Westminster Maryland November 2015 Main Street Newsletter by Sandy Anderson

Westminster Maryland November 2015 Main Street Newsletter by Sandy Anderson

Westminster Maryland November 2015 Main Street Newsletter by Sandy Anderson - http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/12/westminster-maryland-november-2015-main.html

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Eat, Shop, Experience... Westminster, Maryland

November 2015   The holidays are just a month away!  No worries though, Downtown Westminster is here to help!  Join us for our 2nd Saturday Holiday Open House event on the 14th, complete with our Farmers' Market, Pop UP Art Market, and great holiday shopping all over downtown! And on Saturday the 28th, be sure to come Downtown for Small Business Saturday -- a wonderful way to shop local for the holidays -- and stay for the Jingle Bell Run, Holiday Electric Parade, Tree Lighting, and Santa's Treat. Speaking of Santa, the Jolly Ol' Elf arrives in a horse drawn carriage during the parade, taking up residence at his house on the Library Lawn.    Don't forget to "like" Downtown Westminster on Facebook for the latest news on all of our great holiday happenings!    Saturday, November 14    "Downtown Westminster Farmers' Market" Conaway Lot (Route 27) 8:00 am - Noon  Offering a wide variety of produce, sweets, meats, prepared foods, gluten free baked goods, pickles and even dog treats. This Saturday includes live music, a cooking demonstration and children's activities.    "Holiday Open House" Downtown Westminster 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and later Holiday Offerings and specials at downtown shops and restaurants; Christmas carolers roaming the streets; children's activities and more!     "Pop UP Art Market"   Sentinel Lot (Corner of 27 and Main) 10:00 am to 3:00 pm Featuring original art, pottery, jewelry, ceramics and more from local artists and artisans    For more information call 410-848-9000 or click here. Mistletoe Mart  Church of the Ascension 23 North Court Street  November 12, 13 and 14         Artisans and Craftspeople Specialty Shops. . . .Country Store Hourly Door Prizes. . . . Café with Lunches and Dinners     Thursday and Friday, November 12th and 13th, 10 am - 8:30 pm Saturday, November 14th, 10 am - 4:30 pm   Admission: $7. . . . . Children under 12: $1 For more information call 410-848-3251 or click here.    Carroll Biz Challenge Grand Finale    Thursday, November 19 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Carroll Arts Center 91 West Main Street       The Carroll Biz Challenge is Maryland's first local startup competition. Now in its fourth year, the Carroll Biz Challenge creates an opportunity for local entrepreneurs to submit their best business ideas for a chance to win valuable prizes, including the $2000 Downtown Award, the $500 People's Choice Award, and the $5000 Grand Prize!    The competition is hosted by the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce, and brings together local organizations and businesses from throughout the county to promote innovation and entrepreneurship within the community.    For tickets and more information call the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce at 410-848-9050 or click here. 18 Annual Festival of Wreaths Carroll Arts Center 91 West Main Street Friday, November 27 - Sunday, December 6 10:00 am - 7:00 pm            The Festival of Wreaths is one of the most well-attended holiday events in Carroll County.  Each year more than 150 theme wreaths are displayed through this weeklong silent auction and is one of the Arts Council's most significant fundraising events. Visitors experience a wonderland of creativity and generosity as they vote for their favorites and bid on those they would like to take home in this spectacular FREE event. For more information call 410-848-7272 or click here. 7th Annual Gallery of Gifts  Carroll Arts Center 91 West Main Street         The Carroll Arts Center continues their annual tradition by transforming their Tevis Gallery into the "Gallery of Gifts" during the holiday shopping season.  This special cash and carry exhibit will resemble a boutique rather than a traditional gallery exhibit, as 35+ artists will display their festive wares.    November 2oth- December 22nd. Open during regular business hours.    For more information call 410-848-7272 or click here.     "Miracle on Main Street" Saturday, November 28th  Jingle Bell Run, 4:55 pm Holiday Electric Parade Marching Down Main Street, 5:00 pm Tree Lighting , following parade Santa's Treat at the Westminster Library,after tree lighting For more information call 410-848-9000 or click here. SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY® Shop Local, Buy Local Saturday, November 28th      Skip the Malls and enjoy a different shopping experience and support our Downtown businesses! Small Business Saturday is a national campaign sponsored by American Express asking millions of Americans to Shop Small at their favorite local stores and help fuel the economy. When we all shop small, it will be huge.  Farmers' Market Final Days Saturday, November 7, 14, and 21 Downtown Westminster    The Downtown Westminster Farmers' Market is the oldest "Producer Only," open air, seasonal farmers market operating in Carroll County. The Market is located on the Conaway Parking Lot off Railroad Avenue (MD27).  Vendor offerings typically include: Fresh Coffee Fresh Vegetables Fresh Fruit  Cheese - Cow and Goat Jams, Jellies & Spreads Homemade Baked Goods Herb & Vegetable Plants Gourmet Roasted Coffee Pasture & Organically-Raised Meats Certified Organic Produce Guacamole Pickles Popcorn Soups and Dips Body Products Eggs Flowers, Herbs, and Plants Wool and Yarn The Market is held rain or shine. The Market is handicap accessible, with ample free parking.    For more information about the Farmers Market call 410-848-9000. In This Issue Second Saturdays Mistletoe Mart Carroll Biz Challenge Festival of Wreaths Gallery of Gifts Miracle on Main Street Small Business Saturday Westminster Farmers' Market Upcoming Events Other November Events    Saturday, November 7, 14, and 21 8:00 am - 12 Noon Westminster Farmers' Market Conaway Parking Lot        Sunday, November 1 7:00 pm Chamber Music on the Hill McDaniel College Decker Center Forum    Sunday, November 1 3:00 pm Westminster Municipal Band Annual Concert   Carroll Arts Center    Saturday, November 7 8:00 pm Common Ground on the Hill: Footworks Percussion Dance 35th Anniversary Tour  Carroll Arts Center     Friday, November 13, 7:00 pm Saturday, November 14 3:00 pm and 7:00 pm  Sunday, November 15, 3:00 pm  Live Performance of Peter Pan Jr.  Carroll Arts Center    Saturday, November 14 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm   Westminster High School Chocolate Fest Westminster High School    Saturday, November 14 9:00 am - 2:00 pm Winters Mill Falcons Helping Falcons Holiday Craft Show Winters Mill High School    Thursday, November 19  and Friday, November 20 7:30 pm Saturday, November 21 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm ON STAGE: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" McDaniel College WMC Alumni Hall    Thursday, November 19 12 Noon Book Talk: Holiday Gift Ideas McDaniel College Lounge    Friday, November 20 1:00 pm and 7:30pm FLICC Presents: The 100-Foot Journey Carroll Arts Center    Saturday, November 21 7:00 pm Live Ballet: "Swan Lake" Carroll Arts Center     Sunday, November 22 7:00 pm Festive Music from Various Locales and Historical Eras McDaniel College Baker Memorial Chapel    Week of Monday, November 23 Mayor's Cup Window Decorating Downtown Westminster    Saturday, November 28 3:00 pm FREE Movie: "Home Alone" Carroll Arts Center    and 7:30 pm       Box Lunch Talks sponsored by the Historical Society of Carroll County.    Tuesday, November 10 12 noon - 1:00 pm Grace Hall, Grace Lutheran Church, 21 Carroll St., Westminster    "The Forgotten Corner: A History of Oakland Mill"        Located in the southeast corner of Carroll County, the Oakland Mill was the second largest employer in this area until it met its demise in 1951. Today, the only objects that hint at a mill town are a few roads disappearing into Liberty Lake and foundation stones seen during times of drought. Author Diana Scott examines the birth, life, and death of the town.    Members $3, All Others $7    Bring your bag lunch. The Historical Society provides beverages and dessert.    For more information call 410-848-6494 or click here.  Upcoming December Events         Saturday, December 5, 12, and 19 Noon - 4pm Visits With Santa Santa House, Library Lawn    Saturday, December 5, 12, and 19 Noon - 4:00 pm Horse & Carriage Rides Departs and Returns on Locust Lane Downtown Westminster    December 1 - 6 10:00 am - 7:00 pm Festival of Wreaths Carroll Arts Center    December 1 - 20 Times Vary 'Twas the Night Before Christmas Holiday Tours Carroll County Farm Museum    Wednesday, December 2 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Print Your Own 3D Cookie Cutter Carroll County Library Westminster Branch      Friday, December 4 7:30 pm Motown Christmas Carroll Arts Center    Saturday, December 5 and Sunday, December 6 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Studio Tour: The Jewelry Studio McDaniel College Art Studio, 1st Floor    Saturday, December 5 and Sunday, December 6 Civil War Christmas Encampment Carroll County Farm Museum      Saturday, December 5 8:00 pm Walt Michael Holiday Concert Carroll Arts Center Tuesday, December 8 12 Noon Box Lunch Talks: Tales of the Western Maryland Railroad Grace Lutheran Church    Saturday, December 12 12 Noon Sounds of the Season Concert Carroll County Library Westminster Branch    Friday, December 11, 8:00 pm Saturday, December 12, 3:00 pm &  8:00 pm "A Christmas Carol" Carroll Arts Center    "SECOND SATURDAY" Saturday, December 14 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm Merry Madness Downtown Westminster    Sunday, December 13 3:00 pm Children's Chorus of Carroll County McDaniel College Baker Memorial Chapel    Friday, December 18 7:30 pm  and Saturday, December 19 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm On Stage: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" McDaniel College WMC Alumni Hall Friday, December 18, 8:00 pm Saturday, December 19, 3:00 pm &  8:00 pm Sunday, December 20, 3:00 pm A Charlie Brown Jazz Christmas Carroll Arts Center     Thursday, December 31 11:30 am New Year's at Noon Westminster Library     For more information call 410-848-5294   Community Links    Carroll Arts Center    Carroll County Ag Center    Carroll County Library, Westminster Branch    Carroll County Farm Museum    Carroll County Tourism    City of Westminster    Historical Society of Carroll County    Union Mills Homestead    Westminster City Recreation and Parks    Westminster Road Runners Club    Join Our Mailing List

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Welcome to services at Grace Lutheran Church for All Saints Day

Welcome to services at Grace Lutheran Church for All Saints Day

Over 170 are gathered at Grace Lutheran Church to celebrate the life of our friend Elaine Sharkey Everett

Over 170 are gathered at Grace Lutheran Church to celebrate the life of our friend Elaine Sharkey Everett

Name on elementary school is also Carroll's connection to 1927 flood

Name on elementary school is also Carroll's connection to 1927 flood

By Kevin E. Dayhoff

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-ce-archives-flood-1025-20151021-story.html

http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/10/name-on-elementary-school-is-also.html

Carroll Co Schools, Dayhoff Media Explore Carroll, Diversity, Diversity African-American, History 1920s, People Moton Robert

The humanitarian disaster that followed the 1927 Great Mississippi Flood propelled Robert Russa Moton, the president of a small college, into the national spotlight. This same prominent political leader also helped Franklin Roosevelt's Democratic Party win the 1932 presidential election.

Despite a dire weather forecast earlier this month, we dodged a weather bullet when Hurricane Joaquin stayed out to sea.

[…]

In a rehearsal for the upcoming dramas that will take place in Maryland this winter when snow is predicted; events were cancelled, emergencies declared, mothers gathered their children, and folks took to the streets to forage for materials to make bad weather omelets – milk, bread, eggs, extra batteries and toilet paper.

In the end, the weather did turn ugly, but not from the hurricane or a visit from Hell’s Nebulae, but rather from a strong nor'easter that pelted much of Maryland with high winds, heavy rains and the threat of flooding.

As winter approaches Nor'easter often cause many to think of heavy snowstorms. But during the height of the media frenzy over Joaquin, several media outlets raised the memories of when the August 1933 storm cut the inlet just below Ocean City. Sun writer, Chris Guy explained it well in an August 23, 2003 account, “On the morning of Aug. 23, Ocean City residents awoke to discover that the record tide and rainfall that flooded coastal bays had combined with the storm's winds to cut a 50-foot gash through the island's lowest point, severing the resort from Assateague Island…”

Shortly after we dodged the Zombie apocalypse weather event, one reader in the grocery store checkout line still had that wide-eyed look like she was about to be abducted by space aliens as she asked if Carroll County has ever – could ever, have flooding like what South Carolina recently experienced. “That couldn’t possible ever happen here could it,” she asked breathlessly.

She was referring to the epic flooding that has just taken place in South Carolina that weather professionals and state Gov. Nikki Haley, are calling a ‘1,000-year flood’ terminology.

I answered calmly, “What do Carroll County, Led Zeppelin, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and one of the worst natural disasters in American history all have in common? In the end, we are all going to Chicago… ‘

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South Carolina was not so lucky. The national news media has carried a number of stories about flooding there that was so bad that Gov. Nikki Haley said, "We are at a 1,000-year level of rain," according to CNN.

While perhaps not to those historic levels, throughout its history Carroll County has had its fair share of bad floods…

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On Monday, July 30, 1923, a flood "swept down the valleys, flooding hundreds of homes … and causing great property damage," in southern Carroll Co. according to an Aug. 3, 1923 article in the Democratic Advocate newspaper.

Research for the Historical Society of Carroll Co. by historian Mary Ann Ashcraft indicates that another flood on July 24, 1868, destroyed much of Sykesville.

The devastating historic floods that followed Hurricane Agnes beginning on June 21, 1972 and Hurricane Eloise on Sept. 26, 1975 destroyed bridges, roads and homes through Carroll Co.

 Designating a day to celebrate the nation's military power a source of conflict

However, it is another flood; one that took place in 1927, which had a profound socio-political effect on American history and has a Carroll connection, though it did not even take place in Carroll County…

Read much more here: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-ce-archives-flood-1025-20151021-story.html

WESTMINSTER 

Name on elementary school is also Carroll's connection to 1927 flood

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

Despite a dire weather forecast earlier this month, we dodged a weather bullet when Hurricane Joaquin stayed out to sea. South Carolina was not so lucky. The national news media has carried a number of stories about flooding there that was so bad that Gov. Nikki Haley said, "We are at a 1,000-year...

CARROLL COUNTY 

Westminster house fire brings heavy firefighter response

JON KELVEY

No injuries, $100K in damages in fire in Greens neighborhood; seven fire companies respond

WESTMINSTER 

Living with the ramifications of the deadly Spanish flu of 1918

KEVIN. E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

It was Oct. 11, 1918, and the headline of the Democratic Advocate addressed the local impact of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918. The headline read, "The Grip Epidemic: Disease Spreading, But No Occasion for Panic," according to research for the Historical Society of Carroll County by historian...

WESTMINSTER 

Deer Park Cemetery in Carroll County is hallowed ground for Marine Corps

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

On Oct. 4, 1891, the cornerstone was laid for a new chapel for the Deer Park United Methodist Church in Smallwood, just south of Westminster on Route 32. The origins of the church date back to 1846, according to a brief history found on the church's website. According to the website, "the people...

WESTMINSTER 

Cruise on Liberty ship a reminder that freedom is not free [Eagle Archives]

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

Timed just about midway between two dates that have significant meaning for veterans in this country, approximately 20 veterans from Carroll County will board a ship of that has also has significant importance. On Oct. 3, the county residents will commemorate Veterans Day (Nov. 11) and Sept. 2,...

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Marie Mary Geiman of Manchester, Maryland 1918 - 2015 Obituary

Marie Mary Geiman of Manchester, Maryland 1918 - 2015 Obituary

Marie Mary Geiman

Born: September 27, 1918

Died: October 24, 2015

Marie Mary Geiman, age 97 of Hanover, PA, died Saturday Oct. 24, 2015 at the Hanover Hospital in Hanover, PA, surrounded by her family.

Born Sept. 27, 1918 in Manchester, she was the daughter of the late Clayton M. and Bertha Mae Miller Black. She was the wife of the late Lavere Wilbert Geiman who died July 31, 2000.

Years ago, she worked at the Jacob Brothers Sewing Factory in Manchester, MD. She was a life member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, enjoyed eating out and spending time with her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

She is survived by her daughters, Nancy Little and Pearl Moffitt and husband Paul all of Hanover, PA., grandchildren, Gregory, Donald, Christopher and Jeffrey, siblings, Margaret McCullough of Manchester, her twin, Miriam Thompson of Hampstead, MD and 14 great grandchildren.

She is predeceased by siblings, Hilda Hesson, Ruby Davis, Cletus, Maurice and Ritchie Black.

The family will receive friends at the ECKHARDT FUNERAL CHAPEL P.A., 3296 Charmil Dr., Manchester, MD on Tuesday Oct. 27, 2015 from 6-8 pm. and on Wednesday at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 3184 Church St., Manchester, MD from 10 am. until the time of the funeral service at 11:00am with the Rev. Christopher Litton officiating.

Interment will be in the Old Lutheran Cemetery, Manchester, MD.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Immanuel Lutheran Church, P.O. Box 739, Manchester, MD 21102.

Online condolences may be sent to www.eckhardtfuneralchapel.com.

http://www.eckhardtfuneralchapel.com/home/index.cfm?action=public:obituaries.view&o_id=3361859&fh_id=11311

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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:

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See also - Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art, artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists and journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maiorem Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson: “That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!” - See more at: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/#sthash.4HNLwtfd.dpuf

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Looks like a serious peanut butter emergency is evolving in the Babylon-Dayhoff household

Looks like a serious peanut butter emergency is evolving in the Babylon-Dayhoff household