Community Comes Together to Support “Miss Edna”
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You don’t need much space to create a relaxing, welcoming outdoor escape. 1 CMYK 12 BASE--11.00DX10.00W TRIM-- Pasadena VoicE PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITY PASADENA, MD MARCH 20, 2019 A1 Sound The Alarm: Volunteer Firefighter Community Comes Alerts Public About Staffing Deficiency Together To Support “Miss Edna” Public Invited To 96th Birthday Celebration On March 22 By Dylan Roche [email protected] er name is Edna Hol- sey, but everyone in HPasadena knows her simply as “Miss Edna.” At 95 years old, the owner of The Brass Rail Pub works seven days a week and has left a vivid impression on count- less members of the com- munity. “Everyone age 21 to 85 treats her like a grand- mother,” explained Holsey’s Edna Holsey granddaughter Stacy Phares. Duane McKee Plans Once he has raised “Some people have known memory of her, however, To Open Nonprofit $100,000, he will pair that her their whole lives.” is that she told me I should money with funds secured In the wake of an aw- date my husband. She said Coffee Shop And Pub from a business loan to finish ful assault and robbery he was very handsome and constructing Second Alarm in February, Holsey isn’t I needed to snatch him Brewhouse, a nonprofit cof- slowing down. Many of up. She was, and is, a very By Zach Sparks fee shop designed to raise her longtime patrons and smart lady!” [email protected] awareness about the volunteer supporters were shocked to Holsey’s strong work ethic fire service. hear how one night, upon and resiliency trace back to ost people drink Second Alarm Brewhouse returning home from work, growing up poor in Balti- coffee to help them will replace the building that she was approached by two more. According to Phares, Mwake up from a Photos by Zach Sparks was left vacant when The Fire- unknown armed men who Holsey left school in third state of fatigue, but Duane Duane McKee of the Riviera Beach Volunteer Fire Company is house Pub closed in 2017 after displayed handguns, entered grade to get a job because her McKee is selling coffee to using a coffee truck to raise money for Second Alarm Brewhouse. four years of service. her residence, and made off family needed money. When patrons in hopes of waking With coffee, free Wi-Fi, with cash and other valu- she grew up and eventually them up to another prob- a mobile coffee truck from serving hot coffee, cold brew, grub from award-winning ables. Holsey was scared and married, her husband was lem: dwindling enrollment Pouneh Coffee and parking it hot tea, hot chocolate, spiced food trucks and space to relax, shaken up, but she sustained employed by Bethlehem in the volunteer fire service. at 8510 Fort Smallwood Road, apple cider, lattes, juice and McKee envisions Second no serious injuries. “She’s Steel. He would work the For roughly eight weeks, next to the Rivera Beach other beverages along with Alarm Brewhouse as a com- a trooper,” Phares said. night shift, grab a late drink from March 4 through the Volunteer Fire Company. From oatmeal, muffins, breakfast munity hub. Coffee shop by “She was back at work the at a bar, then return home to end of April, McKee is renting that mobile station, McKee is sandwiches, and fresh bagels. » Continued on A4 next day.” sleep during the day. It only Though Holsey showed made sense to Holsey that such resiliency, the news was she should own a bar so that distressing for her friends she could see her husband Hospice Of The Chesapeake To State to hear. “I would just like regularly. her to know that we all are Holsey owned a series of hoping and praying for her,” Pasadena bars before buying Host Welcome Home Event Of The said Patricia Tacka. “What The Brass Rail about 30 years happened to her was very ago. There, many in the com- By Maya Pottiger terrible!” munity have come to love Magothy Holsey has been a beloved the breast cancer survivor ospice of the Chesa- figure in the community for and animal lover who never peake will welcome Shows decades. “I grew up with her drinks, smokes or swears but Hhome Vietnam granddaughter and have a will always indulge in a dark veterans during its fifth an- fond memory of eating a chocolate vanilla butter- nual event. Sunday dinner at her house cream from Rheb’s Candies. On March 29, Vietnam Upswing with her crazy dog at my “My great-grandmother veterans, their guests and By Zach Sparks feet,” said friend Shelley is someone who inspires community members are [email protected] Davenport. “My favorite » Continued on A4 invited to the Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans event at ven when a batter the Hilton Baltimore BWI has two strikes in Fundraiser Brings In Airport Hotel in Linthicum. Ebaseball, he always “It was so heartfelt,” said has the chance — however Pat Curran, who spent 14 unlikely — of battling back, More Than $11,400 months in Vietnam between and that’s the same way 1968 and 1970. “I never Magothy River Associa- let anybody know I was a tion (MRA) President Paul For PBA Scholarships Vietnam veteran. Now I Spadaro sees the watershed. have my battle ribbon as my It’s not dead. It’s not license plate.” forgotten. It’s not be- Curran has attended the yond saving. previous four events and When Dr. Sally Hornor plans to attend the fifth one. shared the annual State of “I like meeting fellow the Magothy presentation veterans,” Curran said. “I at Anne Arundel Commu- really enjoy the pomp and nity College on March 15, Photo courtesy of Elyzabeth Marcussen ceremony of it. They honor she echoed that sentiment. The honor guard stood at attention during last year’s us. It feels good.” This year’s Magothy River Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans event. This year, the theme is Index, a water quality as- “Transformation Through sessment compiled by the Decked out in their best ‘80s attire, more than 150 members Service.” Speakers include re- MRA, graded the Magothy of the Pasadena Business Association, their friends and tired Sergeant Major Rodwell at a 30 percent D. That mark supporters partied the night away at Kurtz’s Beach for the Forbes of Fort Meade, Hos- is higher than last year’s 22 annual scholarship fundraiser, this year with a throwback Inside pice CEO Ben Marcantonio, and the previous year’s 28. theme to the era of leg warmers, parachute pants and big Community ....................... A1-A7 Sports ................................B1-B5 Vietnam veteran and retired Both Spadaro and Hornor hair. Returning this year was ‘80s cover band Guys In Thin Politics & Opinion .................. A8 School & Youth .................B6-B9 Senator John Astle, National attributed some of the im- Ties, and between ticket sales, sponsorships and auctions, Health & Fitness ......................A9 Arts & Entertainment . B10-B12 Director of Hospice and provement to an explosion the event garnered more than $11,400. Those funds will Business .......................A10-A12 Business Directory ..................A6 Palliative Care for Veterans of dark false mussels, which cover the PBA’s scholarships for graduating seniors, as well Affairs Dr. Scott Shreve and filter pollutants and sedi- as mini scholarships for eighth-graders and fifth-graders. facebook.com/pasadenavoice @PasadenaVoice BLOG pasadenavoice.com/blogs » Continued on A5 » Continued on A4 A2 MARCH 20, 2019 PASADENA VOICE Publishers Dianna Lancione Margueritte Mills Lonnie Lancione Brian Conrad Carries Volunteer Editor’s Voice Chief Operating Officer Volunteer Larry Sells Of The Month Spirit Everywhere He Goes V.P., Operations Brass Rail Pub owner Miss Brian Lancione Edna, as she is affection- By Zach Sparks Dylan Roche Sales Account Executive Conrad was a ately called; we’ve even Shannon Vitielliss Editor Having moved from member of the got feel-good stories from Inside Sales Support Maryland to Wash- nearly 30-member students who are under- Heather Lancione ington to Missouri moto safety crew, taking service learning Editor and back to Maryland, and for his last ride As I write this, I’m projects and scouts who Dylan Roche Brian Conrad has in 2017, he brought looking out the window are achieving Eagle status. Sports Editor experienced plenty his wife, Christine, at snow-laden trees, It’s also a time when Colin Murphy of lifestyle changes. a fellow rider. “We slushy pavement and a spring sports are starting Assistant Editor But one constant has would escort riders misty gray sky. I guess up, nearly every school Zach Sparks been his passion for across the state, it’s true what they say is mounting a theater Staff Reporter volunteering. man intersections, about March coming in production, and many Maya Pottiger After serving in the patrol the route and like a lion.