box offices all around the world. Come watch it at the library and make an Avengers related craft.
Tuesday, September 25th @ 4:00 p.m.

Litwits: an informal adult reading groupAn informal discussion of recommended titles, authors and genres. Come share your favorites. Refreshments will be served.
Tuesday, September 25th @ 11:00am