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This Week's Features:
Putting the FUN in FundraisingTwo traditional feasts give guests a good time and bring bounty to local charitiesBy Margaret Tearman, Bay Weekly Staff Writer Cleaning for a CauseLocal company cleans house for women with cancerby Carrie Madren, Bay Weekly Staff Writer
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Good advice, but the smiles come hard. I’m beginning to think the Burton castle is under siege — and the moat is dry.
As they say, if it isn’t one thing it’s another; so it is at our household up here in North County. Wife Lois was preparing to join me in the war on outdoor pests, when she stubbed her toe. When it didn’t mend quickly, she finally went to a doctor to learn she has broken a couple of long bones in her foot and will be in a cast for ages.
Artillery fungus is a microorganism that can create a mess on the exterior of your house. I have seen the clapboard on the first story of houses so covered with these millions of spores that the sides appeared gray.
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This past May, as part of a larger effort to make New York the “greenest major metropolis on the planet,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced an ambitious plan to switch over the city’s 13,000-vehicle taxi cab fleet from gas-guzzling traditional cars to fuel-sipping gasoline-electric hybrids.
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The waxing moon arcs through southern skies, reaching full phase Sunday when it shines dusk to dawn. From culture to culture, July’s full moon comes with many names. Some are clear and others beg elaboration. But at one time, these names were another generation’s Old Farmer’s Almanac.
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It was 6:30am, and we were already over an hour late getting on the water. A tenuous weather report the previous night made us hesitate making the last of our preparations until morning to be certain we were clear of any thunderstorms.
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As Virginia and the nation celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown colony, many Bay cruisers are heading south to tour these sites. There are many good gunkholes and interesting places to visit in the southern part of the Chesapeake along the way. One of them is St. Mary’s City on the river of the same name, a tributary of the Potomac. It’s the site of the fourth permanent British settlement in North America, whose first residents arrived in 1634 aboard the ships Ark and
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Farmers can slow down global warming … Beware if you don’t pay your state taxes, but 64 of Maryland’s 132 biggest companies skip paying and punishment … Potato-cannon takes aim at cancer … Sailors in Hot Water: If you drive your boat after dark with no lights on, you can’t see Natural Resources Police … this week’s Creature Feature: You can skin a bear, but you can’t sell ’em.
Anne Arundel Pubic Schools seem to have caught a resistant case of Chesapeake Bay Disease. We think so because no matter how much money we keep pouring in, neither seems to get any better.
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by Pat Piper
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