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Showing posts with label Annual New Year. Show all posts

Monday, December 30, 2013

Westminster Maryland Online: January 1, 1993 Carroll Co. Times: New Year’s Day ...

Westminster Maryland Online: January 1, 1993 Carroll Co. Times: New Year’s Day ...: January 1, 1993 Carroll Co. Times: New Year’s Day services at Grace Lutheran Church RELIGION NOTES CARROLL COUNTY TIMES Friday...


January 1, 1993 Carroll Co. Times: New Year’s Day services
at Grace Lutheran Church

RELIGION NOTES

CARROLL COUNTY TIMES Friday, January 1, 1993 Page A8

Grace Lutheran

Grace Lutheran Church will have worship services at 8, 9:30
and 11 a.m. Holy Communion will be at all three services.  Preaching this Sunday will be the Rev.
Eckhardt. The Youth Choir will sing at the 8 a.m. service. The Chancel Choir
will sing at 11 a.m.

Sunday school will be at 9:30 a.m. On Wednesday the Brown
Bag Bible Study group will meet at noon.

Grace Lutheran Church is at 21 Carroll St. Pastors are the
Rev. Frederick P. Eckhardt, the Rev. Connie S. Miller and the Rev. L. Stanley
Whitson.

For more information about the church activities, call the
church office at 848-7020 or 876-3634. Remember our Dial-A-Prayer at 848-2113.




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Friday, December 6, 2013

January 1, 1993 Carroll Co. Times: New Year’s Day services at Grace Lutheran Church

January 1, 1993 Carroll Co. Times: New Year’s Day services at Grace Lutheran Church

RELIGION NOTES

CARROLL COUNTY TIMES Friday, January 1, 1993 Page A8

Grace Lutheran

Grace Lutheran Church will have worship services at 8, 9:30 and 11 a.m. Holy Communion will be at all three services.  Preaching this Sunday will be the Rev. Eckhardt. The Youth Choir will sing at the 8 a.m. service. The Chancel Choir will sing at 11 a.m.

Sunday school will be at 9:30 a.m. On Wednesday the Brown Bag Bible Study group will meet at noon.

Grace Lutheran Church is at 21 Carroll St. Pastors are the Rev. Frederick P. Eckhardt, the Rev. Connie S. Miller and the Rev. L. Stanley Whitson.

For more information about the church activities, call the church office at 848-7020 or 876-3634. Remember our Dial-A-Prayer at 848-2113.




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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Idea for next year’s Westminster Maryland New Year’s Eve celebration

Paragon Casino Resort Unveils a New Alligator Themed Ball Drop for New Year's Eve Celebration. (PRNewsFoto/Paragon Casino Resort)

January 2, 2012 December 30, 2011

LOL. This is, perhaps what we should of dropped for the Westminster MD New Year’s Eve celebration… Maybe? Just saying. I wonder what Lori Graham might say…

Anyway, PRNewswire says:

MARKSVILLE, La., Dec. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Paragon Casino Resort is ringing in the New Year "Louisiana Style" with a one-of-a-kind ball drop. Inspired by the culture of Louisiana, Paragon Casino Resort created a unique piece that represents the property and the state…an alligator.


Paragon worked in partnership with Egads, LLC in Las Vegas who designs and manufactures signage and sculptures for casinos all across the United States. They were hired to design and create the Louisiana inspired ball complete with an alligator perched on top that will drop from the Atrium ceiling at midnight New Year's Eve.

The one-of-a-kind Louisiana inspired ball design weighs 175 pounds, stands approximately 3 feet tall and is installed high above the Cypress Swamp in the resort atrium 65 feet above the real alligators that call the habitat home. The illuminated ball will descend from approximately the 8th floor of the casino resort atrium to its final spot hovering 35 feet above the Cypress Swamp.

"We are so excited about adding this beautifully designed alligator themed ball to our New Year's Eve celebration this year," said Vice President of Marketing, John Barbry. "The alligator is such an iconic symbol of both Paragon and the state of Louisiana."

The top casino resort, located in the heart of Louisiana, delivers an authentic Louisiana experience for its customers by including everything that is engaging and unique about the state.
  
The casino resort will feature several entertainment options for New Year's Eve including the FREE block party in the Atrium starting at 8pm featuring music by Rod Antoon, street performers and party favors for the midnight ball drop. For more information about other entertainment options please visit www.paragoncasinoresort.com.

About Paragon Casino Resort Paragon Casino Resort, the Pearl of Louisiana, is located on Highway 1 in Marksville, La. The casino and all of its amenities are owned and operated by the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana. Paragon Casino Resort is the only casino resort destination in Central Louisiana and has been attracting gamers from across the country for 17 years. For more information, please visit www.paragoncasinoresort.com. Follow Paragon Casino Resort on Facebook and Twitter.

Paragon Casino Resort, Marksville, LA photo identifier: 20111230/AQ28628 news release:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/paragon-casino-resort-unveils-a-new-alligator-themed-ball-drop-for-new-years-eve-celebration-136454773.html credit: R NEWSWIRE direct link to this photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111230/AQ28628

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At the stroke of midnight New Year's Day in downtown Westminster, nothing dropped… http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/neighborhoods/westminster/ph-ce-west-nye-0101-20120102,0,2347335.story




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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Happy New Year By Kevin Dayhoff


According to widespread superstition, evil spirits are frightened away by loud noise and this is why we have the tradition of using noisemakers to bring in the New Year.

Since we greet 2012 while enduring the beginning of the fifth year of an economic malaise; I suggest that we celebrate New Year’s Day by banging on our pots and pans for an extra long period of time. This economic recession has gotten really old…

The American Sentinel newspaper printed in January 8, 1898, “The New Year, 1898, was greeted in Westminster by the firing of guns and pistols, the ringing of bells and the screaming of steam whistles.” Please note that the local police don’t approve of “the firing of guns and pistols’ part of the celebrations.

Although the New Year has been celebrated since prehistoric times, it was celebrated on the vernal equinox rather than what we now consider the first of the year.

The early Roman calendar used March 1 as New Year's Day, which, if you think about it, was only logical because this is the beginning of spring and we slowly emerge from the dead of winter and there are signs of new life everywhere.

The Romans were the first to recognize New Years Day on January first. Rather than tie the day to some significant astronomical or agricultural event, in 153 BC the Romans selected it for civil reasons. It was the day after elections in which the newly elected officials assumed their positions.

During the Middle Ages, most European countries used March 25, a Christian holiday called Annunciation Day, to start the year. By 1600, many Western nations had adopted a revised calendar called the Gregorian calendar, established by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. This calendar restored January 1 as New Year's Day. Great Britain and its colonies in America adopted it in 1752. We use this calendar today.

It is important at this point to mention that there were and are other calendars: the Aztec, the Hindu, the lunar, and the Jewish calendars to name a few. Asian countries follow the lunar calendar and celebrate the New Year in January or February. Diwali begins the New Year in India around October/November and Rosh Hashanah commences the Jewish New Year in late September-early October.

The Dutch celebrate New Years by burning their Christmas trees in the streets in big bonfires. In Spain they eat twelve grapes at the stroke of midnight to ensure twelve good months for the year to come.

I like grapes, but I’m betting our local town officials may not be too keen on the burning Christmas Trees in the streets. I’m just saying.

The January 4, 1879 edition of the defunct Democratic Advocate noted, “A baker's dozen of merry maskers, composed of ladies and gentlemen, went from house to house on New Year's Eve, singing New Year's carols.”

For those who are curious as to the origins of other holiday traditions, the largest celebration in the world is in Time Square, New York City. Each year people gather by the hundreds of thousands and crowd into the streets of Time Square for the annual New Years Eve celebration. The highlight of the Time Square celebration is the famous ball drop that begins its descent at the stroke of midnight. This famous celebration dates back to 1906 when the owners of one Times Square held a rooftop celebration to bring in the New Year.

Celtic priests of what is now England gave out branches of mistletoe, which was considered sacred.

By the 1200's, English rulers had revived the Roman custom of asking their subjects for New Year's presents. Now this is a tradition that local officials just might appreciate… Come to think of it, the ancient Persians gave New Year's gifts of eggs, which symbolized productiveness… I said the eggs were gifted and not thrown…

English husbands gave their wives money on New Year's Day to buy pins and other articles. This custom disappeared in the 1800's. However, the term pin money still means small amounts of spending money.

It is not happenstance that the month of January was named for the Roman god, Janus, who is pictured with two heads. One looks forward, the other back, symbolizing a break between the old and new.

When I reflect upon the coming year I ponder that an optimist stays up until midnight to see in the New Year. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. I’m an eternal optimist.

Today many of the New Year celebrations actually begin with a countdown to the New Year on the evening prior. It is customary to kiss your sweetheart when the clock strikes midnight as one of the customs of these New Years Eve parties. New Year Resolutions is simply another way to wish away the past in exchange for hopes of the future.

I am not in the habit of making New Year’s resolutions. As I’ve grown older I’ve come to realize that there are many things that I would like to do better- and I shudder when I realize that the list only grows longer every year.

What I really wish for in 2012 is for other people to change - LOL. That said, I understand that if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

On January 2, 1970 the defunct Democratic Advocate delivered a nine-point “Holiday Message from (the Westminster) Fire Company.” Number 6 advised: “At this time of year there's plenty of bottled Holiday cheer around, so let us quote an old saying, ‘If you drive don't drink; if you have been drinking don't drive.’”

And number 9 said: “Remember your policemen this holiday season. He is the one that has to notify the loved ones left behind if you don't heed the above warnings.”

In context of the fact that the current administration in the White House has added more debt to our nation’s balance sheet than all the preceding presidential administrations in history combined: it is interesting to note that locally, here in Carroll County, on January 2, 1942, the Baltimore Sun reported:

“The (Carroll County) Board of County Commissioners paid off $25,000 to make Carroll County debt-free. Carroll County was probably the only county in Maryland in 1942 that could claim such a distinction. With a tax rate of 90 cents on $100, Carroll had the lowest tax in the state with the exception of Queen Anne's County.”

I would like to offer a prayer for our elected officials, men and women in uniform, police officers, teachers and public works employees in the coming year. May the New Year bring our families and community peace and joy. Let’s look to the new beginnings, new hopes, and new adventures of 2012.

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Westminster’s first annual New Year’s Eve celebration a big success




With the temperature in the lower 40s, no snow and hardly any wind, the weather was perfect for almost 500 people who attended the first annual Westminster New Year’s Eve celebration in historic downtown Westminster Saturday night.

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Happy New Year from historic downtown Westminster


Happy New Year from historic downtown Westminster

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Maryland’s Most Politically Influential Blogs For 2009

Maryland’s Most Politically Influential Blogs For 2009

SbyNews: Maryland’s Most Politically Influential Blogs For 2009: Joe Albero has posted on his web publication, “Salisbury News,” http://sbynews.blogspot.com/ a list of Maryland’s most politically influential political blogs of 2009.

Among a list of what are certainly my favorite blogs, my blog, Kevin Dayhoff – Soundtrack – “Kevin Dayhoff - Soundtrack Division of Old Silent Movies” was fortunate enough to be ranked #17 - http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/

Mr. Albero cites his source as being Blog Net News Maryland (BNN.)

For those who are no familiar with BNN it “is the premier guide to what is going on in the Maryland news and politics blogosphere. Each blog followed by BNN has its own directory page where you can find information about the blog's traffic, link authority and influence gathered from all over the internet as well as links to the blogs latest posts and the blog's rss feed so you can subscribe.” http://www.blognetnews.com/Maryland/directory.php

Randomly pick any of the blogs in the top twenty and you are sure to be greeted with well-written and thoughtful commentary.

Please note that of the top twenty blogs on Maryland; at least two are from Carroll County: “The Carroll Standard” is ranked Number 3 - and my blog. And if I am not mistaken, isn’t “The Political Octagon” from Carroll County?

Two of my favorite blogs in Maryland, “Soccer Dad,” and Bryan Sears, “Strange Bedfellows,” are not in the Blog Net News Network. I have often wondered why? Especially Mr. Sears’ blog? Our big sister newspaper blog, “The Sun: Maryland Politics,” which is consistently one of my favorite reads; is on the network…

My favorite blogs for 2009 include every blog on the BNN Top Twenty, however, if I am pressed for time, the writers and blogs I click-on, in no particular order, are On The Record (For example, for more fun than you can stand, read: “‘Annotated Harrell’ year-end wrap-up”; Maryland Politics Today – or http://blog.kennyburns.com/; Baltimore Reporter; and Strange Bedfellows.

From there I go to anything written by Carrie Ann Knauer, who writes for the Carroll County Times, Charles Schelle, my colleague at http://www.explorecarroll.com/; Cliff Cumber and Meg Tully at the Frederick News-Post; Bryan Sears, my colleague over at our sister paper, http://www.explorebaltimorecounty.com/; Mike Schuh at WJZ, Channel 13 in Baltimore; and all of my colleagues at The Tentacle, http://www.thetentacle.com/. And no, that list is not comprehensive…

Thanks for everyone who read Kevin Dayhoff Soundtrack in 2009. I’m looking forward to an exciting 2010.

The list of Maryland’s most politically influential political blogs of 2009:

1. Salisbury News (1)
2. Inside Charm City (17)
3. The Carroll Standard (-)
4. On The Record (13)
5. The Dagger (-)
6. Maryland Politics Watch (9)
7. Red Maryland (3)
8. Pocomoke Tattler (4)
9. Baltimore Reporter (14)
10. Monoblogue (2)
11. The Sun: Maryland Politics (-)
12. The Silver Spring Penguin (-)
13. Delusional Duck (10)
14. Annapolis Capital Punishment (19)
15. The Political Octagon (-)
16. Questing for Atlantis (-)
17. Kevin Dayhoff (-)
18. Rockville Central (-)
19. Delmarva Dealings (12)
20. Faster, Better… (-)

(I guess, the recognition I most appreciated in 2009 came on April 24, 2009 when I was awarded first place in the editorial “critical thinking” category for non-dailies with over 20,000 in circulation, by the Maryland Delaware DC Press Association, for the April 2, 2008 Westminster Eagle column, “Jeff Morse incident a lost opportunity.” Links: Maryland Delaware DC Press Association http://www.mddcpress.com/mc/page.do 2008 awards may be found here: http://tinyurl.com/cl7x5y - http://data.memberclicks.com/site/mdp/Editorial%20Winners%20List%20-%20Revised.pdf)

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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Happy New Year

(Hopefully 2010 will bring an end to our national nightmare...)
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Westminster Eagle: There is no such thing as a simpler time

Westminster Eagle: There is no such thing as a simpler time

Kevin Dayhoff

Posted on http://www.explorecarroll.com/ 1/07/09

It's the first week of 2009 and, by now, most of us are back to work with the extra pounds of the holidays and the memories of 2008, and we're beginning to focus upon the challenges of 2009.

At gatherings I attended during the holidays, much of the conversation concerned the state of the economy.

On several occasions I heard folks yearning for "simpler days." To which I cringe. The concept of the "simpler days of yesteryear" is a myth perpetuated by the historically uninformed to make a point that we've somehow gone astray.

In the past several years, I have lamented over how the "Internet Age" has resulted in revisionist history obtusely retold in today's context in order to perpetuate a particular political agenda.

Pick a time of economic chaos in history. Or a time of war or great social change. Pick a year, any year, and an accurate portrayal of history will put into context immense challenges and how our nation successfully came together to face those challenges.

To be certain, it wasn't always pretty. However, as any of the great folks who have gone before us will tell you, there was nothing simple about overcoming the challenges of any day.

For whatever reason, in the middle of suffering through one of those soliloquies about how days gone by were simpler, my thoughts drifted to 1942.

It was less than a month after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, that the dawn of the New Year in 1942 witnessed Carroll County engaged in the work of helping with the war effort.

According to "From Our Front Porch," a history of Carroll County in the 1900s by Jim Lee, "As the new year arrived, Carroll stepped up its efforts to prepare for potential enemy invasions. ... In Westminster, a blackout rehearsal (had taken place) on Dec. 12, at 9 p.m. Following that, a meeting of all county Civil Defense personnel was called for 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Westminster Firemen's Building."

As part of the efforts to protect Carroll County from the enemy, members of the Civil Defense units would work shifts "at an air raid lookout post" looking for enemy aircraft flying over the county.

Another local defense initiative saw "more than 1,100 Carroll countians signed up as Minute Men.

"The men wore a determined expression that boded no good for any invaders in Carroll County... Crack riflemen" were among the accumulated defensemen. "One man is keeping his fox hounds in excellent condition (to help) lookout for parachutists ..."

The book also reports that, "in February (1942) the City of Westminster informed residents it would provide sand to homes that could be used to extinguish fires from incendiary bombs."

Carroll County was not bombed or attacked, and by today's standards some of the events of the dawn of 1942 may seem silly for those predisposed to analyze history with a 20/20 hindsight sense of false superiority.

As we look forward to 2009, our own challenges seem overwhelming.

However, by rolling up our sleeves and applying a good dose of common sense, we will rise to the occasion ... just as we have in the past.

One can be sure that our efforts to overcome the challenges will not always be pretty, but we'll get there. It's in our heritage.

Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster. E-mail him at kdayhoff AT carr.org.

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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Mr. Moose wishes everyone a Happy New Year.


Mr. Moose wishes everyone a Happy New Year.

December 31, 2008

Mr. Moose wishes everyone a Happy New Year.

20081231 Mr Moose Happy New Year



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Thursday, January 3, 2008

20080102 Fragmentary patchworks


Fragmentary patchworks of autochthonous and foreign elements.

January 2nd, 2008 by Kevin Dayhoff

Happy New Year Mr. Isaac Smith. Thanks for the mention - The List (No, Not the Washington Post's). [Free State Politics Maryland's online progressive community.]

Michael Swartz's list of local blogs to watch in 2008 is pretty good. It is missing a few good blogs of note, however…

As much as I agreed with most, but not all, of Mr. Swartz’s list, your list is right on the money. I also miss Stephanie Dray’s Jousting for Justice. And I am very happy that Crablaw's Maryland Weekly is back…

And thanks for calling to our attention the Washington Post’s list: Year in Review 2007 - “The List: What's In and Out for 2008” BY HANK STUEVER - WASHINGTON POST STAFF WRITER - – what a hoot. (And don’t miss giving The Year That Was 2007 by Brian Griffiths a good read. He obviously spent some time thinking about it…)

Your post could not have been timed better as it came shortly after a conversation with a dear colleague who said they like my blog – although I’m too liberal.

Ay caramba - whatever.

Along that thread, another colleague said “Dayhoff … your problem is that you like everybody.”

To that I plead guilty – life is way to short. Then again, maybe not – I don’t like mean people; and that personality defect occurs in folks from all political persuasions.

I simply do not allow politics to dictate my friends - - and I don’t like folks who do pick their friends based on politics. (I’ll be having lunch later in the week with a dear friend with whom I disagree about everything when it comes to politics.) I can disagree with folks about issues, but more often than not – I like the person…

As far as your observation: “… his actual blog hard to read -- its look is extremely busy and most of the posts are just link aggregations…” Hey, you oughta be in my head…

At least with the blog, there is an attempt at organization… I also find my blog “hard to read” and try as I might, after blogging for a number of years, it is still way too busy.

Perhaps my blog is a manifestation of being a hypergraphic attention deficit disorder hyperactive dyslexic. Maybe – just maybe, one day I’ll figure out what I’m doing. Being a technology geek – one would’ve thought blogging would be easy for me. It is not.

At this point, on the blog evolutionary scale, my blog is a monkey on roller skates. The monkey may or may not be wearing a pink tutu - this is for you to decide.

Years ago, I thought blogging would be easy for a columnist and short story writer. It has not been the case. And within the last number of months, I picked up a third (newspaper) column every week; which just proves the “Peter Principle” is real. I’m now way beyond my intellectual and cognitive abilities.

Heckfire – some days, I’m proud to have even found the time, much less the cognitive abilities - to post “link aggregations.”

Meanwhile, I am painstakingly determined to promote constant attention on current procedures of transacting business focusing emphasis on innovative ways to better, if not supercede, the expectations of quality. What I really need in order to navigate the treacherous waters that lie ahead is a list of specific unknown problems I will encounter.

Always remember, the purpose of my blog is to discuss fragmentary patchworks of autochthonous and foreign elements as juxtaposed by the undeniable command mortality of insignificant self-inflicted syntactic semiotic economics which sometimes may cause irreproducible results unless there is a pre-emptive digital fallibility matrix which would require an integrated third-generational triangulated refinement of indefinite managerial potential.

As I wax philosophic with metaphysical postulations, incomplete aphorisms and inconsistent sophism that allows me to conclude, more and more sure, that the only true thing about anything is nothing.

Now I know you believe you understand what you think I just said but I am sure that you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

As always, your thoughtful consideration is appreciated regardless of the outcome on any particular issue. Whether we agree or disagree, always find my door open for friendly civil and constructive dialogue.

Pray for my wife.

Best wishes for a great 2008.

Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster Maryland USA.

www.kevindayhoff.net

E-mail him at: kdayhoff AT carr.org or kevindayhoff AT gmail.com

His columns and articles appear in The Tentacle - www.thetentacle.com; Westminster Eagle Opinion; www.thewestminstereagle.com, Winchester Report and The Sunday Carroll Eagle – in the Sunday Carroll County section of the Baltimore Sun. Get Westminster Eagle RSS Feed