June 2010 – Page 5 – Jay's Real Estate Blog

Veterans Procession – All-American Whitewater Festival

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Various branches of the U.S. military were well represented during the “Veterans Procession,” one of the many highlights of the All-American Whitewater Festival, which took place at the Adventure Sports Center International during Memorial Day weekend. Led by local bagpiper Jerry McGee and the Southern High School Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps Color Guard, the parade included members of Team River Runner, a Wounded Warrior organization. In the front is TRR member Ben Brown (No. 44), a U.S. Navy veteran. Garrett County hosted numerous veterans, their family members, and coaches during the team’s 2010 Rendezvous weekend. See story. Photo courtesy of Matt Taylor.

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Search Successful For Man Lost In Savage Forest

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A 72-year-old Piedmont, W.Va., man was located alive and in good condition in the Savage River State Forest by searchers on Sunday, June 6, at 8:30 p.m., according to a report from the Maryland Natural Resources Police (NRP).
James Lewis Alt had been missing since June 5 at 4 p.m. when he failed to return to the vehicle after he had been hunting for ginseng on state forest property. He was located approximately one mile from where he was last seen and 1½ miles from the nearest road. Alt was suffering from back pain and dehydration. He was removed from the location by a wheeled stokes basket.

Alt and two other companions separated from each other at 11 a.m. on Saturday in the area of Savage River Road. The group was to meet back at the vehicle at 4 p.m., but Alt failed to return at that time. Alt was reported missing at 8 p.m.

The search continued for Alt throughout the night. The NRP Search Support Unit coordinated the search. The following organizations assisted in the search: NRP K-9, Maryland Park Service, Maryland Forest Service, Appalachian Search and Rescue Conference, Mid Atlantic Search Dogs, Mountain Rescue Group, Horse Base Search Group (TrotSAR), Potomac Valley SAR, and Bloomington Volunteer Fire Department.

A total of sixty–five searchers looked through 6,000 acres of steep terrain and heavily wooded forest on foot and on horseback. An NRP spokesperson expressed his appreciation to the following organizations for their food donations to the participants during the search: Oakland Wal-Mart, Grantsville Subway, Grantsville Arby’s, Grantsville Exxon, and Keyser’s Ridge McDonald’s.

Time For Three Strings Concert To Be Presented

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Jun. 10, 2010

Garrett Lakes Arts Festival (GLAF) will present the classical crossover musical trio, Time for Three, on Saturday, June 19, at the Lodge at Wisp Resort in McHenry. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m.
“Violinists Zachary De Pue and Nicholas Kendall combine their love of fiddling in country western and bluegrass styles with bassist Ranaan Meyer’s deep roots in jazz and improvisation,” a GLAF spokesperson said. “As a special treat, there will be a meet-and-greet reception immediately following the concert. A cash bar will be available. Guests are invited to stay to meet these talented musicians and enjoy complimentary desserts and coffee provided by Wisp Resort.”

According to the spokesperson, Time for Three has earned distinction as a groundbreaking, “category-shattering” trio going beyond traditional classification, combining elements of classical, country western, gypsy, and jazz.

“What started as a trio of musicians who played together for fun while students at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute for Music evolved into Time for Three, or tf3 for short – a charismatic ensemble with a reputation for limitless enthusiasm and no musical boundaries,” the spokesperson said.

The Garrett Mentors will attend a free daytime rehearsal on Saturday.

Tickets for the Saturday evening concert are $30 for adults, $5 for students, and free for children 5 years and younger (tickets are required).

Tickets may be purchased by calling the GLAF office at 301-387-3082, or through the GLAF web site, located at http://www.artsandentertainment.org/

Sponsor partners for this event are Frank and Linda Lancelotta, Edward W.S. and Jeanne Neff, and Chuck and Becky Zellefrow.

Season sponsors of Garrett Lakes Arts Festival are First United Trust & Investments, Howard and Audrey Naylor Family Trust, Jim O’Connell and Connie Leary, Sincell Publishing Company, and Wisp Resort, with additional funding from Garrett County Arts Council, Maryland State Arts Council, and PennPAT.

$3.5 million dollar sale at Deep Creek Lake – Baltimore Sun

Photo courtesy of Betsy Spiker
Real Estate Wonk – Jamie Smith Hopkins – Baltimore Sun

In this difficult market for high-end homes, at least one seller found a buyer without looking.

A Deep Creek Lake house that changed hands last Friday for $3.5 million — a record in the Western Maryland vacation spot, according to the buyers’ agent — wasn’t actually on the market. The buyers looked at homes people wanted to sell but didn’t fall in love with any of them, so agent Betsy Spiker with Long & Foster Real Estate thought she’d call the builder whose family lived in the stucco home pictured above to see if he’d be willing to part with it.

“I said, ‘I do know the family in that house — let me take a shot in the dark here,'” she said.

It worked.

What, you might ask, are the buyers getting for their $3.5 million? The house as it stands now is four bedrooms with three full bathrooms and two half bathrooms on the main and upper levels. But the contract includes a deal for the builder to finish the huge, 3,100-square-foot basement, adding a bedroom and a variety of elements from a sauna to an elevator.

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Maryland spring turkey hunters harvest 2847 wild turkeys

345 total turkeys from Garrett County led the state of Maryland

Baltimore Outdoor Recreation Examiner
Andrew Aughenbaugh

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reported this week that 2,847 wild turkeys were harvested during the 2010 spring season. This spring’s harvest was down only 2 percent from last year’s total of 2,910.

Talk among Maryland turkey hunters, before the spring season, was filled with concern of a possible winter kill from the deep snows of last winter. As the season came to a close, these fears turned out unfounded based on the harvest results.

“Many hunters were concerned that the exceptionally cold temperatures and deep snows this past winter might have harmed the turkey population,” stated Bob Long, DNR’s Upland Game Bird Biologist. “Based on the harvest numbers, the impacts were minor, even in western Maryland where snowfall amounts were very high.”

The 2010 numbers are similar to the 10-year average of 2,927, showing that Maryland’s turkey population remains healthy despite the extended inclement weather this past winter. Only 17 percent of the harvest was comprised of young gobblers, called jakes. This is well below average and supports DNR survey results that documented low reproductive success throughout most of the state last summer. Depending on the reproductive success of this spring, hunters could possibly see another slight decline in the turkey population during next hunting season.

McHenry Cove Views

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Ocean City eyeing end to unemployment benefits for seasonal workers

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Ocean City (Md.) Council members are considering asking the state to eliminate unemployment benefits to seasonal workers, a change that could affect a number of businesses across the state, according to advocates.

The council has until July 2 to present to the Maryland Municipal League, a lobbying organization, what items it would like the Maryland General Assembly to consider in 2011, according to the Daily Times newspaper.

Councilman Joseph Hall told the newspaper halting unemployment benefits for seasonal workers might force employers to raise wages for all seasonal workers.

But Town Attorney Guy Ayres said Deep Creek Lake and other resort areas of Maryland, and Baltimore City might benefit from the change.

State replenishing Savage River Reservoir fish

Thousands of largemouth bass, crappie fingerlings added to reservoir
Michael A. Sawyers
Cumberland Times-News

BLOOMINGTON — The Maryland Fisheries Service dumped 12,000 largemouth bass fingerlings and 18,000 black crappie fingerlings into Savage River Reservoir Tuesday in a continuing effort to return game fish to the impoundment that was drained this past winter.

Dave Sein, who works at the Manning Hatchery in Brandywine, drove the fish from Prince George’s County to their new Garrett County home. It wasn’t the first trip.

“We had already stocked 800,000 walleye fry and 25,000 walleye fingerlings along with 25,000 bluegill fingerlings, 9,000 red-ear sunfish fingerlings and 3,850 adult rainbow trout,” Alan Klotz, regional fishery biologist, said Tuesday.

“We will be stocking fingerling warm water fish for the next three years to replenish the fishing in the reservoir,” Klotz added.

Klotz said anglers should not expect much in the way of fishing for the warm water species for a few years. “But once the fish start growing, the fishing will come back quickly, usually peaking about five years after stocking in reservoirs that have been drained. The trout, though, are ready for catching right now.”

The reservoir has returned to full pool, having been drained so that repairs could be made to faulty release gates in the dam.

Klotz said he was surprised that dead fish from the reservoir were not found downstream in the Savage River.

“I expected to find thousands,” he said. “I think they must have washed on down into the North Branch (of the Potomac). We certainly didn’t see dead fish lying on the drained reservoir surface.”

In addition, Klotz said some yellow perch, largemouth bass and smallmouth bass moved upstream in the Savage River during drainage and have likely returned to the impoundment.

Klotz said that initial news about survival of trout downstream of the reservoir is good.

“We had a crew do a quick electrofishing sample and found adult brown and brook trout just about everywhere,” he said. “We probably lost a year of reproduction, but the adult fish seem to have done better than anticipated. When I watched the high flows coming down the river during the draining I didn’t think any trout would survive.”

Klotz said a thorough survey of the lower Savage River will take place in July and will tell the full post-drainage story.

Black bears of Maryland – Carroll County Times

Posted: Sunday, June 6, 2010 1:05 am
By Andy Augenbaugh, Times Outdoors Writer

Possibly for the first time in almost a hundred years a black bear has been seen in Carroll County. As reported in the Carroll County Times on May 26, a yearling bear was seen in the Union Mills and Westminster area.

History of Maryland black bears

When settlers arrived in Carroll County, black bears roamed statewide across Maryland. However, by the late 1800s and early 1900s, the black bear population had dropped dramatically. Settlers cleared the landscape for agriculture, industry, and timber production, resulting in most of Maryland’s suitable black bear habitat being lost. Settlers feared black bears and they killed them whenever a bear was encountered. This indiscriminate killing, combined with the large-scale habitat loss and a lack of conservation laws, eliminated black bears from most parts of the state.

According to Md. DNR, by the mid-20th century, black bears could only be found in the rugged mountainous areas in Western Maryland. By the mid- 1950s, only a few bears were estimated to remain in the state. In 1953, the black bear hunting season was closed due to concerns of a dwindling bear population. In 1972, the status of black bears was changed from “forest game animal” to “endangered species” in Maryland.

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"Win-the-Fight" Garrett County Gran Fondo cycling event

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Jun. 3, 2010

The inaugural “Win-the-Fight” Garrett County Gran Fondo cycling event will be held June 26 and 27 in the county. Organized by the Joanna M. Nicolay Melanoma Foundation, producers of the SavageMan Triathlon Festival, the event will be a long-distance, mass-participation, cycling event suitable for professional, amateur, and recreational cyclists of all abilities. It is not a race, but is a fundraiser for the melanoma foundation.

A “gran fondo” is a celebrated tradition in Italian cycling culture, according to Greg Safko, president of the Joanna M. Nicolay Foundation. While registration is just $40 for the two-day gran fondo, participants are encouraged to bring in donations for the foundation. See story on today’s sports link. Photo by Michael Bello Portraits.

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Month: June 2010

Veterans Procession – All-American Whitewater Festival

Search Successful For Man Lost In Savage Forest

Time For Three Strings Concert To Be Presented

$3.5 million dollar sale at Deep Creek Lake – Baltimore Sun

Maryland spring turkey hunters harvest 2847 wild turkeys

McHenry Cove Views

Ocean City eyeing end to unemployment benefits for seasonal workers

State replenishing Savage River Reservoir fish

Black bears of Maryland – Carroll County Times

"Win-the-Fight" Garrett County Gran Fondo cycling event

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