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Island Tanning
Owner: Tracy Lynn Miller
Hours: Opens 6:30am daily
171-B Mayo Road • Edgewater • 410-956-0559

Just because the days are getting shorter doesn’t mean you can’t be tan. Keep your natural tan glowing at Island Tanning, where private tanning rooms offer Wolff System UVA-lighting beds. Reminisce about days lying on the beach as you soak in the rays with radios, towels and a large fan. But worry not about the burning and peeling of outdoor tanning.

Island Tanning also offers a full line of skin-care products and the area’s largest selection of tanning lotions to help you look your best in the cooler season.

You don’t even have to lie down for a summer-like tan: Island Tanning also has the area’s only stand-up tanning unit and legs-only tanning unit. During the off months, many people want a little color on legs but not face and arms, says owner Lynn Miller, which makes the legs-only unit popular.

For six years, Island Tanning has offered five levels of tanning, from deep tropical tanning to sun-kissed. Smart Tan-certified staff will help you tailor a program to your tanning wishes.

“Stopping in once or twice a month will help keep a radiant glow, if you want,” says Miller. “Or help you keep just a little bit of color.”

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Elizabeth Seton High School
President: Sister Virginia Ann Brooks
Hours: M-F 7:55am-2:40pm
5715 Emerson St., Bladensburg
301-864-4532 • www.setonhs.org

Elizabeth Seton High School educates young women in grades 9 through 12, emphasizing Catholic values, academic excellence and service to those in need. Their college preparatory program boasts a wide array of honors and advanced-placement courses, small class sizes, well-qualified teachers and attention to each student.

“Students get individual attention because class sizes are so small, averaging 19 students,” says director of recruitment Meghan Sheperd. “Teachers offer help before and after school, lunchtime and by appointment.”

Elizabeth Seton’s graduating senior class enjoyed a 100 percent college acceptance rate and earned more than $5.5 million in college scholarships last year.

Established in 1959 by the Daughters of Charity, the school focused on home economics and business. Now, the focus is on preparing students for college and helping them become technologically literate.

Young women at Elizabeth Seton round out their personalities with athletic, extra-curricular, musical, artistic and community-service activities.

“All these activities allow young women to pursue their interests while building leadership skills,” says Sheperd.

To learn if Elizabeth Seton is a fit for your child, set up a visit for eighth graders to shadow a freshman or sophomore for a day. Interested middle-school students and families are invited to attend an open house on November 7, 1-2:30pm. Applications for incoming freshmen are due December 15.

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Home Comfort Central
Manager: Richard Hall
Hours: M-F 10am-6pm; Sa 10am-3pm; Su 10am-2pm
410 Solomons Island Rd. • Prince Frederick
410-535-8693 • homecomfort@gottco.com

Cooler evenings mean more time spent by the fireplace, crackling and glowing as the cold winds blow outside. Make your home cozier with Home Comfort Central’s fireplaces, gas logs and gas stoves.

Start out with free in-home estimates; then browse their 25-working-display showroom, including HearthStone products, gas stoves, wood stoves, gas fireplaces, gas inserts, oil stoves, free-standing stoves, mantles and hearth accessories.

Your choices will be delivered and completely installed by certified technicians to keep you and your family warm and comfortable all year.

Home Comfort Central also supplies propane and maintenance to keep your stove or fireplace in efficient and top condition.

Keep your showers hot, too, with Rinnai Continuum continuous waterflow heaters. Propane-fueled and highly efficient, this
tankless water heater saves space and lets you control water temperature in different parts of your home.

Home Comfort Central means one-stop shopping for a more comfortable home.

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Beach Cove
Proprietor: Capt. Glenn James
Hours: Opens noon daily
8416 Bayside Road • Chesapeake Beach
301-855-0025
www.beachcoverestaurant.com

Beach Cove serves up the best steak in the region for lunch and dinner seven days a week. Three nights, you can season your steak with music.

“We feature Certified Angus Beef, cut and prepared a number of ways, including filet mignon, Beach Cove filet, New York strip and prime rib,” says proprietor Glenn James, a Chesapeake charter captain. “That’s what sets us apart.”

Of course you couldn’t call yourself captain in these parts if you skipped the fish. Complementing good beef, Beach Cove serves an array of seafood, including crabcakes, rockfish, scallops and oysters. With a captain making the selections, freshness is a standard you can count on.

The three-year-old Beach Cove prides itself on the quality of its service as well as of its food.

When you savor your steak or seafood in Beach Cove’s casual maritime setting, on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights you’ll be well placed for music in the lounge, which caters to the 30+ crowd.

Or you can carry out.

Either way, proprietor James says, “We buy the highest quality food available, and our staff works hard to make sure that it’s prepared and served the way you like it.”

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Catherine’s Draperies

For a better view of the world, dress up your windows. Catherine’s Draperies can beautify your windows with custom draperies, blinds, shutters, shades, verticals and valances of all styles to suit your decor at home or your business. Or choose from quality products like Hunter-Douglas to accent your living space.

For a fresher look, re-upholster couches, chairs, outdoor cushions and more.

Don’t leave out your boat in redecorating: Catherine’s Draperies also does custom boat interiors and repairs for style out on the water.

Use your creative side to dream up exactly what you want.

“We’ll try anything the customer brings in dimensions for,” says owner Cathy Tucker. “Anything that can be sewed, we sew it.”

To find a perfect match for your home, business or boat, choose from over 4,000 fabric samples, including this year’s new ‘in’ colors of salmon, purple and gold.

And you can always rely on these experts for advice.

“We have over 180 combined years of experience in upholstery and window treatments,” says Tucker, who has done window treatments for over 30 years. She began her interior stylings when friends brought in couch and boat cushions to re-upholster. When the word about her work got around, the business took off, she says.

For autumn, says Tucker, “Shop early for a beautiful interior for Thanksgiving and Christmas.”

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Chesapeake Yoga Center
Owner: Roberta W. Reeves, M.Ed., D.Ay., R.y.T.
Hours: Check website for schedule and hours
13860 H.G. Truman Rd. • Solomons
410-326-4421
www.chesapeakeyogacenter.com

Chesapeake Yoga Center’s focus on the body/mind/spirit through physical movement creates strength and flexibility in both body and mind. Classes in Anusara yoga, gentle yoga, flow (or power) yoga, prenatal and children’s yoga all help you open to the serenity of your innermost being. You’ll also find private classes; prannasage (yoga massage); weekend workshops on Ayurvedic nutrition and yoga philosophy; and special theme classes such as date-night yoga on Friday nights.

There’s no need to wait to try out yoga; as a gift of service from their teachers, your first class is free.

In addition to the calming asanas or poses of yoga, classes in Pilates also improve strength and flexibility.

Chesapeake Yoga Center is dedicated to the spirit and practice of ancient healing arts.

“Students leave our yoga classes feeling a sense of stillness, inner peace and deep relaxation,” says owner Roberta Reeves, who has been practicing yoga since 1991.

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