All three deputies graduated with top honors in academics, physical fitness and firearms from the Eastern Shore Criminal Justice Academy at Wor-Wic Community College in June 2011.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Newest Deputies To The Worcester County Sheriff's Office - 2011
All three deputies graduated with top honors in academics, physical fitness and firearms from the Eastern Shore Criminal Justice Academy at Wor-Wic Community College in June 2011.
University of Maryland Launches Bee Hive Project In Cemetary
Just inside the locked gate of Old St. Paul's Cemetery on Martin Luther King Boulevard, honeybees zip in and out of a white hive perched on cinder blocks. They flit past weathered headstones for a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the hero of the 1814 defense of Fort McHenry, a Civil War general and other long-gone luminaries.
There are more than 1,500 registered beekeepers statewide, most of them hobbyists, with more than 11,600 colonies in 1,968 locations, according to the Maryland Department of Agriculture.
That minor setback aside, McManus said getting started was neither expensive nor all that difficult. Hive materials, equipment and bees all cost less than $1,000, she said. And while the graveyard offers plenty of room and even some flowering shrubs, hives really need very little space.
"People can bee-keep anywhere," she said. A rooftop deck or even an apartment balcony will do.
"I'm extremely allergic to oak pollen," she said, "and so I'm hoping that next year I take a couple tablespoons of honey every day and I don't have that kind of reaction."
FALL FESTIVAL IN DOWNTOWN POCOMOKE CITY - DON'T MISS IT!!
Epps Sentenced To 50 Years In Sharone Bailey Murder
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Monday, September 26, 2011
Virginia Aims To Attack Meth Problem
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According to Virginia State Police figures, of the 34,168 drug arrests across the state in 2010, just 487 were for meth or amphetamines.
But the state police say the number of meth lab incidents (lab seizures or the finding of dump sites, chemicals and equipment) rose statewide from 53 in 2005 to 158 so far this year — with 152 of them in Southwest Virginia.
And it's also a growing problem, he said, "because of the advent of these small, clandestine labs. The number of (lab) seizures have tripled in the last two years. They call them a lab, and they are, but some of them are literally in a two-liter Coke bottle."
Michele Chesser, a health policy analyst with the joint commission on health care, told the Crime Commission last week that most meth is manufactured in Mexico. But, she said, small-scale production is increasing in Virginia.
Federal law bars selling or buying more than 3.6 grams of PSE per day or 9 grams a month to the same person. State law bars buying more than 3.6 grams per day, but not more than 9 grams per month.
Most of the PSE used in small meth labs is obtained by people using fake IDs or by "smurfing," Chesser said. She said it is difficult to prosecute purchasers using fake IDs or "smurfers" for the possession of PSE with the intent to manufacture meth.
Doctors Warn Against Eating Wild Mushrooms
Washington AP— Mushrooms are sprouting up everywhere after recent rainy weather, but doctors at Georgetown University are warning against eating them after treating two men fell dangerously ill from toxic mushrooms in the last two weeks.
Frank Constantinopla and his wife picked mushrooms from their backyard in Springfield, Va., to cook in a stir fry. Within hours of eating the fungi known as "death cap" mushrooms, they felt sick. His symptoms were worse and within days, he was suffering from the early stages of liver failure.
One week later, a retired farmer from Frederick, Md., fell ill with mushroom toxicity. Doctors were able to use a drug that's undergoing clinical trials and now both men are recovering.
Doctor say people should buy their mushrooms from legitimate farms or grocery stores.
Source; http://www.wtkr.com/news/sns-ap-dc--dangerousmushrooms,0,6175615.story
Poker Run To Benefit Courtney Bloxom
Saturday, October 1, 2011
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
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TIME MACHINE ... Electricity!
(Excuse the "shocking" pun on this week's previews. No, not any shocking revelations today but items that all deal with electricity! Hope you'll find them of interest.)
February, 1942
(The Salisbury Times)
LOWER SHORE FARMS TO GET CURRENT FEB. 9
Half Of Rural Homes In Area To Get Electricity
More than 50-percent of approximately 1,200 rural homes and farm buildings on the lower Eastern Shore have been wired for electricity and inspected by the Choptank Cooperative in readiness for REA current to be turned on next Monday.
The three switches at power stations on the Eastern Shore at Salisbury, near Princess Anne, and at Airy in Dorchester County will be turned on according to John Warren of Snow Hill, coordinator of the project for the Choptank Cooperative.
Although houses are wired for the current, the system will not be ready for use for the homes for about ten days or two weeks after the current is officially turned on. As soon as the homes are wired, the Choptank Cooperative inspects and approves each job.
Maintenance will be done by the cooperative, which has made arrangements to purchase power from the Eastern Shore Public Service Company.
Rights of way were obtained from all subscribers on the power routes by farmers who volunteered their services in the interest of obtaining power for their communities.
A meeting of the cooperative today in Denton was held to elect officers and make final arrangements for bringing the lower shore unit into the cooperative as a completed project of the Rural Electrification Administration.
July, 1944
(Eastern Shore Public Service Ad)
The question most frequently asked about extending electric service to the farm is "How much will it cost to have a line extended to me?"
Our new rural line plan offers an easy solution to this problem because most farms can be connected without any expenditure on the part of the farmer for the electric lines. This plan includes not only the electric line along the county road, but also the line running into the farm.
Temporary wartime restrictions may delay the construction of some lines, but we are ready now to estimate your needs and contract for your requirements. If you are interested in having electric service on your farm, we shall be happy to talk with you. Just give us a call or drop a penny postcard to Ready Killowatt, Box 391, Salisbury, Md., and say "I am interested in getting electricity to my farm."
Anyone know when electricity first came to Pocomoke City? Perhaps it was around the same time as nearby neighbor Snow Hill.
December, 1887
(The Herald And Torch Light- Hagerstown, Md)
Snow Hill, Worcester County, was lighted for the first time on Wednesday night of last week with electric lights. The work of wiring stores, etc., proceeded rapidly and the business portion of the town has been supplied with electric lights.
March, 1970
One of Pocomoke City's long standing buildings, which in earlier times had housed the town's ice and electric company, was demolished. The Maple Street building had been built around 1910.
ACROSS THE USA
August, 1885
(The Wellsboro Agitator- Wellsboro, Pa.)
SCIENCE AND PROGRESS
Good For Hot Weather
(Excerpts)
An electric lamp manufacturing firm has recently invented something quite new. It is an electric fan. Upon the top (...like an ordinary lamp pedestol about a foot high) is mounted a screw propeller fan. The standard is of wood or other non-conducting material, with wires running up through the middle. When the connection is made, the fan begins to revolve rapidly.
The battery is contained in a little box about four to five inches square. It holds material to generate electricity enough to turn the fan several hours. The fan is fixed upon a hinge so it can be set at any desired angle, thus changing its direction. Clockwork fans are not uncommon. In large factories, where large number of men are crowded together in hot rooms, large revolving wooden fans are attached to the machinery and worked by steam. But this neat little electric arrangement seems an improvement on any other plan that has yet been tried.
November, 1905
(The Anaconda Standard)
NEW ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR
Latest Labor Saving Invasion In The Cooks Domain- Economy Of Time Accomplished
"A newer application of electricity to household uses is the electric refrigerator," says a writer on "The Electric Housekeeper" in the Technical World Magazine.
"Heretofore the difficulty has been to make a practical apparatus small enough for use in the average household. An electric machine which will furnish refrigeration equivalent to that supplied by 800 pounds of ice has been on the market for some time and shows a saving of 50 per cent over the ice-cooler apparatus. Now, it is claimed, a smaller electric refrigerator is about ready for general introduction, which will take the place of ice boxes which now use 100 pounds daily. It will show a considerable saving over the cost of ice and will do away with the uncleanliness, odor, and general sloppiness which too often make the ordinary ice box a nuisance. The new machine will be arranged so that when the desired degree of cold is reached the electric current will automatically shut off, to be turned on again in the same way when the temperature rises above a certain point."
December, 1905
(The New York Times)
THE ELECTRIC DINNER NOW
Viands Cooked on Electric Range or Frozen to Order.
An electric heating company gave an exhibition last evening in its booth at the electrical show in Madison Square Garden of what can be done in a kitchen with electricity. An elaborate dinner was served, all cooked and prepared on an electric range. A special arrangement of the meter recorded the moderate amount of electricity used in cooking the meal.
Not only were hot viands prepared, but dishes which should be served cold were cooled in an electric refrigerator.
Footnote: "viands - articles or dishes of food, now usually of a choice or delicate kind."
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. Your name won't be used unless you ask that it be. Send to tkforppe@yahoo.com and watch for it on a future TIME MACHINE posting!
Structure Fire Friday Night
Friday night not far from my own home four fire departments were called to a structure fire on Saxis Road. Every single person that lives around here KNOWS this house. I have been told that years ago it was a country store but more recently the house has been used for seasonal farm workers that move into the area for just a few weeks then leave.
The yard is always maintained. The house has siding on it. It is NOT an eyesore in the community compared to some we have to see.
But for some reason on Friday evening of September 23, 2011 some low living creature decided to burn this home.
Now, this really jerks my chain! Men and women were called to duty - dropping what they were doing for the evening - to fight a fire started by someone that doesn't give a darn or just wanted to see something burn...........
That's called -ARSON-
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This is the aftermath - all created because someone had NO regard for property owned by someone else..... NOR the fact that the brave, unselfish men and women of our community had to put their personal lives on hold to take care of mess that was caused by someone whose life is probably a mess.
This structure is located on the corner of Jenkins Bridge Road and Saxis Road. The wonderful fire departments that responded were from the fire departments of Saxis, Bloxom, Atlantic and New Church. All wonderful fire departments manned with all volunteers that extinguished the fire within a short period of time but remained on the scene for several hours to assist in "overhaul and investigation". The investigation is being handled by Virginia State Police Investigator Neal.
For the peace of mind in the community I sincerely hope this 'firebug' is nabbed before he/they have the chance to destroy something else..... that belongs to someone else.... and before someone gets injured.
The UARS Has Fallen Back To Earth
I awoke in the middle of the night a few nights ago to a humming in the sky and my first thought was this research satellite (as BIG as a bus) was heading towards my yard. Then I remembered I was a day early in my thoughts and figured then it must have just been an alien saucer landing and leaving a fresh supply of mosquitoes. I would deal with that later in the morning and fell back to sleep.
People were worried sick about the landing location of this mass and I have to admit I may have been more concerned if I had seen Chicken Little being interviewed on CNN.
You can remove your hard hats now. You can walk into the street and your own backyards. It's not here.
And I must admit that if I had known about this 14 years ago I had forgotten it. That's why I don't work for NASA. I would have forgotten about it........besides what did we learn about chemicals in atmosphere?
Here's a release from NASA that's pretty interesting....... Read it and find out exactly where "the bus" did land...........
WASHINGTON – NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) fell back to Earth between 11:23 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 23 and 1:09 a.m. Sept. 24, 20 years and nine days after its launch on a 14-year mission that produced some of the first long-term records of chemicals in the atmosphere.
The precise re-entry time and location of debris impacts have not been determined. During the re-entry period, the satellite passed from the east coast of Africa over the Indian Ocean, then the Pacific Ocean, then across northern Canada, then across the northern Atlantic Ocean, to a point over West Africa. The vast majority of the orbital transit was over water, with some flight over northern Canada and West Africa.
Six years after the end of its productive scientific life, UARS broke into pieces during re-entry, and most of it up burned in the atmosphere. Data indicates the satellite likely broke apart and landed in the Pacific Ocean far off the U.S. coast. Twenty-six satellite components, weighing a total of about 1,200 pounds, could have survived the fiery re-entry and reach the surface of Earth. However, NASA is not aware of any reports of injury or property damage.
The Operations Center for JFCC-Space, the Joint Functional Component Command at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., which works around the clock detecting, identifying and tracking all man-made objects in Earth orbit, tracked the movements of UARS through the satellite’s final orbits and provided confirmation of re-entry.
UARS was launched Sept. 12, 1991, aboard space shuttle mission STS-48 and deployed on Sept. 15, 1991. It was the first multi-instrumented satellite to observe numerous chemical components of the atmosphere for better understanding of photochemistry. UARS data marked the beginning of many long-term records for key chemicals in the atmosphere. The satellite also provided key data on the amount of light that comes from the sun at ultraviolet and visible wavelengths. UARS ceased its scientific life in 2005.
Because of the satellite's orbit, any surviving components of UARS should have landed within a zone between 57 degrees north latitude and 57 degrees south latitude. It is impossible to pinpoint just where in that zone the debris landed, but NASA estimates the debris footprint to be about 500 miles long.
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Saturday, September 24, 2011
TIME MACHINE Preview ... Shocking?
Some potentially shocking items this week??
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. Your name won't be used unless you ask that it be. Send to tkforppe@yahoo.com and watch for it on a future TIME MACHINE posting!
Have You Thought About Being A Volunteer?
Volunteers are needed to work with the Nature Trail Committee in continuing the trail extension of the Nature Trail.
To refresh your memories, The Nature Trail is located in the back of Cypress Park. The trail began as a boarded walk through a maze of Cypress trees, fern and other woodsy growth continuing over towards Stevenson's Pond. Benches were provided along the walkway for relaxing and observing those magnificent Cypress trees, birds and wildlife.
Through the years the Nature Trail has taken many twists and turns and now actually runs from Stevenson's Pond to the banks of the scenic Pocomoke River. The newer extensions connect to the original trail and wind their way through the more dense swamp. The trail is also handicap accessible.
Here is where volunteers are needed!! YOUR HELP is needed -as Friends of the Nature Trail- with continuing this dream and keeping the Nature Trail alive. More work needs to be done.
If you are an adult and you love the outdoors but can't seem to pull yourself away from the recliner to take a walk here is your excuse to get out into the fresh air! If you have experience in carpentry I'm sure your assistance would be appreciated in this rewarding work. You don't have to have experience - just be a volunteer.
Ask others in your church, your local organizations, or ask your neightbor to volunteer with you.
Let's see this dream that the Nature Trail Committee began a few years ago goes even farther than they ever thought possible.
I'll have another post in a couple of days giving you information on who to contact. But until then let's see how many wonderful Pocomoke people we can get to volunteer.
~Delmarva's Got Talent~ TONIGHT
Admission: $10.00 adults
$ 5.00 children
Don't miss the fun! See if you know anyone up there displaying their talent!!
REMINDER ~ Gumboro Mudbog
The next Gumboro Mudbog is October 8, 2011
Saturday Events At Sonic In Oak Hall
This will be an all day event lasting into the evening.
Events for the day include:
Car Show
Music ~ Three talented young recording artist that have opened and been on tour with artist from the Disney channel and many more. These young artists will draw a huge crowd to help raise the money that is much needed.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Beginning TONIGHT @ Mar-Va Theater
Gumboro Mudbog Canceled
After 41 Years - "All My Children" Ends Today..........
The Chew will feature well known foodies:
• Mario Batali from Iron Chef
• Clinton Kelly of What Not to Wear
and will introduce Daphne Oz, the 25-year-old daughter of Dr. Mehmet Oz.
"I'm so upset," commented Tricia "I already cried twice this week watching it, and I'm sure I will cry Thursday and Friday as well."
Andrea had personal ties to the show. "Hate it! Started watching AMC when I was 2 with my mom & grandmother. Can't believe ABC is doing this. Nobody wants another ridiculous cooking show."
In regards to the cooking show, Tricia pointed out, "I wish Disney would pull their heads out their butts and realize that stay at home moms and wives don't want to watch cooking shows, it only makes them remember they have to do it later."
One Life to Live was also canceled. Its last show airs next January leaving General Hospital as the only daytime soap on ABC.
If you have questions or concerns regarding the programming changes, you can contact ABC directly either online or by calling the ABC Audience Information phone line at 818-460-7477