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Why I’m a Riverkeeper

Having fun, making a difference and driving the pump-out boat

Jeff Holland

Almost a year ago, the West/Rhode Riverkeeper completed a living shoreline project at the end of the Camp Letts peninsula on the Rhode River. Over the past few decades, the land had been eroding from storms, boat wake and sea level rise. Hundred-year-old trees were toppling over a sandy bluff, and the silt made the water look like a soy latte.

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– by Jeff Holland – 4/14/16

Diving in with Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles

STEM program combines engineering and fun

Kathy Knotts

Hallie Zlokovitz dips her fingers into a tub of sticky, greasy toilet ring wax and stuffs it into what looks like a film container. At the next table, Emily Ernst has pushed her sleeves up above her colorful bracelets so that she doesn’t get the wax on them. Kathryn Willhite takes sandpaper to the motors that power her Sea-3P0 model.

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– by Kathy Knotts – 4/7/16

Holy Waters

Churches on a mission to save the Bay

Kathy Knotts

Yes, we’ll gather at the river, The beautiful, the beautiful river; Gather with the saints at the river That flows by the throne of God. –Hymn by Robert Lowry

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– by Kathy Knotts – 3/24/16

You Don’t Know a Plant Until You’ve Killed It

The Perennial Diva Stephanie Cohen talks garden-planning

Sandra Olivetti Martin

Bay Weekly What can we do for living color to hurry winter away? Stephanie Cohen Think containers. Buy a small shrub that’s too dinky for the garden, put it in a frost-free container you can enjoy and tend near the house. When it outgrows the container, you can put it in the ground. I had a nice little dwarf fir tree that I was afraid deer would eat that sat in a container near my house for five years. Now it’s planted and growing.

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 2/25/16

The Power of One

December 27, 1937, is the day that equality came to Calvert County, thanks to school teacher Harriet Elizabeth Brown

Dia Brown

Harriet Elizabeth Brown was a young woman of 30 when she challenged separate salary scales for black teachers. The year was 1937. The Calvert County teacher’s attorney, Thurgood Marshall, was 29 when he represented her in the first Brown vs. Board of Education lawsuit. Together they laid the foundation for the Maryland Teachers Pay Equalization Law. In 1939, federal courts ruled that determining the salaries of white and colored teachers solely on account of race or color was unlawful discrimination.

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– by Dia Brown – 2/18/16

A Love Story

A 4,000-mile cycling trek for cancer awareness led this young couple to the altar

Kathy Knotts

Couples can make less-than-ideal traveling companions. It’s a rare relationship that blossoms under the strain of a long-distance trip. Now imagine making that trip on bicycles, riding from Maryland to San Diego. A recipe for disaster? Hardly. It was a recipe for love. Our couple, James Baden and Mackenzie Williams, met, fell in love and courted over the 4,000 miles of a bicycle trek that stretched over 70 days. The recently married pair agreed to share their story with us.

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– by Kathy Knotts – 2/11/16

Great Expectations … Revisited

How did 2015 work out?

Back on January 2, when this year was new, we couldn’t help but wonder whether this might just be the one to make us healthy, wealthy and wise. Were we alone in that wishful thinking? Or does the coming of a new year make optimists of us all? We were curious. So we turned to friends and neighbors to ask what each expected his new year to bring. With our inquiry came a condition. We’d follow up at year’s end to ask just how this year turned out.

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– by – 12/17/15

Creative Christmas Recycling

Turning other people’s trash into a holiday display

Kathy Knotts

“You may not feel the Christmas spirit when you come in here,” says Casey Dillard, “but you will have it when you leave.” Dillard may have a future with the Island of Misfit Toys. The Calvert County Solid Waste employee has given new life to Christmas castoffs — the wreaths we didn’t like, the lights that stopped working, artificial trees outmoded in this year’s decorating scheme.

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– by Kathy Knotts – 12/17/15

A Pattern for Success

Eighth-grader Kelsey Cashman’s tops Anne Arundel Library’s makeFashion Showcase

Sandra Olivetti Martin

When Kelsey Cashman walks her dog Declan on a cold dark, winter night, they’ll both be comfortable. Declan wears the long fur coat of a golden retreiver. His 13-year-old mistress is warm as just-popped toast in the heated cape that took the St. Mary’s School eight-grader to the top of the class in STEM fashion Cashman won’t need a flashlight to light their way, for her blue herringbone self-warming cape is trimmed in LED lights.

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 11/5/15

Healing the Wounds of War

Navy Captain Fred foote uses poetry to soothe the battle-scarred

Andrew Wildermuth

Loader and gunner, brothers from boot camp days, they came in one platoon to the shock of war; daily they clung to each other for strength and grace — each promised to bring the other home once more. Now both return: two versions of amputee –from “Bonded,” by Fred Foote

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– by Andrew Wildermuth – 11/5/15

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