Showing posts with label MD muni Emmitsburg. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Jennifer Mellor, 2013 candidate for Emmitsburg Frederick County Maryland Commissioner September 2013

Jennifer Mellor, 2013 candidate for Emmitsburg Frederick County Maryland Commissioner

September 2013


Jennifer Mellor has been a resident of Emmitsburg in the Silo Hill community since 2000.  She is currently a member of the parks committee and has previously participated in the citizen’s advisory committee.  She and her family have been active in the community as supporters of the community trail, participants in the baseball/softball programs, and assistants in maintaining the community gardens.

Ms. Mellor has extensive experience with municipal government obtained by her work with the City of Westminster’s Recreation and Parks Department.  In 1998 she was hired as a seasonal pool manager, which resulted in permanent full-time employment as a recreation attendant.  Over the years she moved up the ranks to become the Assistant Director of Recreation.

Her responsibilities included the planning and implementation of a variety of special events and children’s programs, supervision of employees and volunteers, management and oversight of parks and facilities as well as assistance with the development of the departmental budget and its daily operating expenses.  She participated in the safety and downtown marketing committees and also chaired the website committee.

Ms. Mellor also served as a member of the Westminster Fallfest Board of Directors where she chaired the entertainment, parade, vendors, and marketing committees.  She was the event chair in 2010.  She has worked with countless numbers of volunteers to include service learning students, service clubs, and nonprofit organizations.

She received the Maryland Municipal Employee of the Year award from the Maryland Municipal League in 2010.  Ms. Mellor completed Leadership Carroll in 2012 and the Maryland Municipal League Academy for Excellence in Local Governance in 2011. She enrolled in the Recreation Parks and Tourism program at CCBC in 2006 and received an A.A.S. in 2010.

She is currently employed with Playground Specialists, Inc. in Thurmont as the marketing manager and provides general office/sales support.

Ms. Mellor is blissfully married to husband Bob, 13 years, and has two children.  Her daughter Sidnee is 16 and is a senior at Catoctin High School, and her son RJ is 12 and is a 7th grader at Thurmont Middle School.  She spends her free time gardening, bicycling, and enjoying time with her family.

She hopes to increase communication that will result in the participation and utilization of current resources and activities to foster a greater sense of community.

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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Jennifer Mellor honored at MML conference

Jennifer Mellor honored at MML conference

Posted: Tuesday, August 3, 2010 by Brett Lake, Advocate Staff Writer


Jennifer Mellor has served as the program director for the City of Westminster’s recreation and activities department since March of 2006.

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Heading up and organizing many of the city’s favorite community events, Mellor said she takes pride in serving the people of the community in which she grew up in.

On June 29, Mellor was awarded the Roland B. Sweitzer Municipal Employee of the Year Award by the Maryland Municipal League in Ocean City.

Q: According to the Maryland Municipal League, the Employee of the Year Award is intended to recognize high standards of professionalism in service to a municipality and outstanding performance over and above required duty for a single event or program; or for an extended period of time. Why did you fit the bill?

A: Well I was nominated by Marge Wolf, our city administrator. I guess the thing that made me stand out was the fact that when we had the blizzards, I came in and helped with snow removal. I helped the public works department. I started out with a shovel, and then I said ‘I got to do better than this,’ and then they gave me a leaf blower and I used that for a little while. Then I got the confidence to run a snow blower, so I kind of graduated up. Next winter they’re going to teach me how to run the snow plow.

Anyway with that I do special events, I do the Flower and Jazz Festival, I’m the organizer for that event. I also organize the Month of Sunday’s summer concert series, and I’m the event chair for Westminster Fallfest. And in between that I have lots of children’s programs — programs that bring families together. We do four mother/son, daddy/daughter dates — two each. One in the spring and one in the fall. We also do a father/son golf tournament. We do Santa’s Treat, which is connected with the holiday parade and the tree lighting ceremony. And summer camp, I have 11 weeks of summer camp programs that I supervise. I also have a hand in helping with the pool a little bit because I started out with the City of Westminster as the pool manager.

Q: Sounds like a lot, where do you find all of the time?

A: Well I like to be busy. I like to be challenged, I’m not one to sit around and twiddle my thumbs. I like action; I’m a high-action gal.

Q: What does it mean to you to earn this award for the City of Westminster?

A: Well for me, Westminster is my hometown. I was born in Carroll Hospital Center. I went to Westminster Elementary, to East Middle and Westminster High. And I grew up on Main Street in Westminster, so I spent many summer’s in City Park playing on the playground equipment and playing stickball on the basketball court. So I grew up here, and I take great pride in being able to serve the citizens of this community and bringing them events and activities that they can enjoy. I’m just so fortunate. I guess I love what I do and I love where I do it.

Q: You said you started out as the pool manager, how’d you get to your current position?

A: Yep I was a seasonal pool manager. I went through my first summer, and then a position opened up; a permanent, full-time position with benefits down in the fitness center. So I applied for that and got the job and was a floor attendant. I did basic workout programs, gave tours and basically cleaned the floors and cleaned, cleaned and cleaned.  While I was in fitness center as the floor attendant I still went out in the summer and worked at the swimming pool for two more summers. And then I was promoted to co-manager of the fitness center and was told that I could no longer do the swimming pool. After working in the fitness center for a few years the program assistant for special events came open, there was a vacancy, and I applied for that and got the position. A year later the program director position became open and I applied and slid into that position. So the only position left is the director’s position, and I hope to have that one day.

Q: So what’s next for Jennifer Mellor?

A: I’m also a part-time student. In 2006 I enrolled at CCBC in the Recreation Parks and Tourism program. So I have one more semester to go and I’ll have my associate degree, and I hope to move on and get my bachelor’s degree either in Recreation Parks and Tourism or in Business Management.

Honestly, after I get my bachelor’s degree I would like to get involved in, and run for a commissioner’s seat in my hometown now, which is Emmitsburg, and be the parks and recreation liaison. Hopefully in the future I’ll run for mayor of Emmitsburg.

Reach Advocate Staff Writer Brett Lake at 410-857-3316 or brett.lake@westminsteradvocate.com.

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Friday, September 11, 2009

Spiritual and historical pilgrimage to the Seton Shrine in Emmitsburg

Spiritual and historical pilgrimage to the Seton Shrine in Emmitsburg

http://explorecarroll.com/community/3333/spiritual-historical-pilgrimage-seton-shrine-emmitsburg/ http://tinyurl.com/la5yjf

Eagle Archives By Kevin Dayhoff Posted 8/30/09 (489 words)

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Last Sunday my family and I went on a history exploration trip to nearby Emmitsburg to visit the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.

We are fortunate in Carroll County to have so many great places to visit nearby.

This summer, instead of a big vacation, we opted to spend our time -- and money -- close to home to the benefit of our local economy.

Day trips may be as simple as exploring the history of a local town or traveling to national and international destinations -- such as the Gettysburg or Antietam Civil War battlefields, or the Eisenhower National Historic Farm, also in Gettysburg.

Other great history excursions here in Carroll include the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Shriver Homestead, in Union Mills, the Historical Society of Carroll County, in Westminster, and the Strawbridge Shrine -- birthplace of American Methodism -- also in New Windsor.

Because Carroll has such a large Catholic population, many folks are familiar with St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, or simply Mother Seton as she is more often referred to locally.

For those who are not: Mother Seton is the first native-born U.S. citizen to be named a saint. She was canonized by Pope Paul VI on Sept. 14, 1975.

For everyone who has benefited from a Catholic school education, Mother Seton is the spiritual founder of Catholic school education in the United States,

Of course, for television trivia aficionados, the plot of the old television show starring Sally Field, "The Flying Nun," centered on a fictional nun who belonged to Mother Seton's order. The show even contained an occasional reference to Emmitsburg.

Read the entire column here: http://explorecarroll.com/community/3333/spiritual-historical-pilgrimage-seton-shrine-emmitsburg/

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