IMMACULATE 3/4 bedroom home in Broadford Heights that I recently listed. Close to schools, backs to Broadford Park, renovated kitchen, media room addition – WOW. Worth a look!
More details on the house here.
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This is pretty cool to see how everything pieces together at the lake. My good friend Todd Gibson took me up in his plane (prior to his days of flying jets over the Honi Honi:) a long time ago and did the same thing for me. Digital video cameras were ‘newer’ technology at the time (it’s been a while), and I couldn’t get nearly the detail that this guy’s camera gets. BUT, the coolest view was following the Youghiogheny River as it winds through the forests and then….WOW. Muddy Creek Falls. Awesome. I have better equipment now if anyone wants to volunteer the plane or chopper 🙂
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Jeffrey Alderton
Cumberland Times-News
— GRANTSVILLE — With 17 people already employed as emergency medical service professionals by Allegany and Garrett counties, more EMS job opportunities are expected in both counties in the future.
“Without an influx of volunteers to supplement the paid EMS systems in Allegany and Garrett counties, there will be no alternative but to continue hiring EMS professionals to pick up the lack of volunteerism,” said Dwayne Kitis, who serves as the Region 1 administrator of the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems.
Ten EMS professionals are employed by Allegany County and seven by Garrett County. “These positions are a mixture of medics — emergency medical technicians intermediate and paramedics and emergency medical technicians basic. Most are full time and have county benefits including a retirement plan,” said Kitis.
An unknown number of EMS providers are employed by private ambulance companies in both counties. In addition, more than 55 people are employed in the Cumberland Fire Department as firefighters who are cross-trained as EMS providers, including 12 paramedics who operate the department’s 24-hour ambulance service.
On April 28 at 6:30 p.m., an informational session for anyone who has been certified as an EMT-B for at least a year and would like to advance to the next level of training will be held at the Frostburg Area Ambulance Service at 86 W. Main St., where classes are scheduled.
“The EMT-I course will be offered this fall through Garrett College,” said Kitis. “While you are not required to attend the session, you are strongly encouraged to do so. The session will provide greater detail about the program and will give you an opportunity to ask any questions you may have.”
Program coordinator Doug Beitzel and a number of advanced life support-certified instructors teach classes on Monday and Thursday evenings. Students complete clinic hour requirements and field time with designated EMS providers.
The EMT-B gives basic life support medical care that includes airway management, assessment of circulation and interventions such as CPR, tourniquets, splints and backboards for spinal immobilization. The EMT-B can assist with low-risk medications that patients already have and use.
The EMT-I can start certain advanced life supporting measures and can use advanced airway management. They use EKG monitors for heart rhythms and deliver electric defibrillating shocks manually to patients in cardiac arrest. They can also start intravenous lines for fluid replacement in a patient and are permitted to administer a limited number of drugs.
The EMT-P is the highest level of prehospital emergency medical care. They are qualified to do all of the functions of the EMT-B and the EMT-I in addition to further advanced airway management and administering many more medications.
Kitis said, “Our citizens need to realize that EMT-B training is virtually free of charge and to become an EMT-I or paramedic the tuition that our region’s citizen-volunteers pay is significantly less, about one-third, than what you would pay for the same training at a university somewhere else. The only requirement to gain access to this program as possible future career training is that he or she must be a member in good standing with a fire, rescue or EMS company in Allegany or Garrett counties.”
The need for EMS professionals will continue as emergency calls continue to increase throughout the area, Kitis said.
Information is also available by contacting Jean Tressler, coordinator of operations, Garrett College Continuing Education & Workforce Development, at 301-387-3085 or e-mail jean.tressler@garrettcollege.edu. The MIEMSS office may be contacted at 301-895-5934.
“So far, we have had 32 people express interest in our EMT-intermediate class that will begin this fall and right now we are finishing up our paramedic training with 12 students. That class started out two years ago with 25 students,” said Tressler. “Now the training seems to be viewed more as career training than volunteer training. Paid opportunity is becoming more available due to the downward trend in volunteerism, due in part for the need for two people in the family to work and less time available for volunteering.”
EMT-B classes will be conducted in the fall at the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute off U.S. Route 220 in Cresaptown and at Garrett College.
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www.Gazette.net
State led nation in workforce gains with 35,800
by Kevin James Shay Staff Writer
Maryland’s diverse economy, highly educated work force and financial stability are key factors behind the state posting the nation’s largest job gain in March, Christian Johansson, secretary of the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, said Monday.
The state added 35,800 jobs last month, according to federal figures. It was the largest one-month gain in Maryland since 1970 and the second greatest since 1939, Johansson said. The upswing reversed a 19-month negative trend.
“While one record-setting month does not constitute a trend, we remain optimistic that Maryland is beginning to rebound from the recession,” Johansson said.
Industries across the board showed gains last month, even in sectors that have declined significantly over the past year, such as construction and manufacturing. The only sector that declined was real estate.
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www.Gazette.net
Maryland Community Newspapers Online
by Erin Cunningham Staff Writer
Although not all Maryland counties have released budget requests for fiscal 2011, those that have are expected to spend what they did about two years ago — or in some cases, less….
In Garrett County, officials are considering a $69 million budget — a 30-percent reduction from fiscal 2009’s $99 million spending plan.
County Administrator Monty Pagenhardt said the county will defer several large projects to reduce spending. Sixteen of the county’s 375 employees are retiring, and those positions will not be filled, he said.
“We’ve told people not to submit projects they want in the budget,” Pagenhardt said. “We would not have the money to fund them.”
The story is the same statewide, and many do not expect fiscal 2012 to be much better.
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As a member of the National Association of Realtors, my membership can get clients, friends & family discounts and coupons at Lowes. In fact, not too long ago, I signed a client up for the Lowes 10% discount coupon. He had a refrigerator go bad at his condo at Will o’ the Wisp. Sure enough, he got the coupon in the mail, went to Lowes and saved $140 on his new fridge. In exchange, Lowes sends you direct mail from time to time with other coupons for things like new carpet, kitchen items, lawn & garden, etc. You can use the coupon anytime, but you would be much further ahead to use it on a major purchase, as it’s a one time 10% off.
Email me your name, address & phone number, and I can sign you up. It’s FREE. Really. And it works 🙂
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Alan was kind enough to attend our sales meeting at Railey Realty last week and had some really great mortgage & loan programs to share, as well as some insight into the local market. He really seems to have a handle on some of the hot button issues in lending today, specifically the new reality of appraisals, inclusions and/or contents that convey with traditional vacation rental properties and an overall grasp of how to get loans today in today’s volatile market conditions.
I wanted to share some of his contact info here:
301-724-5666
Brinsfield Mortgage
101 S Centre Street
Cumberland, Maryland 21502
abrinsfield@corridormtg.com
I always recommend comparing lenders and services, and he should be on your list of local (Deep Creek Lake & Garrett County, Maryland) lenders to check with.
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Americana, the 2010 Garrett County Student Arts Fair, will take place this Friday and Saturday at Garrett College. Students from all area schools will be presenting a vareity of performances and art work from 6:30 to 9 on Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday.
Jay’s note: My daughter Kayleah has some of her artwork entered in the arts fair, so we’ll be sure to repost some photos of the event here sometime soon. It’s a fun time to go and support local children in their artistic endeavors – there are so many talented young artists here! Show them some love!
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Cindy Mankamyer of Swanton recently returned from Haiti after joining a volunteer medical team with Heart to Heart International, offering medical care in the earthquake damaged areas in and around Port au Prince.
More than two months after the January 12 earthquake, sick and injured people continue to need medical care in the quake-stricken area. While Mankamyer was there, the team of physicians and nurses saw more than 170 patients on just one day at a church-turned-clinic in downtown Port au Prince.
She said there many children sick with malaria, typhoid, and tuberculosis, and some with infected earthquake-related wounds. A number of people had complaints of eye pain, throat pain, and lung congestion, all related to the thick concrete dust that still hangs over the area.
At one point during her two-week stint, Cindy joined a small field team that left Port au Prince and traveled to remote villages, crossing rivers and hiking to mountaintops, to offer medical care to victims who had not seen a doctor since the quake.
“One day, a man with his right arm and right leg in a cast since the January 12 earthquake was carried up the mountain while seated in a small wooden chair,” she said. “He told us how he was crushed under rubble for over an hour until he was rescued.”
The Heart to Heart medical team cut off the casts using a Swiss army knife and a small piece of wood, and then instructed him in some basic physical therapy techniques for his atrophied limbs and stiffened joints.
“The earthquake-stricken areas are devastated,” Mankamyer said. “Families who have lost loved ones and homes are trying to survive in tent cities with little food, no electricity or sanitation, and limited clean water. The Haitian people were very grateful for the medical care, and many of them thanked the ‘blanc’ [“white” in the French/Creole language] doctors and nurses for traveling such a long distance just to help them.”
On her travels to the mountains, Mankamyer spoke with a young Haitian man who described how the quake caused the earth to shake and roll. He and some friends were in a town on the border of the Dominican Republic, more than 40 miles away from the epicenter. He said they were all thrown to the ground. As reports of trapped people came from Port au Prince, he took several friends and drove into the city and spent the next three days and nights digging injured people out of the rubble, and then transporting them to care.
Cindy explained that Heart to Heart rotates volunteers in and out of the area about every 8 to 10 days. The volunteers go not knowing with whom they will serve. The doctors and nurses at the compound with the Garrett County nurse were from Iowa, Kansas City, Missouri, Seattle, Washington, Oklahoma and New Mexico. The two physicians who went on the “extreme team” trek into the mountains were from Iowa and Seattle, Wash. The volunteers, who bonded through their experience, have since created a FaceBook page to stay in touch.
Read the rest here.
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Apr. 15, 2010
by Capital News Service Reporters
ANNAPOLIS – Budget woes, sex offenders, same-sex marriage, cell-phone use while driving, and medical marijuana were just some of the issues that dominated the General Assembly’s legislative session, which drew to a close late Monday night.
Debate over these issues will likely carry on into this fall’s elections, including the rematch between incumbent Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley and former Republican Gov. Robert Ehrlich. O’Malley unseated Ehrlich in 2006.
O’Malley praised what he called the “collegial and cooperative tone” of the session at a bill-signing Tuesday.
“[It’s] a tribute to the leadership in the House and the leadership in the Senate to bring people together and move our state forward in difficult times,” O’Malley said.
Read the rest here.
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