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COMMUNITY SUPPORT

Kings Landing Park


gets new rope course
When local Boy Scout
Noah Breske needed
assistance with his Eagle
Scout service project, he
turned to SMECO. In
March we donated labor
The SMECO team that helped reinstall the Dee of and materials to realize his
St. Marys mast. Pictured are Wayne Gray, Daniel goal of a low ropes course
Harding, Kevin Smith, Zach Merchant, Dale and team building course
Beckham, Chris Drury, James Hewitt, Kila Mills,
at Kings Landing Park in
Scott Horn, Mike Emory, and Ron Derby. (Photo by
Rob Hurry, Calvert Marine Museum) Huntingtown.
Breske, an eighth-grader
at Calvert Middle School,
SMECO finishes the job
Jeremy Green trims
recruited other Scouts to a post for the low
remove the overgrown ropes course.
on Solomons skipjack basketball and tennis courts
at Kings Landing. When park
SMECO returned to Calvert Marine Museum in March to leader Melinda Whicher suggested a low ropes course,
finish the restoration of the Dee of St. Marys skipjack, to the Scout approached area businesses for donations of
help get the vessel ready for the 2016 sailing season. money and materials. A team of nine SMECO employees
cut and set poles for the course on March 21.
The Dee, built in Piney Point in 1979, saw 10 years
of service as a commercial oyster fishing boat. Now Thanks go out to all the employees who assisted: Joe
the Solomons museum uses the skipjack as a floating DiNatale, Wayne Fowler, Jeremy Green, Jacob
classroom to educate Moore, Joe Patterson, Jerone Parker, Travis Sparks,
children about the history of Tony Suttle, and Brian Thomas.
the Chesapeake Bay.
Last fall, crews from the
Co-op and from Southern
Maryland Crane Rental took
down the boats 76-foot
mast. The Patuxent Small
Craft Guild and the Dees
crew cleaned and refinished
the wood during the winter,
replacing most of the rigging
and hardware. In March we
once again used our expertise
in moving wooden poles, this Standing on the ground in the low ropes course are
Boy Scout Noah Breske, Travis Sparks, Tony Suttle,
SMECO and Southern time to reinstall the mast. Joe Patterson, Jerone Parker, Brian Thomas, Jacob
Maryland Crane lift the The Dee will resume public Moore, and Jeremy Green. In the top row are Wayne
Dees mast into place. sailing trips in May. Fowler and Joe DiNatale.

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