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Rainbow Lake trails progress Work on “multi-user” trails continues Briggs wins mayoral election to advance, thanks to the help received from area volunteers. Page 2 ncumbent Emmitsburg May- the Brookfield and South Gate de- Ior James E. Hoover was defeat- velopments.” Apples rule Adams County ed September 27 by challenger and Other objectives he promulgat- Thousands attended the 25th Annual local realtor Donald N. Briggs in a ed during the campaign which he Pippenfest Festival while organizers prepare for the annual National Apple town election that attracted partic- credited with winning the victory Harvest Festival. Page 4 ipation by hundreds of local voters. included establishing “more youth The threat of thunderstorms ap- civilities” and “taking back the COMMENTARY peared to have little affect on the Town Square (finding a means to Words from Winterbult voter turnout, with 386 ballots make it more “than just an inter- If “none of the above” was elect- cast (out of approximately 1,500 section).” ed we could save a lot of money. registered voters). Regarding Hoover’s loss in his Page 10 Briggs secured his win as mayor bid for re-election, Staiger said,

Down Under with a vote of 209 against 176 votes the contest between mayoral can- I suspect that most of us sometimes cast for Hoover. Councilman and didates represented “a battle of wonder why our government seems to council President Christopher V. styles…(Hoover’s) managerial effi- be as stupid as it is.Page 11 Staiger, who ran unopposed for re- ciency versus (Brigg’s) transitional election, garnered 325 votes. leadership.” ARTICLES Hoover learned of his loss while “I am surprised,“ the coun- The Book of Days gathered with friends and support- cil president said of the upset, but On Oct 7, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, an ers at the Palms Restaurant, where “Don came in with today’s (topical) eccentric American poet died. Poe cohorts subsequently consoled issues. It‘s going to be a dramatic was a Southerner in manners and him over the defeat and thanked change (in governance). It‘s going feelings. Page 13 him for his years of service. The to be an exciting three years.” In the Country Palms had remained open to offer Hoover, who is employed in If beauty pageants and talent shows a gathering place for Hoover’s sup- management with the Maryland were something birds of prey were porters as the votes were being tal- Department of Transportation, government functional by “estab- member and former president of in to, the Eastern Screech owl would lied. has served as mayor for Emmits- lishing a $700,000 reserve fund, the Emmitsburg Business and Pro- steal the show. Page 15 Briggs attributed his victory to burg for the past nine and a half tackling and improving upon the fessional Association (EBPA) and Pets Large & Small his promised campaign commit- years after having served as an ini- long-degraded wastewater collec- has served on various commis- Saving just one makes it all worth- ments to “finishing the west side tially appointed, then elected, tion system, and securing grants sions and committees in town and while… Page 18 of town (west end development), councilman. for much-needed improvements.” in Frederick County, although he Briggs, a local realtor and own- had not previously held a position The Master Gardener making the town more commer- One of the priorities of his terms Once again we come to that time of cially friendly, and finishing out as mayor had been to keep the er of Briggs Associates, Inc., is a of mayor. year when we have to say good-bye to the beauties of this year’s garden and get ready for next year. Page 20

History Memories of the old Emmitsburg Fairfield to host Commissioner High School. Page 24 ough of Gettysburg Zoning Hear- Cold War Warriors ing Board and the Gettysburg Bor- The 1980s - Exodus of Soviet Jews candidates debate from the USSR. Page 26 our candidates for vying for minutes each to address several the 150th commemoration of the ough Council. Qually is currently three positions on the Adams questions to be posed, including one Battle of Gettysburg. one of three county auditors and Mount Creative Writers F County Board of Commissioners from the public attending. Kellet, a member of the Adams/ is a member of Adams/Gettysburg It was that time of year again. The Chamber of Commerce, and serves air was crisp and the mountains will be debating October 19 at the Carroll Valley Borough Mayor Gettysburg Chamber of Com- were a wash of reds, oranges, and Fairfield Fire & EMS firehouse. Ronald Harris and Fairfield Bor- merce, has served as a realtor since on the Adams County Affordable golds. Page 35 Sponsored by the Emmitsburg ough Mayor Robert Stanley will 1999, founded the Community Housing Committee. News-Journal, the debate will be serve as moderators during the de- Benefits Real Estate, and has served Adams County voters will be electing three commissioners from JOURNALS held at 7 p.m. at the Fairfield fire- bate and with input from the pub- on the board of Adams County house and is expected to conclude lic, draw up the questions to be Children’s Advocacy Center. He the four candidates on November The Retired Ecologist 8. Voters will be allowed to vote for In recent years fall has added a around 9:30 p.m. asked. is also a Freedom Township su- no more than two candidates. Of new odor to the “disgustingness” Scheduled to participate will be Martin has served as a Farmers pervisor, and serves on the Adams category. Not long ago, the mar- county commissioner candidate Home Administration County su- County Water Resources Adviso- these candidates, the three that re- molated stink bug... Page 14 Republicans Jim Martin and Ran- pervisor, wherein he administered ry Committee, the Southwest Joint ceive the highest number of votes dy Phiel, and Democrats Paul Kel- credit programs and financial anal- Comprehensive Plan Commit- will win the three commissioner In My Own Words seats for four-year terms. As summer comes to an end, this let and Marty Qually. ysis for rural businesses and coun- tee, the Adams County Council of By law, a county commission crisp, fresh air gets me thinking For the past five months the four ty economic development, and has Governments, and the Critical Area about new beginnings. Page 26 candidates have afforded them- had supervisory experience work- Resource Planning Committee for must have one member of a minor- selves of the opportunity presented ing in the local food processing in- the Marsh and Rock Creek Basins. ity party represented, with no more The Graduate to them by this paper to systemical- dustry. For the past ten years, he Qually has served previously as than two members representing the My life as a first-year teacher has prevailing party, in accordance with been nothing short of hectic. Page 34 ly layout their positions on top- has been employed as a real estate acting assistant director for the City ics they believe are importance to agent. of Frederick’s Community Action the 1873-74 amendments to the Simple Servings county. We hope our readers have Phiel has served as a co-coordina- Agency, and has served on the Bor- Pennsylvania constitution. Whole grain recipes. Do it for your found their efforts worthwhile. tor of the Gettysburg National Mil- heart, your health, and most impor- Copies of their position papers will itary Park’s Volunteer Park Watch PRE-SORTED tantly, your happiness. These recipes be available at the debate. Patrol, and as the park’s tort offi- STANDARD will not disappoint. Page 36 Candidates will be provided with cer, acting safety officer, and law U.S. Postage two minutes each in which they may enforcement training coordina- Complementary Corner Postal Customer PAID introduce themselves and address tor. Phiel presently serves on three Words shape our external and in- Westminster, MD ternal environment, and subse- what they believe are key issues. A Main Street Gettysburg Sesquicen- quent actions. Page 42 Each candidate will then have five tennial committees preparing for Permit No. 94 2 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 NEWS Car show continues Emmitsburg raising funds NEWS-JOURNAL 1 East Main Street ays of hurricane-generated P.O. Box 543 Emmitsburg, Maryland 21727 rainfall of deluge proportions D Office Number: 301-471-3306 Fax: 301-447-3057 adversely impact numerous area www.emmitsburg.com and www.emmitsburg.net activities, including the Second Annual Emmitsburg Maryland News, events, history, humor and culture for the Historic Toms Creek Hundred Charity Car Show held September geographical area: Emmitsburg, Zora, Carroll Valley, Fairfield, Greenmont, Har- 10 at the Mother Seton School in ney, Rocky Ridge, Detour, St. Anthony’s and Zentz Mill. The Emmitsburg News- Emmitsburg. Journal is published the first day of every month by Toms Creek Hundred LLC. The show is organized and held Senior Advisers annually by Bill Kuhn, of His Place, Eric Glass, Taney Corporation Inc., a “full service automotive Dan Reaver, Emmitsburg Glass facility” located at 20 Creamery Way, Dr. Peter Dorsey, Professor of English, Mount St. Marys Emmitsburg. The company also Bo and Jean Cadle, Former Publishers of the Emmitsburg Disptach offers car restoration services. Managing Editor, Michael Hillman, [email protected] Kuhn said this year’s show had actually been scheduled for May. Assistant Editor, Katherine R. Au (MSM Class of 1998) [email protected] “This (September 10) was the rain date” that was implemented when Bruce Tomas of Fairfield, stands beside his 1929 Four English Editor Jackie Fennington (MSM Class of 2010) the May show was cancelled due to touring version of the Model A, which he displayed at the the News Editor, Richard Fulton, [email protected] weather conditions. Second Annual His Place Charity Car Show At last year’s event, more than 120 Creamery Road, Kuhn stated. the event insurance. Advertising, Sharon Graham, [email protected] antique, vintage and custom vehicles Kuhn said he had been thinking Last year’s car show raised between Graphic Design and Layout, Brian Barth, bbarthdesign.com were displayed at the show. That about having a car show in the $3,000 and $4,000 for the EOPCC number was reduced to several dozen area for “a couple of years” before and Mother Seton School. This Letters to the Editor, notice of upcoming events, news stories, and interesting and participants this year, which Kuhn actually creating one. “I had to year, he said, “We didn’t touch those creative articles are welcome and may be submitted via regular U.S. Mail to P.O. Box figure out where and how to hold numbers (due to weather).” 543, Emmitsburg, MD 21727, by email to [email protected], or at our office said is what happens when “Mother on the square - 1 East Main Street. Nature fails to cooperate.” it. It would have been too much to The show, he said, “benefits In spite of inclement weather do it up at our site (His Place.)” everyone involved” by providing still threatening the area during the The auto show concept took off, commercial enterprises with a means and James “Nick” Fraley acquired husband also have an interest in event, several hundred individuals he said, after meeting with EOPCC to advertise their participation, and the business in 1985 from James vintage vehicles. still attended to see the array of founder/owner Bonita J Portier. providing funds to the health clinic “Nick” Fraley, Sr. The Fraleys plan on attending a car classic vehicles which had registered More than 20 sponsors began and school. Vicky Fraley said her and her show in Ocean City, Maryland, this to participate. to kick-in to help make the show One of the major backers of husband’s company “got involved month to promote the Emmitsburg One hundred percent of the show’s a reality, including individually the event is Rocko Meats, 12623 from the annual event from its show by handing out flowers to proceeds go toward providing funds sponsoring trophies bearing the Catoctin Furnace Road, which Kuhn initial beginning after discussing vintage car owners attending that to help support the Emmitsburg donor’s name. “Everything we referred to as “a very big sponsor.” Kuhn’s fundraising effort with event. Osteopathic Primary Care Center have is donated,” Kuhn stated. Rocko Meats was founded in Portier. “I hope a lot more people come (EOPCC), 121 West Main Street, Any uncovered expense is paid for the early 1900s by Frank William “We supply meat and food for next year,” she said. The 2012 show and the Mother Seton School, 100 out-of-pocket by Kuhn, including Fraley. Current co-owners, Vicky the event,” Fraley said. She and her is scheduled to take place in May. Emmitsburg ponders weeds regulation he Emmitsburg Town Coun- ferred the “meadow”-like appear- that someone “has been spraying a of permitted heights to contin- sible to maintain, Demmit said, “I’d Tcil asked town staff at their ance the overgrowth reportedly lot on my street” and that he was ue did not meet with unanimous prefer not to do anything (in the September 19 meeting to gener- presented, as opposed to the short, concerned “of the affect of these approval from development resi- way of cutting),” but added that “18 ate potential regulations creating a cropped grass look. chemicals.” Greger described the dents. inches wouldn’t be a problem.” waiver that would permit exemp- According to the town’s Remov- vacant tracts sprayed as “open Rick Olesek and Jeffrey Lit- The council then decided to tions to allowable weed heights. al of Grass and Weeds regulations, meadows that had developed nat- tle told the council that they had consider the creation of a possible The issues were spawned by vegetative growth is not permitted urally.” to confront snakes that had made waiver that would allow for own- concerns expressed by some to exceed eight inches in height on Council President Christopher their way into their garages from ers of undeveloped lots, if such a Brookfield development residents developed (including platted) and V. Staiger said, “The owner of the the overgrown undeveloped lots waiver was approved, to exceed that weeds growing on undevel- improved lots, the word “and” ap- property (involved) has the right or designated open space. Olesek the current height limits. oped lots within the development parently having worked its way to apply these procedures on his stated, “We would like to see the Town staff was directed to pre- were being sprayed with an un- into the rules instead of the in- property, and that the spraying grass cut.” pare a sample waiver and set of known agent. tended word “or.” had likely been applied by a con- When developer Richard Dem- criteria for granting approvals for In addition, some residents of Brookfield development resi- tractor hired by the developer. mit was asked by Staiger what maxi- consideration at an upcoming the development stated they pre- dent Mitchell A. Greger disclosed Allowing the growth in excess mum height he would consider fea- council meeting.

and pedestrian trail users. Rainbow Lake trails progress After the trail is officially open, signage and blazing (marking the ork on Emmitsburg’s “multi- University’s men’s rugby club and Work that remains in the im- trail paths) will be tackled. He Wuser” trails continue to ad- women’s varsity cross-country team. mediate future includes finishing said, “We will be applying for vance, thanks to the help received O’Donnell reported that the clearing the trail corridor, which some grants” to help finance the from area volunteers. work session “was a very produc- he stated had slowed due to this- remaining work. Emmitsburg Councilman Tim- tive day,” in spite of one “non-trail tles. The growth has been cleared The next volunteer work day othy O’Donnell told the council related” emergency that required back around 87 percent. has not been determined, but may at their September 6 meeting that that medical attention be provided When that is completed, be scheduled to occur during the work on the proposed trail in the to one of the volunteers. O’Donnell stated, “We will de- first half of October. Potential vol- area of Rainbow Lake is 85 percent The councilman stated that area clare the trail open.” The first trail unteers may contact O’Donnell at complete as the result of the latest residents have provided “200 hours that will open will be the “begin- [email protected]. volunteer work day at the site held of volunteer labor so far” in work- ner trail,” with intermediate and Work on the Rainbow Lake August 27. ing on the developing trail system. advanced trails planned to open at trail system was initially proposed He said more than 35 volunteers He said that amount of labor equat- a later date. seven years ago, the commissioner from the area participated, which ed around “$3,200 worth of value “Some people (participants) want The end result will be some 20 said, and construction began in in included “a large turnout” of mem- through donated labor. That’s pret- to come back and bring friends( to to 25 miles worth of trails that will August. Grants monies have thus bers of the Mount Saint Mary’s ty significant.” help),” he said. be accessible to mountain bikers far financed the project. OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 3 NEWS

they failed to be reimbursed Carroll Valley to explore regionalization through state and federal fund- ing sources for damage repairs ex- hrinking budgets, less bang for agreements that may already exist. Freedom, Liberty and Highland. “I want to make up a little ta- ecuted by the borough. As part Sthe municipal buck, and collec- Existing examples of resource He suggested that some of the ble of potential resource catego- of dealing with the death blow to tive interests have inspired at least and bargaining-sharing include in- categories that could be subject to ries and approach the (area) mu- their 2011 budget, the council ap- one local mayor to consider testing ter-municipal police arrangements, regionalization might include fire nicipalities and mark those the proved more cuts to the budget in the regional waters for interest in es- joint recreation plans, and multi- `and emergency medical services, municipalities are interested in,” the amount of some $133,000 at tablishing more cost-sharing, inter- ple municipality purchasing of road road maintenance, snow removal, Harris said. “We’re all hurting for the September 13 meeting. municipal agreements. maintenance supplies, such as col- fuel services, police services, rec- money. Sharing might be the way The regionalization plan the Carroll Valley Mayor Ronald J. lectively buying roadway repair ma- reational resources, zoning and to deal with it.” mayor is proposing to explore Harris was granted approval at the terials and supplies needed to ad- building inspections. “If it looks (via the survey) would involve a handful of mu- council meeting September 13 to dress winter snow removal. These are some of the com- there is interest in a particular (re- nicipalities in the borough’s im- continue with his proposed sur- In particular, Harris said he mon concerns (among municipal- source) area,” he said, “then we mediate area, and would not be vey of adjacent and other near- would like to perform a survey es- ities), he said, “I see over a period would have a meeting” with the duplicative of the work of the Ad- by municipalities to determine if pecially among the boroughs of of time. Is there a way to improve interested municipalities. ams County Council of Govern- there might be interest in regional- Carroll Valley and Fairfield, and (service) quality or reduce the Storm damage this year plunged ments (COG), which deals with izing resources over and above any the townships of Hamiltonban, costs (through regionalization)?” Carroll Valley into the red when resource sharing county-wide.

the municipalities in August. Fairfield considers storm water plan The municipalities have un- til October 14 to file comments he Fairfield Borough Plan- velop a storm water management ed to move away from watershed- cacy rules and one to satisfy those on the county proposal. Thael- Tning Commission continued plan for each watershed in their based plans,” and now wanted the set by the NPDES, and can re- er stated that once the com- to review a county-recommended jurisdiction, but, he said, “The counties to do county-wide storm quire small property owners to ments had been addressed, the plan to address storm water man- state had never fully funded the water management plans that ad- conduct an engineering study if plan would go before the county agement at their September 12 program.” dressed runoff issues in gener- they wanted to erect something as commissioners for their approv- meeting. As a result of the lack of fund- al. Then came more state budget simple as a garage. al, and then to the state Depart- Robert Thaeler, Adams Coun- ing, counties across the state had cuts. Thaeler categorized those legis- ment of Environmental Protec- ty Office of Planning and Devel- done very little in producing the Development is presently sub- lative aberrations as “unattended tion for their sign-off. opment (ACOPD), stated that mandated plans. ject to two, sometimes conflicting, consequences” of the two sets of Municipalities can opt to the county has developed a “bare The purpose of a storm wa- sets of runoff regulations, those regulations. amend their existing storm water bones” storm water management ter management plan is to regu- imposed by the Monocacy Water- The planner said the coun- runoff regulations to reflect the plan option for the county’s 34 late pollution and silt runoff from shed Plan and those imposed by ty developed its proposed run- proposed rules, or they can adopt municipalities to consider, which properties into tributaries that ul- the National Pollutant Discharge off management plan to “hope- a model ordinance developed by would supersede previous region- timately impact larger water bod- Elimination System (NPDES) fully be less of a burden to small the county, once the state has ap- al plans, such as the Monocacy ies, including rivers such as the regulations. property owners” and resolve proved the county’s proposal. Watershed Plan. Monocacy and the Chesapeake Thaeler stated that those sets of the issue of developers having The borough Planning Com- Thaeler stated that state Act Bay. rules require developers to have to to create two sets of engineering mission took no formal action on 167, enacted in 1978, requires all “A couple of years ago,” Thael- execute two different engineering studies for one project, and the the proposal at their September counties in Pennsylvania to de- er said, “the state decided it want- studies, one to satisfy the Mono- proposed plan was distributed to meeting.

the food and drink. Resort pass-holders will also Liberty Mountain celebrates Fall be able to purchase their win- iberty Mountain Resort can sell ski, snowboard and golf Klunk said that free enter- nic-style” lunch menu will be ter season and Advantage passes Lwill be holding its annu- equipment, as well as winter ap- tainment provided in the Al- served at a barbeque tent lo- at the event “to jump-start the al Fall Festival and Customer parel. pine Deck area will include cated near the deck, along with winter season,” she said. Appreciation Picnic on Octo- The Fall Swap will be held on Times Two (X2), an acoustic a beverage tent. This will be a ber 16, with related events also the site at the Children’s Learn- duo, who will play from open- change from the buffet style For additional information, vis- scheduled to take place on Oc- ing Center from 11 a.m. to 3 ing until 1:30 p.m. The Kel- lunch of previous years, she it the resort’s web site at skilib- tober 15. p.m. on October 15, and from ly Bell Band, a locally popular said. There will be a charge for erty.com. Liberty Mountain Resort & 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on October 16. blues band, will then provide Conference Center and Carroll Klunk said, “Sellers will keep entertainment from 1:30 to 4 Valley Golf Course Events Co- 80 percent of their sales, while p.m. ordinator Kara Klunk said more the remaining 20 percent will Activities involving a charge then 1,000 individuals attend- be donated to a non-profit.” or donation will include chili ed last year’s event held at the Activities slated for October tasting (following the cook-off) resort site at 78 Country Club 16 will take place from noon at $5, microbrewery beer tast- Trail, Carroll Valley Borough. to 4 p.m. Admission is free, al- ing ($10 donation) in which All activities, most geared though there will be some activ- participants will also get a Lib- to all ages, will be held out- ities which will require a charge erty Mountain tasting glass, side, Klunk stated, with most in order to participate. scarecrow building (supplies of the events being organized at Free activities will include are provided and participants and around the resort’s Alpine trailer and hay rides, a golf can take their creation home), Deck. competition (equipment will be pumpkin painting, a challenge, Related activities being held provided) and the Fourth An- walk-through obstacle course on October 15, the day before nual Gettysburg Cannonball (to demonstrate team building), the main event, will include a Chili Cook-off (participants and a climbing wall. Fall Swap where participants provide their own supplies). Klunk stated that “a pic- 4 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 NEWS Bikers ride for terminally ill children Richard D. L. Fulton money to help other terminally ill She stated that the balance “remains children and their families. in reserve” to help others who might ore than 160 motorcyclists Valerie Shorb said during this come forward in need of support. Mrallied September 24 in Em- year’s event that Scotty’s Ride has Kerry Shorb said organization mitsburg and surrounding area amassed “between $50,000 and of the annual event may be turned as part of an annual effort to raise $60,000” since its initial run, af- over to Scott Harbaugh’s parents. funds for children suffering from ter recovering expenses, of which However, he did not indicate when terminal illnesses, and their families. “more than $30,000 has been do- that transition might occur. The motorcycle ride, known as nated” to help pay for medical ex- For additional information, visit Scotty’s Ride, was established in penses incurred by seriously ill chil- the Scotty’s Ride web site at scottys- 2006 through the efforts of Kerry dren, or to assist their families. ride.org. and Valerie Shorb, Harney Road, Frederick County, who initially cre- ated the event to raise funds to help cover for medical expenses incurred by their great nephew, 4-year-old Shawn and Stephanie Harbaugh (left), parents of Scott Harbaugh, pose Scott Harbaugh. with Scotty’s Ride organizers Kerry and Valerie Shorb (right) at the Harbaugh, the son of Shawn and September 24 fundraiser held for terminally ill children. Stephanie Harbaugh, Fairfield, had the parking lot of the Jubilee Foods a barbecue dinner. been diagnosed with an “inoperable on East Main Street in Emmitsburg, Unfortunately, Scott Harbaugh brain tumor which was labeled as a and ending at the Shorbs’ home on died August 29, 2007, and was in- Grade 11 Astrocytoma.” Harney Road. terred in the Emmitsburg Memori- Scotty’s Ride was envisioned as a The event was so successful that al Cemetery. Kerry Shorb served as one-time event that would take rid- it became an annual affair, even re- a pallbearer at the funeral. Richard Fleagle, Thurmont, Mark George, Emmitsburg, and Thomas ers on a poker run through 100 sce- taining the original launch site at Ju- In spite of the loss, the Shorbs Houck, Harrisburg, prepare barbecue chicken for lunch held at Kerry and Valerie Shorb’s Harney Road home in conjunction with Scotty’s nic miles of travel, launching from bilee and ending at the Shorbs’ with continued to hold the event to raise Ride, held September 24 in Frederick County.

Final statistics involved in this years event, including attendance and par- Apples rule in Adams County ticipants, are generally not available until compiled by the Pippenfest housands attended the 25th An- weather.” He also noted that the Pippen- Committee. Tnual Pippenfest Festival held in fest Committee and volunteers “worked National Apple Harvest Festival, Fairfield September 24 and 25, as or- hard” to make the event a success. established in the 1940s, will be held ganizers prepare for the annual Na- Featured during Pippenfest week- October 1 and 2 and October 8 and tional Apple Harvest Festival to be end this year were yard sales, arts, crafts 9 at the South Mountain Fairgrounds, held October 1 and 2 and October 8 and antiques, music, automobile and 615 Narrows Road, Arendtsville, lo- and 9 in Arendtsville. tractor shows, raffles and numerous cated ten miles northwest of Gettys- Pippenfest, named after the pippen food vendors offering a wide array of burg on Route 234. (also spelled pippin) apple, is held an- treats and meals. Event coordinators expect hundreds nually by Fairfield Borough during the Not all of the participating vendors of arts and crafts dealers, along with last weekend of September, and is or- experienced a profitable weekend. arts and crafts demonstrations, con- ganized by the Fairfield Borough Pip- Sleeping Beauties owners Michael J. tests, food stands, and entertainment. penfest Committee. And Susan Colella stated they had few This year’s event represented the sales during the weekend. Pippinfest Apple Baking Contest first rain-free weekend the event has However, the Colellas noted their The Pippinfest Apple Baking Con- experienced for several years, although products “were meant more for an art test award winners were: Rachel Smith, those attending the event on Sunday, show than a craft show,” although they Ann Welty, Jessica Kraft, Tiffany John- September 25, had to deal with a swel- noted the event attendees did like see- son, and Donna Armstrong. The tering humidity level as potential rain ing their artwork. sumptuous pies, muffins, and breads skirted the area. But as some may not have faired as which were submitted were all judged Although current economics may well as expected, others were “scop- on appearance, texture, taste, and level have somewhat diminished anticipat- ing out” the event for possible partic- of creativity. And, of course, all of the en- ed attendee numbers and vendor sales ipation in the future, including Adam tries were made with apples! Congratu- expectations, Fairfield Borough May- and Michelle Yalch, co-owners of the lations to all of you ladies! or Robert Stanley said he was very recently founded Admirellas, Gettys- pleased with the end result. burg, who specialize in decorated gift For additional information regarding th “It looks like it’s a good event,” Stan- Pippenfest attendees explore some of the several dozen arts and craft bags, picture frames, baskets and other is event, visit the National Apple Harvest ley stated on Sunday. “We got lucky with vendors displaying their wares at the September 24 and 25 event in Fairfield craft-related products. Festival web site at appleharvest.com. OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 5 HISTORY One hundred years ago this month Editor’s Note; In the Sept. 1st, and into one of most vivid inter- the world. Mr. Maxwell brought 1911 issue of the Emmitsburg views anybody ever had with Jes- in a sweet potato that weighted six Chronicle, the paper from which sie James. Having accomplished pounds. we draw the 100 Years Ago this his purpose the reporter returned When it comes to Turnips, we Month material, the Editor, Ster- to the nearest telegraph station go to Mr. Frank Feliex. He showed ling Galt, announced that as he and wired his “scoop” to the pa- us one that weighted 5 pounds. was going to seek the position per. While he was pressed heavi- of State Senator in the upcom- ly by the Pinkerton railroad detec- ing state election, he was handing tives to reveal the location of their October 20 the reigns of the paper over to his hiding place, he kept his word to deputy, E. Higbee, to ensure the the gang and kept their location Temperance Reform Criticized paper’s neutrality. Unfortunate- secret. President Andreas of the Brew- ly, from a Historical Society per- ers Congress has criticized tem- spective, Mr. Higbee was a tad bit Italy Declares War on Turkey perance advocates in this way: lacking in his coverage of local af- Italy, exasperated by Turkish mis- “In this country the so-called fairs, leaving us with little to draw rule and treatment of Italian citi- temperance movement has fall- upon for the column this month. zens by Mohammedans, declared en into the hands of the most in- He did, however, manage to fill war and opened it up last week by temperate people in the nation - the paper’s pages with some in- sinking a Turkish vessel. On Tues- individuals suffering from what teresting tidbits on world affairs day, Italy began a bombardment I can only describe as chronic that caught our eye, and hopefully of Tripoli. The Italians spared all moral inebriation, individuals yours as well. hospitals, churches and convents, utterly devoid of reasoning pow- aiming only at the city’s fornica- ers, largely lacking in the most tions. elementary knowledge and ed- October 6 Discrimination was made with ucation, and, worse than all, in relative ease, as the range of the only too many cases prompted Large Surprise Party Turkish cannon was so short that solely by the commercial bene- A surprise party was given in the the ships were able to approach fits they derived from the cause honor of Mr. and Mrs. Asbury the city closely and take accurate they make a profession of cham- Fuss at their home near the Toms aim. The bombardment was pro- pioning.” Creek Bridge at Four Points. The tracted out of concern to avoid on new roads. The Sheriff’s Of- gear and it ran into a tree, break- guests assembled much to the sur- useless bloodshed and to respect fice expenses cost the County ing one of the headlights before prise of the Fuss’ and with them the homes of non-combatants. October 27 $8,000 and the Board of Edu- he could jump in and bring “the came the Emmitsburg band, cation $95,000. Excess revenue beast” to heal. which rendered some fine selec- The Airplane’s 100th victim was used to retire outstanding tions during the evening. All those October 13 Aviator Level died at Rheims, debt, reducing the county’s in- Rebellion in China Grows present expressed themselves as France from the effects of this debtedness to just $350,000. The rebellion in China grows in having spent a very pleasant eve- First Wireless Communication fall on the previous Tuesday. On The State Comptroller has magnitude each day. Three cities ning. The guests numbered about Across the Pacific that same day at Berne, Swit- made public the results of the have fallen under their attacks 88 and all. The first wireless communica- zerland, Hans Schmidt fell 150 quarterly distribution of the Sate and some of the largest centers tions between San Francisco and feet, the gasoline exploded, and School Tax. Frederick’s share is of the population in the empire New Piano for School Japan, a distance of 6,000 miles, he was burned to death. With $16,789 for schools and $1,771 are threatened, including Peking The Literary Society of the high was established last week. This is these two deaths, aviation now for the book fund. in Shanghai. school has bought a new piano the first time that a wireless mes- claims 100 victims since Thom- The revolutionary spirit is now and presented it to the school. It sage has been received across the as Selfridge was the first to die in Horse & Auto Accidents manifesting itself in the north as is their intention to pay for it by Pacific Ocean. When the operator a plane in 1908. A team belonging to Bishop well as in the South. Those who means of festivals and plays dur- at Hillcrest station caught the sig- Murry came to grieve yesterday heretofore have believed that the ing the next year. On Oct. 21st nals he made them out to be the Affairs of the County morning in front of Gelwicks’ Northern provinces might rally the ninth grade will give a chicken call for the Chive Maru, a steamer The commissioners of this store. One of the horses, draw- around the government are now supper for this purpose. The pa- that is due today at Honolulu. He County have made their annual ing a load of corn, became un- at the opinion that successions trons and friends of the school are answered the signal and learned public statement of the funds re- manageable and before he quiet- will follow in rapid succession. asked to help the cause along by that the call came from the Japa- ceived and expended during the ed down kicked in the end of the The precautionary measures not only attending the same, but nese wireless station on Hokusha fiscal year. Your statement shows wagon. taken in Manchuria, where also lend whatever support they Island in the northern part of Ja- that $275,489 was collected for A horse driven by Mr. Long the government does not per- can. pan. The operators exchange mes- the maintenance of the County stumbled over a stone on West mit mention of the revolution, sages for some time. government. The county spent Main Street and fell, break- shows that the antigovernment Hampton Valley about $25,000 for approving ing the shafts and runabout to spirit also exists in the far North. Telephone Company This Year’s Garden and erecting bridges. In addi- which he was hitched. It is also reported that the reb- The Hampton Valley Mutual Results Best Yet tion to this the sum, $22,000 Dr. Jamison’s absent-minded- els are anxious to overthrow the Telephone Company is in process The largest specimens of chest- was spent upon the old roads of ly cranked up his new “mechan- Manchurians, now the ruling of formation. The projectors and nuts we’ve ever seen were the County and about $8,000 ical horse” while it was still in race, and build up a republic. subscribers intend to build a line brought to this office by Mr. from Emmitsburg up Hampton Knott. The burr held three nuts, Valley at least as far as Mr. Walter each larger than the $.50 piece. Hess’ place. Mr. George Ohler and George Springer each sent pears to this William Curtis Dead office that weighed 15 ounces. William Curtis, one of the most Mr. George Warren of Liberty widely known newspapermen in Township presented us a pump- America, died last week. One of kin that looks like a monster his earliest “scoops” was getting peanut. It was a pie pumpkin 19 an interview with Jesse James and inches long; now it’s a pumpkin his gang in the midst of his war pie 36 inches in diameter. with the authorities. While detec- A squash raised by Mr. McK- tives were endeavoring to locate issick measured 10 1/2 inches in the desperados, Curtis, then a re- diameter and 5 1/2 inches thick. porter for a Chicago paper, went Mr. Moser brought us a radish, out to Missouri, found their hid- which was easily the largest ever ing place, and calmly announced seen here about. It was 39 inch- that he had come for an interview. es in circumference and weighed, The first thing the gang want- well we won’t say what it weighed ed to do was kill him, but Curtis for it may hurt our reputation, but talked his way out of a quick death it had to be the largest radish in 6 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 GOVERNMENT—SOUTH OF THE MASON-DIXON LINE From the Desk of County Commissioner Kirby Delauter hen I think about Gov- in Annapolis! This document ate for growth. Local govern- stand for ( Paying For Aristoc- make the determination what Wernor Martin O’Malley’s would relegate local land use ment officials have historically racy ), where the elitists in An- areas are suitable for growth, new PlanMaryland, I am re- planning to the back of the bus argued that a public, commu- napolis try their best to keep us while the local elected officials minded of the old horror story in favor of statewide planning nity-based process of compre- beholden to their socialist reg- participate only in an advisory opening – Be Afraid – Be VERY and central control. hensive planning – with true ulations. and informational capacity. Afraid! The Maryland Department accountability to the local deci- The first draft of PlanMary- There has been one good The new planning document of Planning believes a need ex- sion-makers for their actions – land established the Growth- thing to come out of this entire that has been dumped onto ists for take control of our lo- was the best model for this de- Print concept, creating a start- mess though. The conservative, Maryland’s local governments, cal right to self government. termination. ing point based on a series of rural counties have started to called PlanMaryland is a horror The U.S. Census lists Mary- Under current Maryland law, existing state programs. From work together to push back on story! Instead of being crushed land as the 5th densest state the main vehicle for state/lo- that point, the local govern- this big state governmental in- by the Jaws of the Great White in the nation and projections cal partnership on growth ar- ments were invited to apply trusion. Shark, we are being thrown figure that one million people eas is the Priority Funding Area for additional areas to be in- I am pleased to report that into the Jaws of a bureaucratic will be added by the year 2035. (or PFA) concept, arising from cluded within the GrowthPrint the Frederick County Commis- Hell. Governor Martin O’Malley un- “Smart Growth” legislation in designation, but the final des- sioners have joined the fight. In the Governor’s never end- veiled a master plan in April to 1996. Through a lengthy ne- ignation was again a state des- We have been working with ing zeal to show his bona fides curb the suburban sprawl that gotiation and a series of com- ignation. If the State, presum- our sister counties in Western for the environment above all comes with such population ex- promises, the PFA system es- ably the Department of Plan- Maryland, Garrett, Allegany, else, he has crafted a truly dis- plosion, called PlanMaryland. sentially allows the State to de- ning, did not agree with Fred- Washington and Carroll Coun- turbing document in which he The state proposes to reward termine (by statute) certain erick County’s judgment on the ties, in meeting and planning claims will help preserve Mary- communities that embrace ef- criteria for PFA selection, the appropriate places for targeted jointly to oppose this effort. land’s environment and coun- ficient and responsible growth county and municipal govern- growth in the county, it could In closing I will ad a quote tryside, but will in fact take while withholding funding ments to designate PFAs within simply deny the GrowthPrint from one of my favorite politi- away the autonomy of Mary- from those that don’t con- their boundaries, and the State designation, with uncertain but cians, Senator “Bluto” Blutar- land’s citizens. The new en- trol development. Local lead- (through the Maryland Depart- potentially significant results sky when he stated “ Was it over vironmental “Green” move- ers have cried foul, complain- ment of Planning) to comment in terms of state funding, per- when the Germans bombed Pearl ment including PlanMaryland ing that the plan is akin to a on local designations where mit approvals, and the like. In Harbor”? It wasn’t over then, and is nothing more than socialism state take-over of what should there may be debate about the many ways, this decision – who it’s not over now as long as we with lipstick. be local domain. A revised plan qualifications for a certain area sets growth areas – is the core stand up and let our State offi- PlanMaryland unfortunately was released on September 9, in being thus named. Ultimate- of the ongoing debate over in- cials know that we intend to keep is not a piece of legislation that effort to address the concerns. ly the PFAs – the areas where trusion into land use decision- our property rights and our right we can simply mobilize against Maryland makes another push numerous state programs are making. to encompass our growth plans to defeat, but is instead a reg- for smart growth. to target their resources and at- In the end, the local gov- on a local level with local elect- ulatory document, one already Among the topics that re- tention – are a local creation, ernments may “nominate,” ed officials making these choic- that can be simply implement- ceived deepest attention in the based on state guidance. In oth- but they are then beholden to es, not un-elected bureaucrats ed by un-elected state employ- first draft of PlanMaryland er words, do as we say, or you a state decision to “approve.” from Annapolis that have no skin ees. More precisely, it is an en- was the notion of “Growth- will get none of YOUR tax Under PlanMaryland, even in in the game as to the local issues hanced power and land grab by Print” and the underlying con- money returned from the State. the revised draft, it remains the that effect how we grow and base the overreaching bureaucrats cept of setting areas appropri- PFA in my opinion could also state’s appointed officials who our economy. From the Desk of Town Council President Chris Staiger ell, by the time this is fronts. We should continuously whole community. of themselves, but I think they prehensive rezoning to lay out Wpublished, the battle be- try to communicate better with When we are described as be- show a small town government a template for infill and expan- tween ‘managerial efficiency’ and one another as well as with the ing unresponsive, I often find trying to accommodate the day sion, and revisions to zoning or- ‘transformational leadership’ will larger community of residents that the real issue is a lack of ef- to day concerns of members of dinances to promote business have been resolved. Regardless and business owners. We must fective communication within the community. growth. But these accomplish- of who was victorious, the real- also work better as a group to town government. When indi- We will soon review the fees ments don’t usually inspire hur- ity is that all of your elected of- drive town government toward viduals have an issue of partic- that are charged for town of- rahs – more often than not there ficials could do better on both positive changes that benefit our ular concern, I recommend that fice services with an eye to elim- is just a sigh of relief! they contact all of the elected of- inate those that currently apply The real area for improvement ficials instead of just town staff, when employees are just doing is a change in attitude from sim- the mayor, or one commission- their normal jobs. We might col- ply holding on to what we have er. I will be proposing that we es- lect $8,000 a year - charging $15 to taking that bigger step into tablish a contact e-mail, town- for this service, $25 for another, the future. So let’s have a “sum- [email protected], or $125 for that service. I don’t mit” to get the players togeth- so that you can reach all elected think we need to bother resi- er! As President of the Board of officials at one go. It is the Board dents with these kinds of fees just Commissioners, I’ll extend an of Commissioners that pass- to evaluate an application for a invitation to the business com- es town ordinances and reviews shed or a deck or to put a new munity to hold a special meeting town policies. We are here to ad- roof on your house… It doesn’t and discuss their concerns. We dress your concerns and be your affect the bottom line and we are can then develop an action plan advocates. We are all residents of already paying the town employ- to address them. Once we have town with homes and families – ees to do the job anyway. Charg- our own house in order, we will just like you! ing these fees just winds up ag- be in a better position to lobby At recent meetings, the board gravating people. for resources. Another key step is has attempted to address numer- What about the future of our to resolve the ‘old’ Emmitsburg ous community issues that may community??? Much of the re- versus ‘new’ Emmitsburg ten- not affect a large number of peo- quired (but unglamorous) back- sion. People who have lived here ple but are definitely a quality of ground work necessary to chart a their whole lives need to recog- life concern for some – includ- general direction has been com- nize that they themselves allowed ing relaxing restrictions on where pleted over the last three years: a for the residential development homeowners can park their trail- Comprehensive (master) Plan for that exploded in the 1990s on ers, modifying setback require- our community, a Water & Sew- the east side and spread to the ments so that homes on smaller er Capacity Management Plan west side a decade later. “New” lots can build carports or garag- that identifies our infrastruc- residents need to realize that the es, finding a way to address com- ture resources (and limitations) value of property doesn’t trump peting concerns over grass height as well as where we would like to one person one vote. Let’s work requirements, or loosening re- expand them, an Adequate Pub- together to build a better Em- strictions on where businesses lic Facilities Ordinance to de- mitsburg. Wow, I can’t wait to can place signs. None of these fine the conditions necessary to serve another three years!!! Sin- are momentous actions in and accommodate growth, a com- cerely, Chris Staiger OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 7 GOVERNMENT—SOUTH OF THE MASON-DIXON LINE From the Desk of County Commissioner Blaine Young mart Growth or Partisan Planning? was just the first step toward ultimate I urge you to read it. It is such a gi- al with Smart Growth and the new us in Ocean City that a house on an SThat is the question an increasing state control, or at least “veto power” ant step toward the ultimate takeover PlanMaryland, it is clear what the im- individual septic system pollutes the number of county and municipal offi- over local land use decisions. Plan- by Annapolis of all land use decisions pact would be on the less densely pop- Chesapeake Bay ten times more than cials throughout the State of Maryland Maryland makes me think we were throughout Maryland that at a mini- ulated areas of the state, like my home a house on public sewer. Of course, are asking themselves. The issue which right. mum it should be debated fully, open- of Frederick County. We would have there is no real science to back this spurred this debate is the new Plan- What I find extremely interesting ly and vigorously in the General As- little or no development or economic up. But it is his justification to keep Maryland idea presented by Governor about PlanMaryland is not necessari- sembly. growth whatsoever. our children and grandchildren from O’Malley at the recent MACO confer- ly the content, but the process. Un- Certainly, the Governor is not So there must be another reason building a home with a nice green ence in Ocean City. like Smart Growth, which was debat- avoiding the legislative debate because Governor O’Malley has chosen not yard near where their parents live and The Governor and his minions went ed in the legislature for at least two he doesn’t think he has the votes. Plan- to implement PlanMaryland through work. to great lengths to assure us all that full sessions, the O’Malley admin- Maryland is skewed toward the large legislation. I believe he simply is not Urban living, though preferred by PlanMaryland is merely a logical ex- istration has presented PlanMary- metropolitan jurisdictions in, around interested in hearing our views, as ex- many, is not for everyone. Those of us tension of our existing Smart Growth land as an executive branch regulato- and between Baltimore City and the pressed by our representatives in An- in the outer counties enjoy our lifestyle legislation. As many will recall, Smart ry initiative. No legislation has been Washington, D.C. suburbs. Those napolis. We are a nuisance to him. just as much as our counterparts down Growth was enacted in the 90’s and has proposed, and thus there will be little of us in the western, northern, eastern And the fewer of us who live in these the road, and we have as much right as its core the stated purpose of direct- opportunity for our delegates and sen- and southern counties are outnum- “rural” areas, the better for him and his to protect our way of living as they do ing new development to areas with ex- ators in Annapolis to debate the plan. bered and outvoted by the predomi- liberal friends, as it seems to be an elec- theirs. And we need to let the Gov- isting infrastructure. Of course, to ac- I find this troubling. We should ask nantly liberal Democrat jurisdictions toral fact that the more densely pop- ernor and the rest of the state govern- complish this much ballyhooed goal ourselves why the Governor is intent in the metropolitan areas. The Gov- ulated a jurisdiction the more it votes ment in Annapolis know that we will the state injected itself and its regula- on bypassing the legislature on this ex- ernor knows this, and has used this liberal Democrats into office. not stand for being steamrolled once tory muscle into many land use issues tremely important issue. If you don’t demographic to his advantage many With public water and sewer un- again in the interest of another regu- that forever had been the province of yet think that PlanMaryland is a sig- times. available to the rural and many sub- latory scheme which is being enacted county and municipal governments. nificant power grab by the state over Unfortunately I think it is clear that urban areas of the state, and with the “for our own good.” Many of us said at the time it was local control of county and municipal PlanMaryland is merely the latest in new limits being imposed to protect It is time for all of our senators and enacted into law that Smart Growth growth and economic development, a series of initiatives aimed square- the Chesapeake Bay, all new develop- delegates, Republican and Democrat, ly at the non-urban counties. Last ment would be driven into metropol- to stand up for us in Annapolis and year the Governor offered a septic sys- itan and urban areas, and our children tell the Governor and his cohorts that tem bill, which would effectively stop and grandchildren would be forced to even though we do not live in one of all new housing to be served by well live on top of each other. Cities and their populous pet jurisdictions, we are and septic development. Of course, congested areas suit the liberals just Marylanders too. After all, if you are that only impacts the more rural parts fine. After all, cities tend to vote for going to have One Maryland you can- of the state. Combine that propos- liberal Democrats. The Governor told not have two classes of citizens. Community watch program rime has been a ma- Neighborhood Communi- a day. By participating in the Cjor issue in Emmits- ty Watch Program to Emmits- Neighborhood Watch Pro- burg lately. The crime wave burg. The Community Watch gram, we can have even more last fall/winter raised aware- program emphasizes neighbors eyes on the street then if we ness throughout our commu- looking out for neighbors. As had full time police coverage. nity. Also, recently, the Town a close-knit community this The Neighborhood watch Council and Mayor decided should be right up our alley. principle is “we look out for to reduce our Town Deputies If we train our citizens to look each other” and as a small from three to two. The Sher- out for the unusual, we should Town isn’t that what we iff’s office assures us that we have better coverage than if we should be doing anyway. Un- will have more than adequate have a Deputy driving around der the Neighborhood Watch police coverage even with this Town. The Deputy can only be Program, the Sheriff’s office reduction. However, people in one location at a time dur- will teach participants what are worried. ing his shift, while Neighbor- to look for and how to report Therefore, the Town is hood Watch participants can be that information to the po- looking into bringing the throughout the Town 24 hours lice. We will also get Neigh- borhood Watch signs and de- cals that tell criminals that we are not an easy target and they should move on to an- other location. In order to bring the Neighborhood Watch Pro- gram to Emmitsburg, we need a number of homes to participate. [Additionally, for every 1-15 homes, we will need block Captains. The role of the Block Captain is to disseminate information to their neighbors. This in- formation will be supplied by the Sheriff’s office and may entail such things as suspicious vehicles or door to door scams.]

If you are interested in par- ticipating, please send me an email at pjoy@emmitsburg. com or leave a message on my town Office phone (301) 600- 6307. Working together we can make Emmitsburg a safer community. 8 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 GOVERNMENT—NORTH OF THE MASON-DIXON LINE From the Desk of Commissioner Candidate Marty Qually dams County is no stranger to who understand the needs, not wants, his staff to replace the carpeting in saving money immediately. Some in- have done differently, but instead Amaking tough financial deci- of our growing County, but also who County buildings and in renovating terim ideas have already been put about what we will do in the future. sions; increased demands for servic- have the strength to face challenges the 3rd and 4th floors of the Court- forward; such as storing voting ma- How will the next Board work to es and the economic downturn have head on. Equally important is hav- house with little outside help Mr. chines, maintenance equipment, and save your money? Which ones will forced local government to re-ex- ing Directors and staff willing to rise Groft changed $640,000 of expenses records. While these are necessary, we make the tough decisions and fight amine the way it spends the taxpay- to the challenge of saving taxpay- to only $207,000. These jobs had to need to start thinking about relocat- for you to keep your dollars in your ers’ money. Next month we will elect ers’ money by making wise spending be done out of necessity, but instead ing office space and stop paying rents wallet? Who will have the insights to three new County Commissioners: choices. We need people like George of raising taxes to pay outside contrac- for space we no longer need. In order complete the projects at hand effi- I want to talk about a few financial Groft and his team in the Building tors to do the work, George and his to move offices, we first need to have a ciently and at the lowest costs, then successes and how with educated, in- and Maintenance Department. They team rose to the challenge of saving discussion of what renovations we can move on to the next challenge? I will sightful and forward thinking leader- are easy to overlook. When most of us money. do for ourselves. George Groft has take a page from George Groft’s play- ship we can turn this County around. think of county employees, we don’t The decision to purchase the St proven that we can do some of this on book, I will work hard from my first This election should not be about think about either tile installers or car- Francis properties has already been our own. If the next Board of Com- day to my last and before I spend a what has gone wrong in the past, but penters. They are as much a part of made, but the leadership to missioners follow his lead, I know we dime on an outside consultant or about how strong we can become in County government as a tax assessor spend wisely and save money starts will save money and be able to hold contractor, I’ll ask if we can do this the future. The next Board of Com- or a court reporter. with the new Commissioners. The the line on taxes. for ourselves. missioners will inherit the challenges With budgets getting tighter and next challenge is, how do we channel Over the next month there will be In order for me to serve you and of the previous Board, but the build- tighter, County staff have been asked, this work ethic that saved $443,000 many opportunities to learn about lead County employees in saving tax ing blocks have been set in place and as I believe they should be every time to what could be the multimillion the candidates for County Com- dollars, I need and am asking for your this County is poised to do great they make a purchase, to find ways to dollar renovation of Saint Francis missioner and where we stand on vote on November 8th for Coun- things. With leaders that look forward save money. Mr. Groft and his crew Xavier. Last month I had an opportu- the issues and challenges facing Ad- ty Commissioner. With your sup- and not backward, have a strong work have risen to this task. In recent years nity to tour the old school and after I ams County. I encourage you to at- port and a strong team of volunteers I ethic, and have the fortitude to make they have completed two major proj- stopped reliving my grade school days tend the debates and ask questions, will win this election and be proud to tough decisions we will succeed. ects which saved County tax payers as a student there, I was able to learn but not just about where we stand on work to build a better County for our We not only need Commissioners $443,000. Between choosing to use how we can use this property to start yesterday’s issues or what we would citizens and children. From the Desk of Commissioner Candidate Randy Phiel

ince beginning this series of ar- for Adams County from a practi- to January 1st to get ahead of the ad- keep your finger on the pulse of the standard should be the precur- Sticles for the Emmitsburg News cal standpoint? As previously stat- ministrative curve. I would advocate County by spending all your time sor to continuous reasoning, dis- Journal in June, I have reported on ed, it has been almost 50 years since that the Commissioners, the Coun- inside the walls of the courthouse. closure and communication dur- candidate dynamics in the Spring there were no sitting commission- ty Manager, the new County Con- Another key transition resource ing this Board of Commissioners’ primary election; the legacy that we ers remaining in a transition to all troller, Department Managers and a will be the new County Control- entire tenure. I do not expect that will leave by how we balance the ru- new board members. Although Ad- cross section of selected community ler, Steve Renner. Renner will run every resident will agree with ev- ral quality of life that we embrace ams County residents indicated representatives examine and refine uncontested in November be- ery decision that the new Board of and economic stimulus we need in by their vote that they desired new the plan after January 1st. The plan cause the Adams County Demo- Commissioners makes, but their Adams County; the pending Ad- leadership, the new board must be should then be vetted to various fo- cratic Committee did not submit reasoning and the facts involved in ams County Radio Project; and last smart enough to understand what cus groups and community forums a name to the Elections & Vot- making a decision should be made month I focused on several sub- they don’t know - and when they from different areas of the county er Registration office by the dead- available to every resident. Good jects including the need for Clean & don’t know it! I believe I have a di- for feedback. This three-step process line of September 19. According to communication is a cure for many Green oversight and fairness. verse background of government ex- would hopefully produce a practical Adams County Democratic Chair- ills. There is no doubt that a learn- On Election Day November 8, perience, business experience, expe- and public operating document that man Rodger Lund, “The Demo- ing curve of some degree will take each Adams County voter will have rience as a local elected official and reflects the viewpoint of the majority cratic Committee had interviewed place with three new commission- the opportunity to vote for two of education credentials; but also real- of our community. Within less than a number of qualified candidates, ers. I believe it is the new commis- the four remaining candidates for ize that every day is a learning expe- 90 days of being seated, this operat- but it was not the right time for sioner’s responsibility, as well as the Adams County Commissioner. rience. To counteract the negatives ing document should be completed them to run.” Steve Renner is a rest of the county staff, to reduce The Republican candidates are my- of not having on-the-job “commis- and made available and communi- life-long county resident from Lit- that curve as much as possible! self, (Randy Phiel), and Jim Mar- sioner experience”, I believe there are cated to the public. tlestown with significant manage- I would like to conclude by tin. The Democratic candidates are certain initiatives that need to be un- The transition of the new Board ment experience, financial expe- commending and thanking our Marty Qually and Paul Kellet. The dertaken before and after the newly- will also hopefully be eased by Coun- rience and professional resources. emergency responders for their three candidates obtaining the most elected candidates take office. ty Manager Al Penska and the staff Steve has already begun to study service during this especially vol- votes will be seated January 1st as the Following the November 8 elec- in the commissioner’s office. Penska, and learn the county financial atile September in Adams Coun- new board of Adams County Com- tion, the new Board of Commis- a former Cambria County Control- landscape in relation to the Con- ty. Flooding, closed roadways, wa- missioners. In the primary elec- sioners - utilizing their expertise, ler and township manager, was hired troller position. After eight years ter rescues, providing shelter and tion, I was honored to receive the knowledge, experience and views last January after an intense selection as a CPA in private practice, Steve pumping basements were the or- most votes of all ten primary candi- while also taking advantage of oth- process and will have one year of ex- worked at Gettysburg Hospital for der of the day. As a former thir- dates from both parties. After three er resources and input - should de- perience under his belt. It is my firm 25 years as the President, CFO and ty-year professional emergency re- candidates are chosen this Novem- velop some Fundamental Operating belief and practical experience that CEO. After guiding Gettysburg sponder, I am especially proud of ber, there will be a completely new Principals for managing and operat- an effective and experienced coun- Hospital’s merger with Wellspan, these folks and honored to be the Board of County Commissioners ing the County. These Fundamental ty manager will provide both finan- Steve Renner became President of only endorsed candidate by the for the first time since 1967. There is Operating Principals should include cial and operational dividends in a Adams County Economic Devel- Adams County Fire Chiefs, Police also a new appointed County Man- primary goals, objectives and operat- Class 5 county with more than 500 opment where he enjoyed success Chiefs and Adams County Vol- ager position as of last January, and ing guidelines that incorporate past employees and a budget of approx- for four years before taking a step unteer Emergency Services Asso- for the first time, an elected Coun- and present knowledge while plan- imately $50 million. Among many back and some time off. General- ciation. With discussions involv- ty Controller will take office with ning for the future. Input for these other oversight and policy tasks, it ly, the Adams County Controller ing emergency service funding in the new Board of Commissioners in basic guidelines should be generat- will be the responsibility of the new will be the financial watchdog for Adams County guaranteed to es- January. ed from the Commissioners and by Board of Commissioners to assure the county. It is my belief that with calate, let’s remember the Septem- What do these changes mean consulting with other sources prior that the County Manager position Steve Renner on board, the Adams ber 2011 flooding as part of that results in the intended benefits. County Commissioners, staff and discussion. On a related note, I was surprised residents are getting not only solid Please feel free to view my web- and somewhat taken back to learn financial oversight, but also will get site at www.JoinRandyForCom- from previous and current county an excellent managerial and finan- missioner.com or email me at join- commissioners that even before the cial adviser with many professional [email protected] onslaught of reassessment appeals resources and attributes If elected, I You may call me at 717-334-7097. and a county manager, more than look forward to working with Steve Don’t forget to mark November 8th 50% of the commissioners time was for the benefit of our community. on your calendar and exercise your spent dealing with personnel issues. It is my view that both the de- right and privilege to vote for the In my opinion, our county com- velopment and execution of the person or party of your choice. missioners need to make better use Fundamental Operating Princi- Fall is a great time of year in Ad- of their time in numerous ways as pals should be communicated to ams County. Get out there and en- county leaders. It is easy to fall into a the residents in a straightforward joy it. See you both weekends at the fortress mentality – but you cannot and understandable manner. That National Apple Harvest Festival! OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 9 GOVERNMENT—NORTH OF THE MASON-DIXON LINE From the Desk of Commissioner Candidate Paul Kellett he $87,500 question for this product is purchased. My guess is sultant such a princely sum if you the costs of renovating the build- time to study the issues, consider Tmonth’s article is: why does that commission would be in the are not going to heed their ad- ing and determined it would be the advice of the citizens and the the county need consultants for neighborhood of 5%. Doing the vice?” The other option-and one cost prohibitive. employees whom the decisions just about every decision? At the math, the software would have that is worse-is that the commis- I am also concerned that even if will impact, and then decide. September 14th commissioners’ to cost (and be worth) $1.7 mil- sioners suspend their common the advice is sound, is it the best The new county manager meeting, a vote was taken to hire lion for the Susquehanna Group’s sense and blindly take the advice advice when viewed in the larger should take the lead on this as Susquehanna Group advisors to fee to be competitive. The big ad- of the experts--then we get a sit- context? The electronic salesman well. Instead of recommending a determine the financial software vantage to the “free” company is uation like the reassessment. It is certainly knows his televisions consultant , he should determine needs of the county. The cost that they only get paid if you take my belief that the commissioners and gives excellent advice as to what the new software needs was not to exceed $87,500. The their advice. Which brings me to took the word of 21st Century Ap- picture and sound, but is he real- to do and inquire of the soft- software to be purchased would my major concern: what do you praisers over the thousands of tax- ly able to tell me the best TV giv- ware companies’ representatives be utilized by the new comp- do when your consultant gives payers screaming that there was in en the fact that I also need to buy whether their product will meet troller as well as the treasurer. It you bad advice? fact a huge problem. a sofa and a new pair of shoes? His the need AND why their com- seems strange that the consultants When commissioners hire con- Unfortunately, the examples are advice cannot be expected to in- petitors’ product will not. It is would be hired (for such a high sultants to buy software or con- not limited to these two. The con- corporate the overall budget pic- amazing what you will learn from price) before gaining the input duct a reassessment, they place sultant for the digital emergency ture. In these troubled economic competition. He should also get of the elected official who will be themselves in a very awkward sit- radio project charged $777,894 times, it is important to keep the references of other municipalities utilizing the software day in and uation. If the software suggested to tell the commissioners which budget picture first and foremost using the software being consid- day out. does not fit the need or the bud- radios to buy. The selection of in our minds. ered and call them to see if they I “googled” municipal financial get or the $2.2 million reassess- Motorola does not seem to be The consultant culture is an are satisfied with how the soft- software and learned that there are ment is fatally flawed what do worth three quarters of a million easy trap to fall into. It allows pol- ware actually operates. (Just think companies that will “help munici- you do? Do you say that “yes, we dollars to me. Before commit- itician to never be responsible; in- how it would have been different palities select financial software to just paid a lot of money for an ex- ting to buy St. Francis School, the stead they can just say they fol- if they had done this for the reas- meet both their needs and their pert opinion, but we are voting commissioners paid $75,000 to lowed the advice of the experts. sessment!) budget.” The cost of this service? in opposition to that opinion”? see if the purchase met the expan- If it continues, pretty soon the If I am elected on November 8th, FREE! Now, of course there is no The fear by the commissioners- sion needs of the county govern- county will be employing consul- I promise to work hard to kick the such thing as free, but the com- if they have the courage to take ment. In this instance, it is worth tants to choose “the right consul- consultants out and actually do the pany probably gets a commission such a vote- is that they will be noting that the Catholic Church tant” to consult. Taxpayers need job myself. The voters of this coun- from the software company if the asked “why did you pay the con- had done a study to determine leaders who will actually take the ty deserve nothing less. From the Desk of Commissioner Candidate Jim Martin he 2011 Adams Coun- it is a good communication tool. to pay. Furthermore, incurring What I have discussed thus far in his township several businesses Tty Commissioners’ race has Community Media also serves as more county debt is not an op- are measures of future planning. have moved to another county as drawn considerably more atten- a good tool for public commu- tion. I believe a vital element of good a result of the lack of broadband tion than past elections as evi- nication. These media venues Nevertheless we need to move leadership is a conscious aware- service. denced by the number of forums. would be a cost effective means forward seeking funding to fi- ness of the future needs of the The good news is that a local During the primary campaign I of informing the community nance the new system through county and I embrace that vision. partnership is moving forward faithfully participated in all seven what is happening in county gov- various sources: grants, founda- Without a vision of future needs, and assessing what we need to forums organized by communi- ernment. Hopefully, hearing and tion gifts, non-profit groups, pub- we put ourselves on a faltering develop a network. The bad news ty leaders. For the fall campaign seeing reports directly from elect- lic/private sector partnerships, and path. To avoid faltering it is es- is that the major providers are interest remains high; there will ed officials would increase public perhaps proposals incorporating sential that we be strong econom- not interested in competing for be at least three forums and in- interest. I definitely want to cre- leasing options. In approximate- ically and manage our resources the business in Adams County as terviews by Alex Hayes of GT ate greater public interest . Gov- ly two months the present com- wisely. they are in the Hanover business Live. In addition to all of these ernment needs to take a servant missioners will receive proposals We cannot escape the fact that community. If provider interest opportunities I have made near- leadership position and the ap- for new radio systems. These pro- business activity, producers of cannot be developed, there is an ly 4000 door to door contacts to propriate use of the above media posals may not necessarily be the goods and services, is necessary alternative that should be con- date. Why? It is because I believe is an opportunity to be open and best and should be thoroughly re- to generate the revenues we need sidered. It is a public/private sec- in what I am doing and because responsive to the citizens of Ad- viewed along with alternative ven- to live and operate. We are for- tor wireless network that can pro- I have the citizens’ best interests ams County. dors and options for pricing and tunate to have tourism and ag- vide first class network service for at heart. As a county commissioner performance. riculture as our leading indus- both county and private sector. This election is not about my one has the duty and responsi- There are cases where emer- tries which complement our ru- The cost of the system would be personal benefit or that of any bility for the safety and welfare gency agencies have rushed to go ral fabric. However, these indus- shared by the private sector part- special interest group; it is about of the citizens. Regarding safe- digital and received systems that tries alone cannot carry the eco- nership. In my opinion, the ben- accepting a responsibility that I ty, the subject of the countywide were not reliable and had critical nomic demands of our county. efits of this option should be in- felt was set before me. This was emergency radio system comes issues. In one case $34 million To generate the necessary reve- vestigated along with the assess- a bold move for me, but the con- to the stage. As many are aware, was required to correct the prob- nues we need to attract new busi- ment of our current broadband fidence of my supporters showed our countywide radio system is lems. We must not be caught in ness and retain our existing ones. situation. me that it was the right decision. antiquated resulting in reliabili- that situation; caution and pro- An attractive business environ- The above scenario is an excel- I am truly grateful for that sup- ty issues that jeopardize the safe- fessional due diligence must be ment will be a benefit to all of lent example of a future vision port and to have the opportuni- ty of first responders and police. part of the process plus requir- us. The availability of sufficient mindset that will be one of my ty to be in the race for an Adams To replace our aging system will ing vendors to be fully bonded broadband service to conduct goals as a commissioner. I would County Commissioner. likely require a new digital sys- to guarantee performance and to business is extremely important appreciate your support on No- The interview I had with Alex tem with a price tag which is protect the county’s financial po- to this environment. One com- vember 8th to put this type of vi- Hayes of GT Live has shown me beyond our tax payers’ ability sition. munity leader has expressed that sion to work for Adams County. 10 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 COMMENTARY

side is. Of course after telling you how bad the other side is, they tell Words from Winterbilt you how they will solve the prob- lem. As in the case of the article so often as a program in trouble. I mentioned at the beginning. If Poor people are taking us broke... In one government survey of we just eliminate the entitlements Shannon Bohrer ety takes care of the poor. When we should also eliminate the enti- businesses, 40 percent of the busi- to poor people our budget prob- talking about entitlements for poor tlements that also go to non poor ness examined did not pay any lems will be solved – and – the so- read with interest a recent article people it is a logical assumption that and businesses. Of course if the non taxes. (Remember GE). Are these lution will not affect the rest of us. Ipublished in a local paper about poor people don’t have any money, poor and business entitlements are businesses poor? In another recent Sounds good, except that entitle- cutting entitlements, written by so they don’t pay taxes and everyone eliminated the elected official’s pre- examination of businesses that re- ments seem to go to everyone. Of a local elected official. The article else (the non poor) do pay taxes. diction that only a few people would ceived stimulus funds, it was dis- course if we eliminate all entitle- stated that cutting entitlements will However, this is where the article is be affected - would be wrong. covered that a significant num- ments, our budget problems will have “a great impact on the few peo- lacking a few facts. It is well known If we take a moment to step back, ber did not pay any income taxes. be solved but it will also affect all ple whose entitlement benefits are and documented that entitlements we often hear the word “entitle- The report went on to say that the of us, and not in a pleasant way. cut. But it will have only a negligible go to many individuals, businesses ment” as if it’s a bad word! An En- problem could be larger than what Remember Social Security? impact on local tax payers.” When I and corporations – many of which titlement is money that people, and was reported, because they only ex- The economic problems we face finished the article I had the impres- are not poor - at least I don’t think also businesses, receive from the gov- amined business that had previous- are significant and it is easy for one sion that the writer believed that it they are poor. ernment, like poor people receiving ly paid taxes. Which means that side to claim that the problems re- was the entitlements that are mak- “If we just eliminate the enti- assistance. An entitlement is also some businesses that received stim- late to the policy of the other side, ing us broke and that the recipients tlements to poor people our bud- unemployment insurance, which is ulus funds may not have been pay- and in fact they are both right. of the entitlements were poor peo- get problems will be solved – and normally paid for from funds that ing taxes before the stimulus pack- The poor are taking us broke, the ple. I also had the impression that - the solution will not affect the employers pay. Since there are so age. Are these businesses poor? poor people, the poor business- the writer believed it was the Re- rest of us.” many unemployed I think the funds Maybe the stimulus package was es, the poor hedge fund manag- publicans that will make the tough It has been reported that less than are all gone. An entitlement can also for the purpose of stimulating the ers and even the poor solutions choices and the Democrats that will 50 percent of the people pay taxes. be tax breaks for oil companies and business that received the funds, created by our elected officials. not. I think he believes what he says; If the people not paying taxes are reduced tax breaks for hedge fund not unlike the banking bailouts. As Will Rogers said “The more however there were a few facts that poor, then cutting the entitlements managers. A very large entitlement Even with the constant talk of de- you read and observe about this I believed were omitted. Personally, will affect a lot of people (over 50 is social security, which is reportedly regulation I believe it would be Politics thing, you got to admit I don’t believe either party is with- percent). Of course if the people going broke. Of course social securi- nice to have a law that prohibits in- that each party is worse than the out problems and/or faults, nor do I not paying taxes are not poor, then ty has 2.6 billion in IOUs from the dividuals, groups and or business- other. The one that’s out always believe that either party has the an- why are they not paying taxes? This government and if the government es from receiving any federal, state looks the best” swers to the problems we face. This is where the facts can be is a little pays then social security would be and/or local funds if the individual Maybe we could add anoth- is an easy conclusion since both par- confusing. You see, entitlements do solvent for another 25 years. Have and/or business are delinquent in er line on voting ballets NONE ties make promises and then when not just go to the poor - they also you ever noticed that when a pol- current and/or former taxes. OF THE ABOVE. If “none of they are in power- they develop go to significant numbers of non- itician talks about the deficit and If this sometimes sounds con- the above” was elected we could “promise amnesia.” poor individuals, businesses, indus- debt problems and reform of enti- fusing it could be because both save a lot of money. Of course we As to poor people, they do receive tries and even rich people. I won- tlements, one of the first thing men- political parties are trying to sell would have to create a law that entitlements in various forms and der if the local elected official (who tioned is social security? Since social you something. Both major polit- says that if a person running for I do understand that there is a cost wrote the article) believes that elim- security is a government program ical parties want to be in office and office changes their name to none to tax payers. The purpose is gen- inating the entitlements that go to that works and would be solvent if just like any advertising they are of the above, their former name erally agreed upon that poor peo- the poor people will solve our eco- Congress had not borrowed the sur- always trying to sell their product would be required to appear on ple are in need and a civilized soci- nomic problems! Maybe he means plus funds, I wonder why it is used by telling you how bad the other the ballet.

modern times. Why would they do Constitution holds, but rath- this? er they have been indoctrinat- View from the Track Because, in fact, the Constitu- ed by the government schools to Kip Hamilton jority in Congress thinks the law is the supreme court; and tion is not just a quaint collection believe that the power resides in a good idea! It may be, but that is 13. To define and punish pira- of thoughts written down by our the government, not in the Con- o who knows what was spe- constitutionally irrelevant. Instead, cies and felonies committed great-grandfathers’ great-grandfa- stitution. So, much like the sto- Scial about the week of Septem- the areas in which Congress is au- on the high seas, and offenses thers…. It is the Law of the Land in ry of how to boil a frog, over the ber 17-23? No, it was not Nation- thorized to act are strictly limited against the Laws of Nations. America. I imagine those who are years, people just didn’t realize al Back to School Week or Nation- and defined (“enumerated”) in the Well, that’s it, folks. Do you see trying to transform this country what was happening to them al New Fall TV Series Week… Be- very first Article. Article I, Section anywhere in that list any mention would be greatly inconvenienced if and their liberties and have just lieve it or not, it was National Con- 8, grants to Congress the powers: of Education, Environmental Pro- more of our fellow citizens realized grown to believe that this is how stitution Week; a chance to com- 1. To lay certain taxes; tection, Agriculture, Energy or any the truth. it’s supposed to be. memorate the adoption of the 2. To pay the debts of the Unit- of the other alphabet soup agencies The truth being that congress But what about education and United States Constitution. So, in ed States; that roam the bureaucratic land- has no authority to bail out finan- the other things? Aren’t they im- observance of said week, I’d like 3. To declare war and make scape of today? Any mention of cial institutions, businesses, and portant? Shouldn’t the govern- to take a few minutes of your pre- rules of warfare, to raise and free healthcare, housing or food homeowners who don’t pay their ment be involved to keep the cious time to consider if we really support armies and a navy being the purview of the Federal mortgages; no authority to take children safe? Of course they are do have a Constitution anymore. and to make rules govern- Government in there? Of course control of our health care; no au- important. But they SHOULD As we’ve said before, the 13 orig- ing the military forces; to call not. The founders had just gotten thority to pass laws denying se- NOT be dealt with on a NA- inal States were actually considered forth the militia for certain away from the tyrannical control of cret ballots to employees who are TIONAL level! Do you think at the time prior to the adoption purposes, and to make rules a monarchy and they realized that solicited for membership by labor the same educational measures of the Constitution as 13 sovereign governing the militia; in a free society, control and repre- unions; no authority to take away that are taken in New York states…like 13 little, independent 4. To regulate commerce with sentation must be exercised at the your IRA’s and other retirement ac- City schools will be appropri- countries. They each had their own foreign Nations, and among local level. counts, no authority to pass laws ate for use in Wyoming? Or do laws and governments and leaders the States, and with the Indi- Remember last month we talk- respecting energy consumption or you think that New York should but what they didn’t have was size an Tribes; ed about how the Federal Govern- “emissions”, education, housing or take care of New York and Wy- and strength. So, these 13 states 5. To establish uniform Rules ment was created to be a support anything of the sort. oming ought to take care of it- decided to unite together for their of Naturalization; mechanism for the State Govern- Therefore, all the laws which self? The same goes for food, en- own protection and became the 6. To establish uniform Laws ments? Go back and read down Congress has passed on such top- ergy, housing and any other al- United States of America. Protec- on Bankruptcies; that list again. See how these things ics are unconstitutional as they are phabet-controlled area you can tion of the lives and property of in- 7. To coin money and regulate the Federal Government is autho- outside the scope of the legislative think of. According to the Con- dividual citizens was the common the value thereof; rized to do by the states are mostly powers the people granted to Con- stitution, these are things which characteristic of the Constitution 8. To fix the standard of for the benefit of the entire group? gress in The Constitution. are reserved to the States or to of 1787. Weights and Measures; There are those who would at- So how have they been able the people. We The People created the fed- 9. To provide for the punish- tempt to marginalize the Consti- to pass these illegal laws and get Our Constriction is an inspired eral government. It is our “crea- ment of counterfeiting; tution calling it 200 years old or away with it, you ask? That’s a document. We really should be us- ture” and has no powers other than 10. To establish post offices and out of step with today’s society good question. Some would say ing it! those We granted to it in The Con- post roads; and other terms which are intend- that it has been by design that stitution. The reality is, Congress is 11. To issue patents and copy- ed to make us think that it’s just an for many years our children To read past editions of View From NOT authorized to pass any law rights; old, outdated, yellow piece of pa- have not been taught about the the Track, visit the Authors section of on any subject just because a ma- 12. To create courts inferior to per with no correlation to today’s power and authority that the Emmitsburg.net. OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 11 COMMENTARY

business-style program developed subjective observations. Anyone ing, and as of July, more than 80 by the businesslike Bush adminis- who has spent time in a classroom had confessed. Even the school sys- Pure Onsense tration. Its methods were intended knows there is far from a 1:1 cor- tem’s superintendant, Beverly Hall, to be pragmatic: set high standards, respondance between teacher skill was implicated in the scandal for A Wasted Decade reward what works, and eliminate and student performance. Unlike supressing whistleblowers and re- what doesn’t. However, whereas a businesses, schools and teachers warding those who produced fa- Scott Zuke hind in results. According to the business is a straight-down hierar- have no control over the quality of vorable results, however suspicious. Program for International Student chy with a single set of quality stan- their inputs. If a teacher is assigned Hall won the 2009 National Su- o Child Left Behind (NCLB) Assessment (PISA), in 2009 the dards for its products (outputs), to a poor quality group of students, perintendent of the Year award Nwill be ten years old this Jan- US ranked 17th in reading scores, no such unified set of standards she does not have the option to from the American Association of uary. Like the nation’s struggling 23rd in science, and 31st in math- was implemented nationwide for trade them in for a better crop with School Administrators for accom- students, it has been pushed along, ematics. schools. Each state designed its greater potential for growth. It may plishing “significant gains in stu- year after year, by politicians un- Shanghai, China, holds first own standards, including its own be possible to subjectively identify dent achievement.” Please step for- willing to face its glaring flaws until place in all three, and the majority methods of assessment. Mary- those teachers who do a relatively ward to receive your asterisk. they became impossible to ignore. of the other top ranking countries land has the Maryland School As- outstanding job with the students Cheating is likely far more wide- Unlike the children, though, this are in the Eastern hemisphere. sessment (MSA), Virginia has the they are given, but how to capture spread than the public will ever policy never had potential. Why does this matter? With US Standards of Learning (SOL), and such things objectively through know. It’s not nearly as overt in The basic goals of NCLB sound- job growth lagging since the 2008 so on. Since economics and busi- standardized tests remains elusive. most places, but school systems are ed reasonable enough, at least to recession, we’ve been struggling ness are concerned with the ef- This takes us to the second undoubtedly gaming the system in those outside of the teaching pro- to define our role among glob- fects of “incentives,” shouldn’t we point. When schools are put under all kinds of ways to squeak by the fession: higher performance stan- al markets. While manufactur- question what incentive one state intense pressure to show continu- unattainable standards they are re- dards and greater accountability ing and other low-wage jobs have would have for setting tougher ous improvement, but are not ful- quired to meet. We’ve given our- for improvements. Schools that fall moved overseas, economists keep standards of achievement than its ly in control over whether such im- selves an education system where short of achieving “Adequate Year- predicting that America’s com- neighbor? What incentive would a provement is possible, what is the achieving “success” and “improve- ly Progress” (AYP) for two or more parative advantage will be in pro- state have for continuing to admin- expected consequence? Think ste- ment” in the data sets all too often consecutive years face a variety of ducing advanced technology and ister an exam that fails to get the roid abuse. The tragically underre- indicates just the opposite reality penalties, including funding cuts, high-end services. But if work- desired number of proficient stu- ported bombshell story of the sum- for students. staff shake-ups, and having to pro- ers in China and other develop- dents? mer was a massive cheating scandal Before we can find real solu- vide students with after-school tu- ing nations are not only working The idea of rewarding what uncovered in Georgia’s Atlanta Pu- tions, we have to fully acknowl- toring or transportation to a better for far lower wages, but are also works continues to be popular bic School system. According to edge that everything we’ve tried school nearby. The program’s ul- exceeding US education achieve- even into the Obama administra- a major report, 44 of 56 schools is failing. The Obama aminis- timate goal: 100% of students on ments, it’s going to be that much tion. The Race to the Top Fund, that were investigated were found tration has recently begun to grade level in reading and math by harder getting our economy back a $4 billion program to get states to have committed various kinds grant waivers to states that are 2014. on solid footing. to compete for extra federal dol- of cheating, including “changing unable to meet AYP, on the con- In practice the program suf- Where did things go wrong lars, ended up rewarding states that parties,” where teachers would get dition that they implement var- fered from poor implementation with NCLB? I’ll focus on two is- implemented performance-based together on weekends to erase stu- ious other accountability mea- and a number of predictable conse- sues here: 1) the misapplication of pay, among other things. Linking a dents’ incorrect answers on tests. sures. Unfortunately, this only quences. Let’s start at the end. After a business model to schools, and teacher’s benefits to his or her stu- Some reportedley opened plastic- shows that NCLB is finally col- ten years and many billions of dol- 2) the program’s poor understand- dents’ standardized test scores is wrapped exams, made corrections, lapsing under its own weight, lars in NCLB investment, Ameri- ing of incentives, which resulted in another idea that makes sense from then resealed them using cigarre- not that anyone has grasped ca continues to spend more mon- unintended, but predictable conse- a business perspective, but there’s te lighters. The report named 178 why it was doomed from the ey per pupil on education than any quences, particularly cheating. a classic dilemma when trying to educators, including 38 princi- start and come up with a better other country, but is lagging far be- No Child Left Behind was a balance objective assessment with pals, who participated in the cheat- alternative.

So, enter Barak Obama. I have no way of knowing if he fully compre- hends the powers he is up against, but Down Under I suspect he does. Do his colleagues? How smart are our politicians? Not many of them, but far more of them than are on the other side. Of Lindsay Coker they have drive, goals and ideals, and course he appears lame, unable to re- put a great deal of thought and time solve the problems or make headway, olitician, n: An eel in the fun- into how to honourably discharge because there are so many others who Pdamental mud upon which the their responsibilities. I do not know think they know what’s best, or at least superstructure of organised society a politician who has consciously gone better. And that is, I fancy, the way is reared. When he wriggles he mis- into politics with the aim of defraud- things are all the way to local elections. takes the agitation of his tail for the ing or hoodwinking the people, even Very few of us are able to grasp trembling of the edifice. As compared if this sometimes later comes about, the whole picture, especially not in with the statesman, he suffers the dis- but are they smart enough for today’s this rapidly changing world, so we advantage of being alive. (Ambrose world? take a shot at what is local, man- Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary) Regretfully, no. ageable, and realistically expect to I suspect that most of us sometimes I’d like to refer you to one of the make a difference. By definition, wonder why our government seems most remarkable books of recent the President is atop of all this, he’s to be as stupid as it is. We elect the times, ‘Voltaire’s Bastards’ by John the head of state, the big cheese as candidates of our choice, they make Ralston Saul. Subtitled ‘The dictator- second-rate actor to strut the boards country by the nose for such a long we used to say - but really, how can their mark, or not, support the par- ship of Reason in the West’, it gives of world leadership - Ronald Reagan. time that they are accepted as the he be? How can anyone facing the ty line or not, and one of them may great insight into the plight of west- Without going into who really had ones who know, which is all too true, task of seeing the whole and resolv- even become our glorious leader for a ern governments and the unbreak- the power in that government, the and the ones who hold the future in ing the mess that embraces every- time. We go through times of boom able rule of reason that colours every result was a sort of laissez faire cap- safe hands. Which is all too false, as one be on top? And just in case you and bust, see foreign policy made on place of learning, every think tank, italism that set the scene for the re- they are the modern counterparts of believe that your party, your man the run, (when so often they set up and therefore every political decision. ally clever operators - who have not Machiavelli - cunning, amoral, and can do better, remember the chal- the leaders they wish to support, but In one remarkable section, he exam- tarnished their hands by standing for opportunistic. lenge: Whoever is in power has to who become our future enemies), ines the rule and cult of the hero and parliament in the past 100 years or so. The crazy thing is that they have cope with a system that has been and, in truly democratic style, we ex- the rise of this in American politics. These are the clever guys who ma- had enormous success at hoodwink- let go to hell, and can only start to pect them to listen to us, the people, He traces it back to Marie Antoinette, nipulate markets, ensure that pol- ing many of the people into believ- be fixed by someone with the will, with our great lack of comprehension the first known person to rule with- icy will benefit them, and who, not ing them to be the saviours of the na- strength, nous, charisma and sheer and understanding of policy, which out any reason or credentials to do so. being elected, take no responsibility tion, the only ones who can bring it intelligence to become truly a lead- brings them down to our level so She was glamorous, selfish, a figure of for the results of their machinations. out of the mess they have brought er for all people. they can be in tune with us, the peo- wealth and consumption whom the They have circumvented the demo- about. Enough of the people equals Marie Antoinette refused to listen ple, who we like to think know what population initially viewed with awe; cratic process, and they get away with enough of the elected representatives to the cries for reform, and look what is best for us. after all, she was the wife of the king, it because they have a vision. Not the to ensure they can continue in their happened to her. Things are not so Well, that’s what we console our- Louis the sixteenth - but it was her vision of a Luther-King, but the vi- rapacious ways, and enough of these different now, except that the pow- selves with, but it’s not really true. opposition to reform during the rev- sion of power for themselves. And means they have enough of the ubiq- erful are not in power, they’re in the We’re not, by and large, that knowl- olution that eventually sealed her fate. more than vision, they have the key uitous media barons and commenta- lead. edgeable or clever. We’re happy to let Other foolish figureheads fol- ingredients of ability, knowledge, tors to brush away any concerted op- With all good hopes for success, our elected officials seem smart, and lowed, until the stage was set for a and reason. They have led your great position. Lindsay 12 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 GOVERNMENT—NORTH OF THE MASON-DIXON LINE From the Desk of Carroll Valley Mayor Harris t is October. The leaves will appeal of the assessed property In October, there will be three ner meeting in the Carroll Val- community yard sale. Domes- Istart to change into brilliant value. The deadline for submit- meetings in which the topic of ley Pavilion at 6:30 pm. While tic Violence is one of the most colors – a last “hoorah” before ting an assessment appeal is Oc- “Borough Finances” will be dis- not required, come dressed in a deadly and costly hazards a com- they fall. The farmers in the area tober 31st. If you have any ques- cussed. You may want to mark Halloween costume and have a munity can face. Each year there will finish harvesting their crops. tions, you should call the Adams your calendar to attend these fi- chance to win a prize for “Best are over 600,000 victims, many The birds will migrate south. County Tax Assessment Depart- nancial meetings. The meeting Costume”. Charles Dalton, are murdered or severely injured, We honor Columbus’ arrival in ment at (717) 337-9837. dates are: Finance Committee on CVCA President, said the meet- some survive. At the event there America on Oct 12, 1492 and The downturn in the econ- October 10th, Finance Commit- ing is opened to everyone in the will be domestic violence aware- celebrate this event on Monday, omy has had an impact on our tee and Borough Council Work- community. He also mentioned ness brochures, local police and October 10th. And then, on Oc- 2011 budget. The Borough’s shop on October 18th and Oc- that the Carroll Valley Phone fire will be on hand to answer tober 31st children and adults will Real Property Taxes are down tober 25th. Remember, when the Directory Committee has start- questions, and there will be a le- dress up in “strange looking” cos- by approximately $72,000, Borough discusses the budget, it ed working on a new updat- gal action table for those with an tumes to celebrate Halloween the Earned Income Taxes by only represents 12% of your tax ed phone directory that will be interest in changing the laws to and go around the community $60,000 and building permits dollar at work for you. There ready for distribution in 2012. If better help victims and survivors. proclaiming “Trick or Treat”. down by $5,000. What this all are two other taxing authorities, you have any questions or need Also featured will be a kid’s safe What is going on in our com- means is that revenues the Bor- namely: the school district and additional information call (717) activity area available to kids of munity? Adams County is still ough expected to receive to pro- the county. 642-5844. all ages. Food (hot dogs, ham- dealing with the 2010 county vide services to our Carroll Val- The Carroll Valley Citizens On Sunday, October 23rd in burgers, chips) and drinks (cof- wide reassessment. It has been re- ley residents is down by a total of Association (CVCA) will be the Carroll Valley Commons fee, soda, and water) will be avail- ported that over 8,000 residents $137,000. Under the direction of holding two events in October. from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm the Di- able for a small donation of $5 appealed their reassessment bills our Council and watchful eye of On Saturday, October 15th in saster Preparedness and Emer- for adults and $3 for kids 10 and in 2010 and approximately 700 our Treasurer and Borough Man- the Ski Liberty lower parking lot gency Response Association and under. If you interested in more appeals have been submitted this ager, we will make it through the will be holding their annual Fall the Survivors Inc. of Gettysburg information, call (240) 385-2733 year. As a property owner, you rest of the year. My concern is the Yard sale. On Friday, October will be holding an event called or email breakthesilence2011@ have the right each year to file an 2012 budget. Why bring this up? 21st CVCA will be holding a din- “Community Break the Silence” gmail.com. It always gives me pleasure to share good news about the achievements of our young cit- izens. I have learned that Cadet Austin T. Stroup who is attend- ing Middle School at Fork Union Military Academy has been pro- moted to the rank of 1st Lieu- tenant with an assignment as Company Commander of “Bra- vo” Company. Cadet Stroup, the son of Jay and Meghan Stroup, is an 8th grader and is in his sec- ond year at the Academy. Stroup earned Excellent Conduct and Academic Honors each grad- ing period last year and received an award for having the high- est academic average in the 7th grade. He also received an award for his achievement in Comput- er Applications. As a 7th grad- er, Stroup excelled athletically on the wrestling, lacrosse, and ori- enteering teams. He is continu- ing on the orienteering team this year. Selected for his outstand- ing leadership and communica- tion skills, Cadet 1st Lieutenant Stroup leads his company of mid- dle school cadets who are attend- ing sixth through eighth grade. Congratulations Lieutenant! Borough meetings to be held in October are: Planning Commis- sion (Oct 3rd), Finance Commit- tee (Oct 10th), Council Borough (Oct 11th), Finance Committee and Council Borough Workshop (Oct 18th), Finance Committee and Council Borough Workshop (Oct 25th), Sewer/Water Author- ity (Oct 24th) and Parks/Recre- ation (Oct 26th). Support our Fair- field Fire & EMS Department by playing bingo. Bingo is played the first Friday of every month and every Thursday at the Fire Hall with the doors opening at 5:30 pm. The Bingo Hotline number is (717) 642-8105. Please reduce your driving speed when you are in the Valley. Remember, Hallow- een night there will be young peo- ple walking the trails – be care- ful. If you have any questions call me at (301) 606-2021 or email at [email protected]. OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 13 THE BOOK OF DAYS

was dying of consumption. Poe and other literary performances by was plunged in a deep melancholy, Poe. The same sort of extravagance Edgar Allan Poe which did not admit of his writing pervades all, and those who knew anything. They were in a state of al- him most intimately, and were best the time of their union, was about most utter destitution, and the mal- qualified to judge, believed that fourteen years old. After this, we ady of the poet was constantly ag- he lived and wrote with a shade of find him engaged on Benton’s Gen- gravated by witnessing the suffer- madness in all that he did—and tleman’s Magazine, at two pounds a ing of his fading, lily-like wife, to yet few men were more methodi- week. This engagement was of brief whom he was tenderly attached. cal and orderly in their habits than continuance, and he next was con- Friends came to their help the mo- Poe. His handwriting was delicate- nected with Graham’s Magazine, and ment their condition was known, ly beautiful, and at the same time wrote Some Strange Stories, nearly all and it was subsequently brought clear and plain. His study was the of which seem tinged with a sort of against Poe, that he took a bribe at perfection of order and neatness. semi-insanity. We next find him en- this time for a favourable review, But his fearful proclivities might gaged with Mr. Briggs, in establish- which he afterwards wrote of a mis- change all this in a moment. The ing the Broadway Journal. This was erable book of poems. In speaking world cannot believe that half a soon discontinued. About 1844, he of this violation of his literary con- glass of wine could make a man wrote The Raven, which has enjoyed science, after he had somewhat re- lose all self-control, and hurry him a more extended reputation than any covered the tone of his mind, he on to madness, and its fearful con- other production of his pen. said, ‘ The author gave me a hun- sequences. But there is abundant After the appearance of the Ra- dred dollars, when my poor Virgin- proof that this was true of Poe. ven in trans-atlantic periodicals, ia was dying, and we were starving, After the death of his wife, Poe Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote and required me to write a review gradually recovered from the deep to Poe, that ‘The Raven had excit- of that book. What could I do?’ melancholy which had palsied all ed a fit horror in England.’ He was Let those who have judged him his mental power during the last delighted with the compliment. In- harshly for this, and other sins of portion of her life, and engaged deed this sort of impression ap- his life, place themselves in his con- again in literary occupation. Subse- peared to be an object of ambition dition. When sober and sane, Poe quently, he entered into correspon- with him. Poe always seemed to was a gentleman of pure taste and dence with a lady of fine genius consider The Raven as his master- elegant manners, whose conversa- and high position, with a view to piece, and he was fond of reciting it tion was always interesting, and of- marriage. But here, again, his des- in company, in a sort of sing song ten instructive. He had great per- tiny was against him. The marriage tone, which was very unpleasant to sonal beauty, and the aristocrat- was broken off, and soon after Poe some. ic manner and bearing of a south- died of delirium tremens, at the age It would be difficult to calcu- ern gentleman, and a descendant of thirty-eight; that critical period late the amount of fame that Poe of the Cavaliers. In 1848, Poe pub- at which it seems natural for an ir- might have earned, if he could have lished Eureka, which he first gave regular life, combined with exces- Robert Chambers is to be found in his temperament, lived, and written one year in un- as a lecture. It is impossible to give sive brain-work, to bring its victims or physical constitution. He lived, disturbed sanity. After the fame of a characteristic description of this to an end. n Oct 7, 1849, Edgar Al- from the cradle to the grave, on The Raven had brought his name Olan Poe, an eccentric Amer- the verge of madness, when he was upon every lip, he was invited to ican poet died. It may seem absurd not absolutely mad. A half-glass of lecture before the Boston Athene- to say that he belonged by birth to wine intoxicated him to insanity. um—the highest honour the Ath- the aristocracy, in a country where His brain was large, almost to de- ens of America could bestow on no aristocracy is recognised. Still, it formity, in the region where phre- the poet. He went before an el- is a fact that Poe was an aristocrat, nologists place the imaginative fac- egant and most intellectual Bos- and it is also true, that no people ulties. Under the influence of slight ton audience, and instead of giv- are more proud of the advantag- stimulus, such as would have been ing a lecture, he repeated a juvenile es of birth and breeding, than citi- inappreciable by a person other- poem that had been published! His zens of the United States, especially wise constituted, Poe was led on to friends had no doubt of the cause, those who belong to the southern commit acts, the consequences of or occasion of this strange proceed- division of those states. which were often distressing, and ing, but the au- Poe was a Southerner in manners might at any moment have been dience were in- and feelings, as well as by birth; and fatal, as was finally the case. dignant. Poe de- there is little doubt, that the greater At an early age he entered college clared that ‘it was part of the infamy which was heaped at Charlottesville, Virginia, but he an intentional in- upon him after his death, was owing was expelled for dissipation. He sult to the genius to the fact that as a man of taste he also entered the military school at of the frog pond, despised, and as an aristocrat, treated West Point, New York, but he left a small pond on with contempt, a tradesman in liter- in a year. During the excitement Boston Com- ature, who lived by making books in favour of the independence of mon ‘a further of biographies, generally laudatory Greece, he started for that country; evidence of the of living literary persons. This man but he was next found at St. Peters- madness that he took his revenge when the oppor- burg, where he fell into distress, as often induced, tunity came, as any one may kick a was his fortune almost everywhere, by taking stimu- dead lion with impunity. Many have and some friends sent him home. lants, though he echoed, no doubt honestly, the evil Soon after his return, he pub- knew his fear- fame which was made for the poor lished a volume of poems, entitled ful liability. After poet by this man, whom he had de- At Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor this, his irregu- spised and insulted during his life. Poems. These were written from larities became so Poe’s grandfather was a soldier the age of sixteen to eighteen years. much the rule of in the war of the American revo- At one time he enlisted as a sol- his life, that Mrs. lution, and a friend of Lafayette. dier, but he soon deserted. He had Clemm, who act- His father was a student at law. much partiality for active exer- ed the part of a He fell in love with an English ac- cise, and very little for discipline, good genius to tress, named Arnold, and married though he was exceedingly me- the poet and his her. They both died young, and at thodical and orderly in all the de- young wife, her nearly the same time, leaving three tails of life. He was remarkable daughter, took a orphan children. Edgar was adopt- for aquatic and gymnastic perfor- cottage at Ford- ed and educated by John Allan, a mances. He was able to leap fur- ham, near New wealthy merchant of Virginia. At ther than most men, and he once York. the early age of five years he was swam seven miles and a half against Here she de- brought to England, and was sent the tide. voted herself to to school near London, till he was In 1835, Poe was employed to the care of both ten years old. write for the Southern Literary Mes- with tender and Poe’s life was a series of eccen- senger, and about this time he married unceasing assi- tric adventures. The reason of this his cousin, Virginia Clemm, who, at duity. Mrs. Poe 14 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 THE (retired) ECOLOGIST Signs and Smells of Autumn Bill Meredith with a wide, flat blade which brought them out of the ground, “Don’t waste time worrying that and the whole family then picked insects will inherit the earth. They them up and loaded them into already own it.” burlap feed-sacks. My sister, my —Tom Eisner. two brothers and I each had the experience of poking a finger into ccording to the calendar a rotten potato, and we each had Aon my desk, fall began on the same expression on our faces slept during the day, but at night September 23 this year. There when it happened… extreme and they would try to entertain us was a time when this would have utter disgust. by performing aerobatic stunts, bothered me greatly, because The nose is connected to the flying exuberantly around every when I was five or six years part of the brain that controls light in the house and occasionally old someone… probably my memory more firmly than any of crash landing in our plates at grandmother… had told me fall the other senses, and it brings back dinner. They seemed to lead a always started on the 21st. It was scenes from childhood. Some of hazardous lifestyle. I heard my a hard lesson to learn that, as them are pleasant; when I smell wife tell a friend that for a while in the Apostle Paul might have said chocolate milk, I can still see Miss the late winter she was sweeping under different circumstances, Hill passing out half-pint boxes of up a gallon or more of dead when I was a child I understood as it in the first grade. The oil they carcasses each morning. I have to a child, but when I became a man used to use on the floors of public admit that she has been known I had to realize that a lot of what buildings is rarely encountered to exaggerate, but in truth there I had learned earlier was wrong. nowadays, but in the days when were a lot of them. The late Tom In that particular case, I didn’t it was used it always recalled Eisner, who used to teach animal have to wait until I was a man; it the two-room schoolhouse behavior at Cornell University, th must have been thinking of stink was probably in 4 grade that my The U. S. Naval Observatory got to college and studied botany where I got the first eight years bugs when he quipped that insects teacher, Mr. Jefferson, taught us assures me that, whether I I learned that goldenrod has large of my formal education. Apple have already taken over the world. there are two times each year, one understand it or not, Fall arrived pollen grains which are too heavy blossoms, new-mown hay, freshly When spring came the in March and one in September, on schedule. I knew it was to float in the air; most hay fever plowed soil, shavings from a solid survivors moved back outside when the sun is directly over the coming. Katydids started singing symptoms in the fall are caused by walnut board, and a thousand and disappeared, but they did equator. These dates, he said, are several weeks ago to warn us ragweed, which produces wind- other scents bring their unique not neglect their reproductive called Equinoxes, and because it that it was only six weeks until borne pollen in inconspicuous bouts of nostalgia. But then there responsibilities; last week when I takes 365 ¼ days for the earth to frost would come, and along the green flowers that bloom at the is the other end of the scale of was mowing the lawn I brushed go around the sun, they may occur roadsides things started turning same time as ragweed. smell, where you find things like th against a branch of shrubbery and as early as the 20 or as late as the yellow in spite of all the rain. Although I knew fall was skunks, rotten eggs, roadkill, or rd a cloud of stink bugs fell out of it. 23 of the month. He also told us Soybeans began to ripen, and coming, I wasn’t ready for it. I soured milk... odors that should be They were of all sizes, from barely that on the date of the equinox the Spanish needles and goldenrod planted two rows of potatoes in listed on a scale of disgustingness. visible nymphs to fully developed day and night are the same length, came into bloom. Seeing the the garden last spring, and most Unfortunately, I was not able adults. Their scent glands were which, several years later, I also goldenrod always reminds me of the vines were still living when to find “disgustingness” in my fully loaded, and they are out had to learn is not exactly correct, of another factoid that I had to September began. Then, after dictionary; apparently it is not a there, waiting. I didn’t have the because... well, take my word for re-learn. As a child I was told it a hot summer, it suddenly got legitimate word in English. That heart to tell my wife, but I think it. It gets complicated. caused my hay fever, but when I cooler, and the vines died. After is a shame, for if there were such a she knows. Yesterday when I Hurricane Irene went by and the word, the smell of rotten potatoes went out to play golf, a stink bug soil dried out a bit, I got one row would be at the top of the list of had crawled into my hat and hid of the potatoes out of the ground; examples of it. under the inner sweat band, and it but we had nearly a week of rain In recent years fall has added got crushed when I put the hat on. before I could dig the other row. a new odor to the disgustingness By the time I got it out of there The result was that about one out category. Not long ago, the both the hat and my hair were of four of the remaining potatoes marmolated stink bug, a native of fairly saturated with its assorted rotted. Asia, moved into the Emmitsburg body fluids, and the smell was That brought back memories. area, where it found things to its still there four hours later when I During the Depression years liking. Its population exploded got home. Maybe it’s just that I’m when I was growing up, potatoes a couple of years back, and it getting old, but fall doesn’t seem were a staple in our diet; it was a decimated local orchards; then, as pleasant as it used to be. rare supper that did not include according to my wife, last fall the them. We always planted several entire lot of them crawled into long rows of them along the edge our house through unimaginably To read past editions of the Retired of the cornfield. When September small crevices and spent the Ecologist, visit the Authors section of came, we had a horse-drawn plow winter with us. Most of them Emmitsburg.net

OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 15 IN THE COUNTRY The Little Horned Owl whooo could Ranger Jen Miller made structures or natural cavi- a red phase screech owl, flew into Cunningham Falls State Park ties. One may also be alerted to a glass window and now has last- the presence of a screech owl af- ing neurological issues. One way f beauty pageants and talent ter they have received a surprise to reduce the risk of birds flying Ishows were something birds bop on the head by a tiny feath- into windows and sliding glass of prey were into, the Eastern ered fury. I had park visitor re- doors is to place silhouettes or Screech owl would be the chubby late to me once about her close decals of birds on the glass so the cheeked, gapped toothed cutie encounter with screech owls in wild birds realize that they can’t pie that would melt the judges’ her garden in Cape May, New fly straight through. Decals can hearts and steal the show. They Jersey. She was happily bent be handmade or purchased on- are adorably diminutive and over pulling weeds in her plant line at sites like www.window- fluffy and are the most likely to beds when she felt repeated alert.com . incite pleas from small children strikes to her backside. Think- The owls have adjusted well to begging for one as a pet. It is be- ing it was neighborhood chil- captive life and are usually the cause of this common reaction dren or her husband up to no stars of our educational program- that I often start any Scales & good she began to look around, ming. The red phase owl is prone Tales program with the screech only to catch her assailant ap- to diva-like fits and will wait with owl. There is no better opportu- proaching for a third time! It a tense patience for warm water nity to teach the difference be- was screech owl who had set up to be placed in her trough in the tween a pet and a wild animal shop in a large tree in the mid- wintertime. As soon as the coast and how to respect wildlife in dle of her garden. is clear, she jumps in resembling their natural environments. The Screech owls eat a wide variety the Japanese snow monkeys that look of yearning quickly turns to of prey items including insects, soak in steamy hot springs! Many shock on children’s (and some small rodents, and birds. This of their wild brethren are around adults’) faces, as I relate that I species’ lack of pickiness expands Cunningham Falls too. I hear and have been bitten more times by their niche and increases their see them often in the lake area of this little owl than by any of the chances of survival in a chang- the park in the summer as I’m other birds at the aviary com- ing world. Unfortunately, the ef- cleaning up after the day’s festiv- bined. Because underneath all fects of development and litter- ities. Are they around more dur- that fuzz are a pair of quick feet ing greatly reduce those chances. ing this time because all the left- equipped with needle like tal- Most of the Eastern Screech over garbage brings rodents and ons, an astute beak, and a keen owls in the Scales & Tales pro- then the owls? I’m not sure. What mind bent on survival. gram have been hit by cars. The I do know is that litter alters the Adult Eastern Screech owls impact of a vehicle often causes landscape and its inhabitants in weigh about as much as a hot varying degrees of damage to an negative ways. Please keep public dog, without the bun. Carl Lin- ing to hide from predators such ward whiney and a rapid trill owl’s optic nerve, which con- lands clean and safe for all by tak- naeus gave them the scientific as the Barred owl. The rufous similar to a tree frog. Calls are nects to the back of the eye, lead- ing your trash with you. A posi- name, Otus asio, meaning little ones have a talent for puffing used to communicate between ing to distorted vision or to- tive action is kind of like a screech horned owl. Screech owls have out their feathers and perching family members, find potential tal blindness. Because screech owl. It may be small or seem in- ear tufts similar to that of Great closest to leaves as their color- mates, and to sound the alarm owls are compact, like a softball, significant but can leave a lasting Horned owls which are used for ing is amazingly like fall foliage. against intruders and preda- most of the harm is done inter- impact. camouflage and communication. The mottled grey coloring looks tors. Eastern Screech owls oc- nally. The grey phase screech owl Eastern Screech owls also come just like tree bark and screech cupy almost every possible hab- at the Cunningham Falls State To read other articles by Rang- in two different color phases – owls with this affect use it to itat from city to swamp and do Park Aviary was hit by a car and er Jen Miller visit the Au- grey or reddish orange. Some- their advantage by standing tall not discriminate between man- is partially blind. Her cage mate, thors section of Emmitsburg.net. times individual owls will be an and skinny next to the trunk of a intermediate chocolate brown tree. color. The coloring is not sex- The Eastern Screech Owl is linked, determined by diet or the most abundant owl in the region of habitation. Most like- eastern United States. Because ly coloring is influenced by ge- of their small size and camou- netic chance although data re- flage skills it is hard to know veals that rufous owls are most where screech owls are living, common in the eastern portion that is until they open their of the U.S., while grey Eastern mouths! Screech owls do not Screech owls may comprise as actually screech but they are much as 85% of the population (considering their size) incredi- further west. The owls use be- bly loud. Their call consists of havior in addition to their color- two parts – a horse-like down- 16 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 IN THE COUNTRY Camp Eder itting quietly on Mount Hope In the spring, Camp Eder and SRd., just outside of Fairfield is Strawberry Hill Nature Preserve Camp Eder, a small Christian camp join together to offer a wonderful and retreat center serving our com- Outdoor Education experience to munity and beyond as an agency of the students from Waynesboro Ele- the Southern Pennsylvania District mentary Schools. For four weeks in Church of the Brethren. the spring, over 250 fifth graders get Established in 1958, Camp Eder the invaluable experience of taking sits on over 400 acres of beautifully the classroom outside for a time of wooded and orchard property that intense learning and activities. makes for a perfect and peaceful From early June thru early Au- outdoor experience for all. gust, the Camp Eder Summer Hosting a variety of programs Camp experience is underway, av- throughout the year, Camp Eder eraging over 40 campers each week offers Summer Camp programs of camp. Camp weeks are general- for children of all ages, Senior Cit- ly divided by age group, but many izen’s Days for our wise friends, specialty camp experiences are also Scrapbooking Retreats for the cre- offered such as; rock climbing, kay- ative, and many other activities for aking, biking the C&O towpath, folks from a variety of backgrounds. horseback riding at local stables, and Three main lodges serve as the pri- many more. In addition to these ex- mary retreat facilities; wagons, cab- citing activities, campers also get to ins, and camp sites are also utilized experience basic Bible studies, na- for groups seeking to get away from ture classes, cooking over a fire, arts Eder also becomes home to a group Eder for dates), and often bringing of fundraising events that happen the busyness of life. The nearly 40- and crafts, hiking, wall climbing, of Adams County 4H campers and more than 50 individuals for this throughout the year to help offset foot climbing wall, challenge course, daily swim time, and plenty of re- to the annual Pennsylvania Tourette great time of fellowship and activi- these management costs. swimming pool, hiking trails, and lationship building; forming many Syndrome Alliance Conference. ty, proving that camp is not just for Fall Festival is one of the larg- many other facilities offer plenty of friendships which will last a lifetime. In the winter, Camp Eder con- the children among us. The Senior est and most exciting fundraising recreational opportunity. During the summer months, Camp tinues to be an exciting place with Citizen Days offer a morning pro- events of the year for Camp Eder. weekend camping programs of- gram and an afternoon program, This October 15th will be the 33rd fered to children of all ages. Moth- one of which is educational in na- Annual Fall Festival for the Camp, er/daughter retreats and father/son ture, the other is a “hands-on” ac- complete with a live auction, craft retreats are returning to the pro- tivity. A light breakfast and lunch vendors, live bluegrass music, pio- gram schedule and are expected to are also served to those who attend neer/heritage demonstrations, chil- be popular ways to help grow fami- these enjoyable events. dren’s activities, and the ever-pop- lies closer together. The twice-a-year Although Christian based and ular pit-roasted pork and turkey women’s scrapbooking retreats con- Church of the Brethren affiliated, meal with fixings. Everyone is invit- tinue to be popular and exciting for Camp Eder programs and events ed and welcome to attend this excit- all who attend. For this event, there are offered and welcome to all. ing community event. is a Creative Memories Consultant Lodges and facilities also offer acces- Each spring, Camp Eder hosts an on hand, with tools and supplies, sibility to individuals with specific annual Golf Tournament at Moun- to offer advice and to share creative needs. tain View Golf Course and an Open ideas. As a not-for-profit organization, House with a 5k run on Camp Eder Senior Citizen Days are held Camp Eder relies heavily upon vol- property. Many players and run- throughout the year, general- unteers and donations to man- ners helped to make these two days ly on the last Wednesday of ev- age the high cost of these events very successful and memorable. The ery other month (contact Camp and programs. There are a number Open House is a great time to visit Camp Eder to see what it’s all about. Keep an eye open for dates for these events in 2012. New and exciting activities are being added to the Camp Eder schedule daily. This December, the Camp Eder Staff are excited to in- vite the community to our 1st An- nual Christmas Tree Celebration in celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. Come this December 16th, 17th, or 18th to see Christmas lights, enjoy cookies, music, and the can- dlelight services held each night at the live Nativity. You’ll also be able to cast your vote for your favorite Christmas trees, each decorated by different organizations or individu- als from within our community. It’s clear that no matter the age, background, ability, or interest, Camp Eder has something for ev- eryone. Whether spending a week in the summer camp program, or simply spending an afternoon with friends and family at a wedding in the historical chapel atop the moun- tain, Camp Eder is sure to make an impact on your life. Consider Camp Eder as you look for activities for you and your fam- ily. The camp office is open Mon- day – Friday, 8am-4pm. Call ahead (642-8256) if you’d like more infor- mation, or to stop by anytime. OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 17 THE VILLAGE IDIOT Recording the garden Jack Deatherage, Jr. beetle in a decade! There must have stage this late in the year. There are been a gazillion of the little black too many two legged bean eaters other Earth News (once leapers! (The Mother has a debatable devouring them as green shellies! Mupon a time, our family’s sense of humor, but I knew that the Other notes would remind me favorite gardening magazine) offers first day She offered the acre to us. to plant early maturing varieties of on-line garden software allowing As the Texan pointed out, I wasn’t everything to avoid the swarm of detailed garden planning and willing to prepare for the realities of Brown marmorated stink bugs next record keeping. I’ve mostly resisted gardening. Sometimes pesticides, year. While I seemed to have had the insane urge to keep even organic or not, have to be used!) some success controlling them with hodge-podge records of anything Scattered among the “notes” a mix of Dawn dish detergent and I’ve planted other than last year’s would be our successes. The water it takes some time and a bit . I’m thinking this program might European cantaloupe was a big hit, of looking to squirt each of the little be just what I need as I get farther those few that didn’t split. One of buggers. I imagined myself as an along with a market garden. the two cultivars of watermelon ungainly tall, bearded Hoggle (the I have nine cultivars, ten bulbs of sad, sad garlic compared to the The Texas homesteader is so we grew was highly praised. We real Hoggle is a handsome fellow, each, I bought from Hacienda hundreds of cultivars available disgusted by the idea of spending have demands for more melons not nearly as grizzled and cranky Shiloh (717) 642-9161. Coupled outside run-of-the-mill retail money on a computer “game” she next season. The green bush beans as I) from the movie Labyrinth with the 4 pounds of seed bulbs I outlets. didn’t bother to chide me when I sowed, with no intention of as I slowly stalked along the row bought from a grower in Ohio, I I’m jazzed about the approaching I mentioned I might give it a try. harvesting at all (they were a cover/ of lima beans spraying each bug figure I’m close to the 2,000 plus winter. As soon as the ground is dry She has an analytical mind, the green manure crop), ended up I spotted. Wanda thought I was cloves I wanted to plant this year. enough we’ll work it up and plant discipline to take notes, compile producing so many tasty, tender avoiding picking green beans, I Now, if I can figure out where to the garlic. A bit of snow that lingers records and organize them. She can beans we couldn’t help but sell thought I was saving her lima beans dry/cure next summer’s harvest on the beds would be nice, but I’ll go back over the years and tell me them, trade them, dry, freeze and eat from predation. Whatever I was I should have enough garlic to be happy with a couple of months what variety of veggie she planted them ourselves. And the peppers! doing, she decided it seemed to be satisfy me, a couple of buyers and of below freezing temperatures to where and when on her farmett. I’m intoxicated by the fragrance of too much like fun while she was those friends I share the superb flavor the garlic and get it to set How it grew, produced (or not), bell peppers piled in the living room working. (Some people don’t know gourmet garlic with. Actually, I’ve cloves. what it tasted like, how much she waiting to be blanched, frozen or how to make a game out of work.) been cussed at by more than one It’s time to get serious about harvested, whether she canned or dried. I’ve pickled 14 quarts of Looking over the notes I’m friend for getting them addicted record keeping. I guess the software dried it, how much she put away mildly hot peppers and probably making of this year’s garlic stash, to “good” garlic. After we’ve eaten program is my best bet. Unless the and on and on. I don’t do any have at least as many more standing and this fall’s planting stock, I all of my garlic, and whatever Texan wants to move here and take of that and the few times I have in the garden. Wanda’s lima beans, see I have 13 cultivars saved from Hacienda Shiloh has, we suffer that part of the garden over. As close started a garden record, well, I can’t after a long fruitless July, are finally July’s harvest. 169 bulbs and withdrawals as we wait on July’s as the wildfires got to her place this find it two weeks later. I am not setting and filling pods with thick, hopefully 850 cloves among them harvest and the miserable two year she might consider the offer. analytical and the only things I’ve tender, creamy seeds. I doubt any worth planting. That will more weeks it takes to dry and cure ever bothered to compile were beer of them will make it to the dry than fill last year’s garlic bed. Then the bulbs! Supermarket garlic, To read past editions of the Village cans and wine bottles. whether it’s grown in California, Idiot visit the Authors section of The garden software seems ideal Florida, Argentina or China is all Emmitsburg.net. for me. For $25 a year ($20 a year if I buy two years’ service at the same time), it allows me to lay out the garden before I plant it. I can set rows, or blocks of plants wherever I want them and the program will tell me how many square feet of space I’m working with. When I add a vegetable it will calculate the number of plants that would work best in that space. The software has built in stats on most vegetables and a feature allows the user to add plants that aren’t on the list. Telling the program where on this rock I’m gardening allows it to tell me when the best time is to start seedlings indoors, or to sow directly in the garden. It also suggests a harvest date, useful for planning a succession planting. As the program would have my e-mail address, it would send me reminders as to when to start seeds indoors. (What it doesn’t do, yet, is predict the weather, or which insect pest will turn up in any particular year.) Which reminds me, there is a “note” section that allows the gardener to add detail to the record. If I were to use the “free for 30 days” trial program and lay out this year’s garden as best I can recall, I’d note that European cantaloupes burst open (like misbegotten flowers vomiting seed onto the soil) when it rains while they are maturing. A new (to me) squash bug showed up this year, a “leaf-footed” bug. I found a tomato hornworm on a pepper plant. The crucifers Wanda so carefully planted were devoured within two days by flea beetles. Flea beetles? I haven’t seen a flea 18 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 PETS LARGE AND SMALL Saving just one makes it all worth while Jennifer Vanderau ries too much, becomes too at- who need help and homes. So, so Cumberland Valley Animal Shel- tached, but she really doesn’t know many. Each year the numbers in- ter how to be anything else. She’s nev- crease and she has to wonder if er been very good at forgetting her anything she does has any impact he’s tired. So incredibly tired. feelings or ignoring what her in- at all. Are people even listening? SShe’s reminded of a line from stincts tell her. Do they even care? Are her efforts St. Elmo’s Fire – for all the fans of She’s too sensitive and she rec- making any kind of difference? the 80s brat pack movies – “I nev- ognizes this, and she thinks of The numbers say no. er thought I’d be so tired at 22.” yet another television character, Thus, she’s tired. She laughs, knowing she’s got Spock, and the purity of Vulcan Continuous battle weighs any- 16 years on Demi Moore’s charac- logic and lack of emotions. She one down and eventually, when ter, but she understands the senti- wonders at the freedom in that, in the hits keep coming and com- ment just the same. approaching life in a calm, ratio- ing and it feels like there’s no end Some days are tougher than nal manner and how different she in sight, it gets a little harder each others, but there are happy mo- would be if her blood ran green time to get back up again. ments. Times when she sees the and her ears came to a point. So, is that a reason to give up? beauty of life and the goodness But she’s not Vulcan, she’s hu- Find something else? Walk out that is out there. She notices when man, and the feelings that come the doors to another chapter in people are decent and it gives her with that can be staggering. her life? Stock shelves some place some hope for the future. The issue really lies with them. where she can’t get emotionally She loves to make people laugh The four-legged furry ones who invested? Process data in a job and “leave on a high note,” ala come in and out of her life with where it’s all about numbers and George Costanza of Seinfeld fame. somewhat alarming regularity and not feelings? Is giving up really She clearly watches too much tele- her ability to truly see them and an option? vision, but the avenue of escape what they bring to the world. She walks by a cage and a sleepy is a good one for her. And some- The faces and the eyes and the kitten wakes up slightly, blinks his times, a movie or TV reference stories all start to loop together, eyes at her and gives a soft meow. provides a connection, a moment blend into “we had a cat come in His little paws stretch and sepa- of shared understanding, with who….” or “one dog was dropped rate and his claws extend and his others. off because….” tongue curls in a yawn -- a picture But the dark times, the ones If she could see them as some of drowsy contentment. where all hope seems lost, are dif- people do – as commodities, as She wonders what he’s trying to ficult. So she struggles. “just a dog,” as creatures incapa- say. She knows that part of it is be- ble of feeling – it would all proba- Maybe I need a home. cause she’s too involved. She wor- bly be better. But there’s simply no Dixon is a 3-year-old, handsome buff-and-white chap looking for a place to call his own. He has a pleasant personality and likes to Or I wish the person who hang out with the other cats in his cage. He’s been with us since November 13, 2010. Dixon enjoys napping, sun bathing, and brought me here would have bird watching. If this laid-back guy is the one for you, stop by given me just a little more to get him out of a cage and into your life. time. way she can look into the eyes of a ly had enough food to survive. It forgotten dog or discarded cat and hurts to know that some of them Or, life on the streets was see anything but a soul who can came from places where they had tough, but at least I’m warm feel pain and love and anger, in to live in their own feces because and fed and loved here. need of help and a second chance. no one cared enough to clean. It Such is her way. hurts to know that some of them Or, quite possibly, just may- But it hurts. It hurts to know have experienced an angry kick be, his little noise really means, they have to live in kennels be- or punch and had to live in fear Thank you for trying to help cause sometimes people just and she knows, deep in her gut, me. don’t have enough stamina to that no one – human or animal – keep going, keep trying. It hurts should ever have to live like that. A warm sensation spreads through to know that some of them came Ever. her chest and in a moment of clar- from situations where they bare- And there are so many animals ity, she has her answer. Giving up is not an option. So, she goes to sleep that night with the furry faces in her mind, giving kisses to her own feline four-legged kids who share her pillow and her comforter, know- ing that it’s all going to start over again the next day. She also knows that saving just one of them will make the exhaustion and tired feelings worth it because it’s not about her. She knows her work at the Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter has never been about her. It’s about them. And she is me.

Jennifer Vanderau is the Director of Communications for the Cumber- land Valley Animal Shelter and can be reached at cvascomm@cvas-pets. org. The shelter accepts both mone- tary and pet supply donations. For more information, call the shelter at (717) 263-5791 or visit the website www.cvas-pets.org. CVAS also oper- ates thrift stores in Chambersburg and Shippensburg. Help support the animals at the shelter by donating to or shopping at the stores. OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 19 PETS LARGE AND SMALL Hunting season Kimberly J Brokaw DVM ple continued their playful teasing As I worked on the horse, the Walkersville Veterinary Clinic with the husband adding how husband explained that last year, Franz was always groomed, and fed two turkey hunters were hunting t’s that time of year again when before his wife started preparing on his property. The hunters ex- Ithe weather gets colder, the leaves his dinner, and that Franz has nev- citedly came up to him telling him change color, and I find myself dig- er missed a meal. they had a very successful hunt and ging through the closet to find my On the day I was called out, the shot several turkeys. Unfortunately blaze orange vest as well as the horse had been fine early in the what the hunters thought were tur- blaze orange accessories I adorn the day, but had then become extreme- keys, were actually the husband’s horse with for trail rides. While my ly uncomfortable and was trying to flock of guineas. Enough time had rides have thus far been unevent- roll. The owner was doing a good passed since the birds had been ful with no close calls with hunters, job keeping him up and walking. shot that the husband was able to I have certainly heard many stories After a physical exam I determined joke about it. He even comment- from clients that were not so pleas- that he had an impaction colic. I ed that his guineas were far too Symptoms that a horse is experiencing colic may include laying down, ant. One of the barn managers at stretching out while standing (a stance similar stance to the posture to gave him some Banamine pain ugly of birds to have been mistak- urinate), flank-watching or biting, and lifting the upper lip. a facility I provide care for com- medication. I then passed a na- en for turkeys. While he admitted plains that every year he gets new so-gastric tube and pumped elec- that turkeys aren’t the most attrac- of the product of his great day of sedative medication so he would be bullet holes in the side of his barn. trolyte solution and water into his tive birds, there are hardly any an- hunting if he was aware that he had comfortable for the ride, and then He says it is nothing malicious, just stomach. Franz seemed much more imals more ugly than a guinea (al- just shot the farm owner’s flock of wished them well as they went to stray bullets coming off the moun- comfortable so I instructed the though I have to admit that I love pet birds. Leesburg. The horse spent a couple tain. Luckily a horse or person has owner to monitor him throughout my guineas and find them so ugly As the husband continued talk- days at Leesburg, receiving fluids never been hit. the night and call me back if she that they are adorable). The hus- ing about the hunters, I re-exam- and pain medications, before his Weather changes also trigger col- had concerns. band explained that the hunters ined the horse. Franz was still not impaction resolved. Franz was then ic in some horses. I was recently The next morning the own- lost their privilege to hunt on his comfortable after the second set able to return home fully recovered called out to treat a colicing horse er called back. Franziskaner had property. of treatments. I told the owner I from his colic episode. Surgery was late one evening. Franziskaner is a seemed normal all night long but Unfortunately this story was not thought it would be best to take not needed. middle aged event horse. (Eventing was now in pain again. I drove the first time I had heard of pets the horse to the Marion duPont It has been a while since I was at is an Equestrian sport which the back to the farm. As I pulled into being mistaken for game. Recently Scott Equine Medical Center in the farm taking care of Franz. I’m Editor of this paper and I are pas- the driveway, I was greeted by two I performed a necropsy on a fam- Leesburg. While I didn’t think that hopeful that the remaining guin- sionate about.) As he is getting old- guinea hens. I parked as the hus- ily alpaca that was found dead in he needed surgery, I wanted him ea fowl are still healthy and do- er, his owner has been doing fewer band started trying to shoo the the field. While the cause of death to receive IV fluids, as well as be ing well. This story does make competitions and more fox hunt- guineas away from my car. They was determined to be a gunshot somewhere where surgery could be me wonder if perhaps my horses ing with him. She has owned him were happily tapping their beaks wound, it was unclear if the an- performed immediately if needed. shouldn’t be the only pets clad in for years and laughed as she told on my bumper. I told him that I imal’s death was simply a trag- The owner agreed and immediate- blaze orange. Maybe I should get me that Franz has been in her life love guineas and not to worry that ic hunting accident or something ly hooked up her trailer. little orange vests for my guineas longer than her husband. The hus- they wouldn’t hurt anything. He malicious. In the case of the guin- Due to his extensive eventing too. band even commented that the not laughed and said “I’m glad some- eas, it was obviously a case of mis- and fox hunting career, Franz was a only had she and Franz been to- one knows what type of bird they taken identity. After all, no hunt- pro at trailering and calmly walked To read past articles by Dr. Brokow, gether longer, the horse was prob- are.” This seemed like a curious er would excitedly come up to the right on the trailer despite being in visit the Authors section of Emmits- ably loved more too. The cou- comment. land owner, offering to share some significant pain. I gave Franz some burg.net. 20 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 THE MASTER GARDENER Fall gardening: it’s not over yet! Phil Peters and Kay Hinkle but critical, walk through our prop- Adams County Master Gardeners erty, carefully observing the various plants and how they fared this sum- nce again we come to that mer. Most of the rain this summer Otime of year when we have to has come in quick bursts, if at all, say good-bye to the beauties of this that didn’t really soak the soil. Un- year’s garden and get ready to re-cre- less we watered regularly, our plants ate again next year. Fall cleanup is have been stressed by hot, dry days. best done in three stages: evaluate Keep an eye out for those plants that the year’s successes & failures, phys- performed best. Of course, the fall ically clean up the garden plots, and rains/flooding also had a tremen- plan for next year. Notice that two- dous effect on the plants, so stress thirds of our work is more cerebral has been a big factor on both ends than physical and results from close of the spectrum. observation of what we see in the It is particularly important to garden. Only one third of the work evaluate the various annuals that is physical - raking leaves, removing we use for extended seasonal color. dead plants, mulching, etc. Some probably performed beauti- The first step should be a relaxing, fully; others, less so, or, disappoint-

ingly. Making careful notes of the that show damage. Dispose of the garden over the winter. successes and failures will help us affected material separately. Do not If you see signs of insect pests, in Step Three where we will decide put it in with your compost or allow i.e., bagworms, remove them now. what to plant next year. Your gar- it to remain in the garden. For bagworms, don’t just pull the den notes may be mental ones or This leads us to Step Two: cleanup bag off the branch. Take a sharp written. I carry a clipboard around and maintenance. This is the phys- knife or razor blade and cut through with me, making quick maps of the ical part and the one that taxes our the silken strands that are wrapped plantings in a given garden and then muscle power. Take the advice of around the branch. Left on they will referencing it with notes on the per- the garden book writers and stretch strangle the branch as it grows. Tear formance of each plant, or just notes the muscles before indulging in un- open or remove fall webworm nests. about unusual situations. accustomed physical activity. And, Don’t kill the spiders; they are on This is also the time to take a don’t overdo it. When you get tired, your side. good close look at our perenni- rest. The work will still be there to- Fall cleanup is not only about re- als, trees and shrubs. How did they morrow. moving. It also involves planting. fare? Did they grow evenly? Are First, we need to remove all the Now is the time to plant bulbs, pe- they stressed? Look for signs of in- dead annuals and fallen flower rennials and shrubs so their roots sect damage or disease in the leaves heads, dead branches, garden debris have a chance to establish before and branches. Make sure there are and dead leaves. Prune plants that winter. no sunken areas (cankers) or bleed- need it in the fall. Clean up thor- Speaking of planting, let’s not ing scars and broken branches. Re- oughly, as dead material will only overlook your lawn. This is the time move any plants or parts of plants harbor disease and pests if left in the to dethatch it and fill in the spots where the grass didn’t make it. A good quality seed, bred for the wear it will get, is well worth the expense. After the ground freezes is the time to put down a new covering of mulch. It not only makes the garden look nicer, but it will help maintain an even moisture and temperature level in the soil. Two or three inch- es are all you need. Remember to make a donut around the crowns of perennials and trunks of shrubs and trees. If the mulch comes all the way up around the plant, moisture will accumulate around the bark and soften it. In addition, disease, in- sects and small mammals like mice & voles will be able to get into the trunk and harm the plant. With the physical part of our fall cleanup and planting behind us, we can move on to Step Three. Re- lying on the observations we have made as we walked around the property and cleaned up the gar- dens, we can now set up a strategy for next year’s garden. Write down what worked and what didn’t for each section of the garden. Make notes about what you want to im- prove. Look at each garden area and imagine what shapes, colors and textures you want in that area. Jot these ideas down on a rough garden sketch of the plot. Fall is not only the time of year for garden reflection, but also a time to enjoy the many colors of the season. Fall foliage tours are big business; hitting the right time for a visit is a bit of a challenge since Mother Na- OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 21 THE MASTER GARDENER ture doesn’t work on calendar days. ers” will see more red, and the color As daylight hours lessen and the will show earlier. All in all, the col- nights grow cold, a glorious show of or of fall foliage tends to be more The Small Town Gardener colors begins to unfold. This trans- brilliant as the result of dry summer formation occurs when conditions months. Things aren’t always as they seem are just right, and as conditions vary Red makes an interesting study from year to year, so does the peak because it varies from year to year. Marianne Willburn stone. I fell for it, hook line and sinker. My season for viewing fall foliage. Green and yellow pigments are al- husband secured a job, we bought our tickets, What is it that causes the leaves to ways present in leaves and don’t early ten years ago, my husband and I and we moved. turn colors? As we get into shorter change dramatically from year to Narrived on the shores of the Potomac The transition from England to Maryland days and longer nights, a number of year. Essentially, trees create red as having spent a good amount of time in that early spring day ten years ago was extremely hormonal changes take place in the the weather warrants. England. We rented a house, started a garden, smooth. Looking around at those green hills leaves. The connection between the In choosing trees to enhance made some friends, and when those friends and valleys, I hardly knew I’d left. There were leaf and stem changes, choking the your autumn landscape, consider would come over for dinner or a glass of wine a few obvious clues. We had a BBQ party, and movement of nutrients and mois- the magnificent fall color of ma- – the conversation would inevitably turn to the it wasn’t rained out. The waiters at restaurants ture to the leaves. The green col- ples that range from reds to yel- fact that I needed to close the French doors, or didn’t scoff loudly when we asked for water. or fades and exposes yellow under- lows: Silver maples show yellow in the front door or indeed the back door and stop As far as I could see, this was a total win-win neath. the fall, sugar maples show great letting the bugs in. situation. Not only could we enjoy filling our The rest of the hues in the pal- variability, and the maple cultivar It was a habit I was loathe to give up – the gas tank without taking out a small business ette of colors we see in fall foliage ‘Autumn Flame’ or ‘Red Sunset’ freedom of leaving a door open to the garden loan, but I could start planning my horticultural are encouraged by the production consistently tend to show a good and allowing an unfettered, unscreened breeze adventure in the back garden secure that water of sugars. These sugars are not in red color. Choose a member of the to pass through one’s house and out the other water was everywhere, and every plant could the leaf when it forms, but are birch family for yellow hues, flow- side. I refused to acknowledge the moths flitting drink. generated in the late summer into ering dogwoods for reds, and a around the chandelier, the mosquitoes making And then I began to garden. fall. Shades of brilliant orange and member of the oak family for rus- holes in my legs and the June bugs opening the At first, things went well. It was spring. The deep reds result. set to yellow-brown. refrigerator to find something to eat. I refused rain fell. The trees bloomed. My heart sang. Showers, hot days and dry spells Whether you are an avid “leaf to acknowledge it for the simple reason that I God was in his heaven and all was right with during the summer determine how peeper” or just one who enjoys was sure I had found all of the simple joys of the world. long a leaf will remain green. We watching the change of seasons, an- England right here in America, and I wanted Spring ended. saw many leaves dry up and turn other of Mother Nature’s miracles has to perpetuate the myth as long as possible. My It began to get hot. Too hot. Way too hot for brown long before autumn locally. just unfolded before your very eyes. friends began to make other arrangements for a respectable pseudo English garden complete Many of those that remained on the A few last tips to fall gardening: - dinner. with a respectable pseudo English gardener. Yet tree have turned to brilliant color, Cover your garden tools with a light Who could blame me? On the face of it, the the heat was the least of my worries as the new however. coating of oil. - Continue to plant Mid-Atlantic looks a great deal like England. girl in town. There was another player yet to You may have notice as the season bulbs as long as the ground isn’t fro- There are rolling hills, green valleys, the deal with – the humidity. progresses that the color red may be zen. - Mulch your perennial bed af- occasional stone church – there are hunt scenes A few drier days with elevated humidity prevalent in our woodland palette ter the ground is frozen. - Water the on bright weekend mornings and hedgerows levels and voilà – powdery mildew, spider mite, this year. That is probably the re- birds in winter. Use a durable plastic that offer wild berries to intrepid souls willing and Japanese beetles hit the front lines aiming sult of the stresses of drought in our flowerpot saucer to hold water. to collect them. Rain is abundant and therefore squarely for my sanity. It started to occur to me area. A research plant physiologist So enjoy the season by cleaning up, gardens are ubiquitous – there is even such thing that I’d been sold bill of goods. Where were the with the U.S. Department of Ag- planting, planning, resting and en- as a stately home or two rising up from well- temperate days that obviously accompanied riculture’s Forest Service has stud- joying the season of color. manicured acres, complete with well dressed the deep forest greens around me? I buried ied the impact of stresses like lack of octogenarian docents named Mrs. Finch- my head in the Royal Horticultural Society’s rain on red leaf pigment for sever- To read other gardening articles, vis- Hatton or something equally grand. In the Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers and al years. His studies indicate that in it the Gardening section of Emmits- winter, great swaths of deciduous foliage falls to pretended it wasn’t happening. drought-stricken years, “leaf peep- burg.net the ground and green becomes a faded memory, But it was happening, and pretty soon I started only to be resurrected in the glory of a beautiful, to shut the doors at dinner time and reluctantly rejuvenating spring. research plants that had the words “tolerant” It’s all a lie. and “reliable” in their job descriptions. I hid my Unsuspecting gardeners like myself, wishing bitterness and tried to focus on the gas prices to experience the glorious green of Old Blighty and those smiling waiters. while still paying American gas prices and Ten years later I believe that the very act chomping a decent cheeseburger, are lured into of successfully gardening in a climate where the Mid-Atlantic by clever young Chamber of extreme conditions make a pig’s breakfast of Commerce employees who deal in naughty full your best intentions marks one as a recipient color pictures of Monticello and eye-raising for commendations on the horticultural field of centerfolds of Longwood or Winterthur. Friends valor. Let’s face it, if you can garden here, you invite you out to “visit the East Coast” in May can garden anywhere. or September, and are strangely unavailable Don’t let anybody tell you differently – least when your vacation time of all the English. falls in January or August. As a West Coast native, I was particularly vulnerable to this marketing assault, having grown up with foxtails firmly embedded between my toes and a knowledge of seventeen ways to get water out of a 22 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 CIVIL WAR HISTORY Confederate Lt. Col. Daniel Beltzhoover John A. Miller plosion. The tube was cut short the sword and cracked it while the Emmitsburg Civil War Historian which gave its projectiles a unique same bullet forced his horse to fall whistle when fired, thus, the nick- to the ground. uring the siege of Vicksburg, name “Whistling Dick.” The gun On July 4th, 1863, the 1st Lou- DMississippi, Lt. Colonel Belt- was credited with the sinking of isiana Artillery surrendered and zhoover was attached to Colonel the Union gunboat Cincinnati. was paroled several months lat- Edward Higgins’ Water Batteries “Whistling Dick” disappeared af- er at Camp Enterprise, Mississip- that served as a portion of the Vicks- ter the surrender of Vicksburg and pi. On November 20, 1863, Ma- burg defenses. Lieutenant General remains unaccounted for today. jor General John H. Forney made John C. Pemberton wrote on Jan- The “Widow Blakely” was a his report of paroled and exchange uary 31, 1863, describing the lay- 7.44 inch Blakely rifle that was of troops at Enterprise, Mississip- out of the area where Lt. Colonel called the “Widow” as it was the pi. The Confederate troops in- Beltzhoover and the rest of Colo- only Blakely in the city’s defens- volved during the parole and ex- nel Higgins’ Brigade were stationed. es. On May 22, 1863, The “Wid- change for the Department of The upper batteries, or those imme- ow Blakely” exploded as a shell Mississippi and East Louisiana diately on the city front, were under in the tube burst while it was fir- under General Joseph E. Johnston the command of Major F. N. Og- ing at a Union gunboat. The ex- listed Beltzhoover in command of den, Eighth Louisiana Artillery Bat- plosion took a portion of the end the heavy artillery brigade. The talion, to whose command was at- of the muzzle off, leaving the re- brigade consisted of the following tached Captain S. C. Bain’s com- mainder of the tube intact. The units: 1st Louisiana commanded pany of Vaiden Light Artillery. The ragged ends were then cut and by Lieutenant Colonel D. Belt- low batteries were under the com- the rifle was used as a mortar dur- zhoover, 8th Louisiana Battal- moved from them without our isiana. After serving in Missis- mand Lt. Colonel Daniel Belt- ing the rest of the siege. After the ion commanded by Captain Toby knowledge. Colonel Higgins and sippi, Watson’s Artillery became zhoover of the First Louisiana Artil- trimming of the muzzle the over- Hart, 22nd Louisiana command- all his staff are absent, and I get part of the garrison at Port Hud- lery with a portion of the Twenty- all length of the gun was about ed by Lieutenant Colonel Samu- no better information than given son, Louisiana and surrendered on Third Louisiana Volunteers. 100 inches. Originally, the tube el Jones, Vaiden Mississippi Artil- above.” July 9, 1863. The soldiers of Wat- Beltzhoover’s command served would have been about 124 inch- lery commanded by Captain Sam- Lt. Colonel Beltzhoover also as- son’s Artillery were paroled and on 26 cannon, mostly heavy guns, es long. uel C. Bains, Watson Louisiana sessed the losses of heavy artillery exchanged, but many of its mem- in the “Lower Batteries,” of Vicks- During the siege of Vicksburg, Battery which was unassigned, from his brigade during the sur- bers joined the 1st Louisiana Reg- burg. His command included the a bullet had struck a sword that 1st Mississippi commanded by render of Vicksburg. The loss- ular Artillery Regiment under the famed “Whistling Dick” and the was given to Beltzhoover by a Colonel John M. Simonton, and es were: eight 10-inch Columbi- command of Lt. Colonel Belt- “Widow Blakely.” The “Whis- wounded member of his artillery the 1st Mississippi Light Artillery ads, one 9-inch navies, one 8-inch zhoover. Watson’s Artillery had tling Dick” was a model 1839 command. This sword had been commanded by Captain James J. Columbiad, one 10-inch mortar, ceased to exist. smoothbore cannon that fired an used during the battle of Waterloo Cowan. three 42-pounders, five 32-pound After being paroled, Lt. Colonel 18 pound projectile and was lat- against the French. When Belt- At Demopolis, Alabama on Au- rifles, five 32-pound smooth- Beltzhoover took over his former er rifled. The muzzle of which zhoover was riding his horse, giv- gust 29, 1863, Lt. Colonel Belt- bores, two Brooks’, one Blakely, brigade and reorganized it. Belt- was damaged by a premature ex- ing commands, the bullet struck zhoover reported “I cannot give and two 6-pound field guns. In zhoover’s Brigade included the 27th any idea of the ordnance stores all, twenty-nine guns were lost. Louisiana, 1st Louisiana Heavy Ar- lost, because I have none of the re- During the events leading up tillery, 8th Louisiana Heavy Artil- ports of returns. During the siege to the siege of Vicksburg, where lery Battalion, 1st Tennessee Heavy the commanders of garrisons had Beltzhoover was stationed, Wat- Artillery, Anderson’s Artillery, Bains’ nothing to do with the ordnance son’s Artillery, Beltzhoover’s old Artillery company, Wade’s Missouri stores further than to see that they command was assigned to Moax- Battery, and one company of Sap- were taken care of. Ammunition ey’s and Beall’s Brigade, Depart- per’s and Miner’s. was sent to the batteries and re- ment of Mississippi and East Lou- On January 1st, 1864, Belt- zhoover’s command consisted of the 1st Louisiana Artillery, 8th Louisiana Battalion, 22nd Loui- siana, 14th Mississippi Artillery Battalion, J. S. Smyth’s cavalry battalion, Trans-Mississippi Bat- talion, Vaiden (Mississippi) Ar- tillery, 1st Mississippi Light Ar- tillery, and a Signal Corps De- tachment.

Part 2 next month OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 23 VETERAN’S PROFILE Sergeant Major Bernard J. Hobbs was born in 1957 in Gettys- mained a member of the Maryland and be away from your family, Iburg Pa and I was raised in and Army National Guard for the next which it is, but it is even harder to around the Fairfield and Emmits- 20 plus years. I had achieved the return. Time goes by and each per- burg areas. As a young man, I spent rank of First Sergeant. In summer son changes and adapts to the role time at my Aunt Helen and Uncle of 2001, after 25years of service, that they must perform. Deploy- Mark Sanders farm in Taneytown I felt I had had enough. I decided ments not only change you but Md. On 7 May 1976, I Joined the to put in my retirement papers. As cause you to miss important events Army Reserves in Gettysburg PA. you might not know when you re- like my wife graduating from col- I departed for basic training at Ft tire from the reserve you can not lege and the births of my grand- Sill, OK in June 1976 were I spent draw any money or benefits until children. Missing Christmas, holi- 8 weeks doing basic combat train- the age of 60. days and time away from your fam- ing and then 10 weeks of advance Then Sept 11 happened. My re- ily make you realize what is truly infantry training as a field radio re- tirement papers had not been pro- important. pairman. I completed this train- cessed, so I felt that I needed to In January 2006 I was de- ing in October 1976. After return- withdraw them. In 2002, my unit ployed to Guantanamo Bay Cuba ing home, I performed my one deployed in support of Noble Ea- (GTMO) where I served as the op- weekend a month drills and two gle and was assigned to Ft. Belvoir erations SGM of the Joint Forces weeks of annual training. In 1978, VA in support of homeland securi- Headquarters over the detention I transferred to the Maryland ty. At the end of 2002, I was pro- facility for 15 months. After re- Army National Guard in Freder- moted to the highest enlisted grade turning in 2007, I tried civilian life ick MD. I spent the next 5 1/2/ in the Army - Sergeants Major. As a again for a year. I felt lost. I made years from1980 to 1985 on ac- lowly country boy with only a high a decision and after talking it over tive duty with the National Guard school education, I never thought with my wife I did something that where I was stationed at High- that I would achieve an honor with everyone has told me I was crazy for field Armory with the 558th Sig- such prestige. After returning home doing. I did something that I was nal Detachment. In 1985, the 29th in 2003 and going back to work- told never to do when I first joined of September. I was able to come redirected my path in life. I can Division was reactivated replac- ing construction, I felt lost and out the military some 30 plus years be- home for my father’s funeral so I honestly say the time I’ve spent as a ing the 558th Signal Detachment. of place. The 14 months on active fore. I volunteered to go to Afghan- was able to see my granddaughter. member of the United States Army The 29th Division has a lot of his- duty gave me a taste of what I feel istan. I left in April 2008 and was I returned to Afghanistan. In No- National Guard will stay with me tory with the invasion of Norman- is my true calling. Returning to ci- assigned with the Army Corp of vember I suffered a heart attack. and define me till the day I die. It dy on D-Day during WWII. I left vilian life was hard. In the army I Engineers overseeing construction With the grace of God, I have ful- changed me from a young man an- active duty and returned to doing was and am respected and looked projects and teaching Afghan con- ly recovered. gry about my childhood and not my weekend drills and two weeks to for guidance. I am the old man tractors. In September of that year I am currently a member of the having the material things, to an in the summer. During this time I of the unit. It was a hard time for my daughter gave birth to a prema- West Virginia National Guard. My old soldier thankful to God and did construction work eventually me, my wife and my family. Every- ture baby weighing only 2lb 3oz. full time job is an active duty posi- grateful for the things my family becoming a project manager. I re- one thinks that it is hard to leave My father passed away at the end tion with the National Guard Bu- and the Lord has given me spiritu- reau in Washington, DC. My cur- ally and mentally. I now know God rent position involves overseeing has a plan for me. individual and unit awards for all I have been married to my 54 states and territories. It is some- wife, Dawn, for 32 years living in thing I enjoy. After serving at pres- Rocky Ridge, MD. We have 4 chil- ent time for 35 years I am looking dren, 7 grandchildren and anoth- forward to retiring in two years. er on the way. My son, SPC Mi- This time for good! This will make chael J. Hobbs just returned from my wife and family very happy as a one year tour in Afghanistan and you can imagine. is stationed at Ft. Eustis, VA. I am As member of the National on the board of directors and a life Guard I happily embrace the re- member of VFW Post 6658 and a sponsibility of promoting service member of American Legion Post to one’s country. The camaraderie 121 in Emmitsburg Md. I am a and fellowship I have shared in the member and deacon of Monocacy military helped define me and pro- Church of the Brethren in Rocky foundly changed my character and Ridge, MD. 24 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 HISTORY Memories of the old Emmitsburg recess break or lunch period; and do not leave your seat until you High School have permission. Like many classes before us, and Mary Catherine Shields school on one of the many bus- without too many mental impair- es or walked the streets and alleys ments, we made it to Mrs. Helen elcome to the world of the through Emmitsburg to our dai- Walters’ fourth grade. Mrs. Walters WEmmitsburg High School ly destination in the rain, snow, was the motherly type and a very ca- on South Seton Avenue which was sleet, wind and boiling hot sun. pable teacher who made learning an built in 1922 and is now known There were no parents driving the entertaining experience. We moved as the Emmitsburg Communi- children to school. The children on to Ms. Helen Martin’s fifth grade ty Center. The three-story build- who lived on Waynesboro Road (a familiar face to us since Ms. Mar- ing once housed first through 11th had no bus service and therefore tin graduated the year we started grades. The basement consisted of walked the greatest distance to school and some of us rode the bus the cafeteria, where dishes were school. with her in 1942). The boys were washed by hand and upper grade Bus service in that area began very well-behaved in her class since students helped serve meals and in the late 1940’s or 1950. We she was the prettiest and youngest did clean up each day in exchange heard bells ringing during the day teacher to-date in their school years way, which became quite a gallery number of students enrolled in for a free lunch; a music room; the which told the high school stu- and they did not want to make a dating from 1922. the late l940s. furnace room, which had a coal dents when to change class. The bad impression. Then came sixth grade with At recess time in the spring, bin, steam-producing furnace and only bell we listened for was the One of our favorite past times Mrs. Mary Smith Scott, another Mrs. Scott would give us paper the janitor’s quarters occupied by little hand bell that rang to end when the weather was bad and graduate of EHS. Mrs. Scott was grocery bags (in those days, you ‘Pappy’ Kugler, who cleaned the recess period. We learned about we could not go outside for recess a talented teacher who played the got paper bags at the store, no whole school by himself; the In- fire drills, which required us to was to walk the main hallway and piano, sang and knew when to be plastic) and we would go out on dustrial Arts room, which was a leave our room and move quick- try to identify all the past gradu- serious and when to be jovial. She the lawn and pick dandelion blos- shop where only the men could ly outside. There were also lessons ates that we knew or were our rel- had a full classroom that year since soms. The blossoms were used to learn about woodworking, etc.; on what to do during an air raid, atives. It was a custom of EHS she had the full sixth grade and make wine. (There were no chem- and a room that served as the biol- in which we had to crawl under to hang the class picture of each part of another class; the classes icals used on the lawns during ogy/lab and physics area. desks or tables and wait for an all- graduating class in the main hall- had to be divided due to the large those days.) A real treat for our There was one bathroom for the clear signal to return to normal class in both the first and sixth boys and one for the girls and two duties of the day (remember this grades was that the classroom win- storage areas. On the first floor, was during World War II). dows faced South Seton Avenue, where the main entrances were We survived the first year of looking out to the railroad station located, a library was to the left tears, skinned knees and play- and Lester Fox’s gas station. Mr. of the front door and the prin- ground scuffles to move on to Ms. Guy Baker, Sr. was freight master. cipal’s office and storage area for Sarah Edwards’ second grade (Ms. As we grew older, approaching the teachers’ supplies were to the Edwards was Dr. Cadle’s sister-in- our teen years, we moved to seventh right. There were classrooms for law). By second grade, we could grade with Mrs. Mary Higbee Hoke first, second, third, fourth and count and became aware that we as our homeroom teacher. Mrs. sixth grades with stairwells at ei- boarded the buses at 3:30 pm by Hoke was a graduate of EHS and ther end. On the second floor (the the number of bell rings for each married Harold Hoke, also a grad- top) was the fifth grade, the alge- bus (each bus lined the driveway uate of EHS and owner of the local bra/math, Latin/English, and His- in front of the school and was as- hardware store on Main Street. tory classrooms plus the gym/ au- signed a number). This was the first year that we ditorium and the Home Econom- Next, we encountered the do- changed classrooms for various ics room with two storage rooms main of Ms. Edna Stull’s third subjects, which meant those ring- (one Storage room served as a Sick grade (by the way her room was ing bells become a major item in Room sometimes). the closest room to the Principal’s our daily lives and not just a sig- My class (1954) embarked on office). Ms. Stull laid down the nal to board the bus for home. our educational journey in 1942 law the first day you entered her Mrs. Hoke taught Algebra and with Ms. Sarah White Kerr as our room: no talking unless she called was the girls’ coach for sports. first teacher and protector from on you; no chewing gum or cough Seventh grade was our first year all those BIG kids. We arrived at drops; go to the bathroom during for Latin with Mrs. Hazel Kellogg Caldwell; Industrial Arts [Shop] for the boys; Home Economics for the girls; tryouts for all school plays and sports teams; Glee Club; Safety Patrol; Future Farmers of America (FFA); Future Teachers of America (FTA); Student Coun- cil; Senior Orchestra; a position with the high school paper staff (EHS Times), among other activi- ties in our school career. Also, this year, we learned what it was to hustle from the base- ment floor to the top floor in five minutes for class and then, in fif- ty minutes, go down three flights of stairs to the basement for the next class. We never did figure how many trips we made on those stairs. Many changes came with seventh grade: changing classes in five minutes, no recess, bathroom stops were premium since there was only one bathroom for each gender located on the basement floor….wow! By this time it is 1949 for our class; the year the high school realm faced a big change. The school OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 25 HISTORY

The building was finished for the 1952 graduating class and for our moving up to fill the ju- nior year seats. Mr. Carlos Englar, the boys coach and biology/phys- ics teacher was our homeroom ad- visor. The subjects became more difficult, but we managed to bal- ance our studies, extracurricular activities and after-school jobs. This was a super special year for us because we got our class rings. Our class rings were a set design used for many years – yellow gold with black onyx and an insignia representing the wings of knowl- edge. There was no choice avail- able but the standard as shown by the Balfour Company. The basic ring was about $15.00. You could add your initials or name inside the ring for an additional charge - some of our rings cost $18.00 plus change depending on the length of your name. Some of our class received their rings as Christmas gifts that year. Speaking of Christmas, it was a custom of the high school to grades were first through 11, but the their woodworking projects and place a large tree in the main hall- Board of Education and the State of the FFA had their project display way facing the front entrance. It Maryland decided another grade as well. The school orchestra and was the responsibility of the ju- should be added to make the school Glee Club performed. Our par- niors and seniors to get the tree period first through 12 years to ents and families were the guests and decorate and care for the tree earn a diploma. Emmitsburg High of the day. Tea was usually served during the holiday season. Every School awarded three types of di- to the mothers. morning a different class would plomas – academic, agricultural and We survived freshman year and gather around the tree and sing general (not much variety at that during the moving- up assembly one or two carols, which was the time). Needless to say, there was no in June we moved to sophomore beginning of the day’s activities. graduating class in 1949. That class seats and pushed forward to the The tree had to be dismantled completed another year of study second year of high school. Our the day before holiday vacation. and graduated in 1950. homeroom was now in the cafe- When we returned to school after We moved on to eighth grade and teria with Mr. William Baker (Ag- holiday vacation, there was one Mrs. Alma S. Jones was our home- riculture teacher) as our guiding big event on our minds: the Ju- room teacher who taught us Amer- light in 1951. Rumors were flying nior-Senior Prom. ican History. Mrs. Alma Jones was about that an addition was in the Proms were held in the gym our homeroom teacher and taught process for our school. and expenses were shared by the us American History. We had many The addition would consist of two classes. So much planning more activities to participate in, an auditorium-gymnasium, one was involved – get an orchestra such as basketball, soccer, baseball, classroom, a kitchen and cafete- (yes, we had live music - no re- volleyball, track and field events; all- ria, showers and dressing rooms cords or DJ), select a theme for county chorus; sock-hops; Hallow- for each gender, and storage rooms the affair, get chaperones, re- een, Christmas, and Spring danc- for the sum of $185.740. The con- freshments, have programs print- es; maybe even an invitation to tractor was Allen Feeser of Taney- ed, decorate, and most important the school prom by an upper class town, MD. This addition was add- …get a gown, order a tux and re- Floor layout of the Emmitsburg Highschool member. ed to the south end of the existing member the flowers (what color, The first of May was a very spe- building. As we look back over the wristlet or pin-on type). The big Finally June 1953 arrived and 1954 came around, the en- cial day of activities for the entire years, there was an oversight during night arrived - there were no li- the class of 1954 moved to the trance march began (Pomp and school to participate in. There was the construction - the original 1922 mos. Everyone double-dated so senior Seats. Mr. Eugene Woods, Circumstance) and seven girls the crowning of the May Queen cornerstone of the high school was you had a ride (sometimes it was shop teacher, was our home- in white gowns and six boys in and her court (all senior girls) not removed and was covered by the a pick-up truck with four occu- room teacher. This year we saw blue gowns entered the gym, usually escorted by the FFA boys; new construction. We lost some his- pants), but a great time was had several students get full-time went on stage and persevered the May Pole with all elemen- tory by that action. Of course, we by all. After the prom, everyone jobs and quit school and move through the speeches of the edu- tary classes dancing around the went about our studies and activi- loaded in the available vehicles to the outside world. There were cational gurus. They finally got pole. Then the Home Economics’ ties throughout the year but made and headed to Rouzerville to the only twelve students remaining their hands on that most impor- girls put on a fashion show wear- daily checks on the progress of the Big Dipper or maybe the Varsity from the starting class of 1942, tant document, the diploma. ing their creations sewn over the new addition, plus we were fighting (the two best known teen hang- but fortune smiled on us with And now, each year we look for- year. The shop boys displayed of the dust and noise. outs in the area). Wilhelm May, a German ex- ward to the annual alumni meeting change student joining our fam- to continue some of the best friend- ily, making us 13, a bakers’ doz- ships we have ever made. One of the en. We were busy studying, try- interesting facts about Emmitsburg ing to keep the grades high, ap- High School is the first graduation plying for scholarships and try- was held in the Chronicle Build- ing to decide where to go after ing on South Seton Avenue with graduation. one graduate and the last graduat- Our activities were much like ing class from the l922/1952 build- our junior year – sports, extra- ing was 38 graduates. curricular activities, such as Glee Club, orchestra, FTA, FFA, pa- Have your own memories of going trol, duties of publishing the se- to school at Emmitsburg High? If so, nior edition of the E-HI Times. send them to us at history@emmits- Some of the class members mas- burg.net tered the Maryland drivers test and were trying to get their par- To read other history related articles, ents to ease their hold on the visit the Historical Society section of family car keys. Finally, June Emmitsburg.net. 26 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 COLD WAR WARRIORS 1980s - Exodus of Soviet Jews from the USSR Commander John Murphy, Jewish – American, social service USN Ret. agencies. Particularly in larger cit- ies such as New York, Detroit and eonid Brezhnev was the sec- Philadelphia. Lond longest- serving leader of The ‘word on the street’ in Wash- the Soviet Union – after Josef Sta- ington - was that CIA’s Domestic lin. Brezhnev ruled supreme from Collection Division was looking 1964 to 1982. During his reign the for Russian linguists to assist in in- Soviets spent 20% of the USSR’s terviewing this flood of Soviet Jew- Gross National Product (GNP) on ish emigres. I submitted an appli- their Cold War machine. During cation and by 1981 was working the same period – the U.S. was de- as a “Contract Russian Language voting about 5% GNP. The U.S. Officer” in such cities as Detroit, was literally pricing the Soviets out Boston, Cleveland and Philadel- of the Cold War arms race – es- phia. I was doing this work on a pecially with its new and grandi- part time basis – on weekends, at ose Star Wars program – the SDI night and on vacation days since (Strategic Defense Initiative). I had a full time job as Director of After the Six Day War in Isra- the Booz•Allen & Hamilton Inc. el in 1967, Soviet Jews inundat- Russian Studies Center. The Rus- ed their government with requests sian Studies Center was giving me to emigrate to Israel. The majority a deeper understanding of the So- of these requests were refused and viet economy and internal politics. “Refuseniks” led by Natan Sharanskiy (front row in center) in Moscow in the mid 1970s. these would-be emigres became The émigré interviewing was giv- ican KGB. And yet, most admitted ganizational terms. If you showed They were considered classified. known worldwide as the “refuse- ing me a crash course in the mod- that they expected to be contact- familiarity with them … then you This made it harder for us to de- niks”. ern Russian language as it was be- ed sooner or later. Kind of a right had credibility. I also found it re- fect!” To build a map or graphic of By the late ‘60s there was a trick- ing spoken in the Soviet Union. of passage in becoming an Amer- assuring when a contact said “You their work place you began by ask- le of requests being approved. The ican. Something they had to go speak without accent” or, “Your ing “Where is North?” And went spigot was opened a bit wider in Interview of Soviet through. It made my day when I grammar is good” or even better - from there. the early 70s. By the mid 70s the Jews (1981- 1989) could line up three or more inter- “Do you have Russian ancestors?” Soviets were hurting for cash and I conducted about 150 inter- views in a single city – on a given “Jews are second class citizens” sought “most favored nation sta- views with Soviet Jewish immi- day or weekend. “I’m not really Jewish” During many of my interviews, tus” from the U.S. The U.S. Con- grants during the 1980s. Most in- I preferred to work alone during It was not uncommon for a con- I sensed that, as Jews, they were gress tied relaxed emigration pol- terviews lasted from one to three my interviews, but on occasion tact to say “I am not really Jewish. considered second class citizens. icies to its Trade Reform Act of hours and were usually conducted was required to take a CIA Field I became Jewish to emigrate,” or, They may have been world class 1975 (the Jackson Amendment). at the person’s residence. The CIA Officer with me. Most interviews “I am not Jewish, but my wife is.” scientists, but they had their place The Soviets relented and relaxed would give me a list of new arriv- were conducted in private – with They were admitting that, in the in society. I felt the pain when a their emigration policies and got als that they thought might be of no relatives – particularly children 1980s, being Jewish was a quick contact with a doctorate in aero- their most favored nation sta- interest. For me, the most diffi- present. This was done to avoid way to get out of the USSR. Or space engineering or nuclear phys- tus. By the late 70s and through- cult part of this work was a long distractions and to try and get the others explained that they had ics admitted that he was not al- out the ‘80s the flood gates were distance, phone call that I had to contact focused and relaxed. On Jewish ancestors, but the Soviets lowed to work with colleagues at open – particularly for Soviet Jews. make “in the blind” to the person occasion I would interview a hus- denied them the right to practice more prestigious universities or in- They emigrated by the thousands … usually at night on their home band and wife together because their religion – especially by at- stitutes – simply because he was to Israel and the West (France, phone. These calls were difficult in both were of interest to the gov- tending services in a synagogue. If Jewish. Germany and the U.S.). I cannot the sense that part of my job was ernment. On rare occasions a fol- they did try to attend services dur- find accurate statistics on the ac- to get the person to relax and trust low up interview would be sched- ing High Holy Days such as Pass- “We pretend to work and they tual numbers involved, but believe me – as much as you could over uled at the person’s home or in the over – the KGB would be sure to pretend to pay us” they were somewhere between 50 the phone. Some were obviously Washington D.C. area. document such “nationalistic” ten- This was standard catchphrase to 100,000 per year by the mid to nervous or scared. I had to admit, Every interview required many dencies. that was heard around Soviet fac- late ’80s. They were overwhelm- up front, that I worked for CIA. hours of language preparation. tories. It sounded amusing, but I ing both the U.S. government and To them I suppose I was the Amer- The Soviet Russian language was “We don’t have maps” was to learn that it was not an idea a complex world of specialized vo- When you found that a contact that was easily discarded when a cabularies. My interviews required had worked in a key city or organi- Soviet Jew emigrated to the west. that I become expert in techni- zation “of high interest”– you tried There seemed to be a “screw the cal terminology and Soviet gov- to get a detailed appreciation for system” or “screw the boss” atti- ernment acronyms. You could see the place’s physical layout. A typi- tude in the very fiber of Soviet cit- a contact watch you when they cal response would be “We weren’t izens. It was about disrespect for threw out complex technical or or- allowed to have maps you know. authority. OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 27 COLD WAR WARRIORS

“We have no real motivation to et engineers and managers back to tial problem for would-be emigres. Stalin’s niece in Cleveland - I stashed her there as a comfortable work harder …” Rochester for training on a regular When Soviet immigration officials interviewed a middle aged wom- place for the “fringe elite” of Sovi- An issue which was becoming basis. When they returned to the asked “Did you work on classi- an in Cleveland who at first had et society – away from the med- well known in the West in the ear- USSR … things would improve for fied projects?” You had better re- refused to be interviewed. On dling eyes and ears of Western ob- ly ‘80s had to do with “Motiva- a while and then it was back to the ply “Me, of course not! I was a low my 3rd phone call she finally said servers. tion in a State Planned Society”. same shoddy, old ways. level technocrat. A nobody.” The “Oh, all right … come on by. I As I look back on the 1980s and That is “You can take Ivan Iva- stamp went down “APPROVED might as well get it out of the way. the massive Soviet Jewish emigra- novich to the factory, but how do “American Jews support you – FOR EMIGRATION”! You obviously are not going to tion of this period … I realize two you get him do REAL work? Es- the Israelis don’t trust you” First case in Detroit. My first give up.” Her preliminary screen- things: that it was an important pecially high quality work?” This According to many of my con- real interview with a Soviet sci- ing in Europe indicated little of first, up close look at Soviet sci- was a fundamental dilemma in a tacts in the ‘80s - the word was entist in the early ‘80s was in interest. No technical background ence and industry and it was ex- large, bureaucratic world of goals floating through Soviet Jew- a sprawling, suburban Detroit or work experience. However, she cellent preparation for what was and deadlines. The Soviets had ish society that American Jews apartment complex. I knew that had lived in the “closed city” of about to come in the 1990s - the “Five Year plans” for everything. made you feel at home. They re- “Vladimir” had a doctorate in ra- Akademgorodok. A well known collapse of the Soviet Union and They faked achieving their un- ally helped you settle into Amer- dio engineering and had worked at “research and development” city the “opening up” of the closed realistic goals each year and their ican society. The Israelis wanted a top research institute near Mos- that had been set up especially for world of Soviet military science bosses were given great praise you, but once you got there … cow. I arrived at Vladimir’s apart- research on classified defense and and research to the West. A post for their achievements. Then the you were treated as a second class ment right on schedule – in the military issues. A “closed city” for Cold War bonus similar to that of next year’s goals would be set even citizen. Unless you converted to company of a CIA Field Officer elite Soviet scientists housing over the flood of Nazi scientists (e.g. higher. The entire system was the Orthodox Jewish faith. Then who wanted to observe. All was 40 research institutes along the Werner von Braun and the Peen- about “faking it”. you might be accepted. True or going well until I asked Vladimir Ob river. emunde rocket designers) after Their economy was in a rut and not – this is what future emigres for the full, formal name of his in- Akademgorodok was a resort by WWII. they did not know how to get out were hearing from relatives and stitute. He opened his mouth and Soviet standards. Also, Westerners The ‘80s gave us some access to of it. My father worked his entire friends who had successfully made I heard “vsesoyuzniy issledovatels- were not welcome. I had just be- minor functionaries and techno- life at the Gleason Works in Roch- it to Israel. Also, by the late 80s – kiy institut radioelektroniki imeni gun my interview on a miserable crats. The ‘90s would give us ac- ester, N.Y. A part of the very high the Israeli had been known to re- akademika Mikhaila aleksandrov- snowy, Cleveland evening - and cess to the upper levels of Sovi- tech, WWII machine-tool indus- cruit entire project teams of Sovi- ich Broncha Bruevicha – NII 9”. had gone through the obligatory et management and science. The try. They produced the machines et scientists if they brought some I was stunned. My CIA com- questions as to her life and expe- people with no names or addresses that cut bevel and hypoid gears valuable military technology with panion could see I was in over my riences when she volunteered “I - who would suddenly be reaching – large and small. A critical de- them. Given a choice – the word head and chuckled. I said “Could am Stalin’s niece.” I was shocked. out to their western counterparts fense industry in the 1940s. Glea- in Minsk, Pinsk or Chelyabinsk you repeat that please?” Vladimir Nowhere had this appeared in any for support and partnerships. A sons made huge gears that drove was to immigrate to the USA – if laughed and repeated his reply …. of the background I had been giv- time of tremendous opportuni- battleships such as the USS Mis- you possibly could. In very small pieces over the next en. She went on to say “Of course, ty for the West. And a chance to souri or tiny gears that were criti- 30 minutes. I had just been intro- this is not something I talk about help Russia in its transition from cal to the Norden bomb site being New York City rally in support duced to the wonderful world of anymore. It is a bother. I am not Communism to a more democrat- used in B-17 bombers. The Soviets of Soviet Jewish emigration - Soviet government acronyms. By proud of it.” That was about as ic state – hopefully. asked the Gleason Works to estab- 1967 the time the interview was over I good as it got. She had no real tie lish factories in the Soviet Union at “I didn’t have a ‘clearance’, but knew that Vladimir had worked to any of the more interesting So- To read past editions of Cold War the time of the NEP ( New Eco- it didn’t matter” at the “All Union Research Insti- viet institutes in Akademgorodok. Warriors, visit the Historical Society nomic Policy in the 1920s ). They Some of my contacts were sci- tute for Radio Electronics in the The Soviet system had simply section of Emmitsburg.net. agreed and have been there ever entists with advanced degrees. name of Professor Mikhail Alek- since … throughout WWII and Their “nationality” (i.e. Jewish) sandrovich Bronch Bruevich – the Cold War. But from the begin- meant they could not be given NII-9”. I would later learn that ning … Gleason engineers were re- access to top level, classified pro- the name of almost every major porting a problem – which was crit- grams. These programs required Soviet research Institute began ical in their business – quality con- a “1st Clearance” – or the Soviet with “vsesoyuzniy issledovatels- trol. That is, making sure that their equivalent of Top Secret. That did kiy institut” (All Union Scientif- gears were perfect. No faults or im- not stop program managers who ic Research Institute…) of some- perfections of any kind. The prob- needed their knowledge and ex- thing or other. Fortunately, Vlad- lem was – the Soviet assembly lines pertise from finding a way to use imir was a nice guy and he sensed were incapable of meeting such them.” They simply brought me my misery. Also, he really wanted high quality standards. Why? Be- in ‘blindfolded’ or brought the me to know that he was adjusting cause the workers just didn’t care. problem out to me in my regular, well to his new life in America and There was nothing in it for them. unclassified work area. But, such that he had a girl friend and life Gleasons would bring senior Sovi- “sensitive” work was also a poten- was looking most promising.

Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk - Elite “closed” Soviet Research city 28 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 STAGES OF LIFE Mom’s time out Isn’t technology wonderful? Well isn’t it? counting calories. The smartphones their wonderful computer brains. So are just that - smart. This is not to imagine a mom with four kids at a Mary Angle mention netbooks, I-pads, all-in-one park and unable to drive home be- printers, wireless internet, DVR’s, cause her vans computer brain has onderful technology, well isn’t and on-line banking. What an amaz- decided to go in strike. Automobiles Wit? When I want to remind ing change in technology from just aren’t the only technologically “ad- my husband to pick up milk on his 10 years ago. But is technology all it vanced” big ticket items we have in way home, or not to forget he prom- is cracked up to be? our possession now a days. Even our ised to stop by his moms on his way Lets see, there happens to be appliance have a larger brain than home, then I just text him and all something weird with my internet some of the guys I knew in college is taken care of. What a technologi- that I can only hook up to the wire- and they work about as often. cal dream, whether he is available or less modem if my computer sits in All of these super computers that not, I have reminded him. I can re- one specific spot on the kitchen is- are placed into our vehicles and our move so many things from my imag- land. I have a friend whose satellite appliances are there to make our vision work?” my youngest son asked Please do not misunderstand, I inary plate by texting and from the goes out with every storm no mat- lives easier. Which in fact they do, bewildered. “Don’t worry we can just love my smartphone (when I can plates of my friends. While having ter how small. As a matter of fact I when they are working properly. go downstairs and play video games”, figure out how to use it and it is lunch with a friend the other day she missed submitting my August arti- But they also make it easier for us his sister helpfully chimed in after I working properly), and I love my asked me to please text her to remind cle because I couldn’t get my email to be just a bit lazier and when they point out the power outage. internet (when my email con- her to text someone else a question to work at all. And lets not forget stop working, even for a short peri- At this point an all out political taining my attached article goes that has been looming over her head, that every time the “keepers” of the od of time, nine times out of ten we style debate broke loose as my old- through to my editor properly), and the third friend at the table asked technology decide to make a change have forgotten that we used to do est started to explain the circum- but when they aren’t working I that while I had my phone out could they up the cost of said technology. things the old fashioned way. With stances and the youngest three be- am more frustrated than if I didn’t I please text her to remind her to ask And of course the more technical the a little thought and some hard came annoyed, flabbergasted, and have this wonderful technology at her husband a question she has been technology the more costly it is to fix work. This is a lot like an episode confused (not necessarily in that all. I think maybe, just like every- forgetting for days. What a wonder- when it breaks and the easier it is to of The Cosby Show we watched re- order). I jumped in with candles thing else it is all about moderation ful gift of technology. break. cently, where Cliff couldn’t find the and flashlights, since it was start- and making good choices. Always Then their is the smart phone... But I do not mean to be point- remote and when it was suggested ing to get dark, old fashioned board remember there was a way to get wow a phone that is smart, who ing a finger at our phones and home he get up and walk over to the tele- games, and cards. When it was final- things done before the “wonderful would have thought. You can surf the computers, I would be remiss if I left vision to turn it on he simply re- ly time for bed no one could go to technology” that we rely so heavily web, download learning games for out the fact that most of the automo- plied, “then I will have to get back sleep since it was so dark and quiet. on. So write a letter this month in the kids, shop for apps from a “mar- biles today are computerized and it up every time I want to change the I can’t believe I am saying this but, I stead of email, make a phone call ket” that will help you do anything can seem that they simply decide to channel”. This is the epitome of caved and turned on Pandora radio instead of text, and read a book from balancing your checkbook to stop running because of a glitch in what technology has encouraged in on , you guessed it, my smartphone. instead of video games or instant the human race. They were out in minutes!! streaming. “Work smarter not harder!” I can hear myself saying this to my chil- dren when I am explaining how to create an assembly line to get a chore A different kind of wine done. This is great advice in this in- stance but sometimes it is the hard Merlot is one of the most popular wine varietals in the work we need to do. And technology world. This early ripening grape can be traced to the 1st has a tendency to find a way around Century, but the Merlot as the Bordeaux varietal that we the hard work. Some times I feel like know did not appear until the 1800s. The name, Merlot, is my family relies so much on tech- thought to be derived from an old French word for a black nology that when they don’t have it colored bird. Either for the fact that the bird was a dark they are lost. We have lost power at color, like the grape, or that the bird loved to eat the berry! our house quite a bit recently, with Merlot can produce a medium bodied wine that usually all of the storms, and it has left my has undertones of cherries, plums and currents. Its plump kids and husband bored and without and large berries provide a sweet juice that can make a dark, purpose. “Mom why won’t the tele- low tannin wine, that is moderate to high in alcohol. It can make a lovely varietal or be used for blending, especially to soften Cabernet Sauvignon which tends to be higher in tannin. Merlot makes a perfect companion to many foods. Steak, rack of lamb, hamburgers are a few foods that make a great match. Merlot, thanks to its soft tannins and notes of berries, works well with dishes that are accompanied by rich sauces made of cranberries, cherries and plums. Cheeses also pair nice with Merlot, hard or a semi-soft. Hauser Estate’s 2009 Merlot exhibits nice cherry flavors and soft tannins to pair with your next dinner! Stop in and grab a bottle. OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 29 A TEEN’S VIEW

About three years ago, we were at the SPCA yet again. And What are your again, the tears were turned Lizzy Bizzy around, drove all the way back on, by my other younger sis- to the SPCA, went inside and ter, Olivia, this time. She saw a was graduating from St. Francis Xavi- dreams? adopted the cat. fat, white and grey striped cat er School. Our school goes from pre- My sister and I named it named Hollis. He was very sick, school to eighth grade and we have pre- Snuggles. As of today, Snuggles and was badly abused by a man school, kindergarten and eighth grade is seventeen years old, adores - it took a year before he would graduations. So it has been about eight Elizabeth, and is a happy cat. stay in the same room as Dad. years since I have had a graduation. Six years ago, my mother’s be- Other than that, he’s the sweet- The graduation ceremony is a church loved dog, Panda, had died. We est cat ever, puts up with being service, awards and then a reception. I went looking for a companion dressed up and carried around cantered in the church service and had for her and the family, and end- upside down, up and down the two solos. Then we had the reception ed up at a Petsmart. staircase. with really yummy cake. I am going Liz Ryan At the Petsmart, we met Jack- Hollis now stays in the same to miss all of the teachers and some of son, a friendly black cat who room with Dad, and has let Dad my classmates from St. Francis. I am o much has happened to me since was abandoned in an apart- pick him up occasionally. also going to miss our school because I wrote my last article! At my we are building a new school. I real- Kat Dart ment. The landlord had found Finally, about a week ago, two S school, St. Francis, we had try-outs for him, and brought Jackson to neighbor girls brought a kitten ly hope that our old school will not be our eighth grade Shakespeare play, Ro- torn down. t one point, everyone is the shelter. over to our house. They had found meo and Juliet. Our teacher wrote all I have also gotten a new goat. His guilty of turning away from My three sisters and I ended it outside, but they were not go- A the characters’ names on the board name is Winston and he is a pygora. someone that needs their help, up turning teary eyes to Mom ing to be able to have a cat in their and we had to choose three characters This is a breed that is a cross between and it doesn’t matter whether it and Dad. home. Their mom sent them over we wanted to play. If you are familiar a wool-bearing angora and a very is a human or animal. Jackson remains a social fam- to our house, and Olivia, Miriam, with Romeo and Juliet, there is the part small breed of goat called a pygmy. If everyone cared a little ily cat, and believes he’s in and I went outside. Mom joined of the nurse -who is like Juliet’s second Winston is black in color and he had more, there wouldn’t be abuse. charge of the house. us shortly after. Upon being faced mother - and that’s the part I was hop- a white belly. I got him when I went There wouldn’t be harm to be- About four years ago, we with five sets of tears, Mom turned ing to get. My second choice was the with my fiber club to the Maryland ings. There wouldn’t be a need were at the SPCA yet again. and asked Dad what he thought. part of Juliet’s mother, and my third Sheep and Wool festival. I had been for shelters and foster homes This time, we met a group of Dad decided that 9:00 at night choice was the part of Romeo’s friend, talking about getting another goat for and for hopelessness. If every- three little oriental black cats, was a perfect time for refill- Benvolio. a long time. My friend and I went to one took a little more notice, each with six toes on their back ing his motorcycle gas tank. I would have chosen Juliet as one a vendor that had these goats and it everyone would get themselves paws. I was ready to adopt one So the kitten was brought in- of my choices if she did not have so all happened so fast! I bought him a second chance. with a little white “sock” on his side, given some food and litter, many lines. I thought I would have and my friend took him to her house. Over ten years ago, my sister foot, but he was too scared to and taken to the vet. She’s fair- trouble memorizing all the lines. Later my mom and I picked him up. Elizabeth, my parents and I were live in a family of six humans ly healthy, but is infected with Our main directors, Mrs. Smith and Like I had said earlier, I had been at the SPCA to donate some cat and two cats. worms. She’s on the meds now. Mrs. Mattson, let us try out for the thinking about getting another goat supplies. One of the volunteers We ended up adopting one of Her name is Misty. part we wanted. Then they chose for a long time because Oscar (my working there offered to let us the other cats, after one of my Misty, Hollis, Belinda, parts for us to try. They brought me other goat) was starting to become in the back and meet some cats. younger sisters, Miriam, turned Othello, Jackson and Snug- up about three times to try out for very lonely and he also started to get To this day, Mom still doesn’t on the tears. gles all managed to get a second Juliet. After three days of agonizing mean. No one thought that getting understand why she said yes. His name is Othello; he’s a chance. They are happy and liv- from the wait, they finally told us another goat was going to make a dif- We met a beautiful gray high-strung little cat who adores ing healthily. If everyone gave a who got which parts. ference. Some said he would kill this cat, who we later learned was jumping from place to place. second chance, the world would I got the part of Juliet. I was very other goat, but I knew that Oscar was thrown out of a moving car win- A few short months af- be so much better. excited yet very worried about hav- going to change. He did. He is now dow outside the SPCA. Unfor- ter that, Mom and Dad were Everyone can start some- ing to memorize all of those lines. I one of the friendliest goats around. tunately, our Dad wasn’t look- out spending time together in where, whether it is as simple as would study every night to get these Oscar and Winston are best friends. ing to adopt a cat at the time, town. She came back to the helping someone who’s down, lines memorized, and eventually I In fact, they are inseparable. Winston so we met the cat, pet him, then house with a blanket of yellow, or adopting a cat, dog, or even did. I knew them so well I wouldn’t never goes anywhere without Oscar left and went home. black and brown tabby cat in a child. You don’t have to be ex- be surprised if I happened to recite and Oscar never goes anywhere with- As we pulled into the drive- her arms. The new cat was an travagant to help someone out. them in my sleep. Then the night of out Winston. They follow each oth- way of our house, Dad turned elder female named “Bellow- You just have to be human, the play came. I thought I did pret- er around all the time. Oscar is now a around in his seat, asked us and ing Belinda”, shortened to Be- and care. ty well when it was over. At the end, changed animal. our mom if we really, really, linda. Belinda was a cranky old I thought it was one of the most fun I’m looking forward to a great sum- loved the cat, and received re- cat, but she was sweet and lov- To read past articles by Kat Dart, things I have ever done during all my mer with my new goat! Keep your fin- plies in the positive. ing if you didn’t bother her. visit the Authors section of Em- years at St. Francis. gers crossed that the summer goes by He actually turned the car She passed on November 2010. mitsburg.net. Another thing that happened to me SLOWLY! 30 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 SCHOOL NEWS

dents. He is a local author who Emmitsburg Elementary lives in Baltimore with his family. EES PTA We are very excited to have a cel- Kathryn Golightly ents can better prepare for confer- it will be open during conference ebrated author visit our school. If News and Notes ences by considering a few tips. Be- hours each day. This is a great time you would like more information hat does the PTA t is hard to believe that school fore the conference, write down to purchase holiday gifts and also about Kevin O’Malley, please do with our fun- has been in session for one some topics that you would like help Emmitsburg Elementary raise view his web site at www.books- W I draising money you ask? month. The EES staff and students to discuss with your child’s teach- money to provide quality programs byomalley.com. Good question! While are in teaching and learning mode. er. Also, ask your child if there is for our students. Another important event in Oc- not completed, the fol- Routines and expectations have anything that he/she would like for Events such as the Scholas- tober is the celebration of Charac- lowing list highlights been established and we are well on you to discuss with the teacher. Ask tic Book Fair allow EES to pro- ter Counts! week at Emmitsburg some of the PTA more our way to another successful year. the teacher if there are ways that vide programs and presentations Elementary. Character Counts! is significant yearly expen- October brings chilly weath- you can support your child’s learn- for our students. Funds raised a philosophy and practice that be- ditures: er as well as some great events for ing at home. Please keep in mind from the 2011 Spring Book Fair gan in 1993 by the Josephson In- EES. It is a busy month with Par- that conferences are scheduled for and the 2011 Fall Book Fair will stitute. Frederick County Public • Grade level field ent/Teacher Conferences, a Scho- 15 minutes to allow all parents to be used to host dynamic author Schools adopted this practice to trips (Field trips are lastic Book Fair, Character Counts! meet with the teachers. Kevin O’Malley. Mr. O’Malley develop character and ethics in our th planned by school Week, and author Kevin O’Malley During the week of Parent/ will be at our school on Friday, students. During October 17 – th staff and PTA funds visiting our school. Teacher Conferences, Emmitsburg October 28th in the morning. October 25 , our students will be are used to cover This year’s Parent/Teacher Con- Elementary will be hosting a Scho- His first children’s book, Froggy wearing different colors each day transporation cost ferences will occur on October 20th lastic Book Fair. Mrs. Reed, Me- Went A-Courting, was published to represent the pillars of charac- and either cover or – 22nd. dia Specialist, is graciously orga- in 1992. Since then, he has writ- ter: caring, fairness, responsibility, reduced admission Conferences are scheduled with nizing this event. The Book Fair ten and/or illustrated numerous trustworthiness, respect, and citi- prices. all parents or guardians. This is a will be open on Friday, October 14 books. He has a wild sense of hu- zenship. Please contact our school • Cultural Arts pro- great opportunity for parents and to allow students to preview and mor that is evident in his books for more information about Char- grams which pro- staff to discuss the students’ prog- purchase the available merchan- and in his presentations. Before acter Counts! vides quality perfor- ress, interests, and concerns; as well dise. The Book Fair will be open his arrival, our teachers will be Good things happen at Emmits- mances for students. as ask and answer questions. Par- to students in the mornings and sharing his books with the stu- burg Elementary every day! • Play Day contribu- tions for stations • Family Movie Nights and movie licensing • Students Blue Fold- ers and Agendas for 3-5th grade • Scholarship for a CHS senior that has attended EES • Grandparents & Granola, Dads & Donuts and Moms & Muffins • 5th grade send off • Student Directory by grade • Talent Show

The first movie night is scheduled for October 14th at 6:30 p.m. in the EES Gym to see Gnomeo & Juliet

Next fundraiser will be coming out in the mid- dle of October with a Catalog for early Christ- mas shopping.

Volunteers are needed for the Teacher conferences on October 18, 19, 20th. We are in need of dinner and lunch food items for our wonderful teachers. If any- one would like to donate baked goods are prepared meals please contact Sha- ron hamilton, sharon.ham- [email protected].

We are going to have EES car magnets avail- able soon.

Please help us continue to provide EES with the won- derful activities the PTA pro- vides EES, Every Eagle Soars OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 31 SCHOOL NEWS

the door. Raffles, tip jars, door key breast, honey ham, sausage, MSS family. Winners need not prizes, and concessions will be and so much more! We’re not be present to win. Mother Seton offered. For more information, messing around when it comes We look forward to enjoying Lynn Tayler part of our school as our school including any donations of Vera to the grub! Keep an eye out for your company at our events this is a part of the community. We Bradley or other merchandise more details or contact ambmr- fall! reetings, readers! I’m Lynn would love to invite you to take for raffles, please contact Lena [email protected]. GTayler, a freelance writ- part in our upcoming events: Laug at 301-717-8860. (Re- Did you realize there are few- er, Air Force veteran and wife, On October 4th, our annual member: your gift is tax deduct- er than three months left un- Recently at Mother and a mother to four busy chil- Blessing of the Animals is held at ible!) til Christmas? Don’t panic! We Seton School dren. I’m originally a Connecti- 1:30pm. A parade of dogs, cats, Love to run? Looking for an have just the thing for your cut Yankee, but made Frederick lizards, bunnies, snakes, horses, enjoyable way to experience the shopping needs—our annual County my home ten years ago, fish and more crowd the circle, crisp autumn air? Why not reg- Breakfast with Santa and Holi- where I made the change from a and along with their owners, are ister now for our Fall 5K Run/ day Craft Bazaar. Why bring it career in government service to blessed in honor of St. Francis. Walk on Nov 12th! This fun up now? Vendors are being re- writing and parenting. I am ex- Join us and bring your special family activity will be held at cruited. If you’re interested in cited to be bringing you the lat- pet to be honored at this one- Mount St. Mary’s Athletic Fields selling your wares, we still have est news and information from of-a-kind event. and includes a kid-friendly a few spaces remaining for inter- Mother Seton School, one of Private tours of the school are Dash. T-shirts are available for ested crafters. For a $25 vendor this area’s best-kept secrets. offered by appointment or you early bird registrants, as well as fee, we will provide the 8ft table For families seeking excel- can stop in at our next Open goodie bags and great food. For for your display. Please contact lent academics and strong val- House on October 18th, from more information and to regis- Laura Imes at imesla@yahoo. ues, Mother Seton School is an 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. to ter, email bridgemccarthy@hot- com or (301) 788-6458. Every- affordable option that is easi- 8 p.m. Take a peek at what the mail.com. Businesses or individ- one else – Save the date to join ly accessible by bus from many school has to offer and admire uals looking for an opportunity us on Dec. 3rd from 8 a.m. to 12 The Peace Tree was un- locations in the area. For de- the creativity and hard work our to reach a local audience and p.m. to meet Santa and shop. veiled at a celebration on tailed admissions information, students put into the art proj- lend support to our school are Finally, we have just kicked off September 21st at Moth- please visit www.motherseton- ects adorning the walls. This is a invited to Step Up and Sponsor. our MSS Home and School As- er Seton School and will be school.org. MSS is an inde- great time to stop by and check With a range of sponsorship lev- sociation Raffle! Along with the touring local businesses to pendent faith- and family- fo- out all of the special features els, from product donations to Bull Roast, this is H.S.A.’s big- celebrate World Peace Day. cused school, sponsored by the that make Mother Seton a cer- gifts over $1,000, there is an af- gest fundraiser of the year. Buy a The tree was envisioned Daughters of Charity, approved tified Maryland Green School. fordable option to satisfy any- ticket and help the H.S.A. pro- by Art Teacher Karolyne by the Archdiocese of Balti- For more information, visit the one’s philanthropic side. vide equipment & supplies for Myers and created by the more, accredited by the Middle website or call 301-447-3165. The First Annual Bull Roast classrooms, field trip incentives, Art Angels Club. Students States Association commission Do you love Vera Bradley as will take place Nov. 19th and will playground upgrades and much, throughout the school par- of Elementary Schools, and much as I do? Then join us for be a feast to behold. The pub- much more. Tickets are just ticipated by adding recy- certified as a Maryland Green our Vera Bradley BINGO on lic is encouraged to attend—just $10. Six tickets will be drawn cling and conservation tips School. Oct 22nd. Doors open at 5:30 be sure to come with an emp- for prizes ranging from $100 to the leaves. Look for it At Mother Seton, we want p.m. Bingo starts at 7 p.m. Tick- ty stomach—there will be an up to $3,000. To purchase, stop soon around Emmitsburg. the community to be as much a ets are $15 in advance or $20 at amazing spread of pit beef, tur- by the school office or ask any 32 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 FOUR YEARS AT THE MOUNT

ora of choices that made it such myself free to write about feelings ple’s minds the way that an artist an experience for me. I was able with a brand new perspective. would on a canvas. I’m happy to Freshman Year to see everything laid out before And that’s the lesson that eat- say that Mount St. Mary’s has giv- me and watch as the creation in ing sandwiches five days in a row en me the opportunity to do just Aesop’s Fables, and a my head turned into the reality on taught me. That it truly is the that, and to reach the people of my plate. That was the moment journey and not the destination Emmitsburg and my fellow stu- Side of Chips to create the ultimate sandwich. when I realized that I wanted my that matters most. If I had known dents in the process. Just as that It was my goal to reach lunch life to be like the cafeteria. I want- then what the result of my culi- one simple lunch wound up re- Kyle Ott time nirvana where sauce, meat, ed to see all the twists, turns and nary experiences would be (chipo- sulting in a journey, our English tortilla, and cheese would come changes that my life could make tle wrap, provolone cheese, ham, department has given me an all- I suppose it’s indicative of the together in perfect harmony and and know exactly what I would bacon, chipotle sauce and spin- new adventure. fact that I’m a young, male col- meet their ultimate end in my get out of it. ach greens in case you were won- Which leads me to the final lege student, but I seem to fit stomach. However, by coming to the dering) I would never have done point about the lesson that a hum- that stereotype of constantly eat- To make a long story short, and Mount I laughed in the face of so much experimenting. If I had ble piece of food taught me, to ing, and, if I’m not, I’m thinking to avoid making our good read- that foolish wish made at the simply skipped to the end then take all the joy you can out of ev- about what I’ll eat next or who ership hungry, I nailed it on the lunch table. Mount St. Mary’s was my “epic quest” wouldn’t have be- ery little thing. And so as a colum- will sit with me as I enjoy what- fifth try. However as I was enjoy- not my first choice, but If I had come an inside joke with all my nist my promise to you good read- ever succulent dish happens to ing my grilled tube of delicious- known then what I know now, it friends. To this extent Mount St. er is to always make the mundane lie on my plate at the moment. ness it occurred to me that some- certainly would have been. In the Mary’s and even my entire col- seem funny and to open your eyes As most of my friends (and many where between the honey mustard few short weeks I’ve been here I’ve lege career isn’t a destination but to the wonders and joys that every Mount alums) can attest, our and the lettuce I had learned a gone from living to being alive. I a stepping stone to bigger things, tiny thing holds. I have decided college happens to have a fantas- valuable lesson about why I had rode in a hot air balloon, debat- better adventures, and with a lit- to wring every single experience tic sandwich bar that’s more akin come to Mount St. Mary’s in the ed the foundations of human ex- tle luck a thousand more laughs. of my college life out and pour it to a personal Subway restaurant first place. You see, the thing that istence with my roommate whom Here at this college I’m offered onto the page, and it is my hope than a college eatery. All I heard intrigued me the most about the I’d never met before, and opened the same variety of choices, from that you’ll join me in the adven- about for a week was how great sandwich bar wasn’t that I was go- my heart to new experiences and club sports, philosophy clubs, and ture. Allow me to introduce my- this magical place was and how ing to be able to eat my Franken- people. And, to my great surprise, of course writing. The one thing self; my name is Kyle Lawrence the wraps there were the best stein-esque creation, but that it I found inspiration in a place that I’ve always wanted to be is a writ- Ott, freshman at Mount St. Uni- thing since sliced bread (forgive was going to be a completely orig- was not only close to my home er. From a young age I’ve wanted versity, and your new columnist; the sandwich pun). With those inal idea, conceived and born in- but close to my heart. Within the to make my living off the written won’t you sit down and read for simple words I began a journey side my brain. It was the pleth- confines of this campus I found word and paint pictures in peo- a while?

first careful steps in Merrion St. Stephen’s Park. Crisp yel- budget sheet pulled up. “Got- Sophomore Year Square. Where Celtic music is low leaves were on the ground, ta have a Guinness.” heard all down Grafton Street and resting on a park bench we “And are we still on for the We are once in a lifetime and where hair dryers have a watched two swans duck be- opera in Vienna?” David asked. tendency to blow fuses. And neath the clear surface of the Ha-ha, so. This life is grand, Carolyn Shields ly nauseated. One week be- these next three articles will lake. The Irish “walk fast, talk and I mean “grand” in the non- fore I was being splattered by take you here too… fast, and drink fast” but ev- Irish sense. I still go through leaned back in my airplane my friend’s car, stuck in mud. It was about 6 a.m when Em- ery other aspect of their life is each day wondering why God I chair after a cruddy nap as A month ago? Booking hotels ily and I got to our apartment. slower paced, like the couples gave it to me. Kind of like the lights of Dublin stood out like no other. This past sum- It’s right off Grafton Street, and strolling beneath the hundred- how Michael says “Why me?” in the 4 a.m sky. “Okay, I can mer? Working for those eu- anyone who knows anything year-old trees at St. Stephen’s in “Princess Diaries,” but he do this. Ha-ha, holy cow, I can ros. Last year trying not to fall about Dublin knows that Graf- or the three old men drinking says it because he found a prin- do this…” A few hours earlier, asleep in my class… ton is Ireland’s busiest high- Guinness at the Duke’s, the cess. My goal in life is to pray somewhere over the Atlantic, Isn’t it funny how every mo- fashion street. We stood on our first pub we went to. like it’s a drug. God’s three an- I paused in reading the mon- ment of our lives adds up to terrace and squealed like girls, It’s crazy to think we can swers to our prayers are, “Yes,” ey section of Rick Steves’ Euro- something? I’m lying here on jumping up and down. “We’re conquer Dublin in just three “Not yet,” and “I have some- pean travel book for the hun- my bunk bed in my apartment in Ireland! We’re in Ireland!” months. Add Ireland on to thing better in mind.” And, dredth time and could half feel in Dublin, and I’m thinking Fast forward three hours that. Oh, and Edinborough, yes, I stole that off of the in- all the prayers from back home I’ve worked so hard to get here. when Emily was zonked out on London, Vienna, Brussels, ternet, but it’s worth sharing. I accompanying me. Hours be- It’s all added up to this. But the bed and I was sprawled like and, you know, Paris…But al- can easily find myself awed by fore that I was kissing my par- what will THIS add up to? Be- a noodle on the couch. That ready my horizons are broaden- God’s beauty, but I don’t always ents goodbye in the airport, coming the woman God made afternoon we walked through ing with only 48 hours on Car- thank him for sharing it, so I giddy with excitement. The me to be? Finding true love in Grafton Street, avoiding the olyn’s Becoming Culturally and really do not know why I have night before I felt ridiculous- the Scottish highlands? Navi- throngs of people the best we Financially Aware of Her Mi- been given this life. Two hours gating a Parisian train station could, trying to absorb every- lieus Timetable. Such as? Gro- ago I was in a pub drinking without a chaperone? Or sim- thing…the mannequins dis- cery shopping for myself for Guinness (ok, ok…more like ply being able to feed myself? playing European fashions be- the first time in a place where sipping it), sheltered by wood- (Added next day: I ate an apple hind sheets of glass, the street the dollar sign isn’t on any no en walls with stained glass win- with peanut butter for dinner). vendors selling bouquets of recognizable brand of chips, ex- dows. It’s hard to imagine that So we have right now. We flowers, the crazy rush of a city cuse me, “crisps.” It’s “grand,” life gets any more beautiful. have choices. Mine brought in general…The last 48 hours as in fine, but not “savage” Before I left, I was telling my me to Dublin, to this beauti- was a blurred whirlwind of ac- (or great) like I thought it friend how I’m worried about ful city with its parks where tion. would be. I still want to shop leaving because my life can’t flowers are still in full bloom David, Emily, and I sighed for a “jumper” though(I mean really get any more beautiful, and where children take their in relief while walking through sweater). This slang isn’t much and I felt like leaving for Ire- “crack,” as in fun, when we can land would only keep my life barely handle the accents. the same or make it less great. But conquer it we will! First And look! Here I am, sitting the slang, then this city with its on my bunk bed, still laugh- crazy streets and drivers, then ing with Emily about that ran- Europe. Also the world. Might dom Irish man we met on the as well think big. street who talked to us for AN But reality is kicking us al- HOUR AND A HALF. They ready. Ha-ha, that grocery trip weren’t kidding about the Irish really got to us I guess. So Da- telling stories. Talk about de- vid, Emily, and I got together tails. Down to the euro his this afternoon to talk money. cousin paid for a lampshade. “Looks like peanut but- Switchfoot sings, “Breathe it ter and jelly for the next three in. The highs and lows. We call months,” Emily said. it living…There are miracles “After O’Neills tonight,” I there in your eyes. It’s no acci- said from the couch, comput- dent we’re here tonight. We are er on my lap and our Excel once in a lifetime.” OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 33 FOUR YEARS AT THE MOUNT

have a meal plan, and I needed to get they are cheap! It is a challenge to plan. I like having the flexibility of eat- groceries; otherwise I would starve. eat well in college while staying un- ing according to my schedule. Junior Year My roommates and I went shop- der budget. Many college students are con- ping because we forgot to bring If college students don’t have a food cerned that you aren’t going to have Growing pains learned that my way of thinking was some things and we all needed at budget I think they will have a hard- time to cook and so should just stay all wrong. least some food. One of my room- er time adjusting to life after college. on a meal plan, but you will make Samantha Strub As most of you know, juniors at mates, Kristyn, also doesn’t have They will end up in debt or their par- the time because you’re hungry, and if Mount St. Mary’s can live in the cam- a meal plan so we decided to share ents will have to bail them out, and you don’t cook you will stay that way. emember when we were little pus apartments. I was very excited the food bill. It’s so much cheaper if that happens they will not learn It all really comes down to time man- Rboys and girls, and we couldn’t about this style of living because you to divide the cost in half. This only how to grow up and be responsible. agement. You have to plan your meals wait to grow up and do those things get to live with your closest friends works because we eat most of the Your parents will not let you fall flat around how much time you have, for that we were not allowed to do? and cook for yourself. It was a change same things, and the things that we on your face; they will help you out example my later nights I eat leftovers We started off by wanting to go to from the highly esteemed dorm life eat individually even out. It worked and teach valuable life lessons in the or meals that don’t require a lot of prep school and get on the T-ball and soc- that I had gotten used to over the past out really well because by shar- process. time. The nights that Kristyn and I cer teams. Then we wanted to move two years, and I was ready to move ing we greatly reduced the month- My way of life is different now that don’t have night class, get back earlier on to middle and high school, drive on and up in the world. It was excit- ly cost. Still, the first two times we I’m in an apartment. I hardly ever go from practice and work, or there is a a car like Mom and Dad, and have ing moving in and seeing how much went through the line the bill gave to Patriot Hall to eat. Sometimes I’ll show on we have more time to make a our own house and job. No kids ever space my roommates and I had, even me sticker shock! I never complete- go for lunch if I’m running late, or meal like Tortellini with mushrooms, listen to their parents when they say, though the kitchen was kind of small. ly understood just how much it costs if I need a coffee in-between class- and alfredo sauce. We always have fun “Just enjoy what you have now be- Right away, the conversation focused to eat! I took it for granted that my es (that is always a must), or if I don’t cooking and trying to work with an cause as soon as you blink it’s gone.” on what theme we should use to dec- parents always had food on the table, have time to cook when classes and oven that burns everything, including We are always concerned about what’s orate the common room, how we and I never worried about the costs. work are close together. As a gener- the brownies I was making the other next in life, and we never seem to take should organize the furniture and so When Kristyn and I went shopping, al rule, however, I make time to cook night, and one out of our four burn- time to just sit back and enjoy it. It’s on. There was a flutter of excitement, I knew that buying the cheaper or my own food; for lunch its quick easy ers is broken. Sometimes it can be so much easier to do that when you’re but that was all going to have to wait the store brand could cut the price. meal like a sandwich, leftovers, eggs, very frustrating when things come out younger and don’t have the responsi- because we had to unload and un- With cheese, however, we found out wraps, etc. I always seem to eat lunch burnt to a black crisp, like the heart bilities that adults have in this world. pack, which got interrupted because the hard way why there was such a at a normal time, but I usually don’t brownies I made, but it is very reward- I have gotten a crash course on of the hurricane, but, hey, it wasn’t the big difference between the price of eat dinner until seven, eight, or even ing to cook for yourself. I also believe adult responsibilities since starting my end of the world. the store brand and the brand name. nine because I have field hockey prac- that learning to cook is one of those junior year. It came as a total surprise Things became a confusing pain Never again will we buy store-brand tice and evening meetings to go to. growing pains that teach us to be re- to me because I had always thought of when they didn’t go the way we cheese. With most other items, how- Once I get back to my room, I have sponsible adults without crashing and myself as responsible. I knew what I planned. It always seems to take lon- ever, we can get the cheapest brand to shower and cook my dinner before burning. Don’t you wish you could was doing and what was coming next. ger than expected to unpack, which so long as we aren’t sacrificing taste. I can actually eat it. Honestly, though, go back to those carefree days of play- I have always worked hard on every- honestly took me about five days. I Now, I fully understand the running I don’t mind eating later at night. It’s ing outside in the sunshine when you thing that I do, and I thought I was wasn’t too concerned, however, be- joke about broke college students more work, yes, because it takes time see the total on a grocery bill, know- pretty prepared for what life would cause I had bigger things to wor- eating Ramen Noodles and finding to cook your dinner, eat it and clean ing that you’re going to have to pay it throw at me. Well, once again, I ry about--like food. I wasn’t going to many different ways to use them; up, but I wouldn’t go back to a meal in order to eat?

pray the rosary, and then he would fi- ed his arms, and then my father fol- to do at Ft. Lewis, I knew that I would nally feel calm enough to sleep. I took lowed. My mother stood smiling in get paid to be there. So ultimately, it Senior Year his advice, and he was right. My soul front of me. She embraced me lovingly was a win-win situation. I just had to was finally peaceful enough to allow and then gave me a little nudge toward stay positive. With a smile on my face Conquering LDAC me to fall into a deep slumber. the metal detectors. I walked halting- and trust in my heart, I boarded the Soon enough, however, it was “0 ly toward the gate, glancing back a few plane. his summer was arguably the gear in front of me. I checked and re- dark 30,” and I shot out of the folds times to make sure my family had not Indeed, LDAC was an amazing ex- Tmost important summer of my checked. I packed and then packed of my sheets with such ferocity that I abandoned me. They stood steadfast, perience for me. I liken it to my birth as life. For the past three years, the fo- again. actually startled myself. Every nerve in waving and smiling. an officer, because it was the place that cus of my ROTC career has been on The night before I flew out, when I my body was tinged with readiness. Ev- Once I made it through security and my future career actually became real something called Leader Development was finally completely and totally sat- ery fiber of every muscle was prepared found my gate, I realized that I was ac- to me. I finally took ownership of my and Assessment Course, or LDAC for isfied that I had forgotten nothing on to engage this beast called LDAC and tually a little excited to go to LDAC. choice to enter the Army, and I realized short. This course is a culmination of the packing list, I placed all of my gear come out victorious. I barred my teeth I dreaded the evaluations and the tests, without a doubt that the Army is the everything that a cadet has learned dur- into those two green duffel bags of in the mirror while I brushed them. I but I knew that I would have plenty of place I belong. ing his or her time in ROTC. It is a mine. I nestled each item into the duf- ambushed my dog on the staircase. I great experiences there. I mean, who Next month, I will continue the sto- way for the Army to determine wheth- fel bags just so. When I had finished feasted on a piece of toast for breakfast wouldn’t want to spend a month in the ry of my LDAC experience, so stay- er or not the cadet is ready to receive a packing, I carefully, albeit with shaky the way a lion would feast on his zebra woods, sleeping under the stars? On tuned for tales of triumph and tears. commission as an officer in the United hand, wrote MULQUEEN in big, prey. Outwardly, I was ready. top of the awesome things I would get States Army. LDAC, along with gradu- kindergarten-style block letters on the Inwardly, I was utterly terrified. I was ation from college, are the two manda- two bags. nervous that I would fail. I was wor- tory requirements cadets must pass in Exhausted not just from the packing ried that my performance would be order to enter the Army as officers. Ca- but also from the very thought that I substandard. My father, ever-calm and dets attend LDAC during the summer was about to begin my summer assess- always wise, looked at me and sensed between their junior and senior years of ment, I set my alarm for 4:30 in the that fear of failure that I had tried to college. morning. I settled into my covers and bury so deep inside. He hugged me This summer, it was finally my turn began the slow process of unwinding and said simply, “I love you. Stop wor- to fly out to Ft. Lewis, Washington my mind so that I could rest. What a rying. You’re going to do fine. I just to attend LDAC. Naturally, one can difficult process it was! I counted sheep. know it.” imagine the great deal of stress that ac- I made myself a cup of warm milk. I With those words, I piled into the companied the weeks, days, and hours even sang myself a lullaby! As soon as I car along with my entire family. It was preceding my departure. I am sure I felt that I would never fall asleep, I re- a short drive to the local airport, and was quite a sight! The entire week be- membered a trick that my brother had soon enough the airline had checked fore I left, I packed and repacked my told me a few months before. He said me in. My family and I stood word- two Army-issue duffel bags accord- that whenever he had difficulty falling lessly before the security checkpoint for ing to the packing list I had received. asleep in Afghanistan he would start to a few moments. My brother extend- I wanted to make sure I had every- thing, because any item that was on the packing list but not in a cadet’s lug- gage would result in a negative spot re- port. This would mean that the cadet incurred negative marks for the course. It also meant that the cadet would be- gin LDAC by making a lousy first im- pression on the cadre there. And so for that entire week before LDAC I could be found cross-legged on my floor for hours, simply taking inventory of the 34 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 THE GRADUATE My life as a first-year teacher Katie Phelan MSM Class of 2011

y life as a first-year teacher Mhas been nothing short of hectic. In the past month I have: learned 61 student names, 79 faculty and staff names, taught 45 different lessons, driven 2,000 miles, received 2 paychecks, and graded huge stacks of papers. So, how many months are there until summer? Just kidding, I don’t need summer to come…yet. I am actually enjoying myself a great deal. Delone is a wonderful community with enthusiastic students. I like my students very much and am so far very happy with the effort they put into their lessons and homework. The other teachers are also wonderful. They’ve helped me so much already by giving me suggestions or helping me to solve different problems. Honestly though, I don’t even think about whether I like what I’m doing or not. Most times I’m running around like a chicken without a head trying to get papers photocopied, messages sent, or papers graded. The alternative day and also how the course as a make it through the day. from other sources I probably putting up with our sometimes mode is exhaustion where all I whole should be organized. For two Lesson 4: The days of staying up wouldn’t have made it this far. crazy classes and for helping me have the energy to think about of my classes—Speech and Creative until 3 in the morning are over. Go Despite all the challenges and and learning with me. I have one is what I’m going to do the next Writing—this is quite difficult to bed early or you’re not making it general exhaustion, I can already class of juniors and seniors and day. Though I knew teaching was because I don’t have a textbook. through the week. This is especially feel my job getting easier. I’ve also they’ve been a help at times with going to be a lot of work, I hadn’t While it can be nice to decide how important at the beginning of the found myself looking for ways to showing me some of the quirks of realized how absolutely exhausting I would like to run things it also week. If you don’t get enough make next year more productive. different days. Delone has more it is. When I’m actually standing means that on days where I’m not sleep on Monday, Friday will be a I’m spending time now organizing different and weird schedules than in front of the class talking I sure what to do it means I can’t fall nightmare. my notes and calendar so that I ever remember when I was in don’t feel tired; there’s a sort of back on a textbook for ideas. It Lesson 5: Think about what you when next year rolls around I’ll be high school. adrenaline that keeps me focused means I decide what I teach, how want to wear the night before you able to use my notes, handouts, I think our year is off to a on presenting material. It’s after the to teach it, and make handouts to go to bed. Otherwise you’ll spend and lessons again. Next year I’ll great start—with lots of learning, class is over when I get a moment supplement what I say. This is a lot 10 minutes staring at your closet also know what things I need to growing, laughing, and craziness to myself that I realize how tired I of work now, but I’m sure that as and then ironing your outfit at spend more time on and what on all sides. I think my students am. I get more used to it I’ll love the 6:30 in the morning when you things I might be able to skip are learning a lot and having fun. I Teaching of course isn’t flexibility and freedom that I have should have already been dressed over. With every day that I teach know that I am! physically exhausting. I’m not within what general goals there are and out the door. I see what things are working and mining coal or lifting boxes all for the course. Lesson 6: Phone calls and books realize how to improve things in To read other articles by Katie day. It is emotionally and mentally I’ve already learned a bunch on tape make the hour drive to the future. Phelan, visit the Authors section of exhausting, though, especially of important things in my first school and home much more My students are champs for Emmitsburg.net when it takes extra effort to get the month. I’ll share some of them enjoyable. kids focused on doing work. For with you. Lesson 7: College is so much example, Monday morning classes Lesson 1: If you wear high heels easier than teaching. Even my are actually much less tiring then to school, do NOT take them off most tiring semester was easier Friday afternoon classes. Delone no matter what if you have to put than teaching this year. Mount has a rotating schedule so each them back on at any other point in students, be grateful for your “early day students come to my room at the day. My first day I wore a pair mornings” of 9 am classes, your different times depending on the (probably not the wisest decision) “mounds” of homework, and the cycle day. While this has taken but about half-way through the “exhausting” task of sitting in class me a while to get used to it is very day I took them off during my learning from someone who has interesting to see how different free period, walked around flat- prepared a lesson for you. kids behave at different times of footed and then tried to put them Lesson 8: Use at least one day the day and week. back on. The pain doubled and by of the weekend to catch up on Sometimes just thinking about the end of the day I was literally sleep and attempt to plan out the my school day makes me tired, hobbling to my car. Heels do seem week. Naturally though, you won’t pathetically enough. One day I to be something you can develop be able to grade, update grades was fine when I got into the car to resistance to because I’m doing online, plan 3 lessons for every day drive to school. You know, a little much better with them now. and run all of the errands that have tired, but pretty normal for waking Lesson 2: Freshmen know much built up over the week, so you’ll get up when it’s still dark outside. On less and much more simultaneously about half done. the way I thought about one of than you think they do. Sometimes Lesson 9: You’ll experience at my classes and the challenges they they have trouble with tasks like least one “I’m supposed to do were posing. One hour later when passing papers forward, and other what?” moment a day for the first I arrived at school I was exhausted. times they make such insightful few weeks. “Well,” I thought, “this is a great comments that you just have to Lesson 10: Other teachers are start.” stop and say, “well, yeah, I think a wonderful and unbelievably One thing that consumes a lot of you’ve got that right.” valuable resource. The internet my time at the moment is deciding Lesson 3: Sometimes morning is another. Use every suggestion, what I want to teach. This includes trips to McDonalds for sweet tea plan, and piece of advice you can looking at what I want to do each and apple pies are necessary to get. Without the help I’ve gleaned OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 35 MOUNT CREATIVE WRITERS Pumpkin love Chelsea Baranoski her side. Each day was drier than 4-H pumpkin contest is….drum MSM Class of 2010 the next. 85 degrees. 90 degrees. roll please.” Everyone in the crowd 96 degrees. She wandered to the patted their knees as a makeshift t was that time of year again. pumpkin patch morning, noon, drum roll. IThe air was crisp and the moun- and night to check on the pump- “Well, what do you know…we tains were a wash of reds, orang- kin. If the ground felt as dry as have a new winner this year! Con- es, and golds. It was time for corn sand, she would give the pumpkin gratulations, Miss Joanne Preston!” mazes, hot cider, and the South a long drink of water to quench Joanne was so nervous that she Mountain Fair. Joanne looked its thirst. Just like her grandmoth- tuned out the announcer, and did forward to the fair every year. She er many years before her, Joanne not realize that she had won until loved the sky-high Ferris wheel, would sit next to her pumpkin her mother elbowed her and tried to the colorful bumper cars, and the to keep it company. She would wipe some of powdered sugar from sticky sweetness of the cotton can- pat the hard rind, breathe in the the funnel cake off her cheek. When dy. This year, 10-year-old Joanne country air, and offer up a prayer Joanne walked toward the boom- had still wanted to enjoy the ex- that the pumpkin would continue ing voice, she felt like she was walk- citing rides and the delicious food, to grow and prosper. ing in a dream. When the man pre- but she had also wanted to try sented her with the blue ribbon and something different. She had de- ***** shook her hand, she imagined that cided to grow a pumpkin and en- her grandmother was smiling down ter it in the 4-H contest, just like After months of preparation, it was on her. She ran over to her grandfa- her grandmother had when she finally fair time. Joanne hoped her ther and showed him the ribbon. While Joanne was waiting for timer begged attention. was a little girl. prayers would be answered. The “You earned it, kiddo,” her grand- the pumpkin pie to finish bak- Joanne’s mother took the gi- Joanne remembered sitting on pumpkin was a deep solid orange father said, a tear running down his ing, Joanne’s mother told her ant pie out of the oven. It was the edge of her grandmother’s bed and weighed over 100 pounds. Her lined cheek. stories about her grandmother. the biggest pumpkin pie that not long before her grandmother father and grandfather struggled The time when her grandmoth- Joanne had even seen. She joined the angels. “Look at these, to lift it out of the bed of her par- ***** er went on a baking binge and thought it would surely qual- Joanne,” her grandmother had ents’ sky blue truck. Joanne looked baked 25 pumpkin pies in one ify for the Guinness Book of said, pointing to the wood-pan- around at her competition. Most On the walk back to the truck, day. The year her grandmother World Records. And there was eled wall next to her bedside. of the pumpkins were huge. She Joanne felt a pang of sadness over- visited a dozen county fairs in still enough pumpkin left to “What are they?” Joanne asked, was especially worried about Scotty shadowing the excitement of win- Pennsylvania. The yearly trips make dozens of pies! After the staring up at the seven faded and Masterson’s pumpkin. He had won ning the contest. Her pumpkin had to the pumpkin patch to pick pumpkin cooled, Joanne took a frayed blue ribbons that hung in a the 4-H pumpkin contest three been auctioned off before she had a out the perfect plump pump- slice of pie and carved a smi- row along the wall. years in a row. But did his pump- chance to rescue it. The pumpkin kin for Halloween. Joanne’s fa- ley face into the top of it with a “I won those when I was around kin receive as much loving care as that she had watered and nurtured vorite story was the story of toothpick. She walked into the your age. Seven years of growing Joanne’s pumpkin? Some of the everyday was now in someone else’s how her grandmother met her living room and snuck up be- pumpkins. Seven years of winning pumpkins were a little bruised and hands. She could only hope that the grandfather. They were both at hind her grandfather, who was the prize for the biggest pump- dented, but Joanne’s pumpkin was person who bought the pumpkin the county fair. Both had en- sitting in an armchair watching kin.” smooth and gleaming in the Octo- would realize how much love it had tered their pumpkins in the a game show. “Wow, Nana! That’s great! I ber sun. All Joanne could do now received. 4-H contest. Both had want- “Grandpa, this is my gift for wish I could win something, but was wait. She hated waiting. Her As Joanne neared the truck, she ed a blue ribbon more than you,” Joanne said softly, pressing I never win anything” mother had told her that she got her thought she saw something or- funnel cake. When Joanne’s the plate into his hands, calloused “It’s not about winning,” Gram impatience from her grandmother. ange sticking out of it. Could it be? grandmother won the contest, from years of farm work. said. “It’s about doing something She patted her pumpkin and went Joanne bolted toward the truck. Joanne’s grandfather had ex- Joanne’s grandfather looked you love. I loved caring for those for a walk around the fairgrounds. Sure enough, Joanne’s pumpkin sat pected to be disappointed and down at the smiley face pumpkin pumpkins. I cared for them ev- Her stomach was twisting like a in the bed of the truck, ready to go even a little jealous. However, pie in his hand. Joanne did not ery day, making sure that they had pretzel. She passed the shiny green home. “But how? When?” Joanne when he saw the brilliant shine think that she had ever seen her enough water and sunlight. While John Deere tractors, the towering wondered aloud. in her grandmother’s blue eyes grandfather smile so big before. everyone else was playing tag in rides, and the hungry cattle chew- “Surprised?” Joanne’s grandfa- and the pearly smile that spread He pulled Joanne in for a hug and the yard, I was out in the field, sit- ing their hay in unison. She stopped ther asked her, patting her shoul- across her face like an angel kissed her forehead. Now that was ting with my pumpkin. I thought at the concessions for some funnel der. “I know how much you love spreading its wings, he smiled. pumpkin love. that if I sat with the pumpkin cake and cotton candy before re- that pumpkin and I couldn’t bear to He walked over to her to con- and paid a lot of attention to it, turning to the pumpkin contest. see you part ways. Your grandmoth- gratulate her, and the rest was To read other creative articles by it would grow big and healthy like “Welcome to the 4-H pumpkin er always told me her Grandfather history. True pumpkin love. Chelsea Baranoski visit the Authors Popeye the Sailor Man.” contest,” a man with a booming always bought her pumpkins after “Ding! Ding! Ding!” The oven section of Emmitsburg.net. “Did all the attention work?” voice exclaimed. He hardly needed the contest and I figured you would Joanne asked. the microphone. want the same.” Gram reached out with her “We have studied each pumpkin “Thanks, Grandpa,” Joanne said, bony fingers and touched the rib- very closely. There were a lot of great wrapping him in a bear hug. bons. “It sure did.” entries this year. Surprising, giv- “And this way, your mother can en the dry summer we had. These teach you how to make your grand- ***** pumpkins must have received a lot mother’s pumpkin spice pie….” of love. And now it all comes down Joanne’s grandfather trailed off Joanne set out to grow the biggest to this….” “I’d love to learn the recipe,” pumpkin at the fair. She sprin- A lady in a pink flannel shirt Joanne said. “I’ve never baked any- kled pumpkin seeds throughout handed the man a long white enve- thing before. I hope it turns out like her family’s field in early June and lope. Nana’s.” watched as one pumpkin grew at Joanne held her breath and a rate much faster than the oth- crossed her fingers. ***** ers. Joanne paid particular atten- “Third place goes to Miss Teresa tion to this pumpkin; she watered Jones! Congratulations, Teresa!” the As soon as Joanne arrived home, the pumpkin every day, pulled man boomed. she begged her mother to teach out all of the “enemy” weeds, and Applause erupted, traveling her how to make her grandmoth- ensured that no cucumber bee- through the maze of bright orange er’s pie. The pumpkin was so big tles and squash bugs attacked the pumpkins. that Joanne’s father had to use a vines. Joanne even inspected the “Second place goes to Mr. Tom- saw to cut it open. Joanne helped pumpkin’s leaves, making sure my Talbot! Congratulations, Tom- her mother wash the pumpkin that they did not have a speck of my!” and scoop out all of the seeds into powdery mildew. Another round of applause a dozen plastic sandwich bags. July and August were excessive- bounced from plump pumpkin to She would save the seeds for next ly dry months and Joanne was plump pumpkin, leafy stem to leafy year’s pumpkin patch. She mold- afraid that her beloved pump- stem. ed the dough for the pie crust and kin would not survive. Moth- And finally, what we’ve all been helped her mother fill it with pu- er Nature did not seem to be on waiting for…..the winner of the réed pumpkin. 36 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 SIMPLE SERVINGS Whole grains: the real deal Sharon Racine love carbs in all forms. those nutrients anyway? the crust is crisp and gold- • 1 Tablespoon Molasses A term that I’ve been hear- I kid. Why consume “en- en at the edges, and cheese is • 1 egg (beat with 1 Tbsp Wa- ack in August, I decided to ing a lot of lately, though, in- riched” wheat products when you melted on the top. ter) Bsign up for a half marathon volves whole grains. Whole can have the real deal with whole • 1 tsp Vanilla on a whim. To date, I have not grain pasta is actually good for wheat products? Calories are typ- Homemade Whole Wheat run more than 6 miles in one go, you, rather than that enriched ically lower in whole grain foods, BreadFrom AllRecipes.com Other ingredients so my decision to do this half kind that has become synony- and the benefits from fiber, pro- • 1/2 cup raisins (1 cup for my marathon was a pretty big one. mous with empty carbs. Whole tein, and vitamins are exponen- Ingredients Dad’s batch) I found a great training schedule, wheat bread contains plen- tially greater than in enriched • 3 cups warm water (110 de- • 1/2 cup walnuts (more for and it wasn’t long before I real- ty of vitamins and nutritious foods. As long as I’m running, I grees F/45 degrees C) my Dad’s)!! ized that if I wanted to do semi- supplements, whereas white will be consuming whole grains, • 2 (.25 ounce) packages ac- well in this race, I would have bread is a cheap alternative that and I can’t recommend whole tive dry yeast Instructions to make some dietary chang- doesn’t offer much in the realm grain-rich diets enough. Do it • 1/3 cup honey 1. In a large bowl, mix all the es. Running at least 13 miles a of healthy perks. All of the for your heart, your health, and • 5 cups bread flour dry ingredients together. week to start wasn’t too hard (I foods that we already love can most importantly, your happi- • 3 tablespoons butter, melted 2. In a medium bowl, mix all the was already used to running at be made instantly healthier by ness. These delicious whole grain • 1/3 cup honey wet ingredients together. Hint: least twice a week), but I needed swapping the refined versions recipes will not disappoint. • 1 tablespoon salt when measuring out the hon- to start eating healthier to make for the whole grain versions. • 3 1/2 cups whole wheat flour ey, spray the measuring cup sure I got all the vitamins I need- According to WHFoods.com, Whole Wheat Pizza Dough • 2 tablespoons butter, melted with oil or baking spray--your ed to maintain my energy. wheat in its whole, unrefined From AllRecipes.com honey won’t stick). Dried cranberries replaced form boasts a wide range of im- Instructions 3. Mix the wet stuff with the gummy candies, and I started portant nutrients. Unfortunate- Ingredients 1. In a large bowl, mix warm wa- dry stuff. Add the raisins eating more salads and all-nat- ly, most wheat products in the • 1 teaspoon white sugar ter, yeast, and 1/3 cup honey. and walnuts and mix. If the ural foods. Quinoa became a United States (i.e. bread, pasta, • 1 1/2 cups warm water (110 Add 5 cups white bread flour, mixture seems too wet, add a quick new favorite that has come cookies and other baked goods) degrees F/45 degrees C) and stir to combine. Let set bit of flour. If it isn’t binding in very handy for quick, healthy are subject to 60% extraction, • 1 tablespoon active dry yeast for 30 minutes, or until big together very well, you may meals that I can feel okay about. which means that 40% of the • 1 tablespoon olive oil and bubbly. wish to add an egg white. Bread is another staple that I find original wheat grain is removed • 1 teaspoon salt 2. Mix in 3 tablespoons melt- 4. COOL the mix for 20 min- myself craving on the regular; before consumption. That 40% • 2 cups whole wheat flour ed butter, 1/3 cup honey, utes in the fridge. despite today’s anti-carb revolu- involves the most nutritious por- • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour and salt. Stir in 2 cups whole 5. Preheat the oven to 335 de- tion, I know that eating breads tions of the wheat grain, includ- wheat flour. Flour a flat sur- grees (lower temperature due with whole grains helps boost my ing the bran and the germ, along Instructions face and knead with whole to the honey in the recipe energy which, in turn, improves with over half of vitamins B1, 1. In a large bowl, dissolve sug- wheat flour until not real which will burn more easily). my running performance. The B2, B3, E, folic acid, calcium, ar in warm water. Sprinkle sticky - just pulling away 6. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto occasional ice cold beer after a phosphorus, zinc, copper, iron yeast over the top, and let from the counter, but still your baking sheet (I rec- long run doesn’t hurt, either - I and fiber. I mean, who needs all stand for about 10 minutes, sticky to touch. This may ommend lining the baking until foamy. take an additional 2 to 4 cups sheet with parchment pa- 2. Stir the olive oil and salt into of whole wheat flour. Place per). Press down with a fork the yeast mixture, then mix in a greased bowl, turning to ensure even cooking. in the whole wheat flour and once to coat the surface of the 7. Bake for about 15 - 20 min- 1 cup of the all-purpose flour dough. Cover with a dishtow- utes or until golden on the until dough starts to come el. Let rise in a warm place bottom of the cookie. The together. Tip dough out until doubled. cookies freeze very well and onto a surface floured with 3. Punch down, and divide into make a great snack! Enjoy. the remaining all-purpose 3 loaves. Place in greased 9 x flour, and knead until all of 5 inch loaf pans, and allow to Quinoa Salad with Dried Fruit the flour has been absorbed, rise until dough has topped and Nuts From AllRecipes.com and the ball of dough be- the pans by one inch. comes smooth, about 10 4. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 Ingredients minutes. Place dough in an degrees C) for 25 to 30 min- • 1 1/2 cups quinoa oiled bowl, and turn to coat utes; do not overbake. Lightly • 1/4 teaspoon salt the surface. Cover loosely brush the tops of loaves with • 3 1/2 cups water with a towel, and let stand in 2 tablespoons melted but- • 1 bunch green onions, a warm place until doubled ter or margarine when done chopped in size, about 1 hour. to prevent crust from getting • 3/4 cup chopped celery 3. When the dough is dou- hard. Cool completely • 1/2 cup raisins bled, tip the dough out onto • 1 pinch cayenne pepper a lightly floured surface, and Healthy Oatmeal Cookies From • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil divide into 2 pieces for 2 WholeGrainGourmet.com • 1 tablespoon distilled white thin crust, or leave whole to vinegar make one thick crust. Form Ingredients • 2 tablespoons lemon juice into a tight ball. Let rise for Dry ingredients • 2 tablespoons sesame oil about 45 minutes, until dou- • 1 cup whole wheat flour (a • 1/3 cup chopped fresh bled. pinch more depending on cilantro 4. Preheat the oven to 425 de- the moisture of the mix) • 3/4 cup chopped pecans grees F (220 degrees C). • 1 1/2 cups of Large Flake Roll a ball of dough with a Rolled Oats (smaller flake is Instructions rolling pin until it will not ok too) Bring the quinoa, salt, and wa- stretch any further. Then, • 1/2 tsp baking soda ter to a boil in a saucepan. Re- drape it over both of your • 1/2 tsp baking powder duce heat to medium-low, cover, fists, and gently pull the edg- • 1/2 tsp salt and simmer until the quinoa is es outward, while rotating • 1 Tbsp Cinnamon (I actual- tender, 20 to 25 minutes. Once the crust. When the circle ly use about 3 Tbsp--got to done, scrape into a large bowl, has reached the desired size, love cinnamon) and allow to cool for 20 min- place on a well oiled piz- • 1/2 tsp Nutmeg (optional) utes. Stir in the green onions, za pan. Top pizza with your celery, raisins, cayenne pep- favorite toppings, such as Wet ingredients per, vegetable oil, vinegar, lem- sauce, cheese, meats, or veg- • 1/2 cup honey on juice, and sesame oil. Allow etables. • 1/2 cup oil (corn, grapeseed to stand at room temperature 5. Bake for 16 to 20 minutes or olive) * you can also use for 1 hour to allow the flavors (depending on thickness) some applesauce to replace to blend. Stir in the cilantro and in the preheated oven, until some of the oil if you wish* pecans before serving. OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 37 ARTS Music, anyone! Kathryn Franke the Chair of the concert series, MSM Class of 2013 musicians and musical ensembles come from all around the coun- t’s that time of the year again. try to participate in the venue IThe time when summer has for the concert series. They love come to an end and we begin to the chapel’s extraordinary acous- welcome autumn. As the trees be- tics and the appreciative audienc- gin to change colors and the tem- es, which make the concerts an perature starts to drop, don’t let unforgettable experience for all those end-of-summer blues hold those who participate and attend. you back from having some fun Music can do amazing things. with some great entertainment! It has the power to capture feel- There are plenty of things to ing, emotion, and even histo- do in the area this month, but ry. It is one of our most power- perhaps one of the biggest at- ful means of communication, tractions is Music, Gettysburg!, and it can convey a message from which is a premier concert series an individual, a group, and even that features international, re- a country. So what better way to gional and local musical artists. open up the Music, Gettysburg! The concerts are directed at the series than to honor our country greater southern Pennsylvania re- by memorializing the anniversary gion, and the concerts are free of the September 11th attacks? and open to the public. No reser- This is just what the Gettys- vations or tickets are required for burg Chamber Orchestra (GCO) these concerts. It is a great oppor- did. The GCO has been operat- tunity to enrich your musical ex- ing for almost fifteen years now. posure and be introduced to art- Norman and Carolyn Nunamak- ists from many different genres er founded the ensemble in 1997, and regions. and the organization’s first con- Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra The concert series has been cert took place in May of 1998. made possible by the Lutheran The ensemble is fully profession- phony Orchestras as well as the the Chapel makeover. It is enti- at 4:00pm with the New Amster- Theological Seminary at Gettys- al, and it consists of members Shippensburg Festival Orchestra. tled “Our Favorite Things” and it day Trip and Mary Hammann. burg along with businesses and from the Gettysburg area in addi- She is involved with the Pennsyl- will take place on Sunday, Octo- On Sunday, April 1st at 3:00pm, individuals from the surround- tion to Harrisburg, Washington, vania Regional Ballet Orchestra, ber 9th at 4:00pm. As for the rest Copland’s Appalachian Spring ing area. Through their dedica- Baltimore and York. Its goal is to and she is the Principal Flute in of the year, there are many other will perform at the chapel. We tion and commitment to the arts, include as many Adams Coun- the Gettysburg Chamber Orches- chances to see some of the great will have a whole new type of they have collectively brought ty musicians as possible, both as tra. As you can see, her musical musical talent the area has to of- performance on Sunday, April us a musical experience that we members and soloists. This goal career has been very successful so fer. On Friday, November 11th at 22nd at 4:00pm as we witness will not soon forget. Unless oth- gives the group a very authentic far, and she brought her skill and 7:00pm, organist Christian Mark the up-and-coming talent of the erwise stated, all of the concerts and local feel, which enhances experience to the concert to make Lane will perform. On Sun- next generation through a perfor- in the series will all take place in their performance as a whole. it an unforgettable beginning to a day, November 20th at 4:00pm, mance by the Gettysburg Chil- the Church of the Abiding Pres- Using the music of John Rut- remarkable series. the Pavlish Stokes LaNasa Trio dren’s Choir. Nearing the end of ence, the chapel of the Gettys- ter, Gustav Mahler, and Tchai- The concert honored the anni- will take the stage. The follow- the series, the Gettysburg Cham- burg Seminary, which is located kovsky, the GCO brought the versary of the 2001 attacks, and ing Sunday on November 27th at ber Orchestra will perform on at 147 Seminary Ridge, Gettys- concert series to life on Septem- it was a powerful orchestral pro- 7:30pm, the concert is the Fes- Sunday, May 13th at 4:00pm. Fi- burg, Pennsylvania. ber 11th in the Gettysburg Semi- gram filled with passion and patri- tival Choral Vespers for Advent nally, bringing the concert series Seminary professor Gerald nary Chapel. Karen Botterbusch, otism. The Director of the GCO, with the Schola Cantorum of to a wonderful end on Sunday, Christianson founded the Mu- a long time resident of Gettys- Dr. Norman Nunamaker, decid- Gettysburg. Rounding up 2011 May 20th at 4:00pm is the Bos- sic, Gettysburg! organization in burg, was the featured soloist on ed to dedicate the performance of is A Christmas Offering on Sun- ton Shawm and Sackbut Ensem- 1980, and since then it has been the flute. Botterbusch’s accom- Mahler’s Adagietto to the victims day, December 18th at 7:00pm. ble with the Schola Cantorum of putting forth a musical series of plishments are quite impressive. and first responders of the attacks. The schedule for the concert Gettysburg. at least 15 concerts every year. She plays flute and piccolo with He says that “the Adagietto is one series continues into the New This is a series that you do According to Mark Oldenburg, the Harrisburg and York Sym- of the most expressive composi- Year and goes on until late May. not want to miss. Even a decade tions ever written and it is fitting The first concert of the New Year ago in 2001, Central PA Maga- to perform this work at this time. will take place on Friday, Janu- zine, the magazine of WITF-FM Plus, this year marks the 100th ary 27th at 7:30pm. Organist Fe- (the public radio station of Cen- anniversary of Mahler’s untimely lix Hell and guest pianist Grace tral Pennsylvania) named Music, death in 1911.” Kim will give us a musical per- Gettysburg! one of its “50 Fabu- This month, the concert that formance like no other. The next lous Finds” in its listening area. will take place is a benefit for concert is on Sunday, March 4th So don’t let the music end with the summer. Pick a concert that interests you in particular, or come to them all! But don’t miss out on this great experience as the Gettysburg area exhibits such amazing musical talent. They are all performances that will bring you to your feet, chanting for an encore. For more information about the concerts remaining in the Music, Gettysburg! sched- ule, please call 717-334-6286 ext. 2197 or email info@music- gettysburg.org or visit the website at www.musicgettysburg.org

For further information about the Gettysburg Chamber Orches- tra concert please call 717-334- 5508. More information is also available at the Seminary’s web site: www.ltsg.edu/ 38 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 MOUNT SPORTS Women’s field hockey Megan Kinsella MSM Class of 2013 I joined the local lacrosse team and fell in love with the game. rowing up, I was the resi- Practices went really well, I soon Gdent tomboy in my house. proved myself to be one of the I was the only girl at St. Thomas better players on the field, and I More middle school who played was able to thrive in my ultimate football and Red Rover with the tomboy abilities. The day before boys at recess. In fifth grade, I our very first game, Coach pulled vehemently refused to wear the a big box out of her car and uniform skirt that girls tradition- started handing out uniforms. A ally wear in Catholic schools, rush of excitement welled up in- and instead donned the male side me as I got closer and clos- equivalent: straight-legged, bag- er to the front of the line. How- gy khaki pants. When my older ever, I stopped dead in my tracks sister Caitlin requested that her when I saw what she pulled out room be painted an obnoxious of the box. To my horror, I was shade of pink, my parents decid- handed a white jersey and… ed to throw my room into the gasp! A short, navy blue SKIRT! mix. Coming home from school I couldn’t believe my eyes. Is this and discovering the monstrosi- a joke? I have got to be dream- ty that had occurred, I refused to ing. Is it even humanly possible sleep in a room that looked like to play a sport in something as it had bubble gum smeared on girly as that thing?? Needless to the walls. The only way that my say, I was able to get over my ini- So what the heck do my child- in order to be ready to contin- eers play games at the All Sports poor mother was able to coax me tial shock. I soon discovered that hood antics have to do with ue conditioning and practicing Complex off of Route 15 in into bed that night was by mak- I could just as easily check some- sports here at the Mount? This our stick skills,” said Strub. “We Frederick. Be sure to come on ing an oath to go out and buy one into the mud and trample month I’m covering a skirt- have team runs during prac- out and support our stylish, the newly released Star Wars ac- my opponents while wearing a ed Mount team that looks just tice, as well as drills for our stick skirted schoolgirls (please par- tion figures the next day, as a skirt as I could in any other uni- as fashionable and is one hun- skills, and scrimmaging in order don the alliteration) this winter, peace offering to atone for the form style. To be honest and just dred times tougher than I was to apply what we practiced in and then again second semester atrocious crime. a little bit vain, I soon became in middle school: the Wom- the drills.” during their spring season! With all this being said, there the toughest skirt-wearing ten en’s Field Hockey team. Estab- The Field Hockey team start- “It is so awesome that we came a time in my young life year old in all of Pennsylvania— lished in 2008, this club team ed off their season with an excit- are becoming more competi- that I was faced with a very dif- and I looked pretty darn good, has made huge strides over that ing win over American Universi- tive and winning more games,” ficult situation. In sixth grade, too. past few years, developing into a ty on September 10th. Freshman says Strub. However, her favor- competitive force that is not to Maggie Metress came through ite part of being on the Mount’s be messed with. Junior Samantha for the Mounties in the second Field Hockey team is the joy Strub commented: “Our team is half, scoring off of an assist from that comes from being able to pretty new, and still developing. junior Shelby Servais. A week do what she loves: “It is such a We have slowly been growing later, the women held a tourna- blessing that I’m able to contin- and becoming more competitive ment here at the Mount, where ue playing the sport I love while every year. We are more competi- they hosted Navy and Towson. in college. I always have a lot tive this season than we were last After losing to Navy 3-0, the of fun— I enjoy taking a break Spring. Yet the main purpose is girls fought back to beat Tow- from schoolwork to come play to stay active, play the sport we son 1-0, putting their record at 2 some hockey. It helps me relieve love, and have fun!” and 1. On October 1st, the wom- stress, stay in shape, and make The girls welcomed 12 new en will travel to Messiah College friends.” Let me speak on behalf players to their team this year, to face Messiah and Temple Uni- of all my fellow students here at and the squad is stronger than versity, then to University of Vir- the Mount when I agree with her ever. They are led by fearless se- ginia to play UVA, Christopher whole-heartedly: we all could nior captains Amy Zatt and Sar- Newport, and George Washing- use a little fun, healthy stress-re- ah Platt (yes, I’m sure the rhyme ton on the 23rd. The women end lief every now and then. was quite intentional), and their Fall season on October 30th Well, that’s all for this week, Em- coached by the Mount’s Head of against Drexel and The College mitsburg. Enjoy the fall weath- Public Safety, the one and only of New Jersey at Drexel. er and I’ll see you in November! Barry Titler. Over the summer, Soon after Fall ball ends, the the women worked hard in prep- women will start training again To read other articles by Megan, aration for this year. “We all were for their indoor season. Dur- visit the Authors section of Em- running and doing some lifting ing the winter, the Mountain- mitsburg.net. OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 39 PASTOR’S DESK

forts that you so often take for granted. The work of ministry A prayer for us this Autumn lies before you, but the weight is no longer on you. Realizing Pastor Tiffany Kromer savored and there is always more The vivid, brilliant colors that You should take a walk. Re- that you are not the center of the Trinity United Methodist Church than enough to share with others. burst forth from the mountains ally, take a walk. Pray. As you are universe, that there is a sympho- How quickly I forget this. took our breath away. walking, get out of yourself. No- ny of precious living things pro- “When despair for the world In Monday moments like these, Anticipating many more zom- tice the vast world around you. claiming praise to God alongside grows in me, the most helpful thing for me to do bified-frenzied-go-go-go Mon- Take in the gift of panoramic and beyond you, you feel as light and I wake in the night at is breathe, deeply and slowly, and days ahead, I recently decide that beauty. The mountains, speck- as a feather. And as you approach the least sound in fear pray, deeply and slowly. In Mon- I must write myself a note, to read led with warm hues of yellow the door, a simple prayer pours of what my life and my day moments like these, words can during these busy days of autumn, and red and orange welcome out of your mouth--“Thank you children’s lives may be -- be hard to find. Usually the words as a way to gently nudge me back you into their colorful embrace. God.” Opening the door, walk- I go and lie down where from my mouth organize them- to the “Jesus Way”, instead of fol- Listen to the choirs of trees hum ing inside, your heart is full and the wood drake rests in selves in a prayer like this: “God, lowing the “Tiffany way” (which a gentle breeze. Notice how it overflowing, saying, “Here I am, his beauty on the water, grant me strength, grant me wis- always brings me to an abrupt, awakens your skin.. Kindly ac- Lord.” and the great heron feeds. dom, grant me courage. Clear my dead end). The leaves will soon cept the calm greeting of the I come into the peace of mind of my frenzied thoughts and be falling, apples are ripening, the cows, sheep, goats and hors- All things will happen in wild things who do not reveal to me your miracles. Guide art of picking perfect pumpkins es you meet along the way. Lin- their own time, with God tax their lives with fore- my feet. Steady my pace. Hold my will commence, and so I write a ger a while. Let your eyes study walking by your side. Now, go, thought or grief. hand and lead me to do your work note to self. I’ll put it on my bed- the wild grasses and plethora of take a walk---Tiff I come into the presence of in the world.” side table to read on those manic rocks you encounter. Look up. still water. Last year, my husband and I Mondays (or terrible Tuesdays, or See the expanse of the blue sky My prayer for us this autumn is And I feel above me the day- moved from Atlanta, Georgia, to wacky Wednesdays, thirsty Thurs- stretching far and wide. Enjoy that we will be in constant awe of blind stars waiting with the Catoctin Mountains of Mary- days, and frenzied Fridays). the playful pictures displayed in God’s glorious creation, the beauty their light. land to begin a great adventure in Hello familiar friend, the gallery of the clouds, beck- that is the change of seasons. May For a time I rest in the grace ministry in the United Methodist Life can get hectic. Life can oning you to stay a while and we receive and open God’s gift of of the world, and am Church.. Living in the south most get messy. Life can get stressful. join them on play date. That creation every day, seeing God’s free.” –Wendell Berry of our collective life, we knew that But, there is more to life than shining sun! Bask in its warmth! presence and guidance through the much awaited us as we settled in all of that. When was the last Do you hear its gentle words of beauty surrounding us. In doing wake to the sound of my alarm. our new home. time you stopped, I mean real- assurance, “God is here. God is so, may we be revived by Christ’s I I hit the snooze button. 15 more It has now been a little over a ly stopped, and looked around with you. God loves you.”? peace and feel free to be all God minutes. Just 15 more minutes. year since making the big move, at the world around you? When At some point, the wind will has called us to be. I am not a morning person. and my husband and I cannot was the last time you stood in wildly interrupt you, or maybe it And, it’s Monday. Monday. imagine living anywhere else. the sanctuary of your backyard will be a barking dog or a car’s The congregation of Trinity United My husband gently nudges me With each change of season, we and let the birds and bugs ser- screeching tires. After a while, Methodist Church invite you to join to get up. With a groan, I do my find ourselves in awe of the emer- enade you? When was the last let it interrupt and bid you “Go. them for traditional Sunday worship best zombie-like walk to the kitch- gent beauty blooming around us. I time you sat in the silence and Go back. It’s time to go back!” every Sunday at 9 am. To learn more en. I eat. I get dressed. My dog and remember the first change of sea- listened to your soul, I mean re- And so you go back. Back to about Trinity visit them on-line at husband say goodbye with kisses son we witnessed, summer to fall. ally listen? your house, back to the com- http://trinityumc.yolasite.com/ and I’m on my way. Another full week of work ahead. So much to do. Will I get it all done? What should I do first today? What phone calls should I make? What meetings do I have? What will I preach next Sunday. These are the questions I ask myself as I drive to work. These questions evoke that familiar feeling, that familiar incli- nation within me to always rush- rush-rush, go-go-go, do-do-do. If I am not careful, life quickly be- comes a race, instead of a journey; a burden, instead of a gift; a fast food drive-thru, instead of a de- lectable feast where every morsel is 40 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 IN MY OWN WORDS Just a spoonful of sugar Jackie Fennington ule, which means parents adjust ing in the Fall would also make MSM Class of 2010 to a new schedule as well to ac- it easier to pick up again in the commodate getting their kids to Spring when the weather is nice. s summer comes to an end, and from school, sports practic- Rather than Spring being a new Athis crisp, fresh air gets me es, group projects, etc. We usual- beginning, Spring is the time we thinking about new beginnings. ly hold off on making resolutions should kick it back into gear and Spring is typically known for be- until Jan. 1, when we should re- follow through with the resolu- ing the season of new beginnings, ally be making these resolutions tions we made in the Fall. but I beg to differ. in the Fall, in the heart of change. After all this talk about mak- Fall kicks off the beginning of a By January we are already in the ing resolutions and how to stick new school year, a new sports sea- middle of our routines. We are to them, I have not actually made son and the start of the new fiscal more likely to stick with the reso- a resolution for myself. Maybe I year. People return from summer lution if we make it when we be- should practice what I preach! I vacation to a fresh start at work. It gin a new experience, not when have very high expectations of my- may be the start of a new job or a we are halfway through it. I can’t self to exercise this Fall in hopes of new role, like becoming a parent, remember when I ever kept a new losing all that baby weight. Seeing a sibling, or maybe an aunt or un- year’s resolution I made in Jan- that I have never stuck to an exer- cle. If you are not a student or a uary, which is sad to admit, but cise plan, I fear the excuses I will parent, you may be reminded that how many people can say the make for myself to not exercise. I it’s that time of year again by the same thing? can just see it now – I will start school bus you got stuck behind Who wants to start a running telling myself things like, Well, I on the way to work, which ended schedule in the dead of winter? should really take a nap rather than up making you late for work with Wouldn’t you rather hibernate go for a run because I have missed Lucy Anne made her appearance on the first day of fall. Oh how the winds have changed. its many stops on one road. Why in sweats and eat warm, yummy so much sleep with the baby, and can’t all the children who live food! I find it easier to make ex- Of course you can have dessert – you nancy when I know the only next nice breeze coming through the along that road gather at one stop cuses to skip out on my resolution just had a baby! I will become my step is the baby, it still feels like a window that made me fall in love to make things easier? Now you when I have been in the habit of own worst enemy. surprise. I don’t think I will ever with the day already. By the time have to leave five minutes earlier not doing whatever the resolu- This Fall is a significant new fully understand the concept un- my alarm went off, I was ready just to beat the bus! As traffic pat- tion was for the past few months. beginning for me because I will til I am holding our baby in my to shower and did not have to terns change with buses and min- Start an exercise schedule in the become a parent any day now. My arms. Even then it may still feel rely on the snooze button to save ivans taking over the roads in the Fall when the weather is crisp and non-parent years are over, forev- surreal. me…twice. I enjoyed my break- mornings and afternoons, street fresh, try to push through the er! No matter how you word this The day before my due date, fast without rushing and took off corners become crowded with ei- tough winter months and then fin- concept – You’re going to be a Thursday, Sept. 15, was a unique for work ready to seize the day. ther children waiting for the bus ish up strong in the Spring time. mother, you’re never going to be a day that got me thinking about Knowing that my due date or crossing guards waiting for Getting in a good few months of non-parent again, you have a baby Fall and new beginnings. I woke was the next day, I worked with children walking to school. exercise would probably make us coming, etc. – it still sends chills up about 30 minutes before my a sense of urgency to finish-up In my mind, Fall is the begin- feel better about ourselves by the down my spine (in a good way). alarm, which was perfect. It was projects just in case I would not ning of new routines, which de- time winter rolls around and we Every time someone says this to enough time for me to enjoy the be there the next day. I came to fine our every movement of every begin slacking on the exercise and me, as if I don’t already know, it morning in bed without fall- a good stopping point on all of day. Students dive into anoth- indulging more in the food, espe- feels almost exactly like the time ing back asleep and feeling even my projects, which felt incredibly er school year with a new sched- cially around the holidays. Start- I first found out I was expecting. more sluggish when the alarm productive. At the same time, my Even now, at the end of my preg- would sound. There was even a phone was ringing off the hook with family and friends wonder- ing if I had gone into labor and if not, whether I was ready or not. How can you truly be ready for that event? Regardless, everyone remembered the baby’s due date Specializing In: and let me know they were think- ing about us. It was an incredi- Water Pump Repair ble feeling to know how loved our Water Treatment & Plumbing baby is already. Throughout the day I was un- stoppable and full of energy. The winds had changed that day, lit- erally and figuratively, and were fresh and crisp with Autumn air. Even the radio host com- mented on the winds changing. When I heard that, it remind- ed me of Mary Poppins, floating in the air ever so gracefully with her umbrella, and how she says she moves on to another family when the winds change and her work with the Banks children was done. As the winds change, let it re- mind us that this Fall is anoth- er new beginning, a fresh start to something new, anything we choose. Let us set new goals at home, at work, in our person- al lives, wherever we may need to see change. And when the road gets bumpy, remember that just a spoonful of sugar helps the medi- cine go down!

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uch like the old riddle about family, a realtor, church, school, realistic expectations. and be comfortable with the home- efit for the Homeowner is that Mthe chicken and the egg, it sports, etc. There are 3 main things 2. Insurance - Most Builders doing owner and the scope of the project. they should have design that fits sometimes can be difficult to de- you can check with little effort -Li- business as full time Remodelers Things can change rapidly in this their budget and can obtain multi- termine the first steps in design- cense, Insurance, and Experience. will already have sufficient Gen- industry. I may have a first meeting ple bids. The benefit to the Build- ing your custom building project. 1. License - Companies doing eral Liability, Workman’s Com- with you, have room in my sched- er is that they have developed a re- Should you find an architect and home improvement work pensation, and Automobile In- ule, and be very interested. The next lationship with the Homeown- get plans drawn up first or should in Maryland are required to surance. Do your diligence and day I may get 2 or 3 verbal commit- er and have been compensated for you find a reputable builder to walk maintain a valid Home Im- ask for a copy of their policy. If ments on other projects that I had their expertise. The best approach you through the process? My ex- provement Commission Li- you have any doubts about the been working on for months. is to be open during your interview perience has shown that selecting cense Number (MHIC#). This Builder’s policy, I suggest show- One of the most important things meeting and make sure both you your builder first leads to a smooth- number, by law, must be dis- ing a copy of the policy to the to do at your appointment is to and the Builder agree to a financial er, quicker and more cost effective played on any company vehi- insurance agent that handles SHARE YOUR BUDGET! Many compensation package. building process. Here is a guide to cles and in any public advertis- your personal home, auto, etc. people are reluctant to do this be- Step 3 is to hire the Architect and help develop your plan: ing. You may call the Maryland 3. Experience - This item is not as cause they think that the bid will have drawings prepared. My expe- Step 1 in the process is to es- Home Improvement Commis- easily quantified as #1 or #2 come back at this same number. The rience has shown it is usually bet- tablish a budget. If a lender is in- sion at 410-230-6309 to con- above. We could spend a lot of truth is, my price will not change ter to use a architect or designer volved, you can start by deciding firm that a specific license # is time trying to answer the ques- whether I know your budget or not. with whom the Builder is comfort- on a comfortable monthly pay- valid and also to check to see if tion of when exactly a person is I break my estimates down into 50 able or has recommended. The main ment. Your lender can take this in- the License Holder has had any considered “qualified”. Here is different categories to determine my reason is that there is a lot of com- formation, factor in the length of complaints filed against them the short answer. Get references, costs for the job. My costs will not in- munication between the architect the loan, settlement costs, and ap- in the past. You may also do call them, and ask lots of ques- crease or decrease based on your tar- and Builder during the design pro- propriate interest rate (based on this online at http://www.dllr. tions! Here are some questions get budget. So, why is it so important cess. Even if you hire your own Ar- your credit score) to determine the state.md.us/license/mhic/. The that need to be asked of refer- that I know your budget, you ask? chitect and you share your budget, amount that the loan will contrib- Home Improvement Commis- ences. Was the Builder and his/ Knowing your budget will help de- they may still design something that ute toward your construction proj- sion has the duty to adjudicate her subcontractor’s polite and fine a scope of work that is realistic. is over your budget. Architects, by ect. Add in other sources of funds any complaints between Con- courteous? Did the project be- Typically, a Builder can pretty quick- nature, are artistic people and usu- (savings, family gifts, or sweat eq- tractor and Homeowner, and gin and end as promised? What ly define a price range for a specified ally have a desire to design “unique” uity), and you arrive at your total has the authority to suspend kind of problems arose and home improvement or custom home or interesting features into the proj- construction budget. or revoke licenses. Do not au- were they handled to your sat- project based on experience. If your ect. This is usually a good thing. Step 2 in the process is to find a tomatically disqualify a Con- isfaction? Were the Subcontrac- budget is not within this price range, But, these elements will add to the Builder to guide you through the tractor with a complaint against tors respectful of your proper- then now is the time to either re-de- cost. Involving the Builder during designing and building process. them. Hear their side of the ty? Were there unexpected costs fine the scope of work or change the the process to help “steer” the size Prequalify a Builder(s) that you story. Sometimes, Contractors out of your control? Would you budget before you and the Builder and design should avoid the disap- think you may want to work with find themselves in impossible hire this Builder again? The ref- spend a lot of time on a project that is pointment of not being able to build on your project through friends, situations with clients with un- erences should be for projects not feasible with the established bud- something to which you’ve become that are similar in size and scope get. emotionally attached. to the home improvement that I know many of you are thinking A good set of drawings or blue- you are considering. right now how do you know if you prints are an invaluable tool for com- Once you have pre-qualified the are getting a fair price if you are only municating the scope of the proj- Builder, schedule an appointment working with one Builder. The best ect between Homeowner, Build- and meet to discuss your project. solution is to breakdown the Build- er, and Subcontractors. If the proj- Ideally, this meeting will be at the er/Homeowner relationship into a ect requires a building permit, you site of the home improvement, but two-stage process. The first stage is a will need a set of drawings to submit may also be at the Builder’s place of design agreement where the scope of with your permit application any- business. Communicate your ideas work includes everything necessary way. Your Builder can also help the and be receptive to new ones. Re- to produce a set of working blue- Architect with respect to local code member this is essentially an inter- prints. The contractor, architect, and issues and common building prac- view process for both the Builder engineer are compensated for all of tices. Typically, an Architect will de- and the Homeowner. This is a two- their time. At this point, the Home- sign projects for many jurisdictions. way street! Not only does the home- owner is free to obtain bids on the Building codes can change from owner need to feel comfortable with completed blueprints. county to county and township to the builder, but the builder also has The second stage is the actu- township. A Builder will usually be to have room in his/her schedule al construction. The obvious ben- more knowledgeable on local codes than an Architect because the con- tractor is dealing with local build- ing inspectors on other projects fre- quently. When I am involved at the design stage, I also involve my engi- neer for critical design conditions. This helps to avoid making signifi- cant design changes later when the engineer wants to change structural elements. Step 4 is to commence construc- tion of your project. Whether you continue the project with your original Builder or select another Builder for the construction phase, all the hard work and detailed prep- aration you went through in the first 3 steps should pay off for you as the actual construction begins. By involving a Builder from the be- ginning, there should be minimal surprises and you should feel confi- dent that your vision will become a reality. If you are considering a remodeling or building project, please visit our website at www.wivellhomes.com and we will be happy to help you get started on the right path. 42 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 COMPLEMENTARY CORNER Words… creating our world and health

Renee Lehman us saying things like, “Don’t screw this up” or “I’m not very good Part 2 at…” Sometimes we hear the Bul- ly’s voice speaking through others s I wrote in Part 1 of Words around us: “You can’t do that” or Alast month: what you say mat- “You’ll probably mess up.” Finally, ters! Words have power! Words can sometimes we are the voice of the teach, guide, encourage, inspire, Bully for others: “That’s not how I reassure and unite. Words can would do it” or “That won’t do any also destroy visions and dreams, good.” Recognize the Bully’s voice! and tear relationships apart. With It shouts! It makes you feel con- words, we both create life and de- stricted, contracted, and even para- stroy life. noid. Did you pay attention to your inner voice over the past month? Practices to Minimize What types of words did you tend the INNER Bully The Bully Turning it Upside Down to use when speaking to yourself Call the Bully by name when it is or to others? Were they effective yelling at you. Ask yourself, “Real- “You can’t do that” “I can do that and I might even be good at it” in generating possibilities for your- ly?” “Is this true for me?” Thank “That’s too risky” “Yes, it may be risky, but maybe it’s time that I take a risk” self and others? Or, did they tend the Bully for sharing, and send it to create “shut down” and “stuck- on its way. Take the Bully’s words, “You’re not good at ______” “I am willing to be a beginner at ______” ness?” twist them, and turn them upside “You didn’t do it perfectly” “You’re right, I am only human” What strategies can you develop down. The Bully will not appreci- to be a better listener of the words ate this. There will be more shout- “You’ll probably mess it up” “I am willing to make a mess” that you use to converse with your- ing. You will gain more wisdom, “You don’t deserve this, you’ll fail” “You’re wrong. I do deserve this, and even if I do fail, it self and others? What steps can you and the Buddy will give you more won’t be the end of the world” take to help make your word choic- peace. As you do this, the Bully will es more beneficial for you and the often recede to the shadows. world? Continue reading this arti- that carries fear-provoking or of you being the voice of the Bully to you have a tendency to give ad- cle for some suggestions. Also, you could try the following: painful associations. someone else, try the following tips: vice, to fix, to correct, to teach, 1. Take a minute and write down 1. Make no assumptions! Do not etc.? Then after observing your- Listening the areas of your personal life These words have power! Use your even begin to think that you self, change your tendency and We all tend to hear at least two that the Bully speaks most Buddy voice to then change ev- know what another person is just listen. How is the conversa- voices in our head. The inner voice loudly. ery stressful word in your descrip- thinking! tion then different? Also, when that speaks with wisdom tends to 2. Take a minute and write down tion to something more freeing, 2. Simply listen! Is it possible to having a conversation with some- be a peaceful voice. Let’s call it where in your life you mistake exciting, or calming. For example, listen newly to another as if one, practice staying silent and “Buddy.” We can hear Buddy’s the voice of the Bully for the if you wrote “I’m nervous,” see if you have never heard this per- attentive (just listen) for an extra voice saying, “Great job” or “Wow, truth? Build a list of the Bul- it could be replaced by “I’m excit- son speak before? second longer than usual before that was easier than I thought.” It ly’s favorite sayings. ed.” As you become aware of the 3. Make no comparisons! Listen you respond. Notice how often can make you feel open, freed-up, 3. Then take five minutes and Bully’s favorite sayings, and change without comparing what one the other person will have more and like smiling. write down a description your words, its voice will begin to person says to what another to say. In contrast, the other inner voice of your life. Don’t lift your fade. The Buddy’s voice of wisdom has said. Finally, practice asking more may speak with greater authority pen; just write without edit- will become more prominent, and 4. Again, simply listen! Can you skillful questions that reveal about our life. Let us call this in- ing yourself and without self- you will begin to have more peace- listen without thinking about how much you care and are con- ner voice “Bully.” It shouts, shrieks, judgment. ful thoughts. (Exercise from Mar- what you are going to say in cerned. Questions that begin and is based in fear. We hear the 4. Then look over your descrip- tha Beck, Finding Your Inner Voice response? with “WHY” tend to make peo- Bully’s voice coming from inside of tion, looking for each word in the July 2011 issue of O, the ple feel like they have to explain Oprah Magazine.) Other things that you can prac- or defend themselves. Reflect on Practices to Mini- tice include observing over a set how you might respond to some- mize the OUTER Bully period of time what your tenden- one asking you, “Why did you It will take practice to have more cies are when you are in conver- do that?” “WHAT and HOW” healing conversations with “others.” sation with someone. For exam- questions tend to be more open- To work on decreasing the chances ple, rather than just listening, do ended and keep the conversation moving. Now, observe how you feel when you are asked, “What made you decide to do that?” This may create a different feel- ing inside of you.

“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.” (Buddha)

How do you want to be a healing presence in the world today? If this topic interests you and you would like to read more I would recommend the resource discussed in this article and the book Danc- ing with the Ten Thousand Things (2004) by Tom Balles.

Renee Lehman is a licensed acu­ puncturist and physical therapist with over 20 years of health care experience.­ Her office is located at 249B York Street in Gettysburg, PA. She can be reached at 717-752- 5728. OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 43 FITNESS AND HEALTH

minutes before the first bead hits “Really, I was just starting to get the floor. Your environment, spe- cool.” Expert answers to your cifically the temperature and hu- midity, certainly plays a role, but About the author: Inga Olsen is the effects are relatively mild, espe- the amount you sweat is very in- Club Manager and NSPA Certi- cially for healthy folks. In fact, dividualized as well. When you’re fied Conditioning Specialist and health questions physically active, your core body Nutrition and Weight Manage- much of the research these days is focused on the potential health temperature rises and the body ment Specialist at Anytime Fitness Inga Olsen like to avoid calories that ear- benefits of coffee, rather than looks for an easy way to dissipate in Thurmont. To submit a ques- Anytime Fitness ly in the morning, coffee is an any health risks. heat. So, the next time you’re tion for future articles, please con- Personal Trainer excellent alternative. The caf- sweating and someone mentions tact the author at ThurmontMD@ feine in coffee is considered a that you look hot, just tell them, anytimefitness.com. Question: I’ve been having a central nervous system stimu- Question: I was in the gym the tough time with my energy lev- lant and will provide a boost of other day and I overheard a guy els for my 6am workouts. I was energy, though the effect varies talking about his “No Pain, No thinking coffee might help with greatly among individuals. Caf- Gain” weightlifting philosophy. Moderation is the Healthy this, but it seems like it’s always feine is actually considered an Do I need to adopt this attitude getting mixed reviews. Any cause ergogenic aid, meaning it en- for my own workouts to see re- way to Weight Loss for concern before a workout? hances physical performance. In sults? the right amounts, caffeine has Answer: First things first. If been shown to reduce the per- Answer: No, not necessarily. It Linda Stultz ple either go overboard with you’re experiencing low energy ception of effort during a work- is true that weight training ses- Certified Fitness Trainer/ strict diets that are complete- levels, and you’re not necessari- out, which means your workout sions can be intense, resulting in Therapist ly unlivable or they don’t watch ly focused on fat loss, try having will seem easier than it actual- micro-tears and subsequent mus- what they eat at all. As I stat- a small breakfast, or even a bar ly is. Not bad for a little cup o’ cle soreness for a day or two af- oderation is the way to ed above, when trying to loose or a shake, before you go work- joe, huh? Keep in mind, coffee terward. This is completely nor- Mmaintaining the good weight you do need to keep out. This will definitely provide does increase heart rate, respi- mal, and as the body heals itself, health God gave us. The rea- tract of what you are eating the much-needed energy you’re ratory rate and blood pressure, the muscle fibers gradually be- son we become overweight and make some changes. No looking for. However, if you’re and it can make you a bit jittery come larger and stronger. This is is not from eating well, get- one likes to journal their food trying to drop body fat and you’d if you’re a newbie. Luckily, these the essence of strength training. ting enough exercise and tak- intake but it is a successful tool However, if he was implying that ing care of ourselves. For what- with weight loss. Most people a workout is only effective if pain ever reason, we get so wrapped could just modify their eating is involved, he is flat wrong. Mild up in our busy lives that, be- habits, add a little exercise and discomfort is common at the end fore we know it, we are 5 or watch the pounds slowly disap- of a hard set, as fatigue starts to 10 pounds overweight, or even pear. What we need to realize set in, but actual pain is never a more. Sometimes we even see is that the weight did not ac- good sign during a workout. If the weight creeping up on us, cumulate over night and it is you’re experiencing this, it usu- but we think we can take care certainly not going to disap- ally means you’re severely over- of it later. By the time later pear over night. Small chang- working a muscle or you’ve suf- comes around, we are so over- es in your life and especially fered an injury. whelmed and confused about patience will bring you the re- how to get the weight off and, sults you are looking for. Mod- of course, we want it off NOW, eration and motivation are the Question: Do I really need to that we give up on even try- two great words in my vocabu- sweat profusely to get in a good ing. This just leads to gaining lary. Remembering these words workout, or is this another fit- more weight. Get a handle on and using them will bring you ness myth? the problem when you see that the weight loss success you are first 5 pounds. looking for. Answer: Myth all the way! Sweat- It is true that, in order to Check with your doctor, nu- ing and the overall quality of loose weight you need to lower tritionist, support group or a your workout do not go hand in or maintain your present calo- trainer if you are not sure where hand. Workout quality depends rie intake while increasing your to begin. Everyone needs a little on the type of activity, the in- daily activities to burn more help sometimes. The successful tensity and the duration. Sweat- calories. The trap most people people are the ones that ask for ing is simply a way for your over- fall into is lowering their calor- it. Join the people that are im- heated body to cool itself…that’s ic intake too much while not proving their health for the fu- it. Some people sweat from the increasing their exercise level at ture and their quality of life in very beginning of physical activ- all. In doing this, they confuse the present. Moderation is so ity and others end up doing 30 their body into thinking that it much easier to live with than is being starved and therefore it strict, unhealthy diets. Moder- holds on to every bite of food ation in everything in our lives consumed. Weight loss is dif- will help with blood pressure, ferent for each person, but in joint pain, stress and our rela- most cases starting out slowly tionships in general. I know how and developing healthy eating life can get in high gear and we habits is the key to steady, per- have trouble hitting the breaks to manent weight loss. slow down. Let’s just try to run When I decided to write in neutral and see if things glide this article about moderation, along a little smoother. a very wise friend of mine told If you have any questions, me that “We can’t handle do- please call 717-334-6009. ing things in moderation”. I Keep Moving! You’ll be glad realized she was so right. Peo- you did. 44 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 ASTRONOMY

Her daughter, Andromeda, starts with the NE corner star of Pegasus’’ The night sky of October Square, and goes NE with two more bright stars in a row. It is from Professor Wayne Wooten the middle star, beta Andromeda, that we proceed about a quarter or October 2011, the moon is the way to the top star in the W Ffirst quarter on October 4th. of Cassiopeia, and look for a faint The moon will be full on October blur with the naked eye. M-31, the 12th; this full moon is the Hunter’s Andromeda Galaxy, is the most dis- Moon. The waning gibbous moon, tant object visible with the naked just past full, passes five degrees eye, lying about 2.5 million light north of Jupiter on October 13th. years distant. It is a bigger version of The last quarter moon rises at mid- our own Galaxy, which it may col- night on October 20th. The wan- lide with about three billion years ing crescent moon passes six de- from now. Our fine image this grees below Mars on the morning of month is of the closest galaxy com- September 21st, the same morning parable to our own Milky Way. Note as the peak for the Orionid Meteor its two smaller companions, M-32 Shower. New Moon is on October and M-110. 26th, and the slender crescent moon Below Andromeda is her hero, lies just east of Mercury and Venus Perseus. In his hand is a star most in the SW twilight on October 28th. appropriate for Halloween, Algol. Halloween will see a slender crescent This star “winks” at us for six out M-31, the Andromeda Galaxy, is the most distant object visible moon in the SW evening twilight, of every 70 hours, which Arabic with the naked eye, lying about 2.5 million light years distant. while Jupiter at its brightest dom- astronomers centuries ago found inates the eastern sky for trick or sky just below the triangle of Aries evening. By the end of October, it the sky map for the month. spooky, hence naming it “the treaters, rising in the east at sunset. and south of Andromeda. Any will be only the three stars in the The brightest star of the northern ghoul” . We know today it is an Venus returns to the evening sky small scope will reveal what Galileo handle of Dipper still visible in the hemisphere, Vega dominates the sky eclipsing binary system, with the at the end of this month, having past marveled at 400 years ago; four northwestern twilight. By contrast, overhead. To the northeast of Vega is larger, cooler orange star covering behind the sun in the last few weeks. large moons, all bigger or simi- the Little Dipper, while much faint- Deneb, the brightest star of Cygnus 80% of its smaller, hotter neigh- It is briefly joined by Mercury for a lar to ours in size, orbit it in a line er, is always above our northern ho- the Swan. To the south is Altair, the bor during the “wink”. At the foot few days in late October and early along Jupiter’s equator. So get out rizon here along the Gulf Coast. brightest star of Aquila the Eagle, of Perseus, the hero of “Clash of November. While Mercury quick- the old scope, and focus on Jupiter To the southwest, Antares and the third member of the three bright the Titans” is the fine Pleiades star ly passes between us and the Sun in for a constantly changing dance of Scorpius also set soon after twi- stars that make the Summer Triangle cluster, the “seven sisters” that re- mid November, Venus will be pull- the moons around the giant world. light, and will be gone by month’s so obvious in the NE these clear au- veal hundreds of cluster members ing away from the Sun, appearing Bigger scopes real much detail in its end. East of the Scorpion’s tail is the tumn evenings. in large binoculars. This might be higher and brighter in the evening clouds, which have now returned teapot shape of Sagittarius, which To the east, the square of Pegasus the best object in the sky for bin- sky for the next six months. But to their familiar two racing stripes. marks the heart of our Milky Way is a beacon of fall. South of it lies the ocular users. Venus reaches the edge of her orbit For over a year, the south equatori- galaxy. Looking like a cloud of steam only bright star of Fall, Fomalhaut. If Winter will be coming soon, as seen from Earth next May, and al belt faded, but has now returned coming out of the teapot’s spout is the southern skies of Fall look sparse, and in the NE we see yellow then quickly retrogrades between us to its normal prominence. Its famed the fine Lagoon Nebula, M-8, easily it is because we are looking away Capella rising. It is the bright- and the Sun, to transit the sun as a Great Red Spot is still its most dis- visible with the naked eye. This stel- from our Galaxy into the depths of est star of Auriga the Charioteer, black dot in front of our star. This tinctive cloudmark. lar nursery is ablaze with new stars intergalactic space. The constellation and a giant star the same temper- will next happen on the late evening Mars lies in Gemini in the morn- and steamers of gas and dust blown Cassiopeia makes a striking W, rising ature as our sun, but at least 100X of June 5, 2012, which is what got ing sky, far from the earth and quite about in their energetic births. In the in the NE as the Big Dipper sets in more luminous. A little farther all the Mayan 2012 hype started as faint. Saturn is totally invisible, pass- same binocular field just north of the the NW. Polaris lies about midway south, below the Pleiades, orange their Venus based calendar resets, ing behind the Sun on October Lagoon is M-20, the Trifid Nebula. between them. She contains many Aldeberan rises. It is the eye of very similar and just as ominous as 13th, but returning to the morning Many other clusters visible in binoc- nice star clusters for binocular users Taurus the bull, with the V shaped our own Y2K a decade ago. dawn sky in November. ulars as you sweep northward along in her outer arm of our Milky Way, Hyades star cluster around it mak- Jupiter dominates the eastern The Big Dipper falls lower each the Milky Way, and are plotted on extending to the NE now. ing the head of the bull.

of bright foliage of the Fall season. ish by dusk. Have older children car- to your compost heap. Mix 1 can of layer of mulch that’s left on top of your ry flashlights and wear reflective cloth- cola (not diet), 1 cup of dish soap, and vegetable garden’s soil and then say, Almanac Holidays: Columbus Day falls on ing or costumes if they plan to be out ¼ cup of ammonia and add to 20-gal- “Good Night” until the next growing Monday, October 10th and United after dark. And above all, make sure to lon sprayer and fill to top. Saturate the season! Mid-Atlantic Regional Weath- Nations Day is celebrated on Monday, check all of their “goodies” when they er Watch: Cloudy, warm (1,2,3,4) the 24th. Children’s favorite holiday return home. with showers in the southern part (second only to Christmas!) is Hal- of the region (5,6,7). Fair and warm loween, which falls this year on Mon- The Garden: Start raking those leaves (8,9,10,11,12,13) with showers day, October 31st. Plan your little now! Shredding leaves, along with and storms, mainly in the south one’s “T or T” activities early and fin- lawn clippings, make a fine addition (14,15,16). Fair and warm again (17,18,19,20); showers in the north and storms in the south (21,22,23). Fair but rather warm temperatures (24,25,26,27 with more showers, again, mainly in the south (28,29). The month ends much cooler with showers in the south and storms in the north (30,31).

Tornado Watch: No tornado ac- tivity is forecasted this month for the Mid-Atlantic Region.

Full Moon: the Full Moon in Oc- tober will occur on October 11th at 9:06PM and is the Hunter’s Moon for 2011. The Cree Indi- an Tribe called it Moon of Fall- ing Leaves because so many trees finally lose the last of their leaves in October. Other tribes referred to it as Yellow Leaf Moon because OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 45 COMPUTER Q&A What is that? Tech-talk: learn the lingo

Aysë Jester-Stenabaugh when it comes to the data that you since they contain either a 3.5” or 2.5” still using Floppy disks it’s recom- porary and is used as a very fast me- are storing. It is impossible to give an standard hard drive with the exception mended that you convert the media dium in which the data can move ome of us have had more expe- accurate estimate of how much me- of having a case built around it which to another form. There are many rea- through. If you were to use your Srience with computers and can dia you can fit in a certain space be- also provides power to the drive. sons why hanging on to your flop- hard drive as memory, your comput- walk right into a store and know cause the quality and length of the Flash Drive: These are sometimes pies may be a really bad idea. The er would be extremely slow because what we are looking for when it media can vary. To give you an idea called jump drives, thumb drives, first reason is that they are just plain the data would have much further to comes to how much space we want of how much data you can store the or USB drives and can hold any- phased out, no one uses them any- travel and it would take much more and how fast the computer is. Others following chart will give you an esti- where from 256 MB (or less) of more. You may find that when you time to read and write. Memory is find themselves overwhelmed with mate of the size of each media. data up to a maximum of 256 GB do try to get the data off the floppy calculated similar to the way storage technical terms and unable to follow (if you are willing to put a thou- that it will not read on another de- is calculated. Today the most com- the technician or salesman. The fol- Storage Space sand down on the portable device). vice. Floppy drives can get off cen- mon memory modules come in the lowing guide will shed some light on There are many different ways store The majority of consumer flash ter after continued use and when below sizes. the technical terms in a way everyone your data, let’s take a look at a few drives range from 2GB to 16GB. you try to write to a floppy disk with 128 MB can understand! different types of storage devices CD’s/DVD’s – While the two ap- a drive that is off center, you may 256 MB available and their capacity. pear identical in size the capacity of only be able to retrieve your data us- 512 MB A little bit about capacity Internal Hard-Drive: Just as the name a CD is only 700 MB while a DVD ing the same drive that was used to 1 GB So by now most of us have heard the suggests this is the storage media that can hold 4.7GB. Dual Layer DVD’s save the data onto the disk. If you 2 GB terms bit, byte, kilobyte, megabyte, you find inside your computer. There can hold up to 9.4GB of data and don’t have a floppy disk drive you 4 GB gigabyte and/or, terabyte. Although are generally two sizes used today for pricey Blue Ray Discs can hold 25GB can purchase an external one or vis- we may have heard of them and we personal computers a 3.5” hard drive (Single Layer) to 50GB (Dual Lay- it your local computer repair shop There are different types of memo- may have a general idea of what it for standard desktop computers and a er). Dual layer DVD’s allow the user to see if you can borrow or rent one. ry that a computer can take. Laptops means. To get a better understand- 2.5” hard drive which is smaller and to write data on both layers of the There are many other stor- and small devices take what is called ing, let’s take a closer look at the tech- fits into laptop computers. These disc which does require a Dual Lay- age devices that can be used but SO-DIMM or Small Outline Dual nical meanings of each. hard drives generally range from er DVD drive. Also note that DVD’s the above devices include the In-Line Memory Module. They There are 8 bits (b) in a byte. (B) 160GB of space to 4TB of space. require a DVD burner and not just a most commonly used today. are about half of the size of desk- There are 1,024 bytes in a Kilo- External Hard-Drive: These hard DVD player or CD burner. top memory. Your computer could byte.(KB) drives generally plug into a computer Floppy Disks: This form of media Memory (RAM- Random take one of three types of memory There are 1,048,576 bytes in a through a USB cable or Firewire cable. contained 1.4MB of data which is Access Memory) DDR (Double Data Rate), DDR2, Megabyte (MB) The size of external hard drives remain minute compared to any other stor- Contrary to many beliefs, memory or DDR3. For the sake of keeping it There are 1,073,741,824 bytes in close to the size of internal hard drives age media available today. If you are is not a permanent storage device for simple the most you need to know a Gigabyte (GB) data. If you think of your long term is that they are not cross compatible There are 1,099,511,627,776 Text Music Pictures Video memory as storage space, your short so it is important to make sure you bytes in a Terabyte (TB) are getting the right type as well as Average File 4 KB 4MB 175KB 1.5GB term memory would be the equiv- So now I am sure you are wonder- the correct speed of memory. Mem- Size alent of a computer’s memory. The ing exactly how much that equates to data that is stored in memory is tem- ory is determined by your mother- board and using the incorrect speed will cause your computer to lower the speed to the fastest speed that the motherboard can handle. Well folks that’s all this segment of Tech Talk, keep an eye out for next month’s article which will go more in-depth about the var- ious computer components offer- ing some insight on the various connections your computer has including USB. As always for af- fordable, professional, and friend- ly computer repair or question please contact Jester’s Computer Services at (717) 642-6611 con- veniently located at 5135 Fairfield Road (route 116), Fairfield, PA. 46 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2011 COMMUNITY NOTES Notes from the loft Salsa on the square Dr. Elizabeth A. Krouse room is another consideration as he fifth annual Salsa on the Organist, Seton Heritage Ministries is, of course, the instrument upon TSquare will take place from 5:30 which the concert is to be played. to 10 p.m. Friday, October 7, in Get- ’d like to introduce myself. If you The choice of music for this and tysburg. Sponsored by Project Get- Ihave visited the basilica at the (every concert) was influenced by the tysburg-León (PGL), the event will Shrine of Elizabeth Ann Seton (Se- awareness that my musical ability is celebrate more than 25 years of Get- ton Heritage Ministries) in Emmits- a gift (from God), and does not real- tysburg’s Sister City relationship with burg, there’s a good possibility that ly belong to me. The program is enti- León, Nicaragua. you’ve heard some music coming tled All About Him: Music from Bach The Dance and fiesta will take from the choir loft. If you look up, to Distler. Each piece has a special place on the first block of Carlisle you may see me on the organ bench, significance for me. The first piece Street, which will be closed from or you may not (I’m short)! I am on the program, Fantasie and Fugue Lincoln Square to the railroad tracks. the organist for Seton Shrine minis- in G Minor by J.S. Bach is a special Featured will be the Latin music of tries, and I am preparing for a con- favorite. It is technically challeng- Hector Rosado and his orchestra “A- cert, to be given on November 20 ing and it has an energy and spiritu- che”, returning for a second year. The at 3:30 p.m. The concert is entitled ality that are indescribable. (I often overall fiesta will celebrate the contri- “All About Him: Music From Bach think that God said to Bach “take up butions of Hispanic people to Ad- the Adams County Fruit Growers Food concessionaires will be to Distler). your quill and write what I tell you, ams County, and will include a sal- Board and several individual grow- open for business at 5:30 p.m. I’ve been working on the music for and Bach did)! Two of the pieces sa demonstration as well as food pre- ers to honor the Hispanic contri- The dancing starts at 6:30 p.m., this concert since January. Actual- are original compositions, based on pared and served by more than a half butions to their industry. The Cen- and will begin with a salsa demon- ly, I learned the music years ago, but Chorales (I dearly love hymns); I am dozen local restaurants and caterers. ter for Public Service at Gettysburg stration. like anything involving a skill that re- including a short piece (with a for- The extravagantly costumed danc- College is also a major contributor. quires constant maintenance, it needs midably difficult pedal part) by Sig- ers of Folklorico San Jose will per- The event is produced in associa- To learn more about Project Gettysburg- to be reworked and even relearned. frid Karg-Elert. Karg-Elert was a late form at the 8 p.m. intermission. Get- tion with the Gettysburg Area Re- León, its projects in Nicaragua, and its It’s a matter of “use it or lose it.” nineteenth century German com- tysburg College students will orga- tail Merchants Association working student and community delegations to I learned some of the music on an- poser (sometimes termed the Ger- nize children’s games. Exquisite Ni- together with PGL for the greater that country, see http://www.gettysburg- other organ. Did you know that no man impressionist) who (anecdotal- caraguan pottery and other Nicara- good of Gettysburg. leon.org/pgl/index.cfm. two organs are alike? Organs come in ly) had a rather cranky personality, guan items will be raffled off. all sizes. but his music is wonderful, and fun The Salsa Dance is the local center- The organist may have a wealth to play. The closing piece, by Hugo piece of Hispanic Heritage Month, of sounds from which to choose, or Distler, is a very dramatic, powerful which honors not only Latino con- just a few. Each scenario presents its set of variations based on an Advent tributions to American culture, but own challenges. The final choice of hymn. the independence of Central Amer- sounds for each piece of music is de- Once the program is determined ican countries including Nicaragua. termined by a variety of factors: The the music must be practiced until it In honor of the occasion, Gettysburg time at which a piece was written, is “second nature.” Mayor William Troxell is presenting and the instruments that were avail- With all that “said,” I would like a special proclamation proclaiming able at that time period are impor- to invite you to come to the concert Hispanic Heritage Day. tant considerations. The size of the and bring your friends and family. The event is partially funded by OCTOBER 2011 | EMMITSBURG NEWS-JOURNAL | 47 UPCOMING EVENTS

October 1 St. Joseph’s High School Reunion October 15 October 19 Herz-Lane, music by ladies quartet, Keysville Lutheran Church Annual Yard RSVP - Mary Topper - 301-447-6615 13th Annual Adams County Land Con- Adams County Commissioner Candi- “Just Because”. Buffet at 4:00 p.m. in Sale, 7301 Keysville Road, Keymar. For - [email protected], or Sam Wivell - servancy Road Rally - The Road Ral- dates Forum to be held at the Fairfield the Parish House. location and more information, please 301-447-2082 ly is not a race, but it’s a beautiful drive Fire & EMS Hall. go to www.emmitsburg.net/klc or email through the less-traveled roads of Adams October 29 [email protected] October 8 & 9 County, with sports and other fun stops October 21 New Oxford’s Harvest Day and Pa- Mt. Tabor Church of Rocky Ridge’s along the way. More information avail- Taneytown’s St. Joseph’s Church Parish’s rade - Come and enjoy our Farmer’s October 1 & 2, 8 & 9 Ridgefest at Mt. Tabor Park. There will able at www.lcacnet.org All You Can Eat Italian style spaghet- Market, Craft Show, 5k Race and Pa- 47th Annual National Apple Harvest be an Apple Butter Boiling demonstra- Camp Eder’s 33rd Annual Fall Festival ti dinner fund raiser. Parish Center, 44 rade, New Oxford Circle 30 East of Festival - see ad on page 14. tion and of course, the Rocky Ridge Fire – See ad and related article on page 16. Frederick Street, Taneytown. Gettysburg, for more information Company will be making their famous Delegate Kathy Afzali constituent call 717-624-2800 October 4 Fried Ham Sandwiches. “chat” forum at the Emmitsburg Library. October 22 Grand opening of the Adams Coun- Fairfield’s Fellowship Baptist Church if you have any question please contact Strawberry Hill’s Twenty-fifth Anniver- ty Arts Council’s Arts Education Center Community Blood Drive. Call the October 10 Susan Bittle, Legislative Assistant for Del- sary Auction Dinner - bidders will find at 125 S. Washington St., Gettysburg. Church office at 717-642-6767 to Annual Monthly meeting of the South egate Kathy Afzali @ 240-469-4850 or e- great items to purchase with a donation to Event sponsor is CenturyLink. Perfor- schedule your life saving donation or vis- Mountain Audubon Society. The Nat- mail [email protected] Strawberry Hill as well as the opportuni- mances, members’ exhibit, demonstra- it www.fellowshipbaptistpa.org ural History of the Galapagos Islands” The Emmitsburg High School 86th ty to meet and socialize with community tions, tours, food. For information, vis- Meetings are held at 7:30pm at the Ad- annual alumni banquet at the Emmits- members and supporters of the Preserve. If it www.adamsarts.org or call (717) 334- October 6 & 7 ams County Agricultural and Natural burg Ambulance Center. Honored classes you are interested in attending the Auction 5006. St. Anthony Shrine Yard & Bake Sale be- Resources Building located at 670 Old are 1936, 1941, 1946, 1951, 1956, 1961, Dinner please contact joe@strawberryhi- ginning at 8 am under the SAS pavilion. Harrisburg Road in Gettysburg. Meet- and 1966. Stan Hartle has prepared Em- ll.org or (717) 642-5840 for more details. October 31 ings are free and open to the public mitsburg High School Memories DVDs Emmitsburg Halloween Parade - Tag- October 7 that will be sold for $10 to benefit the October 23 ging begins at East Main & Federal in The YWCA Gettysburg & Adams October 12 scholarship fund. Banquet information German Service at St. John’s Cha- parking lot. Parade Route: Federal & County’s fourth annual Unity Walk at Adams County Master Gardener Gar- may be obtained by contacting Becky Kile pel, 8619A Blacks Mill Rd., Crea- DePaul, to North Seton, to Lincoln Ave. the McAllister’s Mill historic site, locat- den Chats at the Ag Center in Gettys- at 410-775-2783 or at [email protected]. gerstown, with guest speaker, Bishop to back of VHC for party! ed just off Baltimore Pike, south of Get- burg tysburg. The event is free and the pub- lic is invited to participate. Please register at 717-334-9171, ext. 113, or e-mail aa- [email protected].

October 8 Strawberry Hill - Basic Flint Knapping - This class will cover the basic theory and application of turning silica rock into useful tools, such as knifes and arrow- heads. Participants can expect to leave the class with a functional arrowhead. For more information visit www.straw- berryhill.org St. John’s Lutheran church Fall Fest dinner. 8619 Blacks Mill Rd. Creager- stown. Chicken pot pie and country ham. For information please call 301- 271-7851