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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Dimitrios D. Sirinakis, 79, of Westminster, died Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011

Dimitrios D. Sirinakis 

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Dimitrios D. Sirinakis, 79, of Westminster, died Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011, at Transitions HealthCare in Sykesville. 

Born July 17, 1931, in Skyros, Greece, he was the son of the late Dimitrios George and Kyparissia Efthasiou Sirinakis. He served in the Greek Navy before arriving in the United States in 1960. 

He graduated from the University of Michiganwith a master's degree in electrical engineering. After working at Martin Marrietta in Hagerstown for several years, he launched his own company, Skyros Shipping Company. His first vessel was named the Margarita. 

For most of the 1970s he owned and operated a number of cargo vessels out of New York, N.Y. In 1983, he closed the business and for the next 25 years, pursued various maritime projects and entrepreneurial activities, primarily in Port Isabel, Texas, until his retirement. 

In 2008, he moved to Westminster to be near his family. He enjoyed playing cards, music and cooking. 

Surviving are a sister-in-law, Zoe Sirinakis; nephews James Sirinakis, of Crownsville, A. Harry Sirinakis, of Westminster, and John Sarris, of Greece; nieces Kyparissia Sirinakis, of Bethesda, and Amerissa Fergadis, of Woodland Hills, Calif. He was predeceased by a sister, Efrosini Sarris; and a brother, George D. Sirinakis. 

A Greek Orthodox funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at Fletcher Funeral Home, 254 E. Main St., Westminster, with the Rev. Anastasios Kousoulas, of Sts. Peter and Paul Greek Orthodox Church in Frederick, officiating. 

Interment will be in Westminster Cemetery.

 Memorial contributions may be sent to Stella Maris Hospice, 2300 Dulaney Valley Road, Timonium, MD 21093; or the Parkinson's Disease Foundation atwww.pdf.org. 

Online condolences may be offered atwww.fletcherfuneralhome.net. Sign this guest book online atwww.carrollcountytimes.com.

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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Explore Carroll: Carroll Community College at new high for spring enrollment

Explore Carroll: Carroll Community College at new high for spring enrollment

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Explore Carroll: Supreme Court rules in favor of Westboro in protest at funeral of Westminster marine

Explore Carroll: Supreme Court rules in favor of Westboro in protest at funeral of Westminster marine

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling Wednesday against the father of Westminster native Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, whose 2006 funeral was picketed by members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church with signs proclaiming “God Hates You” and other such slogans... http://www.explorecarroll.com/news/5210/supreme-court-favor-westboro-protest-funeral-westminster-marine/


Jon Aerts, of Capital News Service, contributed to this story.  This story has been updated. Kevin E. Dayhoff and Steve Schuster contributed to this story.



Supreme Court March 2, 2011 decision Snyder v. Phelps et al


Argued October 6, 2010 – Decided March 2, 2011

http://www.scribd.com/doc/49903129/Supreme-Court-March-2-2011-decision-Snyder-v-Phelps-et-al

The Supreme Court decision introduced the matter as follows:

For the past 20 years, the congregation of the Westboro Baptist Church has picketed military funerals to communicate its belief that God hates the United States for its tolerance of homosexuality, particularly in America’s military.  The church’s picketing has also condemned the Catholic Church for scandals involving its clergy.  Fred Phelps, who founded the church, and six Westboro Baptist parishioners (all relatives of Phelps) traveled to Maryland to picket the funeral of Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, who was killed in Iraq in the line of duty.  The picketing took place on public land approximately 1,000 feet from the church where the funeral was held, in accordance with guidance from local law enforcement officers.  The picketers peacefully displayed their signs—stating, e.g., “Thank God for Dead Soldiers,” “Fags Doom Nations,” “America is Doomed,” “Priests Rape Boys,” and “You’re  Going to Hell”—for about 30 minutes before the funeral began.  Matthew Snyder’s father (Snyder), petitioner here, saw the tops of the picketers’ signs when driving to the funeral, but did not learn what was written on the signs until watching a news broadcast later that night… http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-751.pdf

For more on this story go to: Supreme Court rules in favor of Westboro in protest at funeral of Westminster marine Court says protest at Snyder's funeral was protected free speech Posted 3/02/11 by Carroll Eagle, Eldersburg Eagle, Westminster Eagle  http://www.explorecarroll.com/news/5210/supreme-court-favor-westboro-protest-funeral-westminster-marine/

Related: http://www.scribd.com/doc/49902725/The-Supreme-Court-transcript-of-the-Oct-6-2010-oral-arguments-Snyder-v-Phelps

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20110302 SCOTUS Snyder v Phelps 09-751
Supreme Court March 2, 2011 decision Snyder v. Phelps et al
                                                                                                  

The transcript of the October 6, 2010 oral arguments before the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Albert Snyder v. Pred W. Phelps, Sr., et. al., here: http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/09-751.pdf  Or you may listen to the oral arguments here: http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_audio_detail.aspx?argument=09-751

http://www.scribd.com/doc/49902725/The-Supreme-Court-transcript-of-the-Oct-6-2010-oral-arguments-Snyder-v-Phelps

The Supreme Court transcript of the Oct. 6, 2010 oral arguments Snyder v. Phelps                                                                                                   

Snyder v. Phelps Supreme Court syllabusRelated: http://www.explorecarroll.com/search/more.php?f=news&y=0&p=1&s=Westboro&t=


Matthew Snyder, of Finksburg, Maryland, died from a non combat-related vehicle accident in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to Combat Service Support Group-1, 1st Marine Logistics Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Twentynine Palms, California. Died on March 3, 2006. Matthew was 20 years old.


Matthew graduated from Westminster High School in 2003.
After graduation, he enlisted in the Marines on October 14, 2003, and was stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C. In August of 2004, Matthew was assigned to Combat Logistics Batallion-7, Twentynine Palms, Calif. as a generator mechanic. [http://matthewsnyder.org/]




    Supreme Court rules in favor of Westboro in protest at funeral of Westminster marine
    Published March 2, 2011 by Carroll Eagle, Eldersburg Eagle, Westminster Eagle
    ... by members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church with signs proclaiming “ ... slogans.The court ruled that the Westboro protest, though hurtful, is protected by ... redress over the presence of seven WestboroBaptist Church demonstrators wielding signs outside ... ...
    Letters: Remembering Matthew Snyder as a person, not a lawsuit
    Published November 7, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle, Eldersburg Eagle
    ... a son of Carroll," Oct. 10.) For many reasons, I have refrained from speaking publicly about the lawsuit involving the Westboro Baptist Church -- of which I am not a part. However, I do want to express my appreciation for the editorial pointing out ... ...
    Supreme Court grapples with privacy debate over protest at Matthew Snyder's funeral
    Published October 6, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Eldersburg Eagle, Westminster Eagle
    ... redress over the presence of seven Westboro Baptist Church demonstrators wielding "God ... private funeral deserved protection from Westboro's message. Margie Phelps, the ... spoke before the cameras, callingWestboro's picketing "utterly intolerable in ... ...
    Case of Westminster marine's funeral protest goes to Supreme Court on Oct. 6
    Published October 3, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Eldersburg Eagle, Westminster Eagle
    ... Seven members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church also came to ... in legal fees incurred by theWestboro Church. The order drew national ... .”Founded in 1955, the Westboro Baptist Church is led by ... the eve of the Snyder-Westboro case at the Supreme Court, ... ...
    EDITORIAL: Amidst the legal controversy, let's not forget Matthew Snyder as a son of Carroll
    Published October 2, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Eldersburg Eagle, Westminster Eagle
    The case involving the protest by Westboro Baptist Church members at the March 2006 ... even before the protracted court case regarding Westboro began, The Eagle wrote in an ... group was from the Kansas-basedWestboro Baptist Church, which routinely pickets the ... ...
    Strangers, celebrities offer to pay Marine family's court-ordered expenses
    Published April 4, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle
    ... funeral was picketed by members of the Westboro Baptist Church. Lance Corp. Snyder was killed ... in Al Qaim, Iraq. Members of the Westboro church, based in Topeka, Kan., protested ... ... "It is obvious that (Westboro followers) were disturbing the peace by ... ...
    Strangers, celebrities help pay expenses for family of fallen Marine
    Published March 31, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Eldersburg Eagle, Westminster Eagle
    ... funeral was picketed by members of the Westboro Baptist Church.Lance Corp. Snyder was killed ... in Al Qaim, Iraq. Members of the Westboro church, based in Topeka, Kansas, protested at ... free, she said.Phelps and the Westboro Church have picketed a number of ... ...
    Snyder funeral protest case will go to Supreme Court
    Published March 14, 2010 by Westminster Eagle, Carroll Eagle
    ... Snyder sued Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., who ... Snyder funeral is not the only time Westboro has interacted with Carroll County. In ... accident in Finksburg. At the time,Westboro Baptist Church claimed that tragedy had ... ...


O'Reilly steps forward to pay fallen Marine family's court-ordered ...

Apr 01, 2010


Protesters led by Fred Phelps, of the Topeka, Kansas Westboro Baptist Church protested at Lance Cpl. Snyder's funeral at his funeral service which was held in his home parish of St. John Catholic Church in Westminster on March 10, 2006. ...
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Menu setup for March 2011 for Baugher’s Family Restaurant, 289 W. Main Street, Westminster


Baugher’s Menu setup for March 2011

Baugher’s Family Restaurant, 289 W. Main Street, Westminster, MD 21157, 410-848-7413 [20110300 Baughers Brochure Mar 2011]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/49756445/Menu-setup-for-March-2011-for-Baugher%E2%80%99s-Family-Restaurant-289-W-Main-Street-Westminster

Related: http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/09/baughers-menu-setup-for-september-5.html

Baugher’s Restaurant, Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, menus, food,

http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/search/label/Restaurants%20Baugher%E2%80%99s

Menu setup for March 2011 for Baugher’s Family Restaurant, 289 W. Main Street, Westminster                                                                                                                               

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2010 STELLA AWARDS

It's time again for the annual 'Stella Awards'! For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico , where she purchased coffee. You remember, she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could get burned doing that, right?

That's right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S. You know, the kinds of cases that make you scratch your head.

Here are the Stellas for this past year  --  2010:

*SEVENTH PLACE*

Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son

* SIXTH PLACE *

Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles , California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.

* FIFTH PLACE *

Terrence Dickson, of Bristol , Pennsylvania , who was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT days and survive on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance company claiming undue mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish.

*FOURTH PLACE*

Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the b*** by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the b*** bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun.

* THIRD PLACE *

Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.

What ever happened to people being responsible for their own actions?

*SECOND PLACE*

Kara Walton, of Claymont , Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000....oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure.

Ok. Here we go!!

* FIRST PLACE *

This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was: Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down?
$1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.

If you think the court system is out of control, be sure to pass this one on. 

20110228 2010 STELLA AWARDS

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A baseball wife emerges from the dugout By Ann O'Neill, CNN

Dorothy Seymour Mills, shown outside her home in Naples, Florida, wrote three baseball histories with her late husband.






Dorothy Seymour Mills, shown outside her home in Naples, Florida, wrote three baseball histories with her late husband.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • Harold and Dorothy Seymour wrote three seminal baseball history books together
  • She wrote much of the third book herself as he succumbed to Alzheimer's
  • For decades, he refused to share the credit with her or even acknowledge her role
  • Last summer, Oxford University Press agreed to give her credit as co-author

A baseball wife emerges from the dugout

By Ann O'Neill, CNN
February 25, 2011 


Naples, Florida (CNN) -- Harold Seymour wrote baseball's first Bible, debunking some of the game's biggest myths.
He informed fans that Abner Doubleday didn't invent baseball in 1839 in Cooperstown, New York, (Footnote: There's evidence of games involving sticks, balls and bases being played in England in the 1700s.) and that Jackie Robinson wasn't the first black major league player. (That distinction more likely went to Moses Fleetwood Walker in the 1880s.)
Three books produced over a span of 30 years made Seymour the dean of baseball historians, and his journey from batboy to Ph.D. was celebrated as a success story. The study of America's national pastime at last seemed "grownup and worthwhile," observes John Thorn, a colleague who followed in his footsteps.
But after Seymour died in 1992, his wife, Dorothy, set about debunking one more myth: that he had researched and written all three books on his own... http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/02/25/harold.dorothy.seymour.baseball/index.html?eref=rss_latest&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+rss/cnn_latest+(RSS:+Most+Recent)&utm_content=Twitter


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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Come celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Giulianova! In Westminster Maryland


ST. PATRICK’S DAY CELEBRATION

Come celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Giulianova! In Westminster Maryland

http://www.scribd.com/doc/49644694/Come-celebrate-St-Patrick%E2%80%99s-Day-with-Giulianova-In-Westminster-Maryland

Saturday, March 19th, 2011, 7 to 11 p.m.

Featuring The Christopher James Band

A menu of Irish cuisine:  -Irish stew & soda bread, -Corned beef & cabbage, -Bangers & mash, -Shepherd’s pie

Traditional Irish refreshments

Call for reservations (410)876-7425 Giulianova Groceria, 11 E. Main St. in Westminster, MD (click: Restaurants Giulianova Groceria, http://www.brothersun.biz/index.html)

20110227 sdosmtxt st patricks day at Giulianova Mar 19

Giulianova Groceria, Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, food, restaurants, St. Patrick’s Day, Christopher James Band, music

LABELS: Food, Restaurants, Restaurants Giulianova Groceria, Westminster Businesses

http://www.scribd.com/doc/49644694/Come-celebrate-St-Patrick%E2%80%99s-Day-with-Giulianova-In-Westminster-Maryland

Come celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Giulianova! In Westminster Maryland                                                                                                                           

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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Explore Carroll: DAYHOFF: When it comes to travel history, you can't get there from here

Explore Carroll: DAYHOFF: When it comes to travel history, you can't get there from here

By Kevin Dayhoff ... When I have the opportunity to compare roads and public transportation of other metropolitan areas around the country in my travels, I have always been left with the profound conclusion that there is something dearly amiss in Maryland's transportation system.... http://www.explorecarroll.com/opinion/5197/when-it-comes-travel-history-you-cant-get-there-here/

http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2011/02/explore-carroll-dayhoff-when-it-comes.html

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