B10 The 119
Volume Baltimore
No.Afro-American,
11
Don’t Overlook City College
AFRO Mourns Loss of Former
Leader, John H. Murphy III
By Zenitha Prince
Washington Bureau Chief
John H. Murphy III is
being remembered this
week as the steady hand that
guided the Afro-American
Newspapers through the
turbulent waters of civil
rights history and a perilous
industry. The newspaper’s
former president and CEO
died Oct. 16 at the Stella
Maris Nursing Home in
Timonium, Md. He was 94
years old.
“He carried on the
tradition of the AFRO,
which was and is a crusading
newspaper, and did whatever
he could to further the cause
of justice and equality,” said
Moses Newson, who worked
as an AFRO reporter, city
editor and then executive
editor from 1957 to 1978.
“He was a great guy to work
for. You know how it is with
this business ... deadlines,
people trying to sue the paper
... but he was never one to
jump up and down and get
too excited. He was always
on an even keel.”
It was that steadiness
and dedication to the
advancement of African
Continued on A7
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B6 Ballot Question 3
John H. Murphy III
is shown in front of
the AFRO American
Newspapers building
in Baltimore in this
November 1975
photo. Murphy died
on Oct. 16. He was 94
years old.
Baltimore Mayor Accused of Race Bias in Lawsuit
By Sean Yoes
Special to the AFRO
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is
being sued for $5 million by a former employee
that claims she was forced from her job because
she refused to fire a White colleague.
Jennifer Coates, who is Black, served as
director of council services for three Baltimore
City Council presidents including Rawlings-Blake.
She says she was forced to resign from her post
in August 2008 because she wouldn’t fire Richard
Krummerich, the oldest and only White worker in
the council services office at the time.
Rawlings-Blake was president of the City
Council from January 2007 until she was sworn in
as Baltimore mayor February 2010 following the
resignation of former Mayor Sheila Dixon.
A spokesperson for the mayor’s office declined
to comment citing the lawsuit is pending litigation
and Coates could not be reached for comment. Her
attorney Thomas J. Maronick Jr. said Coates “gave
up a $90,000-a-year job because she wanted to do
the right thing.”
Maronick says his client was pressured
“directly and indirectly” by Rawlings-Blake and
her then chief of staff Kimberly Washington to fire
BGE’s Proposed Rate Hike Causes Black City Stakeholders
Concern Across Coverage Region Submit Platform
By Shernay Williams
Special to the AFRO
Baltimore City residents voiced their
opinions on Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE)
Co.’s plan to raise base rates for consumers
at a forum hosted on Oct. 13 by the Maryland
Public Service Commission.
It was the third of five meetings the
regulators scheduled around the state. “We don’t have nothing else to give.”
The first two were held in Bel Air and
Towson and the final hearings were in
Annapolis and Columbia. The commission
will approve or reject the Constellation Energy
Co.’s desired rate hike, which could add $22
to the electricity and $32 to the gas bills of the
average Maryland consumer.
BGE requested revisions to their rates
Copyright © 2010 by the Afro-American Company
A11
Ehrlich Speaks
Taking His Case to Black Voters
By Talibah Chikwendu
AFRO Executive Editor
With less than two weeks
until Maryland’s voters
decide who returns to the
State House, former Gov.
Bob Ehrlich is on the run.
Announcements on Oct. 19
– an endorsement from the
Fraternal Order of Police,
the reporting of significant
fundraising and the release
of polling data showing
him closing the gap with
Democratic incumbent Gov.
Martin O’Malley – had the
candidate on a high note for
his interview with the AFRO,
but still on the go. “It’s a
great day,” he said.
Ehrlich wants Black
voters to see him as a viable
candidate. He believes
he has a record of proven
actions that will impress this
AFRO Archives photo
community and engender
their support, but feels
African Americans don’t look
at it because he’s Republican.
According to the
Photo by Bill Tabron
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings is being sued for
race bias by a former employee, who claims she
was forced from her job for refusing to fire the
last White person working in the department.
in May. If endorsed, the energy company
will take in a total of $89.3 million in
additional revenue. Company officials say
BGE hasn’t raised electric base rates since
1993 and hasn’t filed revisions to gas rates
in five years. In a proposal to the Public
Service Commission, corporation executives
noted that current revenue is “insufficient
to produce a reasonable rate of return on its
property devoted to (electric and gas) delivery
services.”
At the Baltimore hearing, PSC Chairman
Continued on A9
75 CENTS
One-on-One with
Denzel Whitaker B3
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File
Former Gov. Bob Ehrlich, shown in this April 7 file
photo, hoping to reclaim Maryland’s State House in this
election, is asking African-American voters to “judge me
on my record,” and not just dismiss him because he’s a
Republican.
candidate, he provided revitalized it [Coppin].”
significant funding to He also counts among his
historically Black colleges accomplishments significant
and universities in the state to Blacks: appointing the
– to Coppin and Morgan for first African-American judge
buildings – more, he says, on the Eastern Shore of
than “any administration in Maryland in the history of the
the history of the state. We
Continued on A4
Krummerich, who worked as a legislative policy
analyst, and replace him with a younger Black man
named Sean DuBurns. Washington currently serves
as Rawlings-Blake’s deputy chief of staff.
Coates balked at the request because, “the OCS
[Office of Council Services] would have no more
White employees if Mr. Krummerich would have
been sfired and that [Coates] did not believe such
a move would comply with employment laws,”
according to the suit.
Coates was fearful the city could be vulnerable
to a discrimination suit based on race, as well as
age. She also allegedly informed Rawlings-Blake
and Washington that firing Krummerich would
circumvent a required five-step performance
review process in violation of the Civil Service Act.
“She [Coates] was told if you do not fire Mr.
Krummerich it could be bad for you,” Maronick
said.
Court documents indicate once Krummerich
was made aware of Rawlings-Blake’s desire to
fire him, he urged some City Council members –
including Bernard “Jack” Young, who replaced
Rawlings-Blake as president – to intercede on his
behalf. That’s when Rawlings-Blake allegedly told
Continued on A4
By Talibah Chikwendu their expertise, experience
AFRO Executive Editor and energy together to discuss
issues the next governor of
Black people have no Maryland should address.
permanent friends, no A variety of concerns
permanent enemies, just were raised during the
permanent interests. meeting, many related to
– CBC motto getting support for existing
organizations that are showing
Taking a lesson from success in the community.
the Congressional Black There was discussion about
Caucus motto, a diverse K-12 and higher education
group of African-American problems and the difficulties
stakeholders of Baltimore in securing healthy food in the
City came together to discuss inner city. Jobs, transportation
its needs. This group – and the impact of the census
young and old, student and on the city’s legislative and
professional, from diverse congressional districts were
areas of the city – brought Continued on A9
 A2 The Afro-American, October 23, 2010 - October 29, 2010

AFRO National Briefs

“In a little over two years, Jealous has led the Association in
tackling some of the hardest issues facing the American public,
including healthcare reform, the financial crisis and predatory
lending. His hard work and commitment to justice allows the
Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program Continues
Your History • Your Community • Your News association to continue in the struggle for better jobs, education
50-City Tour
The Afro-American Newspapers and equality for all Americans.”
The Diabetic
Baltimore Office • Corporate Headquarters Time magazine, the largest news magazine in the world,
Amputation
2519 N. Charles Street published its “40 Under 40” list this year for the first time. The
Prevention (DAP)
Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4602 inaugural list profiles 40 of the nation’s rising political leaders,
Foundation recently
410-554-8200 • Fax: 1-877-570-9297 including political candidates, congressional representatives
announced it will
and organizational leaders.
www.afro.com continue its 50-
city tour, the Black Spelman College Students Win AT&T Mobile App Prize
Founded by John Henry Murphy Sr., August 13, 1892 Barbershop Health Two Spelman College women created a winning AT&T
Washington Publisher Emerita - Frances L. Murphy II Outreach Program, mobile application and received a $10,000 prize with a tool
in New York. The called HBCU Buddy, BlackAmericaWeb.com reported.
Chairman of the Board/Publisher - John J. Oliver, Jr.
Executive Assistant - Takiea Hinton - 410-554-8222 program will offer Jonecia Keels and Jazmine Miller are co-captains of the
Courtesy Photo
free diabetes and college’s Spelbots robotics team, and will share the scholarship
Receptionist - Wanda Pearson - 410-554-8200 high-blood pressure screenings and provide information on with their winning development for the 2010 AT&T Big
Director of Advertising/Sponsorship Development & Sales prostate cancer to African-American men at 30 Black-owned Mobile Campus Challenge. The students said they created
Susan Gould - 410-554-8289 barbershops throughout Harlem, Manhattan and the Bronx. the application to educate the large number of Americans still
susangould@afro.com The Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program (BBHOP) is a unfamiliar with the term “HBCU” and the legacy of Black
Advertising Manager - Robert Blount - 410-554-8246 unique grassroots approach to health education and testing. schools. “There are many people…who hold stereotypes
Sr. Advertising Account Executive - Annie Russ - 410-554-8235 “Our goal is to screen over 2,000 African American men pertaining to these colleges and universities, such as the
Advertising Account Executive
in the New York metropolitan area and provide preventive false belief of HBCUs not being academically challenging
Marquise Goodwin - 410-554-8274
education about the disease and its complications,” said Dr. institutions - which is far from the truth,” said Keels, a Spelman
Director of Finance - Jack Leister - 410-554-8242 Bill Releford, founder of DAP Foundation’s Black Barbershop senior majoring in computer science and computer engineering,
Archivist - John Gartrell - 410-554-8265 Outreach Program, in a press statement. in an interview with blackamericaweb.com. “We created this
Community & Public Relations Manager The foundation’s overall mission is to increase public app to educate the masses [and] inspire the next generation to
Diane W. Hocker - 410-554-8243 awareness of diabetes and its complications through early attend HBCUs…”
detection, information dissemination and word-of-mouth. The app includes virtual tours, academic information,
Editorial
Executive Editor - Talibah Chikwendu Diabetes and high blood pressure screenings will be free to the admissions details, alumni help and more.
E-mail: editor@afro.com public in all of the 30 designated barbershops. Participants with
Managing Editor - Kristin Gray - 410-554-8277 abnormal findings will be referred to physicians or health care Calif. Legalization of Marijuana Not Universally Accepted
Washington Bureau Chief - Zenitha Prince - 202-332-0080, ext. 119 facilities listed in our “Real Black Book” Medical Resource California’s Proposition 19,
E-mail: dceditor@afro.com Guide developed by BBHOP. which would enact legalization
Global Markets
For more information and upcoming tour dates, visit of marijuana for recreational
Director - Benjamin M. Phillips IV - 410-554-8220 blackbarbershop.org. use in that state, faces
bphillips@afro.com opposition from those who say
Washington Circulation/Distribution Manager ‘Time’ Magazine Honors NAACP President Ben Jealous passage of the ballot initiative
Edgar Brookins - 202-332-0080, ext. 116 Benjamin Todd in November could create a
Baltimore Circulation/Distribution Manager Jealous, NAACP myriad of problems.
Sammy Graham - 410-554-8266 president and Among them is the effect
Production Department - 410-554-8288 CEO, was recently the legalization may have on Courtesy Photo
named one of Time kids. The Grossmont Union
magazine’s “40 Under High School District governing board voted 5-0 in opposition
Washington Office 40 Rising Stars of of the ballot initiative, which they believe would set an awful
1917 Benning Road, N.E. • Washington, D.C. 20002-4723 U.S. Politics.” He example for students. “This is all about money and revenue and
202-332-0080 Fax: 1-877-570-9297 was also included by very little concern about our students and rehabilitation of our
General Manager
the prestigious Non- students for any of the consequences and other things,” board
Edgar Brookins - ext. 116
Office Administrator - Mia Hayes-Hawkins - ext. 112
Profit Times on their trustee Priscilla Schreiber told the Santee Patch newspaper.
annual “Power and AFRO File Photo The law would allow adults 21 and over to possess up to
Customer Service, Home Delivery and Subscriptions: Influence Top 50” list. one ounce of marijuana to be consumed at home or legal
410-554-8234 “The NAACP congratulates President Benjamin Todd establishments and give state and local governments the ability
Customer Service@afro.com Jealous on making the Time magazine ‘40 Under 40’ and to tax the sale of marijuana and cut off funding to Mexican drug
Billing Inquiries: 410-554-8226 the Non-Profit Times ‘Power and Influence Top 50’ lists,” cartels. Proponents of the bill claim the cartels generate 60 percent
Nights and Weekends: 410-554-8282 said NAACP Board of Directors Chairman Roslyn Brock. of their revenue from the illegal marijuana trade in America.

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 Jennifer Hudson and Relatives Identify Body of Her Slain
A3
N October 23, 2010 - October 29, 2010, The Afro-American
By Alan King sport-utility vehicle sought in from a neighbor about a suspi- posted
AFRO Staff Writer connection with the murder of cious vehicle. The man noticed graph a
Hudson’s mother and brother. the vehicle while walking his Sunday
Jennifer Hudson and other The white, 1994 Chevrolet suppressing
dog. According thetoBlack vote or
the Chicago The Black agenda negative political ads via for the
relatives positively identified Suburban with Illinois license cutting into it significantly.
Tribune, the boy had been shot in Baltimore includes television and radio, some her nep
“Bobtimes
multiple Ehrlich is not
in the back seat concerns about the future of in the Black community blog, sh
counting
of on the
the vehicle. TheBlack
SUV,voteregis- Baltimore’s 7th Congressional are looking for answers to porters
but O’Malley
tered to Hudson’s is completely
murdered District. What happens after challenges that have created offered
dependent
brother, wasontowed
it,” Del.
withJill
the Elijah Cummings? Before a new, more dire, 21st century anyone
Carterbody
boy’s told inside
the AFRO and islast
being Cummings the seat was held reality for many people of alive.
week. So in
processed by Maryland, the
evidence techni- by Kweisi Mfume and before color. Sinc
Blackand
cians community
workers. The has abody him Parren Mitchell. But While we look for Hudson
chance
was latertoremoved
play a significant
and taken to with significant demographic answers, again O’Malley is after ap

Ehrlich, O’Malley and the Black Vote

roleCook
the in theCounty
outcome of
Medical shifts, a Black majority and looking for Black votes. Idol,” a
O’Malley-Ehrlich II.
Examiner’s office. a Black representative are That’s why President Academ
Here weand
Hudson goother
again… family no longer guaranteed in the Barack Obama – who the mo
members
Recently some of Medical
arrived at the Black district. remains wildly popular in the stayed
I only caught the last half- perhaps the only real, strong that specific chapter of Examiner’s
hour of the first O’Malley- shot he landed on O’Malley O’Malley’s tenure as the Baltimore’soffice
Blackmid-after- With the recent narrow Black community – made The
noon to identify the body. Julian King, Jennnifer Hudson’s nephew. ed that
Ehrlich debate, televised on during that first debate, which city’s 47th mayor for a reason. community members have defeat of Pat Jessamy as the trip down the Parkway
Given the choice between look- slowly
WJZ last week. I tuned in led many observers to tag the “He’s not real popular (in been scrambling to put Baltimore’s
A spokesman State’s forAttorney,
the office tothe stump murders for the but Maryland
is being held in
ing directly at the body or Monda
just as the former governor Arbutus native’s performance Baltimore) to begin with and together an agenda to get the fear
told of thea newspaper
“police state,” that Hudson Governor jail for parole last week. violation Andafterthe
viewing it on a wall-mounted news v
trashed the former mayor of with words like agitated and we’re pretty strong here,” two candidates to respond in continue to rumble through President produced a nice
Baltimore’s record on crime. uneven. Ehrlich said during a meeting
Courtesy Photos some cogent way to specific the city. Here in Baltimore radio spot for O’Malley for
Ehrlich blasted O’Malley
Jennifer Hudson and her mom, Darnell Donerson who
O’Malley zealots would at the AFRO.
was killed, as well as her brother, Jason.
“She held hands with her family. It was obviously a very emotional momen
concerns. Many of these and across the state the good measure.
on the issue of so-called probably love to liken last Hyperbole aside, Ehrlich’s concerns – jobs, housing, Black community wants to Ehrlich might not be
illegal arrests – while he week’s televised encounter strategy is transparent and healthcare,
video screen,crime – are not
the family chose see a greater
“remained emphasis
strong for her onfami- dependent being convicted upon Black votes
of attempted violenc
was Baltimore’s mayor – a thetobody
the iconic
of herNixon-Kennedy
7-year-old logical;
plate if he has
X584859 wasany shoton
found new.
the But the
latter. worldwide
According to the rehabilitation
ly” and was clearly as opposed its leader. to tomurder
take him andback vehicular to thehijack-
top, In fr
subject that continues to debates of a half century
nephew Monday, just hours of returning to Annapolis as
Chicago’s West Side after economic
Tribune, collapse
Hudson has“Yes,
said, simply
“She held lockinghandspeople with her up.fami- but ing.heCook probably County wouldn’t
records show home,
spark a visceral reaction by ago.hisBut
after of course
body Ehrlich
was found in a governor,
police he needs
received to keep
a 7 a.m. call created
that’s a new sense of
him.” And
ly,” the Blacks spokesman want tosaid. see more “It mind
that he a little
pleaded Black voter
guilty to both and hoo
many in Baltimore’s Black wasn’t as frazzled as “Tricky O’Malley’s numbers down urgency in some of the old appointments of Black judges apathy on Nov. 2.
was obviously a very emotional charges in 1999. He was also kiss the

ACORN Fights Back

battles and Blacks, as usual, moment.”
across the state. convicted in 1998 for posses-
community and has proven to Dick” and O’Malley wasn’t in Prince George’s County The boyO’Malley – the sonand of Julia sion of aYoes stolen
ing the
be a bane for O’Malley. as smooth as the debonair and Baltimore City – the have borne a disproportionate While Sean is amotor former vehicle.
staff Jason.
brunt of the economic Hudson,bash
Ehrlich Jennifer’s each other sister – had reporter He was and released contributingfrom prison in “Ev
Unfortunately for Ehrlich Kennedy. state’s two strongholds of been missing since Friday, 2006 after serving seven years
meltdown across the board. incessantly with myriad writer to the AFRO.
Leader Calls Voter Registration Fraud Charges ‘Bogus’
and his supporters, that was However, Ehrlich opened Black political power – by through
when a relative found Julian’s for the attempted murder and West, a
grandmother, Darnell car hijacking charges. area tol

Nuanced Differences Separate Ehrlich, O’Malley on Charter Schools

By Alan King and Dallas Cowboys players No wonder Obama’s campaign is Donerson, 57, and his uncle, The boy remained missing have to
AFRO Staff Writer Tony Romo and Terrell Owens, trying to distance him from the Jason Hudson, 29, shot to death through a long weekend in young
among the names submitted to group, saying, “Barack Obama in his grandmother’s home in which police and volunteers for wha
Presidential candidate John election officials. Never Organized with ACORN.” the 7000 block of South Yale
By Abby Brownback of the 40 points
McCain’s attack on possible
ACORN – O’Malley
Hurd said deserve some ofwho
those workers, toward charters.
But Obama’s ties to ACORN run Borinsky said. American, consistently
Avenue.
Capital News Service for this criterion,
Associated Community partially the credit for the
were doing those things withoutachievement longMordhorst
and deep. He is vice
taught classes “They see that charter registers some of the state’s
An Amber Alert – a desig-
because the state
Organization guarantees
for Reform Now – of the state’s
ACORN’s charter or
knowledge schools,
permis- president of the board of
for ACORN. They even endorsed nation for high-risk missing schools are just a tool in the highest scores on the eighth-
ANNAPOLIS - Charter equitable per-pupil
confirms the success of the funding said David
sion, were fired. Borinsky, the directors of
him for President. Global Garden, toolbox for
children – was issued Friday enhancing the grade math state assessment,
schools are here to stay in but does not the
organization, currently
head of offer
the president
“The evidenceof the Maryland
that has sur- which currently
But now ACORN is in trouble. exists only educational
after Julian was discovered experience for Borinsky said.
Maryland, whether or not facilities
group says.funding to charter Charter
faced so far School
showsNetwork.
they faked on Reporter:
paper. This There year arethe at least children,”
missing after the murders.he said. “They’re Data from the state
voters re-elect incumbent schools. Those
“This is testimonypoints to pushed
the work forms “They’re
to get paid notfor politically
work they school’s
11 organizers
investigations acrosswere the a permanent
Police arrested William fixture in the Department of Education
Gov. Martin O’Malley or Maryland
we’ve donetoand a sixth-place
success we’ve toxic
didn’t anymore,”
do, not to stuff Borinsky
ballot denied involving
country a charterthousands by the county of landscape.”
Balfour, the missing boy’s step- shows that in 2010, 96.9
former Gov. Bob Ehrlich. But finish amongHurd,
had,” Maude the 10 winners
president of said.
boxes.” “Charter
ACORN,schools she said,areis part
the Board of Education
potentially fraudulent ACORN and have father In and
addition to drawing
estranged husband percent of eighth-grade
the two would offer slightly in the program’s
ACORN, said in ansecond interview of the of
victim education
fraud, notmainstream,
the perpetra- appealed the decision to the
forms. both
of Julia,talented
at his people girlfriend’s and students at Ujima Village
different approaches for the phase.
with the AFRO. so
tor it’s
of it.comfortable for State Board ofMassive
Announcer: Education. voter financial capital
Southside apartment intoseveral public earned “advanced” or
future of this mainstay of Ehrlich’s
“When thisRoadmap for we
attack started, politicians
Hurd saidtothe claim
only credit
things for “We
fraud. Andbelieve
the Obama in public campaign hours schoolafter systems, Maryland’s
the murders. “proficient” scores on the
education reform. 2020 includes plans to
had just announced that we had bogus are the charges
some of the successes.” them- paid more than
education as a$800,000right andtoaan charter schools
Balfour’s mother,have Michele, has math section of the Maryland
The distinction – notably registered 1.3
strengthen themillion
state’snew vot-–
weak selves.
AndAnd factcheck.
while Borinsky org said ACORN
privilege, front
butforwegetalso out believe
the vote told facilitated
reporters “astonishing”
that her son had State Assessment. Statewide,
less stark than the candidates’ ers,” she said. “That’s
according to charter school just to say agrees.
he is not concerned about a efforts.
charter schools really are the progresstoamong
nothing do withminority the slayings. only 65.4 percent of eighth-
that someone’s running scared It concluded, “Neither Pressuring banks to issue risky
differences on issues advocates – statute to create possible repeal of the charter mechanism by which school students,
BalfourBorinsky remains asaid. suspect in Jason gradersHudson scored as well.
because of ACORN’s success.” ACORN nor its employees have loans. Nationwide voter fraud.
like funding – lies in the bodies independent of county school law depending on reform can be achieved,” Baltimore City’s KIPP There is little consensus
McCain, who is running for been found guilty of, or even Barack Obama. Bad judgment.
emphasis the two assign to boards
presidentofon education that tick- the
the Republican outcome
charged of November’s
with, casting fraudulent Mordhorst
Blind ambition. said. Too risky for Ujima Village Academy, on how to most effectively
charter schools’ place in the can grant charters.
et, lashed out at ACORN in the These election,
votes.” advocates do have Some
America. school districts where almost 99 percent of replicate academic
education system and their bodies could be universities, questions about whether within the state agree, the students are African-
final debate against Barack The problem came about pri- Continued on A9
role in reforming that system. non-profits
Obama, contending or institutes
the group “is charter schoolsofwill
marily because the waymove Since McCain’s comments,
Ehrlich, who signed the created for the purpose of forward
on the verge of maybe perpetrat- ACORN operates. Rather than in terms of greater ACORN’s 87 offices have been
SQUARE HIGH

Maryland Public Charter authorizing

ing one of thecharters, whichin
greatest frauds autonomy and increased
rely on volunteers, it pays peo- bombarded with threats and
School Act of 2003 into are
voternotoriously
history in this difficult
country,to facilities
ple, many funding.
of them poor or unem- racist mail.
law, said he would aim to earn
maybe indestroying
some well-to-do the fabricparts
of In Montgomery
ployed, to sign up newCounty, voters. The day after the presidential
double the number of charter of the state.
democracy.” Heidi
The idea Mordhorst
was to helpisn’t bothsothose debate, vandals broke into the
schools and to create a body The former governor
Factcheck.org, said
a non-partisan worried about funding
being registered and thoseasdoing organization’s Boston and Seattle
independent of county school he
Web would take advantage
site, found those claimsofto she is about Global Garden
the registration. offices and stole computers.
BREAD NOT ON TH
boards that can authorize the president’s affinity
be “exaggerated,” with “no forevi- Public
MaudCharterexplained, School’s
“We have a After a Cleveland representative
charters. charter schools to push the
dence of any such democracy- attempt to be one offorthe
zero tolerance policy first
deliber- appeared on TV, an e-mail was
“They’ve given a lot of destroying fraud.”
issue in Maryland. ate falsification of
charter schools in a county registration.” sent to the local office saying she
poor children an opportunity Hurd
Both believes
Ehrlich the andMcCain Mostfor
known news itsaccount neglect to
unfriendliness “is going to have her life ended.”
to succeed,” Ehrlich, charges were politically motivat- point out that ACORN is A worker in Providence, R.I.,
ed. required by law to turn in all reg- received a threatening call say-
a Republican, said of LEFT RIGH
She said, “Because it’s low- istration forms. And they also fail ing, “We know you get off work
Maryland’s 44 charter schools to note that it was the organiza- at 9” and uttered racial epithets.
and moderate-income people,
at a campaign event on Oct. and people of color, I believe the tion, in many instances, that first A caller to one office left a
1. “Charter schools are most McCain campaign thinks those brought the phony registrations message on the answering
relevant where the traditional voters are going to vote to the attention of authorities. machine, saying: “Hi, I was just
zoned schools are failing.” Democratic, which is not neces- The McCain camp apparently calling to let you know that
O’Malley, a Democrat, has
said he is willing to evaluate
Stevenson Crossing
sarily true.”
ACORN is no stranger to
isn’t interested in those fine
points, preferring to air mislead-
Barack Obama needs to get
hung. He’s a (expletive deleted)
whether the law needs to
be strengthened, but charter
Townhome
controversy. ing ads that seek to link Obama
For 38 years, the non-partisan to ACORN, thereby undercutting
nigger, and he’s a piece of
(expletive deleted). You guys are
schools are not mentioned in organizationBeautifully
has fought for maintained 5 Bedroom
social his political support.
3.5 fraudulent, and you need to go to
the education section of his and economic justice for low- McCain: I’m John McCain hell. All the niggers on oak trees.
campaign website. Campaign Bathroom Townhome in
and moderate-income andgated
I approve community.
this message. They’re gonna get all hung hon-
Lots of storage and closet space. Beautiful
1 BANANA
ads, though, boast that the Americans. With 400,000 mem- Announcer: Who is Barack eys, they’re going to get assassi-
number of charter schools in moldings throughout the house, oversized
ber families organized into more Obama? A man with “a political nated, they’re gonna get killed.”
the state more than doubled than 1,200 neighborhood chap- baptism performed at warp Another message said, “You
ters in 110 cities country french kitchen
nationwide, speed.”with new After col-
Vast ambition. liberal idiots. Dumb (expletive
on the governor’s watch.
appliances. Lovely seen landscaped
lege, he moved courtyard,
to Chicago. deleted). Welfare bums. You

4.75 /4.769
ACORN has over the years
O’Malley emphasizes
charter schools as part
its sharebackyard
of criticism has whilemagnificent
advo- Became wooded views.
a community
There, Obama met Madeleine
organizer. guys just (expletive deleted)
come to our country, consume
% %
cating for affordable housing, rate
Newhealthcare
air conditioner. Condo feeofincludes
aPr
of the larger equation of living wages, for the Talbot, part the Chicago every natural resource there is,
statewide public school underserved—use of andpool, tennis courts,
while organ- branch playground,
of ACORN. He was so and make a lot of babies. That’s ZERo PoinTS
reform, said spokesman Rick
Abbruzzese. And now that
izing votersnow removal
registration and exterior
drives. impressive maintenance.
that he was asked to all you guys do. And then suck
But none has been as withering train the ACORN staff. up the welfare and expect every-
Pikesville SchoolWhat district.
the governor’s administration
has remedied “a crisis in
and baseless as this one.
Price
With the presidential election Reduced $425,000
engage
did ACORN in Chicago
in? Bullying banks.
one else to pay for your hospital
bills for your kids. I jus’ say let
At the rate we’re going,
school construction funding”
with the infusion of $1.3
less than two weeks away,
ACORN’s detractors allege theCall
Intimidation tactics. Disruption
of business. ACORN forced
your kids die. That’s the best
move. Just let your children die.
you’ll be home in no time. Before age five, every room is a cla
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to issue risky home loans. Forget about paying for hospital counting and identifying shapes activate a child’s learn
years, O’Malley is willing sive voter registrationfor fraud a showing.types of loans that
after The same bills for them. I’mbuying not gonna a home? do there’s never been a better time to call rosedale
andrate helpinthem enter
to look at extending capital the reported discovery of bogus caused the financial crisis we’re federal.
it. You guys are lowlifes. And I we’re offering our lowest mortgage years. Just school
4.75% more prepared. That’s
founded Grow Up Great and its Spanish-language equivale
funding for construction and names, such as Mickey Mouse in today. hope you all die.” with zero points. fixed for 30 years. your loan will always $stay at
con Éxito, a 10-year, 100 million program to help prep
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so call or visit us today. and let us be children
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But Maryland’s law is “In two weeks, I think these
attacks will be over. But I think it with all kinds of simple, everyday things you can do to h
adequate, Abbruzzese said, learn. Together, we can work with our communities so
will be harder for us to get our
evidenced by the state’s generation won’t just grow up... but grow
name back on good graces
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A4 The Afro-American, October 23, 2010 - October 29, 2010
Popular Church Heralds New 4,000-Seat Facility
The Grand Opening of the new Holy City of Zion
By Sean A. Stinnett
Special to the AFRO
When the congregants
of the New Psalmist Baptist
Church attended services
last Sunday, they had more
to celebrate than faith
and friendship. They are
heralding a new era with the
grand opening of The Holy
City of Zion.
Well over 3,000
worshipers packed the street
in front of Marian Drive
Saturday for the opening of
the newly re-located New
Psalmist Baptist Church.
The opening marks a major
step forward for the church,
which has replaced its former
premises – built in 1996 –
with a facility that would
benefit not only its members,
but the entire community.
“Today is the day, and
may I say it gives me very
great pleasure that we have
come to this very historic day
when this new building, the
Holy City of Zion is officially
open,” said the Rt. Rev.
Walter S. Thomas Sr., New
Psalmist pastor.
New Psalmist member
Sade Smith was awestruck as
she looked into the bookstore
and then the enormous 4,000-
seat cathedral. “It’s hard to
believe that this is the place –
God is good.”
Bishop Thomas greeted
the congregation, which
numbered in the thousands,
noting the momentous
occasion for praise and
thanksgiving to God, who had
made it all possible.
Photos by Sean A. Stinnett
Acknowledging the church
for its many contributions to The new New Psalmist Baptist
the community were Gov. Church opened for services on
Martin O’Malley, Baltimore Oct. 16.
City Mayor Stephanie
Rawlings-Blake, Baltimore
County Executive Jim T.
Smith, Sen. Barbara Mikulski
(D-Md.). U.S. Rep. Elijah
Cummings, (D- Md.) state
Sen. Lisa A. Gladden and
other dignitaries.
Bishop Thomas became
pastor in April of 1975. In
three years the church moved
from Druid Hill and North
avenues to Cathedral and
Franklin streets. While from 200 to 7,000.
in downtown Baltimore Bishop Thomas’ messages
the church flourished as it of hope, deliverance and
built an entire lunch time salvation have attracted
congregation of downtown people from varied
workers who belonged to backgrounds, cultures and
churches all over the city faiths seeking to know
and beyond. The next move Jesus Christ in a more real
was its spot in the Uplands and personal way. As
community until the Oct. the memorable opening
16 opening. As documented celebration continues, the
in the history of the church, congregation looks forward to
Bishop Thomas has led New ministering to the community
Bishop Walter S. Thomas and first lady Patricia Thomas Psalmist from level to level of with a variety of services and
prepare to speak to the crowd as church members finish spiritual development and has activities for people of all
the preparations for the ribbon cutting. grown the church membership ages.
Lawsuit Ehrlich Speaks
Continued from A1 Continued from A1
Coates, “If it doesn’t stop, it
state, giving the state its first sentences and granting capture savings from empty,
will hurt you.”
African-American lieutenant pardons, impacting 249 still-funded positions and
“If the tables were turned
governor in Michael Steele, prisoners – several of whom revenue from gaming.
and Mr. Krummerich was
appointing Judge Clayton were serving life sentences – Basing the budget on gaming
the only African-American
Greene Jr. to the Maryland during his time in office. This revenues, however, can prove
member of that office the
Court of Appeals and is in complete contrast with troublesome since only one
media would jump all over
renaming the airport in honor governors prior and since, of the five authorized slots
this,” Maronick said.
of Thurgood Marshall. who seemed to shy away locations is operational
According to the suit,
Minority business from using the clemency and there are no projected
Rawlings-Blake wanted
and small businesses powers of the office. opening dates for the others.
Krummerich terminated
thrived, he said, during his Ehrlich also wants to stand Also the amount of gambling
because she felt he was
administration. He praised the on his record in support of revenue available to help the
incompetent and specifically
leadership of Sharon Pinder issues that impact working state is limited, as 50 percent
because he was found
in the effort to empower people. One is the refusal to of those funds is mandated
sleeping on the job.
minority business enterprises furlough state employees. for increasing education
Coates is seeking $500,000
in the state. The other is sales tax. “Sales funding.
for wrongful termination and
Another area of leadership tax,” he said, “is always a bad When speaking of
$1.5 million for each of three
Ehrlich points to is Project idea and it really hurts poor education, Ehrlich praised
other counts: defamation,
RESTART, a controversial people.” President Barack Obama’s
hostile work environment and
initiative started during He is proud he killed a support of charter schools.
retaliation.
his governorship with sales tax increase during his “I love his leadership on this
Coates, who lives in
questionable statistics time as governor, saying it issue,” he said. “I support
a predominately Black
regarding its effectiveness. also hurts merchant sales him fully.”
neighborhood of Northwest
“Governor O’Malley, as people cross to other Ehrlich said his goal is to
Baltimore, worked for the
Governor Schaeffer [and] jurisdictions for shopping. double the number of charter
city since 1992 and served as
Governor Glendenning However, while he worked to schools and quadruple the
director of council services
did not believe in second help families keep the penny number of residential charter
since May 2001.
chances,” he said. “I do.” per dollar spent, Ehrlich also schools. Noting that charter
Since her resignation she
He said, for that reason, vetoed legislation to increase schools are public schools,
has been relegated to, “part-
even though his base was the minimum wage by $1 per he said, “The only way you
time seasonal employment
not interested in the issue, hour. fix this system is by making
with the IRS,” according to
his administration had the When asked about every aspect of it more
Maronick. “No one wants to
most aggressive system of alternatives to raising taxes to competitive. Parents have a
touch her; she can’t get a job.”
pardons and commutations fund the state’s obligations, right to expect results.”
in the country. His claim Ehrlich said there were other When asked if he was
on this issue is backed by options for generating the prepared to do what was right
the numbers. According to a money needed, including: for the state and its residents,
2009 Washington Post article, the increased dollars coming despite potential political
Ehrlich received national into the state as the economy fallout, Ehrlich said that’s
attention for his aggressive slowly recovers, restructuring how he operates. “That’s how
stance on commuting the state government to I governed the first time.”
 October 23, 2010 - October 29, 2010, The Afro-American A5

Habitat for Humanity Turns

Dreams into Reality
By Sean A. Stinnett
Special to the AFRO

Habitat for Humanity, along with former

President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn,
have changed dreams into reality for Tymeerah
Butts and Lisa Griffin. They are two of the
10 Baltimore families becoming homeowners
through the organization.
The overall mission of the Habitat
for Humanity is to eliminate poverty and
homelessness from the world and to make
decent shelter a matter of conscience and
action.
Griffin, a mother of two, was introduced to
the organization by a co-worker who felt she
could benefit from the program. She’d talked
about her displeasure of having a landlord and
wanted to own a home in the near future.
The process is very simple when going
through the selection process. The Habitat
committee chooses homeowners based on their
level of need, willingness to become partners
in the program and ability to repay the loan.
Noted by Habitat, every affiliate follows a
nondiscriminatory policy of family selection.
Neither race nor religion is a factor in choosing
the families who receive Habitat houses.
When asked what being approved
for a Habitat home means, Griffin said,
“Everything.”
“This is a new beginning for me and my
family but the excitement will not hit me
until I walk into the house. Once I started the
program, I had to cut down on extra expenses
and start thinking and spending like a home
owner,” she added.
Griffin also said the process was like other
programs that require credit checks, but found
the homeowner workshops to be a unique
component.
“They showed you how to get a house and
keep it by managing your money properly,”
Griffin said. “This program was the best thing
for me in purchasing a new home. I have
already told a few of my friends about it.”
As for Butts, the excitement is
overwhelming. “Coming into this program was
the best thing for me and my situation. Habitat
had placed us in a series of workshops where
you learn about homeownership, planning a
Photo by Bill Tabron
Tymeerah Butts, center, listens to a Habitat
volunteer and former President Jimmy
Carter works on his part of the building.
budget for your expenses, house insurance, and
all of the other necessary information you need
to know in owning a home.”
She said the overall process is not very
long but it is worth the wait. “I’m looking to
possibly go to closing on my new house in
January.”
The organization was founded in 1976 in
Americus, Ga., by Millard and Linda Fuller
and Clarence Jordan. They all thought of the
idea of the Fund for Humanity. In 1968, they
began to work in building homes and sell them
to families at no profit or interest which started
the foundation of Habitat for Humanity.
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter have worked
with the organization since 1984 when
traveling to New York City with the first project
of their own, the Jimmy Carter Work Project.
In 2008, Habitat for Humanity celebrated the
25th annual building project with the Carters
and renamed it to include Mrs. Carter; the
Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project.
So far in the Baltimore area, Habitat is
building more and more homes every year. The
organization has built 30 homes this year and
is expected to build at least 40 residences in
2011. Overall, Habitat has helped more than
105 families build their new homes in the past
five years.

CASA of BAltimore County

Harvest of Hope
for children Front

Celebrating 10 years of
Advocacy for Abused and
Neglected Children

WHen
Thursday, October 28th
6:30 to 10:00 p.m.

WHere
Oregon Ridge Lodge, Hunt Valley

WHAt
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Appetizers, Beverages & Casual Buffet Dinner
provided by KOOPER’S TAVERN

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Franklin Square Hospital Center

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A6 The Afro-American, October 23, 2010 - October 29, 2010

Free Food, Safe Trick-or-Treating at Children’s Guild Fall Fest

Families can trick-or-treat this year in a
safe, fun festival atmosphere. The Children’s
Guild will celebrate Halloween with a free
Community Fall Fest on Oct. 30, from 11
a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Baltimore campus in the
Parkville area of Baltimore (6902 McClean
Blvd.). The festival will feature free face
painting, trick-or-treating, music and children’s
activities, as well as free food including
barbecue chicken and salads.
“Bumblebees, firemen, princesses,
superheroes and other children wearing their
Halloween costumes will love the activities
at The Children’s Guild’s Fall Fest,” said Dr.
Andrew Ross, president of The Children’s
Guild, in a statement. “It’s safe and free, and
offers families in our community another way
to celebrate Halloween.”

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 October 23, 2010 - October 29, 2010, The Afro-American A7

AFRO Mourns Loss of Former Leader, John H. Murphy III

Continued from A1
Americans that made the AFRO a leading source of
information, advocacy and even succor throughout the riotous
years that was the apex of the civil rights movement.
“Mr. Murphy served the paper during a tumultuous time in
civil rights history,” said the AFRO’s current CEO /Publisher
John “Jake” Oliver. “From the assassination of Dr. King to
the Baltimore riots, [to the Vietnam War], the paper reflected
the issues, and Mr. Murphy did a great job of conceptualizing
those issues for the community’s understanding.”
In doing so, Murphy followed in the footsteps of his uncle,
Carl Murphy, and grandfather, John H. Murphy – the former
slave that founded the paper in 1892 – both of whom nurtured
the AFRO from a one-page weekly church publication into
one of the preeminent Black publications in the nation.
Murphy, son of Sarah and Daniel H. Murphy, was born
March 2, 1916. After attending public schools in Baltimore,
1960s - Moses Newson, John Murphy III and John Oliver Sr.
Md., and Philadelphia, Pa., he graduated from Temple
University in 1937.
1948 -John H.
He began his service to the AFRO that year, and served
Murphy III
in a variety of positions until he retired in November 1986,
after 49 years of service. He started as the office manager of
the Washington AFRO, took over as president in 1961 and
became chief executive officer in 1967. He was at the helm as
president and/or chairman of the board for 25 years.
Despite his stature, AFRO employees and family members
remember him as a down-to-earth boss and “people person,”
who took an interest in them and sought their best interests.
“He was like a regular employee there at the paper – although
everyone knew he was in charge,” Newson said.
Benjamin Phillips, a member of the AFRO’s founding
family that rejoined the newspaper staff as director of global
1977 - Journalism giants Chuck Stone,
markets in 2007, said his “Uncle John” was always “likable”
John Murphy III and Vernon Jarrett at
and was a dedicated newspaperman. “I can remember when
an Association of Black Media Workers 2002 - John and Camay Murphy
I came back and rejoined the paper, one of the first calls I got
luncheon. at granddaughter’s wedding.
was from him saying he was happy I came back,” Phillips
said. “He was dedicated to the AFRO and that’s that stock
that [the Murphy family] had. No matter what, whether they
disagreed on anything outside of these walls, they were all
AFRO. That’s the way we did it and that’s the way we still do
it.”
Denise Dorsey, a member of the AFRO family for 34 years,
remembers Mr. Murphy as a “really sweet man.”
“Even after he left, when he would visit, he would always
greet me with a big smile and a hug,” said the current
production manager. More impressive than his personality,
Dorsey added, was his hands-off management style.
“He was not the type to be there watching over your
shoulder,” she said. “He was kind of quiet and stayed back in 1968 - President Lyndon Johnson (No. 1) tells of
the scenes and let people do their jobs, but he was there when letter from Vietnam veteran’s mother as weekly
he needed to be there.” publishers, including AFRO President John H.
Newson said as a reporter and then as an editor of the Murphy lll, (No. 2) listen.
newspaper, he could depend on Murphy to look after his
journalists and to think big – facilitating the AFRO’s on-site
coverage of national and international issues such as ongoing
civil rights battles in the South and the Vietnam War.
“He had an outstanding work ethic,” remembers the Rev.
Toni Draper, who served as AFRO president from 1986 to
1999.
Murphy also played a significant role in expanding the
paper into several editions along the East Coast during the
‘60s and ‘70s and in launching the paper’s Dawn magazine.
And he spearheaded an era of technological advancement that
saw the migration of the paper’s printing process from in-
house to outside contractors.
Murphy explained the move in a September 1974 Black
Enterprise Magazine article that examined some of the
challenges with which Black newspapers were grappling. “We
had a press crew that was only working 22 hours a week but
getting paid for 40,” he was quoted as saying. And even with
the satellite editions, “we don’t have enough work to really
Ted Kennedy and John Murphy III
warrant having our own press.”
Phillips said the move was also recognition that the Mid 1960s - John Murphy greets Vice
new technology would allow the incorporation of color, President Hubert Humphrey
among other advantages. “He recognized the shift in overall
technology,” Phillips said.
And to take advantage of that shift, Murphy changed the
printing process and also “started tapping young talent to take
the newspaper into the new era.”
After his retirement, Murphy pursued his love
for photography, working as a freelancer and on
the staff of the Baltimore Times.
Throughout his life, he made
contributions to numerous civic and
religious organizations, including St.
James Episcopal Church’s Sunday
School program, the Baltimore
Museum of Art, the Mayor’s
Commission to Study Municipal 1965 - Sammy Davis Jr., John Murphy III and Paula Wayne
Financing and more.
For his efforts, Murphy received
many accolades, including the City
of Baltimore Citizen Award, U.S.
Department of Commerce Award and
an honorary doctorate of humane
letters from Towson State
University.
Murphy, who
married Alice Quivers in
1939 and Camay Calloway
Brooks in 1980, is survived
by his two children, Sharon V. Maryland governor
Moore and Daniel H. Murphy, Theodore R. McKeldin
who resulted from his first union, and John Murphy
and a host of relatives and friends.
His funeral service was held
noon Oct. 20 at St. James Episcopal 1934 - John H. Murphy III
Church, 829 Arlington Ave.,
Baltimore, Md. 1941 - Quivers-Murphy Wedding

Talibah Chikwendu and Gregory

Dale contributed to this story.
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Platform
Continued from A1
also reviewed.
The object of the meeting
was to draft, in a positive
fashion, a statement outlining
the issues believed most
crucial for African-American
voters in the region, which
would be presented to the
candidates. The goal: to
provide Baltimore’s voters
with a measure of the
candidates to be determined
by their response to the
requests made of them on the
critical issues.
Discussed Oct. 20 on the
“Larry Young Radio Show,”
on 1010 AM WOLB, the
issues in the platform address
redistricting, economics,
education, criminal justice
and health, areas where the
Baltimore metropolitan area is
struggling. And while the final
document is comprehensive,
it does not claim to address
the full range of concerns or
BGE’s Proposed Rate Hike
Continued from A1
Douglas R.M. Nazarian and Commissioners
Harold Williams and Therese Goldsmith
listened solemnly to public complaints, but
refused to answer any questions.
One woman detailed how she had to choose
between losing her home and paying her sky-
high electricity bill this summer. “My pay isn’t
going up but every time I turn around my gas
and electric is going up,” she said.
Another woman turned to the audience
and stated, “The legislators sold you out.
O’Malley claims he can’t do anything about
this increase. But he can.”
A middle-aged man angrily accused
Photo by John Moore
Nazarian of having BGE’s interest and
Adam Jackson, left, and Dayvon Love, both student at
detested the chair’s million-dollar salary. “And
Towson State University and members of Leaders of
you have the gall to take more money from
a Beautiful Struggle – a progressive policy thinktank
us,” the man said.
for Baltimore – share their ideas regarding issues they
Public consensus was that the rate increase
believe the next governor should commit to addressing.
would disproportionally affect African
Americans, the poor and the elderly.
needs of the city. so they can gather the “I wonder if (you) really understand the
Called Platform of information needed to elect impact this will have,” a woman said while
Baltimore City’s African- the candidate most likely staring into the eyes of the commission
American Stakeholders, it to positively impact their chairman. “People are sacrificing food and
represents, not just requests permanent interests. medicine to pay BGE.”
to be made, but also questions The complete platform can “We don’t have nothing else to give,” cried
to be asked by Black voters, be read at www.afro.com.
another woman in exasperation.
Someone proposed pre-paid electricity,
while another woman who called herself
Grandmama Edna, 63, vowed to go door to
door with a blow horn, urging residents to turn
off their electricity for one week to boycott
BGE.
She added, “You all are inhuman when
you turn off gas and electric for people with
oxygen tanks.”
A young man in his early 20s waved a sign
that read “Electricity is a right.” In total, about
50 residents showed up to state their cases,
most of them members of local grassroots
organizations.
Only one person expressed approval of the
rate increase. Larry Shannahan said BGE must
increase consumer rates to raise capital.
The rest of the audience censured the man,
calling him a mole planted by the Public
Service Commission. PSC leaders occasionally
took notes throughout the two-hour meeting,
but mostly sat with blank stares.
A court reporter hired by the PSC recorded
audio for the event. The commission will sell
the transcripts on their website in the next few
weeks.

Charter Schools
Continued from A3
achievements like Ujima
Village’s, but perhaps no
one recognizes the need for
school improvement more
than Andres Alonso, who, as
the chief executive officer
of Baltimore City Public
Schools, is responsible
for the education of more
than 82,000 students.
But, he warns, the label
“charter school” does not
automatically make a school
good.
“We have 170 schools
that are neither contract
nor charter schools, and
many of them are making
me preferring charters
to traditional to contract
schools. It’s about me liking
good schools. ... The goal is a
great school for every kid.”
Both candidates reiterate
this all-purpose goal, but they
do differ on issues like the
geographic cost-of-education
index, a non-mandatory state
program that awarded $126
million in fiscal year 2011
to Maryland school systems,
including Montgomery and
Prince George’s counties,
where education expenses are
higher.
Ehrlich did not fund the
term, using the funds instead
to offset his proposed tax
cuts.
O’Malley has fully funded
the index the past two fiscal
years with federal stimulus
dollars, which end next year.
But the governor intends to
continue to fund the index,
Abbruzzese said, the cost
of which is figured into the
$1.2 billion deficit present in
drafts of the next fiscal year’s
budget.
“As we emerge from this
national recession, we’ll be
on a steady diet of additional
cuts,” Abbruzzese said, “but Photo by John Moore

extraordinary progress,” index as governor and has cuts will not be made to Leo Burroughs read a prepared statement during the well-attended public hearing with
Alonso said. “It’s not about said he would not in a second public education.” members of the Public Service Commission.

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Community Calendar
Oct. 22
Fat Laces, Fresh Fades Fest
Hippodrome at France-
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Baltimore. 7:30 p.m. Take it
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featuring Big Daddy Kane,
Doug E. Fresh, MC Lyte,
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Plexus
Baltimore Museum of
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Oct. 23
Why Good Girls Like Bad
Boys
Western High School
Cafeteria, 4600 Falls Road,
Baltimore. 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
In this seminar for teens,
learn how you can become
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healthy relationships. For
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Greater Baltimore Heart
Walk
Federal Hill Park,
Downtown Baltimore. 9
a.m. Maryland area residents
and heart disease survivors
will take steps to improve
their health at this annual
event. For more information
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Let’s Eat Charles Street
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Between Charles and
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12-5 p.m. Enjoy great
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Opinion
Attorneys Needed in the Baltimore
City Orphans’ Court The Orphans’ Court is a
court of limited jurisdiction
in which petitions are filed to
handle estates for deceased
persons. The decisions
Orphans’ Court judges make
impact the lives of those still
living – spouses, children,
parents, siblings, etc. Many of
these decisions require judges
be knowledgeable in the areas
of probate, family, property,
contract, commercial and tax
law.
The Baltimore City
Ajile F. Brown Orphans’ Court is different
from many of the Orphans’
Courts around the state in that it is a full-time court. Hearings
are scheduled on a daily basis, it has one of the largest
caseloads in the state, and the complexity of the legal issues
brought before it far exceeds those in other courts.
There are many Orphans’ Courts in Maryland that operate
effectively with non-attorney judges on its bench. Many of
these Orphans’ Courts are not full-time. Some meet once or
twice a week to hear cases and have a much smaller caseload
than the city. The City Orphans’ Court has been privileged to
have esteemed members of the Maryland Bar serve as judges
on its bench for over 40 years.
The judges that are attorneys in the City Orphans’ Court
Political Parties…It’s Not Who They Are; It’s Who We
Wish They Were
I recently had a very emotional conversation with a friend
who had a job with no benefits, health, pension, etc. and was
looking for a new job. She and her family are Democrats and
she was horrified at the thought of dealing with Republicans.
Are jobs Democratic or Republican? How did we get to
this point, where our allegiance to a political party is more
important than a decent job?
Want to start a firestorm in a roomful of Blacks? Tell them
that Martin King Sr. was a lifelong registered Republican as
was his son the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (according to
his niece Dr. Alveda C. King). As a matter of fact, that great
statesman Frederick Douglass was a Republican too. Were
they traitors? No. In those times almost all Black Americans
were Republicans. They became Republicans in appreciation
for what the party had done in freeing the slaves, etc. Blacks
mostly voted Republican from after the Civil War and
through the early part of the 20th century. In fact 32 percent
of Blacks voted for Nixon in 1960.
Democrats stood in the school house doors, started the
KKK, and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim
Crow laws. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower
who pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent
troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools. Surprised? Well,
so was I.
How do we go from being Republicans to voting
Democrats in such large numbers? In 1960, Dr. King was
arrested for trespassing during a sit-in and held in Georgia’s
Reidsville prison. Fearing for his son’s life, Martin Luther
King Sr. appealed to Richard Nixon and presidential
candidate John F. Kennedy to secure his release. Nixon did
not respond. Kennedy immediately ordered the release. When
King was freed, his father vowed to deliver 10 million votes
to the Democrats. The younger King, a former Republican,
voted for Kennedy and for Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson
four years later. In that election, Martin Luther King publicly
denounced the Republicans.
Later when John F. Kennedy signed the Civil Rights Act
in 1964, Blacks in gratitude became Democrats. Thus began
four decades of Black people voting Democratic. Remember
the photo of MLK and JFK which seemed to be in every
Black home?
While there has been a historic, integral link between
the Republican Party and Blacks—Republicans started the
NAACP and launched Black Colleges—they can take their
slam on the treatment of Blacks. They launched the Southern
Strategy which focused on the White male vote in the South;
went from Nixon’s Southern Strategy to Reagan’s “states
right” support ( code for anti-Black law…remember the
racist Willie Horton 1988 ads?) And the tea parties and anti
Obama e-mails, jokes, signs, billboards and worse comments
generally go unchallenged by the Republicans. Yes, the
Republicans have less than clean hands. Recently Gov. Haley
Barbour, head of the Republican Governors Association,
arguing on Virginia Gov. McDonnell’s omission of slavery
from the 2010 proclamation for Confederate History Month,
said the whole thing “doesn’t matter for diddly,” a statement
offensive to a lot of people. Even the Republican Party
Chairman Michael Steele accuses his party of racism.
Our urban neighborhoods are scarred with boarded up
buildings, crumbling homes, missing supermarkets, patched
schools and a paucity of jobs. The life span of Blacks trails
Whites by 5.3 years. That the Black unemployment rate is
700 percent higher than Whites staggers the mind and the
school dropout rate at 43 percent is reflected in the high
urban crime rate. Yet $7 billion has been spent on the “War
on Poverty”…where did that money go? Into the pockets
of people who got on the expressway to the suburban exits,
October 23, 2010 - October 29, 2010, The Afro-American
can independently hear cases, sign orders, address
matters of urgency and write memorandums of law
in complex, litigated cases that have the potential
for appeal. At the present time, this court does not
have a backlog of work because each judge is able to
address any issues or paperwork independently.
There are currently two judges sitting on the
bench that are attorneys, Chief Judge Joyce Baylor-
Thompson and Judge Lewyn Scott Garrett. However,
one of the candidates surviving the primary election
in September, Ramona Moore Baker, is not an
attorney.
It is important for people to know that a non-
attorney judge on the City Orphans’ Court will not
be able to independently hear cases, sign orders or
do any act of the court without the assistance of an
attorney judge. All orders that are reviewed and signed by a
non-attorney judge must also be reviewed and signed by an
attorney judge. The non-attorney judge must sit on the bench
with an attorney judge in order to hear cases and make rulings.
Panel hearings and the double signature signing of orders is
definitely going to affect the efficiency of the workload in this
court. When one attorney judge sat independently to hear cases,
there were always two other attorney judges available to sign
orders so petitions sent to the court were not backed up. This
court has a record of signing approximately 400-500 orders in
one week.
The full-time status of this court could change to less than
full-time in order to accommodate the non-attorney judge. In
Letters to the Editor
that’s where, but that’s a story for another day.
Democrats, Republicans are they both sides of the same
coin? Has either party delivered anything to Blacks lately,
besides President Obama? Is it time to consider the merits of
the individual candidates rather than their party affiliation?
Might we at times split our ticket and vote not for the
party but for the best candidate? Could we vote based not on
their past performances but for our and our children’s future?
It’s time to ask each party, each candidate “what have you
done for me lately?”
Morning Sunday
Baltimore, Md.
We Must Vote
On June 9, 1963 Fannie Lou Hamer working with the
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was arrested on false
charges, jailed and was beaten savagely by the police almost
to the point of death.
WE MUST VOTE.
Medgar Evers, field secretary for the NAACP in
Mississippi was shot in the back and killed on June 12, 1963,
for registering voters and fighting for civil rights. He did for
our right to vote.
WE MUST VOTE.
On Sept. 15, 1963, four little Black girls – Addie Mae
Collins, 14; Denise McNair, 11; Carole Robertson, 14 and
Cynthia Wesley, 14 – were killed in a bomb attack on the
16th Street Baptist Church by Ku Klux Klan members. The
church was the meeting place for civil rights leaders such
as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Ralph David
Abernathy and Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth.
WE MUST VOTE.
James Chaney, a 21-year-old African American from
Meridian, Miss.; Andrew Goodman, a 20-year-old White
Jewish student from New York and Michael Schwerner, a
24-year-old White Jewish organizer from New York were
lynched when they went to investigate the burning of a
church that supported civil rights activity. They died in June
of 1964 fighting for our right to vote.
WE MUST VOTE.
John Lewis of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee, Hosea Williams from the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference and 600 hundred civil rights fighters
were beaten by police with billy clubs, attacked by dogs
and sprayed by tear gas on Sunday, March 7, 1965 as they
marched for civil rights and began voter registration work.
They fought for our right to vote.
WE MUST VOTE.
Rev. James Reed was a White American Unitarian
Universalist minster who was killed by segregations while
marching for civil rights on March 9, 1965.
WE MUST VOTE.
Jimmie Lee Jackson a young unarmed civil rights
protestor was shot to death by an Alabama State Trooper on
Feb. 26, 1965.
WE MUST VOTE.
Viola Liuzzo, a 39-year-old Catholic civil rights activist
from Michigan and mother of five, was murdered by the
Ku Klux Klan on March 25, 1965, when they shot into her
automobile. She died for our right to vote.
WE MUST VOTE.
Marvin L. Cheatham Sr.
Baltimore, Md.
A11
addition, it will be difficult to teach a non-attorney the nuances
and intricacies of the law without having a legal foundation.
The two attorney judges on this bench will practically be doing
the work of the non-attorney judge. This work would normally
be done by a third attorney judge.
There will be statewide constitutional amendment –
Question No. 3 – on the ballot in November requiring all
Orphans’ Court Judges in Baltimore City be members of the
Maryland Bar. Please support Question No. 3 and help maintain
the quality of justice, efficiency and integrity of the Baltimore
City Orphans’ Court.
Ajile F. Brown, a Maryland attorney, is a candidate for the
Orphans’ Court in Howard County.
You Have a Choice! You Have a Chance!
The number of votes I received in the recent Democratic
primary election on Sept. 14 was 19,517. Over a 14 month
period of campaigning I spent by design $450. This proves
IT CAN BE DONE – one can run an ethical campaign and be
successful. Therefore, the movement to end corruption and
money in Maryland politics continues. I am now a write-in
candidate for governor in the Nov. 2 gubernatorial election.
You have a choice—to condone the moral bankruptcy in
Maryland politics or to express your support for real ethical
reform by voting for Ralph Jaffe, write-in candidate. You
have a chance to be part of this exciting opportunity to bring
about real change in the Maryland political system. Please
join the movement. If you will print my name, Ralph Jaffe,
on the ballot in the write-in space for governor, your vote will
count.
Ralph Jaffe
Pikesville, Md.
I Am Still Pissed
Your rationale for endorsement of Gov. Martin O’Malley
in this year’s primary is just as valid for Black voter support
of him in November. “Educator” Gov. O’Malley recognizes
that we have the same quality of life concerns as do other
voters. We must not allow ourselves to be distracted by the
Maryland “Republican Party of No,” who are hoping that
we will stay home in November. State and local Maryland
Republicans are obviously marching to the tune of their
congressional leadership which vowed to make the Obama
administration fail before President Obama even took office.
They have since shamelessly “lock-stepped” against every
major Obama initiative regardless of its merits and acted to
ensure that their sworn strategy has trickled down to every
governmental level in every state.
Therefore, it is important for us to understand that the
strategy of Maryland Republicans is to take advantage of
voter impatience and ignore Gov. O’Malley’s nationally
recognized record of accomplishments plus that of other
Democratic elected officials by voting against the entire
Democratic slate in order to send President Obama a
message! How else would you explain the vulnerability
of Sen. Barbara Mikulski, an effective, tireless champion
of us all, who is in danger of losing her seat? In spite
of the obstructionists and haters, President Obama has
accomplished some major initiatives because of strong,
committed Democratic governors like Martin O’Malley,
whose continued support he is in dire need of.
Finally, Maryland Black voters can ill afford to forget
the blatant deceit and conniving of the Ehrlich / Steele
administration. Recall, for example, the Ehrlich staff’s
exclusion of the lone Black commissioner from at least two
meetings with the state’s five member regulatory utilities
agency in the midst of Maryland’s power rate crisis. For
another, recall Election Day four years ago when Ehrlich/
Steele bussed homeless men from Philly to Prince George’s
County and Baltimore City to hand out literature falsely
suggesting that they had the endorsement of several Black
Democratic leaders. Would they have dared to do such a
thing in Columbia or in Ehrlich’s neighborhood? I think not,
and I’m still pissed!! If Black voters stay home in November,
we not only risk a return to a Republican governor that does
not respect us and is not committed to our best interests, we
also risk turning back the clock by electing a governor who
will use redistricting as a tool to cause the loss of some of the
most progressive representation Maryland has ever had!
Ethel B. Hill, Esq.
Columbia, Md.
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Leona Holoy, Anne Rollins

In celebration of Druid Hill Park’s 150th birthday, The and Juanita Blueford
Friends of Druid Hill Park hosted a five-day celebration
featuring biking and walking tours of the 745-acre site, a Olu Kopano, Bomani
lecture on the past streetcar system and sporting events on a Kopano, Baruti
previously segregated tennis court. Kopano, Monifa
Druid Hill Park is home to the Maryland Zoo, Howard Peter Kopano and Symeon
Rawlings Conservatory & Botanic Gardens of Baltimore and Turner
the Jones Falls Trail. It was also the inspiration for award-
winning R&B group Dru Hill.

Tennis teachers Royce Jones and Val

Parker with new tennis players

Packs 1005 and 257 with leader Sonya Lewis

Donna Solese, Sherrie Smith,

Lakesisha Jones, Kennard
Jackson, Deonte Solese, Lemmar
Warren, Dionna Warren and Isaac
Blackston
Jodi Aryee

Jewelry maker
Ain Tripps

Members of Kappa Alpha Psi

Fraternity plant trees
Harriette Ndele does a
Jacqueline and James Owings, longtime Druid Park health check up on Del.
neighborhood residents. They have been married 69 years. Shawn Z. Tarrant

Event sponsor
Tavares Evans
Cakes2AT

Sarita Murray, Judge Jan Alexander,

Valerie Fraling, Judy and Sylvester Cox Sarita’s uncle, Del.
Nathanial Oaks; Sarita
Murray and Lt. Gov.
Anthony Brown

Dr. Miles Harrison

Photos by Glenwood Jackson

Baltimore businesswomen Sarita Oaks Murray and Zerita Holly-Ross, spa, tea and bead party company, and mother of two. Holly-Ross has
both breast cancer survivors, recently held their annual “Blink Pink” been free of breast cancer for seven years after her diagnosis at 40. She is
fundraiser, an evening of music, food and fellowship that raises funds the owner of Ross Insurance Agency and a mom of two.
and awareness of breast cancer. Among this year’s corporate sponsors for Blink Pink are OPI, Coors
Hosted by AFRO columnist Valerie Fraling – also a breast cancer Light, jody davis designs, Cakes 2 A T,
survivor – the program treated guests to massages, beauty treatments, Loane Brothers, Select Event Rental,
Komen Maryland
music and an array of hors d’oeuvres. Harris Jones & Malone, The Inn and
Event sponsors Tracy and Executive Director
The event took place at the Inn and Spa at the Colonnade and Spa at the Colonnade, Advertising
Edwin Avent, owners of Robin Prothro
included a bevy of state dignitaries, including Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony in Motion, Heart & Soul
Brown, Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Baltimore magazine, Nik Nak Events, Heart and Soul magazine
City Council President Bernard “Jack” Young, Comptroller Joan M. Pratt, Fresh Boutique, Pampering
State’s Attorney Patricia Jessamy and others. Another special guest Junkies, Nuvo, “The Green
included Komen Maryland Race for the Cure Executive Director Robin Ambassador” Cathy
Prothro. Allen and the Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony
Sarita Murray, an eight-year cancer survivor, battled the disease when Minority Contractors Brown, Mayor
she was only 34. She is the founder of SparTea, a children’s full service Association (MMCA). Stephanie Rawlings
Blake and her
daughter Sophia
Coors Light model Lydia Walters,
Sarita’s dress designer Jody Davis and
Coors Light model Monique Pridgeon

Sunseria “ Miss
Buffy “ Smith,
mom of Ravens
star Ray Lewis,
Donell Moses, Thomas Hardnett, John Bugg, and Tangie
Rahsaan Lindsey, Alexis Coates and Kirk Sykes Robertson
Sarita Murray
and Zerita Ross
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www.afro.com

‘Kam’s Kapsules’: Weekly Film Previews

Local Pastor Helps R&B Superstars Face Addiction Demons

By Bobby Marvin there’s really a process to deliverance.
Special to the AFRO
AFRO: What can audiences expect from this show?
The Rev. Jamal Bryant is known for giving guidance to JB: For every viewer that has any fraction of a heart or a
people in need. He is the pastor and founder of the popular conscience, it’s going to make them laugh…cry…rejoice. And
Baltimore house of worship, Empowerment Temple AME at the end of the day it’s going to make them think. It’s going
Church, and author of self-help/spiritual books. He has taken to be a full rollercoaster ride of emotions. But when you get off
his vision of “empowering the world through the word” to mass the ride…you will be sober about what it is you need to do with
audiences as the former host and producer of ABC’s “Grace your life.
and Glory,” Trinity Broadcasting Network’s “Praise the Lord”
along with an appearance on BET‘s “Meet the Faith.” Now, “K-Ci and JoJo Come Clean,” a nine-series documentary,
Bryant offers support to brothers and R&B stars K-Ci and Jo- debuted Oct. 19, 9 p.m. on TV One. For more information visit
Jo Hailey as they battle alcoholism in the new TV One reality www.tvoneonline.com.
series, “K-Ci and Jo-Jo Come Clean.”

AFRO: Can you please talk about the new series “K-Ci and
Jo-Jo Come Clean” and your role in partnering with the two
Reader’s Corner
brothers?
Jamal Bryant: It really gives an underdog-cheering what’s, where’s and when’s of
opportunity for the [at-large] African-American community. a misunderstood continent.
All of us have somebody in our family and within our realm of In stores now. For
influence who have really been beaten up by addiction. These more information visit
are two young men who have [had a] meteoric rise in R&B and dorrancebookstore.com.
soul music and then had a tremendous tumble because they
couldn’t get a hold of their addiction. So my sister and I come Queen Pin
together in the show for a full season, putting them on the road Jemeker Thompson-
to recovery because they’re gifted, they’re just misguided. And Courtesy Photo Hairston hasn’t lived an
what the viewer is going to see is that you can come back no ordinary life. She was
matter how far you have fallen. Pastor Jamal Bryant a powerful woman in a
dangerous arena generally
AFRO: Why did you decide to get involved with this you’re not living under a bridge or a homeless shelter doesn’t led by ruthless men – the
project? mean you’re not dealing with an addiction. drug trade. In Queen Pin,
JB: I decided to get involved with “K-Ci and Jo-Jo Come Thompson-Hairston shares
Clean” because I see it [addiction] everyday in the church that AFRO: What are some of the challenges do you expect? her life of mayhem and
I pastor and the community that I live. So many young brilliant JB: The first one would be denial. People who really don’t crime during the ‘80s and
African-American people who are really devoured by their think it’s that much of a problem. The second is going through The Truth Inside Africa ‘90s as she ran one of the
addiction whether it is drugs…alcohol or whatever desire they the process. A lot of times the church is culpable because Thoughts of Africa
haven’t been able to control. I felt this would be a wonderful people will go through something. We bring them to the altar draw images as diverse as
way to really present that package to the world. Just because and lay hands on them. We think that’s the end of it when the people residing on the
massive continent. But
according to Noah G. Kumi,
author of The Truth Inside
intelligent talk

Africa, much of those

thoughts are inaccurate and
marred by the aftermath of
colonial invasion.
The book is an
educational guide that

ins
explores Africa’s rich
history, people, traditions

igh
and current economic
state. The Cape Coast-

tful
Ghana-born author said he
was inspired to write the book
after people around the world
asked questions like, “What
is the language of Africa?”
and “Who is the president of
THE Africa?”
nation’s most successful drug
cartels.
Her love of money created
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Determined to educate
people about his homeland,
Kumi, who is now a
missionary based in Trinidad
SHOW and Tobago, penned The Truth
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Final word: The who’s,
her in jail for 12 years. During
this time, she found God and
vowed to change her life.
Queen Pin is a testament to
her evolution.
Final word: A eye-opening
look into the underground
drug world through the
author’s redemption tome.
In stores now. For
more information visit
secondchance7.org.

Music at the Crossroads:

Lives and Legacies of
Baltimore Jazz
Described as the first
book to analyze and celebrate
Baltimore’s “underappreciated
jazz tradition,” Music at the
Crossroads delves into the
lives and loves of famed
entertainers like Eubie Blake
and Calloway, who hail from
the city. Also discussed are
lesser known talents like Ellis
Larkins, Hank Levy and Ethel
Ennis, who were popular acts
on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Edited by Mark Osteen
and Frank J. Graziano,
the book also analyzes
Baltimore’s current jazz
music scene and reflects on
the Left Bank Jazz Society.
Final word: An important
glimpse into Baltimore’s
music history and some of
jazz music’s legends.
Available now. For
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 October 23, 2010 - October 29, 2010, The Afro-American B3

Filmmaker Shares Father’s Inspiring Story with World

By AFRO Staff
Even as a child, music was a critical
part of Matthew Kennedy’s life. At 4 he
played his first piano piece and starred in
his own radio program by 12 in Macon,
Ga. His exceptional musical gifts brought
Kennedy from the deeply segregated
South to New York City, where he studied
at the Julliard School and performed at the
Apollo Theater and Carnegie Hall. But his
ultimate music home was at Tennessee’s
Fisk University, where he became director
of the internationally acclaimed Fisk
Jubilee Singers.
Matthew Kennedy: One Man’s
Journey, is a documentary produced by
the musician’s daughter, Nina Kennedy,
that follows the life and death of a
largely unheard of musical prodigy. After suffering racial
discrimination, his father’s death and poverty, fate landed
Matthew Kennedy at a Rachmaninoff concert that ultimately
changed his life.
“I wanted to do this film for two reasons: First, because my
father has been practicing the piano for [80] years preparing
for his day in the sun, but it seemed he has been waiting for
someone else to ‘come down from On High’ and hand him the
recognition he felt he deserved. So after I had some success
in the film world, I decided this was something I could do
for him,” said Kennedy, also the director, in a statement.
“Secondly, American culture seems to tell young black boys
Nina Kennedy
Courtesy Photos
that they can only hope to become ball-players,
comedians, or gangsta’ rappers. I wanted to
show them the life of a black American concert
pianist – an image most of them haven’t seen –
because I know the effect that a role model can have. Just look
at the effect that Rachmaninoff had on my father’s life.”
The Augusta, Ga.-born musician mastered Rachmaninoff’s
signature piano style, which helped him land a coveted spot at
Julliard School of Music. But as Kennedy prepares to launch
an international career, a Juilliard professor urges him to return
to the South and inspire people of his own race. That return
brought Kennedy to Fisk University, a historically Black
school founded at the end of the Civil War to educate freed
slaves.
When the Klan repeatedly burned down the wooden houses
– originally Union Army barracks – where classes took place, a
stone structure was erected that was intended to be Klan-proof.
The money for the construction of this building was raised
from the proceeds of concerts – old slave songs or “spirituals”
as they came to be known - given by a small choir of students
that became internationally known as the Fisk Jubilee Singers
and went on to perform for Queen Victoria of England.
“When he first came to Fisk University and started
performing the spirituals with the Jubilee Singers, I doubt that
he was aware at the time of the impact the spirituals would
have on his life. I know some people have difficulty with
the spirituals because the messages are … well, a bit heavy,”
said Kennedy. “But one must remember that the people who
originally sang these songs were people who had no human
rights whatsoever, who were bought and sold like chattel, who
were exploited to the point of collapse. These people had no
choice but to believe in a God who would deliver them one
day, and who would reward them in Heaven for their lives of
toil and servitude.”
As fate would have it, the Fisk Jubilee Singers needed a
pianist when Kennedy arrived in Nashville. Armed with his
Juilliard training, Matthew added his classical repertoire to the
programs of the singers. The group traveled and performed all
over the world, before adoring fans, diplomats, and royalty. They
were welcomed and embraced in the hallowed concert halls of
Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean and South America.
In the middle of the realization of his dream of international
success, the nation is suddenly at war, and Matthew is called to
serve his country in a segregated U.S. Army.
The documentary continues with coverage of Kennedy’s
draft, return to music and life legacy, all which culminate
to create what the musician’s daughter calls “an amazing
American story.”

“Fear thou not, for I am be radio host Larry Young.

with thee; be not dismayed, for
I am thy God, I will strengthen
thee; yea, I will help thee; yea,
I will uphold thee with the right
hand of my righteousness. For
I the Lord thy God will hold thy
right hand, saying unto thee;
fear not, I will help thee.” –
Isaiah 41:10,13
I see a miracle when I awake
each morning and thank God for
another glorious day. “I believe
in miracles.” I spent a long
sleepless night praying that the
rescue of the Chilean miners
would be successful. The next
morning I kept that vigil all
day obsessed, knowing I was
witnessing a miracle. “I sought
the LORD, and He heard me,
and delivered me from all my
fears.” – Psalm 34:4
The emotions as they
emerged after 69 days
underground were awe-
inspiring. The words of Chilean
miner Mario Sepulveda: “I
was with God and I was with
the Devil. They fought and
God won.” What a testimony.
Hallelujah!
“But they that wait upon the
Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings
as eagles; they shall run, and
not be weary; and they shall
walk, and not faint.” – Isaiah
40:31
As the Phoenix rose from
the pit of the cavernous hole
for the last time, believers and
non-believers gave a prayer of
thanksgiving witnessing 33 men
delivered from darkness. “Joy
does come in the morning!”
“Someday my prince will
come.” The military salute to
the couple as they exited the
chapel through the arch of
swords was breathtaking and
provided a fairy tale setting
when LeNaya Crandall wed
Lt. Matthew Hezel. The
majestic surroundings at the
Naval Academy Chapel in
Annapolis, the impressive
sanctuary, the massive organ
and the officers in dress whites
were reminiscent of Cinderella
marrying Prince Charming.
LeNaya, the daughter of our
deceased girlfriend Cheryl
Crandall was dazzling in an
ivory strapless pleated gown
encrusted with pearls. The tears
flowed as LeNaya’s play-aunts
witnessed the magnificent
ceremony.
“Precious Memories.”
After the reception at
O’Callaghan Hotel, guests
joined Debbie Taylor and I at
Ruth’s Chris to toast Cheryl,
a grand woman, whose battle
with breast cancer ended her
life but not the memories of her
sweet spirit.
“For the good times.”
Five Women & Two Guys’
winter picnic in the park
theme was “Auld Lang Syne.”
More than 150 guests ate and
danced under the harvest sun,
moving from table to table
sampling the array of goodies
including spare ribs, smoked
turkey, salmon and homemade
desserts. We drank mojitos,
as the sound of champagne
corks popping mingled in the
air with the “sound of music”
provided by DJ Russell. We
enjoyed the company of good
friends while the sunset and
the evening chilled. Guests
enjoying the Sunday afternoon
were Wanetah Wilkins, Harold
Darden, Jackie Brock, Rhoda
Fassett, Walt and Queen Carr,
Jean and Wallace Dennis,
Linda and Doug Hollis,
Phyllis Watkins, Reggie
Thomas, Yvonne Miller, June
Brown, Anton Sawyer and
Melinda Wright. This annual
invitational event hosted by
Everlon Moulton, Lyberia
Massey, Yvonne West, Maxine
Turnipseed, Blandnette Lynch,
Victor Greene and Willard
Wright is a coveted invitation.
“It’s your birthday make
some noise.” Marci Flournoy,
Michelle Kinney, Ronald Lee,
Joelle King, Allyson Lee,
Delores Robinson, Delegate
Nathaniel Oaks and Friday
Night Bunch poet Lonnie
Spruill.
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first birthday to Colin Daniels
son of Dante and Candance.
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• Roundtable: Church Leaders and LBCM
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B4 The Afro-American, October 23, 2010 - October 29, 2010

Faith Pulse Baltimore’s Jonathan Nelson Welcomes New

Soar Magazine Launches
First Edition
The new online Christian-
based magazine, Soar, will
serve as a tool to equip
readers with the practical
and spiritual applications
to successfully “soar”
to higher heights in all
areas of their lives. An
extension of Daughters of
Distinction (www.dofdllc.
com ), the publication
has a holistic approach to
ministry, embracing readers
emotionally, physically
and spiritually, according
to publisher Pastor Trena
Stephenson, founder and
president of Woman of God
Ministries (www.wofgod.org
). “It provides a safe place
to ask questions concerning
their walk in God.”
The foundational scripture
for the magazine is Isaiah
40:31, “But those who wait
Life in Florida
Faith Bytes
Jonathan said, ‘I’m gonna record that song.’”
Nelson is Lawrence did record the song and took it
enjoying to the Top 10 in 2005. The icing on the cake
Chief Elder Winnie Walker, p.m. For more information, better days was that the song won Nelson the Stellar
“Soar Magazine is about call New Rose of Sharon at in this Award as Songwriter of the Year in 2006. The
season of Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, presented
empowering people to reach 410-233-4590.
his life. His him with the award. “I was so shocked that
their full potential in Christ
radio single, I won,” Nelson added, “that I didn’t even
and through the Word of Oct. 30 “Expect the realize that it was Aretha who gave me the
God.” The magazine strives Bishop Reginald L. Courtesy Photo Great,” has award.”
to achieve this by providing Kennedy will sign his new Jonathan Nelson been well Since then, Nelson has composed hits
support and encouragement book, What Really Works received on for artists ranging from Bishop T.D. Jakes
to both Christians and non- in Ministry?, 1 p.m. at the radio stations nationwide and his new CD, to Youth for Christ which spent 12 weeks
Christians in the areas of Upward Way Bookstore, Better Days, is a top 10 hit. at No. 1 with his tune, “The Struggle Is
relationships, finances, 5851 York Road. Bishop The composer and his family recently Over.” These hits led Integrity Music to
health, spirituality, ministry Kennedy is pastor of Gospel relocated to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., where sign Nelson to a contract. His debut CD,
and more. Tabernacle Baptist church, he’s joined the staff of The Faith Center Right Now Praise, was released in 2008. The
The magazine will be 3100 Walbrook Ave. For Ministries. radio single, “My Name is Victory,” spent
Rewind a decade to when Nelson lost 65 weeks on Billboard’s gospel chart and
published quarterly with more information, call
his job with a computer software company. won him a Best New Artist of the Year Dove
email alerts sent only to Gospel Tabernacle at 410-
“Around 2001 when all of the dotcoms Award nomination.
those who subscribe. A one- 383-9393 or Upward Way at went down, I was unemployed and that’s
year free subscription can 410-464-9550. The buzz of Nelson’s success led to a job
when my passion for writing came alive,”
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all these songs because I was living off of
where he has relocated from his native
directly online at www. “Iron Sharpens Iron” Clergy unemployment. That process took me through
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soarmagazine.info. Summit II, 8 a.m. to 4 a whole thing because of my experience.
two children. “They love it,” Nelson said of
p.m., at Douglas Memorial The song ‘Healed’ definitely came out of
that.” Then, gospel star Donald Lawrence his new home. “We have sunshine everyday.
Local Faith Community Church, 1325
heard Nelson perform the song at a music When it’s cold up north, nine times out of 10,
Madison Ave. Presenters
workshop. “When Donald heard ‘Healed’ he it’s warm down south.”
Oct. 20 include the Rev. Dr. Ralph
The Rev. Dr. Theodore D. West, senior pastor, The

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Church Without Walls; the
on the Lord shall renew their C. Jackson Jr. and Gillis
Rev. Dr. Joel C. Gregory,
strength; they shall mount Memorial Christian
professor of preaching,
up with wings like eagles, Community Church will George W. Truett Theological
They shall run and not be worship with the Rev. Seminary and The Rev. Robert E. Patterson Jr., 81
weary They shall walk and Virginia Wise and the New Dr. JoAnne Marie Terrell,
not faint.” Rose of Sharon Baptist
Educator, Entrepreneur
associate professor of ethics
According to Editor-In- Church, 2 N. Carey St., 7:30 and theology, Chicago Robert “Bob” Edward from the wheel, he could be
Theological Seminary. For Patterson Jr., a retired found relaxing on his boat or
more information, call the teacher and Air Force preparing for his next fishing
Sharon Baptist Church church at 410-523-1700, visit
www.douglaschurch.org or
lieutenant, passed away trip.
Stricker and Presstman Streets and Sharon Baptist Way on Sept. 25, following an Bob was also a successful
Baltimore, Maryland 21217
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e-mail info@douglaschurch. eight-month battle against entrepreneur for much
“Serving God and Humanity Into Our 2nd Century • 125 Years” org. The Rev. Dr. S. Todd infection and cardiac-related of his life. He acquired
Yeary is pastor of the church. complications. and operated a number of
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2010 Bob was a dedicated properties for rent mainly
9:30 A.M. Sunday School Nov. 6 husband and family man to Morgan State University
Complete payment for who spent three decades students and then after
11:00 A.M. Worship Service the Dec. 18 Christmas educating Maryland high retiring from his teaching
Recommitment Sunday ROBERT E. PATTERSON
Celebration presented by school students. He began career, Bob remained active
Guest Preacher: JR.
the multimedia and arts his teaching career at for many years transporting
Dr. Wayne G. Thompson, Pastor of center of Evangel Cathedral, generosity with family and
Sparrows Point High School food to the elderly and the
First Baptist Institutional Church, Dr. Alfred C. D. Vaughn,
13901 Central Ave., Upper others in need. Throughout
Senior Pastor during the latter half of the elderly to social activities
St. Petersburg, Florida Marlboro. The production the non-fishing months of
Dr. William E. Johnson, Jr.,
Pastor 1950s, then, during the 1960s such as bingo. He always
features Yolanda Adams, he became one of the first loved to drive big trucks, the year, he pined to return
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Donnie McClurkin and African-American instructors whether for a stint as a long- to his favorite waters of the
11:30 A.M. Bible Study
Marvin Sapp. Travel is to integrate Kenwood High haul trucker during his early Chesapeake Bay during
6:30 P.M. Family Bible Study
arranged by Centennial School, whose student post-university and Air Force summer to reel in spot
Thursday, October 28, 2010 Caroline Street United enrollment was then mainly years or just for pleasure in fish, all while keeping a
4:00 P.M. The Children’s Fellowship Methodist Church, 1029 Caucasian. He spoke his personal diesel rig. competitive edge against
E. Monument St. For more highly of his experiences His daughter and son his son and fellow fishing
Saturday, October 30, 2010
10:00 A.M. Saturday Church School information call 443-418- teaching chemistry and remember him as a great buddies. A talented cook,
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Friday 10/29/10 banquet - guests include: The Richardson Singers, Evangelist
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Don’t Overlook the City Black Knights NFL ‘Cracking Down’ on Illegal
By Perry Green
AFRO Sports Editor Hits to Head, Neck
By Perry Green Harrison, who now serves ass a TV analyst
Most Baltimore City high
AFRO Sports Editor on NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” telecast.
school football buffs will have
“You got my attention when I got suspended
their attention locked on this
NFL officials announced Monday their and I had to get away from my teammates
Saturday’s matchup between
plans of “cracking down” on illegal and often and I disappointed my teammates [for] not
Dunbar (6-1 overall) and
health hazardous hits made during football being there. But you have to suspend these
Edmondson Westside (5-2
games. The NFL plans to enforce harsher guys. These guys are making millions of
overall), two top contenders
penalties, including the possibilities of dollars. [Nothing will change] until the NFL
for postseason play.
suspending offenders from games. takes time and says, ‘You know what, we’re
But even the top
The announcement came less than 24 going to really protect our players. We’re
contenders would warn you
hours following a day filled with several going to suspend these guys, not one game
not to overlook teams like the
devastating hits, one of which was made but possibly two or more games.’”
City College Black Knights,
on Ravens star tight end Todd Heap during But some current players think officials
who aren’t far from the top
a matchup with the New England Patriots. shouldn’t tamper with rules of tackling any
themselves. City College
AFRO Photo/Perry Green NE safety Brandon Meriweather delivered more than they’ve already been tampered with.
currently sits on a 5-2 overall
City College currently holds a 5-2 record and will host a deliberate helmet shot to the forehead “This game always been violent,” said
record, with their only losses
Reginald F. Lewis on Oct. 22. of Heap as he attempted to catch a pass Washington Redskins tailback Clinton Portis.
suffered against heavyweights
over the middle of the field. The Patriots “People like to see the mano a mano side
Dunbar and Patterson.
were instantly penalized for 15 yards for of things. Like to see people collide. That’s
The Black Knights
attack is why the team has up enough to help them earn Meriweather’s unnecessary hit, but the NFL what makes football ... the greatest is the
have managed to remain
earned all of their wins a seed in the state playoffs. says that’s not enough. violent side.”
competitive within a tough
this season by multiple Last season the team played “We need to dispel the notion that you But the ugliest and most tragic moments
Baltimore City Division I by
touchdowns. But the Knights well, but just missed out on get a free pass for a first offense,” NFL of NFL history come from that violent side,
utilizing their outstanding
have also held three teams qualifying for the postseason Vice President of Football Operations Ray too. Former NFL legend Jack Tatum is
running game and playing
completely scoreless this with a 7-3-2 record. Anderson said in a released statement. known as one of scariest players ever because
lights out defense.
season, beating Digital Harbor This year, the goal is the “We’re going to another level of of how hard he would hit opponents. But
“It’s safe to say we take
41-0, Lake Clifton 48-0, and same as always: win a state accountability.” during one game back in 1978, he hit former
pride in our running game
Mervo 32-0. championship. But they’ll Anderson, among others, believes that Pats receiver Darryl Stingley so hard, the
and focus a lot on that aspect
“The shutouts are a have to keep winning games, level of accountability will come with time collision broke Stingley’s neck, leaving him
of our game,” Black Knights
testament to how well our starting with a matchup away from the game. Former Patriots star a quadriplegic until for life until he died in
head coach George Petrides
defense has been playing,” against Reginald F. Lewis on Rodney Harrison, one of the most hard 2007 at age 55.
told the AFRO. “DeQuan
Petrides said. “Tre James Oct. 22. hitting players in league history, suggests Anderson wants to make sure those
Smith and Tyrell Moore
has also been our most “To qualify for the that’s the only way you’ll get some players moments are avoided as much as possible in
have done a great job of
outstanding defensive player playoffs, you have to be in to respect the safety regulations regarding the future.
running hard this season, and
at the end position and Lamar the top four teams and we’re dangerous hits to the head and neck. “We feel compelled to be aggressive and
our fullback Tre James and
Montgomery has been really just outside of that top four, You didn’t get my attention when you proactive,” Anderson stated. “We don’t want
offensive line has done just
good too at nose tackle.” one point behind Dundalk,” fined me five grand, 10 grand, 15 grand,” said another Darryl Stingley on one of our fields.”
as good of a job blocking for
them.” City hopes their strong run Petrides said. “So it’s time to
City’s powerful rushing game and tight defense holds go to work.”
Bowie State Dominates Long Distance
Challenge During Homecoming
By AFRO Staff

The Bulldogs football team wasn’t the only team that kicked butt during Bowie State’s
homecoming this past weekend. The long distance runners of BSU’s track and field squad also
celebrated homecoming in victorious fashion, as both the men’s and women’s team earned first
place honors during their hosted challenge last week.
The Lady Bulldogs finished with 19 total points, while Washington Adventist University took
second place with 36 total points.
Lady Bulldogs’ Shamika Patton placed first overall in the 5,000 meter race with a time of 20
minutes and 22 seconds, while Danielle Penuccio of Washington Adventist closed in at second
place at 20 minutes and 36 seconds.
BSU junior Shayla Davis placed third at 21:36, while teammate Michelle Palmer finished
fourth just behind Davis at 21:37.
Sophomore Briana Harrison and freshman Vernesse Thomas-Quickley took fifth and sixth
place, respectively, as Harrison clocked in at 24:11 and Thomas-Quickley at 24:16.
On November 2nd, Election Day, Bowie State’s men’s squad did just as well, earning a first place finish, while Virginia State
University placed second with 44 points and Washington Adventist (men) took third place with
55 points.
please VOTE YES for Bond Issues BSU senior star Daryl Sanders smoked all competition with a first place finish in the 8,000
meter run with a time of 25 minutes and 52 seconds. He was followed by Virginia State’s
Timothy Davidson, who finished at 26:42. Bulldogs freshman Matthew Haile took third place
Questions D-K! honors with a time of 26 minutes and 59 seconds, while fellow freshman Ronald Exum followed
in fourth at 27:00. Senior Bryon Lewis (Waldorf, MD, West Lake) claimed fifth place with a
time of 27:03, wile Eric Makovsky and Kyle Christainsen of Washington Adventist placed sixth
(27:27) and seventh (28:08) respectively.
Ballot Questions D-K will feature the following Bond Issues: Bowie State’s long distance runners will hit the track again throughout this weekend during the
annual Central Interscholastic Athletic Association Cross Country Championships held in Cary, N.C.
• Question D – School Loan - $33,378,000

• Question E – Community Development Loan - $18,050,000

• Question F – Public Buildings Loan - $16,200,000

• Question G – Economic Development Loan - $16,775,000

• Question H – National Aquarium Loan - $1,000,000

• Question I – Walters Art Museum Loan - $500,000

• Question J – Baltimore Museum of Art Loan - $1,200,000

• Question K – Recreation & Parks City Greening Loan - $12,897,000

For more information about Ballot Questions D-K,

Please visit: http://www.baltimorecity.gov/Government/
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d. Escheated Estates $ 60 per insertion $ 360.00 per 6 weeks
4151 Park Heights Ave. Suite 207, Baltimore, MD 21215 • www.parkheightsmd.org
e. Standard Probates $ 125.00
CIVIL NOTICES
BALTIMORE CITY HEAD START
Request for Proposals (RFP)
Construction Management Services a. Name Changes 202-879-1133 $ 80.00
b. Real Property $ 200.00
RFP Number: B-2010-2
Baltimore City Head Start will accept propos-
als from interested and qualified construction FAMILY COURT
management firms to provide multidiscipline
202-879-1212
professional services inclusive of, but not
limited to: pre-construction, construction,
design/build, and construction management. DOMESTIC RELATIONS
This includes all phases of electrical,
202-879-0157
plumbing, interior structural renovations.
PROPOSALS WILL BE DUE no later than a. Absent Defendant $ 150.00
2:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, b. Absolute Divorce $ 150.00
November 3, 2010. c. Custody Divorce $ 150.00
A non-mandatory site inspection of the facility Baltimore City Public Schools.
will be held on Friday, October 22, 2010 at INVITATION FOR BIDS:
10:30 at the facility, which is a community To place your ad, call 1-800-237-6892, ext. 262
BCS-11030
historic property, and is located at 1415 N. Provide Public
WindowNotices
& $50.00 & up depending on size
Caroline Street, Baltimore, Md 21213. A
detailed summary of the scope of services
Door Replacement Services
Baltimore Legal Notices are $24.15 per inch.
at Grove Park Elementary/Middle
There is noSchool
will be provided at the site inspection meeting #224
flat rate — 1-800 (AFRO) 892
on Friday, October 22, 2010. For Proof of Publication, please call 1-800-237-6892, ext. 244
The Baltimore City Board of School Commis-
The successful bidder must comply with all LEGAL NOTICES
sioners is LEGAL
inviting interested NOTICES
companies to LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES
LEGAL
applicable insurance and all Federal and submit responses to: NOTICES
BCS-11030. LEGAL NOTICES
State construction, and procurement
regulations. The successful bidder must not In order to participate, interested contractors
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF BALTIMORE CITY
be disbarred or in default of Federal taxes. need to visit eMaryland Marketplace website
Small businesses, companies qualifying un- INVITATION FOR BIDS VEHICLES
at https://ebidmarketplace.com IFB NUMBER: B-1639-10
der the Americans for Disabilities Act,
Women Owned Businesses, and Minority
Solicitation BCS-11030 will be available for
Business Enterprises¬ are encouraged to The Housing Authority of Baltimore City
review commencing Friday, October 22, (“HABC”) will
(∫HABC∫) will issue an Invitation for Bids
apply. 2010.
(“IFB”)for
(∫IFB∫) forinterested vendors to supply var-
Questions regarding the RFP should refer- ious vehicles to HABC.
The response Due Date is Thursday,
ence the above RFP number, and must be December 2, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. local time.
directed in writing to the individual indicated BIDS WILL BE DUE no later than 2:00 p.m.
No responses will be accepted after that Eastern Time on Wednesday, November
below. time. Any questions related to this solicitation
10, 2010.
Mr. Chris Barnes
should be directed to the Buyer.
No pre-bid meeting is planned
Cell- 443-742-4882
Phone-410-685-1288 Ext. 12
E-mail- cbarnes@sfxheadstart.org City of Baltimore The IFB may be obtained on or after Monday,
Department of Finance October 25, 2010, at the following location:
Bureau of Purchases
Housing Authority of Baltimore City
Baltimore City Public Schools
Sealed proposals addressed to the Board of Division of Fiscal Operations,
INVITATION FOR BIDS
Estimates of Baltimore, will be received until, Purchasing Department
BCS-11025
but not later than 11:00 a.m. local time on 417 E. Fayette Street, Room 414
Local Access
Telecommunications Service the following date(s) for the stated Baltimore, Maryland 21202
requirements: Attention: John Airey,
Chief of Contracting Services
The Baltimore City Board of School Commis-
NOVEMBER 3, 2010 Tel: (410) 396-3261
sioners invites interested companies to sub-
TRAFFIC SIGNAL CABLES B50001682 Fax: (410) 962-1586
mit bids for Local Access Telecommunica-
NOVEMBER 17, 2010
tions Service. Questions regarding the IFB should be di-
MANAGEMENT SERVICES FOR 620 FALL-
In order to participate, interested bidders SWAY 24 HOUR SHELTER B50001664 rected in writing to the address and individual
indicated above, and must include the refer-
need to register with eMaryland Marketplace
by visiting their website at https:// THE ENTIRE SOLICITATION DOCUMENT ence: HABC IFB Number B-1639-10.
CAN BE VIEWED AND DOWN LOADED BY
ebidmarketplace.com and clicking the Reg-
VISITING THE CITYS WEB SITE:
istration button.
REVISED NOTICE
Solicitation BCS-11025 will be available for www.baltimorecitibuy.org HOUSING AUTHORITY OF BALTIMORE CITY
INVITATION FOR BIDS
review commencing Friday October 15,
2010. There will be a Pre-Bid meeting on ELECTRIC COMMODITY
NOTICE OF IFB NUMBER: B-1638-10
Thursday, October 21, 2010 in the Room 301
at 200 East North Avenue @ 10:00am. LEGISLATIVE FORUM
The Housing Authority of Baltimore City
The Legislative Liaison of the Baltimore (“HABC”)
(∫HABC∫) is requesting bids from interested
The Bid Due Date is Thursday, November
City Board of School Commissioners will and qualified firms to provide electric
18, 2010, at 11:00 am local time. No bids will commodity for HABC’s
HABC¬sresidential
residentialaccounts.
accounts.
be accepted after that time. Any questions hold a Legislative Forum on Monday,
HABC has approximately 2,765 accounts for
related to this solicitation should be directed October 25, 2010 at 5:30 p.m. in the first
to the Buyer, John Egerton at jegerton@
various individual dwelling units. All accounts
floor board room to discuss the are paid by HABC directly.
bcps.k12.md.us upcoming 2011 Maryland General
Assembly legislative session. BIDS WILL BE DUE no later than 2:00 p.m.
Eastern Time on Friday, October 29, 2010.
afro.com
Baltimore City Public Schools. This notice was posted in the Afro and
INVITATION FOR BIDS:
The Baltimore Sun, City Schools Website No pre-bid meeting is planned.
BCS-11030
and at the Alice Pinderhughes Admin-
Provide Window & istrative Building, 200 E. North Ave., Bal- HABC has established a minimum goal of
Door Replacement Services
timore, MD 21202 and on the BCPSS twenty percent (20%) of the total dollar
at Grove Park Elementary/Middle School amount of the proposed contract for Minority
#224
website.
• Your History Business Enterprise (“MBE”)
(∫MBE∫) utilization, ap-
plicable to all minority and non-minority
The Baltimore City Board of School Commis- • Your Community businesses proposing to provide the re-
sioners is inviting interested companies to quested services as the prime contractor. No
submit responses to: BCS-11030. • Your News goal has been established for participation of
(“MBE”), how-
Women-owned businesses (∫WBEs∫),
In order to participate, interested contractors ever, HABC strongly encourages and affir-
need to visit eMaryland Marketplace website matively promotes the use of WBEs in all
at https://ebidmarketplace.com HABC contracts.
 No pre-bid meeting is planned.
HABC has established a minimum goal of
twenty percent (20%) of the total dollar
amount of the proposed contract for Minority
B8
Business Enterprise (∫MBE∫) utilization, ap-
plicableThe Afro-American,
to all October
minority and non-minority 23, 2010 - October 29, 2010
businesses proposing to provide the re-
quested services as the prime contractor. No
goal has been established for participation
LEGAL NOTICES of
Women-owned businesses (∫WBEs∫), how-
ever, HABC strongly encourages and affir-
matively promotes the use of WBEs in all
Subscribe Today
HABC contracts.
The IFB may be obtained on or after Tues-
day, October 12, 2010 at the following loca-
tion:
Housing Authority of Baltimore City
Division of Fiscal Operations,
Purchasing Department
417 E. Fayette Street, Room 414
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Attention: John Airey,
Chief of Contracting Services
Tel: (410) 396-3261
Fax: (410) 962-1586
The IFB document will include a listing of the
account numbers and any requested specific
pricing structure(s).
Questions regarding the IFB should be di-
rected in writing to the address and individual
indicated above, and must include the refer-
ence: HABC IFB Number B-1638-10.
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING NOTICE
OCTOBER & NOVEMBER ELECTION
Dear Member:
Please note the following General Membership Meeting of the NAACP
Baltimore City Branch for the purposes of receiving nominations and
elections of Officers and At-Large Members of the Executive Committee.
1. On October 27, 2010 [PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE] at Union
Baptist Church; 1219 Druid Hill Avenue; Baltimore, Maryland at 6:00
p.m., there will be a report of the Nominating Committee, receipt of
nominations by petition, and election of the Supervisory Committee. All
members whose memberships are current as of April 1,2010 may be
nominated for office or an At-Large Member of the Executive Committee.
In order to sign a Nominating Petition, or be elected to the Election
Supervisory Committee, a Member must be current as of 30 days prior
to the October Meeting.
2. On November 16, 2010, the Election of Officers and At-Large Members
of the Executive Committee will take place at 8 W. 26th Street (Branch
Office), Enolia McMillan Building; Baltimore City, Maryland. Polls will be
open from 12 noon to 8 p.m. In order to vote in a Branch election, one
must be a Member in good standing of the Branch 30 days prior to the
Election. A FORM OF IDENTIFICATION IS REQUIRED.
We look forward to your participating in these activities.
ELLIS STATEN, PRESIDENT
Bette D. Brooks, Secretary
NAACP, Baltimore City Branch
(410) 366-3300
Attention Senior Citizens Looking for Housing
The Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC), Housing Choice
Voucher Program (HCVP), has identified a number of rent subsidized
efficiency apartments available for immediate occupancy to qualified
households.
For a limited time, HABC is opening its waiting list and accepting
applications from Baltimore City residents ONLY who are 62 years
of age or older and who wish to be considered for Project Based
efficiency apartments. If you are interested you must obtain, complete,
and return an HCVP application to the address below no later than
Monday November 15, 2010.
The Housing Authority of Baltimore City
Housing Choice Voucher Program
Attention: Application/Waiting List
1225 West Pratt Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21223
8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday thru Friday
Call 443-984-2222
If you are unable to come to this office, please write or call for an
application to be mailed to you.
Applications returned by mail must be postmarked with a date no later
then Monday, November 15, 2010.
Hand delivered applications must be received by the HCVP office no
later then the end of business on Monday November 15, 2010 at the
address above.
Applications for households that do not meet the criteria or are not
received by the above deadlines will not be accepted.
What is Project Based Program
The Project Based Program is a component of the Housing Choice
Voucher Program where housing rental subsidy is attached to specific
rental units. In this program, HABC has contracts with specific landlords
to offer units to applicants from the HABC waiting list. The participating
landlord selects an applicant from the waiting list and requests that HABC
begin the applicant eligibility process, which is conducted by the HABC.
If the applicant is found eligible, the applicant can then be housed in
the landlord¬s Project Based unit. The applicant pays a reduced rent as
long as he/she remains eligible and resides in the specified Project
Based unit. Because the assistance is tied to the unit, the applicant
cannot move to a different unit and still receive assistance.
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE
The following resolutions of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore proposing an amendment to the Charter of Baltimore
City (1996 Edition, as amended) will be submitted to the voters
of Baltimore City for their approval or disapproval at the Gen-
eral Election to be held in the City of Baltimore on Tuesday the
2nd of November, 2010.
Resolution No. 10-19
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL
CONCERNING
Charter Amendment – Surplus Funds
FOR the purpose of repealing a requirement for certain un-
anticipated surplus funds to be transferred to a capital bond
fund appropriation reduction account and used only for certain
purposes; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters
of the City for adoption or rejection.
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article VI - Board of Estimates
Section(s) 9(d)
Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition)
BY repealing Article VI - Board of Estimates
Section(s) 9(e) Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition)
SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND
CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the City Charter is
proposed to be amended to read as follows:
Baltimore City Charter
Article VI. Board of Estimates
§ 9. Uses of appropriations.
(d) Surpluses[– in general].
In case of any surplus arising in any fiscal year by reason of an
excess of revenue over the expenditures (including any appro-
priation carried over) for [such] THAT year, the
surplus shall become a part of the general revenue of the City
and shall be available for the general expenditures of the City
for the next fiscal year, in accordance with the Ordinance of
Estimates for that year. An estimate of [such] THE surplus shall
be made by the Board of Estimates and included in expected
revenues for the next year. However any surplus or retained
earnings of the water or sanitary wastewater utility fund (under
[Section] § 18 of this article) at the end of the fiscal year shall
remain to the credit of that utility, and the estimate of [such a]
THAT balance shall be included in that utility’s budget for the
next year as an estimated receipt.
[(e) Surpluses – Capital Bond Fund Appropriation Reduction
Account.
Except for the funds of the water or sanitary wastewater utili-
ties, if at the end of any fiscal year it is determined that there
is any surplus in excess of the amount included in expected
revenues for the next fiscal year and such amount exceeds 1%
of the General Fund operating budget adopted for the next fis-
cal year and such amount does not include any appropriation
carried forward from the prior fiscal year, the excess of such
General Fund surplus over 1% of the operating budget shall
be credited to an account known as the “Capital Bond Fund
Appropriation Reduction Account”. Funds in this account shall
be allocated and paid by order of the Board of Finance for the
purpose of substituting for a like amount of general obliga-
tion bond funds for which appropriations have been previously
made by the Mayor and City Council; to the extent that funds
from the capital bond fund appropriation reduction account are
utilized, the authorized amount of general obligation bonds shall
be automatically reduced. In determining the application of such
funds the Board of Finance shall be guided by the conditions of
the bond market and the financial interests of the City of Bal-
timore. Funds in the capital bond fund appropriation reduction
account not utilized in the first year in which they are identified
shall be carried forward at the end of the fiscal year to be used
for the purpose of substituting for general obligation bond funds
at the earliest practical time. Such funds shall be utilized only
for the purpose for which the bond funds were appropriated and
may not be transferred directly or indirectly to any other pur-
pose. Surplus funds exceeding the amount used in the revenue
estimates for the succeeding year but not in excess of 1% of the
current General Fund operating budget may be utilized by the
Board of Estimates to reduce the tax rate requirements for the
next fiscal year or to constitute a source of funds for supplemen-
tal appropriations recommended to the City Council pursuant to
the provisions of this subsection.]
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That
this proposed amendment to the City Charter be submitted to
the legal and qualified voters of Baltimore City, for adoption or
rejection, in accordance with Article XI-A, § 5 of the Maryland
Constitution, in the form specified by the City Solicitor.
FOR CHARTER AMENDMENT
AGAINST CHARTER AMENDMENT
Resolution No. 10-21
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL
CONCERNING
Charter Amendment – Sustainability and Related Funds
FOR the purpose of expressly authorizing the establishment of 1
or more continuing, nonlapsing funds to be used for promoting
sustainability and a clean and safe, maintaining and establishing
parks and other open spaces, and cleaning and preserving the
natural environment in the City and for related purposes; and
submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for
adoption or rejection.
BY proposing an amendment to
Article I - General Provisions
Section(s) 11 Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition)
SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND
CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the
City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows:
Baltimore City Charter
Article I. General Provisions
§ 11. SUSTAINABILITY AND RELATED FUNDS.
LEGAL NOTICES
(A) AUTHORIZATION.
BY ORDINANCE, THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF
BALTIMORE MAY ESTABLISH 1 OR MORE CONTINU-
ING, NONLAPSING FUNDS FOR PURPOSES OF PRO-
MOTING SUSTAINABILITY AND A CLEAN AND SAFE,
MAINTAINING AND ESTABLISHING PARKS AND OTHER
OPEN SPACES, AND CLEANING AND PRESERVING THE
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT WITHIN THE CITY OF BAL-
TIMORE, INCLUDING:
(1) ADMINISTERING SUPPORTING THE ACTIVITIES OF
A CITY OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY AND OF OTHER
OFFICES NECESSARY OR APPROPRIATE FOR THESE 25
PURPOSES AND GOALS;
(2) PERFORMING EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH ON SUS-
TAINABILITY ISSUES THESE PURPOSES AND GOALS;
(3) PROVIDING ASSISTANCE BY LOAN, GRANT, OR
OTHERWISE TO INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS
UNDERTAKING ACTIVITIES TO PROMOTE SUSTAIN-
ABILITY FURTHER THESE PURPOSES AND GOALS;
AND
(4) CONDUCTING RESEARCH FOR THE PURPOSE OF
PROMOTING SUSTAINABILITY TO ADVANCE THESES
PURPOSES AND GOALS; AND
(5) FUNDING RELATED CITY PROGRAMS.
(B) REVENUE SOURCES.
A FUND ESTABLISHED UNDER THIS SECTION MAY
COMPRISE:
(1) MONEY APPROPRIATED TO THE FUND IN THE AN-
NUAL ORDINANCES OF ESTIMATES; AND
(2) GRANTS OR DONATIONS MADE TO THE FUND; AND
(3) PROCEEDS FROM FINES, FEES, AND PROGRAMS
DEDICATED TO THE FUND BY ORDINANCE.
(C) CONTINUING NATURE OF FUND.
NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS
CHARTER, UNSPENT PORTIONS OF A FUND ESTAB-
LISHED UNDER THIS SECTION:
(1) REMAIN IN THE FUND, TO BE USED EXCLUSIVELY
FOR THEIR ORDAINED PURPOSES;
(2) DO NOT REVERT TO THE GENERAL REVENUES OF
THE CITY; AND
(3) THEIR APPROPRIATIONS DO NOT LAPSE.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That
this proposed amendment to the City Charter be submitted to
the legal and qualified voters of Baltimore City, for adoption or
rejection, in accordance with Article XI-A, § 5 of the Maryland
Constitution, in the form specified by the City Solicitor.
FOR CHARTER AMENDMENT
AGAINST CHARTER AMENDMENT
Resolution No. 10-24
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL
CONCERNING
Charter Amendment – Procurement
FOR the purpose of establishing new procedures for estab-
lishing and modifying certain bid threshold amounts, bid and
performance requirements, advertising requirements, award cri-
teria, and other matters governing procurement; and submitting
this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption
or rejection.
By proposing to amend
Article VI - Board of Estimates
Section(s) 11
Baltimore City Charter
(1996 Edition)
By proposing to amend
Article VII - Executive Departments
Section(s) 17(d)
Baltimore City Charter
(1996 Edition)
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, That the City Charter is proposed to be amended to
read as follows:
Baltimore City Charter
Article VI. Board of Estimates
§ 11. Procurement.
(a) Board of Estimates responsible.
The Board of Estimates shall be responsible for awarding con-
tracts and supervising all purchasing by the City as provided in
this section and elsewhere in the Charter.
(b) Authority of City Council.
(1) By ordinance passed by two-thirds of the City Council
members, the Mayor and City Council shall set the dollar
thresholds for:
(i) contracts that must be formally advertised; and
(ii) contracts that must be approved by the Board of Estimates.
(2) Pending enactment of an Ordinance under this subsec-
tion, the Board of Estimates shall set initial threshold amounts.
Those initial amounts shall remain in effect until different
amounts have been set by Ordinance under this subsection.
(c) [(b) Contracts of $25,000 or more] Formal advertisement.
[(i)] In contracting for any public work, or the purchase of any
supplies (unless otherwise provided by ordinance for foodstuffs
and related perishables), materials, equipment, or services other
than professional services, for the City or by any municipal
agency, involving an expenditure [of twenty five thousand dol-
lars or more, for the City or by any municipal agency] greater
than the threshold set under subsection (b) of this section, ad-
vertisements for proposals shall first be published at least twice
in [two] one or more [daily] newspapers of general circulation
published in Baltimore City, and published electronically to
the public, unless otherwise provided by the Charter. The first
publication shall be made not less than ten nor more than ninety

LEGAL NOTICES
days prior to the day set for opening the bids.
[(ii) The City Council, by ordinance adopted by a majority
of the members, may increase or decrease the dollar amounts
provided in this subsection (b) for contracts requiring published
advertisements.]
[(iii) The contract for any public work or the purchase of any
supplies (unless otherwise provided by ordinance for foodstuffs
and related perishables), materials, equipment, or services other
than professional services, involving an expenditure of five
thousand dollars or more shall be made by the Board of Esti-
mates in the manner provided in subsection (g).]
(d) [(c)] Professional services.
All professional services contracted for by the City shall be
engaged in the manner prescribed by resolution of the Board of
Estimates.
(e) [(d)] Emergencies, etc.
(i) When any supplies, materials, equipment, services, or
public works are of such a nature that no advantage will result
in seeking, or it is not practicable to obtain, competitive bids,
or when the need for [such] supplies, materials, equipment,
services, or public works is of an emergency nature[,] and the
using agency certifies this in writing to the Board of Estimates,
with written notice to the Department of Finance, the provisions
of subsection [(b)] (c) of this section may be dispensed with[,
but]. However, [such] the purchase [shall] may not be made,
nor [shall] may the City incur any obligation [therefor] for it,
until approved by the Board of Estimates after considering the
recommendation of the Department of Finance. When practi-
cable, the City’s intent to make a purchase under this exception
shall be posted electronically to the public for comment prior to
the approval of the purchase by the Board of Estimates.
(ii) In the event of an emergency of such a nature that the public
welfare would be adversely affected by awaiting the approval
of the Board of Estimates, the Department of Finance, upon
application by the head of the municipal agency involved, may
proceed to obtain the supplies, materials, equipment, services,
or public works required without reference to the provisions of
subsection [(b)] (c) of this section[;]. A [a] full report of [any
such] this action shall be promptly submitted to the Board of
Estimates.
(f) [(e)] Contracts [of $5,000 - $25,000] subject to Board of
Estimates approval.
All purchases of services other than professional services, of
property other than real estate or interests therein (except as
may be otherwise provided by ordinance for foodstuffs and
related perishables), and all other contracts involving an expen-
diture [of more than $5,000 and less than $25,000] greater than
an amount set under subsection (b) of this section, except those
awarded by the Board of Estimates pursuant to the provisions
of subsection [(g)] (h) of this section, made by any municipal
agency, in addition to compliance with other applicable provi-
sions of the Charter, shall be submitted to the Board of Esti-
mates for its approval and shall be binding upon the City only
when so approved. The Board of Estimates may adopt rules
and regulations governing the procedures and requirements to
be followed by any municipal agency in making purchases or
other contracts involving an expenditure [of less than $25,000]
that does not require formal advertising under subsection (c) of
this section.
(g) [(f)] Prequalification of bidders.
In contracting for any public work or the purchase of any
supplies, materials, equipment, or services for the City or by
any municipal agency, the Board of Estimates may establish,
maintain, and modify rules, regulations, and standards for the
prequalification of bidders.
(h) [(g)] Bid awards.
(1) (i) All bids made to the City in response to the formal
advertising procedures contained in this section, for materi-
als, supplies, equipment, services, or public works, or for any
other purpose, unless otherwise provided in the Charter, shall be (ii) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a
opened by the Board of Estimates.
(ii) After opening the bids, the Board of Estimates shall award
the contract, as an entirety to the lowest responsive and respon- bond if such contract is for an amount equal to or less than the
sible bidder, or by items to the respective lowest responsive and amount authorized by ordinance.
responsible bidders, or in the case of Requests for Proposals to
the highest scoring responsive and responsible bidder, or shall
reject all bids. However, whenever alternative bids are invited
for two or more different things, then, after all bids have been quantities, exceeds the authorized amount, the contractor shall
opened, the Board may select the particular [thing] item that
will be procured, and shall award the contract to the lowest
responsive and responsible bidder or in the case of Requests for
Proposals to the highest scoring responsive and responsible bid- (iv) Upon a finding that one or more of the following conditions
der for that particular [thing] item.
(iii) In the event of tie bids, the using agency, with written
notice to the Department of Finance, shall make a written rec-
ommendation and report to the Board of Estimates setting forth factured or assembled or which are otherwise not normally
all pertinent considerations and the reasons for its recommenda- available in suppliers’ inventories; the contract involves services
tion. The Board, after also considering the recommendation of
the Department of Finance, may then award the contract in its
discretion, as long as the total cost to the City does not exceed tial liability or loss in excess of $100,000; the contractor and/or
the amount of the tie bid.
(iv) Once filed, bids are irrevocable.
(v) Any recommendation that is made by any municipal agency
to the Board of Estimates as to the appropriate award to be
made by the Board is advisory only and not binding on the
Board.
(vi) Notwithstanding the competitive bid provisions of this
Charter, the Board of Estimates may adopt rules and regulations
that establish uniform procedures for providing, on a neigh-
borhood service, neighborhood public work, or neighborhood
public improvement contract, limited bid preferences to respon-
sive and responsible bidders who are residents of, or have their
principal places of business in, that neighborhood.
(2)(i) All bids for construction contracts let for the Department
of Public Works, the Department of General Services, and the
Department of Transportation and any other contracts for public
works shall be accompanied by a check or [a] bid bond. For all
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LEGAL NOTICES
other contracts, the Director of Finance shall implement policies
and procedures to determine whether a bid bond is required for
a contract, the term and face value of the bond, and the manner
in which the bond shall be provided and refunded.
(ii) Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph (2), the
check shall be a certified check of the bidder, a bank cashier’s
check, or a bank treasurer’s check, drawn on a clearing house
bank. The check shall be in an amount provided by ordinance,
by the bid specifications, or by an order or regulation of the
using agency. In the case of bid checks of $5,000 or less, the
check may be of any type drawn on any banking institution of
the United States.
(iii) The bid bond shall be in the form and amount provided by
the rules and regulations of the Board of Estimates, and shall be
filed by the bidder with the Department of Finance.
(3) (i) The successful bidder promptly shall execute a formal
contract, to be approved as to its form, terms, and conditions by
the City Solicitor[, and].
(ii) For all construction contracts let for the Department of Pub-
lic Works, the Department of General Services, and the Depart-
ment of Transportation and any other contracts for public works
, the bidder shall [also] execute and deliver to the Mayor a good
and sufficient performance bond, irrevocable letter of credit,
or certification that the successful bidder meets the require-
ments under the City’s self insurance program for performance
coverage. For all other contracts, the Director of Finance shall
implement policies and procedures to determine whether a
performance bond is required for a contract, the term and face
value of the bond, and the manner in which the bond shall be
provided.
(iii) [(ii)] The bond, letter of credit, or certification shall be:
1. in an amount equal to the full contract price; or
2. for each year in a multi-year contract (other than a construc-
tion contract), in an amount equal to the estimated contract price
for that year, as determined by the Director of Finance.
(iv) [(iii)] Any successful bidder who fails to execute promptly
and properly the required contract, performance bond, irrevo-
cable letter of credit, or certification, as applicable, shall forfeit
the amount deposited, or an equivalent amount under the bid
bond. This amount shall be taken and considered as liquidated
damages and not as penalty for the bidder’s failure.
(4) [On execution of] When the successful bidder executes the
contract and, if required, the performance bond [by the suc-
cessful bidder], the bid checks shall be returned to all bidders[,]
or the equivalent amounts charged against their bid bond shall
be released. If the City has deposited bid checks [of $5,000 or
less], the City shall reimburse these bidders in the amounts of
the bid checks.
(5) [(i) The Director of Finance, with the approval of the Board
of Estimates, may exempt from the bid bond and performance
bond requirements of paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsec-
tion the procurement of any standard items of commerce and
services that are from standard trades and professions and not
altered or customized to unique City specifications.]
[(ii)] If a bidder [exempted under this Paragraph] is not
required to file a bid bond under the policies and procedures ad-
opted by the Director of Finance and the bidder fails to execute
and perform any contract awarded to that bidder, the exempted
bidder shall forfeit the right to bid on any future City contract
for a period of time determined by the Board of Estimates, and
shall be liable for any costs incurred by the City as a result of
the default.
[(h) Performance bonds.
(i) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a bidder
on a contract for any public work or the purchase of any sup-
plies, materials, equipment, or services for the City or by any
municipal agency, is not required to post a bid bond if the bid is
equal to or less than the amount authorized by ordinance.
contractor on a contract for any public work or the purchase of
any supplies, materials, equipment, or services for the City or
by any municipal agency, is not required to post a performance
(iii) At such time as the value of the contract, through amend-
ment or adjustment, including changes in scope or in estimated
be required to post a performance bond in the amount of 100%
of the value of the contract in excess of the authorized amount.
exist, the Board of Estimates may require bidders to post bid
bonds with their bids and performance bonds with the execution
of contracts otherwise exempt from such requirements:
the contract is for the purchase of goods to be specially manu-
which, if improperly or inadequately performed, pose a substan-
tial risk of injury to persons or damage to property, with poten-
bidder has no prior record of performance by which the Board
of Estimates may use to determine the contractor’s or bidder’s
ability to perform.
(v) Where any condition listed above is found to exist
prior to advertising, the advertisements and specifications shall
state the bond requirements.
(vi) No payment or partial payment shall be made to a contrac-
tor proceeding without a bond under this section unless and
until evidence satisfactory to the Director of Finance is pre-
sented showing that the contractor has completed the contract or
portion thereof for which payment or partial payment is sought,
in accordance with the terms of the contract and satisfactory
to the Contract Compliance Officer and either the Purchasing
Agent or City Engineer, and that the contractor is entitled to the
payment or partial payment.]
Article VII. Executive Departments
Department of Finance
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§ 17. Department of Finance: purchasing.
(d) Responsibility for [storing, distributing, etc] surplus mate-
rial.
[Except as otherwise provided by the Charter as to the Depart-
ment of Education, and unless] Unless special exception is
made by resolution of the Board of Estimates, the Department
shall be responsible for [storing, distributing,] disposing of and
reclaiming materials, supplies, and equipment purchased for
municipal agencies.
Section 2. And be it further resolved, That this proposed
amendment to the City Charter be submitted to the legal and
qualified voters of Baltimore City, for adoption or rejection, in
accordance with Article XI-A, § 5 of the Maryland Constitution,
in the form specified by the City Solicitor.
FOR CHARTER AMENDMENT
AGAINST CHARTER AMENDMENT
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor
A TRUE COPY
Stephen M. Kraus, Chief
Bureau of Treasury Management
Custodian of the City Seal
EXPLANATION: Underlining indicates matter added by
amendment. Strike out indicates matter stricken by amendment.
Capitals indicate matter added to existing law. Brackets indicate
matter deleted from existing law.
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE
At the General Election to be held in Baltimore City
on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, the following ordinances
authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to borrow
money in the amounts and for the purposes hereinafter indicated
will be submitted to the legal voters of Baltimore City for their
approval or disapproval.
FOR AGAINST
BOND ISSUE
Ordinance No. 10-287
Bond Issue — School Loan — $33,378,000
FOR the purpose of authorizing the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore (pursuant to Resolution I of 2010 approved by
the members of the Maryland General Assembly representing
Baltimore City) to create a debt, and to issue and sell its
certificates of indebtedness as evidence thereof, and proceeds
not exceeding $33,378,000 from the sale of such certificates
of indebtedness to be used for the cost of issuance, including
the expense of engraving, printing, advertising, attorneys’ fees,
and all other incidental expenses connected therewith, and the
remainder of such proceeds to be used for the acquisition, by
purchase, lease, condemnation, or any other legal means, of
land or property, or any rights therein, in the City of Baltimore,
and constructing and erecting on said land or property, or on
any land or property now or hereafter owned by the Baltimore
City Board of School Commissioners and/or the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, new school buildings, athletic and
other auxiliary facilities, and for additions and improvements
to, or the modernization or reconstruction of, including the
inspection, removal ,encapsulation, management, containment
and abatement of asbestos from, existing school buildings or
facilities, and for equipment for any and all new or existing
facilities authorized to be constructed, erected, added to,
improved, modernized or reconstructed by the provisions
hereof; the payment of any and all costs and expenses incurred
for or in connection with doing any or all of the things herein
mentioned, including, but not limited to, the costs and expenses
of securing administrative, appraisal, economic analysis,
engineering, planning, designing, architectural, surveying,
and other professional services, including, without limitation,
services relating to planning for future projects of the same
general character which may be constructed out of future
loans; and for doing any and all things necessary, proper or
expedient in connection with or pertaining to any or all of
the matters or things hereinbefore mentioned; authorizing
the issuance of refunding bonds; conferring certain powers
upon the Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City;
imposing certain conditions in connection with the expenditure
of the proceeds derived from the sale of said certificates
of indebtedness; conferring and imposing upon the Board
of Finance of Baltimore City certain powers and duties;
authorizing the submission of this Ordinance to the legal voters
of the City of Baltimore, for their approval or disapproval, at
the Election to be held in Baltimore City on Tuesday, the 2nd
day of November, 2010; and providing for the expenditure
of the proceeds of sale of said certificates of indebtedness in
accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, and by the municipal agency
designated in the annual Ordinance of Estimates of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore.
Ordinance No. 10-291
Bond Issue — Community Development Loan —
$18,050,000
FOR the purpose of authorizing the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore (pursuant to Resolution III of 2010
approved by the members of the Maryland General Assembly
representing Baltimore City) to create a debt, and to issue and
sell its certificates of indebtedness as evidence thereof, and
proceeds not exceeding $18,050,000 from the sale of such
certificates of indebtedness to be used for the cost of issuance,
including the expense of engraving, printing, advertising,
attorneys’ fees, and all other incidental expenses connected
therewith, and the remainder of such proceeds to be used for
or in connection with planning, developing, executing, and
making operative the community development program of
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, including, but not
limited to, the acquisition, by purchase, lease, condemnation
or any other legal means, of land or property, or any right,
interest, franchise, easement or privilege therein, in the City
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of Baltimore; the payment of any and all costs and expenses
incurred in connection with or incidental to the acquisition and
management of said land or property, including any and all
rights or interest therein hereinbefore mentioned; the payment
of any and all costs and expenses incurred for or in connection
with relocating and moving persons or other legal entities
displaced by the acquisition of said land or property, or any
of the rights or interest therein hereinbefore mentioned; the
development, or redevelopment, including, but not limited to,
the comprehensive renovation or rehabilitation of any land
or property, or any rights or interests therein hereinbefore
mentioned, in the City of Baltimore, and the disposition of land
and property for such purposes; the elimination of unhealthful,
unsanitary or unsafe conditions, lessening density, eliminating
obsolete or other uses detrimental to the public welfare or
otherwise removing or preventing the spread of blight or
deterioration in the City of Baltimore; the demolition, removal,
relocation, renovation or alteration of land, buildings, streets,
highways, alleys, utilities or services, and other structures
or improvements, and for the construction, reconstruction,
installation, relocation or repair of buildings, streets,
highways, alleys, utilities or services, and other structures or
improvements; the payment of any and all costs and expenses
incurred for or in connection with doing any or all of the things
herein mentioned, including, but not limited to, the costs and
expenses of securing administrative, appraisal, economic
analysis, engineering, planning, designing, architectural,
surveying, and other professional services; and for doing any
and all things necessary, proper or expedient in connection
with or pertaining to any or all of the matters or things
hereinbefore mentioned; authorizing the issuance of refunding
bonds; conferring and imposing upon the Board of Finance
of Baltimore City certain powers and duties; authorizing the
submission of this Ordinance to the legal voters of the City
of Baltimore, for their approval or disapproval, at the General
Election to be held in Baltimore City, on Tuesday, the 2nd
day of November, 2010; and providing for the expenditure
of the proceeds of sale of said certificates of indebtedness in
accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, and by the municipal agency
designated in the annual Ordinance of Estimates of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore.
Ordinance No. 10-293
Bond Issue — Public Buildings Loan — $16,200,000
FOR the purpose of authorizing the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore (pursuant to Resolution V of 2010 approved by
the members of the Maryland General Assembly representing
Baltimore City) to create a debt, and to issue and sell its
certificates of indebtedness as evidence thereof, and proceeds
not exceeding $16,200,000 from the sale of such certificates
of indebtedness to be used for the cost of issuance, including
the expense of engraving, printing, advertising, attorneys’ fees,
and all other incidental expenses connected therewith, and
the remainder of such proceeds to be used for the acquisition,
by purchase, condemnation, or any other legal means, of land
or property, or any rights therein, in the City of Baltimore,
and for constructing and erecting, on said land or property, or
on any land or property, new buildings, structures and other
auxiliary facilities owned by the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, and for the renovation, alternation, construction,
reconstruction, installation, improvement and repair of existing
buildings, structures and facilities to be or now being used
in connection with the operations, and functions of buildings
of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore; and to equip all
facilities authorized to be constructed, renovated, altered or
improved by the provisions hereof; the payment of any and all
costs and expenses incurred for or in connection with doing
any or all of the things herein mentioned, including, but not
limited to, the costs and expenses of securing administrative,
appraisal, economic analysis, engineering, planning, designing,
architectural, surveying, and other professional services; and
for doing any and all things necessary, proper or expedient
in connection with or pertaining to any or all of the matters
or things hereinbefore mentioned; authorizing the issuance
of refunding bonds; conferring and imposing upon the Board
of Finance of Baltimore City certain powers and duties;
authorizing the submission of this Ordinance to the legal voters
of the City of Baltimore, for their approval or disapproval, at
the election to be held in Baltimore City on Tuesday, the 2nd
day of November, 2010; and providing for the expenditure
of the proceeds of sale of said certificates of indebtedness in
accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, and by the municipal agency
designated in the annual Ordinance of Estimates of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore.
Ordinance No. 10-292
Bond Issue — Economic Development Loan — $16,775,000
FOR the purpose of authorizing the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore (pursuant to Resolution IV of 2010 approved by
the members of the Maryland General Assembly representing
Baltimore City) to create a debt, and to issue and sell its
certificates of indebtedness as evidence thereof, and proceeds
not exceeding $16,775,000 from the sale of such certificates
of indebtedness to be used for the cost of issuance, including
the expense of engraving, printing, advertising, attorneys’ fees,
and all other incidental expenses connected therewith, and the
remainder of such proceeds to be used for or in connection
with planning, developing, executing, and making operative
the commercial and industrial economic development program
of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, including, but not
limited to, the acquisition, by purchase, lease, condemnation
or any other legal means, of land or property, or any right,
interest, franchise, easement or privilege therein, in the City
of Baltimore; the payment of any and all costs and expenses
incurred in connection with or incidental to the acquisition
and management of said land or property, including any and
all rights or interests therein hereinbefore mentioned; the
payment of any and all costs and expenses incurred for or in
connection with relocating and moving persons or other legal
entities displaced by the acquisition of said land or property, or
any of the rights or interests therein hereinbefore mentioned;
the development, or redevelopment, including, but not limited
to, the comprehensive renovation or rehabilitation of any land
or property, or any rights or interests therein hereinbefore
mentioned, in the City of Baltimore, and the disposition of land
and property for such purposes; the elimination of unhealthful,
unsanitary or unsafe conditions, lessening density, eliminating
obsolete or other uses detrimental to the public welfare or
otherwise removing or preventing the spread of blight or
deterioration in the City of Baltimore; the demolition, removal,
relocation, renovation or alteration of land, buildings, streets,
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highways, alleys, utilities or services, and other structures
or improvements, and for the construction, reconstruction,
installation, relocation or repair of buildings, streets,
highways, alleys, utilities or services, and other structures or
improvements; the payment of any and all costs and expenses
incurred for or in connection with doing any or all of the things
herein mentioned, including, but not limited to, the costs and
expenses of securing administrative, appraisal, economic
analysis, engineering, planning, designing, architectural,
surveying, and other professional services; authorizing
making loans grants to various projects and programs related
to improving the cultural life and promotion of tourism in
Baltimore City, including but not limited to the Everyman
Theater, the Port Discovery Children’s Museum and the
Creative Alliance; authorizing the making of loans and grants to
persons and other legal entities; and for doing any and all things
necessary, proper or expedient in connection with or pertaining
to any or all of the matters or things hereinbefore mentioned;
authorizing the issuance of refunding bonds; conferring and
imposing upon the Board of Finance of Baltimore City certain
powers and duties; authorizing the submission of this Ordinance
to the legal voters of the City of Baltimore, for their approval
or disapproval, at the General Election to be held in Baltimore
City on Tuesday, the 2nd day of November, 2010; and providing
for the expenditure of the proceeds of sale of said certificates of
indebtedness in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and by the municipal
agency designated in the annual Ordinance of Estimates of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.
Ordinance No. 10-285
Bond Issue — National Aquarium in Baltimore Loan —
$1,000,000
FOR the purpose of authorizing the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore (pursuant to Resolution VI of 2010 approved by
the members of the Maryland General Assembly representing
Baltimore City) to create a debt, and to issue and sell its
certificates of indebtedness as evidence thereof, and proceeds
not exceeding $1,000,000 from the sale of such certificates
to be used for the cost of issuance, including the expense of
engraving, printing, advertising, attorneys’ fees, and all other
incidental expenses connected therewith, and the remainder
of such proceeds to be used for the acquisition, by purchase,
condemnation, or any other legal means, of land or property, or
any rights therein, in the City of Baltimore, and for constructing
and erecting, on said land or property, or on any land or
property, new buildings, structures and other auxiliary facilities,
and for the renovation, alternation, construction, reconstruction,
installation, improvement and repair of existing buildings,
structures and facilities to be or now being used in connection
with the operations, functions, and activities of the National
Aquarium in Baltimore; and to equip all facilities authorized to
be constructed, renovated, altered or improved by the provisions
hereof; the payment of any and all costs and expenses incurred
for or in connection with doing any or all of the things herein
mentioned, including, but not limited to, the costs and expenses
of securing administrative, appraisal, economic analysis,
engineering, planning, designing, architectural, surveying, and
other professional services; and for doing any and all things
necessary, proper or expedient in connection with or pertaining
to any or all of the matters or things hereinbefore mentioned;
authorizing the issuance of refunding bonds; conferring and
imposing upon the Board of Finance of Baltimore City certain
powers and duties; authorizing the submission of this Ordinance
to the legal voters of the City of Baltimore, for their approval
or disapproval, at the General Election to be held in Baltimore
City on Tuesday, the 2 day of November, 2010; and providing
for t he expenditure of the proceeds of sale of said certificates of
indebtedness in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and by the municipal
agency designated in the annual Ordinance of Estimates of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.
Ordinance No. 10-288
Bond Issue — Walters Art Museum Loan — $500,000
FOR the purpose of authorizing the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore (pursuant to Resolution VII of 2010
approved by the members of the Maryland General Assembly
representing Baltimore City) to create a debt, and to issue
and sell its certificates of indebtedness as evidence thereof,
and proceeds not exceeding $500,000 from the sale of such
certificates to be used for the cost of issuance, including the
expense of engraving, printing, advertising, attorneys’ fees,
and all other incidental expenses connected therewith, and the
remainder of such proceeds to be used for the acquisition, by
purchase, condemnation, or any other legal means, of land or
property, or any rights therein, in the City of Baltimore, and for
constructing and erecting, on said land or property, or on any
land or property, new buildings, structures and other auxiliary
facilities, and for the renovation, alternation, construction,
reconstruction, installation, improvement and repair of existing
buildings, structures and facilities to be or now being used in
connection with the operations, functions, and activities of the
Walters Art Museum; and to equip all facilities authorized to be
constructed, renovated, altered or improved by the provisions
hereof; the payment of any and all costs and expenses incurred
for or in connection with doing any or all of the things herein
mentioned, including, but not limited to, the costs and expenses
of securing administrative, appraisal, economic analysis,
engineering, planning, designing, architectural, surveying, and
other professional services; and for doing any and all things
necessary, proper or expedient in connection with or pertaining
to any or all of the matters or things hereinbefore mentioned;
authorizing the issuance of refunding bonds; conferring and
imposing upon the Board of Finance of Baltimore City certain
powers and duties; authorizing the submission of this Ordinance
to the legal voters of the City of Baltimore, for their approval
or disapproval, at the General Election to be held in Baltimore
City on Tuesday, the 2nd day of November, 2010; and providing
for the expenditure of the proceeds of sale of said certificates of
indebtedness in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and by the municipal
agency designated in the annual Ordinance of Estimates of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.
Ordinance No. 10-284
Baltimore Museum of Art Loan — $1,200,000
FOR the purpose of authorizing the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore (pursuant to Resolution VIII of 2010 approved by
the members of the Maryland General Assembly representing
Baltimore City) to create a debt, and to issue and sell its
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certificates of indebtedness as evidence thereof, and proceeds
not exceeding $1,200,000 from the sale of such certificates
to be used for the cost of issuance, including the expense of
engraving, printing, advertising, attorneys’ fees, and all other
incidental expenses connected therewith, and the remainder
of such proceeds to be used for the acquisition, by purchase,
condemnation, or any other legal means, of land or property, or
any rights therein, in the City of Baltimore, and for constructing
and erecting, on said land or property, or on any land or
property, new buildings, structures and other auxiliary facilities,
and for the renovation, alternation, construction, reconstruction,
installation, improvement and repair of existing buildings,
structures and facilities to be or now being used in connection
with the operations, functions, and activities of the Baltimore
Museum of Art; and to equip all facilities authorized to be
constructed, renovated, altered or improved by the provisions
hereof; the payment of any and all costs and expenses incurred
for or in connection with doing any or all of the things herein
mentioned,
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including, but not limited to, the costs and expenses of
securing administrative, appraisal, economic analysis,
engineering, planning, designing, architectural, surveying, and
other professional services; and for doing any and all things
necessary, proper or expedient in connection with or pertaining
to any or all of the matters or things hereinbefore mentioned;
authorizing the issuance of refunding bonds; conferring and
imposing upon the Board of Finance of Baltimore City certain
powers and duties; authorizing the submission of this Ordinance
to the legal voters of the City of Baltimore, for their approval
or disapproval, at the General Election to be held in Baltimore
City on Tuesday, the 2nd day of November, 2010; and providing
for the expenditure of the proceeds of sale of said certificates of
indebtedness in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and by the municipal
agency designated in the annual Ordinance of Estimates of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.
Ordinance No. 10-286
Bond Issue — Recreation, Parks, and Environmental
Improvement Loan — $12,897,000
FOR the purpose of authorizing the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore (pursuant to Resolution II of 2010 approved by
the members of the Maryland General Assembly representing
Baltimore City) to create a debt, and to issue and sell its
certificates of indebtedness as evidence thereof, and proceeds
not exceeding $12,897,000 from the sale of such certificates
of indebtedness to be used for the cost of issuance, including
the expense of engraving, printing, advertising, attorneys’ fees,
and all other incidental expenses connected therewith, and
the remainder of such proceeds to be used for the acquisition,
construction, reconstruction, installation, erection, protection,
extension, enlargement, renovation or modernization of, and
additions and improvements to, storm water systems, streams,
rivers and other waterways, public park or recreational
land, property, buildings, structures or facilities; and for the
acquisition and installation of equipment for any and all
existing facilities or new facilities authorized to be acquired,
constructed, reconstructed, erected, protected, extended,
enlarged, renovated, modernized, improved or added to,
(including equipment for use in or on storm water systems,
streams, rivers and other waterways) by the provisions hereof;
the payment of any and all costs and expenses incurred for
or in connection with doing any or all of the things herein
mentioned, including, but not limited to, the costs and expenses
of securing administrative, appraisal, economic analysis,
engineering, planning, designing, architectural, surveying, and
other professional services; and for doing any and all things
necessary, proper or expedient in connection with or pertaining
to any or all of the matters or things hereinbefore mentioned;
authorizing the issuance of refunding bonds; conferring and
imposing upon the Board of Finance of Baltimore City certain
powers and duties; authorizing the submission of this Ordinance
to the legal voters of the City of Baltimore, for their approval
or disapproval, at the General Election to be held in Baltimore
City on Tuesday, the 2nd day of November, 2010; and providing
for the expenditure of the proceeds of sale of said certificates of
indebtedness in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and by the municipal
agency designated in the annual Ordinance of Estimates of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.
Board of Finance of the City of Baltimore
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor and President
Marilynn K. Duker, Vice President
Joan M. Pratt, Comptroller and Member
Frederick W. Meier, Member
Dana C. Moulden, Member
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Environmental Sanitarian I/II
Office Support Assistant II
Police Officer Entry Level
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Visit our website at www.aacounty.org for additional in-
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Clinical Instructor Healthy Baby Coordinator
The Coordinator directs a health program to foster mea-
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and health status of mothers and babies in West Baltimore.
Will work with health care providers and community- based
organizations to coordinate and collaborate to develop a
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Public Relations
Communications/Public Relations Specialist
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The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE)
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As a result of being awarded the Race to The Top Grant,
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placement, job development or referral services. For the
official job announcement and application (MS-100) visit
www.mdoa.state.md.us and submit by 11/8/10 to: HR
Office, Maryland Department of Aging, 301 W. Preston St.
Suite 1007, Baltimore, MD 21201 EOE
Sales Representative/Industries Rep II
Agency with the State of Maryland seeks an individual to
work as a Sales Associate based out of our main office in
Jessup, MD. This position is responsible for making cold
calls and appointments, as well as making personal visits
to customers in assigned areas. Extensive follow up is
required. Training in MCE products and services will be
provided.
Graduation from a standard High School or possession of
a State School Equivalence Certificate is required. Five
years experience involving Direct Sales or a related field
is preferred. Starting salary $31,724 -$35,292 plus full state
benefits to include health insurance, 10 paid holidays,
pension, 401K and 10 days vacation. Send resumes or
state application to or MCE Personnel Department, 7275
Waterloo Rd, Jessup, MD20794 or email to fbeauchamp@
dpscs.state.md.us. EOE/ADA

Lonesome Hearts - Pen Pals To apply reference position CTR 302-11, send or FAX
To have a notice published in the Strictly Personal Section, write the (410-333-8950) resume to MSDE, Office of Human Re-
sources, 200 W Baltimore St., Baltimore, MD, 21201.
message you want printed in the space below. Enclose ten dollars
Application should be received by October 29, 2010.
($10.00), check or money order for 25 words. NO CASH PLEASE. AA/EOE
Additional words will cost 50 cents each.
Education -
SCIENCE FACULTY To Advertise
Carroll Community College seeks a
full-time, 10 month science faculty call
member for the Spring 2011 semester.
Additional information may be 410-554-8200
obtained at www.carrollcc.edu.
To answer a Lonesome Heart notice, enclose a check or money or-
der for $2.00 for each letter you wish to have forwarded. NO CASH
PLEASE. Be sure to include the fox number of the person you wish

Mrs. Santa
to contact.

All letters, queries and notices should be sent to:

STRICTLY PERSONAL
2519 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Campaign
An AFRO Angel wants to help
make your Christmas merry by
providing food, toys, and clothes
for your family. If you would like
Mrs. Santa to help, please send
a request and provide us with
specific information on your
family and the help you need.

No telephone calls,
no faxes and no email
will be accepted.

Mail all letters to:

Mrs. Santa Campaign
c/o Afro-American Newspapers
2519 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218
Include your contact information.
Deadline:
November 12th, 2010
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the offer doesn’t.
TRUCK hurry! ends november 1.
MONTH APR financing for qualified buyers1 on all
2011 Chevrolet Trucks and full-size SUVs.

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The most dependable, longest-lasting full-size pickups on the road2 just got better with the All-Star Edition.
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2011 Silverado Half-Ton Extended

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TOTAL DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE $4,505

6,000
for a total value of

$ 5

2011 Tahoe
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2,000
than Tahoe, including Toyota Sequoia and OR
Ford Expedition6 $
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2011 Traverse
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2,000
OR
• 30% more cargo room and better fuel $
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1 Length of contract limited. Some customers will not qualify. Not available with other offers. See dealer for details. Take delivery by 11/1/10. 2 Dependability based on longevity: 1981–July 2009 full-size pickup registrations. 3 Go to gm.com/bluetooth to find out which phones
are compatible with the vehicle. 4 Not compatible with all devices. 5 Not available with some other offers. Includes all offers. Must be used on Ally Financial, Inc. standard rate retail contract. Excludes leases. See dealer for details. Take delivery by 11/1/10. 6 EPA est. MPG city/
hwy.: Tahoe 15/21, 2010 Sequoia 2WD 14/19, 2010 Expedition 2WD 14/20. Excludes other GM vehicles. 7 Includes all offers. See dealer for details. Take delivery by 11/1/10. 8 Based on GM Mid-Utility Crossover segment and Traverse FWD with an EPA est. 17 MPG city, 24 hwy.
9 Visit onstar.com for details and system limitations. Services vary by model and conditions. OnStar acts as a link to existing emergency service providers. 2010 OnStar. All rights reserved. 2010 General Motors.

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