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Garrettland Inc. Fills All 36 Liberty Mews Units In First Month

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Aug. 4, 2011

In the same month that Oakland mayor Peggy Jamison announced the completion of Garrett County Community Action’s new Liberty Mews town homes, all 36 units were filled with new residents through the efforts of the management company Garrettland Inc. A grand opening and dedication was held today at the pavilion of the Glades Community Park.

“Garretland Inc. is noted for its excellence in keeping the 560 units it manages looking great for a lifetime,” stated Cindy Sharon, GCCAC director of real estate development.

“Keeping properties beautiful is as important as building them beautifully.”

Devlin Inc., which also built the Liberty Square apartment complex adjacent to Liberty Mews, served as the general contractor on the project. During construction, Devlin Inc. was required to work closely with the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program.

“Douglas Devlin, who designed and supervised the construction for Liberty Mews, raised the bar for workforce housing in the state of Maryland,” said Sharon.

The town homes are designed to mimic old world English mews, with appointed private porches and second-level terraces that face a cobblestone laden village courtyard and “carriage” garages.

While the exteriors feature traditional carriage-style lanterns and stone and wood exterior covering, the interiors are characterized by brightly colored great rooms with atrium arched windows and French doors with laminate-wood plank flooring and the modern energy-conserving appliances and lighting.

The Maryland Energy Administration provided funds to assist with the purchase of the Energy Star appliances in the homes. According to a spokesperson, affordable utilities are just as critical as an affordable house payment.

In addition to being Garrett County’s first Energy Star rated housing units, the town homes are the country’s first lease-to-purchase LIHTC workforce units.

Financing for the development was provided by First United Bank and Trust, the state of Maryland, and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta.

Liberty Mews LP is the developer, owner and operator of the facility. It is a limited partnership created by the GCCAC for the purpose of developing and managing the project.

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Constellation Energy opens 70MW Criterion Wind Project

(08/08/2011)

Constellation Energy has officially opened the 70MW Criterion Wind Project. It is the first wind facility to be built and operated in Maryland, and consists of 28 wind turbines constructed over an eight-mile stretch along Backbone Mountain in Garrett County. The facility will produce enough renewable energy to meet the electricity needs of approximately 23,000 households.

Criterion Wind began commercial operation in December 2010. The facility produces energy that is sent to electric transmission lines owned by Allegheny Energy, which serves western Maryland. Energy produced by Criterion Wind is sold to Old Dominion Electric Cooperative, which entered into a 20-year agreement to purchase the energy and renewable energy credits produced by the facility. Old Dominion is a nonprofit wholesale power provider serving public electric cooperatives in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia.

“Criterion Wind is good for the environment and good for the economy,” said Kathleen W. Hyle, senior vice president, Constellation Energy, and chief operating officer, Constellation Energy Resources. “This new facility is part of Constellation Energy’s ongoing efforts to increase private-sector investment in renewable energy resources, helping Maryland meet its environmental goals and drive much-needed job growth. We’re looking forward to a long and successful partnership with the local community. Constellation is committed to being a good neighbor and corporate citizen.”

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Dirty Jobs’ camp teaches youngsters meaning of work

Garrett College program, based on TV show, has them cleaning up manure, among other lessons

The Cumberland Times-News Sun Aug 07, 2011, 11:52 PM EDT

— GRANTSVILLE — For most kids, summer camp means swimming pools, bonfires and toasted marshmallows, but not for about a dozen Garrett County children.

Participants in Garrett College’s “Dirty Jobs” adventure camp have learned about plumbing and landscaping and glass-blowing. They’ve even toured a landfill.

Mike Rowe would be proud.

“We watched a couple of clips from the TV show,” said Elizabeth Ray, camp director, who modeled the program after The Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe,” in which the host tries his hand at a variety of messy tasks.

“We saw an episode about pig farming and composting. Oh, and there was one about a monkey ranch. The kids thought that was really crazy.”

On Thursday, the group visited the BlueBell Alpaca Farm near Grantsville.

Bob Gilman, who owns the farm with his wife, Jo, got the group busy right away.

“Everybody grab a handful of feed,” Gilman said, as alpacas gathered around, gently nudging the children. “That’s your job — to feed them.”

Then Gilman got down and dirty, showing the campers how to scoop poop and sweep out the barn.

“Go on, guys, I want to see that place spotless,” Gilman teased, as the children took turns scooping and sweeping. “You’re saving me a lot of work.”

“It stinks!” one camper said.

“Yes, it stinks,” Gilman said. “That’s what a barnyard will do.”

Exposing campers to “dirty jobs” was just one of the themes that Ray dreamed up for adventure camps this summer.

Garrett College, which piloted a single weeklong camp last summer, offered eight camps this year, including “Food for Thought,” a program about growing and preparing food; “Going Green,” which took children to a recycling plant; and “Weird Science,” which included plenty of experiments.

“We made rockets and made stuff explode,” Ray said, adding that “Weird Science” seemed to be the most popular camp. “We made lava lamps out of vegetable oil and Alka Seltzer and water. They really liked that week.”

The camps, for children ages 6 to 10, cost $90 per week, and next week’s “Science and Technology” camp is the last one this summer. Ray, an early childhood education major at West Virginia University, hopes the college will offer them again next summer.

“We’ve done a lot of really fun stuff,” said Ray, adding that visiting the landfill wasn’t her favorite activity. “It was gross. It was really stinky.”

As for the alpacas, Gilman said it takes about two hours a day to feed and clean up after the 50 animals on the farm. Full-time farmhand Candace Swauger doesn’t mind getting dirty.

“It makes the day go by quick,” said Swauger, who showed children how to use a badminton racket to pound dust from fleeced alpaca wool.

“Then you have to nit-pick all this stuff out of here,” Swauger said, pulling thorns and grass from the wool.

Seven-year-old Emilia Germain said she thought the alpacas were “pretty neat.”

“Except when they spit on you,” Emilia said. “Otherwise, I think they’re pretty nice … I would like to get an alpaca, but we have nine cats, two dogs and two crabs.”

Contact Kristin Harty Barkley at kbarkley@times-news.com

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Looking for a Change of Scenery

The author forgets to readjust her vacation vision to accommodate kids.

A friend of mine had just returned from vacation with her three kids and husband. ““How was it?” I asked her.

“It was a change of scenery,” she responded, trying to sound neutral while biting her tongue.

Ahh, I replied. I got it. Taking a vacation with kids is an experience entirely different than, say, getting away for a girls’ weekend or spending time away with your spouse….

…After the brutal July we just sweated through, I couldn’t wait to get away to Deep Creek Lake for a while. The average temperature tends to be at least 10 degrees cooler than in Baltimore; a sweater on August nights is almost a given in the mountains of Western Maryland. It can get hot and sunny during the day, but you can always escape into the woods during the heat of the day, and hike or bike under the cool canopy of 300-year-old trees. Sounds good, right?

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Western Maryland Regional Library hosting Civil War in Your Attic

Residents encouraged to bring old papers to be scanned, shared

Elaine Blaisdell

The Cumberland Times-News Sat Aug 06, 2011, 10:55 PM EDT

— CUMBERLAND — In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Western Maryland Regional Library is hosting a Civil War in Your Attic event in order to preserve and tell hidden stories of the War Between the States, circa 1859-1867, according to Jill Craig, a digitization librarian with the library.

“The information we are collecting is the information that is not know about the war. For example, how individuals felt about the war and how it affected local folks,” said Craig. “If people are willing to share this information there isn’t much point to having it in their attic.”

The Civil War in Your Attic invites residents to bring original Civil War documents to the Allegany College of Maryland Library to be scanned and shared via the Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage website.

On Saturday, Janice Beall, who works at the LaVale Library, brought an old suitcase full of about 40 letters from and to her great grandfather, Francis Beall, to be transcribed and scanned. Beall said the letters were mostly to and from family members and she has yet to read them all.

“There was just all this old stuff stored at my father’s house that had all kinds of little bits and pieces of information. I thought I might as well share it with someone,” said Beall, who was working on slowly transcribing the letters.

Beall also brought in an old diary of her great grandfather’s to be scanned and transcribed. Beall worked on transcribing the diary prior to the scanning event. Beall uses context clues to decipher the unreadable parts of the letter.

“The more you transcribe the better you get,” said Beall.

In addition to Beall, the Allegany County Historical Society provided military discharge papers, a muster roll, an unofficial list of officers and men in a military unit or ship’s company, maps and ordinances. An ordinance is an accounting list of supplies that needed to be turned in before the soldiers took off, according to Craig.

“It’s wonderful what the Historical Society has provided,” said Craig. “If you’re into this kind of thing it’s fun.”

Beall is also expecting military material from Cumberland resident Charles McVeigh and military discharge papers from Jerry Golden.

The website is part of statewide collaborative effort by the Maryland History and Culture Collaborative and the Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage to locate, scan and provide online access to documents. In addition to the scanned images and transcripts, the website will also provide a who’s who description and will list the owners if they wish to do so. Craig said all the material from all over the state will be complied and then placed on the website. She estimated it will take at least a month before all the information is available.

Another scanning event will be held on Monday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the ACM Library. The Western Maryland Regional Library is looking for letters, diaries, photographs, pension materials, military passes/discharge papers, hand-drawn sketches, hand-drawn maps and claims for damages. On hand to transcribe these documents will be Barbra Browning, a librarian at ACM. Craig will scan the documents and Carol Appenzellar of the Washington County Free Library will be recording personal information regarding donors.

Western Maryland Regional Library is an organization that provides support and materials for the continued enhancement of resources available through the Allegany County Library System, the Ruth Enlow Library of Garrett County and the Washington County Free Library System.

For a complete list of the scanning events, visit the website at www.mdch.org/civilwar. For more information on the ACM scanning event call 301-784-5269.

Contact Elaine Blaisdell at eblaisdell@times-news.com.

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Counties join forces to provide economic boost

ANN BELSER

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Tribune-Democrat Sat Aug 06, 2011, 10:44 PM EDT

CUMBERLAND, Md. — The screaming at the top of Wisp Mountain is the result of economic development in Garrett County, Md.

It’s coming from rafters – people who pay $50 a seat to ride 1,700 feet of rapids. They ride the rapids of a man-made river, then take a conveyor belt back to the top of the white-water course to do it again.

Garrett County is not relying on Garrett County for its economic well-being.

Instead, realizing that people ignore the artificial boundaries laid down between states and counties, five counties in three states are working together for economic development

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Canoe championships set Saturday

For the Cumberland Times-News

Cumberland Times-News The Cumberland Times-News Sat Aug 06, 2011, 11:28 PM EDT

— MCHENRY — Competitors from around the region will participate in the first-ever Maryland Canoe and Kayak State Championships at the Adventure Sports Center International from 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday.

The center is home of the world’s only mountaintop whitewater course. The championship is part of the 2011 Maryland Canoe and Kayak Series produced by the Bethesda Center of Excellence.

BCE is led by two-time Olympic silver medalist Dana Chladek and will be fielding a team of up-and-coming athletes at the event. The state championships will be a first glimpse of whitewater competition at ASCI since it was awarded the ICF 2014 Canoe Slalom World Championships.

ASCI won out over bids from Austria and Poland at the April meeting of the International Canoe Federation in Paris. Deep Creek 2014, the official title of the championships, is scheduled for Sept.17-21. The event will mark the 25th anniversary of the highly successful 1989 Canoe Slalom World Championships held on Savage River in Garrett County. Canoe slalom refers to decked or covered whitewater boats that race a series of gates strategically placed over rapids. The four official Olympic disciplines include single men and women’s kayak, and single and double canoes.

Maryland has historically fielded the nation’s most successful slalom athletes, including World Champions Jon Lugbill, Davey Hearn, Fritz and Lecky Haller, Cathy Hearn, Dana Chladek and Olympic Gold Medalist Joe Jacobi. Bill Endicott, the most successful canoe coach in U.S. history, is also based in Maryland.

The Maryland State Championships will be the first and only state-level whitewater competition in the county. They will take place on the upper section of the ASCI whitewater course. Each run lasts around 100 seconds, and athletes must navigate 20 gates covering 300 meters of rapids. At least six of the gates require athletes to paddle upstream. Hitting the poles or missing a gate entirely adds penalties to a score.

The score is a racer’s time plus penalties, and the lowest score wins. Spectators can watch from rocks alongside the river or from the grass-sloped amphitheater.

For more information, call 301-387-3250, email asci@adventuresportscenter.com or visit www.adventuresportscenter.com.

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enXco Signs O&M Agreement For Roth Rock Wind Farm

by NAW Staff on Friday 05 August 2011

enXco Service Corp. (eSC), an EDF Energies Nouvelles company, has signed a long-term operations and maintenance (O&M) agreement with Roth Rock Wind LLC for its 50 MW wind project located in Garrett County, Md.

The project, owned by Gestamp Wind North America, consists of 20 Nordex Wind N90 turbines, each with a rated capacity of 2.5 MW. Of the 130 GWh of annual production, 80% will be delivered to Delmarva Power, with the remaining 20% going to the state of Maryland and the University of Maryland.

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First Whitewater State Tourney To Be Held At ASCI

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Aug. 4, 2011

Competitors from around the region will compete in the first ever Maryland Canoe and Kayak State Championships at the Adventure Sports Center International (ASCI), home to the world’s only mountaintop whitewater course, on Saturday, Aug. 13, from 4 to 6 p.m.

The championship is part of the 2011 Maryland Canoe and Kayak Series produced by the Bethesda Center of Excellence. BCE is marketed as the nation’s premier slalom canoe/kayak training center and is home to two-time Olympic silver medalist Dana Chladek. Chladek is the BCE head coach and will field a team of “young up and coming athletes” at the event.

The state championships will be a first glimpse of whitewater competition at ASCI since it was awarded the International Canoe Federation’s 2014 Canoe Slalom World Championships. ASCI won out over bids from Austria and Poland at the April meeting of the ICF held in Paris.

“Deep Creek 2014,” the official title of the ICF 2014 Canoe Slalom World Championships, is scheduled for September 17 through 21. The event will also mark the 25th anniversary of the highly successful 1989 Canoe Slalom World Championships held on the Savage River in Garrett County.

Canoe slalom refers to ‘decked’ or ‘covered’ whitewater boats which race a series of gates strategically placed over rapids. The four official Olympic disciplines are: single men and women’s kayak (where athletes sit in the boat and use a double bladed paddle) and single and double canoe (where athletes kneel in the boat and use a single bladed paddle).

Maryland has historically fielded the nation’s most successful slalom athletes, including world champions Jon Lugbill, Davey Hearn, Fritz and Lecky Haller, Cathy Hearn, Dana Chladek and Olympic gold medalist Joe Jacobi. Bill Endicott, who is heralded as the most successful canoe coach in U.S. history, is also based in Maryland. The Maryland State Championships will be the first and only state-level whitewater competition in the country.

The championships will take place on the upper section of the ASCI whitewater course. Each run will last around 100 seconds, and athletes will be required to navigate 20 gates while covering 300 meters of rapids.

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World's Best To Compete At ASCI

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The Adventure Sports Center International, home of the world’s only mountaintop whitewater course, is set to host Maryland’s first Canoe and Kayak Championships on Saturday, Aug. 13. Competitors from around the region are expected to compete in that event. The state championship is a precursor to the upcoming Deep Creek 2014, the official name given to the 2014 Canoe Slalom World Championships by the International Canoe Federation. In the photo above, Dr. Jay Ditty of Morgantown, W.Va., navigates the whitewater of ASCI in a recent slalom canoe event.

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Garrettland Inc. Fills All 36 Liberty Mews Units In First Month

Constellation Energy opens 70MW Criterion Wind Project

Dirty Jobs’ camp teaches youngsters meaning of work

Looking for a Change of Scenery

Western Maryland Regional Library hosting Civil War in Your Attic

Counties join forces to provide economic boost

Canoe championships set Saturday

enXco Signs O&M Agreement For Roth Rock Wind Farm

First Whitewater State Tourney To Be Held At ASCI

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