Thursday, February 25, 2010

How About The Weather!!??

The day where I live started out with a dismal look to it but towards mid morning the sun came out and the day, for the most part, was completely sunny.

There wasn't even hardly a dusting of snow this morning and everyone was able to go about their day as usual.


It was wonderful while it lasted. And within the past hour the wind has started to howl, the white puffy clouds are gone and that "look of snow" has appeared once again in the sky.


Am I the only one tired of the dreary days and the snow?

Funding Could Be Eliminated From Local Arts Organization


The House Appropriations Committee in Richmond has announced it will recommend funding be cut in half to the Virginia Arts Commission in FY 2010 and that funding be completely eliminated in FY 2011. This is one of many recommended cuts to the Commonwealth's budget aimed at balancing the $4 billion revenue shortfall.

Theresa Bliss, Attorney in Onancock and Artistic Director of the North Street Playhouse, says that is not a good idea.

"These cuts can really cripple smaller organizations," explains Bliss. "The arts are responsible for jobs and education. With all the cuts to the schools, arts education falls back on these small arts organizations. The North Street Playhouse, along with other organizations on the Shore such as ESO & ACES, hold educational classes year around."

Bliss said many of the funds the North Street Playhouse receives from the Commonwealth are returned to small businesses here on the Shore.

"The arts are not frivolous," said Bliss. "They are invaluable to the life of any healthy community and to dismiss that is blindly short sided."

Bliss estimated that anywhere between six to twelve non-profit arts organizations receive funds from the Virginia Arts Commission for shows and events.

Nick Covatta, President of the Virginia Arts Commission, says the arts provide a direct economic benefit to all communities. Covatta said the Onancock restoration took place in large part due to organizations like the North Street Playhouse and the Art Galleries in town.

"People come into town for a show, then they want to go to dinner," Covatta said. "They'll come to visit for the summer and stay in the B&Bs and go to a show while in town. It's a huge economic driver."

The Virginia Senate voted on their budget today, which took Governor McDonnell's proposal to only cut 10% of the funds to the Virginia Art Commission. The final budget will be reached in reconciliation. Covatta will be traveling to Richmond to speak to the Reconciliation Committee to urge them to not cut the entire Commission.

"I'm optimistic that we'll only lose 10% of our funding, not half of it... I understand the State has to cut $4 billion out of a $12 trillion budget and that's not easy. But you cut things, you don't disband things."



www.shoredailynews.com


The Virginia Commission for the Arts is the state agency that supports the arts through funding from the VA. General Assembly and Nat'l. Endowment for the Arts. These grant awards are given to artists, arts and other not-for-profit organizations, educational institutions, local goverments and educators, and provides technical assistance for art management.

These monies over the years have enabled Onancock to become the beautiful town that it is and has also given many artists the ability to display their work so beautifully. It has also given the youth of today the opportunity to understand just how important all of the arts and different talents are in our society. The North Street Playhouse and the art galleries are very important for everyone in that area.

Closings/Delays/Cancellations

Thursday- February 25, 2009

Asbury Child Development Center - Closed Thursday

Crisfield Christian Academy - Closed Thursday

Delmar School District - Closed Thursday

Holly Grove Christian School - Closed Thursday

Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic School - Closed Thursday

Somerset County Public Schools - Closed Thursday

St. Francis De Sales School - Closed Thursday

Wicomico County Schools - Closed Thursday

Worcester County Schools - Closed Thursday

Worcester Preparatory School - Closed Thursday

NASA Wallops - Opening at 10a.m. Thursday

PRMC - Infant Care Class cancelled

Closures/Delays February 25, 2010- Thursday

NASA WALLOPS ---- OPENING AT 10:00 A.M.

HOLLY GROVE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CLOSED TODAY

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Irony

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Boat Launch

This was this guy's first boat, but he wasn't quite sure of the correct
procedure for launching a boat at the ramp. However, he figured it couldn't be that difficult to do, so he stopped by his Union office for advice, and they just told him... "Don't let the trailer get too deep in the water when you're launching your boat".

Well later on, he couldn't understand what they meant by that, as he just could barely get his trailer in the water! Here's a picture worth a "thousand' words! Your gonna love this guy!!! They walk among us, get married, have children and vote! Sticker on back glass explains everything!!!












Hat Tip; Eric

Friday Night at the Mar-Va














"Billy Holiday Tribute
by Lady Rose
& Stevie Nicks Tribute
with Ocie "

Friday
February 26th
7:00 PM
Admission Only $10







Tunes to carry in your head all day the next day!!







Second Person Charged In Walmart Arson

Fire marshals announced new charges in an arson case involving potato chips set on fire in the Pocomoke Walmart.

Officials said Lamar Rashad Watson, 20, of Pocomoke City was charged as an accomplice in the Feb. 11 fire.

Police had already charged Vincent V. Harmon, 20, of Pocomoke City with lighting chips on fire in a store aisle. The ensuing blaze caused about $1 million in damaged food, equipment and merchandise, officials said, and caused the store to close for about two days for cleanup.

Watson was held on $150,000 bond at the Worcester County Jail.

www.delmarvanow.com

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

OH NO!! SNOW???

Please, NO MORE SNOW!!!!!!



I can't eat anymore snow cream! I'm so tired of shoveling snow!!!! And my arms ache from forming snow angels!!!





I have seen enough to last me another 20 to 30 years!!!!!
And don't send rain either!



S N O W ---- another bad 4 letter word......

Support For Wallops From NASA


The Remedy For Stress

Feeling stressed lately?

Well, who isn't?

Irony

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SCAM ALERT!! Flagged Paypal Account

Yet another phishing scam claiming to be part of security measures to ensure only the recipient has access to their account. The sender tries to fool the recipient by threatening suspension of the account until the user enters their details. You are directed to a bogus web site to fill in your details which will place your login information in a database, giving the sender access to your account. Online stores will never ask you to send them your login name and password.

November 2009

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Dental Records Might Give Police A Clue

SNOW HILL -- Dental records could reveal the identity of a body unearthed on a Snow Hill property as soon as Thursday.

Until then, Worcester County State's Attorney Joel Todd won't confirm rumors that the skeletal remains found on the grounds of a Snow Hill inn are those of missing Delaware woman Christine Sheddy.

"It would be inappropriate to comment on the identification," he said. "I don't know who this is. At this point we're referring to the person as Jane Doe. The Maryland Medical Examiner will have to make that determination."

Sheddy was last seen Nov. 13, 2007, at a residence outside Pocomoke City. The single mother of three was 27 years old when she vanished without a trace, police said. Local groups searched for her with no results, and her story had been featured on the TV show "America's Most Wanted."

The remains were found by investigators Feb. 19 buried on the property of the River House Inn, a bed and breakfast adjacent to a municipal parking lot and the Pocomoke River in downtown Snow Hill. Todd said the discovery came as a total surprise to the couple that owns the inn.

The remains were taken to the state Medical Examiner's Office in Baltimore, where the woman's body will be checked against dental records of known missing persons. Sheddy's dental records will be included among those because she's known to police as a reported missing person.

Members of the Maryland State Police, Worcester County Sheriff's Office, Worcester County Bureau of Investigation and the Worcester State's Attorney's Office were led to the site Feb. 19 as part of a larger investigation, Todd said.

Police said in a statement that the remains were found after several hours of searching. Only a pair of shoes and blue jeans were found with the body. Todd said no clear cause of death was apparent, nor was it clear how long the body had been there.

www.delmarvanow.com

Beached Whale Found --Kitty Hawk, N.C.

KITTY HAWK, N.C. A beached whale was discovered dead in Kitty Hawk, N.C. Sunday, according to Officer Gard with the Dare County police.

The whale was a 10-12-foot Pilot whale, and was sick when it died, said the Marine Stranding team. They will do an autopsy (necropsy) on the mammal to determine its cause of death. Dare County police say they are waiting for scientists from Wilmington, N.C., to complete the autopsy (necropsy).



The Marine Stranding team called on ABC Towing in Kitty Hawk to remove the animal from the beach.


www.wavy.com

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Irony

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VIRGINIA: High school teacher faces sex offense charges


MANASSAS, Va. — A teacher at a high school in Manassas is accused of sex offenses against a 16-year-old former student.

Manassas police say they got information last week about inappropriate conduct between 49-year-old Kevin Ricks of Federalsburg, Md., and a teenage boy. The victim is a former student at Osbourn High School, where Ricks teaches.

Ricks was arrested and charged with carnal knowledge, aggravated sexual battery and two counts of indecent liberties while in a supervisory position.

Police say the sexual contact took place at a Manassas home in December and January. Ricks is being held without bail.

Snatched: DelmarvaNow.com

Odor on Nictitate; The Final Chapter

Odor on Nictitate
By Odor Eliminator

The Final Chapter

OE is writing the final chapter of Nictitate and the groupies drama. It is with sadness that OE writes this chapter because a beautiful young woman’s life has been taken. The mother of three will never come home to her children and they will have to go on in life knowing that there are bad people out there who do bad things all the while pretending to be a friend. Sadly this is what our world has come to.

Realistically, we all were fairly sure that something terrible had happened to Christine. When we all spent time searching for her, it was remains that we were looking for. Even so, confirmation of our thoughts has cast a sorrowful shadow over everyone.

Along came a spider named Nictitate spinning her web of lies and deceit. She and her 3 ring circus of groupies hanging from her nest spreading their tales have done nothing but dish out a lot of hurt at many people. The accusations have been ruthless and no one was spared any kindness from this bunch. It brings to mind a picture of a pack of wild dogs running unrestrained from attacking anything that moves.

Instead of issuing the many apologies that are owed, once again Nictitate has publicly blamed the Pocomoke Volunteer Fire Company for Christine’s death. As the spokesperson for Christine’s family, she announced that had the PVFD investigated the fires on Byrd Road, Christine would not have been murdered. In Chapter 5 of Odor on Nictitate OE clearly explained who is responsible for investigating fires. OE will say it one more time – The Fire Marshalls Office investigates fires not the VFD’s. PVFD puts out fires and has nothing to do with any investigation of a fire. Got it?

It is beyond OE’s understanding that why, at this time is Nictitate blaming people? She should be grieving along with Christine’s family and should be relieved that Christine has finally been found. Does Nictitate imagine that her statement will bring hoards of press to her as someone “in the know”?

Of course the Pocomoke Tattler has used the blog as a forum to launch political attacks. While they may be right about Mayor McDermott they don’t have the knowledge, manners, or breeding to know that Christine’s murder and the finding of her remains is not something to use as a forum for their ranting of conspiracies. Billy Burke defined the purpose of the blog in a recent post – “ The purpose of the Pocomoke Tattler is to expose corruption & incontinence in the Pocomoke city government”. Is he talking about fecal, urinary, or philosophical incontinence? Check the word out on Wikipedia.

Maybe the owners of the blog should explain why they withheld postings from a person claiming to be JR. In one of those postings this person said that we were “way off” in finding her when we had the big search in March. A conspiracy was launched by the owners when they conspired to withhold evidence. Sources tell OE that the evidence would not have come forth unless a citizen had not informed LE about these posts. Contrary to claims made LE did not tell the owners to withhold the postings. After LE questioned the owners, all of the postings magically appeared on the Pocomoke Tattler.

Accusations of LE persons withholding and tampering with evidence in the Sheddy case has been said and Billy and Stephanie Burke have used Christine as an avenue to spew forth their hatred of authorities in Pocomoke and at people who don’t agree with them or that they don’t like.

It’s clear that Nictitate and her groupies know nothing about what lead LE to finding Christine. No, someone did not have the “cajones to come forward” with information in this case. At this time OE will not say anymore. But OE can say that Nictitate and the groupies had nothing to do with the info that LE received. A piece of advice to Nictitate and her groupies - if you’re going to say something make sure you know what you are talking about.

Some people have not appreciated anything that the people of Pocomoke have done to try and find Christine. OE would like to say “thank you” to all of the many fine people of the City and surrounding area for all of the hard work and time put forth to find Christine and for opening up your arms to welcome her family in their search for her. It has been an exemplary example of how a community can come together for a common cause.

Time will tell all. Unfortunately, Nictitate and her groupies were visited upon all of us and managed to divide people. We have endured. Nictitate and the groupies will be left to go on their way. They will find other victims to feed of off. Unfortunately in their quest for fame they have managed to announce to the world things that could jeopardize the case. Blabbing everything that one knows doesn’t do anything but give information to the accused. How stupid!

OE is glad to be writing this last chapter about Odor on Nictitate and will now tell the meaning of the title – Stink on Blink! From the very beginning this person smelled. The odor of deceit lies heavily around her. One can smell it from a distance and know that this is evil. She launched her lies by pretending to be a new investigator on Christine’s case and started collecting her groupies to launch a rainstorm of untruths and hatred upon us. She was immediately “outed” and her real purpose was exposed – writing a book. This book is what spurred OE’s tale in order to get at the truth instead of allowing Blink to write made up stories. There is something seriously wrong with this person.

The International Seer Society also visited us. Those claiming to “see” where Christine was were nowhere near being correct. While their claims hampered searches for Christine one has to admit that this part of the tale provided much amusement. Who knows, maybe there are people out there who “see” things but OE doesn’t believe that any of those people visited us. Those who did visit us wasted much time and energy in the search for Christine but one can shrug it off and say “oh well” it was all for the cause of trying to find her. We will miss “man with a stick” although misguided in his methods he appeared to be genuine about finding Christine. I imagine that us “inbreeds” will talk about this for a long time!

May Christine rest in peace and may her family find closure to this horrible story. May her children grow up to be strong, healthy, and good people. May those responsible be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and may they rot in hell. Just remember, the State of Maryland does have the death penalty!

Bye, Bye Blink!

Note: For those of you who want to highjack writings from OE – DON’T. Any writings contributed by Odor Eliminator belong to The Pocomoke Public Eye exclusively and all rights are reserved. You may not copy and paste, dissect, snip, or use any of OE’s writings in any part or its entirety without prior written consent.

Odor on Nictitate; The Final Chapter


Coming Soon, Stay tuned

Message In The Snow

Just click on the following link, put your first name or any message in the message window. Wait a few moments after clicking on "submit" to see your name or message in the snow. Cool. Hope it works for you. You can type in any name or message and the penguin will begin his/her (?) work. How does this work, you ask? I have no idea, but it does!

MESSAGE IN THE SNOW CLICK HERE

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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Blink Blames The Pocomoke City Volunteer Fire Department Again and Again

For whatever reason I listened to the (Kanuks) David Pretzer radio show and low and behold he had a snip of the self renowned Blink on the show tonight.

While holding my gag reflex I managed to endure the 2 minuets of the "B" on the Kanuks radio show, and true to her embellishing, signifying, self she managed to blame the Pocomoke Volunteer Fire Department AGAIN for the murder of Christine Sheddy.

Saying that if the original fires at the Byrd road farm had properly been investigated by the PVFD Christine Sheddy would not have been murdered.

Good-grief is this woman delusional or what? Oh but she has "inside sources" yea right!! No one in this city would give her the time of day, not if they have at least one brain cell anyway.

I can't believe "B" had the gall to say that the PVFD has any responsibility at all in the murder of Christine, what in the hell is wrong with her?

That's like saying because Osama Bin Ladens mother gave birth to him it's her fault that planes flew into the towers on 911. Geeze........ What a "B"

Blink is doing whatever she can to make this about HER.

Breaking News! (unofficially) Missing Mother Christine Sheddy Found

My un-named sources have "unofficially" informed me that the remains found in Snow Hill is in fact the remains of missing Christine Sheddy.

The remains were not washed ashore and were buried on the site that the remains were found.

Now lets put the POS scum that were evolved in her murder away, under the jail.

Good work by WCBI and MSP it was not an easy task with so many tight-lipped suspects.

Prayers and condolences go out to the Sheddy family. I hope they can finally have closure.

RIP Christine

Snow Hill; (Body) Remains Found Assumed to Those of Missing Christine Sheddy, WCBI Press Release

Human-Skeletal-Remains-Recovered

DATE & TIME: February 19, 2010 at 10:00 Am
Case # CBI# 10-0000116
LOCATION: E. Market Street Snow hill, Worcester County MD
CRIME: Human Skeletal Remains Recovered
VICTIM: Unknown

NARRATIVE:

On February 19, 2010 The Worcester Co. Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which is comprised of criminal investigators from the Maryland State Police, Worcester County Sheriff’s Department and Berlin Police Department, developed information on the location of possible human remains located at East Market Street Snow Hill Maryland.

From information learned, Investigators from CBI, assisted by MSP Homicide Unit and MSP Crime Lab actively pursued the area of interest. After several hours of searching, human skeletal remains were unearthed.

On Friday, February 19, 2010 the Worcester County’s Forensic Investigator for the office of the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office – (OCME) responded to the scene and examined the remains of the deceased. The Forensic Investigator advised the deceased remains would be transported to the OCME’s office for autopsy.

The investigation is continuing.
INVESTIGATING DETECTIVE: Detective Alex Kagan, (WCBI)
Supervisor’s: Sgt. H. Scott Brent, and Sgt. Van Muir (WCBI)

Body: Remains Found In Quiet Snow Hill, Thought to be Missing Mother Christine Sheddy

WMDT Channel 47 reported this, I guess last night. Maybe alot of you know it by now. Let's hope it is Christine and the nightmare is over for her family.......finally. It's way past time.



Update: Remains Found - Latest News
by - Katherine Amenta


SNOW HILL, Md. - A tiny bed and breakfast in Snow Hill could very well be a crime scene tonight. Human remains were found buried in the backyard this weekend. So, could it be a break in the Christine Sheddy case? Investigators said it is too soon to tell.

"It's a shock, because Snow Hill is a very quiet town," said Snow Hill resident Jim Adcock. But, that quiet was broken on Thursday.

"We did receive information that there were remains at a location in Snow Hill," said Worcester County Deputy State's Attorney Mike Farlow.
The tip led the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation to the "River House Inn" Bed and Breakfast on East Market Street. "The owners of the property were informed Friday morning that there was potential evidence on their property," said Farlow.


Human skeletal remains were found in "River House's" backyard. By Saturday morning, the dirt was back in place and detectives were leaving the scene. The State's Attorney's office said based on clothing, they do consider the body a female. But, they won't speculate on whether or not this could be the body of missing Pocomoke woman, 26 year old Christine Sheddy. Sheddy was last seen November 13, 2007 in Pocomoke City.

We spoke with Christine's mother when Christine was first reported missing; "It's been over a month now and still no Christine," Lynn Dodenhoff said in 2007. "If anyone can help us find her, one way or another, we just need to bring her home."


It is still unclear how long the remains were buried. The State's Attorney's office said after all the recent snow, it is difficult to know what kind of condition the grass was in. There was no answer at the property when we knocked.

The State's Attorney's office said a positive identification on the remains could come by the end of next week.

http://www.wmdt.com/

Body Found: Human remains found in parking lot, is it Christine Sheddy?

Local law enforcement agencies are investigating human remains that were discovered buried in a parcel of land near the Snow Hill municipal parking lot.

Worcester County State’s Attorney Joel Todd said “it would be inappropriate to comment” on whether the body was that of missing woman Christine Sheddy. Sheddy disappeared from a Pocomoke-area farm house in November 2007.

Officials from the Maryland State Police, Worcester County Sheriff’s Office, Worcester County Bureau of investigation and Worcester County State’s Attorney’s Office were led to the site as part of a larger investigation, Todd said.

The remains, which were found with a pair of shoes and some jeans, will be sent to the state Medical Examiner’s Office in Baltimore.

Todd said he did not know how long the body had been there, and declined to comment any further for the sake of the investigation.

VIA

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