There will be one hour of presentation, followed by a discussion period. Enrollment fees for Museum members are $60 per person for the full series or $10 per seminar. For non-members, fees are $95 for the series or $15 per seminar. To enroll, call the Museum at 410-295-0104.

Upcoming seminars:

2. January 22

History of Sailboat Racing in Annapolis since 1950

Dr. Stuart Walker

A member of the Annapolis Maritime Hall of Fame and a founder of the Severn Sailing Association, a legendary small-boat racer and author of the Manual of Sail Trim and other essential sailing books, Dr. Walker will discuss the boom in sailboat racing in Annapolis since the mid 1950s.

3. January 29

Over the Bridge: The History of Eastport at Annapolis

Ginger Doyel

Ms. Doyel interviewed more than 600 individuals and collected nearly 2,000 photographs as she compiled Over the Bridge to tell the story of the places and events that have defined Eastport for over three centuries. In this talk, she profiles many of its memorable personalities including the beloved waterman Cap’n Herbie Sadler, civic leader and businessman George Davis, and the midwife Annie Hanson Christensen.

4. February 5

Sermons at Sea – story of Navy Admiral & Chaplain Barry Black

Jim Jackson

5. February 12

Chesapeake Wildlife: Stories of Survival and Loss

Pat Vojtech

6. February 19

Smugglers, Pirates and Nelson’s Blood: A History of the Rum Trade

Cliff Long 

7. February 26

Terror on the Chesapeake: The War of 1812 on the Bay (2000).

Christopher George

 8. March 5

Ospreys on the Rebound

Melanie Lynch

9. March 12

Deadrise and Cross-planked: The history of the wooden deadrise boat building

Larry Chowning

10. March 19

Chesapeake Songs & Stories

Janie Meneely

 11. March 26

Oyster Wars of the Chesapeake Bay

John R. Wennersten

12. April 2

Beat the Heat! Chesapeake Bay Excursion Parks.”
By Heather Ersts

13. April 9 (weather date)

AARP

9 am–4 pm, Second Week in January Each Year, Tax Training: Tax training for volunteers is held at the Severna Park Library, 45 McKinsey Rd.; AARP membership is not required. Contact Frank Winner at 410-647-3335 or n3seo@aol.com.

Anne Arundel County Police Department

·         Reserve Officer Program: Volunteers are needed for its Reserve Officer program. This is a uniformed position to assist sworn officers in traffic control, administrative duties, community relations, etc.  Volunteers must be over 21, undergo a criminal background check, hours of availability are flexible. Reserve Officers work assignments all hours of the day and weekends. A minimum of 16 service hours per month is required and volunteers can be placed at any of the four district stations. 

·         Volunteers in Police Service (VIPS): The VIPS Program is designed to involve civilian volunteers in non-enforcement roles within the Anne Arundel County Police Department. Members of the VIPS Program share their time and talents performing such tasks as clerical assistance, computer programming, crime analysis, data processing, graphic arts, photography and other tasks as the need arises. Applicants must be age 18 or older, have a Maryland Driver’s License with a good driving record, and be capable of performing a minimum of 16 hours of volunteer service per month.

For either program, call the Coordinator at 410-222-0042 or get an application from the County Police website at www.aacounty.org/police (Click on the Volunteer tab).

Battle of the Bands  January 24, 2009

The Eleventh Annual Battle of Anne Arundel County’s high school rock bands will be held from 5:00 pm–11:00 pm, Sat., Jan. 24, 2009 at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in Annapolis. This year’s competition will feature professionals in the music industry as judges and sponsorship opportunities for teen oriented companies and non-profit organizations. The bands are chosen by the Band Directors of each high school by the December preceding the event. This project helps find more activities for the area’s teens and identifies the musicians who participate in more contemporary music. The proceeds of this usually sold-out event go to the music departments of the winning schools. Volunteers are needed for sales, press relations, security, and communications. Contact Nancy Almgren at (410) 757-8610 or E- mail: NAlmgren@aabotb.com. Web: http://www.myspace.com/aabotb

Jennifer Road Detention Center

Volunteers 21+ years of age who pass a background check are needed to work in the library, assist with Pre-GED classes and the education program, as tutors, and to facilitate self-help workshops on parenting, job readiness, financial issues, and more. Training is provided. The education/Pre-GED program is held on Wed. & Thurs evenings. Self help workshop scheduling is flexible. Contact Karen McDonald at 410-222-7093.

Handmade Afghans to Thank Our Armed Forces Project (HAP)

Handmade Afghans to Thank Our Armed Forces Project, also known as HAP, is an organization of more than 400 volunteers in a number of states. Volunteers crochet or knit afghans for those wounded while serving in the armed forces. Most afghans are provided to patients at Walter Reed, Bagram Airfield Combat Medical Center or Andrews Air Force Base Medical centers. Volunteers work independently at home producing 6-inch-by-9-inch rectangles of acrylic yarn or assembling the rectangles into afghans, and volunteers communicate among themselves primarily by e-mail. Volunteers also get together periodically (every few months) at “Put Together Events” to assemble the afghans. Volunteers, age 10 and up, are needed to assemble afghans at these events, and to provide general help in setting up tables, organization of work and breakdown; groups are welcome. For information, contact Deborah Starobin-Armstrong at Rectangle6×9@comcast.net. The Web site is www.rectangle6×9.org.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)

This nonprofit is dedicated to finding a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. Volunteers from Anne Arundel County are especially needed to serve on the JDRF Maryland Chapter Board of Directors. Office volunteers, 14 years and older are needed in the Towson office. Volunteers are also needed throughout the year for family outreach activities, and for fundraising events. Call 410-823-0073 or visit website for more information.  Website: www.jdrf.org/maryland.

Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic

This nonprofit fulfills the wish of local children fighting life-threatening illness. Volunteers, age 21 and older, are needed to work directly with the children and their families to help make their wish come true. A training session and background check are required. Volunteer opportunities are also available for office volunteers, community fundraisers, and to assist with special events. Contact Lisa at 410-484-1232 or Lkadish@midatlantic.wish.org. Website: www.midatlantic.wish.org.

Maryland Federation of Art

Through exhibitions and organizational activities, the Maryland Federation of Art provides opportunities to encourage and support artists in their work and to promote awareness of the visual arts in the community at large. A volunteer membership committee co-chair, age 18 or older, is needed to develop and maintain artist service and patron related ancillary programs. Duties would include product development, organizing newsletter and print materials, and membership recruitment and retention. Training is hands-on. For more information call 410-268-4566 or E-mail info@mdfedart.org. Website: www.mdfedart.org.

The Maryland Food Bank

The Maryland Food Bank is looking for volunteers at its location in Halthorpe (So. Baltimore) on Mon. through Fri. for 2–3 hour shifts, from 9am–3pm to help sort and box food. Volunteers must be 12 years of age or older and closed toed shoes must be worn. Also, volunteers needed for the 3rd and 4th business days of each month from 9:00am- 12:00pm to prepare a mailing to food providers. Tasks include: processing invoices, folding invoices and provider newsletters, stuffing envelopes, and sorting by address for bulk mail. From time to time special tasks also come up requiring volunteers. Also needed are Grocery Campaign Volunteers to handout flyers and encourage shoppers to pick up extra canned goods for the hungry;  campaigns are held several times a year at grocery chains in the area.  Contact Vanessa Reed at 410-737-8282, ext. 232 or reed@mdfoodbank.org for more information and to sign up.

·         Critical need for donated products and funds: Because donated products are at an all time low comprising less than 50 percent of our current inventory, soup kitchens, food pantries and emergency shelters are not getting the food that they need to feed the hungry in Maryland communities.  For more information about ways to donate, visit the web site at: www.mdfoodbank.org

Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland

Individuals and groups can assist the homebound. Volunteer as little as two hours a month to make a world of difference. Drivers needed to deliver meals Monday through Friday (holidays included) between 11:00 am and 1:00 pm. Volunteers also needed to accompany drivers, and pack meals. Many opportunities are flexible. Locations in Glen Burnie (Pascal Senior Center), Annapolis (St. Martin’s Lutheran on Forest Dr.), and Severna Park (Woods Church). Drivers are especially needed for Glen Burnie Call Terry Lehr at 410-431-5257 or mowcm@charm.net. . See www.mealsonwheelsmd.org.

“We’re inviting the public to join all of our members and supporters to see what a beautiful asset the Museum is providing to the community,” says Museum Chairman L.B. “Buck” Buchanan. “Architect Kirby Mehrhof and the Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. have done an incredible job transforming a storm-torn oyster house into a facility that’s sure to become a world-class waterfront education center.”

The $1.2 million project was funded by the State of Maryland, the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority and the City of Annapolis, along with corporate and private donations, plus fund-raisers like the annual Boatyard Bar & Grill Beach Party.  The 7,000-square-foot building now has an assembly hall, caterer’s kitchen, and a large exhibition gallery. Office spaces, a meeting/class room, and a curator’s workshop are still under renovation.

 The key permanent exhibition, Oysters on the Half Shell, will be installed by the spring of 2010. Meanwhile the Museum’s first of a series of rotating exhibits will make its debut on December 1.

Based on the book the Museum published in October, Over the Bridge: A History of Eastport at Annapolis by Ginger Doyel, the exhibition will feature a selection from the book’s historic photographs, including the breath-taking panoramic view across Annapolis Harbor from the Eastport shore in the late 1800s. This image was digitally stitched together from three individual photographs, and will comprise one side of the four-page gatefold in the center of the book. Skipjacks and bugeye schooners can be seen hauled out on the marine railway at Heller’s boatyard in the foreground, while in the background, the familiar domes and spires of the city skyline contrast with the long-gone oyster houses and boatyards surrounding the City Dock.

 There will also be a brief annual meeting for recognition of Museum volunteers, sponsors and supporters, and the election of officers for 2008.

 Admission is free, but it’s important to reserve space. RSVP by calling the Annapolis Maritime Museum at 410-295-0104 or email to office@amaritime.org.

The artists of the Art Between the Creeks group invite you to their fall show IS, opening with a gala artists’ reception on Friday, Nov. 14, at the Annapolis Yacht Club’s Sailing Center.

The show will run Nov. 14-16. It will feature the work of 21 local artists, including one, Eric Roberge, who is new to the group. While some of the work is traditional, the artists in this group consider themselves different from the mainstream, or Main Street, art scene in Annapolis. They seek to challenge themselves, their audience, and other artists with their eclectic work.

The artists themselves will create a temporary gallery at the AYC’s Sailing Center, at the foot of the Spa Creek Bridge, on the Eastport side. The opening reception will be held on Friday, Nov. 14, from 6 - 9 p.m.

Media represented includes oil and acrylic painting, watercolors, sculpture, pen and ink, ink on wood, photography and multi-media.

This Art Between the Creeks show will feature works by these 21 artists:

John Bildahl                             Sherri Bramlett
Jason Duden                           Lorraine Ellerson
Cindy Fletcher-Holden            Keith Fletcher
Rosemary Freitas Williams   Christian Graf
Phil Gurlik                                 Merrilyne Hendrickson
Channing Houston                   Leonard Koscianski
Barbara Lacy                           Michael Land
Lisa Masson                            Michael Matthews
Eric Roberge                           Matt Stone
Sandy Travis-Bildahl               Sigrid Trumpy
John P. Williams

For those who cannot attend the opening, the show may be viewed on Thursday, Nov. 13, on an informal preview basis from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The artists will be putting the finishing touches on the show, adjusting lights, painting the walls, and setting up during that time, but the public is welcome.

Bin Sunday - On Sunday, Nov. 16, the artists will bring additional works to the gallery for a tent sale known as ‘Bin Sunday - Beyond the Show.’ These are works that could not be accommodated in the regular run of the show. They will be for sale on Sunday only, in a tent just outside the gallery from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., just in time for holiday shopping.

Show hours:
Friday, Nov. 14 - 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. with artists’ reception from 6 to 9 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 15 & 16 - 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
‘Bin Sunday - Beyond the Show’ tent sale, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. - Sunday only

The principal show sponsors and patrons are Dick & Susan Franyo of the Boatyard Bar & Grill in Eastport. Port Tack Wine & Spirits of Arnold is a co-sponsor.

For more information, including more about the artists,  visit www.artbetweenthecreeks.us.

Presented by The Volunteer Center For Anne Arundel County in partnership with the Anne Arundel Commission on DisABILITY Issues, Arundel House of Hope, and Bello Machre
 
When: Thurs. November 13, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Where: Chesapeake Room
2664 Riva Road, 2nd floor
Heritage Center
Annapolis, MD 21401
 
Light Refreshments. Space is limited. You must make your reservation or request accommodations by November 3rd to Fay Mauro, 410-897-9207 or fay@volunteerannearundel.org
 
 
Arundel House of Hope
514 North Crain Hwy
Glen Burnie, Maryland 21061

7416 Edgewood Rd
Annapolis, MD 21403
(410) 268-1634
http://www.wymltd.com/

Williams’ Yacht Management was founded with one goal in mind…exceeding the expectations of our customers.  One boat eventually turned into several and with encouragement from our many satisfied customers, we have grown into a company offering a wide range of management solutions.

For Dublin hotels or Dublin city apartments, Gibraltar Hotel or a Hotel in Annapolis, O’Callaghan Hotel Group offers a wide range of luxury hotel accommodation throughout Dublin, Ireland, as well as Gibraltar and Annapolis, Maryland.

The 14,000-square-foot store will be the second Greater Baltimore shop for the Cleveland firm. Its first store opened at Harbor East last year.

Annapolis Towne Centre developer Greenberg Gibbons Commercial Corp. said it has signed up several other housewares’ stores.

These include:

•Desi Living, a living room furniture store that will open a 5,000-square-foot shop;

•Great Gatherings, which will sell game room fixtures and barware in a 16,266-square-foot space;

•Paper Source, a 2,950-square-foot store that will sell handmade paper products, including wedding invitations, stationery and gifts;

•Sur La Table, at 4,988 square feet, offering an expansive collection of hard-to-find kitchenware, including premium-quality culinary tools and cutting-edge utensils.

In June, the Baltimore Business Journal reported that Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant Group Inc. and Sur La Table were among other new retailers joining the $500 million development. Known for its German lagers, Gordon Biersch is an upscale brewery and restaurant based in Chattanooga, Tenn. Seattle-based cookware store Sur La Table will open its first Maryland store at Annapolis Towne Centre.

Target, Whole Foods Markets and Bed Bath & Beyond will be among the anchor stores at the redeveloped shopping center, formerly the site of Parole Plaza mall.

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