Cancellations, Postponements and Delays- Virginia

CANCELLATIONS, POSTPONEMENTS

 and DELAYS

I will keep this post up to date as long as I can throughout the weekend.

MONDAY

No work at Perdue.

NASA Wallops will be closed to all but esstntial personnel today.
Northampton County Public Schools will be closed on Monday, October 29th and Tuesday, October 30th, 2012.

The Northampton County Waste Collection Centers will be closed on Sunday, October 28th, 2012 and Monday, October 29th, 2012.

Accomack County Schools will be closed Monday and Tuesday

Simply Storage located in Wattsville next to Ray's Shanty is offering high ground storage of cars and boat trailers at no charge during the storm. call 854-4400 or 301-325-6468 for more information.

Accomack County will close all Solid Waste Convenience Centers and landfills all day Monday and Tuesday. They will reopen at the earliest opportunity.

The Dialysis Center will be closed on Monday. If you're scheduled for Monday contact the Dialysis Center for a Sunday appointment.
Northampton Circuit Court and clerks office closed Monday

Trash Collection for the Town of Parksley cancelled for Tuesday the 30th. Will be collected on Wed the 31st

Bingo at the Elks Lodge in Accomac has been cancelled for tonight.

Belle Croft School in Accomack. (Miss Jean's)
Volney Hall of Eastville Closed.

Mosher Physical Therapy Closed.

Eastern Shore Community College Closed

Riverside Shore Cardiac Rehabilitation and outpatient cardiology testing at Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital will be closed on Monday.

Accomack General District Court will be closed Monday.

Riverside Shore Home Health in Onley.

The USDA Service Center in Accomac will be closed Monday October 29, 2012. H.L. Kellam Jr.

All Accomack County offices closed Mon and Tues.

Voter registrar's office in Accomac closed Mon and Tues.

The Eastern Shore Community Services Board will be closed tomorrow. Residential workers report as usual.

New Revina will be closed Monday.

Broadwater Academy Closed Monday and Tuesday

The Eastern Shore YMCA in Onley will be closed Monday.

Star Transit will not run Monday.

ANPDC Regional Housing Aurhoity and the Va. HousingAlliance wb closed Mon

The Chincoteague Island Library will be closed Monday and Tuesday.

District 4 Probation and Parole will be closed Mon.

ESAAA will be closed Monday.

Attitudes Fitness will be closed Monday

Northampton Circuit Court and clerks office closed Monday

St Paul on the Shore Lutheran School will be closed Monday.

Trash Collection for the Town of Parksley cancelled for Tuesday the 30th. Will be collected on Wed the 31st.

Friday-Saturday
In anticipation of the effects of Sandy, the Accomack County Convenience Centers and landfills will be closed Monday and Tuesday, October 29 and 30.  Will reopen when storm is over.
　
Accomack County schools will be closed Monday and Tuesday, October 29th and 30th due to weather conditions associated with Hurricane Sandy.

The Eastern Shore Rural fundraiser to be held at Bill's Seafood on Chincoteague on Sunday has been canceled.

The Fall Social at Kegogank Elementary School has been cancelled and rescheduled for Friday November 2.
Youth football scheduled for Saturday at Nandua High School has been canceled.

Antoich Baptist Church has canceled its Gloria E. Johnson Cancer Fund Program for Saturday.

The Exmore Moose Lodge "Wicked Woods" is still ON for tonight.

A Message From Mayor Bruce Morrison

From Pocomoke City Mayor Bruce Morrison

Pocomoke City Hall will be CLOSED Monday October 29, 2012.

ALL other city departments will be working.

If you do not have to work tomorrow please stay off the roads if at all possible.

This will enable the city crews to their job.

Thank you.
Mayor Bruce Morrison

Preparing For The Storm...

Oak Hall, Virginia
Sunday Afternoon,  October 28, 2012

Most of you will recognize these two popular  places.

Food Lion



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T'S Corner



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If you must be out please travel safely.

Accomack County Shelters OPEN

Accomack County will be opening emergency shelters at the following locations at 2:00 pm on Sunday, October 28, 2012.

Nandua Middle School 26350 Lankford Hwy, Onley
Arcadia Middle School 29485 Horsey Road, Oak Hall

These shelters are emergency shelters for the general population and are meant as a last resort. They are for keeping you safe during the hurricane not long term sheltering. Food will not be served.

Cots will not be provided. Emergency shelters should only be used if you are unable to find a safe location to stay with family or friends. You should bring everything needed to be self sustaining for three days.


Things to bring to the emergency shelter:

Photo Identification - All adults must have photo identification and all adults must sign in their complete family upon arrival to the shelter.

Bedding items

Personal hygiene items

Nonperishable food

Manual can opener if bringing canned foods

Bottled water

Special needs food if applicable

Baby items if applicable

Change of clothing

Quiet entertainment such as reading materials and games

Medications - If you have a medical condition and/or take prescription medication please notify the shelter at the time of registration

A way home if you arrive in something other than your personal vehicle, be sure you and your family have a way to depart the shelter when it closes


Things NOT to bring to the emergency shelter

Cooking utensils

Expensive personal items (you will be responsible for your personal items - the shelter is not responsible for lost or stolen items)

Pets please make sure your pets can be safely cared for elsewhere before you come to the shelter

Electronic games that are not battery powered

Loud music

Weapons

Drugs

Alcohol

General Guidelines:

Smoking is NOT permitted inside the shelter at any time

Parents are responsible for controlling the actions of their children

Children are never to be left unattended

Noise levels should be kept to a minimum at all times

Everyone needs to be courteous to others

If these guidelines are not followed, you may be asked to leave the shelter. If you decide to leave the shelter before the emergency has ended, you will not be allowed back into the shelter.

From the Pocomoke City Vol. Fire Company -

The Pocomoke City Vol. Fire Co. will have volunteer duty crews staffing equipment at the firehouse beginning at 9pm tonight and lasting until deemed no longer necessary.

If you need to report an emergency please utilize 911 phone services as personnel may not always be available in station if answering alarms. If non emergent communication is desired our phone number is 4109572310.

Please take all precautions you can to stay safe during this event!

Thanks so much for caring about  the safety of the town and citizens. PPE

Evacuations Declared In Worcester County

WBOC

SNOW HILL, Md.- The Worcester County Commissioners have declared a local state of emergency and have ordered waterfront property owners to evacuate due to imminent threats from Hurricane Sandy. This includes all properties in the West Ocean City area, the communities of Cape Isle of Wight, Mystic Harbour, Snug Harbor, The Landings and Assateague Point.

 Also included in this are South Point, anything east of the parkway in Ocean Pines and all other waterfront properties throughout Worcester County due to anticipated flooding. Current forecasts call for between 8 and 10 inches of rain with prolonged, strong winds between 40 to 45 miles per hour sustained and gusts of 60 mph, increasing the likelihood of structural damages, downed trees and power outages that are anticipated to continue for extended periods of several days or more.

County shelters will open at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 28. These shelters include Stephen Decatur High School, Snow Hill High School and Pocomoke High School, and the pet-friendly shelters Stephen Decatur Middle School, Animal Control in Snow Hill and Pocomoke High School. Pet owners must provide their own carriers and food.

People with special needs requiring shelter or assistance should contact the Worcester County Health Department at (410) 632-1100 and then press 8.

Worcester County Emergency Services warns residents that the county will experience historic flooding, including water in homes, along with significant rainfall and prolonged strong winds regardless of where Hurricane Sandy makes landfall.

Riverside Grill Sunday Specials

RIVERSIDE GRILL WILL BE OPEN FOR

 REGULAR HOURS THROUGH THE STORM

SUNDAY SPECIALS

-Seafood Gumbo w/ 1/2 deli sandwich or side salad 6.99
-Shepherd's Pie 7.99
-Taco Salad 6.99
-1 chili cheese dog w/ fries 4.99 or 2 dogs 6.99
-Crab Cake Caesar Salad 16.99



Appetizers
Crab Pizza 9.99
Chili Nachos 5.99

Happy Hour All Day!

$2.50 mimosas and bloody marys
$1.50 domestic drafts
$5 bombs

TIME MACHINE ... Blizzard's Saloon on Fox's Island.

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October, 1886

(The Boston Sunday Globe)

"BOTTLED LIGHTNING,"

And How Maryland and Virginia Prohibitionists are Fighting it.

Baltimore, Md., Oct 9.- The Prohibitionists of both Maryland and Virginia have tried in vain to reach with the law the flourishing saloon of John B. Blizzard on Fox's island. The only house on this little tract of land, which is located seven miles from Crisfield, is the residence and saloon of Blizzard, who is reaping a fortune on his sale of "bottled lightning" to the oystermen. The spot is partly in Maryland and partly in Virginia, yet is amenable to the laws of neither state. On the mainland all around the island in Virginia and Maryland, local option exists. The house is situated partly in Maryland and partly in Virginia, but its exact location cannot be arrived at, as it is not included within the lines of any county or district. Smith's island and Crisfield district lie adjacent to the island, put no portion of it is included within the limits of either of these districts. The proprietor has no license to sell liquor, and not being in any county, as far as the existing lines show, and being unable to locate himself he has no source from which to produce a license, and consequently goes without.

In absence of an authority to grant license there can be, of course, no authority to prohibit him from selling without a license, and not being within the jurisdiction of any county he is not subject to the existing local option laws of the bordering counties. His bar-room, previous to the passage of local option laws in the neighboring counties of Virginia, was located on the Virginia side of the line, but after the passage he has removed it a few feet and over the line, and now conducts his business in Maryland. On this peculiarly situated island a man can stand with one foot in Maryland and the other in Virginia, and drink to the health of both states and defy the authorities of each.

Footnote: The following item was reported in the Peninsula Enterprise of Accomac in May, 1885: Mr. John B. Blizzard of Crisfield, Md., has moved to Foxes Island, this county, which he lately purchased of Mr. Planner Crockett, and proposes to engage largely in the planting of oysters and the soft crab business there, and at no distant day will open a first-class summer resort.　


　October, 1897

(The Denton Journal)

Things That Maryland Can Produce

(Excerpts)

A recent dispatch to The Sun from Easton, Md., told of a scheme of some farmers on the Eastern Shore to plant almond trees. There have been possibly from early in colonial times almond trees in Eastern and Southern Maryland. In the lower Western Shore counties the almond seldom bears fruit. It blooms very early in the spring and the fruit is killed by frosts. On the lower Eastern Shore counties, perhaps, this difficulty does not exist, and if it does not almonds would be a most profitable crop. The almond is a native of Barbary and is extensively grown in Southern Europe. It is nearly allied to the peach, and the nut is surrounded by a fruit which dries up when the almond becomes ripe and falls to the ground.

Fig trees grow well in Southern Maryland and on the Eastern Shore and produce large crops with great regularity.


　
March, 1902

(The Denton Journal)

The Pocomoke Telephone Company of Worcester County has been incorporated, with a capital stock of $15,000.　


　
November, 1949

(The News- Van Nuys, California)

(Excerpts)

Richard Nixon Announces For U.S. Senator

Declaring that the issue in next year's election is "simply the choice between freedom and state socialism," Congressman Richard Nixon (R) of Whittier announced his candidacy for United States Senator from California at a Thursday dinner meeting in his honor at the Ebell Clubhouse in Pomona.

Nixon told a capacity audience: "We will tell the people the truth... we will raise a banner of freedom which all people, regardless of party, can follow. If we do this we cannot help but win".



June, 1974

(The Journal- Lincoln, Nebraska)

Professor, Former POW Nominated

Winners Say Watergate Issue

From News Wires

(Excerpts)

A former prisoner of war from Maine, a law professor in Arkansas, and two men in Virginia who want to see Richard Nixon impeached, won Democratic nominations to Congress Tuesday.

Bill Clinton, a law professor on leave from the University Of Arkansas-Fayetteville, won an easy victory in Arkansas' 3rd district run-off against State Sen. W. E. (Gene) Rainwater, 49, of Greenwood.

Clinton will face a fourth-term incumbent, 51-year-pld John Paul Hammerschmidt, of Harrison, in November.

　
　September, 1941

(The Cumberland Times- Cumberland, Md)

Pocomoke City, Nov. 15.- Governor O'Conor has been invited to address a joint ladies night dinner of the Pocomoke City Lions Club and Pocomoke City Rotary Club here, Nov. 25, said L. Paul Ewell, program chairman.




November, 1894

(The Salt Lake Tribune- Salt Lake City, Utah)

John W. Crisfield, of Princess Anne, Md., is one of the oldest practicing lawyers in the United States. He sometimes appears before his son, Judge Henry Page, who dropped the paternal name many years ago. Mr. Crisfield has lived to see the odd little amphibious town that he founded and named for himself about thirty years ago, grown into the most important place on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake.



　
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Latest Storm Track of Sandy

Latest track of Sandy as of 6:45 AM Sunday

NASA

Voluntary Evacuation Order In Effect For Accomack County

ONLEY, Va.- Emergency management officials are advising all residents to prepare for high winds and extended high level tidal flooding as Hurricane Sandy approaches the Eastern Shore.
Accomack County residents are under a voluntary evacuation order, which is in effect at this time. There are no emergency shelters open at present in the county.

Emergency evacuation shelters will be open 2 p.m. Sunday. The shelters are Arcadia Middle School and Nandua Middle School.
If you are planning on evacuating to the emergency shelter, bring a 3-day supply of the following items: sleeping linen, food supplies and medications.

Residents in low lying areas prone to flooding and mobile homes should seek shelter on higher ground. Residents should also prepare for loss of electrical power associated to high wind conditions. Residents should have a three to five day supply on non-perishable supply of food, and adequate supply of medication.

TIME MACHINE Preview ... Blizzard's Saloon on Fox's Island.

It's 1886 and Blizzard's Saloon on Fox's Island at the Maryland/Virginia line is in the news. What's going on there?

It's one of the TIME MACHINE items this Sunday on the Pocomoke Public Eye! 　
　
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"Pocomoketoberfest" ~ (Say that 3 times) TODAY

Riverside Grill ~ Saturday Specials

SATURDAY SPECIALS

OCTOBER 27, 2012

-Seafood Gumbo w/ 1/2 deli sandwich or side salad 6.99
-NC Pulled Pork BBQ Sandwich w/ hush puppies and cole slaw 6.99
-Mahi-Mahi Fish Tacos w/ fries 9.99
-Ale-Batter Fried Shrimp Basket w/ fries 8.99*-Mahi-Mahi Caesar Salad 10.99
-Seafood Platter: Fried shrimp, clam strips, crab cake, fries & slaw 18.99

*Take another $1 off the shrimp basket all day every Saturday!

@8 Pm to close:

 $3.50 Stoli Drinks, $3 Red Stripe, Corona, & Corona Light

ENJOY POCOMOKETOBERFEST!

BE SURE TO STOP BY AFTER !

"Trunk Or Treat" At Midway Today!

U.S. Navy Ships Head Out To Sea Ahead Of Storm

Navy sets Sortie Condition Alpha, orders all ships in Hampton Roads to sail by Saturday morning

Norfolk, Va. – The Navy has ordered all U.S. Navy ships in the Hampton Roads area to set Sortie Condition Alpha and prepare to head out to sea as Hurricane Sandy travels up the East Coast.

Adm. Bill Gortney, U.S.Fleet Forces commander, has ordered the ships to sail between Friday afternoon and early Saturday morning.
USS Ashland and USS Carter Hall will sortie from Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story in Virginia Beach, Va.

The following ships will sortie from Naval Station Norfolk: USS Harry S. Truman, USS Bataan, USS San Antonio, USS Mesa Verde, USS Ashland, USS Carter Hall, USS Leyte Gulf, USS Monterey, USS Anzio, USS Barry, USS Gonzales, USS Mahan, USS Bulkeley, USS Mason, USS Bainbridge, USS Gravely, USS Ross, USS Nicholas, USNS Patuxent , USNS Medgar Evers, and USNS William McClean.

USS Wasp, USS Taylor and USNS Kanawha are already underway in the USFF area of responsibility.

“Based on the current track of the storm, we made the decision to begin to sortie the fleet,” said Gortney. “The current timeline allows them enough time to transit safely out of the path of the storm.”

The Navy orders a sortie during potentially extreme weather conditions to reduce the risk of significant damage to ships and piers during high winds and seas.

Some ships will not get underway, due to various maintenance availabilities, and are taking extra precautions to avoid potential damage. Commanding officers have a number of options when staying in port, depending on the severity of the weather. Some of these options include adding additional mooring and storm lines, dropping the anchor, and disconnecting shore power cables.

As a precautionary measure, Commander Navy Installations Command ordered all installations in the Hampton Roads area to set Tropical Cyclone Condition Three as Hurricane Sandy is forecast to bring high winds and rain to the Mid-Atlantic coast.

Tropical Cyclone Condition Three means destructive winds of greater than 50 knots associated with a tropical system, are expected within 48 hours.

A variety of information is available in support of family readiness during hurricane season including:
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Remember Family Pets During Severe Weather

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When making plans for the hurricane please remember to include your pets.

 Remember:  If it isn't safe for YOU it isn't safe for your pet either!





A GOOD disaster plan includes the entire family!

The "Wicked Woods" Is OPEN This Evening

Train Derailment - MD/VA State Line

Train derailment as of 4:45 PM

A train derailment occurred this morning on Holland Road just at the MD/VA state line. (Behind Dixieland)



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 The train was attempting  to navigate  onto the spur from the main track when it derailed causing three of the tankers to fall onto their sides and one left  leaning.


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  Crane is on the scene and in the progress up uprighting the cars.  A second crane was arriving as the photos were being  taken.

Girl Shot At Residence On Saxis Road- Accomack County

According to Sheriff Todd Godwin, on Thursday, October 25 at approximately 10:19 p.m., the Accomack County Sheriffs Office received a report from the Eastern Shore 911 Center in regards to a 10 yr old girl shot at a residence on Saxis Rd.

 When deputies arrived on the scene, they discovered that the child had sustained a gun shot wound to the body. The victim was transported by Saxis Rescue to Peninsula Regional Medical Center where she was pronounced dead as a result of the injury. An autopsy is being conducted by the Medical Examiners Office in Baltimore, Maryland.

Sheriff Godwin stated that the investigation is continuing; however, the death appears to have been the result of an accidental shooting.

Accidental Shooting In Sanford Area

Early Thursday evening Accomack County Sheriff's Department and Saxis, Va. EMS units were called to a residence in the Sanford area for gunshot to the chest.

Two children, brother and sister, living in the household had gone upstairs to play when the shooting occurred.

The brother of the 10 year old girl accidently shot his sister in the chest with a gun owned by the male occupant of the residence.

The female was transported by Saxis EMS unit to Pocomoke where EMS units transported the child to PRMC. The young girl has died from that accidental shooting.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and the community.

　

Riverside Grill ~ Friday Specials & Dinner Specials

FRIDAY ~ ALL DAY/ALL NIGHT SPECIALS

-Seafood Gumbo w/ 1/2 ham sandwich or side salad 6.99
-Mahi-Mahi fish tacos w/ mango salsa and fries 9.99
-Wedge Salad w/ blackened shrimp 8.99
-Ale-Batter Fried Shrimp Platter w/ fries and cole slaw 9.99

FRIDAY DINNER SPECIALS

Beginning at 5:00 PM

-Seafood Platter: fried shrimp, clam strips, and your choice of a crab cake or 2 pieces of Mahi-Mahi, served with fries & slaw 18.99
-10 oz. Ribeye w/ mashed potatoes and green beans 16.99
-Single Crab Cake Platter w/ fries & slaw 15.99
or 2 crab cakes 24.99
-Surf & Turf- 10 oz. Ribeye, a crab cake, mashed potatoes and green beans 24.99

HAPPY HOUR EVERY FRIDAY

4 PM - 7 PM

@8:00 PM

$3.50 Captain Morgan and Sailor Jerry drinks, $1.50 domestic drafts till close

Sarah Bernstein performing tonight from 9-11 PM!! -check her out http://www.thesarahbernstein.com/

ENJOY!!

USE CAUTION At MD/VA Line

A train has derailed near the MD/VA border on Holland Road. (Behind Dixieland)

The derailment has blocked the crossing  at Holland Road and ALL traffice has been rerouted until further notice.  Hazmat has been called.

Drivers should take Green Hill Road as an alternate route.

PLEASE be aware of all emergency vehicles in the area.

Storm System "Sandy"

 From WESR

The Sandy storm system should cause flooding especially on the bayside. The current forecast path of storm Sandy will likely cause flooding especially in the low lying bayside communities late Sunday and into Monday. Flooding can be expected in the low lying areas around Saxis, Muddy Creek, Deep Creek, Chesconessex Creek, Pungoteague Creek, Nandua Creek, Hacks Neck, Occohannock Creek, the Bayford and other low lying areas around Nassawadox Creek, Cape Charles and Cherrystone Creek. Models call for strong winds from the northwest which should result in moderate flooding, three to four feet above mean low water Monday on the bayside. Low lying roads along the bayside on Monday are expected to flood. Residents who wish to leave these areas should make early plans as to where they wish to stay during the worst of the storm.

The seaside wont be exempt from the high tides. Sunday seems to be the day low lying areas will see the flooding tides. Residents of Oyster, Willis Wharf, Wachapreague, along Folly Creek, Parkers Creek, Assawoman Creek, the Wisharts Point area around Atlantic, Chincoteague, Trails End, and Greenbackville may see some roads covered on Sunday.

Some forecasters are calling Sandy a possible 100 year storm. While the storm is a tropical hurricane it is expected to become extra tropical Sunday into Monday which will cause it to interact with an East Coast Trough of low pressure and expand in size. Tropical Storm winds could extend as much as 250-300 miles from the center. If the storm moves into the mouth of Delaware Bay as currently forecast, the tropical storm wind field will extend over the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Boat owners should start preparing in case we do get serious weather from the storm system. Boats that can be put on trailers should be hauled by Sunday. Extra lines should be added to larger boats and the effects of extra high tides should be taken into consideration when adding extra lines.

Log onto shoredailynews.com and check out our Hurricane Preparedness page sponsored by A&N Electric Co-op. In it you will find all of the information you need to protect your property on the Eastern Shore.

WESR will be on the air live as necessary throughout the period of Sunday afternoon through Monday to bring you the information you need. You can track the storm on the weather section of shoredailynews.com courtesy of Coreave.com.

More Information A&N Electric/WESR Hurricane Preparedness Page

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Saturday Night At the Mar-Va ~ "Twist and Shout"

LIVE:  Twist and Shout

SATURDAY  OCTOBER 27, 2012

Time:  7:00 PM

Tickets: $10.00

Ticket Outlets: WCTG, Market Street Deli, T's Corner, Mar-Va Box Office, Online (www.marvatheater.com/events)

Twist & Shout is the most exciting and powerful Beatles tribute rock ensemble to hit the states in years. The members of Twist & Shout have recorded a half-dozen albums since the mid-70s on major and independent labels, toured extensively and performed with top-name artists for thousands of fans nationwide.

Twist & Shout instantly captures audiences with a driving sound and remarkably contemporary stage presence that delivers an incredibly authentic and memorable mix many critics say:

"Best represents what The Beatles

would sound like live today..."

Mar-Va Theater- Friday Night Movie

This movie is Rated R

Doors Open at 9:15 PM

Friday  October 26, 2012

10:00 PM

Tickets  $10.00

Valid College ID - $8.00

A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

Costumes are encouraged and please be prepared to do the time warp.

Still in limited release nearly 37 years after its premiere, it has the longest-running theatrical release in film history. It gained notoriety as a midnight movie in 1977 when audiences began participating with the film in theatres. Rocky Horror is the first film from a major Hollywood studio to be in the midnight movie market. The motion picture has a large international following and is one of the most well known and financially successful midnight movies of all time. In 2005, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

**Prop bags will be on sale that evening for $5. Limited number available.**

Doors will open at 9:15 PM.

Pocomoke City Hall To Celebrate 75th Anniversary

From left: Doug Guns, Bill East, Otho Partlow, Adrian Robinson
Photo/Bill Kerbin

Written By
Bill Kerbin
POCOMOKE CITY — The town will observe the 75th anniversary of its City Hall with rededication ceremonies Saturday at 11 a.m.

The building, constructed at a cost of $47,000, was originally dedicated on May 27, 1937. The cost was shared by the Public Works Administration of the federal government and the town of Pocomoke City. It is estimated that it would cost $1.5 million to replace the facility today.

The building at that time provided a City Council meeting room, offices for city business and ladies and men’s restrooms. The town library was on the second floor as well as a meeting room for citizens of the town. E. Wilfred Ross was mayor at the time of construction.

Since then, the library has been relocated in a modern building of its own and the city has constructed public restrooms at the rear of city hall. The second floor is now used by the housing office, the mayor’s office and for meetings.

The re-dedication ceremony will include remarks by Mayor Bruce Morrison, City Manager Russell W. Blake and by Delegate Michael A. McDermott. Music will be provided by the Pocomoke High School Band and Brandy Taylor. Norma Miles will provide a historical reading. Boy Scout Troop l43 will lead the flag raising ceremony and Miss Pocomoke will assist city officials in the ribbon- cutting ceremony.

The Rev. Jeff Howard and the Rev. George Tasker will provide the invocation and benediction respectively.

Following the ceremony, refreshments will be served and attendees will be able to tour the public portions of the building.

According to Blake, Pocomoke’s City Hall is one of only a very few facilities in the area that have been constructed to be used as a city hall. Town employees have been busy during the past several weeks applying new siding to the upper part of the building, painting and landscaping around the exterior of the facility.

Following Saturday’s ceremony, the Chamber of Commerce will sponsor its inaugural Pocomoketoberfest Beer and Wine Festival at noon. The cost of admission to the festival, which will be held at Cypress Park, will be $20 per person. Designated drivers will be charged $5.
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Bus Trip To See A Performance of "Jonah"

"Wicked Woods of 683" - Halloween @ Exmore Moose Lodge

If you're looking for something to scare the heebie jeebies out of you for Halloween, this is  THE place to go!

NRO: MD Is Epicenter For Redefining American Progress

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Redefining American ProgressBy Jim Pettit
October 25, 2012 4:00 A.M.

When V. I. Lenin wanted to change the economic course of the fledgling Soviet Union in the 1920s, he instituted the New Economic Policy. In the 1950s, Mao Tse-tung sought to transform China with the Great Leap Forward. In the 2010s, a group of progressives dissatisfied with the United States’ political and social landscape are pushing the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI).

Developed as an alternative to gross domestic product for measuring prosperity, this new performance metric allows politicians and bureaucrats to take account of more subjective costs and benefits in calculating “genuine” progress. As its advocates put it, the GDP measures wealth, whereas the GPI measures “well-being.” Thus, economic, environmental, and social “indicators” are designated assets or liabilities in this contrived new balance sheet.

Maryland governor Martin O’Malley hosted a summit in Annapolis earlier this month for members of the burgeoning GPI movement.

This national forum received scant media attention, and the issue itself has largely been under the radar of most mainstream-media outlets. But when we’re facing such an ambitious undertaking as redefining American progress, it’s time to get a clear view of where this is heading.

Maryland is on the leading edge of the GPI initiative, having implemented it in the executive branch of the state government in 2010. Vermont governor Peter Shumlin signed GPI legislation into law this spring. And Oregon is currently exploring the GPI program. The web-based Maryland program offers a prototype of how the GPI is supposed to work.


Deducted from the GPI are the costs of a wide range of environmental and social indicators such as noise pollution, climate change, and income inequality. Added to the GPI are values assigned to non-paying activities such as volunteer work, leisure time, and housework. The subjective nature of the quantification of these indicators is stunning.

In the case of noise pollution, for example, the government would measure the decibel levels of fire-truck sirens, car horns, jackhammers, and so on, and place the resulting number in the liability column of the state’s Genuine Progress Indicator.

As for income inequality, the Maryland GPI states, “If a society becomes too unequal, if more and more wealth is concentrated in the hands of only a few, it will lead to rising tensions.” GPI advocates assume that they know what “too unequal” means and how to go about lessening income disparities.

The Maryland GPI also tells us, “Marylanders’ social well-being is reduced when the underemployed are not working to their full potential by consequential negative feelings and actions, such as frustration and substance abuse.” It’s hard to see where this will end, but this is just the beginning.

The most troubling aspect of this new program is that it aims to substitute central planning by politicians and bureaucrats for economic freedom. But also troubling is the fact that the GPI can be used to simply paper over economic statistics political leaders dislike. Under O’Malley, Maryland is falling further behind its regional competitors, according to objective, accepted, and proven measures supplied by legitimate organizations. In terms of the number of businesses lost, erosion of the tax base, and the unemployment rate, the state is lagging behind its neighbors in traditional economic performance.

Such metrics come from the U.S. Census Bureau, the IRS, and the Department of Labor, respectively. But they are not part of the Genuine Progress Indicator. In fact, the governor issued a press release in conjunction with the Annapolis conference that claims the Maryland GPI increased 2 percent over last year. Nobody but the bureaucrats running the program have any idea where this number comes from.

It’s not just a few governors advancing this agenda. Nationally, the GPI agenda is pushed by groups such as the New York–based Demos, a liberal public-policy nonprofit that describes itself as dedicated to “empowering the public sector” and “rethinking American capitalism as it exists today.”

The GPI is also promulgated by a cadre of left-wing university professors, who say that economies do not need to grow, that individuals are interchangeable with one another, and that corporations ought to collapse.

For example, the Oregonian newspaper covered an April fact-finding meeting led by Robert Costanza, a professor at Portland State University, and attended by Governor John Kitzhaber.

According to the Oregonian, Professor Costanza explained that “researchers have found in surveys that once people have basic food, shelter and security, additional wealth has little effect on their happiness.”

Propaganda is the basic foundation on which central economic planning is built. It will require a great deal of propaganda to convince us that we’re doing better if we lose our jobs and thus have more leisure time and opportunities for volunteer work. When planning models fail, however, we can look to Mao’s China and Lenin’s Soviet Union for tips on how to deal with the aftermath.

— Jim Pettit is policy and communications director for Change Maryland. Founded by former Maryland cabinet secretary Larry Hogan, Change Maryland is a grassroots organization with 25,000 members.

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINEhttp://www.nationalreview.com/articles/331558/redefining-american-progress-jim-pettit

Riverside Grill Specials Of the Day

Daily Specials

Thursday  October 25, 2012

-Beer & Cheese Soup w/ 1/2 shrimp salad sandwich or side salad 6.99
-Buffalo Shrimp Platter w/ Fries and cole slaw 9.99
-Pittsburgh Salad (iceberg and romaine lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions, shredded cheddar, flank steak, french fries, choice of dressing) 8.99
-Crab Cake Caesar Salad 16.99

EVERY THURSDAY



$4.00 Burgers starting at 4PM

HAPPY HOUR

4 PM - 7PM

@8:00 PM- $3.50 Bacardi  drinks

TIME MACHINE Preview ... Blizzard's Saloon on Fox's Island.

　
It's 1886 and Blizzard's Saloon on Fox's Island at the Maryland/Virginia line is in the news. What's going on there?

It's one of the TIME MACHINE items this Sunday on the Pocomoke Public Eye! 　
　
Do you have a local memory to share with PPE readers.. such as a big snow storm, a favorite school teacher, a local happening, something of interest your parents or grandparents told you about? It can be just a line or two, or more if you wish. Send to tkforppe@yahoo.com and watch for it on a future TIME MACHINE posting!

75th Anniversary/Rededication Ceremony ~Pocomoke City Hall

75th Anniversary Redication Ceremony and Open House

Pocomoke City Hall

101 Clarke Avenue

Pocomoke City, Maryland

Saturday October 27, 2012

11:00 AM

The re-dedication ceremony will include:
Remarks by Mayor Bruce Morrison, City Manager Russell W. Blake and by Delegate Michael A. McDermott.

Music will be provided by the Pocomoke High School Band
Brandy Taylor. Norma Miles will provide a historical reading.

Boy Scout Troop l43 will lead the flag raising ceremony
Miss Pocomoke will assist city officials in the ribbon- cutting ceremony.
　
The Rev. Jeff Howard and the Rev. George Tasker will provide the invocation and benediction respectively.

Refreshments will be served following the ceremony and attendees will be able to tour the public areas of city hall.

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Taken from Denton Journal, August 6, 1936
Seeks Other Projects
Mr. Goldsborough*  also kept before Mr. Ickes**  his endorsement for funds for the construction of a municipal building at Pocomoke City and the completion of the school building construction program started under the ERA.
　
Some prominent citizens of Pocomoke City complained that that section of the shore had been neglected in the PWA program.
The new allotment of $21,082 to Pocomoke City is to aid in the construction of a two-story-and-basement brick municipal building -with two one-story wings, to cost $46,850.

The building is designed to take care of all municipal activities and the basement is to have a boiler room with concrete slabs overhead, which are to serve as the floor of cells for white prisoners.

*T. Alan Goldsborough, Dem., MD. 1st District
**Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of Interior & WPA Administrator
       　
thanks  to tk for PPE.
　

2012 Dispatcher of the Year For Worcester County

Jennifer Kosko named 2012 Worcester County Telecommunicator of the Year

Jennifer Kosko was named the 2012 Worcester County Telecommunicator of the Year by the Maryland Emergency Number Association on September 11, 2012 for her outstanding performance during emergencies.

She was recognized for excellence for her role in handling two high priority incidents.Her efforts during an in-progress burglary resulted in the location and arrest of three suspects, all of whom were also wanted in another county for theft and selling stolen goods, by the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office. Her efforts pertaining to a commercial fire involving chemical explosions, exposure to woods and other structures also helped the home fire agency and multiple company responders better respond to the event.

In addition to being named the 2012 Worcester County Telecommunicator of the Year,Kosko has also been recognized by the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office for her professional dispatch of a burglary in progress where the suspect was shot by an officer. Her knowledge and professionalism makes her a valuable asset to Worcester County Emergency Services, where she helps train new dispatchers, head up shift supervisory responsibilities and aid the public.

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