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Stretching Your Comfort Zone ... Joining the Super Plungers

For Michelina Scotto, raising $10,000 is easy. It’s the 24 hours of cold water that has her worried

For Michelina Scotto of Stevensville, the easy part is raising the $10,000 qualification fee for joining the Super Plunge Team of the 17th Annual MSP Polar Bear Plunge benefitting Special Olympics Maryland.     So what if fundraising — including a Fire and Ice Party January 19 — cost the restaurateur, co-owner of Luna Blu in Annapolis and Rustico in Stevensville, more than she expects to raise? Raising money is what Scotto knows.     Cold is what she fears.
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article –   –  by Sandra Olivetti Martin  – 1/24/13
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DNR Starts Mapping Land for Preservation and Recreation

Public meetings begin Feb. 5

Maryland Department of Natural Resources needs you. Every five years, the department creates its Land Preservation and Recreation plan to guide public purchase of land for stewardship and recreation. The next one is due at the end of this year.     “These are public resources,” says John F. Wilson, DNR’s associate director for stewardship. So he wants us to describe what’s needed and to nominate places to meet the public need.
article –   –  by Ashley Brotherton  – 1/24/13
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This Week’s Creature Feature ... Disturbing the Groundhogs’ Peace

February 2 is too important a day to sleep through

February 2 is halfway through winter, so what better time to gather with friends and neighbors to eat good food, drink heartily and look ahead to the coming spring?     The Pennsylvania Dutch descendants of German immigrants did just that. Among the first celebrants of Groundhog Day, they partied hardy in Punxsutawney, Penn., as far back as 1887.
article –   –  by Michelle Steel  – 1/24/13
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1,000 Issues and Counting

Looking back by the hundreds that lead to Bay Weekly’s big K

In the culture of Polar Bear Plungers — about whom we write this week — our 1,000th issue puts us in the league of Super Plungers like Michelina Scotto, who return to the Bay’s chilling waters (about 41 degrees this time of year) every hour on the hour 24 times.
article –   –  by Sandra Olivetti Martin  – 1/24/13
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Chore Time

Use the off-season to get your gear ready for the fish

If you’re like me, you tried to fish all the way to the end of the season. So your tackle was never put up properly.     Now that there’s little angling left, outside of possibly a little pickerel action, it’s time to care for your tackle. The chore is necessary if you expect to hit the ground running in the spring.
article –   –  by Dennis Doyle  – 1/24/13
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Following the Wolf’s Path

Let this bright moon lead you through the sky

Saturday marks the year’s first full moon, called the Wolf Moon by Native Americans and Europeans alike, as with January’s frigid cold and deep snows, the hungry animals came their closest to human settlements.
article –   –  by J. Alex Knoll  – 1/24/13
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Are Your Seeds Fresh and Lively?

Here’s how to tell

If you want to be sure your seeds will sprout, buy fresh ones this season. Fresh seeds have a higher percentage of germination and germinate faster than old seeds.      
article –   –  by Dr. Francis Gouin  – 1/24/13
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The Last Stand

The former governor of California gets serious about border control

Sheriff Ray Owens (Arnold Schwarzenegger: The Expendables 2) left a life of action as a Los Angeles cop to police a small border town in Arizona.     Small town life gets a lot more exciting when Mexican cartel kingpin Gabriel Cortez (Eduardo Noriega: Una Pistola en Cada Mano) escapes from FBI custody. He jumps in a souped-up Corvette, takes a hostage and speeds toward freedom. The only thing standing in his way are the local yokels of Sommerton.
article –   –  by Diana Beechener  – 1/24/13
event  – January 31, 2013 - 9:30am

KIDS Times at the Library

  Annapolis Library: 410-222-1750 • 9:30am & 10:30am: Babies to 2-years hear stories and songs. Prince Frederick Library: 410-535-0291 • 9:30-9:50am: Ages up to 2 hear stories, songs;rsvp. • 10-10:30am: 2- to 3-year-olds practice listening skills and make crafts;rsvp. • 10:45-11:30am: Stories, songs and crafts for families;rsvp. • 2-3pm: K-3rd grade hear stories and make crafts;rsvp.
event  – January 30, 2013 - 10:00am

KIDS Times at the Library

  Edgewater Library: 410-222-1538 • 11am: Ages 2 to 4 hear stories. Prince Frederick Library: 410-535-0291 • 10-10:30am: 2- to 3-year-olds practice listening skills and make crafts;rsvp. • 10:45-11:30am & 1-1:45pm: Stories, songs and crafts for families;rsvp. Southern Library, Lusby: 410-326-5289 • 10-10:20am: Ages up to 24 months hear short stories, songs;rsvp.

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