Local Bounty 2007
Once again this year, Bay Weekly begins the season with our annual guide to holiday happenings from Thanksgiving to the New Year to help you plan this magical season.
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Volume 15, Issue 51 ~ December 20 - December 26, 2007
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Our Otherwise Perfect Christmas
My father had announced his plan to buy an artificial Christmas tree. He was tired of having to take out a second mortgage to buy a tree that would be dead in three weeks. Dad’s announcement caused Sam to wail. My brother had got it in his head that if we had a fake tree Santa wouldn’t visit us. Mom finally intervened to quiet my brother. She said Christmas only comes once a year. She enjoyed a house filled with a seasonal pine smell and it’s her, not Dad, who vacuums the needles from the rug. “So get a real tree already,” she said. That’s when things fell into place.
by Allen Delaney
Calendars for a New Year
With calendars, the year stretches before us like a clean slate divvied into to an organized, clean-cut grid. Later, you’ll add scrawlings, reminders and details of appointments, events, activities, dinners, concerts, book signings, holidays, travels and all the commitments of a new year that will fill up at the speed of light.
by Carrie Madren
Marion Warren: The Legend Lives On
We’ve known Marion Warren through the way he sees the world, through his photographs of everyday people just like us. We’ve known his artistic passions in the way he captures moods and truths. Now, for the first time on film, we can see and hear the picture-maker himself in the documentary, Chesapeake: The Work of Marion Warren.
by Carrie Madren
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Nutty for Fruitcakes
You don’t like them? Send them to me
This is the time of year when Ms. Antoinette speaks my kind of language. I only wish my doctors were tuned in. Year ’round, they tell wife Lois Don’t let him eat cake.
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Keep Your Poinsettia Cozy
Winter’s chill will wilt your Christmas blooms
Keep Christmas in bloom by shielding your poinsettias from sudden drops in temperature. Remember, poinsettias are a tropical plant, so a sudden chill — from room temperature to below 40 degrees — can cause the plant to quickly lose foliage, including the red or white bracks.
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Rallying Green School Spirit
How environment-minded students can get the biggest bang
Participating in an environmental club is an excellent way for high school students to learn about environmental issues while providing measurable benefit to their community.
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Let There Be Night
The year’s shortest day puts the sun in your eyes
Saturday, December 22, one hour and eight minutes after midnight, the sun reaches its farthest point south in its arc through our skies, marking the beginning of winter for us in the Northern Hemisphere and the start of summer for those below the equator.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The sporting year in review
The sporting year has been a rollercoaster ride on the Chesapeake, with many parts good, some bad and one ugly.
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Tales of Oysters Past and Present
While we feast, scientists study
Let us royster with the oyster — in the shorter days and moister — Of dishes he’s the daisy and of shell-fish he’s the star.
Way Downstream
PETA’s Santa’s sexy helper visits Annapolis to put Kentucky Fried Chicken on its Naughty List … Mayor Ellen Moyer gives her annual Green Star Awards … Patuxent Riverkeeper publishes its river-saving action plan … U.S. Rep. Wayne Gilchrest gets help from Newt Gingrich in a tough primary race … Christmas is upon us; remember to recycle … plus, this week’s Creature Feature: In India, man bites dog.
Editorial
The Spirit of Friendship and the Gift of Giving
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- Citizen, Spare that Tree
Reflection
Christmas Ornaments are Memories from Our Past
Rubbermaid tubs are treasure troves of history
by Carrie Madren, Bay Weekly staff writer
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Curtain Call
Bay Theatre Company’s Apocalyptic Butterflies: A nice change to be in a Scrooge-less theatre in December, but this play leaves only a brief, flitting impression.
reviewed by Daviuna Grace Hill
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