Anne Arundel County Department of Aging and Disabilities Director Wayne Taylor
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Help on the Way
In Anne Arundel County , we have a very effective, helpful, and resourceful agency to assist older citizens, persons with disabilities, their families, and caregivers with any number of questions relating to aging and disabilities. Calling the Anne Arundel County Department of Aging and Disabilities gives you prompt assistance for nearly any problem or question, whether Medicare related or finding a ride to the grocery store. The county department is one of many Area Agencies on Aging throughout the United States . They are the subnavigators for the federal Aging Network. There are eighteen Maryland Area Agencies on Aging. You can get more information on line at www.mdoa.state.md.us. Here is a partial list of county phone numbers:
Anne Arundel Co. (410) 222-4464
Caroline , Kent (410) 778-6000
& Talbot Cos.
Howard Co. (410) 313-6410
Prince George 's Co. (301) 265-8450
Queen Anne's Co. (410) 758-0848
National assistance is provided by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging. Call (800) 677-1116 or visit www.eldercare.gov/Eldercare/Public/Home.asp.
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This Anglican prayer book from 1849 was recently donated to St. Anne's Episcopal Church.
This Anglican prayer book from 1849 was recently donated to St. Anne's Episcopal Church. |
Rare Prayer Book Finds New Home
When longtime Annapolitan Mary Knight packed up for her move to Connecticut , St. Anne's Episcopal church never thought they'd receive a parting gift. Knight, a former parishioner who “hate[s] throwing anything away,” made the church's rector feel very lucky with her gift of an Anglican prayer book from 1849. August Deimel, director of public relations for the Episcopal congregation, says the prayer book is unique in that it includes the lectionary—a listing of all the daily church readings—in the back. It also contains the New Testament and the Psalms. The prayer book would have been used daily, especially for morning or evening prayers in the home that did not require the presence of a priest.
The 1849 edition presented to the church is written in Elizabethan English. While Episcopal prayer books have become more accessible in recent years, the prayer book has always been a way for Anglicans and Episcopalians sister churches—to incorporate their faith into daily life. As a priest friend of Deimel's jokes, “it's the Episcopal Church: Home Edition.” Only now, the book will be used occasionally to guide services at St Anne's.
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There's More Than Meets the Eye for this Transformer
Rod Sato of Millersville thinks the future is plastics. Plastic, after all, is a petrochemical—derived from the same crude oil that fuels our cars. And Sato, partnering with a Japanese company, wants to bring to Anne Arundel County technology that reverses this process.
Plastics of seven different types are marked with codes that identify them. In Anne Arundel County , the recycling program can't recycle most types of plastic or Styrofoam, so five of the types are sorted out of the recyclables and sent to the landfill. Sato wants to change that by making Anne Arundel County the hub of plastics-to-petroleum processing. This technology, according to Sato, could be used to “recycle” the other five kinds of plastic into gasoline.
“Ever heard of fractional distillation?” he asks. Pretending for a minute that you haven't, it's the method by which crude oil is sorted into natural gas, kerosene, oil, and other petroleum products. The technology Sato is pushing essentially reverses this process, recombining the petroleum. The waste product of this “recycling,” about 20 percent of the volume of the material put into the machine, is contaminant—ink, dirt, soil, and other leftovers. That, Sato says, can just be “thrown out.” Well, while we'd like to keep trash out of landfills entirely, reducing the amount of plastic trash by 80 percent is a good start.
What's In a Name?
Have you ever wondered why we call striped bass rockfish? Throughout the world the name rockfish is applied to carnivorous fish of the large family Scorpaenidae, which inhabit all seas and are found among rocks and reefs. Of commercial importance are the black and orange rockfishes, the bocaccio of the Pacific coast, and the rosefish (aka redfish, ocean perch, or the John Dory) of the Atlantic . In the West Indies , lionfishes and scorpionfishes, the latter vividly marked in red, blue, and green and equipped with poisonous dorsal fin spines, are referred to as rockfish. However, in the Chesapeake Bay region we also call the unrelated striped bass (the largest of the sea bass family), rockfish. Why?
While the common name striper has obvious origins in the fact that the fish has conspicuous stripes along its sides, the other popular moniker is believed to have derived from two origins. One is the scientific genus designation, which was Roccus saxatilis, until it was corrected to Morone saxatilis in the late 1960s. The other is that striped bass feed on (in addition to smaller fish) crustaceans, including barnacles, which grow on rocks. Hence the local application of the name rockfish.
Cooking the Annapolis Way
What happens when you move to a new place and you don't know the local customs? In Annapolis , one way to start making friends fast, if you are a woman, is to join the community group known as the New Annapolitans, now almost 600 in number. Eight women who wanted to provide a place to welcome and acclimate newcomers founded the group in 1985.
Within the organization is a community outreach group, which raises money to support charities that serve women and children of Anne Arundel County .
Thirteen women formed a cookbook committee to create a cookbook that would be both a fund-raiser and a resource for local recipes. Comings and Goings: recipes for Annapolis living contains more than 300 recipes from New Annapolitans members. They provide ideas for dishes to serve when company's coming as well as practical dishes for potlucks that will be going somewhere to be served.
Illustrated with line drawings by committee member Jane Ferguson plus local traditions and bits of history lettered by Barbara Cabot, the contents are certain to get you salivating. There's spiced carrot and sweet potato soup, asparagus with pistachio-orange sauce, and a recipe for Maryland crab cakes from Anthony “Hank” Howes, former Annapolis chief of police renowned for his cooking.
For information about buying the cookbook, leave a message at (410) 216-6000.
A Trail of History
Severna Park 's Association for Severna Park Improvement Renewal and Enforcement (ASPIRE) is spreading some serious creativity, culture, and community with its most recent project, the Murals Project, part of the Severna Park Centennial Project. Instead of seeing building walls along the B & A Trail, walkers, runners, and passersby can view colorful scenes representing old Severna Park from 1906 to 2006. The project involves local artists Cindy Fletcher, Jane Caha, Kathy Ryyan Gardiner, and Phyllis Saroff, who re-created photos of trains, beaches, nature, and other scenic memories. When completed, the mural will extend from the Carr building to the Winkelmeyer Plaza . For more information about the project's progress or to make a donation, go to www.severnaparkaspire.org, or call (410) 695-1137.
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