Young Professionals Network to host mixology event

EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK

Friday, May 15, 2009

Therapists sought for summer camp

Barstow Acres Children Center is seeking therapists interested in learning play therapy to volunteer at its therapeutic summer camp. Learn play therapy techniques and social skills techniques while working in the camp.

The camp dates will be Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from June 22 through July 17.

Registration ends May 29.

Youth ages 5 to 13 with mild behavioral problems, attitude problems and mild out-of-control behaviors, or self-esteem and confidence issues, who might respond to redirection and kindness and would benefit from social skills training, positive peer interaction, anger management group and character building are accepted to attend the camp.

Camp activities may include field trips within the county. Activities will include storytelling, reading and journaling, arts and crafts, board games, dancing, singing and psychoeducational group.

Campaign will support Boys & Girls Clubs

Safeway in Dunkirk and Garrett Music Academy are partnering in a campaign to support the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maryland. For the month of May, Safeway will have jugs at each register for donations to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maryland. Garrett Music Academy is raffling off a guitar with all the proceeds going to the club.

Sailing association to host summer camps

Southern Maryland Sailing Association is hosting Summer Sailing Day Camps for children between the ages of 6 and 16. The week-long camps are conducted at the SMSA clubhouse, located on Solomons Island, beginning the week of June 15 and will run for nine weeks.

The camps will follow the U.S. Sailing Curriculum, led by a U.S. Sailing certified instructor and two assistants. Children will be taught basic and advanced sailing skills using a fleet of Optimist Prams (Optis), some Vanguard 15s, a JY15 and Sunfish.

For additional information and to download registration forms, go to www.smsa.com or contact the junior program chairperson at Junior@smsa.com, or the membership chairperson at Membership@smsa.com.

Air Expo '09 event set for Memorial Day weekend

Looking for something fun and free for the family to do over Memorial Day weekend? Then come out to Naval Air Station Patuxent River's Air Expo '09 on May 23 and 24 featuring the Navy's Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels. The Blue Angels' mission is to enhance Navy and Marine Corps recruiting efforts and to represent the naval service to the United States, its elected leadership and foreign nations. The Blue Angels serve as positive role models and goodwill ambassadors for the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps.

A Blue Angels flight demonstration exhibits choreographed refinements of skills possessed by all naval aviators. It includes the graceful aerobatic maneuvers of the four-jet diamond formation, in concert with the fast-paced, high-performance maneuvers of its two solo pilots. Finally, the team illustrates the pinnacle of precision flying, performing maneuvers locked as a unit in the renowned, six-jet delta formation.

Also headlining Air Expo '09 will be the Army's Golden Knights Parachute Team and the Air Force's Viper East F-16 Demonstration Team.

Past will meet present and future in the static aircraft display area, which will include historic aircraft retired from service and current models and variants being used by war fighters today.

Proceeds from Air Expo '09 will go to Patuxent River Naval Air Station's Morale, Welfare and Recreation Department, which provides support and recreational services that contribute to the mental, physical and emotional well-being, retention, readiness and quality of life to single sailors and Navy families. Parking and admission to Air Expo '09 are free. Gates open at 9 a.m.

No weapons or explosives, illegal substances, coolers, alcoholic beverages, glass containers, pets, bicycles, roller blades, skateboards, scooters or backpacks are permitted on the show site. All persons, vehicles, diaper bags, camera bags, and purses are subject to search.

Sponsors include BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, ITT Corp., ASEC, Inc., GEICO, Disabled Veterans of America, Chick-fil-A, Barefoot Graphics, Chesapeake Custom Embroidery, Waldorf Volkswagen and Subaru, Pratt & Whitney, Sabre Systems Inc., Chaney Enterprises, L3 Communications, Coca-Cola, Lincoln Military Housing, Best Buy, Navy Federal Credit Union, Winslow Pump and Well, Inc., Stanley Martin Homes and NAVMAR Applied Sciences Corporation. However, neither the Navy nor any other part of the federal government endorses any company, sponsor or their products or services. For more information, call 301-757-EXPO, or go to www.paxairexpo.org.

Public forum on nuclear safety set for May 20

Leagues of Women Voters of Calvert and St. Mary's counties will sponsor a free public education forum on Wednesday, May 20.

Location of the forum is the Calvert Pines Senior Center, 450 W. Dares Beach Road in Prince Frederick, from 6:30 to 9 p.m.

The forum title is "Nuclear Waste: Safety, Health and Environmental Issues."

A panel of distinguished and diverse experts has been invited to present the pro and con aspects of the issues.

The forum panel will address issues and concerns including nuclear technologies, health, safety, environment and waste.

The forum format includes a question and answer session from the audience. The forum will be moderated by Calvert league member Klaus Zwilsky, with forum format and ground rules developed by the Leagues of Women Voters.

Issues involving nuclear reactors are complex and difficult topics worthy of exploring to help raise the level of public understanding. The leagues were encouraged to conduct such a forum by public demand in reference to the proposed third nuclear reactor planned to be built at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, the site of two other current nuclear reactors in Lusby.

Constellation Energy has filed an application with the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to build the third nuclear reactor. The environmental/safety plan submitted by Constellation is available at the NRC Web site www.nrc.gov.

For additional information, go to www.lwvmd.org/calvert, or contact Calvert's League President Kathleen Riley at 410-586-2176.