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Friday, July 8, 2016
The Westminster Vol. Fire Dept. was honored to have Del. Haven Shoemaker visit the July monthly meeting
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Carroll County Delegate Haven Q. Shoemaker's Weekly Update
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Saturday, September 15, 2012
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Saturday, March 24, 2012
TownMall of Westminster celebrates its 25th birthday By Kevin Dayhoff March 11, 2012
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Monday, January 19, 2009
Shoemaker: Appeal property tax assessments
HAMPSTEAD — With real estate values falling and the amount of foreclosures rising, Hampstead lawyer and Mayor Haven Shoemaker Jr. said property owners should be paying close attention to their property tax reassessments.
“Those of us who have been assessed recently have been paying more than we have to,” Shoemaker said. “That doesn’t sit well with me.”
Shoemaker held a question-and-answer session Thursday for property owners interested in challenging the assessed value of their properties.
Shoemaker and local Realtors offered advice for how property owners can appeal the assessed value of their properties.
Here are common questions people ask about making an appeal of a property assessment.
Read the entire article here: Shoemaker: Appeal property tax assessments
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20090118 Shoemaker offers advice on appealing property tax assessments
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
PG Police overstep authority by Haven Shoemaker
Hampstead mayor Haven Shoemaker has weighed-in with his take on the home invasion by Prince George’s SWAT officers in the last days of July 2008.
If you will recall; after a small army of heavily armed SWAT team members attacked the home of Berwyn Height’s mayor Cheye Calvo, they tied the mayor and his mother-in-law up and shot and killed his two dogs - - only discover it was all mistake.
No word as to whether or not the SWAT team will get an award or not - as just occurred in a similar situation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, q.v.: 20080729 Minneapolis SWAT Team honored for raiding wrong house.
Mayor Shoemaker is an excellent writer and his recent column, in the “Other Voices” section of the Carroll County Times is a must read:
On July 29, the Mayor of Berwyn Heights, Cheye Calvo, came home from work and saw a package addressed to his wife sitting on the front porch.
If he's anything like me, he probably assumed his wife had been watching the Home Shopping Network, so he brought the package in and put it on the table.
Unbeknownst to him, the box actually contained 32 pounds of marijuana, one of the few things you can't buy on QVC.
While changing his clothes, Calvo heard his mother-in-law scream. According to media reports, she saw and reacted to police officers rushing the house. The police burst into the home without warning. In the ensuing chaos, officers shot and killed the family's two dogs. According to Calvo, one of two black Labradors was running away from the officers when it was killed.
Apparently, the officers did not believe that Calvo was the Mayor of Berwyn Heights. They kept him handcuffed for two hours, in his boxer shorts, lying next to his dead dogs. As it turns out, Calvo and his family were most likely the random victims of a scheme by real drug dealers.
Apparently, the police have already arrested people behind the plan to smuggle millions of dollars of marijuana via deliveries to unsuspecting citizens. Unfortunately, that little bit of law enforcement intelligence wasn't available to help Calvo or save his dogs.
[…]
But what bothers me the most about the Calvo mess is the dogs. If for the public good it becomes necessary to handcuff me in my briefs for two hours, well, OK. If the police want to take my mother-in-law into custody, I can promise my full cooperation.
[…]
It's not like the anyone was going to flush 32 pounds of dope down the toilet in the time it took for the police to announce the entry. I could add my thoughts on the modern low water capacity toilet, but as the kids today say, TMI, or "Too Much information."
Read Mayor Shoemaker’s entire column here: PG police overstep authority
20080825 PG Police overstep authority by Haven Shoemaker
Monday, April 28, 2008
20080428 The Havenator
The Havenator
April 28, 2008
In a recent phone call to a certain quintessential town in Carroll, I was greeted on the phone by the friendliest and perkiest town official, who put me through to the “MML Employee of the Year.” (“Meoy” – for short. Pronounced ‘meow.’)
As I chatted with Meoy, WAB, I remembered that I have had a number of requests to post the “Havenator Series” on the blog.
Soooo, without further adieu – here goes:
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“Q” May 10, 2008
Hampstead Mayor Havenator Q. Shoemaker and former-Westminster Mayor
“The Operation on Q.” May 13, 2004 Hampstead Mayor “The Havenator” Q. Shoemaker undergoes an “operation at the hands of his family and Westminster Mayor
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Thursday, November 23, 2006
20061121 WE Giving thanks WE
My Westminster Eagle column for Thanksgiving is on the Westminster Eagle web site.
For my past Thanksgiving columns and posts – go here.
Crablaw has George Washington's Proclamation of Thanksgiving from The Massachusetts Sentinel, October 14, 1789 – here.
Attila shares a Psalm for Thanksgiving here.
Maryland Conservatarian is “unabashedly thankful for having the good fortune to be an American.”
The Baltimore Reporter hopes “you have a good one!”
Go here for Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation from Washington, DC—October 3, 1863
And Monoblogue is mumbling something about helicopters, WKRP and flying turkeys.
Hopefully you have spent Thanksgiving with family and loved ones. Please be sure to say a special prayer for all our men and women in uniform, in harms way.
This Thursday, America celebrates the American version of the "Harvest Festival," gathering families together and watching football; though it should be noted that this annual holiday originated as a celebration to give thanks for the annual harvest.
Of course, outside the United States, the Thanksgiving holiday is known as "Thursday," or "Jueves" in Taneytown.
Muchas personas piensan del d’a de acci—n de gracias como una maravillosa celebraci—n, que les permite tener un largo fin de semana disfrutando de una suculenta cena.
Today, there is no holiday that is more quintessentially American than Thanksgiving, according to many people -- including Hampstead Mayor Haven Shoemaker, who shared his comments in English.
Our household has once again extended a warm invitation to Martha Stewart to join us for Thanksgiving. We're happy that she is out of the Big House, as it is imperative that America make room for more congressmen; especially since the last election has provided us with so many more great new prospects for "Club Fed."
In honor of the holiday, homage is paid to Ms. Stewart by delivering each and every paper to your door folded in the shape of a turkey.
(If yours did not arrive this way, call the editor immediately. And tell him I said, "Happy Thanksgiving!")
The layout for the newspaper was made-up of joyous and colorful words cut out of old political ads. To deliver your paper, I got up extra early, around 10 o'clock, and made an exact replica of the first Rural Free Delivery wagon used by Edwin W. Shriver to delivery mail in Carroll County on Dec. 20, 1899.
I constructed it out of scrap wood gathered from leftover stakes for political signs Ð and a glue gun.
I then created a jackass to pull the wagon, using some DNA lying around from the last election.
Thanksgiving in America was actually first observed at Berkeley Plantation, by the Virginia Colony on Dec. 4, 1619.
In the beginning of another American Thanksgiving tradition, 102 Pilgrims left Plymouth, England, in July 1620 to escape religious persecution.
They came to the New World as illegal immigrants to find a better way of life and persecute others who don't believe as they do or speak their language. But essentially they wanted to practice their religion without government interference, and since the ACLU did not exist at the time, they were allowed to do so.
The trip to the New World was planned by a government committee, which meant they arrived in December, without frozen food, Wal-Mart tents, replacement batteries for their laptops or ice cream.
The winter of 1620 to 1621 was unforgiving and half of the original boat-people died.
Although the local native Wampanoag Indians immediately passed a resolution that the illegal immigrants needed to learn the Wampanoag language; other more broad-minded Native-Americans kept the rest of them from perishing.
The pilgrims thanked the Native Americans by giving them smallpox and alcohol.
Later, as the New England colonists continued to annex Wampanoag land and build housing developments, the King Philip's War erupted, 1675Ð76, and the colonists exterminated the Native Americans and seized the rest of their lands.
Today, the tradition of King Philip's War is re-enacted in the form of public hearings in which the personal character and integrity of public officials is exterminated and all rules of civility seized.
Another American tradition began in 1621, when the New England pilgrims celebrated a feast of thanksgiving by giving thanks to God after a successful harvest.
Today, the Lord's Prayer has been replaced in school and public meetings by a moment of silent bewilderment, and any celebration of God has been systematically removed from public discourse and replaced by a greater conversation as to why our great country has lost its moral bearings.
Hopefully, this Thursday, you will spend the day with loved-ones and family.
Let us reach out to the xenophobic and to those in need of food, shelter, common sense and words of hope.
May we also remember our men and women in uniform in harm's way.
And may we ask that we be given patience, understanding, resolve, and wisdom in all that lies ahead for our great nation.
Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster. E-mail him at: kdayhoff@carr.org.
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Thursday, September 8, 2005
20050907 If technology Available Why Not WiFi?
If technology available, why not Wi-Fi?
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09/07/05 By Kevin E. Dayhoff
I've been fascinated with public Wi-Fi and all the possibilities it can provide
On Aug. 15, Silver Spring, in
Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) is a wireless high-frequency local area network that provides Internet access.
In June 2004, Newsweek previewed a sampling of 10 places in the world that are currently utilizing Wi-Fi. What caught my attention was the example of
Can you imagine what it would be like to be anywhere in Carroll County and be able to go online for directions, restaurant menus or just to have access to information about all the exciting shops and businesses in the area?
Or download the latest corrections to your PowerPoint presentation from
With the talent we have in Carroll, I would say that if it can be done in
Alisoun Moore, Montgomery County Department of Technology Services Chief Information Officer, said that in
Remember years ago when
An Aug. 15, a Montgomery County press release stated, "The redeveloped Downtown Silver Spring, known as a hotspot for entertainment, dining and shopping, now is also a hotspot for wireless internet accessÉ
"The Community Wi-Fi initiative is designed to É (provide) no-cost community Internet access where it currently does not exist - in our open-air public places. É This endeavor demonstrates
When I asked
Atlantech Online provides the technical component in return for a $1,700 per year fee from the county. Atlantech is a local Internet Service Provider and for them it's a marketing piece.
Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan said in a release, "The successful revitalization of downtown
The area is now an arts and entertainment destination in the
The consensus of an informal survey conducted locally was, yeah, there are questions to be answered; but let's roll up our sleeves and do it.
Wi-Fi presents unlimited opportunities for
Since the initiative would need to start in Carroll's municipalities, I contacted the Carroll County Maryland Municipal League Chapter President, Hampstead Mayor Haven Shoemaker.
Haven put it best: "I have many questions, but I'm willing to investigate any cost-effective private-public technology initiative that will stimulate economic development and quality of life for our citizens."
Taneytown Mayor Pro Tem Darryl Hale agreed, and Mount Airy Council President John Medve added that, "anything which enhances communication and access to government is a good thing."
I couldn't agree more.
Opportunities multiply once they are seized. The future is here, and Wi-Fi is a great opportunity for
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Thursday, August 22, 2002
20020822 “Mayors consider an area council” By Mary Gail Hare, Sun Staff
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Mayors consider an area council
Board of towns' leaders would work with county; 'Enormous untapped talent'
By Mary Gail Hare, Sun Staff, August 22, 2002
Representatives of Carroll's eight towns, buoyed by their solidarity on growth management, are looking to form a council of town governments to work directly with the county commissioners on regional issues such as transportation, development and education.
The proposed countywide council would include mayors; town council members; school officials; and representatives from police, fire and emergency services agencies.
"We have enormous untapped talent on our councils, and we represent one-third of the county's population," said Westminster Mayor Kevin E. Dayhoff. "A council would allow us input above and beyond the quarterly mayors' meeting."
The commissioners meet with the mayors four times a year, usually late in the afternoon. Often, job demands - nearly all the mayors have careers outside of town hall - keep town leaders from these daytime meetings.
"What gets accomplished in those meetings is up to the mayors," said Commissioner Robin Bartlett Frazier. "The agendas are largely fixed by the towns. We use the meetings as an opportunity to share information. We are always open to their concerns."
Hampstead Councilman Haven Shoemaker Jr., president of the Carroll chapter of the Maryland Municipal League, said he would use the league's framework to expand the mayors' meetings into a county council. The sessions - which would include other county departments and would be held more often and in the evenings - would operate as an arm of the league.
"It is wiser to build on MML," said Westminster Councilman Damian L. Halstad. "This is an organization with clout, stature and credibility."
Dayhoff introduced the concept Monday as town officials gathered to formally endorse growth-control measures that call for limiting or curtailing building permits in areas coping with water shortages or with crowded schools and roads.
But town officials decided that the council issue would be diffused if they included it in a letter to commissioners meant to detail their growth-control proposals. They decided to wait until next month to tackle the proposal.
The monthlong delay will give the mayors time to discuss the issue with their town councils and gather support.
"I think everybody will go for it," said Sykesville Mayor Jonathan S. Herman. "But, if it is not effective, people will lose interest. The effectiveness of this council is more important [than] what it is."
Mount Airy Town Council President Frank Johnson developed the towns' six-point growth-management strategy, which insists that the county plan with the towns in mind. He won support for the strategy from the other seven towns and from the Finksburg and Freedom area residents councils.
"We brought the county together on this issue that affects everybody," Johnson said. "We demonstrated the importance of corroboration, cooperation and standing together. The next step is long-term problem-solving."
Johnson told his municipal colleagues the next step is a county council that would include the county staff.
"We are all part of the same county," Johnson said. "What happens in one part of this county does have an effect on other parts. There is much more of a connection and a need for ongoing communication, a problem-solving approach that brings everybody to the table."
Halstad said that the towns have not had the best relationship with the county commissioners and that selling them on the idea could be difficult. Several candidates for county commissioner are members of the municipal league and were present at the signing.
"We need a board of commissioners that is sensitive and willing to listen," Halstad said. "This organization could fly once we have that. We can get ahead of the growth curve and participate in policy planning."
Shoemaker said he will add the council proposal to the league's meeting in Union Bridge on Sept. 19.
"This is an idea that is definitely worth exploring," Shoemaker said.
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